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Defer Prosecution of Federal COs Who Slept Through Epstein Suicide

By BOB HENNELLY
Posted 6/2/21

Two Federal Correction Officers charged with falsifying documents after Jeffrey Epstein's August 2019 suicide while they were on duty at the Metropolitan Correctional Center will not be tried under a deferred prosecution agreement approved by a judge May 25.

Michael Thomas and Tova Noel were arrested in November 2019 with doctoring logs at the lower-Manhattan facility to conceal that they had been sleeping on the job and surfing the web instead of monitoring the accused sex-trafficker who hung himself in the Segregated Housing Unit.

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