Epstein Prison Guard’s Google History and Mysterious Bank Deposits Revealed

New information has emerged about what happened the morning financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan as he awaited trial for sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.

Tova Noel, a prison guard who was on duty at the federal detention facility in the wee hours of August 10, 2019, allegedly Googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 am and 5:52 am that day, according to Department of Justice documents obtained by the New York Post. At 6:30 am, her colleague Michael Thomas found Epstein dead in his cell, where he had allegedly hanged himself with strips of orange cloth.

The other bombshell allegation from the documents? Noel allegedly received a $5,000 bank deposit just days before Epstein’s death, as well as 11 other mysterious deposits over the course of a year totaling at least $11,880.

An internal FBI briefing included in the documents said that Noel is believed to be the figure that appears on surveillance footage near Epstein’s cell at 10:40pm the night before. The blurry shape appeared to be carrying something orange, which the agency believes to be linens.

“At approximately 10:40 pm, a correctional officer, believed to be Tova Noel, carried linen or inmate clothing up to the L-Tier, last time any correctional officer approached the only entrance to the SHU tier,” read the briefing.

Noel denied bringing linen to Epstein and Googling him, however she and Thomas previously admitted to not checking on inmates every 30 minutes and falsifying records. Both guards were fired after Epstein’s death, and criminal charges were brought against them but later dropped.