A former high-ranking mobster who once occupied the same Manhattan prison cell as Jeffrey Epstein is casting renewed doubt on the official narrative surrounding the disgraced financier’s death.
Michael Franzese, a former capo in the Colombo crime family, told NewsNation on Monday that he spent seven months in the same cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) where Epstein was later found dead in August 2019. Franzese, who served a lengthy sentence on racketeering charges, described the conditions inside the facility as making suicide highly unlikely.
“There’s just no way,” Franzese said, referring to the possibility of Epstein having taken his own life. He cited the lack of fixtures from which one could hang a sheet, constant surveillance by correctional officers, and the standard protocol for inmates on suicide watch.
Franzese’s comments come amid major MAGA backlash to Trump’s Justice Department essentially slamming the door on the story, concluding that Epstein’s death was the result of suicide by hanging and that the predator did not have a “client list” – which MAGA faithful have been eagerly waiting to be released. Surveillance cameras inside the cell were reportedly inoperative at the time, and two jail employees later admitted to falsifying records during the incident.
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YWN is not really covering this story, which is probably the correct Torahdik path, given its sordid and disgusting “appeal”, as well as its irrelevance to the larger YWN readership. So it’s interesting that they chose to cover just one small aspect of the story, in the form of the opinion of a hardened criminal. If they want to truly cover the story, there’s much more information out there which needs to be brought to bear, so that the readership can know what is truly happening. Thankfully they are not, so this little sideshow about a criminal cell mate’s opinion is really out of place. The most seemingly honest and accurate piece of news to bring here would be the statements made by Alan Dershowitz, which actually create a path for reporters and journalists to chase down who’s hiding what and why (see his YouTube interview with National News Desk). His take still leaves us wondering why Trump and his people are saying what they’re saying, but it very much clears the air greatly, and answers most of the questions. I don’t see a point in elaborating here, since hopefully most readers couldn’t care less, and the others either already know or know how to find out. But YWN certainly picked a loser here…