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Report: Jeffrey Epstein Said He Had Dirt On Tech Industry Leaders

Last year Jeffrey Epstein made a revelation he told a reportery that he had dirt on some of Silicon Valley’s elite.

The stereotypical tech entrepreneur is a nerdy guy who works all the time. But according to what Epstein told The New York Times’ James B. Stewart, the truth was much different, according to what Stewart recounted in an article published on Monday. Epstein said he had seen prominent tech figures doing drugs and “arranging for sex,” according to the article.

“They were hedonistic and regular users of recreational drugs,” Stewart reported, paraphrasing Epstein.

He died as a disgraced man but questions remained open.

At the MCC, two jail guards are required to make separate checks on all prisoners every 30 minutes, but that procedure was not followed overnight, according to the source. In addition, every 15 minutes guards are required to make another check on prisoners who are on suicide watch,” Reuters reports.

He was also supposed to have a cellmate.

“But a person who had been assigned to share a cell with Epstein was transferred on Friday, and — for reasons that investigators are still exploring — he did not receive a new cellmate, the person familiar with the matter said Sunday night. That left Epstein, who had previously been placed on suicide watch, alone and unmonitored — at least in the hours before his death — by even those officers assigned to guard him,” the Washington Post reports.

Even before his first suspected suicide try last month, Jeffrey Epstein was perhaps the most high-profile inmate in the federal jail system: A politically connected financier accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. He was, by all accounts, the kind of inmate that should have been under the closest possible supervision.

Instead, Epstein was taken off suicide watch in the days before he took his own life, officials told NBC News, a decision that baffled former wardens and veterans of the federal prison system.

Maybe his information got him killed.