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From what I've read, the two broken cameras story is just that "two of the many cameras in the area" were broken. At least one camera was actively recording the area outside his cell and they have the footage and it doesn't show anything interesting.

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Yeah but faking footage of nobody entering the cell is waaaay easier than faking footage of a suicide.

If they were going to fake footage why would they have allowed broken cameras? I'd also bet it's not really that easy to get fake footage into their security system even if you could produce it.

any sources on that?

http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/jeffrey-epstein-dies-...

All I see is this:

"The Washington Post reported that 'at least one camera in the hallway outside the cell where authorities say registered sex offender Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself earlier this month had footage that is unusable' and that it is 'unclear whether the flaw in the taping affected a limited duration of the footage or whether it was a chronic problem in the beleaguered Manhattan facility.' "

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