On Tuesday, the House Oversight Committee unveiled a collection of documents, which included a missing minute of surveillance footage from the night billionaire financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein died at a New York jail in 2019.
The 33,000 pages included the much-debated missing minute — 11:58:59 on August 9 to midnight on August 10, 2019 — that had been absent from the video footage released by the Justice Department and FBI months earlier.
Fox News reported that digital forensic experts noted the footage released initially appeared as two separate video files merged using Adobe Premiere Pro.
In August 2019, Epstein was found hanged in his cell in New York while awaiting trial for sex trafficking; his death was ruled a suicide.
In July, the FBI released nearly 11 hours of surveillance footage from outside Epstein’s cell the night he died. However, it was soon discovered that a minute of footage was missing from the video file.
The latest file release shows that the camera data storage shifted around midnight, potentially explaining why the two files were combined. Fox News reported that recovering the missing minute also contradicts Attorney General Pam Bondi’s earlier assertions that the last minute of footage is deleted every night.
Politico reported that the documents were given to the House Oversight Committee late last month, but they took more than a week to review them.
The committee’s Republican majority specified they were collaborating with the Justice Department to ensure that information was redacted, protecting victims’ privacy or not compromising any ongoing criminal investigations.
[Feature Photo: House Oversight Committee]
