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BumRushDaShow

(167,173 posts)
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 06:27 AM 6 hrs ago

Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors' Announcement Dated Before His Death

Source: Daily Beast

Updated Feb. 8 2026 2:42AM EST
Published Feb. 8 2026 12:38AM EST


Newly released Epstein files include a draft statement attributed to federal prosecutors that is dated the day before Jeffrey Epstein was found dead. The draft appears among at least 23 documents in the disclosure labeled as statements from the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s Office.

A review of the records shows multiple versions of similar statements with inconsistent redactions—some leaving phone numbers or names visible, others blacking out nearly all identifying information. One draft bears a date of Aug. 9, 2019, the day before Epstein was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges.

The circumstances surrounding Epstein’s death have been repeatedly scrutinized.

Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed in a pardon petition filed last summer and recently obtained by the Daily Beast that Epstein was deliberately left unprotected in federal custody. Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of multiple murders, alleged that prison officials knowingly housed Epstein with an accused mass murderer despite earlier reports that the disgraced financier had raised concerns about his safety weeks before his death.

Read more: https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-files-reveal-prosecutors-announcement-dated-before-his-death/

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niyad

(130,493 posts)
7. Yet another example of the poor writing that passes for "journalism"
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 08:14 AM
4 hrs ago

these days. That should have been stated in the first sentence, not a later paragraph.

sop

(17,933 posts)
3. Vince Foster's suicide was investigated by the FBI, the Department of Justice, multiple U.S. Congress inquiries,
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 07:44 AM
4 hrs ago

the U.S. Park Police and two independent investigations. All of them concluded Foster died as the result of a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Epstein's "suicide" needs to be as exhaustively and thoroughly investigated as Foster's.

KS Toronado

(23,392 posts)
11. I'm a little confused which isn't unusual
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 09:15 AM
3 hrs ago

If you're planning on killing someone the next day, why inform the Southern District of New York’s U.S. Attorney’s
Office? Seems like there would be plenty of people working there that would love their "10 minutes of fame"
to spill the beans. Was the date a typo?

pandr32

(13,943 posts)
12. Well, this is awkward
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 12:10 PM
33 min ago

You don't suppose it needed to be ready to go? Someone just failed to correct the date the next morning.

perdita9

(1,338 posts)
13. Which prosecutors knew about this!
Sun Feb 8, 2026, 12:19 PM
25 min ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't that make them accessories to murder?

They sure as Heck shouldn't be practicing law.

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