UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE

UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Southern District of New York U.S. ATTORNEY GEOFFREY S. BERMAN FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Tuesday, November 19, 2019 http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys CONTACT: U.S. ATTORNEY'S OFFICE Jim Margolin, Nicholas Biase (212) 637-2600 DOJ O1O FBI Martin Feely, Adrienne Senatore, Amy Thoreson (212) 384-2100 CORRECTIONAL OFFICERS CHARGED WITH FALSIFYING RECORDS ON AUGUST 9TH AND 10TH AT THE METROPOLITAN CORRECTIONAL CENTER Defendants Allegedly Created Records Falsely Attesting to Required Checks of Inmates the Defendants Never Did in the Special Housing Unit on the Night Inmate Jeffrey Epstein Committed Suicide Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Michael Horowitz, Inspector General for the Department of Justice ("DOJ OIG"), and William F. Sweeney Jr., Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI"), announced today the unsealing of an indictme