‘Epstein Is Gone, but Justice Must Still Be Served’
“The reckoning of accountability begun by the voices of brave and truthful victims should not end with Jeffrey Epstein’s cowardly and shameful suicide.”
That was Sigrid McCawley, a lawyer for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, speaking about the news that broke: Jeffrey Epstein, the sex offender who was awaiting trial on charges of sex trafficking, reportedly hanged himself in his jail cell. McCawley was the questions that hover in a fog around Epstein’s death, just as they hovered around Epstein’s life: Could it be more than mere coincidence that his death followed Friday’s of approximately 2,000 pages of Epstein-related court records? Why, given that Epstein in his cell with marks on his neck, ? How did he manage to evade accountability, this final time?
