- Lamine N'Diaye is being reassigned to a leadership role at FCI Fort Dix
- The low-security 'Club Fed' prison is in Burlington County, New Jersey
- N'Diaye was warden at MCC Manhattan when Epstein died in his cell there
- AG Bill Barr ordered N'Diaye posted at a desk job until investigation is complete
he warden in charge when Jeffrey Epstein
died in his jail cell is getting a cushy new supervisor's job at 'Club
Fed' despite Attorney General Bill Barr's demand that he be reassigned
to a desk job.
Lamine N'Diaye is being
reassigned to a leadership role at FCI Fort Dix, a low-security prison
in Burlington County, New Jersey, two people familiar with the matter
said.
The move comes months after
Barr ordered N'Diaye be reassigned to a desk post at the Bureau of
Prisons' regional office in Pennsylvania after Epstein´s death as the
FBI and the Justice Department´s inspector general investigated.
It was unclear why the agency was planning
to return N'Diaye to a position supervising inmates and staff members,
even though multiple investigations into Epstein´s death remain active.
The
inspector general's investigation is continuing, and the Justice
Department is still probing the circumstances that led to Epstein´s
death, including why he wasn´t given a cellmate.
Epstein
died in August while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused
dozens of girls as young as 14 and young women in New York and Florida
in the early 2000s.
Epstein's death
cast a spotlight on the Bureau of Prisons and highlighted a series of
safety lapses inside a high-security unit of one of the most secure
jails in America.
His death was ruled a
suicide by hanging by the New York City medical examiner, but his
attorneys have contested that finding and argued he may have been
killed.
Barr said even Epstein's ability to take his own life in federal custody had raised 'serious questions that must be answered.'
He
said in an interview with the AP in November that the investigation
revealed a 'series' of mistakes made that gave Epstein the chance to
take his own life and that his death was the result of 'a perfect storm
of screw-ups.'
Two correctional officers responsible for
watching Epstein have pleaded not guilty to charges alleging they lied
on prison records to make it seem as though they had checked on Epstein,
as required, before his death.
Instead,
investigators say they appeared to sleep for two hours and had been
browsing the internet - shopping for furniture and motorcycles - instead
of watching Epstein, who was supposed to be checked on every 30
minutes.
The attorney general also
removed the agency´s acting director in the wake of Epstein's death and
named Kathleen Hawk Sawyer, the prison agency´s director from 1992 until
2003, to replace him.
Since Epstein´s death and N'Diaye´s removal as warden, the Manhattan jail has had two interim leaders.
The
newest warden, M. Licon-Vitale, used to oversee a federal prison in
Danbury, Connecticut. Her first big order of business has been to deal
with jailed lawyer Michael Avenatti's complaints about his treatment at
the lockup.
The Bureau of Prisons has been plagued for years by chronic violence, extensive staffing shortages and serious misconduct.
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