Jeremy Kuzmarov
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Mark is a retired real estate investor and businessman. At the time of his brother’s death, he says that he was on good terms with him and talked to him over the phone until his arrest in July, 2019. He says that he did not follow all the details of his legal case and had not seen him in person in about seven years.
When Mark heard news about Jeffrey’s death, he boarded a plane and was the one who identified his body.
At an X-space discussion with LiveOne.TV on November 11, Mark asserted that, at first, he thought that his brother had committed suicide, as the FBI and other government agencies claimed.
“I had no reason to doubt it [the suicide claim]. He was facing a long time in jail,” Mark said. “The life of a convicted pedophile is not very pleasant and Jeffrey was used to living life the way he wanted, with people around who catered to him and took care of him….He had no kids, our parents are gone; he didn’t have anyone to worry about. I thought he took the decision not to go through a trial and potential prison sentence, and decided to take himself out.”
Mark said that, when he hired the renowned forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, he expected Baden to confirm that his brother had committed suicide. However, he said that Dr. Baden instead said he couldn’t call it a suicide because it “looked too much like a homicide.”
Dr. Baden told 60 Minutes that fractures found in the autopsy photos under Jeffrey’s neck and jaw were inconsistent with a suicide hanging. Baden said: “Going over a thousand jail hangings, suicides in the New York City state prisons over the past 40-50 years, no one had three fractures [as Epstein did].”[1]
Dr. Kristin Roman, the New York City pathologist charged with doing the autopsy, came out of the autopsy, like Dr. Baden, saying that Jeffrey’s death looked more like a homicide than a suicide.
The initial death certificate said, as cause of death, “pending further study.”
Mark said that Dr. Baden and Dr. Roman’s assessments did not appear in a June 2023 Department of Justice (DOJ) report.
The DOJ report relied on the assessment of New York’s Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson, who Mark said was not present at Jeffrey’s autopsy and never saw his body, though she said that his death was caused from suicide by hanging.
Mark said that he does not believe that Dr. Baden’s name even appeared in the DOJ report. He also said that he found a number of statements made by William Barr, the U.S. Attorney General at the time of Jeffrey’s death, to be untrue.
Most curious to Mark was Barr’s claim that he had watched video footage from outside the tier where Jeffrey was staying and that, because nobody was seen going in and out of the tier in the video, he became convinced that Jeffrey died by suicide.
Mark said that, when he heard Barr say this, he knew this was a cover-up of some kind.
Barr ignored the fact that 12 or so other prisoners were housed on Jeffrey’s tier who could have killed Jeffrey and then returned to their cell.
That night, it was actually reported that cell doors were left unlocked in Epstein’s tier.
Additionally, the video Barr allegedly saw did not show the actual door to the tier that is known to exist, meaning that someone could have gone through the door without being caught on camera.
A CBS News analysis of the video contradicted Barr’s claims that the footage clearly showed no one entering the area near Epstein’s cell before he died.
The video on the night of Jeffrey’s death showed, just before 10:40 p.m., an orange shape moving up the stairs leading to Epstein’s area.
A 2023 report by the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) concluded that the figure is a prison guard handing out bed clothes.
However, video forensic experts who reviewed the video for CBS believes it could be a prisoner in orange prison garb climbing the stairs toward Epstein’s unit.
Mark said he finds it suspicious that the Attorney General would take the time to watch the video directly and then misrepresent it.
He considers it to be highly plausible that the killer—who had either been placed in Jeffrey’s tier beforehand or was the orange-clad figure shown in the video that Barr somehow missed—was transferred to another prison right after killing Jeffrey and then was released or disappeared.
Mark said that, this past year, a number of pathologists have been studying Epstein’s autopsy and related pictures of the body and have confirmed that the death could not have been caused by suicide. This, he said, will be revealed publicly in the future.
One additional important thing that convinced Mark that his brother was murdered was the fact that he had a bail hearing coming up based on his appeal of a previous bail decision.
At the hearing, Jeffrey and his lawyers were planning to propose that they put up what would have amounted to the highest bail in U.S. history.
Mark said that he could “see that Jeffrey might have committed suicide if he had lost the bond hearing and didn’t want to sit in prison for a year while waiting for his trial. But it would have made no sense for him to have killed himself before the hearing.”
Mark continued: “If the judge granted him bond, he would have been able to live in his house with an ankle monitor and guards manning the place and cameras. This wouldn’t have been that terrible, especially since his house is real nice. So why would he take himself out if he had a chance to spend a year in his house awaiting trial.”
A “Perfect Storm of Screw-ups” and Evidence Tampering
Epstein’s death was surrounded by what Bill Barr called “a perfect storm of screw-ups” that raise suspicion of a larger conspiracy.
The most notable of the screw-ups was that the guards to Epstein’s cell, Michael Thomas and Tova Noel, fell asleep on duty and failed to perform checks that were supposed to occur twice every hour.
Thomas and Noel were later charged with falsifying records, saying that they had checked on Jeffrey through the night.
An additional screw-up was that the cameras on Epstein’s floor malfunctioned. The fire alarm in the building was also suspiciously inoperative the morning of Epstein’s death and Epstein’s cell had additional beddings and linens whose presence has never been explained.
A 60 Minutes investigation found that two nooses that were photographed in Epstein’s cell following his death showed both ends of the noose folded and hemmed and not cut. This was significant because the guards who allegedly found Epstein said they had cut the noose with scissors so they could get him down before trying to revive him.
Something else that is suspicious is that there is evidence of tampering with the video footage of Epstein’s tier, which had been seized by the FBI after Epstein’s death and then re-released. One scene from the video significantly has a cursor onscreen. A report by the website Wired also alleged that nearly three minutes of footage from the video appeared to be missing.[2]
Crime Scene Cover-up
In a clear sign of a cover-up, Epstein’s cell was cleaned and sanitized immediately after his death and before the FBI could gather evidence.
Standard police procedure in the case was generally not followed. Epstein’s body was moved by prison staff.
No photographs were taken of his remains in the cell or of his position at the point of death, and no tests were carried out for poison or DNA in Epstein’s cell.
Witness statements were not immediately secured and staff at the prison were interviewed only months later, with lawyer coaching.
Additionally, computer servers in Epstein’s wing were not secured and the hard drives were removed and then replaced that night.
Official Suicide Ruling Is Unfounded
Police experts—in differentiating a murder from a suicide—look at the position of the knot in the hanging cord and whether drool spilled to the ground, which would indicate suicide.
Since the crime scene was wiped clean in Epstein’s case, none of the tell-tale signs of suicide were prevalent, discrediting the DOJ and FBI’s suicide conclusion.
Ali Clark Investigation
Ali Clark is a professional investigator, with experience tracking intelligence agencies, who works as a researcher for Mark Epstein.
In a packet prepared for congressional leaders, Ms. Clark stated that “standard forensic procedure requires preserving, testing, and verifying all physical evidence with the possibility of criminal involvement in mind until it is conclusively ruled out. This did not occur in this [the Epstein] case. Instead, the government relied on assumptions, omissions, and procedural violations that suppressed or eliminated evidence. These inconsistencies, anomalies, and breakdowns destroyed the ability to determine whether Epstein was killed, coerced, or assisted in his death.”
Ms. Clark went on to note in her dossier that the OIG report openly admitted that the OIG staff did not investigate how Epstein died, only policy failures at the jail.
Ms. Clark discussed numerous additional anomalies, including the fact that inmate movement and logs on the night of Epstein’s death contain inconsistencies and may have been tampered with.
Ms. Clark concluded that the police investigation was “biased from the start—designed to close [the case], not uncover truth.”
She noted further that the irregularities in the case “collectively form a cascade of failures that suggest not incompetence but orchestration. It looks like a narrative patched together after the fact to fit a pre-decided conclusion of suicide….”
More Missing Video Footage and a Ghost Prisoner
Mark Epstein was told that there was someone with a hand-held video camera taping in the prison infirmary and in the hospital where his brother was brought in. The content of his video has been publicly suppressed.
In a review of prison logs, Ms. Clark amazingly found, sandwiched between guard reassignments and management cancellations, an advanced assignment for a medical escort nine hours before Epstein was killed.
Ms. Clark has come to believe in the possibility that an unlogged or ‘off-the-books’ inmate was temporarily moved into Epstein’s tier for a specific operational purpose and then removed from the system altogether, whether through transfer, quiet release, or some other disposition.
That scenario is not merely hypothetical.
The count slips and housing records she and Mark have reviewed contain anomalies consistent with a “ghost inmate” being used to reconcile headcounts on paper without a corresponding, verifiable body in a bed.
In plain terms: the paperwork balances, but the underlying records don’t – and that gap has never been credibly explained.”
An additional curiosity is that one of the guards at the MCC is known to have worked overtime on the day Jeffrey was killed though was not listed in the overtime logs.
This guard did not scan his badge between August 6 until late in the day of August 10 even though he was known to have worked during that time.
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