Law enforcement officials told newsmen that he was placed on “suicide watch", but got successful on his second attempt. Epstein who hanged himself overnight and found dangling by 7:30a.m on Saturday August 10, was reportedly transported from the jail to New York Downtown Hospital where he was found to be in cardiac arrest at the time of arrival before being confirmed dead.
The 66-year-old accused of arranging to have sex with girls as young as age 14 in the early 2000s at Epstein's residences in Manhattan and Florida, has been held without bail at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. Though he pleaded not guilty to the charges, a judge said he wouldn't face trial before June 2020.
We reported earlier that the disgraced billionaire financier who allegedly hanged himself overnight was found unresponsive in his cell on Saturday August 10, before being transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead.
Serving an update on the speculated suicide, the U.S. Bureau of Prisons said in a statement released on Saturday that the FBI will be investigating the incident. His death came a day after court documents revealed that he was accused in 2016 of sending an underage girl to meet and have sex with two former politicians as part of his alleged sex ring.
Though the FBI does not investigate suicides at federal prison facility, officials said an “abundance of caution” to uncover the myth surrounding the billionaire's death would be taken. While law enforcement officers indicated Epstein had killed himself, the New York City Chief Medical Examiner is yet to make an official ruling on the cause of death. His death marks the end of a sex trafficking case against him, as no one else was charged in the indictment.
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