Never-before-seen footage from outside Jeffrey Epstein's jail cell has been released after Pam Bondi said the minute of tape went "missing."
While the "missing minute" appears to contain nothing remarkable, it is not yet clear why it was not included with 11 hours of footage the Justice Department released in July to prove that nobody except Epstein entered his cell before he died.
The new video was included with an evidence dump containing over 33,000 pages that the House Oversight Committee shared on Tuesday.
The "missing" footage depicts the common area in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of Epstein's jail, the Metropolitan Correctional Center.
The new video appears to show Epstein being escorted to a shower stall to make an unmonitored phone call around 7 p.m., CBS reported.
Roughly an hour later, Epstein is seen returning to his cell, although the staircase to his cell block is only partly visible. The "missing minute" from 11:59 p.m. to midnight appears to be uneventful. Epstein was found dead the next morning.
Bondi had previously explained that the video went "missing" because of a routine process at Epstein's jail.
"There was a minute that was off that counter, and what we learned from Bureau of Prisons was every year, every night, they redo that video," Bondi told reporters. "Every night is reset, so every night should have that same missing minute."
Negligence and other problems within the Bureau of Prisons (BOP) have long been cited by the government as factors in Epstein's shocking death.
Epstein was not being monitored properly just before he died, despite a previous suicide attempt at the jail. The government later said it lost surveillance footage from outside his cell during the attempt.
Because of a security camera malfunction, video was only recorded on one surveillance camera inside the Special Housing Unit on the night Epstein died.
Since Attorney General Bill Barr was in charge, the Justice Department has said the limited footage proves that Epstein killed himself, a finding Bondi officially backed in a controversial memo this summer. The DOJ also said there is no evidence that Epstein possessed an incriminating "client list" of powerful figures.
Bondi's conclusions, and the DOJ's refusal to release the complete Epstein files, sparked a right-wing backlash that has largely quieted, although a handful of Republicans have continued to press the issue, joining Democrats who have accused Bondi and President Trump of a nefarious cover-up.
The House Oversight Committee's 33,000-page release has been dismissed by Democrats as a ruse, as most of the material was previously public.
