The U.S. Justice Department's watchdog said Tuesday that a 'combination of negligence and misconduct' enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
This March 28, 2017 image provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry shows Jeffrey Epstein. The U.S. Justice Department's watchdog said Tuesday that a "combination of negligence and misconduct" enabled financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The inspector general issued a report detailing findings of his investigation into Epstein's August 2019 death, the last of several official inquiries into the matter. He reiterated the findings of other investigations that there was no indication of foul play, rebutting conspiracy theories surrounding the high-profile death.
It also comes weeks after The Associated Press obtained thousands of pages of records detailing Epstein's detention and death and its chaotic aftermath. It's the second time in six months that Horowitz has blamed a high-profile inmate's death on the Bureau of Prisons' failings. In December, the inspector general found that management failures, flawed policies and widespread incompetence were factors in notorious gangster James "Whitey" Bulger's 2018 beating death at a troubled West Virginia prison.
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