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Yes, and this is an irrelevant, too-clever-by-half woketake which accomplishes nothing but to distract from the fact that Epstein's vast trafficking & blackmail
by AndrewBissell 7y ago
Yes, and this is an irrelevant, too-clever-by-half woketake which accomplishes nothing but to distract from the fact that Epstein's vast trafficking & blackmail network is still extant, and will be much more difficult to hold accountable in the wake of his death.
As Ben Hunt puts it, you don't have to think any one oligarch is responsible to hold them all responsible: https://www.epsilontheory.com/im-a-superstitious-man/ https://www.epsilontheory.com/im-a-superstitious-man/
- criddell 7y agoIt's relevant because Epstein's death in prison wasn't extraordinary. I agree with White and Doctorow that the simplest explanation is the most plausible one.
- malvosenior 7y agoThere hadn’t been a suicide in that prison for 21 years. That one happened at it was Epstein is extraordinary.
- criddell 7y agoFirst, I was wrong - he wasn't in prison, he was in a jail (MCC). It was the first suicide in 13 years for that facility, not 21. He had just come off suicide watch because he was suicidal. Is it really a surprise that he went through with it?
- malvosenior 7y agoYes, it's a surprise that he ended up dead. Where did you hear 13 years? I've only ever seen 21 years without a suicide at MMC, and that was the only one in 40 years. https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-new-york-lockup-suicides https://www.foxnews.com/us/epstein-new-york-lockup-suicides > Prior to Epstein, the only other reported suicide at MMC occurred 21 years ago, when Philadelphia mobster Louis Turra hanged himself with a bedsheet tied to the window bars of his cell.
- criddell 7y agohttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/nyregion/epstein-suicide-jail-investigation.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/22/nyregion/epstein-suicide-... > The last suicide at the Manhattan jail before Mr. Epstein’s was in 2006, according to the bureau.
- AndrewBissell 7y agoI wonder how many prisoners with a net worth of over $500 million have committed suicide in US prisons in the last 50 years ....
- criddell 7y agoA very high percentage I bet.