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(NewsNation) — Investigators in the Jeffrey Epstein case announced Monday that they have confirmed he died by suicide in his federal cell.
In a page-and-a-half memo released Monday, the Department of Justice and FBI stated they concluded an “exhaustive review” into Epstein’s death while adding they did not find a “client list” in the evidence collected as part of the investigation.
Epstein was a disgraced financier and convicted *** offender at the time of his death. He was facing additional federal *** trafficking charges when he died in 2019.
The memo read in part: “After a thorough investigation, FBI investigators concluded that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide in his cell at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on August 10, 2019.”
Alongside the memo, the DOJ released video footage outside of Epstein’s prison cell from August 9, 2019.
It stated that if anyone entered the tier where Epstein was being held, it would have been captured on that security footage. The FBI said its independent review of the footage confirmed he was locked in his cell and no one entered it from 10:40 p.m. on August 9, 2019, until 6:30 a.m. the next day.
No evidence of Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘client list’ found
The investigation concluded there was “no incriminating client list” nor evidence that Epstein “blackmailed prominent individuals as part of his actions. We did not uncover evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties.”
The memo noted that the FBI searched “databases, hard drives, and network drives as well as physical searches of squad areas, locked cabinets, desks, closets and other areas where responsive material may have been stored.”
The search revealed more than “300 gigabytes of data and physical evidence,” including illegal child *** abuse material.
In the memo, the investigative agencies state that much of the material gathered is subject to court-ordered sealing, and much of it would not have been made public as part of a trial.
“Through this review, we found no basis to revisit the disclosure of those materials and will not permit the release of child blockography,” the memo stated.
Jeffrey Epstein investigation memo conflicts with Attorney General’s prior statements
The announcement contradicts what U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi had earlier stated, suggesting that a client list was “sitting on her desk” in an interview earlier this year.
In February, the Trump administration made some of the files it had on Epstein public in a release called “Phase 1.”
After that release, Bondi had said investigators were looking over a “truckload” of evidence that was handed over to the FBI.
Monday’s memo, however, stated no “further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”
A source close to the White House told NewsNation, “Let’s be clear: the DOJ holds the keys to what’s under seal in this case, and so far, they’ve refused to unlock the truth. The American people deserve to know why the Attorney General who, not coincidentally, once served as AG in the very state where parts of this case originated, has spent months spinning falsehoods instead of coming clean. Here’s the problem for her; the public sees through the charade, and their calls for answers are only getting louder. If she has nothing to hide, she should explain why she still hasn’t unsealed the doblockents she’s sitting on at the DOJ.”
