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Negligence, staff failures led to Jeffrey Epstein's suicide, a DOJ report says

The disgraced financier who was jailed for sex trafficking charges, killed himself at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center in August 2019. He died before standing trial.

Negligence, misconduct and job performance failures all contributed to the suicide of Jeffrey Epstein, the notorious financier who was jailed for child-sex trafficking charges, while in jail in 2019, according to a new report by the U.S. Justice Department's Office of the Inspector General.

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