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Two prison guards, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, have been accused of falsifying documents after the death of Jeffrey Epstein to cover up that they weren’t watching him closely as instructed, according to The Daily Wire.
“As part of the deal with prosecutors, they will enter into a deferred prosecution agreement with the Justice Department and will serve no time behind bars,” The Associated Press reported. “Noel and Thomas would instead be subjected to supervised release, would be required to complete 100 hours of community service and would be required to fully cooperate with an ongoing probe by the Justice Department’s inspector general.”
Thomas and Noel were supposed to be checking up on Epstein every 30 minutes but instead they were allegedly watching sports, buying furniture online nd literally sleeping on the job.
The two guards “admitted that they ‘willfully and knowingly completed materially false count and round slips regarding required counts and rounds.’”
“Ghislaine Maxwell is woken up every 15 minutes with flashlights by guards at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn because the accused madam is on an ‘enhanced security schedule’ lockup, federal authorities said in court papers.”
“Federal prosecutors detailed the regimen in a letter to Manhattan federal court Judge Alison Nathan, who ordered them to respond to accusations from Maxwell’s defense attorneys that she’s subjected to onerous prison conditions, including sleep deprivation because of the constant wake ups.”
From The Daily Wire:
Epstein’s death and the revelation that he was able to kill himself while behind bars at one of the most secure jails in America was a major embarrassment for the Bureau of Prisons and cast a spotlight on the agency, which has also been besieged by serious misconduct in recent years.
Staffing shortages at the agency are so severe that guards often work overtime day after day or are forced to work mandatory double shifts. … The falsification of records has been a problem throughout the federal prison system. Union officials have long argued that the reduction of staff is putting both guards and inmates in danger, but they’ve faced an uphill battle getting attention.
Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime friend, was charged by federal authorities for allegedly contributing to Epstein’s abuse of underage girls and is currently awaiting trial.
The letter from authorities said that she is monitored every 15 minutes for her own safety, even though they said she is not on suicide watch.
A friend of Maxwell’s previously said that Maxwell believed that she could avoid criminal prosecution because Maxwell said she had serious dirt on powerful people.
