By: Victor Valjean
The Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell in August, will soon face a lawsuit by the family of a different inmate who died there under controversial circumstances, Bloomberg reported.
Roberto Grant was being held in MCC awaiting trial after a guilty plea in a smash and grab jewelry store heist in 2015.
He was found dead after telling his mother and Nicole Morrison, his ex-wife, that he was being harassed and physically threatened by a corrections officer. Morrison, who is the mother of Grant’s two children, sued on behalf of Grant’s estate in 2017.
Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in August, quickly ruled a suicide and since than his name has quietly dropped out of the news. The mainstream media rarely mentions him, while the alternative media universe is still asking questions.
“ It is not hard to figure out what happened at MCC, knowing the corrupt prison guards, a few $100 bills waved in their face and Epstein is suicided, the man knew too much and would have destroyed many powerful celebrities and politicians lives, not a shock that they are being sued”, Jared Evan, political commentator told TJV.
Morrison claims that a corrections officer told her and Grant’s mother that Grant “died of a drug overdose and had not been physically harmed.” An autopsy showed he’d been beaten to death and had no drugs in his system. On Friday, U.S. District Judge William Pauley in Manhattan dismissed from the suit the two corrections officers who’d been named, as well as the Federal Bureau of Prisons, but let the complaint proceed against the U.S, Bloomberg reported.
“Recently, the death of a high-profile defendant reinvigorated public scrutiny of MCC,” Pauley wrote, apparently referring to Epstein’s death. “The unexplained circumstances surrounding Mr. Grant’s death raise troubling questions about the BOP’s oversight of individuals remanded to its custody. Mr. Grant’s relatives — and the public — have an interest in learning what happened.”
Friday’s decision comes a day after the New York City Council voted to close the notorious Rikers Island jail, which houses defendants before trial on state charges or those serving short sentences. New York plans to build four smaller jails around the city.
