Ben Sasse: 'Americans deserve answers' regarding Epstein death

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Washington Examiner

John Gage

November 15, 2019

Sen. Ben Sasse sent a letter to the head of the Federal Bureau of Prisons telling her to "come prepared" with answers regarding the death of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

"Epstein's death makes it significantly harder to prosecute his co-conspirators," the Nebraska Republican said in a letter dated Wednesday to Kathleen Hawk Sawyer. "Wealthy and powerful men raped innocent children, and it is an outrage that so much of the evidence of these crimes died with Epstein while in your agency's custody."

Sasse noted in the letter that he had already asked "basic and urgent questions" regarding the financial mogul's death, but that "we're still in the dark about what happened to Epstein." The senator argued that "Americans deserve answers" to the question and that Sawyer should come to the Tuesday Senate Judiciary Committee hearing with "substantial answers."

"To pretend like this issue, which is by far the public’s top concern with your agency, won’t be a significant focus of attention at this hearing is naïve — to the point of being laughable," Sasse wrote. "While there may be particular details that you cannot yet answer, deflecting difficult questions won’t cut it."

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