Last month a judge was advised by prosecutors that the “missing” surveillance video footage from the camera outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell on the night of his suicide attempt in July was found. YAY for the good guys, right?
We’re not talking about the night he was murdered, er, he “committed” suicide. This concerns the episode that happened a week prior to his murder, er, suicide.
US Attorney Geoffrey Berman told a judge in a letter that the footage from Epstein’s suicide attempt has been located, and that the government was going through the process to obtain a copy.
Then, to quote Ilhan Omar, some people did something…
… because now prosecutors are saying the Epstein surveillance video has been destroyed due to a “record-keeping error.”
You would think that the government would have taken extra special care of the evidence for such a high-profile case as this. The prosecutors should have walked over to the building where the security tape was being held and watched the copy process, or at least sent an order for it to be protected at all cost.
Even worse, the backup system for video surveillance wasn’t working due to ‘technical errors.’
OH COME ON!
“The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors,” the prosecutors said in the letter.
Again, to be clear, the surveillance footage prosecutors were addressing pertains to Epstein’s first reported “suicide attempt” in late July. He died in August.
New York Daily News reported:
Surveillance footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during his suicide attempt was destroyed, prosecutors revealed Thursday.
The revelation in a letter filed by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey and Jason Swergold is the latest head-spinning disclosure from the feds about the footage from the Metropolitan Correctional Center on July 22 and 23. Epstein attempted to hang himself that night while sharing a cell with accused quadruple murderer Nick Tartaglione, officials have said.
Swergold initially said last month in White Plains Federal Court that the video had not been preserved. He reversed himself less than 24 hours later, saying it had been archived.
Now, the feds say that due to a record-keeping error, MCC staff preserved footage from outside the wrong cell.
“The footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located because the preserved video did not show corrections officers responding to any of the cells seen on the video. After speaking with MCC legal counsel, the Government was informed that the MCC computer system listed a different, incorrect cell for Tartaglione,” prosecutors wrote in a letter filed in Manhattan Federal Court.
Epstein was found dead in his prison cell in Manhattan in August a week after he supposedly attempted suicide in July.
The 66-year-old convicted pedophile was found dead in his prison cell in August and the medical examiner ruled his death a suicide by hanging. The story went that he used a bed sheet tied to the bunk to hang himself.
Autopsy photos were recently released showing a cut running around the length of his neck with blood marks throughout. Anyone looking at can see that bed sheets could never make marks like that, and it was more-than-likely a wire used garrote-style. And, there was no blood found on the bed sheet. None.
A lot of mysteries surrounding the entire Epstein story, mysteries that are solved once you realize that very rich and very powerful people were being blackmailed for their sexual misconduct on Epstein’s Lolita Express airplane and on Epstein Island, commonly known to the locals as Pedophile Island.
