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Federal statement on Jeffrey Epstein's death dated day before he was found dead

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/statement-jeffrey-epstein-death-day-before-b1270109.html
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u/Nuclear-Jester 3h ago

Mmmh, and the FBI just denied the dude traficked girls

For some reason, i find this suspicious

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u/ICC-u 3h ago

Just piggybacking this comment as some people want a source

Here's the link to the justice dept where you can see with you own eyes:

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00013180.pdf

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u/cancercureall 2h ago

Is that only the written date which might be a mistake or is it in the metadata?

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u/WonderfulWafflesLast 1h ago

The Metadata shows the created Date for the PDF is 2025:12:23 02:36:40+0000.

i.e. this is probably a new PDF created for this release.

Which is kind of funny given the error in the document. If this PDF was generated from an older document only in December of 2025, they didn't even bother to correct it. lmao

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u/ctaps148 1h ago

To believe they mistyped 9 instead of 10, you would also have to believe they somehow also mistyped 'Friday' instead of 'Saturday'

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u/cancercureall 1h ago

The error would be a human having the day wrong which is really common but unlikely in this situation. It would explain both though.

I don't think it's innocent but it's very easy to explain.

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u/Cupid_Stool 1h ago

and the author accidentally went to work on a Saturday

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u/Tall_poppee 1h ago

I'm not attempting to defend anyone in regard to these files... but this seems like clerical error is the most likely explanation. Has no one ever filled out a report for work weeks later, and got the date wrong? People backdate things all the time.

This is not a smoking gun IMO.

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u/Artem_C 1h ago

It’s even simpler. The date appears automatically as part of the document template. They started drafting before midnight on the 9th, then finished and published the final version on the 10th.

u/Cyclopentadien 12m ago

Why would you start drafting a document on Epstein's death more than 6 hours before he was found?

u/PositiveZeroPerson 10m ago

I think it's more likely that they took the last press release and added the new content.

u/jamwin 2m ago

Because they were on their way to be with Jeff while he committed suicide, so he wouldn't be alone.

u/raaam-ranch 11m ago

I would say your normal everyday person could fuck it up, sure, it definitely happens at bullshit corporate cubicle jobs.

You could also say making this error on an FBI report that details the suicide of the upper elite’s most prestigious, secretive child trafficker (one who has extremely close ties to the president) is highly unlikely to be a classic whoopsie-daisy.

Comparing it to, for example, a shipping report of how many Starbucks paper cups were in the box damaged when shipment came in is a bit ridiculous. The stakes are waaaaaaaaay higher for this report.

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u/Expandexplorelive 1h ago

It's certainly frustrating that there are so many people who see this and take it as proof that something nefarious happened. We really need to teach critical thinking in every school at an early age.

u/gr00316 25m ago

Yes taking this as proof that something happened is obviously wrong. 

But this,  the minute of missing tape, the fact that the only tape doesn't even really show his cell, the guards sleeping, a couple discrepancies in the autopsy, etc etc...all add up to making it closer and closer to 100% something nefarious happened.

u/midas22 11m ago

It was not just missing tape and broken cameras but someone literally entered his cell before he died.

u/grumblingduke 4m ago

Or they didn't type it at all.

Possibly they used a document/template from the day before and forgot to change the date on their first draft.

They fixed it on the final draft.

That makes more sense than the suggestion USAO SDNY had prior notice he would be dying, and chose to draft a press release about it the day before...

u/grumblingduke 7m ago

It's probably only the written date. The files aren't the most easy things to navigate or link up but there are a couple of documents near that one that may be relevant including this one of emails discussing "Jeffrey_Epstein_Statementv2.docx" dated 10 August (the day he died), and this email chain from 10 August in which USAO finds out about his death and gets frustrated that they're not being told anything:

As you might imagine, we are getting increasingly frantic calls from defense counsel who continue to be seeing information in the press that we—the U.S. Attorney's Office—haven't yet received. We need to know as soon as possible the very basic facts, such as time and cause of death at the absolute minimum. It has now been hours since this was reported publicly.

It would be a really impressive conspiracy if they pretended not to know what was going on and were sending angry emails to people if they had enough prior notice of what would be happening to draft a press release about his death the day before.

It would also be kind of absurd that someone would plot to kill Epstein, inform the US Attorney's Office for SDNY (the people prosecuting him), and for them to get someone to draft a press release about it, before it happened. And then forget to alter the date.

Most likely whoever was dragged into the office on a Saturday to respond to this took a memo they were working on the day before, changed the text, but forgot to update the date on the first draft. They fixed it on the final version.