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Death of Jeffrey Epstein (August 10, 2019)

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aliasesDeath of Jeffrey Epstein, Epstein death in custody, MCC New York death

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DateAugust 10, 2019, discovered at approximately 6:30 a.m.1
PlaceMetropolitan Correctional Center, 150 Park Row, New York; Special Housing Unit, 9 South, L Tier, cell Z06-22023
Pending caseUnited States v. Jeffrey Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 (RMB) (S.D.N.Y.)4
Medical examinerOffice of the Chief Medical Examiner, City of New York; autopsy August 11, 2019; determination announced August 16, 2019: cause of death hanging, manner of death suicide54
FBI investigation90A-NY-3151227; closed December 5, 2022, no criminality found pertaining to the death6
DOJ OIG investigationReport 23-085, June 2023: “numerous and serious failures” by MCC New York staff7
Criminal charges arisingUnited States v. Noel and Thomas, 19 Cr. 830 (AT); one count of conspiracy and five counts of falsifying records, 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001(a)(3) and 28; deferred prosecution agreements, charges dismissed December 13, 20219
Disposition of the indictmentNolle prosequi entered by Judge Richard M. Berman, August 29, 201910

Jeffrey Epstein was found hanged in a locked cell in the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan at about 6:30 a.m. on August 10, 2019, while held without bail on the federal sex trafficking indictment returned against him on July 2, 2019.14 The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York performed an autopsy the following day and announced on August 16 that the cause of death was hanging and the manner of death suicide.54 The FBI, which investigated the cause of death, determined that there was no criminality pertaining to how Epstein died and closed its investigation on December 5, 2022.116 The Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General, whose parallel investigation was directed at the conduct of Bureau of Prisons personnel, reported in June 2023 that MCC New York staff had committed “numerous and serious failures,” including falsifying the records that showed Epstein had been checked on through the night.117 A pathologist retained by Epstein’s family, who had observed the autopsy, publicly disputed the suicide finding; the Chief Medical Examiner stood by it.12 The indictment was dismissed under the rule of abatement after a public hearing at which victims were heard.13410

Detention at MCC New York

Epstein was arrested at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on the evening of July 6, 2019, as his aircraft, tail number N212JE, arrived from Paris. He was taken into FBI custody at approximately 6:12 p.m., processed at 26 Federal Plaza and transported to the Metropolitan Correctional Center “for safe keeping until his initial appearance on July 8, 2019.”14 He was initially placed in the general population, and on July 7, the day after his arrest, was moved to the Special Housing Unit “due to the significant media coverage of his case and awareness of his notoriety among MCC New York inmates.”11 The SHU holds inmates separated from the general population and locked in their cells for approximately 23 hours a day; it has six tiers, each reached through a single locked door, with eight cells to a tier and each cell behind its own locked door.1115 Bail was refused on July 18 and Epstein was ordered detained pending trial.1617

Epstein was housed with a cellmate from July 10.18 He was later moved to cell Z06-220 on the L Tier to accommodate the electrical needs of a medical device; of the cells in the SHU, that one was the closest with a direct line of sight to the SHU Officers’ Station.2

His attorneys raised conditions with the prison in writing. On July 22 defence counsel Mariel Colon wrote to MCC’s legal office that Epstein had been refused hourly bathroom access during legal visits despite an assurance from staff, that two promised telephone calls had not materialised, and that he had been eating from vending machines because he could not leave and re-enter attorney conference; a supervisory staff attorney forwarded the three requests to executive staff for a response.19 On August 6, four days before his death, Colon wrote again: Epstein had no toilet paper in his cell, his CPAP machine had not been plugged in the previous night, and since his arrival he had been able to make only two fifteen-minute telephone calls, both on speakerphone with officers present. The reply told her the concerns had been forwarded to the appropriate staff.20

The incident of July 23, 2019

At approximately 1:27 a.m. on July 23, officers responded to a call for assistance at cell Z05-124 on the M Tier. A senior officer recorded seeing Epstein “laying down near his bunk with what appeared to be a piece of handmade orange cloth around his neck,” and another officer recorded that “[w]hile the 9-South officer was conducted rounds inmate Epstein, Jeffrey … was found in his cell with a noose around his neck and appeared to be unresponsive.”2122 The Material Handler Supervisor recorded that Epstein was “lying on the floor of his cell handcuffed” and was carried to the health unit on a stretcher, “where he was dressed in a suicide smock and placed on Suicide Watch observation with staff.”23 The operations lieutenant found Epstein “lying in the fetal position on the floor of his cell wearing a t-shirt and boxers … breathing heavily and … snoring,” and noted “His neck was red with no abrasions.”24 A chain-of-custody log records an “ORANGE HOMEMADE ROPE” recovered from the Special Housing Unit at 1:37 a.m. that morning.25 A medical assessment was not conducted at the time of the incident because no medical staff were available after 10 p.m.; when medical staff became available Epstein was examined and treated “for a circular line of erythema at the base of the neck, one section on the front with marks of friction and a small erythema on his left knee.”26

The accounts of what had happened conflicted from the first hours. Epstein told staff that his cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, had tried to kill him, had been harassing and threatening him and had tried to extort money from him, and that he had told only his lawyer.22 Tartaglione, questioned the same night, said he had been asleep with headphones on when he felt something hit his legs, got up, turned on the light and saw Epstein with a string around his neck, and that he then called the guards.24 The account the FBI circulated internally that evening, taken from the Southern District, was that Epstein “couldn’t recall what happened” when revived and that “[h]is cellmate denied knowing anything and said he was just sitting on his bunk with his earphones on.”27 The senior FBI official who circulated that account described Tartaglione as “a former police officer and subject of a quadruple homicide in HVRA,” a case in which the FBI had arrested him the previous year, and noted that “[t]he cellmate ident is not public knowledge.”27 Another inmate on the same tier later told the OIG that he heard Epstein’s cellmate call for assistance and that the cellmate told him Epstein had tried to hang himself from the bunkbed ladder.1

The OIG found that Epstein “first told MCC New York staff he thought his cellmate had tried to kill him, but later said he did not know what occurred and did not want to talk about how he had sustained his injuries,” and that he “also later asked if he could be housed with the same cellmate.” Disciplinary charges against Epstein for alleged self-mutilation were not sustained for insufficient evidence.1 Tartaglione’s counsel later pressed the government in discovery for records of the incident; the government replied that no recordings of the Bureau’s interviews of Tartaglione had been made, that no documentation existed of the decision to house the two men together, and that no After Action Report had been prepared for the incident, and offered the defence a 53-page Bureau of Prisons investigative report on it for review under a protective order.28

Suicide watch and psychological observation

Epstein was placed on suicide watch after the July 23 incident and was stepped down the following morning. The MCC chief psychologist told colleagues on July 24 that “Epstein was stepped down from suicide watch to psychological observation this morning,” and an associate warden reported the same to the Bureau’s Northeast Regional Director at 9:39 a.m.: “Inmate Epstein … was removed from Suicide Watch and stepped down to Psychological Observation. He was just escorted to Health Services for a follow-up assessment/evaluation.”2930 A chronological log records that an inmate companion had watched him from 7 a.m. on July 23 until 8:45 a.m. on July 24, and that he was then on psychological observation, with an inmate companion, from 8:45 a.m. on July 24 until 8:15 a.m. on July 30.31 The OIG found that while on suicide watch on July 23 Epstein was permitted to leave the suicide-watch room to meet his attorneys for more than six hours, and that during psychological observation from July 24 to July 30 he met attorneys for between eight and eleven hours a day “without direct observation”; it found no evidence that these legal visits had been approved by the Captain or an Associate Warden, as Bureau policy required.32

Following the incident, the OIG found, “the Psychology Department determined Epstein needed to be housed with an appropriate cellmate, and on July 30 it sent an email to over 70 MCC New York employees informing them of this requirement.”33 The captain told the OIG that he had compiled a list of possible cellmates and vetted them, though the Warden told the OIG that no inmates had been pre-vetted to replace the previous cellmate.34 A new cellmate was assigned on July 30 and remained with Epstein until August 9.18

August 8–9, 2019

On August 8 the U.S. Marshals Service sent two emails notifying MCC New York staff that Epstein’s cellmate was being transferred to another facility the following day. “However, no action was taken to ensure Epstein was assigned another cellmate.”1 Also on August 8, Epstein met his attorneys at the prison and signed a new Last Will and Testament; “MCC New York officials did not learn about the new Will until after Epstein’s death.”1 The will named Darren Indyke and Richard D. Kahn as executors.35 Also on August 8, MCC personnel discovered that half the prison’s cameras had not been recording since July 29 (below).

On August 9 the cellmate departed for court at 8 a.m. and was not returned, leaving Epstein alone in his cell.361 The same day the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unsealed approximately 2,000 pages of documents from civil litigation involving Ghislaine Maxwell, which contained substantial derogatory information about Epstein and drew extensive media coverage.1 Epstein was in attorney conference from 8:30 a.m. and returned to the SHU at 6:45 p.m.36

After that meeting, “MCC New York staff allowed Epstein to make, in violation of BOP policy, an unrecorded, unmonitored telephone call before he was returned to his SHU cell. Although Epstein said he was calling his mother, in actuality he called someone with whom he allegedly had a personal relationship.”1 The section of the report devoted to that call places it “on August 9, 2019, from 6:58 p.m. to 7:19 p.m.”, a span of twenty-one minutes, to “a telephone number in the local 646 area code”, and records that “[n]o other BOP records exist regarding the unmonitored call, including identity of the person called or a summary of the conversation.”37 The FBI’s first situational report, written nearly four years earlier, both names the person called and gives a different duration. It records: “08/09/2019 at 1919 hours BOP”, followed by a bar covering what the report says next, “allows Epstein to make a phone call on an unsecured and un recorded line to Karyna Shuliak. That call lasted 19 seconds and details of that call are unknown. SDNY is working with Shuliak lawyer to determine meeting.”3 What the bar covers is the thing the Inspector General’s account is about: whose decision the call was. The Inspector General records the Unit Manager saying it was his alone as Institutional Duty Officer, the Captain saying he authorised it on condition it be monitored and logged, and the Unit Manager not recalling that conversation.37

The two accounts agree on a timestamp and disagree on what it marks. 1919 hours is 7:19 p.m. local, which is where the Inspector General’s span ends (read as UTC it would place the call inside the attorney conference, so local is the only coherent reading); on the situational report’s account the call is nineteen seconds long, and on the Inspector General’s it has by then been running twenty-one minutes. This page does not reconcile them. The situational report is a first account written on the day of the death by an agency working from what it had that afternoon; the Inspector General’s span is drawn from BOP call records and published in June 2023. The sharper contrast is not the duration but the identity: the Inspector General reports that no BOP record shows who was called, while the FBI had a name for her on the day. Epstein was last seen on the available video at approximately 7:49 p.m. being escorted back towards his tier.6 At approximately 8 p.m. all SHU inmates, Epstein among them, were locked in their cells for the night, and the six tiers were locked as well.111

The night of August 9–10

Supervision

Bureau of Prisons and MCC policy required that a staff member observe every SHU inmate at least once in each half of every hour, “thus ensuring that inmates are observed at least twice per hour,” and that inmate counts be conducted at designated times each day; both are documented on official forms known as count slips and round sheets.38 Policy also required a Lieutenant to visit the SHU on each shift, walking each tier, inspecting logs and observing activities.39

The OIG found that “staff failed to undertake required measures designed to make sure that Epstein and other SHU inmates were accounted for and safe, such as conducting inmate counts and 30-minute rounds, searching inmate cells, and ensuring adequate supervision of the SHU and the functionality of the video camera surveillance system.”1 Specifically: no 30-minute rounds were conducted after about 10:40 p.m. on August 9; none of the required SHU inmate counts were conducted after 4 p.m. on August 9; “[c]ount slips and round sheets were falsified to show that they had been performed”; only one SHU cell search was documented on August 9, and it was not of Epstein’s cell; and “BOP records did not indicate when Epstein’s cell was last searched.”1 A search of the cell after the death “revealed Epstein had excess prison blankets, linens, and clothing in his cell, and that some had been ripped to create nooses.”1

The two staff on duty in the SHU overnight were Correctional Officer Tova Noel and Material Handler Michael Thomas. Noel had worked her regular 4 p.m. to midnight shift in the SHU and followed it with an overtime shift from midnight to 8 a.m.; Thomas did not work his regular shift elsewhere in the prison and instead worked an overtime shift in the SHU from midnight to 8 a.m., his third consecutive shift and, in the OIG’s words, twenty-four hours straight, which the OIG called “certainly a contributory cause to the lack of adequate means of accounting for inmate location and wellbeing in the SHU”; Thomas told the OIG that no one conducted the 10 p.m. count that night because they were tired.40 During that shift “they each created and submitted falsified official BOP forms documenting inmate counts,” and Noel “completed and signed more than 75 separate entries on an official BOP form documenting 30-minute rounds … falsely stating that she and Thomas had conducted such rounds when, in fact, they had not.”41 The OIG also found that staffing shortages, “a persistent issue for the BOP, compromised the ability of MCC New York staff to adequately supervise inmates.”7

The FBI’s own timeline records that a correction officer was “seen on video walking up to each tier” at about 10:30 p.m. and that at about 10:40 p.m. “[a] CO, believed to be” a person whose name is redacted “carried linen or inmate clothing up to the L Tier, last time any CO approached the only entrance to the SHU tier.” It records that inmate head counts were not conducted five times between July 23 and August 9, and that one officer, whose name is likewise redacted, “was working 2 of those 5 shifts, including the shift during which Epstein committed suicide.”6

The camera system

MCC New York had approximately 150 cameras recording to two separate systems, DVR 1 and DVR 2; a camera assigned to one could not be recovered from the other.642 Disk failures occurred in DVR 2 on July 29, 2019. “While the prison’s cameras continued to provide live video feeds, recordings were made for only about half the cameras. MCC New York personnel discovered this failure on August 8, 2019, but it was not repaired until after Epstein’s death.”1 The FBI seized the DVR 2 hard drives on August 10, further DVR 2 components on August 14 and the entire DVR 1 system on August 15. Its Digital Forensics Analysis Unit found three faulty drives which, though repaired by a data-recovery specialist, could not be reassembled, and found from the DVR 2 controller logs that there had previously been “catastrophic disk failures” and that no recordings would have been available after July 29, 2019.43 The Warden, the SIS Lieutenant and the electronics technician all told the OIG they had been unaware the DVR 2 cameras were not recording between July 29 and August 8.43 The FBI’s earliest report described the surveillance of the hallway outside Epstein’s cell more bluntly: it “was reported ‘broken’ on Thursday 8/8/2019 with no record made.”3

One SHU camera was recording. It captured a large part of the SHU common area and portions of the stairways to the tiers, including Epstein’s, but not his cell door; anyone entering or attempting to enter his tier from the common area would have been picked up by it.1 Reviewing that footage, the OIG found that “between approximately 10:40 p.m. on August 9 and about 6:30 a.m. on August 10, no one was seen entering Epstein’s cell tier from the SHU common area,” and that movements before and after those times were generally consistent with employee actions as described by witnesses and documented in Bureau records.1 The OIG also observed that Noel and Thomas, seated at the officers’ station immediately outside, were not seen to rise from their seats or approach the cell block at any point in that period.44 The FBI reviewed over 400 hours of video from July 23 to August 10, focusing on the times around required counts and on the period from 4 p.m. on August 9 to 7 a.m. on August 10.6

Discovery and death

At approximately 6:30 a.m. on August 10 Noel and Thomas began delivering breakfast. Noel unlocked the door to Epstein’s tier. “When Thomas attempted to deliver breakfast to Epstein through the food slot in his locked cell door, Epstein did not respond to Thomas’s verbal commands. Thomas unlocked the cell door and saw Epstein hanged.”1 Thomas told the OIG that Epstein had an orange string, presumably from a sheet or a shirt, around his neck, tied to the top portion of the bunkbed, and that he was suspended from the top bunk in a near-seated position. Thomas ripped the string from the bunkbed, lowered Epstein to the floor and began chest compressions until other staff arrived about a minute later.1

A body alarm was activated, the control centre called for emergency services, a responding lieutenant took over CPR and a clinical nurse relieved him. At approximately 6:39 a.m. Epstein was moved by stretcher to the health services unit, where emergency medical technicians took over, intubated him and administered medication. He was taken by ambulance at approximately 7:10 a.m. to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital, where an emergency room physician pronounced him dead at 7:36 a.m.11 The prison’s own contemporaneous timeline records the same departure time of 7:10 a.m. and gives 7:36 a.m. as the official time of death reported by the emergency room physician.36 The FBI’s first situational report, compiled the same day from information relayed at the scene, gave a different transport time and recorded that “records indicate Epstein was transported at 0644 hours to NY Presbyterian where he was later dead”; it also records that a defibrillator was applied but “no shock was advised,” and that he “was unresponsive and had no vitals at 0635.”3

The medical findings

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner performed the autopsy on August 11. Its statement that evening said the determination was “pending further information at this time,” and disclosed that “[a]t the request of those representing the decedent, and with the awareness of the federal prosecutor, I allowed a private pathologist (Dr. Michael Baden) to observe the autopsy examination. This is routine practice.”45 On August 16 the office announced its findings: the cause of death was hanging and the manner of death was suicide.54

The Medical Examiner who performed the autopsy later told the OIG that Epstein’s injuries were consistent with suicide by hanging and that there was no evidence of the defensive wounds that would be expected had the death been a homicide: no marks on his hands, no broken fingernails or debris beneath them, no contusions to his knuckles indicating a fight and, apart from an abrasion on his arm likely caused by convulsing, no bruising on his body. Blood toxicology tests revealed no medications or illegal substances.46 The autopsy report itself is not among the documents cited on this page; the OIG’s summary of it and the Medical Examiner’s own account to the OIG are.

That finding was contested in public and in court by those acting for Epstein. At the August 27 dismissal hearing, defence counsel told the court that the pathologist they had engaged had been present at the autopsy and had concluded that the broken bones found in Epstein’s neck were more consistent with strangulation and that the injuries “were far more consistent with assault”; counsel further claimed that the Medical Examiner’s findings had initially been inconclusive and had changed after she viewed nine minutes of stairway footage, and argued that the conclusion was suspect because the camera outside Epstein’s cell was “destroyed/corrupted” and MCC had no explanation for that, calling it “convenient” and saying it was “ridiculous to think the camera would have been non-operational ‘for months’” before the suicide; the OIG found that the recording failure had in fact gone undetected for eleven days.47 This account comes from an MCC official who attended the hearing and reported it to colleagues the same afternoon, and who noted of the video claim: “I have no idea if that claim is true.”48 Baden later repeated the substance publicly. USA TODAY, in an article by Kevin Johnson and Kristine Phillips headed “Private pathologist questions whether Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide; medical examiner stands by conclusion,” a printout of which is in the release without its publication date, reported that Baden, described in the article as having served as New York City’s medical examiner for one year beginning in 1978 and as a Fox News contributor, engaged by Epstein’s family, said in a Fox & Friends interview that broken bones in Epstein’s neck indicated a “huge amount of pressure” had been applied and that “[t]here were findings that are unusual for suicide by hanging and more consistent with ligature homicidal strangulation.” The same article reported that the Chief Medical Examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson, stood by her conclusion: “Our investigation concluded that the cause of Mr. Epstein’s death was hanging and the manner of death was suicide … The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office.” It also reported that the Washington Post, which first reported the neck injuries, had cited experts saying such breaks can occur in people who hang themselves, particularly if they are older.12

The FBI death investigation

The FBI opened a death investigation, 90A-NY-3151227, and conducted it jointly with the OIG, the FBI’s part being directed at the cause of death.116 It conducted 43 interviews: 28 MCC staff members, two of them with only the OIG present, and 15 inmates, most from the SHU.6 The case was closed on December 5, 2022, “with no criminality found pertaining to Epstein’s death.”6

On August 13, 2019 an Assistant U.S. Attorney told the FBI that “there are likely to be criminal charges here but not under 241-242,” the civil rights offences at 18 U.S.C. §§ 241 and 242.49

In May 2025 FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy Director Dan Bongino said in a Fox News interview that they had reviewed the file and that Epstein had killed himself. Fox News reported, and the New York Field Office’s daily news briefing of May 19, 2025 summarised, Patel as saying: “As someone who has worked as a public defender, as a prosecutor who’s been in that prison system, who’s been in the Metropolitan Detention Center, who’s been in segregated housing, you know a suicide when you see one, and that’s what that was.” He added that those who disagreed with him “have a right to their opinion.” Bongino said: “He killed himself. I’ve seen the whole file, he killed himself.”50

The DOJ OIG investigation

The OIG opened its investigation on receiving information from the Bureau of Prisons that Epstein had been found hanged, and its investigative focus was the conduct of Bureau personnel rather than the cause of death.11 It interviewed 54 witnesses, several more than once, including Noel, Thomas and other SHU staff, MCC supervisors, medical staff, the staff responsible for the camera system, other Bureau employees and contractors, and a relative of Epstein who asked to provide information. It reviewed the autopsy report and interviewed the Medical Examiner who performed it.51

Its report, 23-085, was published in June 2023. Its central findings are set out above. On the question the report was most often read for, it concluded: “While the OIG determined MCC New York staff engaged in significant misconduct, we did not uncover evidence contradicting the FBI’s determination regarding the absence of criminality in connection with how Epstein died.”1 It set out the grounds for that conclusion: it found no evidence that anyone was present in the SHU area other than inmates locked in their assigned cells; none of the staff interviewed were aware of any information suggesting a cause of death other than suicide, and none of the 15 inmates interviewed, ten of whom were housed in the SHU on August 9 and 10, had any credible information to that effect; and the SHU staff and the three interviewed inmates with a direct line of sight to Epstein’s cell door stated that no one entered or exited the cell after staff returned Epstein to it on the evening of August 9.4438 The report also noted that although DVR 2 was not recording, the SHU camera was live-streaming to staff and was in plain view of inmates, who would have assumed hallway movements could be seen.44

The OIG made eight recommendations to the Bureau of Prisons, on the process for assigning a cellmate after suicide watch, on ensuring continuity of a cellmate where one has been recommended, on camera recording requirements, on cell searches, on staffing and on Lieutenant rounds, and further recommended that the Bureau review the conduct of the personnel described in the report and decide whether discipline or other administrative action was appropriate.52 The Bureau said in its response that it agreed with all eight; the OIG’s own analysis recorded that the Bureau’s response to one of them was “not fully responsive.”53

Prosecution of MCC staff

The FBI’s earliest report of August 10–12 recorded that the Office of the Inspector General “has been made aware that a BOP guard falsified logs regarding to Epstein,” that “preliminary information is that an officer made a confession to some authority,” and that the complaint received from the Bureau “stated that 2 guards falsified the logs indicating that they conducted their mandatory rounds (which are to be conducted every 30 minutes) when in fact they did not.”3 Subpoenas for MCC staff were approved by the U.S. Attorney on August 12 and prosecutors circulated a priority list of thirteen staff members for interview, from the officers on duty on August 9 and 10 up to the staff and chief psychologists.5455 An obstruction investigation, 72-NY-3157147, ran alongside the death investigation; an FBI squad update of August 27 recorded an “[i]nterview of one MCC Corrections Officer scheduled for tomorrow (8/28) at 4pm.”56

On November 19, 2019 a federal grand jury indicted Noel and Thomas under 18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001(a)(3) and 2.9 The filed instrument is endorsed “A TRUE BILL” over the grand jury foreperson’s signature.57 Its introduction alleged that the two, “in dereliction of their duties as correctional officers” at the MCC, “repeatedly failed to perform mandated counts of prisoners under their watch” in the SHU; that instead, “for substantial portions of their shifts,” they “sat at their desk, browsed the internet, and moved around the common area of the SHU”; and that “[t]o conceal their failure to perform their duties” they “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, it alleged, the MCC “believed prisoners in the SHU were being regularly monitored and accounted for” when in fact “no correctional officer conducted any count or round of the SHU from approximately 10:30 p.m. on August 9 until approximately 6:30 a.m. on August 10.”58 Count One charged both with conspiracy; the five falsification counts followed the individual count slips, Counts Two and Three naming Noel alone for the 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. counts of August 9, and Counts Four, Five and Six naming both for the 12 a.m., 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. counts of August 10.8 On the rounds, the indictment alleged that neither performed any of the required 30-minute rounds between approximately 12 a.m. and 6:30 a.m., and that Noel “completed and signed more than 75 separate 30-minute round entries falsely affirming that they had, in fact, conducted such rounds.”59 The indictment further alleged what the two were doing instead. During the night, it charged, they “were seated at the correctional officers’ desk in the SHU common area (as noted above, approximately 15 feet from Epstein’s cell), used the computers, and moved around the SHU common area,” and that “[f]or a period of approximately two hours, NOEL and THOMAS sat at their desk without moving, and appeared to have been asleep.” It alleged that Noel used the computer periodically through the night, including to search the internet for furniture sales and benefit websites, that Thomas used it briefly around 1 a.m., 4 a.m. and 6 a.m. to search for motorcycle sales and sports news, and that at approximately 4 a.m. the overnight supervisor briefly visited the SHU and conferred with them.60 In its 2023 report the OIG summarised the effect: it “appeared from documentation that prisoners in the SHU, including Epstein, were being regularly monitored when, in fact, no CO had checked on Epstein” between approximately 10:40 p.m. on August 9 and approximately 6:30 a.m. on August 10.9

Both entered deferred prosecution agreements with the Southern District of New York in May 2021. The OIG report states that their agreements, “which are part of the court record in their cases, included admissions by Noel and Thomas that they falsely certified that they had conducted counts and rounds,” and that the agreements also required each of them to disclose information about their employment with the Bureau, to be interviewed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the FBI and the OIG, to complete 100 hours of community service, to refrain from violating the law and to fulfil other conditions.9 The nolle prosequi in the release recites no admission: it describes the agreements by their conditions alone, prosecution being deferred “for a period of six months” during a term of “good behavior, completion of community service” and satisfactory compliance with the agreement’s terms, and records that Pretrial Services had informed the government the two had complied during a period of deferral which expired on November 20, 2021.61 The agreements themselves carry both dates: in each, the Government’s block on p. 3 and the defence signatures on p. 4 are dated May 20, 2021, the court’s Speedy Trial Act approval block on p. 5 is dated May 25, 2021, and the court’s stamp on p. 1 records the agreement as filed 5/25/2021. The nolle prosequi’s “[o]n or about May 20, 2021”61 is therefore the date the parties signed, and the OIG report’s “On May 25, 2021”9 the date on the court’s approval block and on the filing stamp.62 The OIG report records that on December 13, 2021, after Noel and Thomas had successfully fulfilled the terms as determined by the prosecutors, the district court entered a nolle prosequi order and dismissed all charges against them; the copy of the nolle prosequi in the release is the form as submitted for signature, its “SO ORDERED” line and its dates left blank, rather than the order that dismissed the charges.961 What the OIG report describes as admitted is the false certification of counts and rounds; the allegation that the two appeared to have been asleep was a charge in the indictment, and the charges were dismissed without a trial.960 The Southern District declined prosecution of the other Bureau employees assigned to the SHU who the OIG found had also falsely certified count slips and round sheets on the day before and the day of the death.7 The OIG found that, beyond Noel and Thomas, many other MCC staff had engaged in administrative misconduct, exercised poor judgment or failed to perform their assigned duties.41

Dismissal of the indictment

The government moved on August 19, 2019 for an order of nolle prosequi. Its letter to Judge Berman recited the death and the Medical Examiner’s August 16 statement and stated that “[i]n light of the death of the defendant prior to a conviction becoming final, the Government must request the Court approve the attached proposed order of nolle prosequi.” It added that the office had made efforts to contact all identified victims and “remains committed to doing its utmost to stand up for the victims who have already come forward, as well as for the many others who have yet to do so.” The letter was submitted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Alison Moe, Alex Rossmiller and Maurene Comey for U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman.4 The attached proposed order recited that Epstein “died while this case was pending, and therefore before a final judgment was issued,” so that “the Indictment must be dismissed under the rule of abatement,” citing United States v. Wright, 160 F.3d 905, 908 (2d Cir. 1998). The indictment had charged one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors under 18 U.S.C. § 371 and one count of sex trafficking of minors under 18 U.S.C. § 1591.63

Judge Richard M. Berman did not act on the motion at once. On August 21 he ordered a hearing, writing that “where, as here, a defendant has died before any judgment has been entered against him, the public may still have an informational interest in the process by which the prosecutor seeks dismissal of an indictment,” and that “Counsel for the Government and for the deceased Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein, will be heard. Counsel for the victims and the victims will also be heard, if they wish to be.”13 The U.S. Attorney’s Office posted a general notice of the hearing to its case page the same day.64

The order and the U.S. Attorney’s public notice both set the hearing for Courtroom 17B,1364 but on August 26 Judge Berman ordered it moved to Courtroom 110 of the Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse at 40 Foley Square, and that is where it was held on August 27 at 10:30 a.m. The court’s minute entry records Reid Weingarten, Martin Weinberg and Michael Miller present for the defence, and that the court heard argument and statements from attorneys and then statements from counsel for the victims and from victims.10 Reviewing the transcript in October 2019 for an inquiry from the Deputy Attorney General’s office, an Assistant U.S. Attorney reported that “a total of 17 victims were present at the hearing and either spoke at the hearing or had someone read a statement for them. An additional 7 did not attend the hearing but had someone else speak for them or read a statement from them,” adding that “[i]t is possible there were others present who were not referenced on the record.” The same email records that of those present, ten were identified by name and seven appeared as Jane Does, and that Brad Edwards told the court he had 15 clients present, eight of whom spoke.64 The inquiry had come because the petitioner in the Florida CVRA litigation had appealed to the Eleventh Circuit and contended that not all victims who wished to speak had been able to do so.64

An MCC official who attended at the judge’s invitation reported that Berman opened by saying he was using the hearing as an opportunity for the victims to be heard, then heard the government and defence counsel. Defence counsel said the “elephant in the room” was “What happened to our client!?”, repeated media allegations about conditions at MCC and officers sleeping, called conditions at the prison “horrific and medieval,” said the timing of the death was “implausible” given a motion to dismiss recently filed, and said the “800 pound gorilla” in the room was the surveillance tape: “There is a tape directly outside Epstein’s door that hasn’t been produced!” Counsel asked Judge Berman to oversee the investigation into the death, arguing the court had inherent authority to do so, and asked him to visit the SHU himself. Several attorneys for victims seconded the request for court involvement while acknowledging the authority for it was questionable; one said the “timing of Epstein’s death is curious.”48

Judge Berman signed the nolle prosequi on August 29, 2019. The docket records entry 52, “NOLLE PROSEQUI as to Jeffrey Epstein … (Signed by Judge Richard M. Berman on 8/29/19),” and the case terminated that day. A transcript of the August 27 hearing was filed on September 3, 2019; the accounts of the hearing on this page are drawn from the government’s later review of that transcript and from the MCC official’s contemporaneous report, not from the transcript itself.1064

Effects on other proceedings

The Florida CVRA litigation did not end with the death. An internal SDNY email of October 30, 2019 records that the petitioner had appealed to the Eleventh Circuit and had contended, among other things, that not all of the victims who wished to speak had been able to do so at the New York hearing for want of notice or ability to travel.64 The investigation of others continued. An FBI email of August 25, 2019 records that in response to media focus on Maxwell, agents had advised headquarters that “the team is currently focused on charges for a different co-conspirator,” while “we’re engaged with Counsel for all co-conspirators.”65 Ghislaine Maxwell was indicted on June 29, 2020, arrested on July 2, 2020, tried between November 29 and December 29, 2021, convicted on five of the six counts tried and sentenced on June 28, 2022 to 20 years, five years of supervised release and a $750,000 fine; her appeal was denied on September 17, 2024, a petition for certiorari was filed on April 10, 2025 and the Department opposed it on July 22, 2025.18

Chronology

DateTimeEventSource
Jul 6, 2019~5:30 p.m.N212JE lands at Teterboro from Paris; Epstein arrested14
Jul 6, 2019~6:12 p.m.Taken into FBI custody; processed at 26 Federal Plaza; transported to MCC14
Jul 7, 2019—Moved to the SHU because of media coverage and inmate awareness of his notoriety11
Jul 10, 2019—Cellmate assigned18
Jul 18, 2019—Bail refused; detained pending trial16
Jul 22, 2019—Defence counsel raises bathroom access, promised calls and meals with MCC legal office19
Jul 23, 20191:27 a.m.Found in cell Z05-124 with orange cloth around his neck; taken to health unit, suicide smock, suicide watch232122
Jul 23, 20191:37 a.m.”Orange homemade rope” logged into custody25
Jul 24, 20198:45 a.m.Removed from suicide watch; stepped down to psychological observation3130
Jul 24–30, 2019—Psychological observation with an inmate companion31
Jul 29, 2019—Disk failures in DVR 2; half the cameras stop recording1
Jul 30, 2019—Psychology Department emails 71 staff that Epstein must have a cellmate; new cellmate assigned133
Aug 6, 2019—Defence counsel reports no toilet paper, CPAP not plugged in, two 15-minute calls since arrival20
Aug 8, 2019—USMS sends two emails that the cellmate is to be transferred on August 9; no replacement arranged1
Aug 8, 2019—Epstein signs a new will during an attorney visit; MCC not informed1
Aug 8, 2019—MCC discovers the DVR 2 recording failure; not repaired before the death1
Aug 9, 20198:00 a.m.Cellmate departs for court; not returned36
Aug 9, 2019—Second Circuit unseals ~2,000 pages of Maxwell civil litigation records1
Aug 9, 20196:45 p.m.Returns to SHU from attorney conference36
Aug 9, 20191919 hrs / 6:58–7:19 p.m.Allowed an unmonitored, unrecorded call in violation of policy, to Karyna Shuliak. Duration disputed: the FBI situational report gives 19 seconds at 1919 hours; the OIG gives a span of 6:58–7:19 p.m.1373
Aug 9, 20197:49 p.m.Last seen on video being escorted towards his tier6
Aug 9, 2019~8:00 p.m.SHU locked down for the night; Epstein alone in his cell1
Aug 9, 2019~10:30 p.m.An officer seen on video walking up to each tier6
Aug 9, 2019~10:40 p.m.Last approach to the L Tier on video; no 30-minute rounds after this; no counts after 4 p.m.61
Aug 10, 2019~6:30 a.m.Noel and Thomas begin breakfast delivery; Thomas finds Epstein hanged1
Aug 10, 2019~6:33 a.m.Body alarm; CPR under way; other staff respond1136
Aug 10, 2019~7:10 a.m.Transported by ambulance to New York Presbyterian Lower Manhattan Hospital1136
Aug 10, 20197:36 a.m.Pronounced dead by an emergency room physician1136
Aug 11, 2019—Autopsy; OCME says determination pending; private pathologist observed45
Aug 12, 2019—Subpoenas approved for MCC staff; interview list of thirteen circulated5455
Aug 13, 2019—SDNY tells the FBI charges are likely but not under §§ 241–24249
Aug 14, 2019—BOP After Action Review team sent to MCC New York66
Aug 16, 2019—OCME announces cause of death hanging, manner of death suicide54
Aug 19, 2019—Government files letter motion and proposed order of nolle prosequi4
Aug 21, 2019—Judge Berman orders a hearing for August 2713
Aug 27, 201910:30 a.m.Hearing held in Courtroom 110, 40 Foley Square; 17 victims present, 7 more heard through others106448
Aug 29, 2019—Nolle prosequi signed; case terminated (docket entry 52)10
Nov 19, 2019—Noel and Thomas indicted, 19 Cr. 830 (AT); one conspiracy count and five false-records counts98
May 2021—Deferred prosecution agreements entered961
Dec 13, 2021—Nolle prosequi entered; charges against Noel and Thomas dismissed9
Dec 5, 2022—FBI death investigation closed, no criminality found6
Jun 2023—DOJ OIG publishes report 23-0857

Footnotes

  1. DOJ Office of the Inspector General, Investigation and Review of the Federal Bureau of Prisons’ Custody, Care, and Supervision of Jeffrey Epstein at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, New York, report 23-085, June 2023, executive summary. Page numbers for this report are the pages of the filed copy as a reader opens it, which run seven ahead of the report’s own printed folios. Here pp. 3–4. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18 ↩19 ↩20 ↩21 ↩22 ↩23 ↩24 ↩25 ↩26 ↩27 ↩28 ↩29

  2. OIG report 23-085, p. 41. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2

  3. FBI New York, “Fwd: Epstein,” situational report forwarded Aug 12, 2019, containing an account compiled Aug 10, 2019, pp. 1–2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01659612 The timeline entry quoted above is on p.2, read at the image at 600 dpi. One solid bar falls inside that sentence, between “BOP” and “allows”, and the text layer closes the gap and reads straight through it — the quotation above marks the bar and supplies nothing for it. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  4. Letter motion of the United States to Judge Richard M. Berman, Aug 19, 2019, United States v. Epstein, 19 Cr. 490 (RMB), Dkt. 47, p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00010422 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  5. OIG report 23-085, timeline of events, p. 27. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  6. FBI investigation slideshow, “90A-NY-3151227,” pp. 12–13. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656198 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13

  7. OIG report 23-085, Chapter 7 conclusions, pp. 101–102. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  8. Indictment, United States v. Noel and Thomas, statutory allegations, pp. 13–19: Count One (conspiracy) at pp. 13–14; Counts Two and Three (false records, the 4 p.m. and 10 p.m. count slips) at pp. 15–16; Counts Four, Five and Six (false records, the 12 a.m., 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. count slips) at pp. 16–19. Each count closes with the statutes charged. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00164377 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  9. OIG report 23-085, p. 13. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10

  10. Criminal docket, USA v. Epstein, 1:19-cr-00490-RMB: case termination date, p. 1; the Aug 26, 2019 relocation order, the Aug 27, 2019 minute entry and entry 52 of Aug 29, 2019, p. 10. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00058418 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  11. OIG report 23-085, Chapter 1, pp. 8–9. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12

  12. Kevin Johnson and Kristine Phillips, “Private pathologist questions whether Jeffrey Epstein died by suicide; medical examiner stands by conclusion,” USA TODAY; printout held in the release without a publication date, pp. 13–14. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01683964 ↩ ↩2

  13. Order of Judge Richard M. Berman, Aug 21, 2019, Dkt. 48, p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687983 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. FBI FD-302, arrest of Jeffrey Epstein at Teterboro Airport, Jul 6, 2019, entered Jul 29, 2019. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01305098 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. OIG report 23-085, p. 4. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  16. BOP email chain reaching MCC, signed by the Associate Warden (O), FCI Estill, Jul 18, 2019: “Epstein was not granted bail. He returned from court wo incident,” p. 10. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687643 ↩ ↩2

  17. OIG report 23-085, p. 12. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  18. FBI investigation slideshow, timeline and Maxwell slides, pp. 2, 14–15, 17. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656198 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  19. Mariel Colon to MCC legal office, Jul 22, 2019, forwarded to executive staff, p. 8. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687991 ↩ ↩2

  20. Mariel Colon to MCC legal office and reply, Aug 6, 2019, p. 37. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687128 ↩ ↩2

  21. Memorandum of a Senior Officer, Jul 23, 2019, p. 27. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩ ↩2

  22. Memorandum of a Senior Officer Specialist, “Incident on 9 south,” Jul 23, 2019, p. 28. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  23. Memorandum of the Material Handler Supervisor, Jul 23, 2019, p. 19. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩ ↩2

  24. Memorandum of the Operations Lieutenant, Jul 23, 2019, pp. 20–21. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩ ↩2

  25. BP-A0971 chain of custody log, “Orange homemade rope,” Jul 23, 2019, p. 24. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩ ↩2

  26. Memorandum of the Operations Lieutenant, continuation, Jul 23, 2019, p. 21. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩

  27. FBI New York email chain, Jul 23–24, 2019, p. 2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01660819 ↩ ↩2

  28. U.S. Attorney’s Office, S.D.N.Y., to counsel for Nicholas Tartaglione, Dec 10, 2019, p. 2, and reply of Dec 11, 2019, p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00074097 ↩

  29. MCC Chief Psychologist email, Jul 24, 2019, p. 2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687787 ↩

  30. Associate Warden to the Northeast Regional Director, Jul 24, 2019, 9:39 a.m., p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687991 ↩ ↩2

  31. “SW Chronological Log 7/23-24/19,” Associate Warden, Aug 12, 2019, p. 3. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687787 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  32. OIG report 23-085, p. 119. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  33. Internal MCC New York email, “Suicide Watch/Psych Observation Update,” 7/30/2019 12:30 PM; sender and signature block redacted, addressed to a distribution alias, p. 1; delivery and read-receipt report for the same message recording 71 recipients, p. 2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00032148 ↩ ↩2

  34. OIG report 23-085, p. 40. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  35. Petition for Probate and for Letters Testamentary, Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00027979 ↩

  36. MCC New York, “Suicide Timeline,” Aug 9–10, 2019, pp. 1–2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00033799 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8

  37. OIG report 23-085, the section headed “IV. Epstein is Allowed to Make an Unmonitored Telephone Call on August 9”. Read at the image at 400 dpi. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 p.65. Carries the page stamp EFTA01656772 and the report’s own printed folio 58 — the seven-page offset described in the note above, confirmed at the image on this sheet. The same span is restated in the report’s findings at p.114. The telephone number is not reproduced here; the report itself gives only its area code. The phrase “19 seconds” appears nowhere in the report: searched over the text of all 128 sheets of this identifier, 0 occurrences. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  38. OIG report 23-085, p. 10. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2

  39. OIG report 23-085, p. 76. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  40. OIG report 23-085, p. 120. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  41. OIG report 23-085, pp. 12–13. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2

  42. OIG report 23-085, p. 88. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  43. OIG report 23-085, pp. 99–100. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2

  44. OIG report 23-085, p. 5. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  45. Statement of the Chief Medical Examiner of the City of New York, Aug 11, 2019, circulated by the OCME press office and forwarded to BOP, p. 15. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687991 ↩ ↩2

  46. OIG report 23-085, p. 4. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  47. OIG report 23-085, p. 121. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  48. MCC official’s account of the Aug 27, 2019 hearing, emailed to MCC executive staff the same afternoon, p. 11. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687643 ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  49. FBI–SDNY email chain, “RE: MCC Suicide,” Aug 10–13, 2019. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01660852 ↩ ↩2

  50. FBI New York Field Office daily news briefing, May 19, 2025, summarising Fox News reporting of May 18, 2025 on an interview with Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino, p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01655225 ↩

  51. OIG report 23-085, pp. 13–14. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  52. OIG report 23-085, p. 5 and the recommendations at pp. 118–121. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  53. OIG report 23-085, Appendix B, pp. 125–126. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01656708 ↩

  54. DOJ OIG and FBI email chain, “MCC officer subpoenas and approaches,” Aug 12, 2019, pp. 2–3. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01659601 ↩ ↩2

  55. SDNY interview priority list circulated Aug 12, 2019, p. 2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01659578 ↩ ↩2

  56. FBI New York squad updates, Aug 25–28, 2019, p. 2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01660840 ↩

  57. Indictment, United States v. Noel and Thomas, back cover, p. 20, repeating the caption and the statutes charged and carrying “A TRUE BILL” over a handwritten signature and a printed role line reading “Foreperson.” The signature is handwriting and no name is read from it here. Page 19 carries a handwritten signature over a printed “FOREPERSON” line beside a signature over the printed name of the United States Attorney; the words “A TRUE BILL” appear on p. 20 only. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00164377 ↩

  58. Indictment, United States v. Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, 20 sheets; sheet 1 carries a filing stamp reading “19 CRIM 830” beside the typed “19 Cr.” Introduction, paragraph 1, pp. 1–2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00164377 ↩

  59. Indictment, United States v. Noel and Thomas, paragraph 23, p. 11. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00164377 ↩

  60. Indictment, United States v. Noel and Thomas, paragraphs 24 and 25, p. 11, read at the image; paragraph 25 continues onto p. 12. These are the allegations of an indictment and not findings; the charges were dismissed before trial. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00164377 ↩ ↩2

  61. Nolle prosequi, United States v. Noel and Thomas, 19 Cr. 830 (AT), three sheets, all read at the image: the Government’s recitals and recommendation at paragraphs 1 to 4, pp. 1–2, and the direction and order block, p. 3. The copy in the release is unexecuted and undated. The Assistant U.S. Attorney’s signature line on p. 2 and the United States Attorney’s on p. 3 are each a solid bar, and both blocks are dated “November” with the day left blank; under “SO ORDERED:” on p. 3 the signature line above the printed name and title of the district judge, Analisa Torres, carries no mark at all, and its date line is blank as to both month and day. It is therefore the form submitted for the court’s signature and not the order that dismissed the charges; OIG report 23-085 dates the entered order to December 13, 2021. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00023097 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  62. Deferred prosecution agreements, United States v. Noel and Thomas, 19 Cr. 830 (AT), one per defendant: Noel’s, docket document 59, five sheets, https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00023087, and the co-defendant’s, docket document 56, five sheets, https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00023092. Pages 1 and 3 to 5 of each read at the image by the writer at 2026-09-10T04:32Z. On p. 1 of each the court’s stamp block carries “DATE FILED: 5/25/2021” in printed type above a blank “DOC #:” rule, and the ECF header reads “Filed 05/25/21”. On p. 3 of each the date “May 20, 2021” appears in printed type above the Government’s signature block; in Noel’s the United States Attorney’s line and the “By:” line are each a solid bar, and in the co-defendant’s the United States Attorney’s line is a solid bar while the “By:” line carries an ink signature above a bar. On p. 4 the defence block of each is dated May 20, 2021: in Noel’s the day is written in ink and the attorney’s and the defendant’s lines each carry an ink signature; in the co-defendant’s the day is inserted type and each line carries an Adobe electronic-signature stamp, the attorney’s reading “May 20, 2021 15:49 EDT” and the defendant’s “May 20, 2021 16:04 EDT”, the zone printed on the stamp. On p. 5 the Speedy Trial Act approval block of each is dated May 25, 2021, the day written in ink in Noel’s and inserted type in the co-defendant’s; in Noel’s the line above the printed name and title of the district judge, Analisa Torres, carries an ink signature, and in the co-defendant’s that line is an unmarked rule, with no ink and no bar. ↩

  63. Proposed order of nolle prosequi, Dkt. 47-1, filed Aug 19, 2019, pp. 2–3. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00010422 ↩

  64. SDNY internal email, “RE: Epstein Victim Impact Statements,” Oct 30, 2019, responding to an inquiry from the Office of the Deputy Attorney General, pp. 1–2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00031397 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  65. FBI New York, “Epstein updates,” Aug 25, 2019, p. 2. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01660840 ↩

  66. Northeast Regional Director to the Warden, MCC New York, “After Action Review Team,” Aug 14, 2019, p. 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01687615 ↩

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