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Prison "accidently" destroyed both copies of video of Epstein's 1st suicide attempt...
https://www.thedailybeast.com/video-from-jeffrey-epsteins-first-suicide-try-destroyed-feds-admit?ref=homeIn the latest screw up in Jeffrey Epstein’s death case, federal officials revealed Thursday that video of the cell where the pedophile reportedly made his first suicide attempt was accidentally destroyed.
The surveillance footage was requested by Epstein’s cellmate, accused killer ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who is hoping it will show he “acted appropriately” and earn him a break at sentencing.
Last month, federal prosecutors said the video had been found. But in a letter to the judge on Thursday, they said it turns out that staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center “inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier,” and the video from the correct one “no longer exists.”
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“It is stunning that a video which we asked to be preserved and which the jail should have saved without a request was destroyed,” he said in a statement. “More troubling are the various and inconsistent accounts of what happened to the video.”
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Prosecutors initially said it was lost, then said they found it and would turn it over. In Thursday’s letter, they said when they got it and converted it into playable form, they realized it didn’t show the correct cell.
Apparently, they said, Tartaglione’s cell was misidentified in the MCC system, so prison lawyers preserved the wrong video.
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“The Government understands from speaking with MCC legal counsel that there was a backup system in place that housed all video for the Special Housing Unit, including the video requested by defense counsel,” the prosecutors wrote. “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.”
The surveillance footage was requested by Epstein’s cellmate, accused killer ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who is hoping it will show he “acted appropriately” and earn him a break at sentencing.
Last month, federal prosecutors said the video had been found. But in a letter to the judge on Thursday, they said it turns out that staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center “inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier,” and the video from the correct one “no longer exists.”
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“It is stunning that a video which we asked to be preserved and which the jail should have saved without a request was destroyed,” he said in a statement. “More troubling are the various and inconsistent accounts of what happened to the video.”
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Prosecutors initially said it was lost, then said they found it and would turn it over. In Thursday’s letter, they said when they got it and converted it into playable form, they realized it didn’t show the correct cell.
Apparently, they said, Tartaglione’s cell was misidentified in the MCC system, so prison lawyers preserved the wrong video.
...
“The Government understands from speaking with MCC legal counsel that there was a backup system in place that housed all video for the Special Housing Unit, including the video requested by defense counsel,” the prosecutors wrote. “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.”
Timeline:
- Epstein arrested
- July 23rd, first suicide-attempt, while his cell-mate Nicholas Tartaglione is in the cell.
- Epstein placed under suicide-watch.
- Epstein removed from suicide-watch.
- Cell-mate removed from his cell.
- Both prison-wardens responsible for regularly checking up on Epstein did not do so and falsified work-logs to pretend that they did.
- August 10th, second suicide-attempt, Epstein dies.
- August, a "technical error" destroys the backup-copy of the July 23rd tape.
- Attorney General William Barr has said that he has personally reviewed the August 10th tape and that nobody entered Epstein's cell.
- Nicholas Tartaglione cites the July 23rd video of their cell as evidence that he acted properly and demanded that the prosecutors hand it over.
- The prosecutors said, they had lost the July 23rd tape.
- The prosecutors said, they had found the July 23rd tape.
- The prosecutors said, when they had looked at the July 23rd tape, it turned out to be from the wrong cell.
- The prosecutors said, that the prison mixed up the serial-numbers of the cells and the July 23rd tape from the wrong cell was preserved by the prison.
If the prison mixed up cell-numbers in their camera-surveillance, how can we be sure that the August 10th tape of Epstein's cell really shows Epstein's cell?
Who else but Barr has seen it?
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