Acting Director of the federal Bureau of Prisons at the time of Jeffrey Epstein's death at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 10, 2019. The House Judiciary Committee's chairman and ranking member wrote to him demanding answers to 23 questions about how Jeffrey Epstein came to be unsupervised. He was reassigned nine days after the death. He was not dismissed.
Key Findings
- EFTA00069870 (Aug 2019): "acting director of the Bureau of Prisons, Hugh Hurwitz, was reassigned on Monday, and the warden of the Manhattan jail, Lamine N'Diaye, was transferred to an office in Philadelphia"
- EFTA00161043: House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler and ranking member Doug Collins "demanded answers to 23 questions" in a letter to Hurwitz as Bureau of Prisons Acting Director
- EFTA00094388: The chairman and ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee "sent a letter to the acting director of the Bureau of Prisons, Hugh Hurwitz, demanding answers about how Mr. Jeffrey Epstein could have been unsupervised long enough to take his own life"
- EFTA00036589 (Aug 12, 2019): Party to internal Bureau of Prisons email traffic about the correctional officers on duty and the hours they had worked leading up to the death
- EFTA00045963 (Aug 14, 2019): Named on Bureau of Prisons email regarding media staffing in the days after the death