Forensics expert on Epstein video: 'So many issues'

Forensic expert Jake Green said in a Wednesday interview that he sees “so many issues” with the video footage recorded outside of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison cell door that the Justice Department released last week.

The DOJ and FBI originally released the roughly 11-hour video in an effort to dispel claims of foul play involved in the convicted sex offender and late financier’s death, which has been ruled a suicide.

But some of the public noticed that the video was missing a minute, pointing to the time stamps, which jumped from 11:58 p.m. to midnight.

And a new analysis published Tuesday in Wired now suggests that nearly three minutes total have been removed from the DOJ footage.

“There are so many issues with this video — the minutes missing, the jumps, we can sometimes see a cursor move in the top right corner,” Green said in an interview on NewsNation’s “Banfield.”

“There’s so many pieces wrong with this video, and for the DOJ to release it, it’s strange, and it’s kind of unnerving to know that this is the way they want to do this,” he continued.

Green said he suspects the video was not the “raw” video but, instead, a screen recording of the footage.

“Raw data is something that is in a forensically reliable format, meaning that we can go in and review it and confirm that it matches the original,” Green said. “What has been produced in this case, is what you could consider as work product. This is not the original. This is a child of the original.”

“It may be reliable as to what was on the screen, but it cannot be confirmed to match what was originally recorded. So I think that’s really what we’re seeing here,” he added.

“It truly is the work product of FBI going in and attempting to change and alter and perhaps try to enhance the video. But it's clearly not the original.”

Attorney General Pam Bondi last week sought to tamp down outrage over the missing minute, suggesting it was a result of a routine system update.

“The video was not conclusive, but the evidence prior to it was showing he committed suicide,” Bondi explained during a Cabinet meeting.

“And what was on that — there was a minute that was off the counter, and what we learned from the Bureau of Prisons is every night they redo that video. … So, every night the video is reset, and every night should have the same minute missing,” she added.

“So we’re looking for that video to release that as well to show that a minute is missing every night. And that’s it on Epstein.”

But Green said that explanation “makes it stink even worse.”

While computers sometimes have scheduled restarts, he said, it wouldn’t make sense it to be the same time every night.

“For a network attached video storage unit, if this is what it truly came from, you wouldn't want it to shut down for at least a minute every night, and definitely don't want to do the same minute every night,” he said.

“Especially if word gets out about that, then you've got a complete minute every day of the year that you're not going to have video for,” he added.