U.S. Justice Department: Typo caused wrong death date in declassified Epstein files
Jeffrey Epstein (Photo: House Oversight Committee Democrats/Handout via REUTERS)
The U.S. Justice Department said a typographical error in an
internal draft led to the wrong date of Jeffrey Epstein’s death appearing in a
batch of recently declassified files, BBC Verify reported
on Feb. 10.
The declassified documents listed Aug. 9, 2019, as Epstein’s date of death, while he was found dead in his jail cell on Aug. 10, 2019. The department said the incorrect date appeared only in a draft that was circulated internally and that the official statement was corrected before it was released.
“While initial drafts of the statement list the previous date, this was merely an unfortunate typo that was later updated to reflect the correct date before being publicized,” the DoJ said in a statement.
“Any suggestion that the department drafted a statement in
advance of Jeffrey Epstein’s death is false.”
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