One of Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers ripped “overzealous prosecutors,” “pandering politicians” “compliant judges” and a “hysterical press corps,” as he laid blame Saturday for the convicted pedophile’s apparent suicide in a federal lock-up.

Attorney Marc Fernich did not name the 66-year-old multi-millionaire in his personal statement containing a laundry list of culprits who all “seem to have a share of Mr. Epstein’s blood on their hands” after his apparent suicide in a Manhattan jail cell.

In the statement, which he said did not reflect the views of the defense team as a whole, Fernich blasted prosecutors who were “bent on locking up a presumptively innocent man posing no real danger or flight risk,” and politicians “who wrote the restrictive bail laws that empower them to do it.”

Epstein had requested to be released to electronically monitored house arrest, but Manhattan federal Judge Richard Berman turned him down in mid-July. An appeal of that decision was pending.

Fernich also blasted the staff at the federal Manhattan Correctional Center, where Epstein was held. He pointed a finger at “Jailers who appear to have recklessly put Mr. Epstein in harm’s way, heedlessly placing his life at risk and failing to protect him.”

Epstein was not currently on suicide watch, a jail spokesman said, despite being found unconscious in his cell on July 23 in what was at least initially seen as a suicide attempt.

The attorney took a double shot at the press, stating that it was “clamoring to recharge Mr. Epstein with dated crimes for which he’d long since paid his debt to society under an arm’s length plea deal — just because he had the misfortune to be a wealthy man in the #metoo era whose former prosecutor happened to take a job with President Trump.” He also complained about “breathless reporters excavating every corner of Mr. Epstein’s life to pile on, tear him down and kick him at his lowest — while still presumed innocent, before he’d had his day in court.”



Fernich demanded “a full investigation into the circumstances surrounding Mr. Epstein’s death.”

“The public needs to know exactly what happened and why — and how his custodians could have let it occur.”