The investigation into Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide is complete. Bad employees made bad decisions. The cameras were down, Epstein didn’t have a cell mate, Epstein collected extra sheets and his watchers decided not to watch him that night. All these errors culminated in the death of Epstein. But, despite this odd convergence of completely unrelated events, there is nothing suspicious about his death.

Let me think about this for a moment. No, sorry. I am just not buying it. Epstein, a man who could provide evidence implicating Presidents, Cabinet members, and members of Congress and who had been on suicide watch before, despite all the knowledge of his importance and his suicidal tendencies, still he manages to commit suicide on the very day that the numerous failsafe procedures designed to prevent such an action fail. It was almost like he knew this would happen. How convenient.

Two low level employees have taken the fall and that will be that. This is both unsurprising and shocking. I don’t know about you but if I was the warden tasked with keeping such an important person alive, I would pay attention to how my staff was handling the person. It would be my number one priority. I would visit Epstein’s cell every day to make sure everything was in order. I would call his watchers late at night and make them go to his cell and come back and tell me his alive. I would be consumed with worry that something terrible was going to happen to Epstein. It doesn’t appear that the warden was worried much about the performance of his lower level employees.

To pawn this off as a series of misdeeds by low level employees fucking up on their daily tasks is unbelievable. I know this to be true because I used to be a lower level employee with bosses and important projects. Concerned bosses check up on important projects. Concerned bosses put their best people on important projects. They keep tabs on what is going right and what is going wrong because they know if something goes disastrously wrong, they, and not the low level employees, will be called to account for what happened. And that manager better be able to provide an explanation.

Also, speaking as an ex-lower level employee, if my boss told me that the my most important task was ensuring that my charge is alive in the morning, I would make pretty damn sure that person was alive. I wouldn’t want to explain why Epstein had extra sheets, or no room mate, or that the camera wasn’t working.

So, if the report is true, there was a stunning lack of supervision of lower level employees. For a prison. You know one of those places that house really dangerous people and that the public needs to be protected from. That is kind of why they are there. So if low level employees can fuck up so much that the most important prisoner in the building turns up dead, I might be concerned with a little more than those low level employees. That this isn’t happening speaks volumes of what is really going on here. It is a bit sad that the best case scenario is gross incompetence up and down the food chain. The worse scenarios involve corrupt prison officials and phantom assassins are even more troubling.

Artfully hidden in these reports, at least I have not read anything about it and I would think given the media’s desire for juicy tales would be at least mentioned, is the possibility that Epstein was helped in his act – either by prison employees or by invited assassins. This would seem to be an important point to address because there was a lot of speculation about this after Epstein’s death. Not a word. He committed suicide and that is that.

That nobody believes this story goes without saying. It is an insult to the public’s intelligence. The inability for investigators to provide even a plausible answer to what happened that night reveals a shocking arrogance. They clearly don’t give a rat’s ass if we believe this report. They had to provide a report, they did it, now shut up. There also is, at least so far as I’ve read, a surprising lack of outrage from the press and elected officials which moves us into even more troubling territory. Are they complicit? Are they scared?

The whole mess is disappointing. It reeks of conspiracy and cover up something I try to avoid because it makes you sound crazy but then this report does nothing to make me feel differently.