Epstein prison CCTV is finally RELEASED 6yrs after paedo's ‘suicide'…as probe ‘reveals whether financier killed himself'
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PRISON CCTV outside Jeffrey Epstein's cell has finally been released six years after the paedo was found dead.
Around 11 hours of footage has been released from inside the Metropolitan Correctional Centre in New York City on the 9th and 10th of August in 2019.
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It shows a grey-haired Epstein in an orange jump suit being led to his cell by a guard from the left of the footage.
The pair move down a small flight of stairs and walk across the common area as they walk to the cell.
CCTV footage doesn't show Epstein's cell door, but it would capture anyone walking to it, the Justice Department said.
Other than the guard leaving, no one walks across the common area towards Epstein's cell or away from it.
The footage was caught between 7.40pm and 10am the next day.
The disgraced financier was found hanged in jail on the 10th, but speculation has been rife that others were involved.
FBI deputy director Dan Bongino pledged to release the footage after it had been a Donald Trump campaign promise.
Bongino wants to end all debate by releasing proof that no one entered or left the cell before the suicide.
The FBI has now concluded Epstein died by suicide and that he had no "client list" used to blackmail powerful figures.
Investigators found "no credible evidence … that Epstein blackmailed prominent individuals" and no "evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties".
Bongino said the footage will prove the official police records to be correct.
Attorney general Pam Bondi released hundreds of pages of information connected to Epstein in March, promising it would disclose "a lot of names" and flight logs that would "make you sick".
But the much-awaited release of flight logs and more was overhyped by Bondi and fell flat.
Elon Musk has also accused Trump of being in the files after the pair's relationship broke apart.
Musk provided no evidence and later deleted the post saying he went "too far".
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