FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino insists intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t murdered behind bars in 2019, saying there’s video proof to show he killed himself in his cell.
Bongino instructed “Fox & Friends” Thursday morning that in his new function with the FBI, he’s seen no proof suggesting foul play in Epstein’s loss of life. He mentioned the footage, which can quickly be launched to the general public, will make it clear that nobody else was in Epstein’s jail cell when he died.
The disgraced financier was being held at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Heart, awaiting trial on federal intercourse trafficking expenses, when he was discovered useless on Aug. 10, 2019.
Whereas his loss of life was formally dominated suicide by hanging, many conspiracy theorists consider Epstein was murdered to cease him from spilling damning secrets and techniques about his highly effective associates in authorities and enterprise. He was recognized to have consorted with U.S. presidents Invoice Clinton and Donald Trump, British royal Prince Andrew and billionaire entrepreneur Invoice Gates.
“There’s no one [in the cell] but him,” Bongino mentioned Thursday. “There’s no DNA, there’s no audio, there’s no fingerprints, there’s no suspects, there’s no accomplices, there’s no tips. … There’s video clear as day, he’s the only person in there.”
Patel, himself a conspiracy principle promoter, has additionally admitted that investigators’ preliminary findings into Epstein’s explanation for loss of life had been certainly right.
“Listen, they have a right to their opinion, but you know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was,” Patel mentioned on Fox Enterprise earlier this month when requested about theories of a deep state cover-up.
Regardless of the newest assertions, Bongino as soon as raged on his podcast that Epstein’s loss of life was shrouded in thriller, with out presenting proof to counter the conclusions reached by officers.
“It’s unbelievable the guy ‘killed himself‘ and now nobody is going to know,” he mentioned whereas utilizing his fingers to point air quotes round “killed himself.”
Epstein had been underneath suicide watch and psychiatric statement previous to his loss of life. Nevertheless, he insisted he wasn’t suicidal, telling a jail psychologist he had a “wonderful life” and “would be crazy” to finish it.
Initially Printed: Might 29, 2025 at 3:58 PM EDT
