FBI Has a Copy of Epstein Jail Video With 'Missing Minute': Report
Source: MEDIAite
Jul 29th, 2025, 12:30 pm
The FBI and other government agencies have a copy of the video from outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell on the night he died, which includes the so-called “missing minute” from the version of the tape that was released publicly.
According to a report from CBS News, the FBI, the Bureau of Prisons and the Department of Justice inspector general have a copy of the video containing the minute from 11:59 p.m.-12:00 a.m. that was not included in the public release. Government officials have cited the video as crucial evidence that Epstein died by suicide, but critics have raised many questions about that minute being absent from the publicly available footage.
Attorney General Pam Bondi, speaking at the White House on July 8 — two days after the video was released — claimed that minute was missing from every tape in the prison every night.
“What we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every night they redo that video — it’s old…from like 1999…so every night the video is reset,” Bondi said. “And every night should have the same minute missing. So we’re looking for that video to release that as well, showing that a minute is missing every night.”
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From the CBS article -
By Dan Ruetenik
July 29, 2025 / 6:00 AM EDT / CBS News
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Experts in surveillance video, including video forensic professionals, told CBS News that a nightly reset would have been unusual and was not something they encountered in most video systems.
One thing that is clear, forensic experts say, is that the version of the recording released by the FBI was edited and not raw, as the government stated. Bondi, FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino and others have said publicly that the video would be released unaltered.
When the DOJ and FBI shared the video with the public, they said in a news release that it was the "full raw" video, and that "anyone entering or attempting to enter the tier where Epstein's cell was located from the SHU common area would have been captured by this footage."
Jim Stafford was one of several video forensic analysts who looked at the video for CBS News using specialized software to extract the underlying coding, known as metadata. He said the metadata showed that the file was first created on May 23 of this year and that it was likely a "screen capture, not an actual export" of the raw file. He also told CBS News the metadata showed that the video was in fact two separate videos stitched together. It was also slightly sped up, so the video covering 11 hours runs approximately 10 hours and 53 minutes in length.
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