A bombshell document from the latest DOJ Epstein file release (DataSet 9, EFTA00064309) describes how an FBI agent deliberately removed the hard drives from the Metropolitan Correctional Center’s (MCC) video recording system — fully aware that doing so would permanently erase all footage from the night Jeffrey Epstein died.
The document is an FBI interview summary with an MCC technician. Here’s what it states, based on the released pages now circulating:
- July 29, 2019: The MCC’s DVR motherboard fails. The system is already compromised.
- August 10, 2019 (~6:00 a.m.): The final hard drive fails right around the time the alarm sounds for Epstein’s body. At that point only one drive was even capable of recording — and it wasn’t covering the critical tier.
- After the death: The MCC warden orders a repair “to recover video.” The technician explicitly warns staff (and the FBI agent on scene) that pulling the bad drives and replacing them will wipe everything on the system — no backups existed.
- The FBI agent removes the DVR anyway. All footage from the relevant period is gone.
This was not a passive malfunction. The tech’s warning was on record; the agent proceeded regardless.
This matches the long-standing pattern of “technical failures” around Epstein’s death:
- Multiple cameras outside his cell were already reported non-functional.
- Guards falsified logs and were asleep.
- The 2023 DOJ Inspector General report confirmed catastrophic DVR failures and no recoverable SHU footage after July 29.
- The 2025 “raw” video releases showed missing segments, metadata indicating edits, and a one-minute gap that was later explained (and then contradicted) by officials.
The document is public. The pages are now being shared widely. The timeline, the warning, and the agent’s decision are all in black and white.
Epstein is dead. The footage is gone. And now we have on-record testimony that the erasure wasn’t an accident — it was a choice.
