Federal investigators are reportedly in possession of the full video from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell the night he died, including the ‘missing minute.’
Earlier this month, the FBI and Department of Justice released nearly 11 hours of surveillance footage from outside Epstein’s cell with the time code on the screen jumping forward one minute just before midnight.
The FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general have a copy of the video containing the missing minute from just before 11:59 p.m. to midnight of the night Epstein died by suicide in his cell, CBS News reported, citing a government source familiar with the investigation.
It is unclear why the video with the missing minute was not released to the public.
Asked about the gap at a cabinet meeting on July 8, Attorney General Pam Bondi said the missing minute was the result of a nightly reset of the video that caused the recording system to miss one recording minute every night.
“There was a minute that was off that counter and what we learned from [the] Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video,” Bondi said. The equipment was old — “from like 1999, so every night is reset, so every night should have that same missing minute,” she said.
But, experts in surveillance video, including video forensic professionals, told CBS that nightly reset would have been unusual and was not something they encountered in most video systems.
