Jezebel | Prison Guards Were Googling Jeffrey Epstein Just Before He Was Found Dead, Files Say by Jim VorelFinancier, pedophile and human trafficker Jeffrey Epstein died in New York City’s Metropolitan Correctional Center on Aug. 10, 2019, and despite more than six years passing since that date, most of the pertinent questions and enduring mysteries of how the man–who once wrote to a friend that his lifelong peer President Donald Trump loved “young, nubile girls”–really died have remained unanswered. Even in the wake of the release of millions upon millions of additional files from the Department of Justice, all of which the Trump administration has fought tooth and nail to avoid releasing, each new piece of information only seems to raise more questions. When it comes to the actual circumstances of Epstein’s death, however, members of Congress are hoping to soon obtain more details via testimony from a source that is a long time coming: The prison guards who were tasked with watching over Epstein’s cell that night. You know, the same guards that documents included in the released files say were apparently running Google searches on Epstein less than an hour before he was discovered dead in his cell, via what the FBI still insists was a suicide by hanging.The Epstein-Googling guard in question, a woman named Tova Noel, has been a source of intense speculation related to the case for years. She is now expected to testify before the House Oversight Committee; an interview that was supposed to happen today but has been postponed “due to scheduling issues.” She’s an Army veteran, and began working in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) of the prison at the beginning of July, 2019, the exact same week that Epstein was arrested for the second time on federal sex-trafficking charges and moved there. Along with fellow guard Michael Thomas, Noel was one of two guards who according to policy were meant to be checking on Epstein every 30 minutes. That seemingly did not happen, but it’s largely impossible to say what did happen thanks to a lack of functional cameras scattered throughout the facility, including the cameras near Epstein’s cell in the SHU. These camera issues were already known to the facility according to a 2023 DOJ report, and the entire Metropolitan Correctional Center announced in 2021 that it would be “temporarily” closing to address issues of degrading security and infrastructure. It has never reopened in the five years since. The House committee that is investigating the case into Jeffrey Epstein is calling for the testimony of Tova Noel, the prison guard who was working the night of his death. Noel has said she believes she is the last person to have seen Jeffrey Epstein alive. #PINKSRead more: https://www.jezebel.com/epstein-death-files-prison-guards-tova-noel-googling-suspicious-deposits-bribes-testimony-congress#jeffreyepstein #tovanoel #houseoversightcommittee #fbi #metropolitancorrectionalcenter
