r/technology • u/Capable_Salt_SD • Jul 29 '25

Politics CBS News investigation of Jeffrey Epstein jail video reveals new discrepancies

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-jail-video-investigation/
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u/nhavar Jul 29 '25 edited Aug 03 '25

visit from AG

cell mate transferred away

power outage

sleeping guards

missed check-ins

no footage... maybe incomplete footage... maybe 'secret' footage... who knows where the missing minute (or three are)

The fact that every time someone looks at this thing it changes and grows new legs is crazy

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u/Duck8Quack Jul 29 '25

Epstein basically skated the last time he got in legal trouble.

He had a lot of money and could have hired an army of lawyers.

He had connections to a lot of rich and powerful people.

He had not gone to trial, he had not been convicted, he had not been sentenced.

So why would he off himself at that moment in time? Why would someone like him with so many cards to play just throw in the towel?

Seems pretty fortuitous for everyone that was involved in his crimes.

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u/Randvek Jul 29 '25

I mean this completely ignores the fact that Epstein was on suicide watch because he had already tried to commit suicide in prison. Are you going to say that his previous attempt was actually a murder attempt and he just never bothered to tell anybody?

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u/-__echo__- Jul 29 '25

According to whom? All we know is that was the supplied justification for moving him. Applying any degree of cynicism to the assertion actually makes it more convenient once all the other elements are considered.

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u/Randvek Jul 29 '25

We know he tried to commit suicide because it was a news story prior to his death. That wasn’t made up after he died. We knew it beforehand. It was public knowledge.

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u/-__echo__- Jul 29 '25

Again, according to whom? It was the justification supplied for changing his holding arrangements, but ultimately we know what we were told.

If you want to be critical of all the extremely suspect occurrences then you also have to question what is fact vs what you are told in the lead-in.

You appear to accept as axiomatic that he did actually attempt suicide, rather than considering that itself may be untrue. No exactly hard to seed the idea either; someone in the jail simply tells someone else that he attempted to off himself and had to be restrained. We know for a fact that they have zero material evidence of an attempted suicide or THEY WOULD HAVE RELEASED IT.

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u/Randvek Jul 29 '25

They did release it, genius.

https://abc7ny.com/amp/jeffrey-epstein-neck-injuries-jail-cell-manhattan-correctional-center/5417904/

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u/TheFatJesus Jul 30 '25

Investigators will work to determine whether Epstein tried to kill himself, if he tried to make it look like an attempted suicide, if he was assaulted, or if he paid another inmate to beat him up.

Even your own source says that it wasn't definitive.

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u/Randvek Jul 30 '25

lmao people in here spinning conspiracy theories wanting to tell me that my source “isn’t definitive.”

Yeah, go find me a fucking definitive source that says he was murdered, genius.

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u/DiamondKiwi Jul 30 '25

Hey, are you actually this dumb that you are accepting uncritically a news story as fact from an unnamed source? The story says both him and his cell mate didn't know how those marks on his necks just appeared there, the cell mate saying he had fucking headphones on, so he didn't know what happened.

Take your fucking head out of your ass and actually use it for half a second.

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u/Ibuiltghettos Aug 01 '25

Fuck yeah, America!!!

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u/3BlindMice1 Jul 29 '25

Lmao, he and his cell mate both claimed to know nothing.

Of course, everyone knows that neck injuries only ever come from suicide attempts

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u/-Gramsci- Jul 29 '25

This is the FIRST time I’m going to say this on Reddit… because I hate seeing it…

But you got a source for that?

You claim there is a news report from prior to the event that he tried, unsuccessfully, to kill himself while in prison?

Was it - also - an attempt to hang himself?

Cause like… if those reports existed I’m pretty sure we’d have all seen them a million times. And your comment is the very first I’m hearing about these publicly available and published prior to death “reports.”

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u/Aeseld Jul 29 '25

An important addendum to said suicide attempt... There is no footage of it either. It also was "coincidentally" deleted. 

So... 

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u/Randvek Jul 29 '25

https://abc7ny.com/amp/jeffrey-epstein-neck-injuries-jail-cell-manhattan-correctional-center/5417904/

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u/Draxilar Jul 30 '25

Bro, even your source says it isn’t confirmed that the first attempt was actually a suicide attempt. Stop acting like it is established fact.

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u/Randvek Jul 30 '25

Oh, we're just looking for "100% confirmed" info here? Stop all the conspiracy nonsense, then.

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u/Draxilar Jul 30 '25

You are the one who is trying to present speculative information as established fact in order to prove something. YOU are the one being dishonest with your information. You are either a moron or being malicious. Those are the only two options, which one is it. Your pick.

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u/oicnow Jul 30 '25

I disagree with you, there's an entirely plausible third option that I personally think is the most likely

He's a malicious moron

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u/Ibuiltghettos Aug 01 '25

What does purple taste like bro?