A former federal prison inmate voiced his suspicion on the death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who was found dead in his cell at the Manhattan Correctional Center on Saturday.
Larry Levine had spent 10 years in federal prison for security fraud and narcotics convictions and had posted a prediction on his Facebook page last month that Epstein was going to die in prison.
“People that know too much can cause a lot a havoc, they disappear usually,” Levine told Fox News on Monday, saying that anyone who wanted Epstein dead “wouldn’t wait until he sitting in a prison somewhere and have him whacked and bring attention to themselves.”
Epstein was not on suicide watch at the time of his death, despite reportedly having made an attempt a few weeks earlier.
Offering his own theory, Levine said, “He had already been suicidal, so they put him under a psychiatric evaluation, they did it for X amount of time — I don’t know, a week or two — then you mean to tell me, all of a sudden, a shrink one day declared that he was psychologically sane? You know, that just doesn’t fly.”
“So then they moved him back to his cell, I believe, and I don’t know, nobody really knows — that someone got a big paycheck out of this somewhere … But somebody planted something in his cell and he had the motive and he had the means to kill himself,” he continued.
Levine said if a prison inmate is suicidal, they are put into special cells and given “paper-mache jumpsuit to wear. Paper-mache pillowcases, sheets,” and there is no place in the cell from which to hang oneself. A law enforcement source claimed that Epstein hanged himself with bedsheets, according to the New York Post.
“So you mean to tell me that these staff members for four or five hours sat around doing nothing? I don’t buy it,” he said.
The New York City medical examiner’s office completed the autopsy on Epstein’s body Sunday but has not released the official cause of death.
A statement released by Dr. Barbara Sampson, New York City’s chief medical examiner, said the final determination is “pending further information at this time.”
