New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio Bill de BlasioOVERNIGHT ENERGY: California seeks to sell only electric cars by 2035 | EPA threatens to close New York City office after Trump threats to 'anarchist' cities | House energy package sparks criticism from left and right EPA threatens to close New York City office after Trump threats to 'anarchist' cities New Year's Eve in Times Square to be largely virtual amid pandemic MORE (D) on Thursday questioned the details surrounding the death of billionaire financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, saying, “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,” de Blasio told reporters, Politico reports. “I want to understand, I think everyone wants to understand, what really happened.”

He added: “I just don’t know what the nature of the death was. I just know it should never have happened, and we still don’t have good answers.”

De Blasio’s comments come a day after Michael Baden, a forensic pathologist hired by Epstein’s brother to look into his death, said on “Fox & Friends” that there was “evidence here of homicide” and calling for further investigation into the incident.

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New York City Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson quickly responded, saying she stands “firmly” behind her determination that Epstein’s death in August was a hanging by suicide.

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"I'm not going to say yes or no, but a guy who's there, he's magically dead within hours of being off of suicide watch the two cameras that are on him happened to go out,” he said on a podcast. “The two guards just happen to. ... Man, it seems like a lot of coincidence.”

Epstein was found dead on Aug. 10 in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, where he was awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. His death was later ruled a suicide, but conspiracy theories swirled around the exact details surrounding Epstein’s death.

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