Officials made a decoy Jeffrey Epstein corpse to “thwart” the media waiting outside the hospital on the morning of his suicide, new Department of Justice files show.
New York City’s Office of Chief Medical Examiner officials and guards from the Metropolitan Correctional Center created the phony stiff out of boxes and sheets and loaded it into a white van, while they transported the genuine Epstein body in a different vehicle.
“In order to thwart the media [redacted], [redacted], and [redacted] used boxes and sheets to create what appeared to be a human body, which was put into the white OCME vehicle which the press followed, allowing the black vehicle to depart unnoticed with Epstein’s body,” an FBI interview document from 2019 read.
The New York Post snapped the first photos of Epstein after his death in 2019, despite the attempt by MCC and OCME officials to create a decoy body to fool the press. William Farrington for NY Post
Epstein’s body being brought out a backdoor of New York Presbyterian Hospital was captured by Post photographer William Farrington. William Farrington
Hospital staff acted as if Epstein was going to be taken out of the emergency room and staged the press in the front of the hospital, while they secretly loaded his body into an unmarked vehicle parked in the back.
The Post didn’t fall for it.
Post photographer William Farrington snapped the the world exclusive pictures of Epstein’s body as it was wheeled into New York Presbyterian Hospital at 7:30 a.m. on Aug. 10.
Those world-exclusive photos showed EMTs working to revive his lifeless body.
Farrington also snapped the corpse in a black body bag as it was loaded into the black van out back, while the rest of the press gathered out front.
The disgraced financier was found dead at 6:30 a.m. in his cell, apparently after hanging himself with a bedsheet.