The Epstein Doctrine: Justice Ends Where Power Begins
The Most Watched Man In America Died In The Only Minute No One Saw
Nearly five years after the most infamous “suicide” of the century, Jeffrey Epstein is back in the headlines - or at least, his ghost is.
Not because Epstein’s client list was released and new names were unsealed, however. In fact, the FBI and DOJ now claim a “client list” never even existed at all. This, despite Attorney General Pam Bondi claiming just this past March she had such a list sitting on her desk ready for imminent release.
Even if there is no client list, it doesn’t matter. What should matter is the glaring fact that neither the media nor federal prosecutors ever seriously pursued Epstein’s financial networks or social connections with subpoenas or scrutiny the case deserved.
The news cycle has returned to Epstein because of newly surfaced surveillance footage from outside his cell: hours of material that still, somehow, cuts out at the exact moment it matters most.
Multiple hours of footage are reportedly intact — but one minute before midnight, during the final stretch when Epstein was last confirmed alive and just hours before his body was found, the cameras went dark.
This isn’t the first camera “malfunction” to occur in Epstein’s case, either.
In 2019, both cameras outside Epstein’s cell were said to have failed and the footage erased due to “technical difficulties”. That same year, footage from his first alleged suicide attempt just weeks prior to Epstein’s death had already vanished.
In one of the most secure prisons in the country, housing the most high-profile federal detainee in modern memory, the cameras conveniently failed. Now, five years later, we’re expected to believe again that more missing footage is simply another accident.
Even Epstein's lawyers, Reid Weingarten and Martin Weinberg, expressed doubt at the time of the medical examiner's conclusion that Epstein killed himself.
It’s strikingly obvious in hindsight, but Epstein’s case was never just about him. It was about the untouchable class of men he serviced and protected, too.
Even with Ghislaine Maxwell convicted and imprisoned, no clients have been named. No public reckoning has taken place. Prosecutors seem satisfied with scraps, with only the illusion of justice and accountability.
In the Epstein case, silence is not just complicity. It’s a language spoken fluently at every level of power.
And those in that network: Leslie Wexner, Bill Gates, Prince Andrew, Chris Rock, Peter Thiel, even Wendi Murdoch (at the time married to Rupert Murdoch) have all moved on - untouched and unbothered.
There was never going to be a list. There was never going to be any camera footage. There was never going to be justice.