Here's why conspiracy theories about Jeffrey Epstein keep flourishing

Two correctional officers who were guarding Jeffrey Epstein’s cell were charged by federal prosecutors on Tuesday with making false records and fraud counts.

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Jeffrey Epstein has been dead for three years, but his ghost still wanders the dark halls of the internet.

In life, Epstein was a secretive financier, arrested for a series of sexual crimes with underage girls. In death, speculation about his suicide in jail formed an additional layer of conspiratorial fog around his legacy.

When the FBI searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in early August, it took less than a day for far-right internet personality Jack Posobiec to summon Epstein’s ghost. “We now know the judge who signed off on the Mar-a-Lago raid was Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer. Don’t question it!” Posobiec posted to his 185,000 Telegram followers.