Criminal charges expected this week against Epstein guards

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Jeffrey Epstein attends Launch of RADAR MAGAZINE at Hotel QT on May 18, 2005.

Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life are expected to face criminal charges this week for falsifying prison records.

The federal charges could come as soon as Tuesday and are the first in connection with Epstein's Aug. 10 death.

That's according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke to The Associated Press. They weren't permitted to publicly discuss the investigation and spoke on the condition of anonymity.

The wealthy financier's death was ruled a suicide. He was found unresponsive in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York.

The officers are suspected of failing to check on Epstein every half-hour, as required, and of fabricating log entries to show they had

nevercommenter on November 19th, 2019 at 01:48 UTC »

These guys are scapegoats, can we instead focus on prosecuting the pedophiles Epstein facilitated? Where's Ghislaine Maxwell??

zahbe on November 19th, 2019 at 01:16 UTC »

What about all the people that were linked to him before he died.

Are they still going to do a trail for the shit he was into?

yepyepyep4 on November 19th, 2019 at 01:05 UTC »

Oh looks like his guards are gonna kill themselves too