JUST IN: AG Barr removes acting director of federal Bureau of Prisons from his job in wake of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in a federal jail in Manhattan.
Attorney General William Barr on Monday said he removed the acting director of the federal Bureau of Prisons from his job in the wake of Jeffrey Epstein's suicide in a federal jail in Manhattan earlier this month where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
Hugh Hurwitz had been the agency's acting director. Barr said Hurwitz would remain in the Bureau of Prisons as the assistant director of department's Reentry Services Division. Hurwitz's ouster comes nine days after Epstein, the millionaire financier and accused sex trafficker,August 10 in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan. The center's warden has been temporarily reassigned, and the two guards assigned to watch Epstein have been placed on leave.The FBI and the Department of Justice are investigating how Epstein was able to take his own life while he was being held.
Barr, in a statement Monday, said he’d appointed Dr. Kathleen Hawk Sawyer as the bureau's new director and Dr. Thomas R. Kane as the its new deputy director. The statement makes no reference to Epstein. "I am confident Dr. Hawk Sawyer and Dr. Kane will lead BOP with the competence, skill, and resourcefulness they have embodied throughout their government careers."
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