House Oversight Committee seeks testimony from prison guard on duty when Jeffrey Epstein died

The House Oversight Committee is seeking to interview a former federal prison guard who has said she believes she is the last person to have seen Jeffrey Epstein alive

The House Oversight Committee is seeking to interview a former federal prison guard who has said she believes she is the last person to have seen Jeffrey Epstein alive.

The committee asked for testimony from Tova Noel as part of its investigation into the late sex offender after documents released by the Justice Department suggested she was googling her notorious inmate shortly before he was found dead in his cell.

“Due to public reporting, documents released by the Department of Justice, and documents obtained by the Committee, the Committee believes you have information that will assist in its investigation,” Rep. James Comer, R-Ky. and the chair of the committee, wrote Noel in a letter Friday. Comer asked that she sit for a transcribed interview with the committee on March 26.

Noel, an Army veteran who had previously worked as a mail carrier, was working at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York as a correctional officer for the Bureau of Prisons on the morning in 2019 when Epstein was found dead in his cell. New York City’s medical examiner called his death a suicide.

Noel and her partner that night, Michael Thomas, were supposed to be checking on Epstein, who was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges and had previously attempted suicide, every 30 minutes.