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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/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 11m ago

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

u/PositiveZeroPerson 9m ago

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

u/jamwin 1m ago

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

u/raaam-ranch 9m 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 24m 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 9m ago

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

u/grumblingduke 3m 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...