New records obtained nearly four years after the death of Jeffrey Epstein have reportedly shed light on the disgraced financier’s final moments and what came after.
Thousands of pages of documents were released to The Associated Press from the Federal Bureau of Prisons under the Freedom of Information Act.
The agency said Friday that they included a detailed psychological reconstruction of the events that transpired before the billionaire’s suicide, as well as his health history, internal agency reports, emails, memos and other records.
Furthermore, the report on the release said records help to quash conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death – as well as reveal how failings at the Bureau of Prisons may have contributed to it.
A spokesperson for the bureau told Fox News Digital in an email on Friday that it has no further information to provide.
Epstein, 66, died on Aug. 10, 2019, after being arrested on federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges the month before.
He was found unresponsive in his cell at the now-closed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City. The closure was announced in the summer of 2021, and inmates were transferred out later that year, according to WNBC.
Two weeks before his suicide, reports stated, the internet entrepreneur sat in the corner of his cell with his hands over his ears. A toilet in his cell would not stop running.
Records said jail officials observed he was unable to sleep and was agitated, calling himself a “coward” and complaining that he was struggling to adapt to life there.
At the time of a suicide attempt days earlier, Epstein was under psychological observation. However, after more than 30 hours on suicide watch, he reportedly insisted he was not suicidal. He told a jail psychologist that he had a “wonderful life” and “would be crazy” to end it, the records added.
Emails showed a prosecutor in Epstein’s criminal case complained about a lack of information from the bureau in the hours after his death. Another email from a high-ranking bureau official made a suggestion to the agency’s director that news reporters must have been paying jail employees for information about Epstein’s death because they were reporting details of the agency’s failings.
The Associated Press also said documents showed Epstein had attempted to reach out to Larry Nassar, the U.S. gymnastics team doctor convicted of sexually abusing scores of athletes. The letter was found returned to sender in the jail’s mail room after Epstein’s death.
A memo from a unit manager said Epstein told a jail employee that he was calling his mother the night before his death, excusing himself from a meeting with his lawyers. However, his mother had been dead for 15 years.
Epstein arrived at the facility on July 6, 2019, spending almost 24 hours in the jail’s general population before being moved to the special housing unit “due to the significant increase in media coverage and awareness of his notoriety among the inmate population,” according to the psychological reconstruction of his death.
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