Source: Feds are taking extra precautions to prevent Maxwell suicide
Federal officials are taking extra precautions to ensure the recently incarcerated Ghislaine Maxwell doesn’t meet the same fate as her accomplice Jeffrey Epstein, who committed suicide by hanging in custody last year.
These measures include taking away her clothes and bedsheets and making her wear a paper garb, according to an anonymous official in an interview with the Associated Press .
It also means she has a roommate in her cell, she is monitored and someone is always watching her while she is behind bars.
The Justice Department has placed federal officials from outside the Bureau of Prisons to prevent other inmates from harming her and to prevent her from harming herself.
“We have asked [the Bureau of Prisons] to tell us specifically the protocols they’re following and we have a number of redundant systems to monitor the situation,” Attorney General William Barr told ABC News on Wednesday.
The concern is not unreasonable, after Epstein was found having committed suicide in a Manhattan correctional facility last year, found kneeling with a strip of bedsheet around his neck. Despite a medical examiner having ruled it as such, a great many theories have popped up surrounding his death. These usually involve some member of the wealthy elite fixing to have him killed before could name names in a trial.
Two of Epstein’s guards, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, did not make the required rounds every half hour to Epstein’s cell, despite filing paperwork claiming they had. They were also discovered to be asleep at their desks for about two hours during their shift, only about fifteen feet from Epstein’s cell. In November, they were charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States and making false records.
“I believe very strongly in that case,” Barr said. “And I was very proud of the work done by the department, the Southern District [of New York], on that case. And as you will recall, after he committed suicide, I said that I was confident that we would continue to pursue this case vigorously and pursue anyone who’s complicit in it. And so I’m very happy that we were able to get Ms. Maxwell.”
Maxwell was arrested last Thursday on charges that she helped lure at least three girls, one as young as fourteen, into sexual abuse by Epstein who was himself accused of trafficking and abusing dozens of girls over many years.
She has called the claims “absolute rubbish.”
A team of federal agents found her hiding out at a $1 million New Hampshire mansion. She was taken to the Metropolitan Detention Centre in Brooklyn, just over the bridge from where Epstein was held.
The labyrinthine case against Epstein has implicated many of the elites of the world, including Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew, Elon Musk and Alan Dershowitz among others. Last September, sealed court documents indicated about 1,000 names associated with Epstein.