# The Decoy Operation: How MCC Allegedly Misdirected the Media After Epstein’s Death

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Podcast: [Jeffrey Epstein:  The Coverup Chronicles](https://stenobird.com/podcast/jeffrey-epstein-the-coverup-chronicles-7243585)
Published: 2026-06-20T21:30:02+00:00
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## Resource

After Jeffrey Epstein’s apparent suicide in August 2019, newly unsealed internal documents allege that MCC staff staged a decoy to mislead reporters gathered outside the prison. According to the files, guards concerned about the intense media presence assembled what looked like a human body from boxes and sheets and placed it in a white medical examiner’s van. Reporters then followed that vehicle as it left the facility, while Epstein’s actual body was reportedly loaded into a separate black vehicle and driven away unnoticed. The documents suggest this tactic was intended to “thwart” the press and protect the privacy of the removal process amidst heavy public scrutiny. The material comes from a large tranche of records related to how prison staff responded in the hours after Epstein was found unresponsive in his cell and later pronounced dead. While the official ruling was suicide by hanging, Epstein’s death has been mired in controversy due to documented failures at the jail, including malfunctioning cameras and missed welfare checks, which have fueled speculation and alternative narratives. The “fake body” claim is part of that broader set of troubling details but has not been independently verified outside the reports in the released files. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Epstein jail guards used 'fake body' to trick media waiting outside the prison while paedophile's real corpse was loaded into van 'unnoticed', files claim | Daily Mail Online

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