Epstein Prison Guards Indicted for Falsifying Records

By Sean Jackson

The two federal corrections officers who were on duty the night Jeffery Epstein allegedly committed suicide in a Mahattan jail are charged with failing to check on him every 30-minutes and then lying that they did on official prison documents.

The two Bureau of Prison employees, Michael Thomas and Tova Noel, are expected to appear in the United States District Court in Manhattan to face charges including falsifying records and conspiracy to defraud a federal court.

According to the indictment, Noel admits to not checking in on Epstein, “We did not complete the 3 a.m. nor 5 a.m. rounds.”

Thomas admitted, “We messed up… I messed up, she’s not to blame. We didn’t do any rounds.”

These are the first charges to arise from the criminal investigation into the death of Jeffery Epstein, a former financier accused of sex-trafficking, who reportedly hanged himself at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan while awaiting trial. Epstein pleaded not guilty and the trial was set for next year. If convicted he could have faced 45 years in prison.

The indictment charges Noel, 31, and Thomas, 41, with making false records. The employees were supposed to sign ‘count sheets’ which indicates they had check on inmates…