Two Bureau of Prisons guards admitted falsifying records Tuesday after financier Jeffrey Epstein s jail death in a deferred prosecution deal that will spare them a criminal record if they fully cooperate with investigators.
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So long as they cooperate with a federal probe into the circumstances surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s suicide, two prison staffers who falsified their records about watching the convicted sex offender in his cell will face no jail time.
The Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan on May 1, 2021, with New York City Hall illuminated in the background. Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in his prison cell there on Aug. 10, 2020. (Barbara Leonard photo/Courthouse News)
MANHATTAN (CN) Two Bureau of Prisons employees who covered up their failure to check on Jeffrey Epstein before the high-profile inmate was found dead in his cell in August 2019 will each serve 100 hours of community service under deferred prosecution agreements approved in court Tuesday afternoon.
Two US Bureau of Prisons guards admitted falsifying records after financier Jeffrey Epstein’s jail death in a deferred prosecution deal that will spare them a criminal record if they fully cooperate with investigators.
Guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas agreed to the deals in Manhattan federal court as they admitted their guilt before Judge Analisa Torres to accusations in an indictment that will be dismissed if they follow all the rules of their agreement for six months.
The judge later signed orders approving the deal.
“You shall truthfully and completely disclose all information with respect to the activities of yourself and others related to your employment by the Bureau of Prisons, which information can be used for any purpose,” the judge told them as she read details of the deal from court documents.