Jeffrey Epstein was 'taken off suicide watch at his lawyer's request last month after 12-hour a day meetings' and was moved into a cell on his own because he 'feared' his former muscly cellmate

2019-08-12
Source: WashingtonGuardian
by: Emily Crane, Jenny Stanton, and Chris Spargo

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Jeffrey Epstein was reportedly taken off suicide watch last month at his own lawyer's request before the billionaire pedophile was found hanging in his New York jail cell.

The 66-year-old was found alone and unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan early Saturday morning before being rushed to the New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan hospital where he was pronounced dead.

Epstein's apparent suicide has raised serious questions after it emerged he was alone in his cell and corrections officers had not checked on him for several hours - even though they were required to look in on him every 30 minutes given he was previously on suicide watch.

He had been placed on suicide watch for about a week after he was found in his cell on July 23 with bruising on his neck. The disgraced financier had been meeting with his lawyers for up to 12 hours each day following that incident and they had requested he be removed from suicide watch, sources told the Wall Street Journal.

Source: DailyMail.com

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