As the Financial Conduct Authority launches a probe into its handling of allegations made by whistleblower Simon Andriesz following his suicide, Katie Rosseinsky explores the strange and sad web of deaths with links to Jeffrey Epstein
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In the seven years since the convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York prison cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges, conspiracy theories have bloomed online, with all the speed and fervency of a particularly virulent mould.
The death of the sex offender financier was ruled as a suicide, and in 2023, the US Department of Justice concluded that there was no evidence of foul play; it did, however, admit that “negligence, misconduct and outright job performance failures” at the Metropolitan correctional centre provided the sex offender “with the opportunity to take his own life”.
Those performance failures included guards not checking on Epstein or properly searching his cell, allowing him to accumulate an excess of bedding, as well as not assigning him a new cell mate after a previous suicide attempt.
It is striking details like these that have been poured over endlessly in the darker crevices of the internet, used to bolster claims that Epstein was murdered before he could drag...
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