Feds say video of Jeffrey Epstein cell 'no longer exists' accidentally destroyed by jail staff, oops

Video taken of Jeffrey Epstein's cell on the night of his first suicide attempt was deleted by mistake, according to federal prosecutors

Just keeps getting weirder, doesn't it.

Video of the jail cell where pedophile and accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein is reported to have made his first suicide attempt was accidentally destroyed, federal authorities say.

New development in the missing (then found) video from MCC during Jeffrey Epstein's suicide attempt.

Government now says the video wasn't preserved, after all. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/FLcaLcOAfT

— Stephen Brown (@PPVSRB) January 9, 2020

In a letter Thursday to the judge in Epstein's sex-trafficking case, federal prosecutors said that despite a recent statement that yes, they had the video, somehow the staff at the Metropolitan Correctional Center inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier, and the video from the correct one no longer exists.

Feds accidentally preserved footage of the wrong cell during Jeffrey Epstein's suicide attempt. A backup system for video footage at MCC also wasn't working, prosecutors say, meaning the surveillance vid is gone. https://t.co/ui7NPGHlGu

— Stephen Brown (@PPVSRB) January 9, 2020

Alrighty then.

LATEST: Here's the story on what prosecutors say MCC did with the Epstein video. what they didn't know, and the steps the FBI took to try and recover the video which they say, "no longer exists":https://t.co/GOboJvh3BY

— Tom Winter (@Tom_Winter) January 9, 2020

From the Daily Beast:

The surveillance footage was requested by Epsteins cellmate, accused killer ex-cop Nicholas Tartaglione, who is hoping it will show he acted appropriately and earn him a break at sentencing.