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Edward Helmore in New York

Barr tells House panel Jeffrey Epstein’s death was ‘undoubtedly suicide’

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William Barr participates in a news conference at the Department of Justice in Washington DC, in December 2020. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/AFP/Getty Images

The former US attorney general William Barr has repeated his finding that Jeffrey Epstein’s 2019 death in prison was “undoubtedly suicide” to a panel of lawmakers looking into the disgraced financier’s crimes and connections.

Barr, the top prosecutor in Donald Trump’s first term when the justice department brought sex-trafficking charges against Epstein, made the comments to the House oversight committee late Monday, according to an interview transcript.

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