He’s done; it’s not

Though we’re very glad such a bad man is gone from this Earth, we will resist the impulse to take joy in the way Jeffrey Epstein met his demise at his own hand. How was he able to hang himself? Epstein, the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center’s most prominent inmate, had tried before, just weeks ago. Under close watch, he should never have been able to succeed.

The FBI must determine why he was removed from suicide watch days ago — it defies logic — and hold whoever was responsible to account.

Epstein’s demise cheats his victims and the justice system of the chance to pursue him the right way for his many heinous crimes against girls. In Florida more than a decade ago, he got off with next to no punishment in a rotten non-prosecution deal that still demands a complete investigation. Former Labor Secretary Alex

Acosta, then U.S. attorney, must answer for his leniency.

Federal court in New York was his victims’ second chance for something close to fairness. So too, this Wednesday, the oneyear lookback window allowing new civil suits for old abuses opens under New York’s Child Victims Act. Epstein dodges that reckoning, too.

There is no reason now to keep sealed any of the documents associated with the case. Epstein’s in no position to object, and his reputation will not suffer.

The weight of the evidence shows Epstein ran a vast trafficking ring and sexually abused countless girls. What is yet to be established is who else participated and who may have helped shield him from serious criminal consequences for so long.

His money, his power and his connections can shield him no longer. Find the truth, all of it.