FBI to release video of Jeffrey Epstein in prison ‘confirming he killed himself’
FOOTAGE confirming disgraced pedophile Jeffery Epstein died by suicide in his jail cell will soon be released, according to the FBI deputy director.
The video will prove the official police records to be correct after years of speculation over the cause of death of sex trafficker Epstein, says Dan Bongino.
In the almost six years since Epstein's death in 2019, many people have spoken out about conspiracy theories relating to potential foul play around his suicide.
Epstein was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York on August 10 as he waited for a major trial over sex-trafficking charges.
The financier’s death was officially ruled a suicide by hanging by the chief medical examiner based on the evidence available to them.
The ruling was widely supported by the Department of Justice and the FBI.
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But after years of speculation, the security organisation's deputy director Bongino is now set to end all debate by releasing a video showing Epstein alone in his cell at the time of his passing.
The footage will not show his actual death.
Bongino told Fox News on Thursday: “There’s video clear as day.
“He’s the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it.”
The agency is continuing to review the video but Bongino says it will be released to the public shortly.
Depraved Epstein was found unresponsive by guards in his cell who quickly performed CPR before he was taken to hospital.
He was pronounced dead shortly after with it ruled as suicide by hanging - which was later challenged by his own lawyers.
The jail had been told Epstein should have a cellmate, and that a guard must check on him every 30 minutes.
But on the night he died, his cellmate was transferred and not replaced and he was not checked on as often as required.
Two guards fell asleep at their desks - and later falsified their records.
Meanwhile, two cameras in front of Epstein's cell malfunctioned that night - while another's footage was "unusable".
Protocol was also broken by removing Epstein's body from his call and failing to photograph it as it was found.
The Bureau of Prisons mandates that suicide scenes be treated with the "same level of protection as any crime scene in which a death has occurred".
I came face-to-face with Epstein & I’m convinced he DIDN’T kill himself
By Chief Foreign Reporter, Katie Davis
JEFFREY Epstein's "overly self-confident nature" has made a lawyer who represented his victims doubt whether he took his own life.
Spencer Kuvin, who met Epstein several times, said the shamed billionaire never thought he had done anything wrong - and arrogantly believed he wouldn't be jailed.
He told The Sun: "From the times I met him and deposed him, and sat in mediations with him, he never, ever struck me as someone who questioned whether he had done anything wrong.
"He was always overly self-confident in what he had done and his belief that he had never done anything inappropriate at all, ever.
"There was never any inclination that he ever felt he wasn't going to get out.
"He always felt 'this is something I got to go through, I'll be out of here in a flash, it's not a big deal'.
"So it was rather surprising to me when he died in jail."
When asked whether he thought Epstein was murdered, Mr Kuvin said: "I don't know. I'm not one for wild speculation.
"I deal in reality and proof and evidence.
"And what I could tell you is that the evidence is circumstantial but overwhelming that it was not suicide."
