New Justice Department Files Show Guards Discussed How to ‘Cover’ Up Jeffrey Epstein’s Death

Newly released Justice Department files reveal that an inmate claimed prison guards discussed covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s death, according to FBI notes.

According to a handwritten note included in the latest batch of files to be released, an inmate claimed that a guard said, “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up and he’s going to have an alibi, my officers.”

This allegedly occurred at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York City on the morning of Epstein’s death.

The handwritten note indicates the remark was made after inmates accused the guards of killing the disgraced financier while they were handing out breakfast on the morning of his death.

In the same note, the inmate claimed that his fellow inmates began to say “Miss Noel killed Jeffrey.

“Miss Noel” appears to be a reference to Tova Noel, a guard on duty the night Epstein died. She was later fired after allegedly falsifying records to make it appear she had conducted the required rounds.

According to a transcript of Noel’s interview with FBI agents, she searched Epstein’s name on a prison computer shortly before his death. She later told investigators she did not remember conducting the search and claimed she did not know who Epstein was before being assigned to the special housing unit.

According to the transcript, an FBI agent pressed Noel during the interview, asking, “No? Does it surprise you to hear that you know internet searches would show that that’s what you were doing from 5:42 to 5:52 a.m. on August 10, 2019?”

Noel replied that it would surprise her and later insisted, “It wouldn’t be accurate.”

During the same interview, Noel acknowledged that she was the last person to see or speak with Epstein alive, recalling that he had asked her to plug in his CPAP machine.

She said another guard discovered Epstein unresponsive in his cell the following morning and began performing CPR.

“Breathe, Epstein, breathe!” Noel remembered the guard shouting as he attempted to revive him. She claimed he then turned to her and said, “We’re going to be in so much trouble.”

While Noel was charged with falsifying records, the charges were eventually dropped, and neither she nor the other guard have been suspected or charged with Epstein’s death.

Epstein died at the age of 66 in 2019 in an apparent suicide.