The prison guards who slept while Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself planned to defend themselves as scapegoats of a dysfunctional system if they had gone to trial, sources have revealed.
Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, who admitted sleeping and browsing the internet instead of watching the billionaire pedophile the night he killed himself in his New York jail cell, last week avoided time behind bars in exchange for their cooperation and community service.
The pair had been charged with lying on prison records to make it seem as though they had made required checks on the sex offender before he was found in his cell in August 2019.
Judge approves deal for Jeffrey Epstein s prison guards who napped and browsed the internet instead of monitoring him the night he was killed to avoid jail in exchange for cooperating in federal probe of his death
Michael Thomas and Tova Noel, two federal jail guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself, will not go to prison
The pair admitted they falsified records under a deal with federal prosecutors, which was approved by a federal judge on Tuesday
In the hours before Epstein s death, Noel shopped online for furniture while Thomas surfed the internet for sports news and motorcycle sales