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The thought of Denmark selling 50,000 citizens to the United States is completely ridiculous.

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The autopsy of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein revealed multiple broken neck bones, including his hyoid bone, findings that may be more consistent with strangulation than suicide by hanging, according to new a report released late Wednesday evening.

The Washington Post article cited two people familiar with the findings of New York City's Office of Chief Medical Examiner, which is investigating the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death in his Metropolitan Correctional Center prison cell early Saturday morning.

Studies show a broken hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam's Apple, is more common during homicidal strangulation than hanging. Nevertheless, research on the frequency of the hyoid bone breaking during a hanging varies greatly, from it being rare to fairly frequent. And it is generally agreed the chances of a broken hyoid bone during suicide by hanging increases with age as the three jointed bones making up the hyoid harden and become more breakable. Epstein was 66 when he died.

Dr. Barbara Sampson, New York City's chief medical examiner, released a statement Sunday evening saying a final determination is "pending further information at this time." On Saturday morning, a representative for the medical examiner's office had stressed that "there is no official cause of death yet" because "the medical examiner has to do their job." Epstein's body was reportedly claimed from the examiner's office by representatives for the now-deceased jet-setting financier on Wednesday.

Neither the Justice Department nor the medical examiner's office immediately responded to the Washington Examiner's request for comment.

The Washington Post also cited anonymous sources stating Sampson's office is looking for more information about the hours leading up to Epstein's death, including checking out video evidence of the prison hallways, figuring out whether anyone came near or entered Epstein's cell, hearing what the on-duty guards have to say, and reviewing the toxicology report to determine what, if anything, was in Epstein's system around the time he died.

Many questions remain about why Epstein was reportedly taken off suicide watch despite allegedly being found nearly unconscious on his cell floor with marks on his neck back on July 23, as well as about why such a high-profile prisoner wasn't being closely monitored. There are reports that prison guards may have falsified the records showing that they were checking in on Epstein in the hours leading up to his death.

The Bureau of Prisons said on Saturday that Epstein was found "unresponsive in his cell" in the special housing unit that morning following "an apparent suicide." Attorney General William Barr also said Epstein died by "apparent suicide," and he ordered the FBI and the Justice Department's inspector general to investigate both the incident in July and Saturday's death.

The DOJ said earlier Tuesday that the warden for the prison had been "temporarily reassigned" to a northeast regional office "pending the outcome" of investigations currently underway. Two other prison staffers were placed on administrative leave. Barr said Monday that he was "learning of serious irregularities at this facility that are deeply concerning and demand a thorough investigation."

Earlier, US President Donald Trump demanded a full-blown investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide, with Attorney General William Barr lambasting what he described as serious irregularities at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre where Epstein died last week.

US Attorney General William Barr, for his part, underscored that "any co-conspirators should not rest easy" and that he was "appalled and [...] frankly angry to learn of the MCC [Metropolitan Correctional Centre]'s failure to adequately secure this prisoner".

Barr was echoed by New York Mayor Bill de Blasio, who said that Epstein's death "boggles the imagination", suggesting that "this series of events is way too convenient".

Speaking to the news network NY1, he argued that all those involved could say that they were watching Epstein "like a hawk" and that they were going to "take every measure to make sure nothing happens to him or he doesn't do anything to himself".

In a separate development this week, at least two computer desktops and an Apple computer were packaged and marked for transport during an FBI raid of 70-acre Little St. James Island, owned by Epstein.

Taking part in Monday's raid were officials from the New York Police Department (NYPD), who are members of the FBI New York Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force.

A former reporter has released recordings from a 2003 interview he had with Jeffrey Epstein, after the disgraced pedophile died over the weekend in a New York City jail while awaiting trial for sex trafficking.

David Bank was a reporter for the Wall Street Journal in 2003 when he flew to Epstein's private Caribbean island Little St. James to talk with the financier ahead of his $6.5 million donation to Harvard.

While Bank never turned the interview into an article, on Wednesday, he turned his recordings over to Bloomberg, and they offer a rare insight into the usually private Epstein.

Epstein conducted the interview from outside his house because there were 'too many girls' inside

Bank told Bloomberg about one thing that wasn't on the tapes. When he asked Epstein why he wanted to conduct the interview in a gazebo outside, instead of inside the house, he said Epstein told him, "Too many girls."

But that seems to be the only reference to the underage girls that victims said Epstein surrounded himself with over the years.

The rest of the interview focused mainly on how he got into finance and his keys to success.

At one point in the interview, Epstein started talking about his private island and how it offered him solitude away from his job where he had to worry about clients.

"I can't be totally wacko in what I do. It affects lots of other people who will get angry with what I do because then it affects me again.

"But on my own island or on my own ranch, I can think the thoughts I want to think. I can do the work I want to do and I'm free to explore as I see fit," Epstein said.

In another revealing part of the interview, Epstein appeared to worry how his wealth might make him the target of false accusations.

"My concern is that people can make spurious allegations all the time," he said. "The idea is if nothing else he'll buy me off. I'll attack his reputation and he'll buy me off."

He added that this is the reason he's "always been private."

"As you become known as a philanthropist or in giving away money, then you become the perfect victim of frauds and identity theft," he said.

Epstein was in such a hurry that he paid for the machine up front so it would arrive sooner - even though it meant being responsible if it got damaged in transit.

Three weeks later the Miami Herald published a series of articles called 'Perversion of Justice' on November 28, which eventually led to Epstein being arrested in July.

Shipping experts told DailyMailTV that the possibility that it was 'used to literally cover up evidence cannot be discounted'.

Among the other items that Epstein had sent to Little St. James in the US Virgin Islands was a dentist's chair complete with all the parts, DailyMail.com can reveal.

Epstein also sent a tile and carpet extractor that weighed 191 pounds from the US Virgin Islands to his New York home on March 11 this year.

Four months later he was arrested at Teterboro airport near New York and indicted on sex trafficking charges.

The details come after DailyMailTV exclusively revealed that the FBI had raided Little St. James on Monday as they widen their investigation into Epstein's alleged abuse of underage girls.

Federal agents will be scouring the property to find evidence for their investigation - and Epstein's use of a cement truck raises the prospect they may have to dig to find some of it.

The fact that he sent a cement truck to Little St. James could have an innocent explanation as Epstein often does construction work on the island and the neighboring one, which he owns as well.

Epstein, a wealthy financier who used to associate with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Britain's Prince Andrew, died aged 66 after a trove of documents related to his case were unsealed on Friday.

The FBI is now refocusing its investigation on Epstein's alleged enablers such as his former consort Ghislaine Maxwell.

FBI agents were seen raiding Jeffrey Epstein's US Virgin Island Little St. James on Monday morning and afternoon, exclusive DailyMailTV footage shows

The timing of the cement truck delivery raises questions about Epstein's real motive said William George, an analyst with Import Genius which monitors shipping data and provided the details to DailyMailTV.

George said: 'While the purchase of the cement mixer on its own is not suspicious, particularly given the reported and approved repair of cisterns on Little St. James, both the timing of the shipment and the fact that it's the only item in our records shipped with an express bill of lading do raise concerns.

'The shipment arrived Epstein's island on November 7th of 2018, 21 days before Julie Brown's expose was published in the Miami Herald and 23 days before Epstein allegedly began to try to pay off witnesses.

'Considering both the scope of Brown's article and the urgency of the shipment, the possibility that the cement mixer was used to literally cover up evidence cannot be discounted'.

The Carmix 5.5 XL boasts a loading shovel that can hold 600 liters and a drum capacity for 7,600 liters of cement.

It has joystick control, a 2 speed 4x4 wheel drive and is powered by a Perkins 6-cylinder turbo diesel 150hp engine.

Epstein sent the machine with an Express Bill Of Lading, an unusual and expensive way of shipping an item so that it arrives quickly.

Normally the shipper has to guarantee that the item arrives safely but with the express option, Epstein would have had no recourse if something had happened - and he paid up front.

The dentist's chair that Epstein had imported arrived from China on September 9 2013.

It has a rotatable ceramic spittoon, a 'luxurious' operating light, high power suction, a saliva ejector system and LED panoramic X-ray viewer.

Some of the items shipped to Epstein had already been reported by The Intercept, such as the shredder which was 53lbs - indicating it was an industrial size.

In 2008, Epstein had the industrial shredder sent to his island shortly after reaching a controversial non prosecution agreement under which he only served 13 months in jail even though police found dozens of victims.

The shredder can destroy CDs, three ring binders and hardbound documents - and up to 85 sheets of paper per pass.

The Intercept noted that one of the main difficulties in prosecuting Epstein in the 2000s was the lack of documentary evidence.

Jeffrey Epstein's former bodyguard and driver has backpedaled over 2015 comments he made to former Daily Beast reporter M.L. Nestel, at one point suggesting he drop the story and stop asking questions about Epstein's pedophilia.

Nestel, now with New York Magazine, was able to reach the former UFC fighter, Igor Zinoviev, who was happy to answer questions about shuttling Epstein around Palm Beach and training the 'pretend billionaire' via workouts and light martial arts, the Russian MMA competitor clammed up when the topic shifted to Epstein's crimes.

Igor Zinoviev

Select excerpts below via New York Magazine:

You were Jeffrey Epstein's driver? You weren't just his bodyguard and trainer?

Yep.

You drove him in all three places?

In New York, I didn't drive him. In New York, he had a driver, whatever his name was. He was like old family. I was just training with him in New York and travel with him. And I just drove him here in Palm Beach. Because other places he had different drivers. They're just personnel, you know, who just drive him. Somebody drive him in New Mexico. Somebody drive him in Virgin Islands, actually. I just drove him here in Palm Beach.

You went with him to all the other properties? Did you go with him to New Mexico also?

Yeah.

You worked with him and traveled with him 24/7 — so that means you were on his plane with him, correct?

Yeah.

You lived in his guest house?

Yeah.

***

Now things get uncomfortable as Zinoviev backpedals on statements he made in 2015.

***

In our conversation in 2015, you described his relationship with teenage girlfriends: "So many time I tried to stop him. I try to tell tell him my opinion about that. He don't listen to me. That's the reason why I'm not working for him no more. I make him do that — to let me go." Do you remember saying that?

It's not the teenage girls. I never see the teenage girls. I tell you I never see teenage girls.

Plenty of times when I work for him I never see anything unproper or teenage girls around him.

That's what I say.

So now you say you only saw him with women? Older than 18? 20?

All what I say he has always been with girlfriends and there was a couple girls — I don't remember their names. She was 25 and worked for him as assistant. Maybe 25 or 23 — whatever, I don't know the age.

Okay. But you definitely told me that last time we talked.

No, no. It's not that. He working like work-release on other stuff. And I just tell him, you know, he would order his girlfriends around, and I told him, "Calm down." It's not just teenage girls.

I never see teenage girls in my life at his house. That's what it is. That's a misunderstanding. Completely. That's because — that's what I'm saying. Most of the time with reporters they give me that kind of questions. "Who told you I see the teenage girls?" I never see the teenage girls in my life. And they said I was —

Here's another thing you said last time about Epstein and the girls you saw at his house — specifically about moments when you were trying to offer him advice about his conduct: "Sometimes he tries to make a joke. He'd say, 'Thank you, Grandma. I don't need your opinion.' So when you tried to do something good, he would try to make a joke in front of his girls. I never give anyone any questions. It's one of my rules actually. I be honest with you. I never ask any of my clients what they do for a living or how they do whatever they do. I just do my job, and that's it." Do you remember saying that?

Yes, that's what I say. I feel like the cops watching me whenever he's on work release — I tell him, "Don't do stupid stuff." Like, "[Don't] put your girlfriend in the car and drive together.

Don't! Watch it out — all the extra attention."

Epstein made fun of you in front of the girls, right?

Yeah. Yeah, that was his thing, yeah.

You said you never ask your employers questions.

Yeah. That's normal answer. People like him just do whatever he wants to do. Because like people talking and just — they already have some release and I understand and just read some papers about his like, whatever, "teenage girls." But that was [how] he answers. That's it. So I don't know.

Here's another quote from our last interview: "He had a couple girlfriends. They have no idea the degree of what they are doing. But you can't tell nothing to them. Because they support him kind of. For the while, this one girl can be more attached to him, he just fire her. Fire them and keep them away. For example, I give you some idea: You have private plane and you have three girlfriends and one girl can be more attached to him. And next week — he don't take that girl. He takes another one, and he just switch them. He brings them on a couple trips and then get different girls. That's what he doing."Remember that?

Kind of not!

Igor.

Wait a minute. Wait a minute.

I understand this is sensitive —

It's not sensitive — it's just — kind of a little uncorrect.

It's exactly what you said. I can send it to you. Here's something else you said: "It could be tricky you know. Normally he always checks his newspapers — 'Nothing about me?' I say, 'No!' He say, 'They forget about me?'" And when I mentioned Epstein was being exposed for messing with teenage girls, you said: "I'm not surprised at all. I'm just surprised how low he can be outside the real world. Someday is going to call him and it will be real jail. He have so much money he can pay it off. Me personally, if I caught him with my daughter or something do that — I'm not going to go to police. I do something else. Much worse. That guy could try to sue me and manipulate the situation with his money. That's the American way. I know he screwed up a lot of fashion girls also. That's a different story. [Laughs.]" Do you remember saying that?

I remember one thing: I say like, "If I be the father and somebody screw up my daughter, I don't give shit with how much money he have. I definitely do some bad thing." That's what I said. Before that stuff, I don't know. I'm just really like —

Igor, I'm not making stuff up. I was very careful.

I'm really careful, too.

It was four years ago. You may not remember what you told me. I kept very good notes of what you and I said. It must come across as very harsh. But it's the truth. I'm happy to understand a little better. He's not alive. You don't have anything to be afraid of anymore.

I'm not afraid. Beyond that just he is dead. I don't want anything to be uncorrect. There's too much shit in here, you know, already. He's dead and just like, freaking people, just leave him alone.

Hold on. When did you find out he died?

Saturday or Sunday or whenever.

What did you think when you found that out?

What did I think?

Yeah.

Are you sure you want to hear what I am going to think?

Yeah.

Somebody helped him to do that.

You think somebody helped him kill himself?

Yeah.

Okay. Why?

Listen, you know, that's going a little too deep.

I mean, I'm just trying to understand that maybe you'd be happy he was dead or you would be upset. I don't know. Are you even feeling anything?

I'm not sad. I mean, I didn't have anything against him, like a bad thing, you know? I don't care about his life completely. I don't give a, let's say, like, crap about how he die, how he live, or how he's managed.

How many years did you live at his house?

Five or six years. In Palm Beach.

That's a long time.

Yeah.

You don't have any emotion after learning he's dead?

No.

Did you think that would happen to him?

It's unexpectable. Well —

***

One thing you told me, for instance — okay, one thing you told me is he got a heads up when the authorities were going to come to his house the night before.

Listen, what you say is between you and me —

You told me he would get phone calls the night before and eight o'clock the police are going to come. He would get a heads up from local police.

[Silence.]

You told me that, Igor. Want me to read the quote?

Well, you can read whatever you want right now. Don't just — you can put yourself in big trouble.

You said: "He always do something wrong. There was some nights in question. There was at home arrest and police, before they come to the house, they call him and tell him they coming in at eight o'clock in the morning. It's all corruption you know. It's all bullshit."

Listen, don't put yourself in trouble. Seriously.

We talked about this.

I understand we got this.

I'm telling you to give you a chance to remember because we talked about this stuff. I know it's hard. I don't know what you mean about "put myself in trouble."

Let that go. Seriously. Let that go.

Why is it so important? Are you worried about the local cops?

Listen, you're really smart and I'm not going to offer that over the phone right now, okay? You're really smart. You have no idea. Please!

What do you mean by that?

I can't explain you. I can't explain you over the phone any of this.

You said that last time. And we didn't talk for years. You can tell the world who this guy was. You were with him for a long time. You know what I mean?

[Silence.]

I totally understand that you think he could have had help committing suicide.

First of all, I have to go right now. I have another client.

Still training people?

Yes. But just be careful. I'm not kidding.

What's your email so I can send you —

Don't do any kind of that stuff. Just don't play it. Seriously.

Can you tell me why?

I can't. I can't.

May I ask you one more question?

Go ahead.

Have you been talking to anyone in the government, the FBI? Have they come to you?

[Long pause] Um. Great talking to you. Seriously. We talk later.

Really?

Bye.

All right.

Bye.

Dr. Marc Siegel told Fox News' "America's Newsroom" on Thursday that the recent revelation that convicted sex offender and alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein had certain broken bones in his neck make it more likely that his death was a homicide and not a suicide, based on statistics.

The Fox News segment came in response to The Washington Post reporting late on Wednesday night that Epstein's autopsy found that he sustained multiple breaks in his neck bones, which "deepen[ed] the mystery about the circumstances around his death."

"Among the bones broken in Epstein's neck was the hyoid bone, which in men is near the Adam's apple," The Post added. "Such breaks can occur in those who hang themselves, particularly if they are older, according to forensics experts and studies on the subject. But they are more common in victims of homicide by strangulation, the experts said."

"The hyoid bone in the neck being fractured and other fractures in the neck, make it more likely, and again, this is a percentage call, more likely that it was a homicide than a suicide," Siegel, a Professor of Medicine at New York University School of Medicine, told Fox News.

"It can either be a suicide or a homicide still ... I am now more suspicious than ever that this could be a homicide," Siegel continued. "That answer is going to come to us because if someone attacked, you see signs of the attack on the body ... It hasn't been released yet. I'm waiting to see that."

"If someone holds you down and strangles you, you see evidence on the body — bruises," Siegel added. "The other question that has come up ... is about the suicide watch situation which is shocking to me as a physician who has dealt with severely depressed and suicidal patients."

"Six days on a suicide watch, prison officials reportedly removed it. Prison officials, guided by who? What self-respecting psychiatrist would say, 'okay, he's no longer suicidal,'" Siegel concluded. "There was evidence on July 23rd that he may have done something to his neck, or someone did ... suddenly six days later he waves his hand, says he's fine, and he's put in an area where ultimately he's unobserved — because as you know, people fall asleep and they falsify records reportedly."

The New York Post reported on Monday that Epstein was found in his jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck, apparently killing "himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself."

On Tuesday, news broke that the two prison guards who were supposed to be monitoring Epstein supposedly fell asleep for three hours, did not check on him, and then allegedly falsified prison records to cover up their actions.

Hours prior to his alleged suicide, Epstein's cellmate, who Epstein claimed tried to kill him in late July, was reportedly transferred out of the cell, leaving Epstein alone.

"The convicted pedophile also told his lawyers that the neck injuries he suffered in an earlier incident at the Metropolitan Correctional Center were inflicted by his hulking, ex-cop cellmate, which led the lawyers to request that he be taken off a suicide watch, according to a source familiar with Epstein's case," The New York Post added.

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