The FBI is investigating the apparent suicide in a New York prison of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, the Justice Department said Saturday.
The department’s Bureau of Prisons made the announcement as questions were raised as to how a high-profile inmate who had apparently attempted to kill himself last month could take his life in what is supposed to be a highly secure federal facility in downtown Manhattan.
Epstein was charged with trafficking girls for sex.
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The bureau said Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center “from an apparent suicide.”
It said staff began life-saving measures and Epstein was eventually rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead.
“The FBI is investigating the incident,” said the bureau.
AFP
