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Newly released DOJ documents show that investigators reviewing surveillance footage from the night of Jeffrey Epstein's death observed an orange-colored shape moving up a staircase toward the isolated, locked tier where his cell was located.

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Why I don't believe Jeffrey Epstein Killed Himself (Part 2) NEW: Epstein claimed he was being extorted in prison. A look at the incident and the mysterious note that Epstein slipped into a book inside his cell. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn ...

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-- Julie K. Brown (@jkbjournalist.bsky.social) Jan 29, 2026 at 3:32 PM

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FBI and DOJ OIG investigators examining the same video arrived at disparate conclusions.

Links:

FBI Memo

OIG Report

This infamous suspect was also killed while in safe and secure government custody: "I'm just a Patsy!"

Mark Epstein, the notorious pedophile's brother, and Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's sinister accomplice, are both convinced Jeffrey Epstein did not kill himself, as does a mafioso who was incarcerated in that very cell in the MCC. Below, the orange shape caught on video.


#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-06 06:11 AM | Reply

New questions over his murder.

He was arrested and murdered to clean up the loose ends.

#2 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-02-06 07:52 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

In Russia, loose ends are tied up with open windows in tall buildings.

In the US, loose ends are tied up with suicides and shoddy investigations or coroner reports.

#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-06 07:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

If Trump's power can be neutered, and the threat of retaliation recedes, we are going to get new evidence on the Epstein death.

It's funny. I find myself wishing for Trump's death to get us all out of this Hell, but also for the man to live long enough to eat some of what he has sown.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-06 08:18 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I saw that.

Had to make sure I wasn't watching NCIS or some other show like that.

knowing the dearth of talent for new creations in Hollywood......it may be soon.

#5 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2026-02-06 04:04 PM | Reply

Could the orange man be...Trump?

#6 | Posted by Petrous at 2026-02-06 07:21 PM | Reply

The nose knows.

#7 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2026-02-06 07:48 PM | Reply

**** USN Secretary John Phelan Flew On Jeffrey Epstein's Plane ****

The first individual with ZERO military experience in recent or all memory to become Navy Secretary was a passenger on board Jeffrey Epstein's plane in 2006. John Phelan, a businessman with no prior military service, was previously the founder and chairman of Rugger Management LLC, a private investment firm he formed in 2022, before being confirmed as secretary of the Navy in March 2025.

Phelan was chosen by the nefarious Trumpf junta to be Navy Secretary to dole out pork-barrel projects and contracts to enrich the Trumpf Crime Family (TCF) and other White House insiders.

So far, none of the Popes, the Obamas, the Bushes, the Bidens, or Bernie Sanders, have appeared in the notorious Epstein files.

Source:

www.cnn.com

#8 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-07 12:25 AM | Reply

Trump had him killed.

Any questions?

#9 | Posted by ClownShack at 2026-02-07 01:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

*** Howard Lutnick and Jeffrey Epstein Were in Business Together ***

"Good-for-nothing oligarch US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick lied when he said he had "limited interactions" with Jeffrey Epstein, but documents show they were in business together as recently as 2014.

Lutnick and Epstein each signed on behalf of limited liability companies that agreed on 28 Dec 2012 to acquire stakes in a now-shuttered advertising technology company called Adfin, documents released among the so-called Epstein files show.

Epstein and Lutnick's signatures appear on neighboring pages in the contract, with Epstein signing for his Southern Trust Company, Inc. and Lutnick for a limited liability company called CVAFH I. The documents list nine shareholders in total."

~snip~

Years ago some of my friends attended a synagogue on the Upper East Side, there are some large ones in that neighborhood, and now I'm wondering if Jeffrey Epstein made a lot of his connections through these congregants.

Virginia Giuffre doesn't mention any of the religions of the men who abused her, but the released files show that the vast majority (not all) of Epstein's clients were wealthy Jews.

Similarly, years ago arch goniff Bernie Madoff primarily victimized wealthy Jews in Manhattan and the "Gold Coast" (Great Neck, LI). I was acquainted with the AUSA who prosecuted him. And a PI friend of mine was asked by one of Bernie Madoff's sons to bodyguard him while he was on bond. My PI friend turned down that lucrative job, but was immediately hired by a Madoff victim to somehow find and recover her money.

Like Jeffrey Epstein, Bernie Madoff also lived on the Upper East Side, but I don't know which synagogue he frequented

www.thesteepletimes.com

Source: www.cbsnews.com

#10 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2026-02-07 03:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 2

I wonder if there was a meeting-of-the-minds among those who had the most to lose to decide who, when and how Epstein was going to die.

Or did Trump make the whole decision all by himself?

#11 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-07 07:35 AM | Reply

Trump murdered Epstein. It's exactly the sort of thing he would do. I think that the only folks who don't accept this are MAGA.

In time they will also accept this, and excuse it, because it is exactly the sort of thing they do.

#12 | Posted by Zed at 2026-02-07 10:18 AM | Reply

Not sure Trumpy and Trumptilians are capable of pulling it off.

But there are lot powerful people who are and who needed him silenced.

#13 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-02-07 11:43 AM | Reply

Epstein Cellmate Claims Trump Administration Wanted Pervert Powerbroker Dead'
www.yahoo.com

... Jeffrey Epstein's prison cellmate claims to have evidence that the Trump administration wanted the disgraced financier dead and left him unprotected "on purpose," according to a document obtained by the Daily Beast.

Nicholas Tartaglione, a quadruple murderer and former police officer, filed a pardon/commutation petition last summer in which he claimed that Epstein was deliberately exposed to violence in the hope that he would not survive long enough to stand trial.

Prior to Epstein's death on Aug. 10, 2019, which officials ruled a suicide, jail bosses decided that America's most high-profile prisoner should share a cell with an accused mass murderer for reasons that have never been explained.

Tartaglione had a reputation for extreme violence and a self-confessed hatred of child sex offenders. Tartaglione"who Epstein told prison guards had tried to kill him three weeks before he was found dead"claims "it is no coincidence" that he was "deliberately" moved into the same jail as Epstein and "placed in the same cell" as the convicted child sex offender. ...


#14 | Posted by LampLighter at 2026-02-07 12:41 PM | Reply

Epstein was too arrogant to take his own life. IMO, he was murdered.

Forensic pathologists have said there's no way he sustained the injuries he did by hanging himself.

#15 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2026-02-07 01:05 PM | Reply

He's not dead

#16 | Posted by Nerfherder at 2026-02-07 01:09 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

NERFHERDER

"He's not dead"

That's a bold statement. Are you saying that the doctors (plural) who did the autopsies were compromised?

#17 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-07 02:26 PM | Reply

Somewhere I blundered into this image last year so I was aware of the orange visible from the corner. So many important cameras being down, is just too much for coincidence. Sheets laying around the cell is a bit suspicious as well. Add to it a clumsy investigation, a poorly done coroner's job, it looks like a bad conspiracy setup. But once in a while it isn't conspiracy. Just because you think they are after you, doesn't mean you are wrong.

Sometime before Epstein's death, Ghislaine made the comment that Epstein wasn't prone to suicide, though it was worded a bit differently. Then came the suicide watch, followed later by his death. Almost like she suspected something would happen to him. There were reports that the injury did not match the stated cause of death.

Personally I think he had too much evidence on too many powerful people and one or more of them decided he should be taken off the board.

#18 | Posted by BBQ at 2026-02-07 02:38 PM | Reply

murdering pedophile

#19 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2026-02-07 02:51 PM | Reply

BBQ

In addition to the fact that there was a possible plea bargain in the works.

As soon as that news came out haste would have been imperative.

#20 | Posted by Twinpac at 2026-02-07 03:46 PM | Reply

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