Jeffrey Epstein in 2004Image source, Corbis via Getty Images
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Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York prison cell in 2019

ByIone Wells and Kayla Epstein
  • Published31 minutes ago

Crimes committed by the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after 2005 could have been prevented were it not for "failures" by federal investigators and prosecutors, a congressional investigation has concluded.

The Republican-led US House Oversight Committee on Tuesday released its final report into what it described as the "decades-long" mishandling of the criminal investigations into Epstein and his long-term associate Ghislaine Maxwell.