Warden and two guards at jail where Jeffrey Epstein died are removed

The warden of the federal jail in Manhattan where Jeffrey Epstein apparently killed himself was temporarily reassigned on Tuesday, and two correctional officers who were guarding him were placed on administrative leave, pending the outcome of an investigation into the death, the Justice Department said.

The warden, Lamine N’Diaye, will be transferred to a Bureau of Prison office in Philadelphia while the FBI and the Justice Department’s inspector general conduct investigations into Epstein’s death. The Justice Department said in a statement that it might take additional punitive actions.

The attorney general, William Barr, on Monday ordered the inspector general to look into how Epstein had managed to commit suicide while in custody and why he had been taken off a suicide watch 12 days earlier. “We will get to the bottom of what happened,” he said.