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attorneys ask MCC New York staff members if Epstein could be moved to a different housing unit or housed without a cellmate. MCC New York staff obtain the replacement hard drives to repair the institution's security camera system but do not complete the repairs necessary to restore recording functionality and address long-standing performance failures with the institution’s DVR 2 system. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unseals approximately 2,000 pages of documents in civil litigation involving Ghislaine Maxwell, who is later convicted in December 2021 of conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors over the course of a decade. Some of these documents contain information that may relate to the criminal charges pending against Epstein. There is extensive media coverage of information in the unsealed documents. At approximately 6:45 p.m., Epstein leaves the attorney conference room. At approximately 7 p.m., contrary to BOP policy but with the permission of a Unit Manager, Epstein is permitted to place an unmonitored telephone call to a number with a New York City area code, purportedly to speak with his mother. In actuality, Epstein speaks with someone with whom he allegedly has a personal relationship. After the call, Epstein is returned to his cell, where he remains without a cellmate. MCC New York SHU staff members do not conduct the 4 p.m. or 10 p.m. inmate counts. After approximately 10:40 p.m., SHU staff members do not conduct the required 30-minute rounds. August 10, 2019 MCC New York SHU staff members do not conduct the 12 a.m., 3 a.m., or 5 a.m. inmate counts or any of the 30-minute rounds from 12 a.m. until approximately 6:30 a.m. At approximately 6:30 a.m., SHU staff begin to deliver breakfast to inmates in the SHU through the food slots in the locked cell doors. When SHU staff attempt to deliver breakfast to Epstein, SHU staff unlock the door to the tier in which Epstein’s cell was located and then knock on the door to Epstein’s cell. Epstein, who is housed alone in the cell, does not respond to SHU staff. SHU staff unlock the cell door and find Epstein hanged in his cell, with one end of a piece of orange cloth around his neck and the other end tied to the top portion of a bunkbed in Epstein’s cell. Epstein is suspended from the top bunk in a near-seated position with his 19 DOJ-OGR- 00023386