EFTA00029992.pdf

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Visit of Attorney General William P. Barr 
United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York 
October 10, 2019 
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Center on August 9-10, 2019, the night that Jeffrey Epstein committed 
suicide. In the last two months, our Office, along with agents from the 
FBI and DOJ-OIG, have interviewed more than 40 witnesses, including 
27 MCC employees and 16 inmates at MCC; reviewed records from the 
MCC as well as financial records for the relevant employees; conducted 
searches of the cellphones used by certain of the relevant prison guards, 
and reviewed dozens of hours of the limited videotape evidence the FBI 
has thus far been able to recover in the face of technical data recovery 
issues. 
The investigation has determined principally that the two prison officers 
responsible for the SHU area during the night of August 9 and early 
morning hours of August 10 — Michael Thomas and Tova Noel — did not 
conduct any of the required institutional "counts" at 12 a.m., 3 a.m., and 
5 a.m., nor did they conduct most of the "rounds" they were required to 
conduct every 30 minutes. In particular, it appears that no prison official 
observed Epstein from approximately 9:30 pm on the evening of August 
9 until his body was discovered at approximately 6:30 a.m. the next 
morning. Thomas and Noel also falsified numerous forms, indicating 
that they had performed the required rounds and counts overnight 
although they did not actually do so. Instead, Thomas and Noel were 
performing other tasks, using the computer, talking, or sleeping during 
their overnight shift. In addition, the investigation has determined that, 
contrary to MCC policy and a directive from the Chief Psychologist and 
then-Warden, Epstein was left without a cellmate from the morning of 
August 9 through his death on the morning of August 10. It is not clear 
that either Thomas or Noel…
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