Julie K. Brown

But some of them certainly were from young girls from a very long time ago.

And those cases are very hard to make.

But there's other ways to make them.

Wyden is trying to get more of his financial information showing he was making these big payments.

And he's hit a brick wall with the Trump administration over that.

So, you know, as they say, follow the money.

So they should be looking at that and giving Wyden the room to get some of those records.

No, it not only wasn't fully investigated, but the way that it was investigated was so incredibly slipshod that you have to wonder if they really were already convinced it was a suicide in their mind.

So there was no need to investigate the possibility of anything else.

And we know that, you know, I've interviewed the forensic pathologist that was at the autopsy, the one that his brother hired, who I've done a lot of work with,

In my previous reporting about, you know, I covered Florida prisons for many, many years.

So I know the way that deaths happen in prison, deaths as in murders happen in prison.

And he has quite a lot of experience in those kinds of cases, too.

And he doesn't believe for a lot of reasons that that it was a suicide case.

And I actually don't believe it was a suicide because it was too soon for, I think, Epstein to give up.

He had been only in jail for a month, you know, and he had a good chance of, I think he had a shot anyway at getting out because the information that the SDNY had at that time were false.

from victims in Florida and his lawyers were going to argue that they would have been covered by that immunity deal that he made in Florida.

So they had a good, you know, platform there to start with to get him off.

You know, he was also, you know, right before his arrest talking to Bannon and to other people about how to kind of smooth this story over that I had written to sort of make it

You know, at one point, I think they were trying to figure out a way to discredit me.