Surveillance video from the first suicide attempt by convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein on July 23 was “permanently deleted” because the Metropolitan Correctional Center jailers “inadvertently preserved video from the wrong tier within the MCC.”

Assistant U.S. Attorneys Maurene Comey and Jason Swergold filed a letter stating, “The requested video no longer exists on the backup system and has not since at least August 2019 as a result of technical errors.”

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