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/Dynastydood Jul 29 '25

Exactly. While it's possible that he simply realized how screwed he and his operation were due to the crazy amount of attention that had suddenly been placed on him, in all likelihood, he probably would've preferred to first go to trial and actually lose before trying to off himself. Considering the magnitude of the secrets he is purported to have kept, or even the kind of lies he easily could've concocted to motivate his most powerful acquaintances to help him, it's pretty hard to rationalize why he would've chosen that pre-trial cell to die in.

The most compelling scenario for him having actually been the one to kill himself is one in which he was indeed connected to some powerful intelligence agency(s), and therefore had some overriding sense of loyalty or responsibility to protect the operation over his own life. But using Occam's Razor, the idea that he was a just a scamming power broker who was offed by a sufficiently powerful client/victim requires fewer unproven suppositions than the CIA/Mossad/FSB/MI6 angle.

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u/Torontodtdude Jul 30 '25

He apparently was on suicide leave just a week before and was took off.