By Florence Frederick
Publication Date: 2026-03-07 16:43:00
New information has emerged about what happened the morning financier Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his cell at Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan as he awaited trial for sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking.
Tova Noel, a prison guard who was on duty at the federal detention facility in the wee hours of August 10, 2019, allegedly Googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 am and 5:52 am that day, according to Department of Justice documents obtained by the New York Post. At 6:30 am, her colleague Michael Thomas found Epstein dead in his cell, where he had allegedly hanged himself with strips of orange cloth.
The other bombshell allegation from the documents? Noel allegedly received a $5,000 bank deposit just days before Epstein’s death, as well as 11 other mysterious deposits over the course of a year totaling at least $11,880.
US Department of Justice/ MEGA
An internal FBI briefing included in the documents said that Noel is…