The death by suicide of Jeffrey Epstein in a Manhattan jail cell in August ended one of the nation’s most notable criminal prosecutions of 2019, but it also set in motion a series of events, the impact of which is expected to reverberate for years to come.

Since the Manhattan and South Florida-based financier was found hanging in his jail cell on the morning of Aug. 10, two federal agencies have begun investigating what went wrong at Metropolitan Correctional Center, and how such a high-profile inmate, awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, could be allowed to take his own life on the government’s watch.

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