On Thursday, prosecutors revealed that the surveillance video outside pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell during his alleged July suicide attempt has been mysteriously deleted
Epstein was staying at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan after his arrest for trafficking dozens of underaged girls. It just so happens that the jail claims it “inadvertently preserved” video feed from the wrong area of the jail.
“‘As a result, video from outside the defendant’s cell’ on July 22 and 23, which covered the time Epstein made his first alleged attempt to kill himself inside the federal lockup, ‘no longer exists,’” reports CNBC.
Conveniently, the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the matter, saying, “We decline to comment as the Epstein case is under investigation by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General.”
Apparently, in December, Bruce Barket, a lawyer for Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, who claimed to save Epstein’s life from the first suicide attempt, complained in December that he had been told the video was missing.
Although the footage archived was of the correct date, it was not in the correct location of the prison where Epstein and Tartaglione were being held.