Being rich don’t mean you have your act together……
Jeffrey Epstein, the financier who was long dogged by accusations of sexual abuse of girls and who was able to cultivate a stream of high-profile friends despite his lurid lifestyle, killed himself in his Manhattan jail cell, two law enforcement officials said on Saturday.
Mr. Epstein hanged himself, the officials said. He was found at roughly 6:30 a.m. Saturday at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan and was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, the federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement.
Last month, a week after being denied bail on federal sex trafficking charges, Mr. Epstein was found unconscious in his cellat the jail with marks on his neck. Prison officials had been investigating that incident as a possible suicide attempt.
Mr. Epstein was housed in a special unit with extra security, the Bureau of Prisons said, but it was not immediately clear whether he had been under suicide watch or whether the authorities had put in additional safeguards after the earlier incident….
POLITICO
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Trump amplifies Epstein conspiracy theories on social media
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The Boston Globe
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President Trump has retweeted an unsubstantiated claim that Bill Clinton had a role in Jeffrey Epstein’s death.
The Atlantic
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“Accusing a former U.S. president of murder? It’s incredible, it’s appalling, it’s humiliating.” Don’t grow numb to Trump’s conduct, urges @DavidFrum.
See my two comments about this on an unrelated thread:
https://politicaldog101.com/2019/08/california-has-a-problem-with-dmv-automatic-voter-registration/comment-page-1/#comment-22930
and
https://politicaldog101.com/2019/08/california-has-a-problem-with-dmv-automatic-voter-registration/comment-page-1/#comment-22931
[I thought there was a separate Epstein thread but couldn’t find it, perhaps through not refreshing that particular tab.]