Guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein were offered and rejected a plea deal.

Jeffrey Epstein. New York state sex offender photo.

Federal prosecutors offered a plea deal to two prison guards responsible for Jeffrey Epstein but the deal was rejected by the guards. AP. With a deal being offered it seems likely that the two guards will be charged with a crime. The guards are accused of not checking on Epstein every 30 minutes and falsifying records saying they had. Though Epstein was not on suicide watch during the time of his death, he was still supposed to be monitored by the prison guards. Attorney General William Barr said that the Epstein investigation has been moving slowly due to uncooperative witnesses and that there were "serious irregularities" at the jail where Epstein died. 

My Comment:

Another interesting development in the Epstein case. The fact that a plea deal was offered means that these two guards are almost certainly going to be charged with a crime. From what it sounds like it will be falsification of records, which is of course a serious offense. Tampering with government records is a serious thing in the first place but when someone dies because of it they are going to throw the book at you. 

The big question now is whether or not these guards were just incompetent or if they allowed Epstein to die for some reason. To be fair, incompetence of this magnitude is fairly comment just about everywhere. I wouldn't have believed it myself until I started to work full time, but I am sure everyone has a story or two about someone who just refused to do their job. And it's very possible that's what is going on here. It's very possible that these people were completely terrible at their jobs, either through laziness or just plan stupidity.

That being said, you would think that with such a high profile prisoner the guards would have taken some precautions. There are only two things the general public know about Epstein, that he's a pedophile and that a half the world's elite wanted him dead. If I had been working there I would be paying extra close attention to Epstein as I sure as hell wouldn't want to be at the center of an international firestorm like this. Were these guards really that poorly informed that they didn't know how big this story was or was something bigger going on here? 

Of course the more conspiratorial minded people, which is everyone these days, think that Epstein was killed. Or, at the very least, was allowed to commit suicide. It's very possible that these guards were paid off by someone and they in turn allowed Epstein to die, either by his own hands or by the hands of a third party. 

If that's the case than this plea deal could mean that the Justice Department is looking for bigger fish to fry. If they are looking for evidence of a conspiracy these two guards would be the first place to look. If they could cop a plea perhaps they would have testified as to why they didn't do their jobs. 

And you would think that these guys would cop a plea. Tampering with records is a very serious felony that can result in a 20 year prison sentence. And since these are jail guards you would think that they would jump on the chance to do so. Former jailers and prison guards do NOT do well in prison so it's not just a 20 year sentence they could be facing here but death itself. If there only concern was their future they would cop a plea for sure.

Which begs the question, why aren't these guys begging for a plea? What is more scary to them then a 20 year sentence in a federal prison where most of the population is going to hate you and want to kill you outright? It's possible that they were offered a terrible deal, but even then, given the circumstances of the case, I think there is something else going on here... 

I will say that if these two guards are arrested I sincerely hope that they are protected in jail, at least better than Epstein was. If there is a conspiracy going on here it wouldn't do for these two to end up dead. And if they were killed in jail it would be pretty easy to cover it up, all you would need is for general knowledge of the fact that they were federal jailers and then just leave them alone with some of the other prisoners and they would be gone very soon... Though I would appreciate the dramatic irony of that outcome, I think everything possible should be done to prevent this from happening.