EFTA00064309.pdf

FD-302(Rev.5-8-I0) On March 12, 2020, -1 of 2- FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION OF--.- IMALRECORD „ . .. ,..- . 0.. .: Date of entry 03/04/2021. , date of birth , telephone number was interviewed by Assistant United States Attorney Agent District of , Task Force Officer Detective and Special at the United States Attorneys Office IUSAO), Southern New York (SDNY), 1 St. Andrews Plaza, New York, New York. During the interview, provided the following details: started working for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in 2003 and worked in both New York and Indiana. had some college education, was with the , and had 10 years experience in electronics. In 2016, was put in charge of all the cameras at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). advised that the cameras at MCC were out of date, the recorders frequently went bad, and the cameras were all analog and not maintained properly. The camera system was over 20 years old. Sometimes the screen would be active indicating that the camera was working, however, the video would not be recording. advised that only one hard drive of the camera system was working at the time of the incident on August 10, 2019. When a DVR went bad, none of the cameras recorded. There was a system failure of DVR 2 on July 29, 2019 and the motherboard failed on DVR 2 on August 8, 2019. The hard drive failure occurred on August 10, 2019. recalled that there was a body alarm around 6am on August 10, 2019 and he was one of the MCC personnel who responded. stated that he was one of the personnel who briefly tried to resuscitate JEFFREY EPSTEIN. After the incident, was asked about the cameras. There were two new hard drives to install but installing the new hard drives would mean that all prior data would be lost. The Warden wanted video and so was Investigation on 03/12/2020 at Herr 90A-NY-3151227 New York, New York, United States (In Person) Date drafted 03/04/2021 by This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and is loaned to your agency: it and its contents arc not to be distributed outside your agency. SDNY_00018001 EFTA00064309 FD-302a (Rev. 5-X-10) 90A-NY-3151227 commatokmam-m2a (i) Interview of told to start working on the in order to rebuild the DVR. who pulled out the DVR. both hard drives, the system personnel at MCC of that. system. advised also advised would be wiped .O, 03/12/2020 j ag, 2 of 2 started removing the bad drives that an FBI Agent was the one that he knew that by replacing and that he had advised SDNY_00018002 EFTA00064310