Here's what we actually know: the guards didn't check on him, the camera footage from his tier was corrupted, his cellmate had been moved days before, and the autopsy had some irregularities that the ME's office won't fully explain. Do I think there was a coordinated assassination plot? Not necessarily. Do I think multiple people chose not to do their jobs that night, possibly because they were aware of larger institutional pressures? That I believe completely. The JPMorgan settlement and all those undisclosed accounts suggest there was a whole apparatus protecting him operationally. Why would the guarding change? It's not one coverup - it's the continuation of a system that existed for years.

As someone whose sister was in one of his properties for years, I don't care anymore whether it was incompetence or malice. Either way, the system failed. Failed her. Failed all of them. The guards, the prosecutors, the people who saw something - they all chose to look away or half-ass their jobs. And now we'll never get the full truth because he's conveniently dead.

The official story is that they 'forgot' to check on him. Yeah, and I'm the tooth fairy. Multiple guards, multiple failures, cameras down - at a federal facility holding the most high-profile inmate in decades. Pick one conspiracy or one incompetence, but not both. Something broke that night and we deserve actual answers, not bureaucratic handwaving.

I worked in corrections for twelve years, and I can tell you that simultaneous failures of that magnitude - multiple guards not checking, cameras malfunctioning, records being falsified - don't happen on accident. Not at that facility level. That doesn't mean there was necessarily a grand conspiracy, but it means someone senior either looked the other way or actively engineered the conditions. In my experience, the most damning thing about institutions isn't what they actively do - it's what they permit through systematic negligence. The guards weren't heroes; they weren't villains either. They were part of a machine that had already decided what outcome was acceptable.