Jeffrey Epstein’s jailhouse death remains one of the most fiercely debated and widely circulated conspiracy theories in recent U.S. history, ever since he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges in 2019.
Now, a new memo from the Trump administration has reignited the firestorm, as the Department of Justice reaffirmed Epstein’s death was by suicide and announced the FBI was concluding its review.
The decision has only fueled public suspicion of a cover-up — with growing claims that Epstein was murdered to protect powerful individuals who may have been complicit in his crimes.
It has also prompted renewed scrutiny of a damning 2023 report by the DOJ’s Office of Inspector General (OIG), which detailed shocking security failures and staff misconduct that allowed Epstein to die under federal custody at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) on August 10, 2019.
DailyMail.com revisited the explosive 128-page report, which contradicts the DOJ’s recent claims and attributes Epstein’s death to “a combination of negligence, misconduct, and outright performance failures” by Bureau of Prisons staff.
At the center of the controversy are 10 pressing questions that Attorney General Pam Bondi — already facing backlash from Trump loyalists — must now answer about Epstein’s mysterious death.
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