A grand jury indictment made public on Tuesday accused guards Toval Noel and Michael Thomas of neglecting their duties by failing to perform checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, as required, and of fabricating log entries to show they had.Prosecutors allege that instead of making their required rounds, the two guards sat at their desks, browsed the internet and walked around the unit's common area. During one two-hour period, the indictment said, both appeared to have been asleep.
"As alleged, the defendants had a duty to ensure the safety and security of federal inmates in their care at the Metropolitan Correctional Centre. Instead, they repeatedly failed to conduct mandated checks on inmates, and lied on official forms to hide their dereliction," US Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said.Epstein's death while awaiting trial on charges he sexually abused underage girls was a major embarrassment for the US Bureau of Prisons.
The cell where he died was in a high-security unit, famous for having held terrorists and drug cartel kingpins.Epstein's death, though, revealed the jail was suffering from problems including chronic staffing shortages that lead to mandatory overtime for guards day after day and other staff being pressed into service as correctional officers.
Attorney General William Barr has said investigators found "serious irregularities" at the jail and the FBI's investigation had been slowed because some witnesses were uncooperative. Epstein had been placed on suicide watch after he was found July 23 on the floor of his cell with a bruised neck. Multiple people familiar with operations at the jail say Epstein was taken off the watch after about a week, meaning he was less closely monitored but still supposed to be checked on every 30 minutes.
Al security footage gets reviewed. Even security guards have to do the rounds because of it. And yet these guys refused to? Knowing fully that they will be found out? And were 4m away from cell but didn't hear him setting up or gagging? Sounds fishy, I don't believe it
Under instruction from Bill and Hillary ?
harnessdhashtag And why did they do that? 🗣🗣🗣🗣
So stop writing Jeff Epstein killed him self then! The Clinton Foundation killed him
Are these the records that proclaimed that he killed himself?
No one Daniel
Give the guard a metal Jeff was a rock spider
So the guards managed to not check on a high security prisoner and the cameras malfunctioned at the same time 'Epstein decided to pile drive himself' into the ground... There's a lot of convenience to this story even before the paperwork.
That’s it ladies and gentlemen, we caught these two, nothing more to be seen or done here *dusts hands*
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