David Schoen says Epstein explained how murder suspect put rope around his neck
A lawyer who met with Jeffrey Epstein days before his death says Epstein told him he never tried to kill himself two weeks before – despite jail reports that he did.
David Schoen says Epstein explained his cellmate — on trial for multiple murders — caused the injury to his neck, and Epstein decided to keep quiet about it.
Schoen says Epstein revealed that a few weeks earlier, his cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione had placed something around his neck as part of a so-called “experiment.”
“Or prank or something like that going on. And he put a rope around Mr. Epstein’s neck – his throat — and then pulled it.
That left the abrasion, it left him quite shaken. He didn’t feel he was in a position to refuse it,” said Schoen.
Tartaglione was a former cop on trial for murdering four people involved in a drug ring.
He used a twist tie to strangle one of them.
Shoen says Epstein told him Tartaglione whipped the rope, or possibly a piece of cloth, from around his neck, making an abrasion.
He says Epstein said he did not pass out or have any serious injuries.
“He didn’t want to be perceived to be a rat”
When jail officials saw the marks and assumed Epstein had tried to hang himself, Schoen says Epstein decided not to correct them.
“He said that he told the prison officials that he couldn’t remember what had happened because he didn’t want any trouble.
He didn’t want to be perceived to be a rat or something like that. And he was just hoping the whole incident would go away,” said Schoen.
Source:WPBF
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