Jail officials let Jeffrey Epstein make an unmonitored call on the night he died by suicide. He claimed it was to his mother, but she had been dead for years

Hours before convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in a notorious New York City jail cell, staffers allowed him to make an unmonitored phone call to his “mother” — but his mom had already been dead at that point for 15 years.

Specifics surrounding Epstein’s August 9, 2019 evening phone call were detailed in a lengthy report released on Tuesday by a Justice Department watchdog.

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