Jeffrey Epstein: Jail video of Jeffrey Epstein's first apparent suicide attempt no longer …

(CNN) Video surveillance footage taken outside Jeffrey Epstein’s cell during his first apparent suicide attempt in July 2019 “no longer exists” due to an accidental mix-up and technical issues, the government said in a court filing.

He was found with a strip of bedsheet around his neck in what a federal document calls an apparent suicide attempt.

On July 25, an attorney for Epstein’s cellmate at the time asked that MCC preserve video from outside the cell, the filing notes.

MCC legal counsel looked up the cellmate’s cell number in the MCC computer system and requested that the staff preserve video of the cell from that night, the filing says.

The government responded a day later, saying the video was not missing and that it had been preserved.