Federal prosecutors revealed Thursday they had inadvertently saved the wrong footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt in July of 2019. Prosecutors said they had saved footage from a different area of the prison on the dates, July 22 and 23, in question and discovered afterward that the footage they required had been permanently deleted by the prison..In July, less than a month prior to Epstein’s alleged suicide on August 10, corrections officers responded to Epstein’s apparent suicide attempt. Prosecutors had requested the video between 11:00 pm on July 22, 2019 and 4:00 a.m. on July 23, 2019 from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC)..Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey and Jason Swergold wrote “video from outside the defendant’s cell… no longer exists” in a filing to Judge Karas Thursday..“On or about January 3, 2020, the MCC provided the Government with a copy of the video that it had preserved, which the Government then converted into a playable format.”.“After reviewing the video, it appeared to the Government that the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located because the preserved video did not show corrections officers responding to any of the cells seen on the video.”.An apparent backup system that is in place to maintain all video for the Special Housing Unit but the video is not there either..“The Government further understands from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it has reviewed that backup system as part of an unrelated investigation and determined that the requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors.”
Federal prosecutors revealed Thursday they had inadvertently saved the wrong footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s first apparent suicide attempt in July of 2019. Prosecutors said they had saved footage from a different area of the prison on the dates, July 22 and 23, in question and discovered afterward that the footage they required had been permanently deleted by the prison..In July, less than a month prior to Epstein’s alleged suicide on August 10, corrections officers responded to Epstein’s apparent suicide attempt. Prosecutors had requested the video between 11:00 pm on July 22, 2019 and 4:00 a.m. on July 23, 2019 from the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC)..Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey and Jason Swergold wrote “video from outside the defendant’s cell… no longer exists” in a filing to Judge Karas Thursday..“On or about January 3, 2020, the MCC provided the Government with a copy of the video that it had preserved, which the Government then converted into a playable format.”.“After reviewing the video, it appeared to the Government that the footage contained on the preserved video was for the correct date and time, but captured a different tier than the one where Cell-1 was located because the preserved video did not show corrections officers responding to any of the cells seen on the video.”.An apparent backup system that is in place to maintain all video for the Special Housing Unit but the video is not there either..“The Government further understands from the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it has reviewed that backup system as part of an unrelated investigation and determined that the requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors.”
