His family knows he's dead. If it's a clear cut suicide on video - then what's the conceivable reason to wait?
There's a happy way to look at it, and an unhappy way. The unhappy way is that whoever Epsteined him has enough juice/skill/perseverance to wipe the tapes between the moment of recording and a courtroom. The happy way is that the cops aren't releasing it because it looks an awful lot like a goddamn murder scene, with all sorts of weird details, 1) apparently the guy wasn't depressed, 2) packing bags - and leaving them behind - seems a bit peculiar on your way to shoot yourself, 3) that third-party nugget about "if something happens to me . .", and 4) a gazillion dollars and who knows what else worth of motive.
But things being what they are, the most likely scenario is that the poor guy was just too tired to keep cranking for nothing, wife's gone, only to head home to his ma like he's thirteen years old. Nothing to show for fifty something years of honest work and advocacy, so he punches his dance card. That doesn't fit, in my brain, because of how focused he's been on this, but people are fuckin' complicated, and shit sucks. There but for God go etc etc etc.
Makes no logical sense before he'd even completely finished giving the deposition.
It was his golden ticket to stick it to the people who'd screwed him over.
Can't really see anyone passing up that opportunity. Then probably hanging around to watch it play out (for good or bad, etc). ;)
It would have to be something much more damaging to his character like child abuse or something, and well cooked too. Even then, the timing is wrong. He'd wait and deliver his lawyer shot first, or cancel the case.
Something else that just popped into my head. If there's federal criminal charges in the main B investigation - which I think there are now - this makes whatever happened here potential federal territory.But look at the timing: March 9 he dies, March 12 federal charges roll. So that's interesting. I don't want to go full tinfoil hat here - it's really tempting to do that, and the stuff he was testifying about was, on the surface, unrelated to the criminal charges - but the timing is extremely interesting.