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erronis

(23,260 posts)
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 02:20 PM Jan 31

Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal

Source: The Guardian

Less than two weeks before Jeffrey Epstein's death in jail, his lawyers and Manhattan federal prosecutors met and discussed his potential cooperation, several documents within a cache of newly released investigative files state.

"On July 29, 2019, FBI and [prosecutors] met with Epstein's attorneys, who, in very general terms, discussed the possibility of a resolution of the case, and the possibility of the defendant's cooperation," an FBI document titled "Epstein Investigation Summary & Timeline" statement.

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On 23 July 2019, several days before this stated meeting with prosecutors, Epstein was discovered unconscious in a jail cell, multiple media outlets reported. While it was unclear how Epstein endured injuries to his neck, two anonymous sources told New York City's NBC News 4 that his injuries may have been self-inflicted.

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Epstein was found unconscious in his cell again on 10 August and pronounced dead at hospital. Authorities said Epstein's cause of death was suicide.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/31/epstein-lawyers-discussed-cooperation



I wonder who really wanted him killed.... Now, who could it be?

Of course, there are many suspects but one is really special.
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Epstein lawyers discussed possibility of cooperation with prosecutors days before his death, files reveal (Original Post) erronis Jan 31 OP
Well, his brother is convinced it was not suicide, so I'm not going to discount his suspicions. hlthe2b Jan 31 #1
MAGAs had him murdered Trueblue1968 Jan 31 #17
Move along...nothing to see here SamuelTheThird Jan 31 #2
Finally, something that is really, truly NEW information! This is a GREAT thread to tug at! AZJonnie Jan 31 #3
Time to give Bill Barr that Medal of Freedom you hinted at when you gave it to Edwin Meese travelingthrulife Feb 1 #34
From the files posted and hidden by DOJ angrychair Jan 31 #4
Reading this makes me physically want to vomit. hamsterjill Jan 31 #24
"He" is Epstein - or Trump? NM Grins Feb 1 #31
The "he" doing the measuring angrychair Feb 1 #32
Plus his 3 kids were all supposedly present at this auction. travelingthrulife Feb 1 #35
For suspects, the local place to start is Bluetus Jan 31 #5
Kicked and recommended Uncle Joe Jan 31 #6
His "suicide" was stinky from minute one. Especially since video footage of his cell "disappeared." Vinca Jan 31 #7
and guards were sleeping or distracted. It was a suicide watch FCS. Love to see them under oath. Evolve Dammit Jan 31 #9
And he was the most high profile prisoner in the entire US penal system. No room for "Whoops!". TheRickles Jan 31 #13
Make that coffee to go... JoseBalow Jan 31 #8
That's the last thing that Jabba the orange Hey Joe Jan 31 #10
Satan? Clouds Passing Jan 31 #11
Trump is Satan's Son. Trueblue1968 Jan 31 #18
Worse. rubbersole Jan 31 #21
And Barr's father gave Epstein his first job TommyT139 Jan 31 #30
MURDERED. evolves Jan 31 #12
It's abundantly evident. sop Jan 31 #26
Co-operation implies a bigger fish. Harker Jan 31 #14
Trump made an offer to the guards they couldn't refuse. Tetrachloride Jan 31 #15
Or the two female guards were drugged dlbell Jan 31 #16
Indeed. Am I going to sleep with a high value target near ? Tetrachloride Jan 31 #19
Same person who pushed Ivana down the stairs. BigmanPigman Jan 31 #20
Probably speaks russian, also. erronis Jan 31 #22
No doubt! BigmanPigman Jan 31 #23
That's a smoking gun. Martin68 Jan 31 #25
This is increasingly suspicious fujiyamasan Jan 31 #27
So now we see the motive for his murder. He was about to name names. patphil Jan 31 #28
Recommended. H2O Man Jan 31 #29
Exactly angrychair Feb 1 #36
The mystery remains: H2O Man Feb 1 #37
Troubleshooting Kid Berwyn Feb 1 #33
People like him angrychair Feb 1 #39
Some people cough BFEE enjoy immunity from all their er shortcomings. Kid Berwyn Feb 1 #40
Wasn't Billy Barr conventionally out of the country when Epstein died? lanlady Feb 1 #38

AZJonnie

(3,309 posts)
3. Finally, something that is really, truly NEW information! This is a GREAT thread to tug at!
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:03 PM
Jan 31

Now, are there records that suggest what the possible SUBJECTS of that cooperation might be?

His own defense lawyers floating the possibility of Epstein's cooperation for a reduced sentence are probably meaningful, but it'd mean a *lot* more if there were an official record of WHAT/WHO he might be cooperating ABOUT.

But even just this information is a good start, and hopefully at the upcoming House Epstein hearings, Democrats will pepper Barr with questions about this!

travelingthrulife

(4,861 posts)
34. Time to give Bill Barr that Medal of Freedom you hinted at when you gave it to Edwin Meese
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:31 AM
Feb 1

Better refresh that loyalty oath.

angrychair

(11,946 posts)
4. From the files posted and hidden by DOJ
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:04 PM
Jan 31

From the Epstein Files that were released but then hidden again by the DOJ:

“Jeffrey Epstein would bring the children in and trump would auction them off. He measured the children’s vulva and vaginas by entering a finger and rated the children on tightness,” the complaint reads.


If that isn't the only thing we care about then we have already given up and given in as a nation.

This is what got him killed.

travelingthrulife

(4,861 posts)
35. Plus his 3 kids were all supposedly present at this auction.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 10:34 AM
Feb 1

2 sons and Ivanka.

Can this take down their empire? Likely everyone he has blackmailed wants off this ride.

Bluetus

(2,525 posts)
5. For suspects, the local place to start is
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:18 PM
Jan 31

anyone who threatened violence against the girls they were raping.

That narrows it down to a couple hundred, I suppose.

Hey Joe

(518 posts)
10. That's the last thing that Jabba the orange
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 03:41 PM
Jan 31

wanted. Epstein volunteering to talk to prosecutors is very likely what got him dead.
Very telling new information.

rubbersole

(11,126 posts)
21. Worse.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 05:27 PM
Jan 31

Bill Barr. AG at the time and recipient of all the video evidence collected when Epstine was arrested. That might make someone extremely powerful. Just sayin'.

TommyT139

(2,266 posts)
30. And Barr's father gave Epstein his first job
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 10:59 PM
Jan 31

...as a -- get this -- high school teacher at a private school in NYC.

Time was in NY state, you didn't need to have teaching credentials if the school wasn't a public school.

fujiyamasan

(1,454 posts)
27. This is increasingly suspicious
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 09:37 PM
Jan 31

Especially given Barr’s own connection to Epstein.

As we know, Barr was always the bagman.

H2O Man

(78,870 posts)
29. Recommended.
Sat Jan 31, 2026, 10:42 PM
Jan 31

Let's see ..... the former police officer/Russian mob hitman who attempted to strangle him, but was stopped when guards got involved. Wait until guards who will "fall asleep" come on a couple nights later, when the cop/hitman is a couple cells away. Video down.

H2O Man

(78,870 posts)
37. The mystery remains:
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:09 PM
Feb 1

Who had ties to the Russian mob in NYC? And could get the AG to look the other way? That narrows it down, I think.

Kid Berwyn

(23,772 posts)
33. Troubleshooting
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 08:49 AM
Feb 1

Seems Epstein was pursuing all avenues of escape. A rat like him wouldn’t voluntarily meet his Maker until after the jury reports, “Guilty!” and the judge says, “Life imprisonment without parole.”

angrychair

(11,946 posts)
39. People like him
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:25 PM
Feb 1

They don't check out early. They don't have too because people like him don't go to jail for very long. For all the serious charges had already been dropped. The remaining one was insignificant and likely wouldn't even get him jail time. Why off himself?
Some of the released files tell the tale. Apparently, his lawyers were in negotiations to spill the beans apparently. I think, some of the emails alludes to this, the fact he was arrested at all pissed him off and he was seeking revenge by outing the people that he thought should have protected him.

I think that was his final and fatal miscalculation. Whomever "they" were decided they didn't want him to do that.
That alone is a little scary. They blacked out security cameras and killed a person and disappeared in a poof of smoke in a federal prison. I have yet to see or hear a reasonable explanation as to why the only cameras that went out were in his area and only for the time around when he died and why not a single news agency will go near that story beyond the official account of the death.

Kid Berwyn

(23,772 posts)
40. Some people cough BFEE enjoy immunity from all their er shortcomings.
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:58 PM
Feb 1

Only guy who could do all that wasn't Trump, it was Barr. Bill Barr. Attorney General and volunteer helper like when Trump couldn't find his ass with both hands even if they both were super-glued to his ass. Remember how Barr wrote an 8-page "application letter" jonsing for the AG gig when Sessions refused himself over the Russia Thing?

AG Bill Barr's father hired Jeffrey Epstein to teach at NYC prep school.

Epstein was a 20-year old college drop-out "math wiz" at the time. Barr's father, Dalton School headmaster, was retired OSS trained to spot talent.

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The Ties That Bind Jeffrey Epstein, William Barr & Donald Trump

Todd Neikirk
Hill Reporter, May 19, 2019

During Attorney General, William Barr’s confirmation hearing, he was mostly peppered with questions about how he would handle the Mueller Report. Senator Ben Sasse’s (R-NE) questioning, however, diverged from the pack. Sasse asked Barr about the lenient sentence given out to billionaire pedophile, Jeffrey Epstein. The future Attorney General told Sasse that he would look into the matter.

This, however, was not the first connection between Barr and his family and the disgraced pedophile. In 1973, Barr’s father Donald, the headmaster at Manhattan’s Dalton School, hired Epstein as a calculus and physics teacher.

While hiring Epstein, a noted mathematics genius, was not strange on its face, the hire was unusual for a number of reasons. Epstein had not earned a college degree as he dropped out of New York’s prestigious Cooper Union. The other odd circumstance was that the new teacher was only 20 years of age.

Apparently, the hire was a successful one. The New Yorker wrote in a 2003 profile on Epstein, “he was something of a Robin Williams–in–Dead Poets Society type of figure, wowing his high-school classes with passionate mathematical riffs.” Epstein’s mathematical skills caught the eye of Bear Stearns’ chairman, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, whose son attended the Dalton School. Greenberg hired Epstein as an options trader and the former teacher was able to amass a fortune.

Continues....

https://hillreporter.com/the-ties-that-bind-jeffrey-epstein-william-barr-donald-trump-34107



Musta been one of the last times Epstein thought he had a good idea.



Jeffrey Epstein Bragged Bill Barr was in Charge, Not Trump

The pedophile told Ehud Barak he had “direct knowledge” that Barr was in charge in DC, according to a new book that also claims Steve Bannon gave Epstein advice on his PR strategy.


Lachlan Cartwright
The Daily Beast, October 15, 2021

A controversial new book from the journalist Michael Wolff claims that the pedophile Jeffrey Epstein bragged that Bill Barr was the man in charge during Trump’s time in office and that the president “lets someone else be in charge, until other people realize that someone, other than him, is in charge. When that happens, you’re no longer in charge.”

The tome, Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious and the Damned, also claims that Steve Bannon and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak tried to help Epstein rehabilitate his image, even suggesting that he try to get favorable coverage on Rachel Maddow or 60 Minutes.

According to Wolff—who reportedly tried to buy New York Magazine with Epstein and disgraced Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein—Barak asked Epstein the million-dollar question of who was in charge at the White House. “‘What I want to know from you all-knowing people is: Who is in charge, who is,’ [Barak] said, putting on an American accent over his own often impenetrable Israeli one, ‘calling the shots?’ This was a resumption of the reliable conversation around Epstein: the ludicrousness and vagaries of Donald Trump—once among Epstein’s closest friends. ‘Here is the question every government is asking. Trump is obviously not in charge because he is—’”

Wolff claims that Epstein interrupted the former politico and called Trump—his former playboy party pal—a “moron,” then confided, “At the moment, Bill Barr is in charge.” The pedophile financier continued: “It’s Donald’s pattern...he lets someone else be in charge, until other people realize that someone, other than him, is in charge. When that happens, you’re no longer in charge.”

Barak allegedly pressed, “But let me ask you, why do you think this Barr took this job, knowing all this?”

“The motivation was simple: money,” Epstein replied. “Barr believes he’ll get a big payday out of this ... If he keeps Donald in office, manages to hold the Justice Department together, and help the Republican Party survive Donald, he thinks this is worth big money to him. I speak from direct knowledge. Extremely direct. Trust me.”

Continues...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-bragged-barr-was-in-charge-not-trump/



Like they say when "solving problems" in the Mob, the KGB GRU, the CIA, Mossad, etc. etc. etc.: "No man. No problem."

lanlady

(7,229 posts)
38. Wasn't Billy Barr conventionally out of the country when Epstein died?
Sun Feb 1, 2026, 01:10 PM
Feb 1

I vaguely recall that he and that useful idiot of a judge from Connecticut were on a junket to Italy when Epstein allegedly killed himself. I remember thinking how, if that scenario had happened under a Democratic administration, where the most high-value criminal in the country managed to kill himself AFTER he had already attempted suicide — as the AG was off on a cushy business trip - there would have been hell to pay. Our lame media really let us down by not getting to the bottom of the events of the summer of 2019.

I absolutely believe Epstein was killed.

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