A legal expert on Thursday revealed a potential pattern in the newly released alleged Epstein suicide note and described why it was something to consider.
Lisa Rubin, MS NOW senior legal reporter, told MS NOW anchor Katie Tur that there could be a buried detail found in the note discovered by Nicholas Tartaglione, Jeffrey Epstein's cellmate in 2019. Tartaglione, who is now servingfour consecutive life sentencesfor a quadruple homicide, says he discovered it after Epstein's alleged suicide attempt in July 2019 and gave it to one of his lawyers.
"There was then aconflict between his lawyersand specifically the judge,examining multiple issues abouta conflict of interest betweenand among his lawyers," Rubin said. "One ofthe issues was how this notewas handled by Tartaglione andhis lawyers. It then came intothe court's possession in Tartaglione's criminal case in2021."
It was sealed until Wednesday, she explained. And after examining it, Rubin said it raises some serious questions.
"Butlet's talk about what we knowabout the note and whether ornot we have any reason tobelieve it could be legitimate," Rubin said. "We don't have anyauthentication of the note, andwe don't know whether this is Epstein's handwriting, as younoted. However, some of thewording that's been used heremimics wording that Epstein hasused in other contexts."
Rubin pointed to previous emails between Epstein, his brother and friends, "where he uses theexact same phrase, spelled alittle bit differently."
"What doyou want me to do, bust outcrying? He says that, forexample, in response to hisbrother upon news that somebodyin their family had become agrandfather, he also, in a notethat was discovered in his cell,published by '60 Minutes' sixyears ago, uses the same phrase 'NO FUN' in all caps with thesame number of exclamationpoints," Rubin said. "People have pointed toboth of those online to say,this is a note that seems likeit could be written by Jeffrey Epstein, but again, we have noreason to know whether it is oris not authentic. The judgehere has asked the parties, in Mr. Tartaglione's case to redactsome additional filings thatcould shed some light on howthis came to be, and hopefullywe'll learn more next week."