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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael R. Sisak and Lindsay Whitehurst

Jeffrey Epstein suicide blamed on jail guard negligence and misconduct: Justice Department watchdog

New York State Sex Offender Registry

The 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.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz cited the federal Bureau of Prisons' failure to assign Epstein a cellmate after his previous one left and problems with surveillance cameras as factors in Epstein’s death.

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