Two Guards Suspended and Warden Reassigned After Epstein Death

The move by the Justice Department came amid mounting evidence that the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center may have bungled its responsibility to keep the 66-year-old Epstein from harming himself while he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls.

  • Published 14 August 2019
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NEW YORK (AP) — The warden at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein took his own life over the weekend was removed and two guards who were supposed to be watching the financier were placed on leave while federal authorities investigate the death. The move by the Justice Department came amid mounting evidence that the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center may have bungled its responsibility to keep the 66-year-old Epstein from harming himself while he… Read at AP News