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Case 1:19-cr-00830-AT Document1 Filed 11/19/19 Page 1 of 20 “UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK aS Se ae = Re = S&S =§ = = = = & = S&S = = 4 INDICTMENT UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - Vv. - TOVA NOEL and MICHAEL THOMAS, Defendants. INTRODUCTION 1. On or about August 10, 2019, TOVA NOEL and MICHAEL THOMAS, the defendants, in dereliction of their duties as correctional officers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center (“MCC”), repeatediy failed to perform mandated counts of prisoners under their watch in the MCC’s Special Housing Unit (“SHU”). Instead, for substantial portions of their shifts, NOEL and THOMAS sat at their desk, browsed the internet, and moved around the common area of the SHU. To conceal their failure to perform their duties, NOEL and THOMAS repeatedly signed false certifications attesting to having conducted multiple counts of inmates when, in truth and in fact, they never conducted such counts. As a result of those false statements, the MCC believed prisoners in the SHU were being regularly monitored and accounted for when, in fact, as a result of the defendants’ conduct, no correctional officer conducted any count or round of the SHU from approximately 10:30 DOJ-OGR- 00021908
Case 1:19-cr-00830-AT Document1 Filed 11/19/19 Page 2 of 20 p.m. on August 9 until approximately 6:30 a.m. on August 10, at which time, as alleged herein, NOEL and THOMAS discovered the body of an MCC inmate, Jeffrey Epstein, who had committed suicide overnight while unobserved. RELEVANT INDIVIDUALS AND ENTITIES 2 The MCC is a federal administrative detention facility located in Manhattan that is run by the Federal Bureau of Prisons (“BOP”). The MCC is one of several facilities used to house inmates who have been charged with federal crimes in the Southern District of New York and are awaiting trial. The MCC employs correctional officers, whose primary duty is to ensure the care, custody, and control of the inmate population of the MCC. …
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