Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide blamed on jail’s ‘negligence and misconduct’
by Richard Luscombe and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6CGYZ)
US justice department watchdog cites failure to assign a cellmate and problems with surveillance cameras as factors in his death
The disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was able to kill himself due to a combination of negligence and misconduct" by authorities at a federal jail in New York City, a US justice department watchdog concluded.
Epstein hanged himself in his cell at the Metropolitan correctional center in Manhattan in August 2019, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
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