The Daily Beast has a really disturbing report out on new evidence released in the latest tranche of Epstein files that casts serious doubt on the official story that Epstein committed suicide in his cell during the night of August 9, 2019. Part of this new evaluation rests on video logs apparently showing an unidentified person heading toward Epstein’s cell shortly before his death, but even more damning are drafts of the initial statement by federal prosecutors in NY on Epstein’s death that were dated the day before his death was ‘discovered’ on August 10:
A review of the records shows multiple versions of similar statements with inconsistent redactions—some leaving phone numbers or names visible, others blacking out nearly all identifying information.
One draft bears a date of August 9, 2019, the day before Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.
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Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed in a pardon petition filed last summer and recently obtained by the Daily Beast that Epstein was deliberately left unprotected in federal custody.
Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of multiple murders, alleged that prison officials knowingly housed Epstein with an accused mass murderer despite earlier reports that the disgraced financier had raised concerns about his safety weeks before his death.
The claims were not substantiated, and Epstein’s death was officially ruled a suicide.
Newly released records reviewed by CBS News have intensified questions about what happened inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center on the night before Epstein was found dead.
Justice Department documents show investigators reviewing jail surveillance footage flagged an orange-colored figure moving up a staircase toward the locked tier housing Epstein’s cell at about 10:39 p.m. on August 9, 2019—hours before his body was discovered the next morning.
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CBS reported that independent video analysts said the movement was more consistent with an inmate—or someone wearing an orange prison uniform—than a corrections officer. Prison employees told CBS that escorting an inmate at that hour would have been highly unusual.
The discrepancy stands in contrast to repeated official assertions that no one entered Epstein’s housing tier that night, raising further questions about activity near his cell during the estimated window of his death.
This all occurred during Trump’s first administration of course. So many questions, but so few answers thus far.
