A report from the Justice Department of USA revealed this Tuesday that a series of “negligence and failures“within the federal prison system allowed the tycoon Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial for sex trafficking and conspiracy to create a “vast network of underage victims.”
According to the document, there were several factors that facilitated suicide such as surveillance camera failure and the fact that the Federal Bureau of Prisons will not assign a cellmate to Epstein after he attempted suicide a month before his death. In addition, the tycoon had at his disposal a “excessive amount” of sheetswhich he ended up using to hang himself, according to the report.
The report has been prepared by the inspector general of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, who is in charge of independently supervising cases related to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, who rules out the possibility that the death was the result of a homicide or a murder.
Previous investigations
The new investigation supports the results of previous investigations, which also suggested that there were insufficient staff in the prison when the prisoner took his own life. The text recommends imposing charges against six workers.
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Epstein was charged in 2006 with sexually abusing children under the age of 14 and pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. He spent time in a Florida jail and was placed on the sex offender registry.
After the ‘Miami Herald’ newspaper reported that there were many more minors and women who had been abused by Epstein, he was arrested in July 2019 on various federal charges of sex trafficking against dozens of girls in the early 2000s. A month after his arrest, in August 2019, Epstein committed suicide in a New York jail. During his golden days he came to rub shoulders with personalities such as the prince andrew –who agreed with a victim to avoid going to trial–, or the former presidents Bill Clinton either donald trump.