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That
news source for what is True and Good (sic), the NY Times reports
that contrary to all evidence Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself with a
paper sheet.
Jeffrey
Epstein Autopsy Results Show He Hanged Himself in Suicide
The
New York City chief medical examiner’s determination refutes
conspiracy theories that he may have been murdered.
16
August 2019
The
official results of an autopsy showed that the financier Jeffrey
Epstein killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell, the city’s
medical examiner’s office said on Friday, determining that the
cause of death was suicide by hanging.
Mr.
Epstein’s death had set off a wave of unfounded conspiracy
theories, as people speculated online, without evidence, that he may
have been killed to keep him from providing information to
prosecutors about others in his social circle, including President
Trump, former President Bill Clinton and Prince Andrew of Britain.
But
on Friday, the chief medical examiner in New York City, Dr. Barbara
Sampson, released a terse statement saying that, after an autopsy and
a “careful review of all investigative information,” she had
determined the cause of Mr. Epstein’s death was “hanging” and
the manner was “suicide.”
The
determination came six days after Mr. Epstein, 66, was found dead in
his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where
he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
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Guards
on their morning rounds found Mr. Epstein at about 6:30 a.m. on
Saturday, prison officials said. He appeared to have tied a bedsheet
to the top of a set of bunk beds, then knelt toward the floor with
enough force that he broke several bones in his neck, officials said.
His
suicide followed an apparent attempt to kill himself in late July,
and came 12 days after prison staff had recommended he be removed
from suicide watch and returned to the special wing in which he was
being housed.
Mr.
Epstein’s death is the subject of four federal investigations,
including by the Justice Department’s inspector general and the
F.B.I. The attorney general, William P. Barr, said there were
“serious irregularities” in how prison officials handled his
supervision.
On
July 23, Mr. Epstein was found on the floor of his cell with bruises
on his neck and was placed in the prison’s suicide prevention
program, where he was under a 24-hour watch in a special cell.
But
six days later, prison officials determined he was no longer a threat
to himself and returned him to a cell in a special housing unit known
as 9 South. He was supposed to have been housed with a cellmate and
to have been monitored every half-hour by the two guards who
patrolled the wing.
The
night before he was found, however, he had been left alone after his
cellmate was transferred. The two employees assigned to guard him had
not checked on him for about three hours before he was discovered.
Officials
said the employees, who have been placed on leave, were sleeping for
some or all of that time.
Mr.
Epstein had pleaded not guilty and been denied bail. Prosecutors in
Manhattan said he lured dozens of underage girls into giving him
erotic massages and engaging in other sexual acts in the early 2000s
at his mansions in New York City and Palm Beach, Fla.
The
girls were paid hundreds of dollars in cash for the encounters and,
once recruited, were asked to return to his homes several times,
where they were abused again, the indictment against him said.
Mr.
Epstein had previously avoided federal criminal charges in 2008, when
he pleaded guilty to state prostitution charges in Florida in a plea
agreement with federal prosecutors that resolved a similar set of
allegations. He spent 13 months in a local jail, but was allowed to
leave for 12 hours a day, six days a week, ostensibly for work.
The
conspiracy theories surrounding Mr. Epstein’s death were fueled in
part by a paucity of information from Bureau of Prison officials
since his body was discovered.
The
bureau issued one terse statement with little information about the
circumstances of his death and has never provided information about
Mr. Epstein’s earlier apparent suicide attempt.
On
Monday, the federal judge in Mr. Epstein’s case, Richard M. Berman,
noted the unanswered questions about the July incident. “It has
never been definitively explained what the B.O.P. concluded,” Judge
Berman wrote in a letter to the warden of the Metropolitan
Correctional Center on Monday.
Given
the lack of explanation, the high-profile nature of Mr. Epstein’s
crimes and the disgraced financier’s ties to a number of prominent
people, wild theories about his death spread across social media from
people of disparate ideologies.
Several
prominent figures in politics, media and academia, while insisting
they were not conspiracy theorists, expressed skepticism that Mr.
Epstein had killed himself. Mr. Trump, who has shared unfounded
conspiracy theories in the past, also contributed to the frenzy,
sharing a tweet with a baseless theory about Mr. Epstein and the
Clintons.
Dr.
Sampson, the medical examiner, said on Sunday night that her office
had conducted an autopsy of Mr. Epstein but declined to release a
determination about the cause of death. A city official said at the
time that she wanted more information from law enforcement before
releasing her determination. A private pathologist hired by Mr.
Epstein’s lawyer observed the autopsy.
On
Thursday, an article in The Washington Post fueled further
speculation when it reported that Mr. Epstein’s autopsy showed that
he had broken neck bones that could have been a sign of strangulation
as well as of suicide by hanging.
But
Dr. Sampson and several experts cautioned against drawing
conclusions, saying the broken bones were consistent with hanging,
especially in an older man.
Ali
Watkins is a reporter on the Metro Desk, covering courts and social
services. Previously, she covered national security in Washington for
The Times, BuzzFeed and McClatchy Newspapers. @AliWatkins
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