Federal prosecutors say 81-year-old Ponzi schemer Bernard Madoff should not be released early from prison even if kidney disease kills him within months

The agency’s backtracking came after William Barr stepped in and told officials to reverse course given active investigations, a source told the AP

The pair of corrections officers left court Monday surrounded by supporters, as their lawyers maintain they are being unfairly scapegoated for the wealthy financier’s death. The defense attorneys also addresses unfounded rumors Epstein’s death was a homicide. NBC New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Two correctional officers responsible for guarding Jeffrey Epstein when he took his own life have been charged in connection with the federal investigation into the financier’s death, a senior law enforcement official tells News 4.

Sealed court records contain the names of hundreds of third parties who were mentioned in a civil case involving sexual abuse allegations against the late financier Jeffrey Epstein, a federal judge said Wednesday.

Citing “no meaningful interaction with other humans” and “no time outside getting sunlight” R. Kelly’s attorney Steve Greenberg filed a motion today requesting that his client be immediately released from solitary confinement.

A number of Jeffrey Epstein’s accusers have taken a judge up on his unusual invitation to speak at a federal hearing following prosecutors’ motion to drop the case against the financier, who killed himself in his Manhattan prison cell while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.

Federal prosecutors have subpoenaed up to 20 staff members at the jail where Jeffrey Epstein killed himself, amid mounting evidence that guards failed to keep watch on the financier as he awaited trial on charges of sexually abusing teenage girls, a person familiar with the investigation told The Associated Press on Thursday.

A shakeup at the Bureau of Prisons, with the director removed following Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide in prison, comes as a prosecutor says the case should be closed, but the investigation into if others helped him recruit girls for sex. NBC 4 New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Attorney General William Barr removed the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons from his position Monday, more than a week after millionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein took his own life while in federal custody. Hugh Hurwitz’s reassignment comes amid mounting evidence that guards at the chronically understaffed Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York abdicated their responsibility to keep the 66-year-old...

The federal judge is asking the warden at the MCC why Epstein was taken off suicide watch after the first reported suicide attempt, in an effort to learn more about what led up to the night when the accused pedophile hanged himself. NBC 4 New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports.

Investigators are looking into whether two guards tasked with checking on Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center the night of his death may have been sleeping when the accused sex trafficker apparently hanged himself in his cell, two officials familiar with the investigation tell NBC New York.

In the wake of Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, federal prosecutors in New York have shifted their focus to possible charges against anyone who assisted or enabled him in what authorities say was his rampant sexual abuse. Two days after the 66-year-old financier’s death in a New York jail where he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, Attorney General William Barr...

The warden at the MCC has been moved as the investigation continues. Meanwhile, the FBI raided Epstein’s private villa in the Caribbean, and President Trump had some curious words regarding the investigation. NBC 4 New York’s Jonathan Dienst reports

A spokesperson for the FDNY tells NBC News it has completed its review of a 4chan message board posting regarding Jeffrey Epstein’s death and determined it did not come from within the department.

Federal agents raided Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion in the U.S. Virgin Islands Monday searching for evidence related to the wealthy financier’s past sex-trafficking crimes, an FBI spokesman told NBC 4.

Amid revelations about the circumstances around Jeffrey Epstein’s death, federal authorities have intensified parallel inquiries into what went wrong at the Manhattan jail where he was behind bars and who now may face charges for assisting or enabling him in what authorities say was his rampant sexual abuse of underage girls.

FBI agents in the Virgin Islands are searching Jeffrey Epstein’s mansion there for evidence related to Epstein’s past sex-trafficking crimes as investigation into his death continues. Jonathan Dienst reports.

Guards on Jeffrey Epstein’s unit were working extreme overtime shifts to make up for staffing shortages the morning of his apparent suicide, a person familiar with the jail’s operations told The Associated Press.

The apparent suicide of Jeffrey Epstein has brought new scrutiny to a federal jail in New York that, despite chronic understaffing, houses some of the highest-security inmates in the country.