WASHINGTON _ Trump administration officials suspect a portrait of incompetence, rather than conspiracy, will emerge from a series of federal investigations underway into the Bureau of Prisons' handling of Jeffrey Epstein's death at a Manhattan jailhouse.
Speaking with McClatchy, White House officials expressed relief that Attorney General Bill Barr moved swiftly to open an inquiry into the death of the accused sex trafficker.
Epstein was found in his prison cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on Saturday morning. The city's chief medical examiner presumes he died by suicide, but is waiting for "additional information" to conclusively rule on the cause of death.
