Mayor Bill de Blasio again raised the specter of conspiracy surrounding the death of Jeffrey Epstein, saying today that 'something doesn't fit,' even after the city's own medical examiner found the death was a suicide
Asked about the claim Thursday, de Blasio did not rush to back up his chief medical examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson. “Something doesn’t fit here. It just doesn’t make sense that the highest profile prisoner in America, you know, someone forgot to guard him,” he told reporters during an unrelated press conference in Queens.
“I want to understand, I think everyone wants to understand, what really happened. I don’t know what the nature of the death was," the mayor continued. "I just know it should never have happened, and we still don’t have good answers.” Epstein was found dead in his jail cell at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center in August while awaiting trial as charges against him mounted. The“I stand firmly behind our determination of the cause and manner of death in this case,” SampsonThe medical examiner’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on the mayor’s remarks. After this story was published, de Blasio spokesperson Avery Cohen said in a tweet, “We stand by the medical examiner’s findings.”
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