U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said the one-minute gap in the newly released surveillance video of Jeffrey Epstein’s jail cell is a routine occurrence caused by a nightly reset of the prison’s ageing camera system rather than evidence of tampering. Bondi cited information from the Bureau of Prisons indicating the cameras, which date to about 1999, briefly shut down and restart each night, creating the same missing interval in recordings from every evening. Investigators are reviewing footage from other nights to confirm the pattern. She added that the footage made public this week is "not conclusive" regarding Epstein’s death, but maintained that other evidence gathered before the reset supports the official finding that the financier committed suicide.