International

Federal Prosecutors Drop Case Against Jeffrey Epstein’s Jail Guards

Published

3 years ago

Dec 31, 2021.

Federal prosecutors drop case against Jeffrey Epstein’s jail guards

EKO HOT BLOG reports that federal prosecutors asked a judge on Thursday to dismiss charges against two jail guards who were on duty the night Jeffery Epstein committed suicide in his cell.

The two guards on duty the night Epstein committed suicide in August 2019 acknowledged to falsifying records but reached an agreement with federal prosecutors to avoid jail time. In the housing unit where Epstein was being detained, the two “confessed that they ‘willfully and intentionally completed materially false count and round slips about needed counts and rounds.'”

FILE 2019: Metropolitan Correctional Center guard Michael Thomas leaves Federal Court in New York City.

According to Reuters, the two have been in compliance with six-month deferred prosecution agreements since May. The report said the two were accused of sleeping and checking out the internet on the night Epstein died.

Epstein was arrested on July 6, 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges. He was placed on suicide watch after he was found with a strip of bedsheet around his neck on July 23.

He was transferred to the prison’s hospital wing for about a week then returned to a regular cell on July 30. Epstein’s cellmate was transferred on Aug. 9, the day before Epstein was found unresponsive.

The New York City Medical Examiner ruled Epstein’s death on Aug. 10 a suicide.

British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell faces up to 65 years in prison after a Manhattan jury found her guilty this week of five of six counts against her for trafficking teens to be abused by her and late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

CLICK TO WATCH OUR VIDEO OF THE WEEK BELOW: