FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Thursday the bureau plans to release a new video that shows Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier accused of orchestrating sex trafficking of young girls, killed himself in federal custody.
“There’s video clear as day,” Bongino said in an interview on Fox & Friends. “He’s the only person in there and the only person coming out. You can see it.”
Although Epstein’s death was ruled a suicide at the time, his sudden demise, and the long list of influential and wealthy friends he reportedly had as guests on his private island, has sparked a rash of conspiracy theories suggesting he was the target of an orchestrated killing.
“I say to people, if you have a tip, let us know,” Bongino told Fox & Friends. “But there’s no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips. There is nothing. If you have it, I’m happy to see it.”
Bongino, a former U.S. Secret Service agent and conservative political commentator, said the video does not show the “actual act” of Epstein killing himself.
Instead, he said, it proves that Epstein was the only person who came in or out of his New York jail cell before he was found dead on the morning of Aug. 10, 2019.
The agency is taking time to clean up and enhance the video, Bongino said, but would release the original version to the public, “so you don’t think there are any shenanigans.”
“When you look at the video — and we will release it…,” Bongino said, “you’re going to see there’s no one there but him. There’s just nobody there.”
Epstein, 66, had been taken off suicide watch before he was found dead, hanging by a bed sheet in his cell.
A 2023 Department of Justice report found that Epstein was able to kill himself a little over a month after he was taken into federal custody because of lax oversight at the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Bongino’s promise to release the video comes a week and a half after he and FBI Director Kash Patel dismissed conspiracy theories surrounding Epstein’s death in a joint interview with Fox News.
“You know a suicide when you see one — and that’s what that was,” Patel said.
“He killed himself,” Bongino agreed. “I’ve seen the whole file. He killed himself.”
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