Epstein offed himself: mate
BILL Mersey was Paul Manafort’s cellmate. Bill Mersey was also Jeffrey Epstein’s cell buddy. So is Bill Mersey writing a book? You can bet your behind on it.
Mersey: “When I was incarcerated in the downtown [Metropolitan Correctional Center], we had a room companion program for monitoring prisoners who needed special protection or who might be on suicide watch. Inmates — not professionals — got quick quasi training plus 40 cents an hour pay to sit for a four-hour watch, which included periodic check-ins. I was its boss. The inmate companion coordinator.”
Why was he chosen? The short version is he was a “college educated nice Long Island Jewish boy.” Same background, same schooling, as Epstein. The rest of the answer is, flunking arithmetic, he’d been sentenced to a year and a day.
“It was a two-man cell, 60 square feet. Originally designed for only one man, there was no upper bunk ladder and no bar to keep you falling from the top. Daily routine was up 6:15, breakfast, back to sleep, lunch, then five hours, then dinner. These room companion programs meant six four-hour shifts daily . . . Epstein wasn’t depressed nor was he a diva. One-on-one we talked about everything. We hung out. He even asked if I needed money. Even about flying a private plane once with Donald Trump to Florida. I was like a kid he went to school with. He didn’t ask dumb questions about my life. And 7 p.m. to 11 I kept him entertained. Normal conversation.