Mysterious $5,000 Deposit Before Sex Predator Dies

One of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards Googled the sex predator minutes before he was found dead — and also made a mysterious $5,000 cash deposit ten days before the predator committed suicide in his prison cell, newly released documents from the Department of Justice reveal. US Department of Justice (DOJ).

Tova Noel was one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center employees accused of falsifying records they were checking on Epstein the night before he committed suicide on August 10, 2019, which they did not. The guards were fired, but criminal charges against both were later dropped.

Noel Googled “latest news on Epstein in prison” at 5:42 a.m., then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, corrections officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead, hanging in his cell, in at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI filing of Noel’s Internet search history that night.

Before that shift, Noel, 37, shopped for furniture online and slept on the job instead of performing Epstein’s required 30-minute background checks while Thomas looked at motorcycles, prosecutors said. The FBI highlighted the chilling Internet research in its 66-page forensic review of Noel and Thomas’ Department of Corrections desktop computers. It was the only search highlighted.

Strangely, when he gave a sworn statement to the Department of Justice in 2021, Noel denied that he had Googled Epstein. “I don’t remember doing that,” she claimed, according to the transcript. She argued that the FBI’s data was inaccurate: “I don’t remember Googling it.” When asked if she had anything to do with Epstein’s death, Noel said no.

Noel, who was later indicted in Westchester County Superior Court for an alleged assault at her new job, also admitted to investigators that no one at the federal prison in Manhattan had visited Epstein and that she had falsified records.

Epstein was found dead in his cell when Thomas and Noel brought him breakfast on the clock. 6:30 a.m. Aug. 10, 2019.

Meanwhile, Chase Bank reported cash deposits into Noel’s bank account in what the FBI labeled a “suspicious activity report,” another new Justice Department filing revealed. A total of 12 payments (totalling $11,880) began in April 2018, culminating in the largest deposit, $5,000, on July 30, 2019.

Noel began working at Epstein’s unit on July 7, 2019, just weeks before his death. An internal FBI memo, also released in Justice Department files, reveals that the agency believed Noel was possibly the mysterious orange figure seen in blurry surveillance footage near Epstein’s cell around 10:40 p.m. that night. The orange blob in the video has been a source of controversy and conspiracy theories since the FBI released the footage last summer.

“At approximately 10:40 p.m., an officer, believed to be Tova Noel, carried the inmate’s clothes up to level L, the last time any corrections officer approached the single entrance to the SHU level,” the investigation stated. Epstein hanged himself with strips of orange cloth. In an affidavit, Noel, who was working a double shift that day, told investigators that she last saw Epstein alive “sometime after 10 p.m.” and that she “never gave sheets — never” or clothes to the inmates.

She testified that she didn’t know why Epstein had extra sheets in his cell. The second guard on duty slept between 10 p.m. and midnight, she said. A prison employee entering Epstein’s cell area alone would have violated the rules, Noel’s lawyers declined to comment on the allegations.

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Source: prizrenpost