US Attorney General blames ‘perfect storm of screw-ups’ for Epstein’s death

This appeared in The Millennial Source

Speaking to reporters on November 22, U.S. Attorney General William Barr said that despite having initial suspicions about the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death, he concluded that the billionaire financier accused of sex trafficking and sexually abusing young girls died following “a perfect storm of screw-ups.”

What did Barr say?

In an interview with the Associated Press, Barr said that he initially had concerns about Epstein’s death. He said irregularities at the jail where he was being held provoked this concern. However, after Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and U.S. Department of Justice investigations, Barr concluded that a “series” of mistakes allowed Epstein to commit suicide. He said, “I can understand people who immediately, whose minds went to sort of the worst-case scenario because it was a perfect storm of screw-ups.”

The New York Times reports that Barr’s statement refutes the Epstein conspiracy theories and claims from Epstein’s family that he was a murder victim. Epstein’s family hired a forensic pathologist who claimed that the broken bones and cartilage in his neck “points to homicide.”