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Monday 12 august 2019
Continued from Front back the curtain on the
Epstein should have been inner workings of the high-
checked on by guards in flying financier with con-
his cell every 30 minutes, nections to celebrities and
but that didn't happen the presidents , though prose-
night before his apparent cutors have vowed to con-
suicide, a law enforcement tinue investigating.
official told the Times. Epstein had been placed
The Times spoke to the of- on suicide watch after he
ficial on the condition of was found a little over two
anonymity. The Associated weeks ago with bruising
Press has not independent- on his neck, according to
ly confirmed the informa- a person familiar with the
tion. matter who wasn't autho-
A law enforcement source rized to discuss it publicly.
also told the Times he was But he was taken off the
alone in his cell early Satur- watch at the end of July
day after his cellmate was and therefore wasn't on it
transferred. An official with at the time of his death, the
knowledge of the investi- person said.
gation told the paper that Attorney General William
the Justice Department Barr, calling for an investi-
was told Epstein would gation by the FBI and the
have a cellmate and be Justice Department's in-
monitored by a guard ev- spector general's office,
ery 30 minutes. said he was "appalled" to
The mystery surrounding learn of Epstein's death
how he was able to kill him- while in federal custody.
self in jail comes as investi- "Mr. Epstein's death raises
gators have been digging serious questions that must New York City medical examiner personnel leave their vehicle and walk to the Manhattan Cor-
rectional Center where financier Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial on sex-traf-
into allegations of sexual be answered," Barr said in a ficking charges, Saturday Aug. 10, 2019, in New York.
abuse and conspiracy statement. Associated Press
against Epstein . An addi- Epstein, 66, had been de-
tional federal investigation nied bail and faced up to to die with him," Sasse McCawley urged authori- outrage over that plea
was launched Saturday 45 years behind bars on wrote. ties to continue their investi- bargain. His lawyers main-
after the Federal Bureau federal sex trafficking and Epstein's removal from sui- gation, focusing on Epstein tained that the new charg-
of Prison said Epstein was conspiracy charges un- cide watch would have associates who she said es in New York were cov-
found unresponsive in his sealed last month. He had been approved by both "participated and facilitat- ered by the 2008 plea deal
cell at a high-security jail pleaded not guilty and was the warden of the jail and ed Epstein's horrifying sex and that Epstein hadn't
in Manhattan. He was later awaiting trial. the facility's chief psycholo- trafficking scheme." had any illicit contact with
pronounced dead from an The federal investigation gist, said Jack Donson, a Epstein's arrest drew na- underage girls since serv-
apparent suicide, the BOP into the allegations remains former prison official who tional attention, particular- ing his 13-month sentence
said. ongoing, U.S. Attorney worked for the Bureau of ly focusing on a deal that in Florida. Before his legal
New York City's chief medi- Geoffrey Berman said. He Prisons for more than two allowed Epstein to plead troubles, Epstein led a life
cal examiner released a noted in a statement Sat- decades. guilty in 2008 to soliciting a of extraordinary luxury that
statement Sunday eve- urday that the indictment On Friday, more than 2,000 minor for prostitution in Flor- drew powerful people into
ning saying an autopsy against Epstein includes a pages of documents were ida and avoid more serious his orbit. He socialized with
has been performed on conspiracy charge, sug- released related to a since- federal charges. princes and presidents, and
Epstein, but that more infor- gesting others could face settled lawsuit against Ep- Federal prosecutors in New lived on a 100-acre private
mation is needed before a charges in the case. stein's ex-girlfriend by Virgin- York reopened the probe Caribbean island and one
cause of death determina- Epstein's death raises ques- ia Giuffre, one of Epstein's after investigative reporting of the biggest mansions in
tion is made. tions about how the Bureau accusers. The records con- by The Miami Herald stirred New York.q
Dr. Barbara Sampson said of Prisons ensures the wel- tain graphic allegations
a city medical examiner fare of such high-profile in- against Epstein, as well as
performed the autopsy mates. In October, Boston the transcript of a 2016 de-
Sunday while a private pa- gangster James "Whitey" position of Epstein in which
thologist observed the ex- Bulger was killed in a fed- he repeatedly refused to
amination at the request of eral prison in West Virginia answer questions to avoid
Epstein's representatives. where had just been trans- incriminating himself.
The private pathologist, Dr. ferred. Giuffre, in an interview with
Michael Baden, was the Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, The New York Times , said
city's chief medical exam- a Republican member of she's grateful Epstein will
iner in the late 1970s and the Senate Judiciary Com- never harm anyone again,
has been called as an ex- mittee, wrote Saturday in a but is angry that there
pert witness in high-profile scathing letter to Barr that would be no chance to see
cases including by the de- "heads must roll" after the him answer for his conduct.
fense at O.J. Simpson's 1994 incident. "We've worked so hard to
murder trial. "Every single person in the get here, and he stole that
Sampson said having a pri- Justice Department — from from us, too," she told the
vate pathologist observe your Main Justice head- newspaper.
an autopsy is a routine quarters staff all the way to Sigrid McCawley, Giuffre's
practice. the night-shift jailer — knew attorney, said Epstein's sui-
Epstein's abrupt death cuts that this man was a suicide cide less than 24 hours after
short a criminal prosecu- risk, and that his dark se- the documents were un-
tion that could have pulled crets couldn't be allowed sealed "is no coincidence."