US justice department watchdog cites failure to assign a cellmate and problems with surveillance cameras as factors in his death
The US justice department watchdog said on Tuesday a “combination of negligence and misconduct” enabled the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein to take his own life at a federal jail in New York City while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
The justice department 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.
