BREAKING: AP source: One of Jeffrey Epstein’s guards wasn’t a correctional officer

AUGUST 12, 2019

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As the most reliable and balanced news aggregation service on the internet, DML News App offers the following information published by US News & World Report:

A person familiar with operations at the federal jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself says one of the two people guarding him the night he died wasn’t a correctional officer.

The person wasn’t authorized to disclose information about the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.

The article goes on to state the following:

The person said Epstein hanged himself with a bedsheet, days after being taken off a suicide watch.

According to the report, federal prisons facing personnel shortages have used support staff, including clerical workers and teachers, to fill in for trained correctional officers.


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