Documents made public on Jeffrey Epstein revealed the unusual internet search made by one of his prison guards moments before his body was discovered, along with details about her bank records.
The release of millions of pages of documents and sworn testimony from high-profile figures like former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has done little to quell lingering questions about the late convicted sex offender, his connections, or his death.
Now, a 66-page forensic examination of the computers used by Epstein’s previously indicted guards at New York’s Metropolitan Correctional Center showed that Tova Noel had received suspicious deposits to her bank account in the months leading up to a job at the facility had googled the “latest on Epstein in jail” more than once less than an hour before the financier’s dead body was discovered.
In a report from the New York Post about the examination of the Bureau of Prisons computers, the newspaper detailed, “Noel googled ‘latest on Epstein in jail’ at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before colleague, correction officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record of Noel’s internet search history that night.”
Instead of making rounds, both were said to have been napping while waking hours found Noel allegedly browsing for furniture, while Thomas was said to have been looking at motorcycles and sports news.
“I don’t remember doing that,” she had reportedly told the DOJ when questioned in 2021. Noel also argued that FBI records weren’t “accurate. I don’t recall looking him up.”
Further, after having only taken the job a little more than a month before Epstein’s August 10, 2019, death, she claimed all her colleagues similarly neglected rounds and falsified records to cover up that fact. “I’ve never worked in the Special Housing Unit (SHU) and actually done rounds every 30 minutes.”
Beginning in April 2018 and continuing through July 30, 2019, less than two weeks before Epstein was discovered with a noose around his neck, a suspicious activity report by Chase Bank flagged 12 deposits into Noel’s bank account. The last was reported to be the largest at $5,000.
Indicating that Noel “drove a $62,000 2019 Land Rover Range Rover,” the Post also reported that she hadn’t been “asked about the cash during her DOJ interview.”
What’s more, the DOJ files pointed to a belief by the FBI that Noel may have been spotted in surveillance footage the night before carrying material of some kind near Epstein’s cell when a “mysterious orange shape” had been picked up on camera.
“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,” the FBI reported. For her part, Noel denied that she may have provided the orange cloth that Epstein was officially said to have used to commit suicide, testifying that she had seen him alive “somewhere around after 10” and since it was the responsibility of the prior shift, “she never gave out linen — ever.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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