Epstein, 66, was found dead in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York on August 10, 2019, pending the trial against challenge for sex trade.
The medical researcher judged death as suicide, but the circumstances surrounding his death continued to feed the conspiracy theories. Patel and Bongino rejected those theories during an appearance on Fox News.
“You said that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide,” asked Anchor Maria Bartiromo Patel and added: “People don’t believe it.”
Patel replied: “Everyone is entitled to their opinion. If someone who has worked as a public defender, as a public prosecutor who has been in that prisons system, who has been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who has been in separate homes – you know a suicide when you see one.”
Bongino, 49, added: “He committed suicide. I saw the whole file. He killed himself.”
He later wrote on X: “There is no evidence in the file that otherwise suggests. If new evidence pops up, I am happy to evaluate again.”
Mark Epstein said, however, that the claims of Patel and Bongino were unfounded.
He raged, “He has no idea what he is talking about,” he said about Patel. ” He was not there, he did not see the body, he did not see the autopsy.