Manhattan Detention Center staff Tova Noel and Mike Thomas, who were on duty at the time Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide, agreed to cooperate with the prosecutor's office.
As part of the deal with the investigation, in addition to voluntary cooperation with law enforcement officers, Noel and Thomas will have 100 hours of community service and six months of supervision. This will end their punishment.
According to the investigation, the guards, who are charged with checking the prisoners every half hour, went about their business (sleeping, having fun on the Internet) and only made the prescribed entries about the rounds in the journal.
Prosecutors say billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who was in custody on trafficking and sexual exploitation charges, was unsupervised for nearly eight hours, allowing him to commit suicide.
At the same time, the trial of the rotoze guards threatens to result in a loud scandal, since the lack of supervision over prisoners and falsification of documents in American prisons is a variant of the norm. Which, by the way, is largely due to the chronic understaffing.
“If you're going to blame Noel and Thomas, you have to blame the entire system. Because the whole system is broken, ”said Tyrone Covington, an employee at New York City Jail.
According to the official version, Jeffrey Epstein – a financier, philanthropist, millionaire and sex offender – committed suicide in a detention center in August 2019.
The presence of Epstein's confirmed connections with the powerful of this world gave rise to a conspiracy theory that he was helped to leave this world for fear of high-profile revelations.
