CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies
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.
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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.
"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.
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