The American financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died in prison in New York in August 2019 before being brought to justice for the sexual exploitation of minors, committed suicide after a succession of “negligence” by prison staff, the Ministry concluded on Tuesday. of Justice.
In a summary report and press release, the ministry’s inspector general, Michael Horowitz, points to “many and serious errors on the part of staff at the New York federal penitentiary” where Jeffrey Epstein was held, found hanging in his cell with a sheet. tight around the neck on August 10, 2019 at dawn.
His ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in prison
After accusing in particular two guards of the US prison administration of “misbehavior and negligence”, Michael Horowitz stresses that Jeffrey Epstein, who was initially “under control for suicide risk” since the end of July 2019, had been placed ” alone” and “without supervision” in a cell on August 9, 2019 and that he had been provided with “an excessive amount of bedding” that night.
The Epstein affair, named after the Wall Street financier accused of sex crimes and who died at 66, has for years embarrassed some of the political and economic elites in the United States and abroad.
In New York, his former lover and collaborator Ghislaine Maxwell was sentenced in June 2022 to 20 years in prison, British Prince Andrew found an economic agreement in March of the same year with one of his rape accusers.
Former French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, accused of child rape, was found hanged in a Paris prison in February 2022.
A death that does not result from a “criminal act”
Finally, in addition to payments from JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank to close their files on their relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the names of former presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton and Microsoft founder Bill Gates have been cited in the press as known to this man. he already sentenced in 2008 for forcing girls to practice prostitution in Florida.
The influence of Jeffrey Epstein’s network in the United States and Europe fueled many conspiracy theories after his death about an assassination disguised as suicide. But the New York forensic medicine and federal police (FBI) had concluded that the man had committed suicide and that his death “was not the result of a criminal act.”
The Justice Department’s Inspector General also has not “found evidence to contradict the FBI’s conclusions that there was no criminal activity in Epstein’s death.”
Source: BFM TV
