FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said on Fox News Thursday morning that he is certain Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender, died by suicide while in federal custody — and there is video that supports it.
“There is nothing in the file at this point on the Epstein case — and there is going to be a disclosure on this coming shortly… there is video. That is something the public does not know,” Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends.
Bongino clarified that the video in question does not show the “actual act” but proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his cell on the night he died, on August 10, 2019.
And this is why hospitals (and secure facilities) have physical locations that the employees have to touch.
The old method for security guards was a key, which fit into locks embedded in the walls around the building. The locks actually feed to time meters; When the guard turns their key, it marks the current time. More modern systems use wands or badges, which scan into little infrared or RFID scanners. The guard just scans them as they walk past. So management can check the timestamps and know that security actually made their rounds; If a guard is slacking, there won’t be any timestamps when they should have been making their rounds.
And hospitals have started implementing similar things with nurses and support staff. Hand washing stations that require a badge scan, and detect how long the sink ran, and if soap was dispensed. If a nurse isn’t washing their hands, it’s pretty obvious by looking at their badge scans. Bedside charts that require badge scans and info from the connected equipment (like the thermometer, blood pressure cuff, etc) in the hospital room, so they can’t just mark it as done from the nurses station; They need to physically go into each room, scan their badge, and take readings before it will be marked as done.
I was in the hospital last year, and if they didn’t have the cart with them, they’d always scan the thing holding my IV when they came to check on stuff. The staff were almost annoyingly always present, which is way better than other stays where I’d practically only see the staff that brought meals, or my IV machine beeped cause it was empty.