Prison Guard Told FBI About 'Suspicious' Document Shredding After Epstein's Death, Report Says
Source: Forbes
A federal corrections officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center called the FBI on Aug. 16, 2019, six days after Epstein’s death, to say that he had “never seen this amount of bags of shredded documents” being thrown away, the Herald reported, citing a document released by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files.
The officer, who said they found it “suspicious” that a team tasked with probing Epstein’s death would be shredding documents with nearby federal officials also tasked with investigating, told the FBI that an inmate said they were tasked with throwing the documents away.
In a memo to investigators on Aug. 19, 2019, a back gate corrections officer said he witnessed an inmate bringing “bales” of shredded documents to throw into a dumpster, and that the inmate told them that Federal Bureau of Prisons officials were “shredding everything.”
That officer suggested to the FBI that “this conduct may be inappropriate” for an investigative team and “you may want to investigate why BOP employees were destroying records.”
Read more: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2026/03/21/prison-guard-told-fbi-about-suspicious-document-shredding-after-epsteins-death-report-says/
Linking to the Miami Herald story the Forbes article refers to (I saw the Forbes article first)
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article315131144.html
The first mention of document shredding was a call to the FBI’s Threat Operations Center from a corrections officer at 6:28 p.m. on Aug. 16, six days after his death. An FBI 302 form containing an interview with the officer noted that “Caller found it suspicious that an after-action team charged with investigating would be shredding huge amounts of paperwork” with all the officials from the FBI, BOP and OIG in the building.
The caller advised that if “anyone cares about what was shredded,” they needed to check the dumpster before it was collected at 8 a.m. on Monday. But that doesn’t appear to have happened.
Instead, about 11 a.m. Monday, a corrections officer wrote an email to the OIG reporting the shredding said that it appeared to be an unusually large number of trash bags at MCC’s back gate. It’s not clear whether the officer was the same one who had called on Friday.
Later that day, at about 7:30 p.m., an assistant federal prosecutor requested permission to interview the inmate who was identified as dumping the material. In the email, the prosecutor notes, “We are also investigating any efforts, following Epstein’s death, to obstruct justice by destroying relevant records at MCC. In particular, we learned today that all institutional count slips prior to August 10, 2019, which we requested on August 12, 2019, are apparently “missing.”
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