Prison guards assigned to monitor Jeffrey Epstein on the night he apparently killed himself fell asleep and failed to check on him for three hours before falsifying records to cover up their neglect, according to officials.
The two guards have been placed on leave and the warden of New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Centre (MCC) has been reassigned as federal authorities investigate the financier’s death, the Justice Department has announced.
It comes amid mounting evidence of failures at the chronically understaffed prison which allowed the 66-year-old to take his own life as he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.
Epstein, who had attempted to take his own life in July, was taken off a suicide watch last month for reasons that have not been explained and should have been checked on by a guard every 30 minutes.
Investigators have learned those checks were not done for three hours before he was found hanged at 6.30am on Saturday, according to a person familiar with the case.
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NinaSparrow ago
I believe all his co-conspirators are shaking in their boots & pissing themselves..
I learned this..
Epstein is death is guna make it much more difficult for the co-conspirators that Epstein had info on because of something called "standing" -
No one else will have "standing" to challenge the search warrant on his house or any of his properties.
EVERYTHING obtained will be admissible against any other defendant without the possibility of a motion to suppress 😁👍
Apparantly everyone was lawyering up to try & block these search warrants, that all just went bye-bye after Epsteins death.
eucalyptus_spearmint ago
By God I hope you're right.
NinaSparrow ago
Me too!! 🙏