Both analyzes found that the two tracks were marked “2025-05-22 16-35-21.mp4” and “2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,” together. The first cut is 4 hours, 19 minutes and 16 seconds, but only the first 4 hours, 16 minutes and 23,368 seconds appear in the published version, which means that almost 2 minutes and 53 seconds have been cut from the end. According to the metadata, the cut takes place at 11:58:58 hours. The cut is milliseconds before the one-minute recording gap caused by Bondi by a peculiarity of the supervision system. The second track, “2025-05-22 21-12-48.mp4,” takes up immediately afterwards and continues with the footage from 12:00 to 06:40:00.
The analysis was first provided to wired by a researcher who requested anonymity for privacy reasons. Wired checked his findings with two independent video -forensic experts, each with over 15 years of experience in premiere and video production, which confirmed that the amendment took place just before the missing minute mark and that about three minutes of footage was cut from the original cut.
The FBI released both “raw” and improved versions of the video. Both versions contain internal commenters, notes that are usually used in editing software to flag moments of interest. The improved version, which the FBI refers to as Video 2, contains 15 such markers that seem to be consistent with the visible movement near “46 Door” at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York. This door is close to the cell block where Epstein is held while on trial over charges of sex trade. These markers seem to have been left by analysts during their review, but it does not contain the original commentary text.
According to a 2023 report by the DOJ’s Inspector General (OIG) office, only two cameras in the vicinity of the Special Housing Unit (SHU), the area of the MCC where Epstein was held, filmed and recorded at the time of his death. According to the report, the camera that recorded the footage that released the DOJ on July 7, captured videos of a large part of the Shu Common area and parts of the stairs that led to different ‘levels’, one of which housed the cell of Epstein.
The OIG report notes that the MCC’s supervision system was outdated at the time of the death of Epstein, “was not properly maintained,” and that the DVR hard drives that stored the video files “had to be functioned and replaced regularly.”
Both the OIG report of 2023 and the Doj-FBI memo published last week mentions that anyone who enters the level of Epstein’s cell from the Shu Common area on August 9 or August 10, 2019 would have been visible on the camera. However, Epstein’s cell door itself was not within the field of vision of the camera. The stairs that were held to the level where he was held were also partially obstructed and difficult to see clearly on the video. (A second camera, which covered the ‘ninth floor exit and two of the four lifts of the floor’, was also filmed at the time, according to the OIG report.)
In the midst of backlash of supporters and critics, President Donald Trump Bondi defended on Saturday, saying she is doing a ‘fantastic job’.
“What’s going on with my ‘boys’ and, in some cases,’ Gals? “They all go behind the lawyer General Pam Bondi, who does a fantastic job! “Trump wrote in a message about Truth Social.” We’re in one team, Maga, and I don’t like what’s going on. We have a perfect administration, the talk of the world and “selfish people” trying to hurt it, about a man who never dies, Jeffrey Epstein. “