Epstein Jail Guards Used ‘Fake Body’ Decoy to Trick Media During Corpse Transport, Unsealed Files Reveal
New York — Jail officials at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) deployed a “fake body” as a decoy to mislead the press following the death of Jeffrey Epstein, newly unsealed federal records claim. The documents, which shed light on the chaotic aftermath of the financier’s 2019 death, allege that guards constructed a ruse to distract reporters while Epstein’s actual remains were transported out of the facility in secret.
According to an internal memo contained within the released files, a jail supervisor admitted to FBI agents that staff members staged the deception to manage the intense media frenzy gathered outside the lower Manhattan prison. The files detail how personnel arranged boxes and bed sheets on a gurney to resemble the shape of a human cadaver. This “decoy body” was then loaded into a white van conspicuously marked as belonging to the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
As reporters and photographers chased the white van, believing it contained Epstein’s body, the paedophile’s actual corpse was reportedly loaded into a discrete black vehicle. The memo notes that the black vehicle was able to depart the facility “unnoticed” while the media pursued the empty medical examiner’s van.
The revelation adds a bizarre new layer to the scrutiny surrounding the Bureau of Prisons’ handling of Epstein, who was found hanging in his cell on August 10, 2019, while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death was officially ruled a suicide by the New York City medical examiner, but the circumstances — including sleeping guards and malfunctioning cameras — have fueled years of skepticism and conspiracy theories.
These newly surfaced details are part of a broader cache of documents regarding the Bureau of Prisons’ operations during that period. Beyond the decoy body, the files reiterate systemic failures at the MCC, where two correctional officers previously admitted to falsifying records to cover up the fact that they had been sleeping and browsing the internet instead of conducting required 30-minute checks on the high-profile inmate.
The use of a decoy body appears to have been an impromptu decision by jail leadership to maintain operational security and avoid the spectacle of a media mob. However, critics argue that such subterfuge, even if intended to maintain order, only serves to deepen the public mistrust regarding the transparency of the investigation into his death.
The Bureau of Prisons has not yet issued a specific comment regarding the “fake body” claim found in the internal memos. The release of these documents follows years of legal pressure to make public all records associated with Epstein’s detention and subsequent death in federal custody.
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