

According to New York’s ABC 7 News, an investigation is underway after the Bureau of Prisons said accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in his Manhattan jail early Saturday morning. Sources said he hanged himself.

Emergency responders received a 911 call around 6:40 a.m. to Metropolitan Correctional Center, where Epstein was being held without bail, awaiting trial on charges of conspiracy and sex trafficking. He was pronounced dead at New York Presbyterian-Lower Manhattan Hospital.

The multi-millionaire financier was accused of sexually abusing girls as young as age 14 in the early 2000s at his residences in Manhattan and Florida. He pleaded not guilty to the charges and faced up to 45 years in prison.

According to reporting by Newsweek’s Andrew Whalen, while the Epstein indictment is confined to sexual assaults of minors at Epstein's eight-story mansion on Manhattan's Upper East Side and his Palm Beach estate, previous civil suits and other disclosures allege Epstein raped and trafficked underage women at his 51,000 square foot ranch in New Mexico and his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, Little Saint James—sometimes called "Orgy Island" or the "Island of Sin" after reports of orgies with underage teenagers, or descriptions from victims of being passed off to Epstein's famous friends.

Epstein's alleged sex trafficking and serial sexual assault was enabled by a fleet of private planes. In many years, Epstein logged 600 hours or more of flight time, according to Mr. Whalen’s report. While private Gulfstream jets have become standard issue for billionaires, Epstein sought something grander. In addition to his black Gulfstream, private helicopter and twin-engine Cessna 421, Epstein also owns a Boeing 727-200—a passenger jet with a seating capacity of nearly 200, modified for private use, including a Bloomberg terminal that lets him conduct much of his finance work while airborne. Locals dubbed Epstein's 727 the "Lolita Express" due to the frequent arrival of apparently underage women to Little Saint James, a nod to the Vladimir Nabokov novel about a middle-aged literature professor who justifies the repeated rape and sexual assault of a 12-year-old girl.

However, the real bombshells expected to come from the trial were not about Epstein’s predilection for young girls, but the names of the rich and powerful who joined in his sick crimes and especially those who may have done so via his private aircraft, nicknamed “the Lolita Express.”

Prominent among those who appeared on the aircraft’s official logs was former President Bill Clinton, who, despite his denials, is alleged to have flown on the plane numerous times.

In 2015, Gawker released the flight logbooks for Epstein's Gulfstream and the Lolita Express 727. Bill Clinton is among the prominent people listed in the flight logs, having took several trips on the Lolita Express with a softcore porn actress listed under "massages" in Epstein's address book, also published by Gawker. Clinton shared eleven flights aboard the Lolita Express with Maxwell and Epstein's former assistant Sarah Kellen, who has been accused in court filings of recruiting young girls, acting as a pimp on Epstein's behalf. On multiple flights, additional women, listed in the flight logs by their first name or the simple descriptor "female," joined Clinton aboard Epstein's plane. A statement released by Clinton's office acknowledges only the African tour reported Newsweek’s Andrew Whalen.

As an inmate in the Special Housing Unit at MCC, Epstein should have been checked every 30 minutes. Sources told ABC News that protocol was not followed in the hours prior to Epstein's “suicide.”

Epstein had been placed on suicide watch several weeks ago after he was found in his cell "in medical distress" with "apparent bruising on his neck," but sources told NBC News Saturday morning Epstein was no longer on suicide watch at the time of his death.

According to WarnerMedia’s TMZ website, Jeffrey Epstein's manner of death may never be conclusively determined, because standard practice in the area where he was detained is that cameras do not point inside cells.

Sources familiar with the correctional facility in question told TMZ, there are cameras in the Special Housing Unit -- the SHU -- but standard operating procedure is that cameras do not point into the cells. TMZ reports cameras capture, among other things, the doors to each cell to determine if anyone walks in or out, but they don't point inside.

One source familiar with the facility says the drill is for guards to pass by each cell in intervals ranging from 15 to 30 minutes depending on the circumstances.

The Saturday, August 10 New York Post carried an interview with a former inmate of the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) Special Housing Unit by Brad Hamilton and Bruce Golding. According to the anonymous former inmate there’s “no way” Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.

Said the former MCC inmate:

There’s no way that man could have killed himself. I’ve done too much time in those units. It’s an impossibility.

Between the floor and the ceiling is like eight or nine feet. There’s no way for you to connect to anything.

You have sheets, but they’re paper level, not strong enough. He was 200 pounds — it would never happen.

When you’re on suicide watch, they put you in this white smock, a straight jacket. They know a person cannot be injurious to themselves.

The clothing they give you is a jump-in uniform. Everything is a dark brown color.

Could he have done it from the bed? No sir. There’s a steel frame, but you can’t move it. There’s no light fixture. There’s no bars.

They don’t give you enough in there that could successfully create an instrument of death.

We studiously avoid conspiracy theories on CHQ, but stop and think about it: Vince Foster, Seth Rich, Lois Lerner’s hard drive, Hillary Clinton’s email, and now Jeffrey Epstein – when the Left wants something or someone to disappear or be disappeared the desired result occurs with astonishing regularity – especially if it touches on Bill and Hillary Clinton’s interests.