Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer David Schoen believes that the pedophile did not commit suicide but was actually murdered. However, he says he does not know who murdered him.
When Schoen last spoke with Epstein, he was positive and upbeat, looking forward to mounting a defense to clear his name of the sex trafficking charges alleged against him.
Now, Schoen is speaking out in a three-part documentary series on the Investigation Discovery channel, ”Who Killed Jeffrey Epstein?” The docuseries takes a deeper look into the events surrounding Epstein’s death.
Just prior to his death, Epstein had asked Schoen to head his legal team, expressing that his prior legal team was not effective. He had sought legal advice from Schoen here and there over the course of 11 years prior to hiring him to help fight against his child trafficking charges.
Epstein had been having trouble at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where he was housed while awaiting trial, including a prior suicide attempt in July of last year.
The night Epstein died, the guards at the prison had not checked on him all night, and the cameras outside his cell were not working. The guards were eventually indicted on federal charges of falsifying documents and conspiracy after they were found to be napping and shopping online instead of checking on inmates.
When Epstein was found dead, Schoen immediately told his legal team to hire pathologist Michael Baden to be present at the autopsy with the New York City Medical Examiner.
Baden does not believe that Epstein’s injuries are consistent with suicide by hanging, disagreeing with the autopsy findings because Epstein had a broken bone in his neck, which would be more consistent with being murdered.
Schoen believes that Epstein was in a “dangerous situation” in jail with other inmates trying to blackmail him after seeing his vast wealth broadcast on TV. Schoen also mentions Epstein had issues with former cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione, an ex-cop who is accused of murdering four people. Tartaglione was Epstein’s cellmate during his first suicide attempt and had accused of beating Epstein up.
Schoen felt that Epstein was getting judged unfairly by the court of public opinion and wanted him to push back and appeal to the “public sense of fairness.”
He maintains that Epstein was prepared to fight the case and had a positive outlook about his future, which is not consistent with taking his own life.
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