According to an Axios report released Sunday night, the FBI and Justice Department concluded they have no evidence that Jeffrey Epstein blackmailed powerful figures, kept a ‘client list,’ or was murdered in his prison cell.

The Justice Department also released an 11-hour video showing Epstein’s alleged cell the night of his alleged death.

BREAKING: FBI & DOJ Conclude There Is NO Epstein Client List, Release Full Video Of Jail Cell ‘Proving’ He K*lled Himself

The findings and video have only created a firestorm of confusion and outrage.

Axios explained:

The administration is releasing a video — in both raw and "enhanced" versions — that it says indicates no one entered the area of the Manhattan prison where Epstein was held the night he died in 2019.

The video supports a medical examiner's finding that Epstein died by suicide, the two-page memo claims.

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The findings represent the first time Trump's administration has officially contradicted conspiracy theories about Epstein's activities and his death — theories that had been pushed by the FBI's top two officials before Trump appointed them to the bureau.

As social media influencers and activists, Kash Patel (now the FBI's director) and Dan Bongino (now deputy director) were among those in MAGA world who questioned the official version of how Epstein died.

Patel and Bongino have since said Epstein killed himself. But it has become an article of faith online, especially on the right, that Epstein's crimes also implicated government officials, celebrities and business leaders — and that someone killed him to conceal them.

The memo says no one else involved in the Epstein case will be charged. (Epstein's associate Ghislaine Maxwell is serving a 20-year sentence for child sex trafficking and related offenses.)

According to the memo, investigators closely examined footage of Epstein's Manhattan prison cell between around 10:40pm on Aug. 9, 2019, when Epstein was locked in his cell, and around 6:30am the next day, when he was found unresponsive.

Watch a snippet of the footage below:

The Justice Department posted the full 11-hour video on its website.

Nothing about this adds up with previous reports.

As X user reallygraceful noted, one of the first things reported was that the cameras outside Epstein's cell were down.

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From Reuters in 2019:

Two cameras that malfunctioned outside the jail cell where financier Jeffrey Epstein died as he awaited trial on sex-trafficking charges have been sent to an FBI crime lab for examination, a law enforcement source told Reuters.

Epstein's lawyers Reid Weingarten and Martin Weinberg told U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan on Tuesday they had doubts about the New York City chief medical examiner's conclusion that their client killed himself.

The two cameras were within view of the Manhattan jail cell where he was found dead on Aug. 10. A source earlier told Reuters two jail guards failed to follow a procedure overnight to make separate checks on all prisoners every 30 minutes.

Also, previously released photos of Epstein's alleged jail cell do not appear to match the cell depicted in the newly released footage.

The picture in the above post was made public by CBS’s “60 Minutes."

Here's a closer look:

CNN reported on the photos in 2020:

Several photos believed to be of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell taken after his death, and an image of a bedsheet that had been turned into a noose, were made public by CBS’s “60 Minutes” on Sunday night.

The images show the chaotic state of Epstein’s cell after he died in August at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

In one photo, a mattress sits on the floor and orange bedsheets are strewn around the room.

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Another photo is a close-up of one of the bedsheets that had been tied into a noose. It’s not known whether that noose was used in his suicide.

CBS reports the photos were taken by the Medical Examiner, but did not state how they obtained them, or how they confirmed the photos’ authenticity.

The New York City Chief Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled that Epstein died August 10 by suicide by hanging, though a doctor hired by Epstein’s family to conduct an independent autopsy has disputed that conclusion.

Further, “60 Minutes” released images, which CNN is not publishing, of Epstein’s corpse as well as a bloody mark stretching across the middle of his neck.

The TV news show also released a photo of a note, apparently written by Epstein, that was found in the prison cell.

“(redacted) kept me in a locked shower stall for 1 hr. Noel sent me burnt food. Giant bugs crawling over my hands. No fun!!” the note reads.

Images of the outside of his cell are also included in the piece. One photo shows the door of his cell marked off with police tape.

Epstein, 66, was found non-responsive in his cell with a noose around his neck on August 10, weeks after he was accused of running a sex trafficking ring for underage girls. He had pleaded not guilty to the charges.

Two prison guards who allegedly failed to check on Epstein the night he died and falsified logs saying they had done so were charged with federal conspiracy and filing false records. They have pleaded not guilty.

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In the indictment detailing the charges against the guards, prosecutors say Epstein was alone in his cell all night, and internal surveillance video shows that no one entered the tier where Epstein was housed overnight.

In addition, the new footage splices out one minute.

The video is cut off at 11:59:00.

Check it out:

Screenshots:

Watch the entire footage HERE.

 

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