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<\/a>Jeffrey Epstein in custody.<\/p><\/div>\n
Or maybe another inmate was responsible for the injuries. WNBC-TV\u00a0reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0authorities had spoken to Nicholas Tartaglione, an ex-cop who may as well have been plucked from central casting for the role of hired hitman: Tartaglione is accused of killing four men and burying their bodies in his yard in Otisville, New York. While the facts about what happened in MCC continue to trickle out, questions of possible conspiracy abound. Were Epstein\u2019s\u00a0rich and powerful friends<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u2014 Clinton, Trump, royalty, celebrities, and billionaires \u2014 in on the crimes? Did one of them put Tartaglione up to killing Epstein? (Tartaglione\u2019s lawyer\u00a0says<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, \u201cAny insinuation that [Tartaglione] assaulted Mr. Epstein is a\u00a0complete and utter fabrication.\u201d) Or was Epstein just trying to cut his suffering short?<\/span><\/p>\n Whatever the answers, it\u2019s hard to look away from the Epstein case \u2014 here it is, the rot at the heart of the ruling class garishly, sickeningly displayed; they protect one another, even if that means perpetuating the serial abuse of children. The masters of the universe are not only\u00a0losers<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u2014 they\u2019re sexual predators. But away from the Epstein headlines, the flip side of this conspiracy, the reality of what happens beyond the sacred bonds of wealth, is playing out just a few hundred miles away.<\/span><\/p>\n Upstate, Ramsey Orta is in solitary confinement. He has been in custody since February 2015, less than a year after he filmed New York police officers kill his friend, Eric Garner, on July 17, 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n As Chloe Cooper Jones has\u00a0reported<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, Orta says the police began harassing him the night of Garner\u2019s death, showing up outside his home mere hours after his video provoked widespread outrage at Garner\u2019s murder at the hands of Officer Daniel Pantaleo. The day after Garner\u2019s death was ruled a homicide \u2014 August 2, 2014 \u2014 Orta was arrested, on a gun charge. He posted bail and pled not guilty, but the cycle of retaliation was already in motion. When he was arrested again in February 2015, the police \u201cstated they had months-old recordings of him selling drugs to an undercover cop.\u201d They claimed they had Orta\u2019s mother on film \u201caiding in the drug sales\u201d and arrested her too. As Jones writes, \u201cOrta was never shown the video and had initially wanted to fight the charges, but when the DA offered him a plea deal that included dropping all charges against his mother, he took it.\u201d She notes what one cop\u00a0told<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0New York Daily News at Orta\u2019s arraignment: \u201cHe took the video, now we took the video.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Ramsey Orta. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n Orta\u2019s years of incarceration consist of unrelenting torture, a vast conspiracy by officers to exact revenge on the person responsible for exposing the racist brutality of one of their own. Orta does not eat because he says has been poisoned by correctional officers (COs). Court documents back up this claim, revealing an incident in which Orta refused to eat food that, it turned out, was poisoned \u2014 his fellow prisoners who consumed the meal allegedly suffered \u201cnausea, vomiting, pain, dizziness, aches, headaches, stomach\/intestinal pains, dehydration, diarrhea, nosebleeds, throwing up blood, diarrhea with blood, and\/or an overwhelming sense of illness.\u201d Writes Jones, \u201cOrta has reported constant abuse and harassment from correctional officers since he\u2019s been locked up. He claims he\u2019s been threatened, beaten, poisoned. He and Deja [his partner] both live in the constant fear that he\u2019ll never return home.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n So Orta is gaunt, starving. He says he is \u201cconstantly ticketed by the COs for petty or falsified offenses.\u201d Jones interviews Adriano De Gennaro of the Prisoners\u2019 Rights Project of the New York City Legal Aid Society, who says it\u2019s true, it seems Orta is being targeted. The effect of the conspiracy is \u201cdevastating.\u201d He is denied all sorts of privileges and thrown into solitary. After Attorney General William Barr recently\u00a0announced<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Officer Pantaleo won\u2019t face federal charges for Garner\u2019s death, Jones\u00a0noted<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>that Orta is again in solitary, and that this will likely push his release date back from December 2019 to July 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n A rich man serially assaults minors and the world conspires to protect him. His private plane is nicknamed the \u201cLolita Express\u201d and no one cares. Money talks, so the world listens to Epstein \u2014 he befriends A-listers and world leaders. He buys an island and builds a temple; why not? He is omnipotent. As one critic recently\u00a0wrote<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0of Epstein\u2019s class, \u201cLike toddlers playing hide-and-seek,\u00a0people who set themselves up for scandals behave as if they\u2019re invisible while they\u00a0operate in plain sight<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.\u201d Their acts can\u2019t be a crime;\u00a0do you know who they are<\/em>? Everyone is\u00a0very smart<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0very charming<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s as if the world revolves around Epstein. When some of his victims demand justice, he is spared again \u2014 a light sentence, a private wing in a jail, work leave, and not long after his release, a\u00a0return<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0to glitz and glamor. A mansion on the Upper East Side:\u00a0some say<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0he bought it from his billionaire friend for $1. The Manhattan DA\u00a0tries<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0to reduce his sex-offender status (the judge denies the request. She has \u201cnever seen a prosecutor\u2019s office do anything like this\u201d). He keeps nude photos of \u201cyoung-looking women<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u201d in the mansion. \u201cReckless,\u201d people will say when they are uncovered in a police raid. Yet at some point, the protections he spent such good money on aren\u2019t enough, and he is cast out. His victims,\u00a0that journalist<\/a><\/strong><\/span>, were too determined. He is arrested, and the authorities deny him bail. They say he is a flight risk, with\u00a0fake passports<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0and\u00a0attempted bribery<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>of possible witnesses and all that wealth.<\/span><\/p>\n A poor man is born, and the world conspires to destroy him. Orta hurts his back at the Boys\u2019 Club and becomes hooked on Vicodin at age nine. The Boys\u2019 Club shuts down; he starts helping the Bloods with petty thefts. At thirteen years old, he is incarcerated at Spofford Juvenile Detention Center, \u201ca facility so notorious for detainee abuse that it was forced to close forever in 2011.\u201d He and his friend Eric Garner want to get something to eat, and his friend is murdered. Orta films it. He filmed the cops a lot \u2014 it felt like they were always in his neighborhood, always surveilling.<\/span><\/p>\n It\u2019s as if everything is stacked against Orta. No matter how he behaves, he is ticketed by COs. Briefly, he is a hero, but then his support dwindles to a handful of people who cannot stop the abuse. He is being poisoned, he is being beaten. The authorities want him to kill himself. He knows it.<\/span><\/p>\n A rich man commits crimes, and it is almost impossible to believe he will face consequences. A poor man films a crime, and he is tortured. Very few people are surprised. Two men are behind bars in New York, on opposite sides of the class structure. If the Epstein case \u201cwere fiction, it would be both too sordid and too on-the-nose to be believable, like a season of\u00a0True Detective\u00a0penned by a doctrinaire Marxist,\u201d\u00a0writes<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0Michelle Goldberg in the\u00a0New York Times. Well, the doctrine exists for a reason.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThe only thing that gets you shunned in New York society is poverty,\u201d\u00a0says<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0David Patrick Columbia, founder of New York Social Diary, of Epstein\u2019s return to circles of power and prestige. \u201cIt is what it is,\u201d\u00a0says<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0Deja, Orta\u2019s partner.<\/span><\/p>\n If you would like to support Ramsey Orta, you can do so\u00a0here<\/strong><\/span><\/a>. His next parole hearing is in August.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/Ramsey-Orta-768x432.jpg\")
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