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Kid Berwyn

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19. Don't know. Do know the CCTV was on the fritz before it was erased.

Reply to Autumn (Reply #7)

Wed Jul 30, 2025, 01:12 PM

Jul 30

Jeffrey Epstein: Jail CCTV erased by 'technical errors'

BBC, January 10, 2020

Surveillance video from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's first suspected suicide attempt was destroyed by accident, prosecutors say.

US attorneys say the jail mistakenly saved footage from the wrong cell.

Epstein, a convicted sex offender, hanged himself in jail in August while awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges.

He had pleaded not guilty to sexually abusing dozens of girls, some as young as 14.

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"The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors."

Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-51053205

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Bill Barr assigned psycho killer cop as Epstein's first cell mate. [View all] Kid Berwyn Jul 30 OP

Nickie Dogs tries the Maxwell gambit NBachers Jul 30 #1

Lotta rich friends, dat guy Epstein had. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #4

Keep em coming malaise Jul 30 #5

Epstein said Barr, Protector of the BFEE, called the shots -- not Donnie Dipshit Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #8

Is he still malaise Jul 30 #9

Russell Vought may've picked up the torch. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #13

Good read malaise Jul 30 #20

Barr visited the Manhattan jail, arrangements were made. Barr left and soon... brush Jul 30 #29

Bill's father, Donald Barr employed Epstein as a math teacher speak easy Jul 30 #17

Monsters all malaise Jul 30 #18

Small world. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #21

bad link speak easy Jul 30 #22

He really liked to be around children. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #25

Oh, this guy is so organized crime. harumph Jul 30 #2

he was appointed in the 1st place cuz he knew how to bury bodies. mopinko Jul 30 #3

Like dat overlapping circles thing, Bill Barr is. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #6

Bill Barr moved him to a different cell. Did he give him a key to Epstein's and his Autumn Jul 30 #7

Some reports indicate H2O Man Jul 30 #10

Sounds about par for the course. Barr always gets away with it. Autumn Jul 30 #14

Don't know. Do know the CCTV was on the fritz before it was erased. Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #19

Recommended. H2O Man Jul 30 #11

Look! It's an enigma! Kid Berwyn Jul 30 #24

Gosh, that sounds so believable. Not. H2O Man Jul 30 #27

K&R UTUSN Jul 30 #12

hulking cellmate gfarber Jul 30 #15

Nothing Nicholas Tartaglione says should be believed. Wiz Imp Jul 30 #16

SICKO -Bill Barr's father - sounds like a pedo womanofthehills Jul 30 #23

The more we find out about the Epstein Affair, and all the sleazy characters involved, the more opaque things become. sop Jul 30 #26

Bill Barr went to NYC the day before that first alleged suicide attempt. RockRaven Jul 30 #28