{"id":394949,"date":"2025-09-03T16:15:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394949\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T16:15:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T16:15:14","slug":"release-of-missing-minute-of-epstein-video-contradicts-bondi-claim-cameras-stopped-recording-jeffrey-epstein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/394949\/","title":{"rendered":"Release of \u2018missing minute\u2019 of Epstein video contradicts Bondi claim cameras stopped recording | Jeffrey Epstein"},"content":{"rendered":"

A so-called \u201cmissing minute\u201d of CCTV footage, a key ingredient of conspiracy theories surrounding the prison death of the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein<\/a>, has been found, contradicting the assertion of Pam Bondi<\/a>, the attorney general, that it was recorded over.<\/p>\n

The video was in a cache of material, including 33,000 pages of records relating to the disgraced financier and former Donald Trump<\/a> associate, released late on Tuesday<\/a> by the US House oversight committee. The panel has been looking into Epstein\u2019s August 2019 death at Manhattan\u2019s Metropolitan correctional center.<\/p>\n

In July, the same month as a government review confirmed Epstein died by suicide<\/a>, the FBI released hours of surveillance footage<\/a> taken from outside Epstein\u2019s jail cell on the night he died. Observers quickly realized from time stamps that a block of one minute, from 11.59pm to midnight on 10 August, was not there.<\/p>\n

Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell at 6.30am.<\/p>\n

Conspiracy theorists leapt on the development<\/a> as \u201cproof\u201d there was something suspicious about Epstein\u2019s death, fuelled by Bondi\u2019s insistence at the time that the prison\u2019s CCTV system was routinely reset every 24 hours. That, she told a cabinet meeting on 8 July, meant every night\u2019s footage would feature a \u201cmissing\u201d minute.<\/p>\n

\"NewlyNewly released footage shows ‘missing minute’ of Epstein CCTV \u2013\u00a0video <\/p>\n

But CBS reported<\/a> later that month that there was no blackout in the recording, and that the justice department, bureau of prisons, and the FBI had a full version including the previously unaccounted for 60 seconds.<\/p>\n

The revelation was supported by Tuesday night\u2019s congressional release that included the footage among two hours of previously unseen video. It reveals nothing out of the ordinary, with a handful of guards working outside the cell.<\/p>\n

Other images not seen before, according to CBS<\/a>, include Epstein being escorted by guards through the facility to make a phone call.<\/p>\n

There was no immediate response on Wednesday from Bondi\u2019s office or the FBI<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Most of the files released on Tuesday and posted online to Google Drive<\/a> contain information already publicly known or available. Many are image files of court documents relating to Epstein and his former girlfriend and accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell<\/a>, who was sentenced to a 20-year prison term in 2022 for sex-trafficking crimes.<\/p>\n

Maxwell met with justice department officials<\/a> at least twice in recent weeks and is, according to critics, pressing the Trump administration for a pardon.<\/p>\n

Also featured in Tuesday\u2019s release are what appears to be body-cam footage from police searches and police interviews. An estimated 97% of the material is not new.<\/p>\n

The release came as Trump faces renewed scrutiny over his relationship with Epstein, a longtime friend who was part of the president\u2019s wealthy network of associates in Palm Beach, Florida, and New York.<\/p>\n

A number of Republicans joined Democrats in demanding more transparency from the Trump administration<\/a> over the case, and the release of all documents related to it, amplified by this week\u2019s return of lawmakers to Washington DC after the summer recess.<\/p>\n

The controversy has caused a rare split in Republican ranks with many still fiercely loyal to Trump, and others critical of what they see as the administration\u2019s secretive approach.<\/p>\n

Congressman Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican, joined Ro Khanna, a California Democrat, in filing a discharge petition in the House this week that would force the release of all of the Epstein files.<\/p>\n

The House speaker, Mike Johnson, a Louisiana Republican, has insisted his party is committed to transparency and justice, but has called Massie\u2019s efforts to secure the records \u201cmeaningless\u201d and urged colleagues not to support them.<\/p>\n

Massie hit back on Tuesday, telling Fox News Digital<\/a>: \u201cHe is afraid of President Donald Trump. Mike Johnson\u2019s speakership just hangs on that thread.\u201d<\/p>\n

A number of Epstein\u2019s victims were joining other survivors of sexual abuse at a rally and press conference in Washington DC on Wednesday to demand justice, some speaking publicly for the first time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A so-called \u201cmissing minute\u201d of CCTV footage, a key ingredient of conspiracy theories surrounding the prison death of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-394949","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115141261696251787","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}