CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies

[pnwmom]

Source: CBS News

In the weeks after Jeffrey Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in lower Manhattan, in August 2019, then-Attorney General William Barr said his "personal review" of surveillance footage clearly showed that no one entered the area where Epstein was housed, leading him to agree with the conclusion of the medical examiner that Epstein had died by suicide.

It's a claim that's been repeated by other top federal officials, including FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, who said on Fox News' "Fox and Friends" in May, "There's video clear as day -- he's the only person in there and the only person coming out."

But a CBS News analysis of the video the FBI made public earlier this month reveals that the recording doesn't provide a clear view of the entrance to Epstein's cell block -- one of several contradictions between officials' descriptions of the video and the video itself.

CBS News also digitally reconstructed the Special Housing Unit, or SHU, where Epstein was held, using diagrams and descriptions from the 2023 report on Epstein released by the Justice Department inspector general. The CBS News review found the video does little to provide evidence to support claims that were later made by federal officials. Additionally, CBS News has identified multiple inconsistencies between that report and the video that raise serious questions about the accuracy of witness statements and the thoroughness of the government's investigation.

Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-investigation/

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A few weeks earlier they'd said he'd made his first suicide attempt -- but the prison video for that day mysteriously disappeared.

The video of the cell exterior where Epstein first tried to end his life was sent to federal investigators and restored last week, but on Thursday prosecutors said it is the wrong video. In a letter, federal prosecutors said the jail "inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier" and "as a result, video from outside the defendant's cell ... no longer exists."

"When I read this letter I had to re-read it because I said, this just can't be happening," said CBS News legal analyst Rikki Klieman told CBS News correspondent Mola Lenghi. "This is madness."

Bruce Barket, the attorney for Epstein's cellmate Nicholas Tartaglione, said the Metropolitan Correctional Center is "the worst facility, jail or prison that I've been to in 35 years of practicing law."

The missing video adds to questions that have already been raised about the circumstances of Epstein's death. A forensic pathologist, hired by Epstein's family, observed the four-hour autopsy of Epstein's body and told "60 Minutes" that the unusual fractures in Epstein's neck, as well as other evidence, point more to murder than suicide.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-cell-video-of-sex-offenders-first-suicide-attempt-goes-missing/

[angrychair]

1. Did they get this story approved

By their ombudsman? I'm not sure their master would approve.

[cstanleytech]

2. Sounding more and more like it was 'assisted' suicide.

[truthisfreedom]

3. I wonder how much fun Stephen Colbert will

Have with this tonight.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Barr's word is as good as .....(insert profanity here)

[RazorbackExpat]

5. Always believe the official story,

whether it's about the Lincoln assassination, the Kennedy assassination, the USS Maine, the Tonkin Gulf incident, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, Sacco and Vanzetti, 911, weapons of mass destruction, because our government would never lie to us

[Miguelito Loveless]

8. Actually,

the story about the Lincoln assassination was that it was a conspiracy, which was in fact true.

[RazorbackExpat]

11. But the "co-conspirators" were tried in a kangaroo court by the Secretary of War,

who fancied himself as the actual successor to Lincoln.

[PufPuf23]

6. William Barr is not to be trusted.

Recall Barr's father lead the school where young, not very credentialled, taught school.

Too many coincidences.

[BoRaGard]

7. G.O.P. is so full of lies

only Satan could love them

[Miguelito Loveless]

9. Keep Satan's name out of your mouth

He has a lot of lawyers.

[maxsolomon]

10. He killed himself WHEN HE HAD A CELLMATE?

I have not been following this that closely.