Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges and put in a New York City jail to await trial in July 2019. A month later, he was found dead in his prison.
So long as they cooperate with a federal probe into the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, two prison staffers who falsified their records about watching the convicted sex offender in his cell will face no jail time.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan on May 1, 2021, with New York City Hall illuminated in the background. Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his prison cell there on Aug. 10, 2020. (Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News)
MANHATTAN (CN) Two Bureau of Prisons employees who covered up their failure to check on Jeffrey Epstein before the high-profile inmate was found dead in his cell in August 2019 will each serve 100 hours of community service under deferred prosecution agreements approved in court Tuesday afternoon.
Last summer, Amazon announced a $10 million donation for “organizations supporting justice and equity,” including a donation directly to the Black Lives Matter Global Network Foundation. At the time, BLM Global Network was sponsored by Thousand Currents, a non-profit whose vice-chairman is Susan Rosenberg, a convicted left-wing terrorist.
Guards on duty the night of Jeffrey Epstein’s death accept plea deal
Federal prosecutors announced on Friday that charges against two Bureau of Prisons guards who were on duty the night that wealthy New York socialite Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell will be dropped in exchange for their cooperation with a Department of Justice investigation into the death.
In a letter to New York Southern District Court Judge Analisa Torres, US Attorney Audrey Strauss states, “After a thorough investigation, and based on the facts of this case and the personal circumstances of the defendants, the Government has determined that the interests of justice will best be served by deferring prosecution in this District.”
The sentencing of a crack dealer last month in Manhattan Federal Court is the latest example of a jurist addressing the dysfunction at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.