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Barney Davis

Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct

A “combination of negligence and misconduct” allowed paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein to kill himself alone in his cell as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges, a report has found.

Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City’s failure to assign Epstein a cellmate after his previous one left and problems with CCTV as factors in Epstein’s death.

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