Recent reports claim that federal prosecutors have discovered the missing Jeffrey Epstein prison tape. Few days ago, prosecutors stated that they could not find the tape setting off a media firestorm.
The footage was requested by attorneys for Nicholas Tartaglione who is facing the death penalty for multiple murders.
He is a former cop who has been accused of roughing up Epstein or befriending him, depending on who is telling the story.
CNBC reported that Federal prosecutors have found surveillance video of the area around the cell of accused child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on the day of his first jailhouse suicide attempt, according to a new court filing. Earlier this week, they said the footage was missing.
The video, which prosecutors said was actually preserved by jail staff as previously requested, was being sought by lawyers for Epstein’s former cellmate at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan.
That cellmate, former New York police officer Nicholas Tartaglione, claims he helped save the life of the wealthy investor Epstein during his suicide bid at the federal jail on July 23.
Epstein, 66, died weeks later in from what authorities have ruled was a suicide by hanging in that jail, where the former friend of Bill Clinton was awaiting trial on charges related to his alleged sexual abuse of dozens of underage girls from 2002 – 2005.
His death, which is still under investigation, sparked conspiracy theories that he was actually murdered because of his ties to powerful and wealthy people, some of whom have been accused of having sex with Epstein’s victims.
Prosecutors have charged two guards with trying to cover up their alleged failure to conduct mandated safety checks on Epstein and other inmates in the hours before he was found unresponsive in the cell.