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What happened on August 10, 2019 at the Metropolitan Correctional Center?

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On August 10, 2019, at approximately 6:30 a.m., inmate Jeffrey Edward Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell in the Special Housing Unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York, New York, from an apparent suicide EFTA00048644. Life-saving measures were initiated immediately by responding staff, and Epstein was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead EFTA00048644. The FBI was notified and began investigating the incident EFTA00048644.

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The 2019 SDNY Indictment

The federal sex trafficking and conspiracy charges filed in the Southern District of New York that ended Jeffrey Epstein's decade of immunity from federal prosecution.

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