Prosecutors drafted his ‘death’ statement a day early

Official documents released by the US Department of Justice show that prosecutors prepared their announcement of Jeffrey Epstein’s death a day before it happened.

As Skwawkbox has already covered, the same file release proves that an anonymous message board post, sent before the ‘death’ was made public by someone who claimed to be a prison officer guarding Epstein, was indeed posted by one of the prison guards on duty that night. The guard said that Epstein had been secretly removed from his cell — alive — and taken away in an ambulance whose arrival had not been pre-booked or recorded afterward.

Epstein — another plot twist

Now, another official file in the release (archived here) shows the draft announcement on Epstein’s death prepared by US Attorney’s Office in southern New York. Except that the draft is dated 9 August 2019 — a day before Epstein’s ‘death’:

This is not a mere typo, and not just because a bad typist would have had to hit two digits for ’10’ instead of one for ‘9’. The draft’s day of the week is also wrong — Friday instead of Saturday. Epstein’s body was not discovered until 6.30am on 10 August. It seems vanishingly unlikely that someone drafting the announcement would have forgotten what day of the week it was.

The draft was dated Saturday 10 August when it was eventually released. Epstein’s ‘death’ was officially ruled a suicide by hanging despite the prison’s failure to produce a noose or ligature. The body examined by independent doctors also had a fracture to the hyoid bone of the body, a sign of manual strangulation rather than hanging. However, many have observed apparent differences in the facial features of the body compared to Epstein, particularly in the nose and, where it would be very hard to hide, in the ears. The government was also found to have heavily edited prison CCTV footage of the area around Epstein’s cell.

Curiouser and curiouser.

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