By Reuters• 25 May 2021
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(FILE) - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman (R) points as he speaks during a news conference about the arrest of American financier Jeffrey Epstein in New York, USA, 08 July 2019 (reissued 10 August 2019). US media reported that Epstein was found dead in his prison cell on 10 August 2019 morning in the MCC Manhattan while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. An official confirmation by authorities of his death is pending. EPA-EFE/JASON SZENES
epa07766214 (FILE) - United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York Geoffrey Berman (R) points as he speaks during a news conference about the arrest of American financier Jeffrey Epstein in New York, USA, 08 July 2019 (reissued 10 August 2019). US media reported that Epstein was found dead in his prison cell on 10 August 2019 morning in the MCC Manhattan while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. An official confirmation by authorities of hi
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By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) â Two jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on their watch won a federal judgeâs approval on Tuesday for an agreement to end the criminal case against them and let them avoid prison.
The defendants, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, had been accused of falling asleep and surfing the internet rather than checking on Epstein every 30 minutes at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan.
Epstein, who had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges, was found hanging in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019. New York Cityâs medical examiner called the financierâs death a suicide.
By Syndicated Content
By Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) â Two jail guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night Jeffrey Epstein killed himself on their watch won a federal judgeâs approval on Tuesday for an agreement to end the criminal case against them and let them avoid prison.
The defendants, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, had been accused of falling asleep and surfing the internet rather than checking on Epstein every 30 minutes at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in downtown Manhattan.
Epstein, who had pleaded not guilty to sex trafficking charges, was found hanging in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019. New York Cityâs medical examiner called the financierâs death a suicide.
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
MIAMI — Two federal prison officers facing felony charges of falsifying reports and sleeping on duty the night Jeffrey Epstein was found dead in his New York cell have agreed