Jeffrey Epstein 'committed suicide': FBI rejects any other version of sexual predator's death
Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino responded to rumors that Epstein died under other circumstances.
Jeffrey Epstein, along with his ex-partner Ghislaine Maxwell.
Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. That was the blunt response given by FBI Director Kash Patel following rumors and opinions circulating regarding the death of one of history's most famous sexual predators.
"As someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who's been in that prison system, who's been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who's been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that's what that was," Patel said.
The FBI director gave an interview to Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures" from one of the rooms in the J. Edgar Hoover Building, the agency's headquarters. He was accompanied by Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who was more succinct in assessing Epstein's death.
"I’ve seen the whole file, he killed himself," Bongino noted.
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Epstein died on Aug. 10, 2019, days before he was to face trial on charges related to sex trafficking. The sexual predator, who was serving time at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, hanged himself in his cell. He was immediately transported to a hospital, but all that could be done was certifying his death.
Since then, rumors and theories about his death and how it came about began to surface. Patel and Bongino have settled any discussion by stating that Epstein committed suicide in his cell.
In January of this year, numerous files were declassified related to the Epstein case, in which names of personalities were listed such as former President Bill Clinton and Duke of York Prince Andrew of the United Kingdom.
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