The New York federal prosecutors have moved to dismiss charges against two Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted to falsifying records on the night Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide in August 2019.
CNN reported that the guards who were on duty at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan when Epstein died entered into deferred prosecution agreements with Manhattan prosecutors in May.
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According to a letter from federal prosecutors that was filed in court papers, the guards agreed to provide “truthful information related to their employment by the Bureau of Prisons, including about the events and circumstances described in the Indictment.”
The guards had to complete 100 hours of community service.
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The agreement required the guards cooperate with a Department of Justice Inspector General review, authorities said in May.
Tova Noel and Michael Thomas have since fulfilled their part of the bargain, prosecutors wrote in a document posted to the docket Thursday.
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“Under the agreements, prosecution was deferred for a period of six months during the term of Noel’s and Thomas’s good behavior, completion of community service, and satisfactory compliance with the terms of the agreement,” the court document says.
CNN reported that a federal judge will have to file an order officially dismissing the case.
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In November 2019, Noel and Thomas, pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and filing false records in connection with their actions the night Jeffrey Epstein died in prison.
The initial indictment reported that on the night of Epstein’s death, the guards allegedly failed to complete the required counts of prisoners on their watch in the specialized housing unit where he was being held.