Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death

ThatRobGuy · Feb 8, 2026

Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death

The file dump includes multiple draft statements from federal prosecutors about the sex trafficker’s death, one of them dated the day before Epstein died.

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The file dump includes multiple draft statements from federal prosecutors about the sex trafficker’s death, one of them dated the day before Epstein died.

Epstein’s former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, claimed in a pardon petition filed last summer and recently obtained by the Daily Beast that Epstein was deliberately left unprotected in federal custody.

Tartaglione, a former police officer convicted of multiple murders, alleged that prison officials knowingly housed Epstein with an accused mass murderer despite earlier reports that the disgraced financier had raised concerns about his safety weeks before his death.

Aryeh Jay · Feb 8, 2026

Landon Caeli · Feb 8, 2026

Supoena James Margolin, Dave Dearden and Nicholas Biase today.

Chesterton · Feb 8, 2026

A typo.

Bradskii · Feb 8, 2026

Chesterton said:
A typo.

Or an easily faked document. But either way, it's sitting on a hard drive somewhere as a dated file. Someone needs to check.

Aryeh Jay · Feb 8, 2026

Actually two typos, the date as well as the day.

Why would the government release it?

Chesterton · Feb 8, 2026

Bradskii said:
Or an easily faked document. But either way, it's sitting on a hard drive somewhere as a dated file. Someone needs to check.

I'll check on it as soon as I can.

ThatRobGuy · Feb 9, 2026

Chesterton said:
A typo.

If that was what it was being chalked up to, you'd think they would've made some sort of notation, or did a re-issue with the correction in the days following the actual event.

Given intense scrutiny that entire situation was under (one of the highest profile criminals of our generation being found dead in a jail amid security cameras that magically stopped working for a few minutes in the HVI wing of a special protected cell block) seems like the sort of circumstances that would lead to official information releases being reviewed with a fine tooth comb.

Not to mention, a lot of times those documents are generated via templates that automatically populate what the current date is on header for the letterhead. And if it was typed in manually and wrong (it's literally the 2nd thing on the sheet), that's a pretty big flop for reviewers to miss.

Hans Blaster · Feb 9, 2026

ThatRobGuy said:
If that was what it was being chalked up to, you'd think they would've made some sort of notation, or did a re-issue with the correction in the days following the actual event.

What makes you think that document was actually released?

This is from the internal files. There are all kinds of unreleased documents there. (That's the whole point of forcing them to release them.)

Here is the actual press release:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/statement-manhattan-us-attorney-death-defendant-jeffrey-epstein

My guess would be that someone (on a Saturday, when it was issued), took a editable version of a previous press release (Word?) and replaced the various sections of text to create a draft and didn't notice the date was wrong. Note that in the PDF linked above the press release number is "19-XXX" indicating that at this draft stage the sequence number wasn't known.

Chesterton · Feb 9, 2026

ThatRobGuy said:
If that was what it was being chalked up to, you'd think they would've made some sort of notation, or did a re-issue with the correction in the days following the actual event.

Given intense scrutiny that entire situation was under (one of the highest profile criminals of our generation being found dead in a jail amid security cameras that magically stopped working for a few minutes in the HVI wing of a special protected cell block) seems like the sort of circumstances that would lead to official information releases being reviewed with a fine tooth comb.

Not to mention, a lot of times those documents are generated via templates that automatically populate what the current date is on header for the letterhead. And if it was typed in manually and wrong (it's literally the 2nd thing on the sheet), that's a pretty big flop for reviewers to miss.

I was just kidding.

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Epstein Files Reveal Prosecutors’ Announcement Dated Before His Death

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