Mystery surrounds the missing one minute of footage in the jail surveillance video released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to prove Jeffrey Epstein killed himself.
The disgraced financier and convicted sex offender was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019. He was 66.
The 10-hour video shows a common area between two tiers (floors) of jail cells. The DOJ said the camera that was positioned outside Epstein’s jail cell on the night he died was not working.
The video released by the DOJ that shows a common area near Epstein’s jail block appears to be missing one minute. The digital time stamp jumps from 11:58:58 p.m. on August 9, 2019 to 12:00 a.m. on August 10, 2019.
In the DOJ’s report, Epstein was locked in his cell on August 9 at 10:40 p.m. and no one entered his cell block after that.
According to an indictment, two jail guards “sat at their desk without moving, and appeared to have been asleep” on the night Epstein took his own life.
The jail guards admitted falsifying records to conceal the fact that they failed to check on Epstein between 10:40 p.m. and 6:30 a.m. when his body was found.
Epstein “had committed suicide overnight while unobserved,” according to the indictment.
In a 2-page memo released alongside the surveillance video, FBI investigators concluded that Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell and there is no “Epstein list” that named government officials or President Donald Trump.
If Jeffrey Epstein never kept a list then what was this about? pic.twitter.com/fWWG8KONpZ
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