Release of missing minute' of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording

"A so-called missing minute of CCTV footage, a key ingredient of conspiracy theories surrounding the prison death of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has been found, contradicting the assertion of Pam Bondi, the attorney general, that it was recorded over. The video was in a cache of material, including 33,000 pages of records relating to the disgraced financier and former Donald Trump associate, released late on Tuesday by the US House oversight committee."

"The panel has been looking into Epstein's August 2019 death at Manhattan's Metropolitan correctional center. In July, the same month as a government review confirmed Epstein died by suicide, the FBI released hours of surveillance footage taken from outside Epstein's jail cell on the night he died. Observers quickly realized from time stamps that a block of one minute, from 11.59pm to midnight on 10 August, was not there."

"Conspiracy theorists leapt on the development as proof there was something suspicious about Epstein's death, fuelled by Bondi's insistence at the time that the prison's CCTV system was routinely reset every 24 hours. That, she told a cabinet meeting on 8 July, meant every night's footage would feature a missing minute. Newly released footage shows 'missing minute' of Epstein CCTV video But CBS reported later that month that there was no blackout in the recording,"

A previously reported missing one-minute segment of CCTV from Jeffrey Epstein's August 2019 jail death has been recovered among newly released materials. The footage appeared in a cache alongside 33,000 pages of related records released by the US House oversight committee. Earlier FBI surveillance releases seemed to omit the minute from 11.59pm to midnight on 10 August, prompting conspiracy theories and Pam Bondi's claim about daily CCTV resets. The newly released video includes the previously unaccounted minute and depicts routine activity, with guards outside the cell and images of Epstein being escorted to make a phone call.

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