U.S. Attorney General William Barr has said that there were “serious irregularities” at the federal prison in New York City where American financier and convicted sex offender, Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide
Epstein was found dead on Saturday, having apparently hanged himself in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in lower Manhattan where he was being held on new sex-trafficking charges. He was already a registered sex offender after pleading guilty in 2008 to Florida state charges of unlawfully paying a teenage girl for sex.
Barr announced on Saturday that he had asked the Justice Department’s inspector general to investigate Epstein’s death. In his remarks today at the Grand Lodge Fraternal Order of Police’s National Biennial Conference, Barr said the criminal case against Epstein was personally important to him and that the financier’s death denied his victims the chance to confront Epstein in a courtroom.
Epstein was arrested on July 6 and pleaded not guilty to federal charges of sex trafficking involving dozens of underage girls as young as 14, from at least 2002 to 2005.
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