Lawmakers Call for Congressional Investigations After Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

Assistant U.S. Attorney Alex Rossmiller (R) speaks as Jeffrey Epstein looks on during a a bail hearing in this court sketch in New York on July 15, 2019. Jane Rosenberg/Reuters

U.S. Congress members are demanding answers after wealthy financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his jail cell on Saturday, Aug. 10.

Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell in the Special Housing Unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City at 6:30 a.m., the Department of Justice’s Federal Bureau of Prisons said in a statement. The 66-year-old financier was awaiting trial on conspiracy and sex trafficking charges. Authorities said he sexually abused and exploited dozens of girls, some of them as young as 14.