There was no "missing minute" in the Jeffrey Epstein jail video that has been the source of theories surrounding the theories regarding the disgraced financier's death, according to a report from CBS News.
The outlet reported that the 2019 video of the Manhattan Metropolitan Correctional Center from when Epstein killed himself is not missing the one minute, according to a government source. The source said that the FBI, Bureau of Prisons (BOP), as well as the Department of Justice, have all been in possession of a copy of the video that does not cut from just before 11:59 pm to midnight.
When the DOJ released the raw footage earlier this month to increase transparency in the case, the video jumped over the minute, but it is unclear why the section was missing. The FBI has cited the video as evidence that Epstein died by suicide and was not killed.
Bondi said in a Cabinet meeting on July 8 that the missing minute was the result of the recording system's reset, which happened every night, and attributed the source of the information to the BOP.
"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 at the time. However, some told CBS that it would be unusual for a video system to the reset in their system.
Epstein's death, as well as the sex trafficking case against him, has become a topic of national discussion over the last few months after Attorney General Pam Bondi promised to release the Epstein files, and then gathered a large number of political influencers to give them binders full of documents, only for the public to discover the documents in the binders had already been made public.
The DOJ also produced a memo earlier in July that concluded that Epstein did commit suicide and that there was no evidence that he blackmailed powerful figures or that there was an incriminating "client list."