FD-302 (Rev. 5-8-10) 3 Cs Ge FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Date of entry 03/04/202 On March 12, 2020, [, dace of birth , telephone VuN HN «». 2s interviewed by Assistant United States Attorney WI)». 2s Force Officer Detective MM, anc special Agent QJ ac the united States Attorneys Office (USAO), Southern District of New York (SDNY), | New York, New York. During the interview, rovided the following details: p | | started working for the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) in 2003 and worked in both New York and Indiana. | had some college education, was with the United States Marine Corp for four years, and had 10 years experience in electronics. In 2016, | was put in charge of all the cameras at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC). | of date, the recorders frequently went bad, and the cameras were all nt the cameras at MCC were out o a. 4 p 7) 0 a tt a 7) iad analog and not maintained properly. The camera system was over 20 years old. Sometimes the screen would be active indicating that the camera was working, however, the video would not be recording. | advised that only one hard drive of the camera system was working at the time of the incident on August 10, 2019. When a DVR went bad, none of July 29, 2019 and the motherboard failed on DVR 2 on August 8, 2019. The hard dr the cameras recorded. There was a system failure of DVR 2 o ye failure occurred on August 10, 2019. QM recalled that there was a body alarm around 6am on August 10, 2019 and he was one of the MCC personnel who responded. QJ stated that he was FREY EPSTEIN. one of the personnel who briefly tried to resuscitate J After the incident, | was asked about the cameras. There were two new hard drives to install but installing the new hard drives would that all prior data would be lost. The Warden wanted video and so | was Investigationon 03/12/2020 a New York, New York, United States (In Person) Files 9OA-NY-3151227 Date drafted 03/04/2021 CO ——————E———E—EEE——— ‘This document contains neither recommendations nor conclusions of the FBI. It is the property of the FBI and 1s loaned to your agency, it and rts contents are not to be disinbuted outside your agency SDNY_00018001 EFTA00126066

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FD-3020(Rev 5-8-0) S90A-NY-3151227 Continuation of FD-302 of (U) Interview of ,On 03/12/2020 Page 2 of 2 told to start working on the system. [J started removing the bad drives in order to rebuild the DVR. [J advised that an FBI Agent was the one who pulled out the DVR. [J also advised that he knew that by replacing both hard drives, the system would be wiped and that he had advised personnel at MCC of that. SDNY_00018002 EFTA00126067