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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And The Video That Vanished (7/10/25)
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- The Moscow Murders and More
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- Jul 10, 2026
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Summary
After Jeffrey Epstein’s first reported suicide attempt at MCC New York in July 2019, one of the most important pieces of evidence should have been surveillance footage from outside the cell area where he was being held with former police officer Nicholas Tartaglione. That video mattered because Epstein reportedly told lawyers that Tartaglione had attacked him, while other accounts suggested Epstein may have harmed himself or staged something to get moved. Either way, the camera footage should have helped clarify what happened during one of the most consequential moments before Epstein’s death. Instead, when Tartaglione’s defense team sought the footage, prosecutors first indicated it had been preserved, only to later admit that the wrong video had been saved and that the relevant footage was gone. The explanation was that MCC staff had mistakenly preserved footage from the wrong tier, while the actual footage from outside Epstein’s cell had been overwritten by the jail’s surveillance system. That explanation has never satisfied critics because it lands in the middle of a case already defined by impossible coincidences, bureaucratic failures, and missing accountability. The public was asked to believe that, in one of the most scrutinized federal detainee situations in modern history, the Bureau of Prisons failed to preserve basic surveillance footage from the first major warning sign before Epstein died. Even worse, the loss of that footage did not produce a clear, public accounting that answered the obvious questions: who was responsible for preserving it, who checked whether the correct footage had been saved, why the mistake was not discovered sooner, and why no one appeared to face meaningful consequences for losing evidence tied to Epstein’s safety. The result is a…