Jeffrey Epstein was given extra linens in a Manhattan prison cell and authorities negligently failed to assign him a cellmate or take other precautions leading up to his death in 2019, according to a newly revealed federal investigation.
Epstein, already a convicted sex offender in Florida, died in New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center in August of that year while awaiting federal trial for sex trafficking.
The report found that there was both negligence and misconduct, which created an environment in which he could commit suicide and “deprived his numerous victims, many of whom were underage girls at the time of the alleged crimes, the ability to seek justice through the criminal process.”
The Justice Department’s inspector general released a long-awaited report on Tuesday about his investigation into the case.
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FILE – This March 28, 2017 file photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. (AP, file)
The city’s coroner ruled his death a suicide, but questions have lingered for years about the circumstances before and after his death, and even his ex-girlfriend and accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, has publicly stated that she believes Epstein was murdered .
About a month before his death, the disgraced financier’s former cellmate told guards he had tried to hang himself after they found him with an orange cloth wrapped around his neck.
Epstein first told MCC New York staff he thought his cellmate had tried to kill him, but later said he didn’t know what happened and didn’t want to talk about how he sustained his injuries. report.
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell attend an event at Cipriani Wall Street on March 15, 2005 in New York City. Epstein was found dead in a prison cell on August 10, 2019, awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Maxwell is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence. (Photo by Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
That cellmate was transferred on August 9, 2019. Early the next morning, as staff were handing out breakfast, they found Epstein dead in the cell.
“I believe he was murdered,” Maxwell, who is himself serving a 20-year federal sentence, told The Guardian in a prison interview in January. “I was shocked.”
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Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Florida on July 30, 2008. (Uma Sanghvi/Palm Beach Post via AP, file)
Then-Attorney General Bill Barr said shortly after Epstein died that his “death raises serious questions that need to be answered” and subsequently announced the Inspector General’s investigation.
Epstein also had connections to powerful figures, including former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton and the British royal family, further fueling the idea that foul play was involved.
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