During the 2019 raid on Jeffrey Epstein’s New York City mansion, investigators discovered boxes containing hard drives and videos that were never presented as evidence by prosecutors.
Photographs taken during the raid depict boxes filled with burned CDs, hard drives, and videos, all of which were meticulously labeled by Epstein himself.
Curiously, the authorities deliberately obscured the labels in the images, presumably to protect the identities of the individuals mentioned on them. As previously reported, numerous victims and witnesses have claimed that Epstein boasted about possessing compromising videos and images of influential individuals, which he used as leverage against them.
This week, the initial set of documents is scheduled to be released to the public, revealing the names of more than 180 individuals connected to Epstein. The first 150 names will be unveiled on January 3, while the remaining names will be published later this month.
However, the disclosure of these documents has raised further inquiries regarding other crucial evidence that has yet to be disclosed.
During the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell for sex trafficking in December 2021, an FBI special agent provided testimony to a New York court regarding missing evidence from Jeffrey Epstein’s New York townhouse. Special Agent Kelly Maguire recounted the events of the initial search conducted by the FBI on July 6 and July 7, 2019, where CDs and other items were recovered from a locked safe in Epstein’s Manhattan home. This search took place shortly after Epstein’s arrest on sex assault charges.
Using a saw, the officers broke open the safe and discovered various items, including CDs, jewelry, computer hard drives, loose diamonds, passports, and a significant amount of US currency. Photographs of these items were taken, and the images of the evidence were made publicly available.
However, despite the documentation of the seized items, the hard drives, videos, and CDs never made it into evidence and mysteriously disappeared. Agent Maguire, a member of the FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, stated that she could not confirm the content of the CDs but assured that all the items were properly accounted for.
During the search of Epstein’s eight-storey Upper East Side apartment in Manhattan, boxes of CDs and hard drives were discovered in various rooms, including a room referred to as a “massage room.”
Agent McGuire testified that some items had “evidence tape” sealing them, as she informed the court that the tape was not placed by the police. On the fifth floor, FBI agents discovered a shelf filled with large black binders. These binders contained CDs, meticulously organized in plastic slipcovers and thumbnails with accompanying photos. Another FBI agent, who testified on the sixth day of Ms. Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial, confirmed that one of the CDs contained a photograph of the British socialite and Epstein. In July 2019, federal prosecutors hinted at the contents of the safe when they opposed Epstein’s bail application, revealing that a collection of explicit photographs of children was discovered at the property.
Court papers said that alongside photos were compact discs with handwritten labels including: “‘Young [Name] + [Name],’ ‘Misc nudes 1,’ and ‘Girl pics nude.’”
Additionally, there was a foreign passport featuring a photograph of Epstein under an alternate identity. The grand estate boasted a total of 40 rooms, and Ms. Maguire provided testimony stating that her team dedicated approximately 12 hours to conducting a thorough search of the premises.
