FBI’s Raw Epstein Tape Reveals More Time Is Missing

New data shows nearly three minutes of video footage of Jeffrey Epstein’s cell door the morning he was discovered dead in his cell are missing, Knewz.com can report, a far cry from the mere minute of footage previously discovered to have disappeared. This discovery comes as a former inmate in Epstein’s exact cell says there is no way the accused trafficker wasn’t murdered.

The FBI and Department of Justice recently released 11 hours of what they called the “full raw” surveillance video from the only functioning camera near Epstein’s cell. Almost immediately, computer experts noticed there was a missing minute and began asking questions. Now, forensic experts analyzing the metadata for WIRED have concluded that the video actually has approximately two minutes and 53 seconds missing. Investigators had already concluded the publicly released video was stitched together in Adobe Premiere Pro from two separate video files. It is not known if the missing segment contained anything of significance.

The discovery comes as a former inmate who was held in the exact same prison cell as Epstein insisted it was not physically possible for the convinced predator to harm himself. Former Colombo crime family mobster Michael Franzese told NewsNation’s Banfield that he spent several months in that cell. “There’s just no way,” he said repeatedly. “There’s nothing from the ceiling, there’s nothing from the – you’d have to be a [little person] and work really hard to [die], and I don’t think you’re gonna accomplish it at that point.”

As for the mysteriously missing video footage, Franzese said, “I did eight years in prison, and I haven’t experienced cameras being broken, and a perfect storm of correctional officers not walking those cells. They walk in and they look in on you all the time. As a matter of fact, you know, sometimes it’s embarrassing to go to the toilet because they’re walking past you and looking in the cell constantly.”

Shortly after the video controversy erupted, Attorney General Pam Bondi went into damage control during a Cabinet meeting at the White House. Bondi insisted the one-minute gap in the video was part of a routine daily reset that takes place at the Metropolitan Detention Center. “The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he [was not murdered],” she said. The AG also stressed the missing minute was not unique to the Epstein video. “There was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night they redo that video … every night should have the same minute missing,” she continued. Both Republicans and Democrats have come together with roars of outrage and calls for her to resign, including those convinced she is part of a sinister Epstein cover-up operation. Bondi had already been under fire from furious conservatives for failing to deliver promised revelations, including the long-teased Epstein “client list.”