In the hours after the sentenced sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein died in a Manhattan detention cell, the then US attorney general William Barr promised to intervene personally to lead the investigation into the death of Epstein.
Among the first to arrive at the Metropolitan Correctional Center shortly after Epstein’s death in August 2019 were members of the superior personnel of Barr. The visit to the Federal Detention Center by the Attorney General’s staff was very unusual, a source that was there at that time and witnessed the visit to CBS News. But so was death in custody of such a controversial figure.
A source did not remember seeing members of the superior staff of the Attorney General to investigate the death of an inmate in more than 20 years. Another source, involved in the investigation, said that such visits of this type were rare, and if they occurred, generally perthed to promotional programs, not investigating in couple deaths.
Barb’s participation extended to a personal review of the approximately 11 hours of surveillance images of Epstein’s death jail. Hello, he said in a interview With Associated Press, three months later, he showed that no one had entered the area where Epstein was staying, and competed with the conclusion of the forensic doctor: Epstein had died for suicide.
Last month, after the FBI made that video public, a CBS News Analysis The inconsistencies identified between the description of Barr’s video and what he really showed, even if he really proves that no one else entered the cell block.
Now, Barr is scheduled to appear on Monday in Capitol Hill, where they will be interrogated behind closed doors by members of Congress who carry out a review of the Epstein matter.
The familiar sources with the supervision committee plans tell CBS News that they are asking questions about Barr’s participation in death.
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Barr’s deposition, which served two Republican presidents as the Attorney General of the United States, occurs when Epstein’s death in 2019 in federal custody has been renewed, intense public and governmental scrutiny. The president of the Government Supervision and Reform Committee, James Eating, a Republican from Kentucky, issued several Deposition citations In August, including Barr, former President Bill Clinton, former United States Attorney Eric Holder and former FBI director James Comey.
Barr, a veteran of the George Hw Bush administration who was serving his second period as head of the Department of Justice under President Trump at that time, saying He was “horrified” when Epstein was found dead on August 10, 2019 in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
Epstein was being a hero in the now Temporarily closed Federal Detention Center after being arrested for sexual traffic charges that could have taken a life imprisonment. His judgment occurred after years of questions around a controversial prosecution agreement in Florida, where here gave him an end of State prostitution positions And a federal case of severe crime was eliminated.
The scrutiny around that agreement, and its subsequent death, has fed years of suspicions and conspiracy theories. The fury has also wrapped the fixed network of Epstein or the powerful old friends, including Trump and former President Clinton, who have rejected him and have not been accused of irregularities.
The campaign promises to “declass” files related to Epstein, made by Trump and its substitutes in 2024, have Led to Months or political Headaches For the White House.
The launch last month of what the Department of Justice called a “RAW” surveillance video close to the Epstein cell block, instead of solving questions about the night he died, new. He CBS News Analysis Marked multiple make -up between the video and the Report 2023 Launched by the Inspector General of the Department of Justice on the death of Epstein.
As Congress increases his research, Barr is the first person programmed Be deposed by the committee.
Barr has recognized what Hey called “A perfect storm of screwed” in jail, but said that his “personal review” of surveillance images supported the conclusion that Epstein had died for suicide.
As attorney general, Barr faced calls to withdraw Of the Epstein Criminal Case because he had previously worked for a law firm, Kirkland and Ellis, which had represented Epstein. (His roads also indirectly crossed decades before, in the early 1970s, when Epstein was hired to teach in a private elite school in New York City, where Barr’s father was the director).
Here is a look at some unanswered questions that can be asked in a review of the Report of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice of 2023, the documents published by the Prison Office and the surveillance video.
Questions to Barr about the investigation of the death of Jeffrey Epstein
Did the MCC reviewed video had a lost minute?
Before the “raw” surveillance video was supposedly launched last month, showing approximately 11 hours of footage of the night Epstein died, Attorney General Pam Bondi told journalists that a minute that Nevery lacked “each” each of the same missing minute “, from 11:59 pm at midnight.
That was then played by a government source familiar with research in an interview with CBS News in July. Another high -level government source said the FBI, the Prison Office and the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Justice are in possession of complete copies of the video and those copies. I don’t have a missing minute. It is not clear why the FBI launched the video with that small segment that is missing, and it is not known if something remarkable happened in that minute.
Does Bar still believe that “between the moment Epstein was locked in his cell at 7:49 pm on the night of August 9 and the moment he was discovered the next morning at 6:30 am, nobody entered his level”?
Barr made that statement in 2019, but the CBS News video analysis indicates that the view from the jail camera does not conclude that no one entered the Epstein cell block. A ladder that leads to Epstein’s cell block is almost completely out of view from the camera, with only a small splinter or visible stairs. From the video published publicly, experts told CBS News that it is impossible to determine if someone entered the jail unit and agreed to the staircase without being captured in the recording.
Just before 10:40 pm, the video shows a look or an orange shape that climbs the stairs that lead to Epstein level. The Inspector General’s report said he was an employee of the jail who brought orange bedding or couple clothes down the stairs. Some video forensic experts who reviewed that image at the request of CBS News said they were skeptics about that interpretation. They suggested that the form could be a person dressed in an orange prison monkey that climbs the stairs. The inmates typically limited their cells at night.
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What did the Justice Department investigate theories that are not suicidal?
There has been no evidence that someone else was involved in Epstein’s death. He had a leg in suicidal surveillance after an apparent attempt to hang his a month earlier, and remained under observation. However, there are significantly unanswered questions about their death, some of which were raised in a “60 minutes” report In 2020 looking at medical evidence. Those questions included related to the autopsy.
A private autopsy commissioned by Epstein’s family, performed together with the official examination by the coroner, raised the Conerns on the angle of the ligation marks in his neck and the presence of broken neck bones, findings that the force force force force force force force force force force force force force force force tanned force tanned. Force force. Force force. He Medical medseereo disputedsaying that such fractures can occur in suicides.
