Justice Department Accountability

FBI records show evidence item 1B60—the master Metropolitan Correctional Center surveillance archive covering Jeffrey Epstein’s final hours—was authorized for destruction in June 2024 and destroyed on Aug. 26, 2024; DOJ later ordered an FBI team to reconstruct footage from a NiceVision DVR and an agent on May 21, 2025 used screen‑capture software that inadvertently omitted 62 seconds from 11:58:58–12:00. Internal FBI notes reveal a video specialist merely "theorized"—without any way to verify—that the NiceVision system dropped about a minute at midnight each night, a speculative explanation Attorney General Pam Bondi publicly cited despite outside security experts calling the "nightly reset" implausible and DOJ declining to answer follow‑ups. Separately, a CBS frame‑by‑frame forensic review of surviving surveillance imagery suggests a partial view of a figure moving toward Epstein’s tier around 10:39 p.m., a detail critics say conflicts with public DOJ statements and underscores calls for greater transparency.