(Ken Silva, Headline USA) DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz said last week that his report on the mysterious prison death of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein should be made public “in the next couple of months.”
Horowitz made his remarks last Wednesday towards the tail end of a budget hearing with the House Appropriations Committee. His written statement also revealed that his office is in the final stages of the Epstein investigation—though he didn’t mention that verbally to the committee.
Horowitz’s update on the long-awaited investigation follows a letter an attorney for Epstein survivors sent the inspector general earlier this month, requesting an update on the status of the probe.
“It has been 3.5 years since former Attorney General [William] Barr announced the investigation. On behalf of many victims of Jeffrey Epstein whom I represent, I respectfully request information on when this investigation announced by Mr. Barr will conclude,” wrote attorney Gloria Allred on March 2.
“It is unfair that the victims of Jeffrey Epstein continue to be denied the knowledge of the conditions which existed at MCC that led to Mr. Epstein’s death. The victims of Mr. Epstein deserve to be told the truth about how and why the justice system failed them again.”
Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide by hanging, but his lawyers contested that claim. Skeptics point to malfunctioning surveillance cameras, sleeping guards and broken bones in Epstein’s neck as indications that his death was something other than suicide.
Because of Epstein’s extensive fraternization with high-profile politicians and celebrities such as Bill Clinton, Terry McAuliffe, Prince Andrew and Bill Gates, some claim that Epstein’s death was actually a hit job to silence him.
More recently, Epstein’s madame, Ghislaine Maxwell, made a similar claim.
“I believe that he was murdered. I was shocked, and I wondered, ‘How did this happen?’ Because I was sure he was going to appeal, and I was sure he was covered by the non-prosecution agreement,” Maxwell told British reporter Jeremy Kyle in January.
Epstein’s former lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, also said he doesn’t think Epstein killed himself—at least not by himself.
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“He did kill himself, but he killed himself with the help of guards. He didn’t do it by himself,” said Dershowitz, the lawyer who helped Epstein secure his sweetheart deal with the Department of Justice in 2008, in which he pleaded guilty to a state charge of procuring for prostitution a girl below the age of 18.
“The videos were turned off and the guards turned their back and his cellmate left. So, I think he killed himself, but he killed himself with some assistance.”
Ken Silva is a staff writer at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/jd_cashless.
