Prison guard manning Epstein’s cell made strange bank deposits and Googled his name just minutes before he was found dead – Dept Of Justice

Tova Noel, 37, was one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center officers charged with overseeing Epstein’s jail cell in the days leading up to his trial on federal sex trafficking charges

Around 40 minutes before Epstein was discovered, Noel was revealed to have Google searched ‘latest on Epstein in jail’

Ten days before to Epstein’s death, Noel had deposited $5,000 in cash, one of 12 such deposits totaling $11,800 beginning three months prior

Tova Noel, [photo], 37, was one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center officers charged with overseeing Epstein’s jail cell in the days leading up to his trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Around 40 minutes before Epstein was discovered, Noel was revealed to have Google searched ‘latest on Epstein in jail,’ and ten days prior she had deposited $5,000 in cash

A prison guard manning Jeffrey Epstein’s cell in Manhattan was found to have Googled the inmate just minutes before the disgraced financier was found dead, as mysterious cash deposits appeared in her bank in the days beforehand. 
Tova Noel, 37, was one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center officers charged with overseeing the convicted sex offender’s jail cell in the days leading up to his trial on federal sex trafficking charges. 
Noel’s coworker, Michael Thomas, discovered that Epstein had died in his cell by hanging at 6.30am on August 10, 2019. 
The federal prison officer allegedly ‘slept and browsed the internet’ while guarding pedophile Jeffrey Epstein on the night he killed himself in jail.

Jeffrey Epstein was found unresponsive in his jail cell on August 10, 2019, where he awaiting charges related to sex trafficking. Noel’s coworker, Michael Thomas, discovered that Epstein had died in his cell by hanging at 6.30am

Epstein, who was awaiting trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, killed himself just 15 feet from the prison guards’ desk and the two cameras outside his cell malfunctioned. 
Noel was arrested for lying on prison records to make it seem as though she had made the required checks on the disgraced financier before he was found dead in his cell at the Metropolitan Correction Center in Manhattan in August 2019. 
She agreed to a plea deal two years ago in order to avoid prison time and started a new job as a medical office assistant at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care in Westchester.
However, Noel’s former colleague, office medical cal assistant at the prison,  Mayda Roman, 52, is suing her in New York for assault, according to court papers filed in Westchester County Supreme Court on Friday, seeking unspecified damages. 

Tova Noel, [photo], was one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center officers charged with overseeing Epstein’s jail cell in the days leading up to his death. She was arrested for lying on prison records

Around 40 minutes before Epstein was discovered, Noel went online and Googled ‘latest on Epstein in jail,’ according to documents released on Thursday by the Department of Justice.
The entries at 5.42am and 5.52am were included in searches on two other inmates held in the prison, Kenyatta Taiste and Omar Amanat, as well as a search for ‘law enforcement discounts’ at 6.17am and 6.19am, documents show. 
However when Noel was in questioning in 2021, she denied Googling Epstein. ‘I don’t remember doing that,’ she told her interviewers.
The documents also revealed a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit into Tova Noel’s bank account on July 30, 2019, ten days before Epstein was found hanging in his cell, unresponsive. 
A total sum of $11,880, was deposited in 12 tranches dating from December 2018.

A review of her activities on the day shows that around 40 minutes before Epstein was discovered, Noel was on Google, searching ‘latest on Epstein in jail’

Ten days before to Epstein’s death, Noel had deposited $5,000 in cash, one of 12 such deposits totaling $11,800 beginning three months prior.

Noel was previously accused of falsifying records, but charges were dropped. The new information that has come to light does not assume any guilt in connection to Epstein and his death. 
Noel was believed to have been the last correctional officer to have visited the SHU on the night prior to Epstein’s death. 
An internal FBI briefing heard that at around 10.40pm an officer, believed to be Noel, ‘carried linen or inmate clothing up to the L-Tier’.
This was allegedly the ‘last time any correctional officer approached the only entrance to the SHU tier’, the briefing heard. 
Epstein hanged himself with strips of orange cloth, New York City Chief Medical Examiner found at the time.
Noel said in a sworn statement that she had last seen Epstein alive ‘somewhere around after ten’, but said she ‘never gave out linen, ever’ or any clothing. She claimed that those responsibilities were done in the shift before. 

Noel, [photo], a guard tasked with inspecting the cell, told investigators that she didn’t know why Epstein had access to extra linen in his cell. The other guard had been asleep between 10pm and midnight, she said 

Noel’s former co-worker Mayda Roman, [photo], is suing her for assault, according to court papers filed in Westchester County Supreme Court on Friday. She is seeking unspecified damages  

A judge ordered that the case against Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards Tova Noel and Michael Brown, [photo], be dropped. However, both were fired from the facility

According to her statement, neglecting to do rounds in the prison’s Special Housing Unit [SHU] was a common practice. 
‘I’ve never worked in the Special Housing Unit and actually done rounds every 30 minutes,’ she told investigators, according to documents. However, she denied any involvement in Epstein’s death. 
Both Noel and Thomas were fired from the facility after they were accused of falsifying records that show the pair had check on Epstein in his cell during the night. Charges against both guards were dropped.