FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino have confirmed that Jeffrey Epstein’s death in 2019 was a suicide, countering conspiracy theories that have persisted since his death.

The New York City medical examiner and the Justice Department Inspector General ruled that Epstein’s death was a suicide by hanging. After initially being suspicious, then-Attorney General William Barr said what happened was “a perfect storm of screw-ups” after both the FBI and Justice Department conducted their probes into Epstein’s death.