A series of missteps by the federal Bureau of Prisons — including too many bed linens being left in a jail cell — enabled Jeffrey Epstein to commit suicide nearly four years ago while he was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, a new probe found.

Inspector General Michael Horowitz said that a “combination of negligence, misconduct and outright job performance failures” allowed the convicted pedophile to take his own life on Aug. 10, 2019 in the Lower Manhattan jail cell at the since-shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center.

Some of these factors included that the troubled lock-up had failed to assign a new inmate to Epstein’s cell after a previous one left, that there were problems with the surveillance cameras and that his cell “contained an excessive amount of bed linens” — which were used in the suicide, Horowitz’ report says.

[Horowitz is best known for his scathing conclusions about FBI and DoJ misconduct in Operation Crossfire Hurricane. This too will be a notable report for years to come, although I doubt it will settle the issue of whether Epstein committed suicide or was murdered. — Ed]