FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING

FBI PUBLIC AFFAIRS - DIRECTOR'S AM NEWS BRIEFING WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14, 2019 5:00 AM EDT Barr Orders Warden Of NYC Jail Temporarily Reassigned. Linsey Davis reported on ABC World News Tonight (8/13, story 6, 1:35, Muir, 6.57M) that in "the first fallout from the Jeffrey Epstein suicide," Attorney General Barr has "order[ed] the warden to be pulled from the jail and temporarily reassigned, [and] two staff members on Epstein's unit placed on administrative leave pending the outcome of the investigations. This comes after sources tell ABC News one of the workers was not a designated corrections officer. A law enforcement official says Epstein used a bed sheet to hang himself." Lester Holt reported on NBC Nightly News (8/13, lead story, 2:10, 5.75M), "The warden at New York's Metropolitan Correctional Center has been transferred out for now, and two corrections officers have been sidelined after a break down in protocols left Epstein unmonitored for a number of hours before he was