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Two staffers assigned to watch Jeffrey Epstein placed on leave

The mystery of Jeffrey Epstein's apparent suicide may be deepening with new information from the jail where the accused sex trafficker died. Attorney General William Barr has reassigned the warden in charge of that jail in Manhattan -- and two staffers who were assigned to watch Epstein were placed on leave. Sources tell CBS News that unreleased surveillance footage shows guards did not make some of the checks on Epstein that they logged before his death. Mola Lenghi reports.
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