Missing minute in Jeffrey Epstein jail security video revealed in document dump

Video shows 'missing minute' from previous Epstein jail camera release

Video shows a minute that was missing during a previous release of surveillance camera video files in Jeffrey Epstein's jail area in the Metropolitan Correctional Center. That minute lasted from midnight to 12:01 AM on August 10, 2019.

A newly released congressional video fills a one-minute gap in earlier surveillance from notorious financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail unit on the night of his 2019 suicide.

Two key clips, part of a nearly 34,000-file drop by the House Oversight Committee Tuesday night, revealed the highly contested minute missing from surveillance footage filmed outside Epstein’s cell block in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.

The disputed minute lasted from 11:58:59 on August 9, 2019, to midnight on Aug. 10, 2019.

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Attorney General Pam Bondi previously said the last minute is missing every night. (Craig Hudson/Reuters)

Digital forensics experts previously found the clip released by the Department of Justice was chopped from at least two separate video segments and strung together using Adobe Premiere Pro, fueling conspiracy theories that the administration was covering up Epstein's death.

The new drop from the House committee shows the camera data switched at about midnight, leading to a necessary binding of the two clips for a consecutive video.

Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were both indicted on federal sex trafficking charges stemming from Epstein's years of abuse of underage girls.  (Joe Schildhorn/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)

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Fox News Digital combined the two clips after the latest release on Tuesday, showing there was indeed no lapse in footage—contradicting Attorney General Pam Bondi's previous explanation that the last minute of footage is deleted every night.

"What we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing," Bondi previously said in a meeting at the White House.

Jeffrey Epstein was found in his jail after a suicide attempt and later pronounced dead. (Rick Friedman/Rick Friedman Photography/Corbis via Getty Images)

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It is unclear why the footage disappeared, though the minute that was missing from the original drop did not reveal any action inside the jail block.

The DOJ found Epstein committed suicide inside his New York City jail cell while awaiting further sex trafficking charges. 

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The attorney general's office could not immediately be reached by Fox News Digital for comment.

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