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DOJ's Shocking Epstein Decoy Body Scheme Revealed

2/14/2026

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  • New Department of Justice files indicate that officials created a decoy body of Jeffrey Epstein to mislead the media after his suicide on August 10, 2019.
  • The Office of Chief Medical Examiner and guards from the Metropolitan Correctional Center constructed a fake corpse using boxes and sheets.
  • This decoy was placed in a white van to distract the press while Epstein's actual body was transported separately.
  • Despite these efforts, the New York Post obtained exclusive photos of Epstein's body being wheeled into New York Presbyterian Hospital.