EFTA00126066.pdf

-1 of 2 - Fl>302 (Rev 5.8.10) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Dateorente 03/04/2021 On March :2, 202C, , date of birth , telephone number , was interviewed by Assistant United States Attorney , Task Force Officer Detective , and Special Agent at the United States Attorneys Office (USAO), Southern District of New York (SDNY), 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 United States Marine Corp for four years, 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 advised that the cameras at MCC were out of date, the recorders frequently went bad, and the cameras were all analog and not maintained properly.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 last-mg:mon on 03/12/2020 m New York, New York, United States (In Person) Feet PGA-NY-3151227 DwedmaW 03/04/2021 by This document contains neither tecammasilations nor condom's or the FBI h is tbe property of dx FBI and is loaned to yaw agency. it and its cements are ncie to be distributed outside your agency SONY_0001800i EFTA00126066 FD.302o(Rcv 54-10) 90A-NY-3151227 Contonuationo1FD-302of (U) Interview of i On 03/12/2020 " ace 2 of 2 told to start working on the system. started removing the bad drives in order to rebuild the DVR. advised that an FBI Agent was the one who pulled out the DVR. also advised that he knew that by replacing both hard drives, the system would be wiped and that he had advised personnel at MCC of that. SONY_00018002 EFTA00126067