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Jeffrey Epstein's ex-cop cellmate says he saved sex offender from hanging, source says

Stephen Rex Brown and Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News
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Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate — a former cop charged with quadruple murder — told authorities he came to the perverted multimillionaire’s rescue after he attempted to hang himself, alerting correction officers and possibly saving his life, a source told the New York Daily News on Friday.
A law enforcement source confirmed that the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed to have helped Epstein after finding him unconscious. Investigators were still trying to determine if an assault had occurred or if the sex offender facing up to 45 years in prison had in fact tried to take his own life, the law enforcement source said.

“You’ve got a guy who is a millionaire who is now living among rats and mold and wants to go home,” the source said.
“This is a disgusting place and the people there, they treat you disgusting. Who wouldn’t be suicidal in that kind of place? You have a silver spoon in your mouth and then you’re put in a cesspool.”

Bruce Barket, a lawyer for Tartaglione, refused to go into detail about the incident but did not dispute the account.

Epstein, 66, appeared to have genuinely believed he was going to get bail and return to his $77 million Upper East Side mansion, a source previously told the Daily News.

He was found on the floor of his jail cell with bruises on his neck early this week while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, sources said Thursday.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty. One of his attorneys did not respond to a request for comment.

Barket said that contrary to reports that Tartaglione inflicted harm on Epstein in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center, the two cellmates get along just fine.

“They became more than cordial,” Barket said. “In the short time they were together, they became friends.”

The source also insisted that Tartaglione, 51, had nothing to do with Epstein’s injuries.

“The guy is on suicide watch. You don’t go on suicide watch if you’ve been assaulted, do you?” the source said.

The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to an inquiry.
 
tmar said:

Jeffrey Epstein's ex-cop cellmate says he saved sex offender from hanging, source says

Stephen Rex Brown and Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News
4 hrs ago

Jeffrey Epstein’s cellmate — a former cop charged with quadruple murder — told authorities he came to the perverted multimillionaire’s rescue after he attempted to hang himself, alerting correction officers and possibly saving his life, a source told the New York Daily News on Friday.
A law enforcement source confirmed that the cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed to have helped Epstein after finding him unconscious. Investigators were still trying to determine if an assault had occurred or if the sex offender facing up to 45 years in prison had in fact tried to take his own life, the law enforcement source said.

“You’ve got a guy who is a millionaire who is now living among rats and mold and wants to go home,” the source said.
“This is a disgusting place and the people there, they treat you disgusting. Who wouldn’t be suicidal in that kind of place? You have a silver spoon in your mouth and then you’re put in a cesspool.”

Bruce Barket, a lawyer for Tartaglione, refused to go into detail about the incident but did not dispute the account.

Epstein, 66, appeared to have genuinely believed he was going to get bail and return to his $77 million Upper East Side mansion, a source previously told the Daily News.

He was found on the floor of his jail cell with bruises on his neck early this week while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, sources said Thursday.
Epstein has pleaded not guilty. One of his attorneys did not respond to a request for comment.

Barket said that contrary to reports that Tartaglione inflicted harm on Epstein in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Detention Center, the two cellmates get along just fine.

“They became more than cordial,” Barket said. “In the short time they were together, they became friends.”

The source also insisted that Tartaglione, 51, had nothing to do with Epstein’s injuries.

“The guy is on suicide watch. You don’t go on suicide watch if you’ve been assaulted, do you?” the source said.

The Bureau of Prisons did not respond to an inquiry.
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Sounds like they staged it to me. His cellmate saved him? What a great ending - JE doesn't have to actually die and the cellmate looks a good pal to his new friend.

jmopinion

Edited to add: The two of them were apparently complaining about conditions in the jail before this incident. That was part of the staging, imo. The story would be the JE just couldn't take the dismal living conditions and tried to off himself. Sorry, I don't believe it. (Well, I do believe the conditions are bad, but not the suicide attempt.)

jmo
 
So in the confined space of a jail cell his celly didn’t happen to see or hear JE while he was attempting to hang himself? Maybe he was asleep but I’m not buying it. I’m with inthedetails.....staged.

ETA just looking at JE’s photo gives me the creeps. Shudder.
 
JMOO. With all the powerful people that will be mentioned at a trial.....
Murder for hire comes to mind.....or is JE really afraid of what's next?
 
Trying to hang oneself doesn't necessarily mean dangling from the ceiling or a top bunk or whatever. Sitting or kneeling and leaning forward with an object on the carotid artery and against the throat can cause death, and this is how the majority of suicides occur in jail. It's not noisy and wouldn't necessarily have been clearly visible to a celly.

A friend of mine committed suicide in jail in this manner as referenced below.
 
The book, "Filthy Rich", is just not really my genre of reading, but JE was really connected to a lot of Uber Riche folks. The connections between him and so many, would be a fascinating map.

Alan Dershowitz is the epitome of "Sleaze Lawyer". His "Everyone is entitled to a defense" is true, but seriously, that fact that he negotiated to get a sleaze like JE a sweetheart deal is revolting.
 
rocket said:
Trying to hang oneself doesn't necessarily mean dangling from the ceiling or a top bunk or whatever. Sitting or kneeling and leaning forward with an object on the carotid artery and against the throat can cause death, and this is how the majority of suicides occur in jail. It's not noisy and wouldn't necessarily have been clearly visible to a celly.

A friend of mine committed suicide in jail in this manner as referenced below.
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I’m so sorry about your friend. :(
 
Lilibet said:
This article points out concerns that Wexner’s associates had about Epstein and the POA. I reeeeaallly want to ask attorney Robert S Schwartz what HE was thinking about the POA he put together! Above all, I’d like to know what Wexner was thinking and why he gave over control to Epstein. What did Epstein have on Wexner?!

Arden’s allegations raise disturbing new questions about what some describe as Epstein's “total control” over Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire businessman and CEO of L Brands, the parent company of Victoria’s Secret.

Two former executives of the company told the Times alarm bells went off when it was learned that Epstein was attempting to get involved in recruiting lingerie models for Victoria’s Secret in the 1990s. Wexner is said to have been informed of the situation and promised to take care of it, they said, but he didn’t cut ties with Epstein until years later."

And in the meantime, they said, he surrendered almost total control to Epstein, shocking those closest to him, who said they were mostly isolated from Wexner once Epstein came along.

Perhaps the most drastic step of all came in 1991, when Wexner signed a power of attorney giving Epstein “full power and authority to do and perform every act necessary.”

Epstein also went on to take on leadership positions in two of Wexner’s foundations. Epstein had control of Wexner’s financial affairs for the next 16 years, and he managed to scoop up assets previously owned by Wexner or his companies during that period...

‘His Weapons Were His Hands’: California Model Says Epstein Posed as Victoria’s Secret Scout to Grope Her
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And all of my Limited Stock went straight down the drain.
 
Cappuccino said:
He was clearly being helped by people who didn't think his actions were really criminal. It's Roman Polanski all over again, listen to the likes of Quentin Tarantino for example defending Polanski and there you'll find the same attitude behind those who "prosecuted" Epstein.
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Yes, because they were teenage prostitutes. Or tween prostitutes. /sarcasm

I wonder if we will her about boys and younger girls? May explain the Wexner POA.
 
I found this interesting from Columbus Dispatch and took one for the team and subscribed. Will post in 3 sections. Wexner/Wife/Epstein Very Strange.

Questions surround Wexner foundation funded by Epstein

By Mark Williams & Tim Feran The Columbus Dispatch Posted Jul 11, 2019 at 4:45 PM
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In December 2007, Mrs. Wexner formed the YLK Charitable Fund, according to Internal Revenue Service records obtained by The Dispatch. A month later, Epstein, who recently had been accused of having sex with children in Florida, donated $47 million to the fund through his company and his own foundation.

It would be the only money donated to the fund, according to records.”

Mrs. Wexner is a well-known advocate for children’s causes and has helped raise millions for fighting domestic and sexual abuse.”

Epstein for years was a Wexner financial advisor and in 1998 was identified as president — along with Wexner — of the New Albany Co. in Ohio business records. Epstein owned land in the New Albany development, including a home on King George Drive that he owned from 1994 until selling it for $0 to the Wexners in December 2007, shortly before he donated money to Abigail Wexner’s YLK foundation.

Epstein is a registered sex offender who was convicted of state prostitution charges in Florida in a plea deal in 2008.

In September 2007, federal prosecutors drafted a 53-page indictment against Epstein that could have sent him to prison for years.

However, after nine months of intense negotiations, in June 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution. He also paid a settlement — $5.5 million in total — to three of more than two dozen teens who sued him.

During those nine months between the initial indictment and final deal, Epstein had time to put his financial house in order.



 
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#2 By Mark Williams & Tim Feran The Columbus Dispatch

In December 2007, the YLK Charitable Fund was formed, with Mrs. Wexner as president, according to public tax records. The letters YLK are the initials of Mrs. Wexner’s late father, Yehuda L. Koppel.

A month later, in January 2008, Epstein donated $47 million to it through his private foundation, COUQ, and his company, Financial Trust Co. The donation was made up of mostly of shares of Apple along with other investments, tax records show.

In February 2008, a month after Epstein donated the money, Mr. Wexner announced that Dennis Hersch would replace Epstein as his business manager. Previously, Epstein had been Mr. Wexner’s personal investment manager and a trustee of two Wexner foundations.

The work release appears to have been tied to Epstein’s charitable foundation, said Spencer Kuvin, an attorney who represented three of Epstein’s alleged victims.

As part of his plea, he stated to the judges he was working for a charitable group, and that’s why he needed work release,” Kuvin said.

Epstein was released from jail in July 2009. In December 2010, records show, the YLK Charitable Fund was shut down and its remaining assets — about $33.3 million — were transferred to the Wexner Family Charitable Fund, a foundation the Wexners have used to support a variety of charities.

During the three years in which the YLK fund was in existence, it made two donations totaling $6.5 million to the Columbus Foundation, the tax records show. Also, the fund was set up during the recession, and some of the assets in the fund declined in value.

Mrs. Wexner has long been an advocate for children and families, especially those who have faced family violence or sexual abuse.

In the mid-1990s, she founded the Columbus Coalition Against Family Violence, and in 2001 established the Center for Child and Family Advocacy. The two organizations later merged to become the Center for Family Safety and Healing at Nationwide Children’s Hospital.
 
#3 By Mark Williams & Tim Feran The Columbus Dispatch

Mrs. Wexner’s equestrian-centered New Albany Classic Invitational Grand Prix and Family Day, which ran for two decades, raised millions for the cause.

In 2015, she helped launch an awareness campaign to encourage bystanders to take action when they see or suspect abuse.

Why the YLK was created and dissolved three year later is unclear, and Wexners have declined through a spokesperson to explain.

The $47 million would be just a fraction of Mr. Wexner’s net worth, estimated by Forbes magazine at $4.7 billion. Forbes said he is Ohio’s richest person.

In pressing a lawsuit against Epstein, lawyers for three women who say they were victims abuse by Epstein sought to determine the financier’s worth — and, therefore, how much to seek in a settlement.

But “in the litigation itself, we were never able to get him to produce verified financial information,” Kuvin said. He and his team “pursued every possible angle” to find out Epstein’s net worth but found that much of his wealth is offshore.

Kuvin said he was unaware of Epstein’s donation to the Wexner fund.

Sadly, it would have made no difference in the case,” Kuvin said. “We always knew he was closely tied to the Wexners. We knew that from the get-go. Epstein was using the Victoria’s Secret connection to get a lot of the girls to come to the (New York) house. That was part of his lure for the teenage girls.

For me, it didn’t really matter so much as for the funds,” Kuvin said. “We sought to freeze Epstein’s assets early on in the case, but until there’s a judgment, the judge can’t force someone to do something with their money.
 
nanwv said:
In September 2007, federal prosecutors drafted a 53-page indictment against Epstein that could have sent him to prison for years.

However, after nine months of intense negotiations, in June 2008 Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state charges of soliciting a minor for prostitution. He also paid a settlement — $5.5 million in total — to three of more than two dozen teens who sued him.
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nanwv said:
In December 2007, the YLK Charitable Fund was formed, with Mrs. Wexner as president, according to public tax records. The letters YLK are the initials of Mrs. Wexner’s late father, Yehuda L. Koppel.

A month later, in January 2008, Epstein donated $47 million to it through his private foundation, COUQ, and his company, Financial Trust Co. The donation was made up of mostly of shares of Apple along with other investments, tax records show.
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Thanks for taking one for the team @nanwv! This shows an interesting timeline.
Sept 2007 Epstein knows about the indictment and presumably so do the Wexners. December 2007 Mrs Wexner sets up her foundation and receives her only donation in January 2008 from Epstein before he pleads to a lesser charge in June 2008. Hiding money? And coincidentally(?) Epstein is replaced by Wexner in February 2008...keeping his dirty hands clean?
 
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Lilibet said:
Thanks for taking one for the team @nanwv! This shows an interesting timeline.
Sept 2007 Epstein knows about the indictment and presumably so do the Wexners. December 2007 Mrs Wexner sets up her foundation and receives her only donation in January 2008 from Epstein before he pleads to a lesser charge in June 2008. Hiding money? And coincidentally(?) Epstein is replaced by Wexner in February 2008...keeping his dirty hands clean?
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Yes, I had the same reaction as you did.

Plus I had the reaction of gagging while reading that Mrs. W has an interest in children's causes and sexual abuse.

Why does everything seem like a joke against women/girls at every step of this case?! Wexner and Epstein hide their money in a charity started by a woman who is working on causes to benefit children and abuse victims? Did Epstein get a big laugh out of that?!

Also, I'd like to know who the recipients of any donations from any of these charities and fundraisers are. It looks like funds are just shifted from one charity to another. Are any actual people in need getting any help - or is it just numbers on paper?

jmo
 
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