Disgraced financier and convicted intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in a New York jail in 2019, FBI director Kash Patel and deputy director Dan Bongino confirmed Sunday, countering conspiracy theories which have lingered since Epstein died by suicide whereas awaiting trial on intercourse trafficking expenses.
“As somebody who has labored as a public defender, as a prosecutor who’s been in that jail system, who’s been within the Metropolitan Detention Middle, who’s been in segregated housing, you already know a suicide while you see one, and that is what that was,” Patel told Fox Information’s Maria Bartiromo on “Sunday Morning Futures,” including that those that imagine one thing nefarious occurred “have a proper to their opinion.”
“I’ve seen the entire file. He killed himself,” Bongino added of their joint interview on the FBI’s Hoover Constructing.
Their blunt solutions symbolize a flip within the long-debated Epstein case. The phrase “Epstein did not kill himself” grew to become a meme after he died, and Republicans in Congress have fueled speculation by means of the years.
A number of members of the Trump administration vowed to supply extra perception into the Epstein case and his death after Trump’s return to the White Home, as questions have endured over Epstein’s alleged intercourse trafficking of minors and who else might have been concerned.
President Trump, who knew Epstein, signed an executive order in January directing a assessment of categorised data which can be of public curiosity, together with paperwork associated to investigations of Epstein and political assassinations. A bipartisan congressional panel additionally has been tasked with going over the paperwork.
Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi vowed to release the so-called “Epstein information” of curiosity, notably flight logs and any type of “shopper record” that will exist, although a flashy unveiling of the preliminary tranche of data fell flat in March.
Epstein, who owned a Caribbean island, non-public jet and a number of other mansions, incessantly hobnobbed with highly effective and rich people, even after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to solicitation expenses. Photographs have proven him with Trump, former President Invoice Clinton, England’s Prince Andrew and a slew of different celebrities.
Epstein’s former girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, his alleged co-conspirator within the intercourse trafficking scheme, was convicted in 2021 on a number of expenses, together with intercourse trafficking, conspiracy and transportation of a minor for unlawful sexual exercise. She is currently serving 20 years in jail.