American billionaire Epstein was arrested in July 2019 on suspicion of abducting and sexually assaulting underage girls. He died in the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10 of the same year. The medical examiner finally ruled that he committed suicide, but the outside world did not "Conspiracy theories" have been speculated about the cause of death from time to time. According to US media reports, new revelations from a lawyer who met with Epstein in the days before his death have made the cause of Epstein's death "even more confusing."
ABC's wpbf TV station quoted American lawyer David Schon on the 3rd as saying that on August 1, 2019, he met with Epstein for five hours at the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center to discuss the latter's defense. Schon revealed that Epstein told him during the meeting that he had suffered a neck injury due to the actions of his cellmate Nicholas Tattaglio a few days earlier. According to the report, on July 23, 2019, prison guards found Epstein briefly unconscious and with bruises on his neck, and then the prison authorities placed him on suicide watch. Schon said that according to Epstein's account, Tattaguillion placed "a piece of rope or cloth" around Epstein's neck and tightened it "as part of an experiment or prank." Schon said Epstein did not tell prison officials the truth because he did not want to be viewed as a "whistleblower" by other inmates and get into trouble.
The US "New York Post" stated that Tata Gillion is a former New York City police officer who was charged with four counts of murder while being detained in the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center. One of the victims was strangled to death by Tata Gillion. When Epstein's "suicide attempt" occurred, Tata Gillion claimed that he saved Epstein who attempted suicide. According to reports, Tata Gillion was transferred to other cells before Epstein committed suicide on August 10, 2019.
Schon also told wpbf TV station that Epstein was very excited about Schon’s defense strategy during the meeting and was looking forward to the upcoming bail hearing. “It’s a shame that a person still tries every means to defend himself before committing suicide. It doesn’t make sense to me”. Schoen believes that the prison authorities described Epstein's previous neck injury as a suicide attempt, which helped to "complete" the narrative that he "died by suicide."
In addition to the "Epstein case", Schoen also served as the defense lawyer in the impeachment case of former US President Trump in 2021. US media reports did not explain why he only broke the above information now. (Muzhi)▲
