Guards Accused of Napping and Shopping Online the Night Epstein Died

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The night that Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself in a Manhattan jail, one of the guards on duty was catching up on sports news and looking at motorcycle sales on a government computer. The other spent time shopping online for furniture. For about two hours, they appeared to be asleep at a desk just 15 feet away from Mr. Epstein’s cell.

Those details were revealed in an indictment unsealed on Tuesday against the two jail employees. The indictment said neither guard made the required rounds every 30 minutes to check on inmates. Yet they filed paperwork claiming they had.

The entire night, from 10:30 p.m. to 6:30 a.m., security cameras showed that nobody entered the wing where Mr. Epstein had been left alone in his cell, the indictment said. The guards, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, only discovered Mr. Epstein was dead when they went in to give him breakfast.

“I messed up,” Mr. Thomas reportedly told a supervisor just minutes later, according to the indictment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/guards-accused-of-napping-and-shopping-online-the-night-epstein-died/ar-BBWZV86

[dewsgirl]

1. I don't know whether to believe this or not.

[jberryhill]

2. You can read the doc yourself

Instead of allowing others to decide what’s important for you:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/press-release/file/1218466/download

[dewsgirl]

3. I read it earlier during the impeachment break. I was just saying,

I don't know whether to trust it, I mean trust really anything about the Epstein story. ATM

[PJMcK]

4. I'm curious

With your professional experience, how do you interpret these events?

Thanks, in advance.

[jberryhill]

7. I'm not sure what you mean by "these events"

The indictment appears to be based on a thorough investigation conducted by a team of professional investigators.

It will be interesting to see how the defense addresses these detailed allegations.

[BeyondGeography]

5. Front-line fall guys

Rough country.

[blueinredohio]

6. I thought when this first happened they said

the cameras weren't working.

[jberryhill]

8. "The cameras"

There are a lot of cameras at this facility. People have this stupid notion that there are cameras trained on the interiors of the cells for 24 hour privacy invasion.


20. As reflected on video obtained from the MCC's internal video surveillance system, at approximately 10:30 p.m. on August 9, 2019 — after' TOVA NOEL, the defendant, had signed and submitted the 10 p.m. count slip and the institutional count had been completed — NOEL briefly walked up to, and then walked back from, the door to the tier in which Epstein was housed. As confirmed by the video obtained from the MCC's internal video surveillance system, this was the last time anyone, including any correctional officer, walked up to, let alone entered, the only entrance to the tier in which Epstein was housed until approximately 6:30 a,.m. on August 10.

[gopiscrap]

10. welcome to DU