Epstein prison guard to testify in front of House Oversight Committee today

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: MS NOW News

May. 18, 2026, 6:00 AM EDT


A corrections officer who was on duty when Jeffrey Epstein died in a New York City prison cell in August 2019 is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.

Tova Noel told federal investigators that she believes she was the last person to see the convicted sex offender alive at the Metropolitan Correctional Center before he killed himself. Noel and Michael Thomas, the other corrections officer assigned to monitor Epstein that night, initially faced criminal charges for falsifying records related to that shift, but the charges were dropped after the pair reached deals with prosecutors in 2021. Both were fired from their jobs.

Noel’s and Thomas’ prosecution agreements included their cooperation with a government investigation into Epstein’s death. The Department of Justice’s Office of the Inspector General released its report on that investigation in July 2023, finding “numerous and serious failures by MCC New York staff constituting misconduct and dereliction of their duties.”

Documents produced by the Justice Department reveal that FBI investigators probed Google searches by Noel the morning of Epstein’s death, including for “latest on Epstein in jail” less than an hour before he was found dead. “I don’t remember doing that,” Noel said of the Google searches in her sworn statement to the DOJ in 2021.

Read more: https://www.ms.now/news/tova-noel-epstein-prison-guard-testify-house

[mobeau69]

1. Televised?

[Buddyzbuddy]

2. I'm betting he/she exercises his 5th Amendment right as he/she probably needs to.

[GiqueCee]

5. I thought that accepting a plea deal...

... meant that you couldn't plead the 5th when questioned under oath, having already admitted guilt by taking the deal. I may be mistaken, but I thought I read that somewhere back in the long ago. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. It's probably a deposition like what was done by others who testified.

They usually record those in a "closed door" setting but won't release right away.

[Ray Bruns]

3. At least the guy wasn't branded like Al Bundy.

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[twodogsbarking]

6. Do you swear to not tell the truth so help you trump?

[nuxvomica]

8. Have they looked at their financial records?

Nearly every procedural TV detective show I've seen usually breaks the case by examining financial records.

[tavernier]

10. That was my first thought.

She lost her job but is suddenly driving a Jaguar? (just an example, I don’t know what she drives)

[Eugene]

9. Epstein got 'special treatment' in jail, former guard tells House Oversight Committee

Epstein got 'special treatment' in jail, former guard tells House Oversight Committee

Tova Noel is believed to be the last person who saw Epstein before his death.

A former prison guard who was on duty at the federal Metropolitan Corrections Center in New York when convicted Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019 testified Monday that the late sex offender received "special treatment" at the jail, two members of the House Oversight Committee said.

Democratic Reps. Suhas Subramanyam of Virginia and Melanie Stansbury of New Mexico said Tova Noel testified that Epstein received extra bed linens and a CPAP machine, and had access to "medications in a way no one else did."

"I do think [Epstein] was treated differently from the other inmates," Rep. Subramanyam said when asked about Noel's testimony. "Jeffrey Epstein got special treatment in that facility."

https://abcnews.com/US/house-oversight-committee-interview-prison-guard-duty-epstein/story?id=133019125