❓WHAT HAPPENED: A newly released congressional video fills a one-minute gap in earlier surveillance footage from Jeffrey Epstein’s jail unit on the night of his 2019 death.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The House Oversight Committee, the Department of Justice (DOJ), and Attorney General Pam Bondi.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The footage covers the disputed minute from 11:58:59 PM on August 9, 2019, to midnight on August 10, 2019, at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
💬KEY QUOTE: Attorney General Pam Bondi previously said, “What we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing”—but it appears this was inaccurate.
🎯IMPACT: The new footage raises further questions about the official narrative concerning Epstein’s death.
New video from the jail unit where child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died has filled in a “missing minute” from previously released surveillance footage. The video, included in a nearly 34,000-file release by the House Oversight Committee, covers the critical minute absent from earlier footage outside Epstein’s cell block at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City.
The missing minute spanned from 11:58:59 PM on August 9, 2019, to midnight on August 10, 2019. Digital forensics experts had previously discovered that supposedly “raw” footage released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) had been edited and merged using Adobe Premiere Pro, raising suspicions about evidence tampering.
The new footage clarifies that the camera data switched around midnight, requiring two clips to be combined for seamless video. Merging the clips appears to reveal no gap in the footage—contradicting Attorney General Pam Bondi’s earlier explanation for the missing minute. Bondi had claimed, “What we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing.”
This is not the first time Bondi has appeared to contradict herself on the Epstein case, with the current controversy around his death stemming from a DOJ memo stating that no Epstein “client list” exists, despite the fact she said a client list was “on [her] desk” in February.
The new video shows no previously undiscovered activity inside the jail block during the “missing minute.” The DOJ continues to assert that Epstein died by suicide in his cell while awaiting prosecution.
Notably, the footage released to the public does not cover Epstein’s cell door, only a corridor outside his cell block. While officials insist the released footage shows no one could have reached Epstein’s cell, analysts for CBS News have disputed this, noting it does not fully cover the cell block entrance or the staircase leading to Epstein’s level.
“To say that there’s no way that someone could get to that, the stairs up to his room, without being seen, is false,” they insist.
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