Attorney General William Barr has reassigned the warden of the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein died in an apparent suicide pending the outcome of investigations into what Barr has called “serious irregularities.”
In addition to temporarily transferring warden Lamine N’Diaye to the Bureau of Prisons’ regional office, the department has placed on leave two members of the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s staff who were assigned to the unit where Epstein died.
Epstein, 66, faced federal charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking involving teenage girls. He wasn’t on a suicide watch even though he had been earlier because of a previous apparent ...
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