Posted on 12/31/2021 4:43:03 PM PST by Kaslin
While the jury was busy hearing Ghislaine Maxwell’s case in her recently concluded trial, there was some other action related to her perverted boss taking place quietly in the background. Insider is reporting that the charges against Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, the guards charged with sleeping on the job while Epstein supposedly killed himself, were dropped. The timing of this decision was certainly curious, as was the fact that the decision to drop the charges wasn’t made public for more than two weeks. A public status conference for the case against the guards had been scheduled for December 15th, but it was canceled with no reason given and no new date scheduled. So how did this happen?
In the middle of Ghislaine Maxwell’s child-sex-trafficking trial, federal prosecutors quietly dropped their case against two jail guards accused of sleeping on the job and falsifying jail records as Jeffrey Epstein killed himself in his cell.Federal prosecutors in Manhattan signed a nolle prosequi, a document announcing to the judge that they wished to drop the case, on December 13. The document didn’t appear on the court’s public docket until Thursday, one day after Maxwell was convicted on charges that she trafficked girls to Epstein for sex and participated in sexual abuse herself.
Prosecutors first filed charges against the guards, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, in November 2019.
The way that the prosecutors handled this matter certainly looks suspicious at first glance, but some previously unreported details could explain this decision in a more routine fashion. Noel and Thomas pleaded not guilty to the charges in 2019. But in May of this year, they signed a deferred prosecution agreement, allowing them to avoid jail time if they cooperated with an ongoing investigation into the circumstances of Epstein’s death by the Justice Department’s OIG.
Since that time they have reportedly been cooperating fully with the Department of Justice. Once that process was finished earlier this month, the prosecutors signed a nolle prosequi, informing the judge that they wished to drop the charges against both men. As part of that agreement, both Noel and Thomas reportedly performed some unspecified community service.
What’s really curious about how this was handled is the fact that the request to drop the charges was granted on December 13th, but it didn’t appear on the court’s docket until yesterday, one day after Maxwell was found guilty. A plea agreement such as the one the two former guards worked out really isn’t all that unusual, so why wouldn’t it have been published in a timely fashion? It’s possible that letting the two of them off the hook would have looked even more suspect if the jury had decided in Maxwell’s favor and allowed her to go free. But with the former madame safely on her way toward sentencing, the perception that justice had been done likely made it look “safer” for the release of this information.
So were Noel and Thomas truly guilty? All they were charged with were crimes involving dereliction of duty and falsifying records. If you believe that Jeffrey Epstein really did hang himself, then those charges likely wouldn’t have amounted to more than costing them their jobs and possibly a fine. But with the entire sordid Epstein affair having such a toxic environment surrounding it, the men’s involvement drew a lot more attention. If someone else took Epstein’s life, at least one guard would have had to have known about it even if they weren’t directly involved. But it sounds like we may never know.
Who is guarding Gislane?
Epstein’s dead, mission accomplished, charges dropped. It worked out for everyone in the loop.
“...accused of sleeping on the job and falsifying jail records”
Okie dokie!
They had to drop the charges because: 1) they couldn’t Arkancide them, and 2) they couldn’t afford for them to talk about how they were paid to facilitate the ‘suicide.’ So the only thing to do is give them a Kimberly Foxx “get out of jail free” pass on prosecution.
They were both Black, probably registered Democrats. That may have played a role in the prosecution being dropped.
From the outside, it looks like the timing was a shot across the bow for Maxwell. She now knows that guards could look the other way while she is done in without them having to worry about consequences. Thus, she better not be shooting off her mouth.
Nothing to see here folks...move along (sarcasm)
“both Noel and Thomas reportedly performed some unspecified community service”
Yeah it’s called take this early retirement and shut the hell up or else.
“Who is guarding Gislane?”
It’s their new assignment.
Nope....don’t want any of *them* naming any names.
"Ve Vas Only Followink Ordahs."
Good insight. I’ve seen people with some expectation that Maxwell may yet “sing like a canary” to reduce her sentence. I say “fat chance”. The people in charge do not want her to sing. Not a note. And as you point out, a signal has been sent that sometimes guards look the other way, and bad stuff happens. We will learn nothing more from Maxwell.
Yep, the "cleaners" from the feebles got in there and took care of the two REALLY spicy hard drives in the safe:
‘We brought a saw’: FBI found diamonds, cash, passports, CDs and hard drives after cracking open safe in 2019 raid on Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse
FBI "cleaner" Maguire, a member of an FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, testified Monday that her team found the safe in a dressing room on the building's fifth floor. The mansion had forty rooms and took about 12 hours for her team to fully search.
Asked by a prosecutor at the trial whether the safe was open, Maguire answered: "We brought a saw." Prosecutors showed jurors and members of the public a photo of the safe, dragged by FBI agents to the middle of the dressing room. The hard drives Maguire said were found inside were piled on top of it. It also held jewelry, diamonds, CDs, and multiple passports, Maguire testified.
Maguire said that the scope of the search warrant didn't permit the agents to seize the hard drives and CDs, so she left them atop the safe.
When she got a broader warrant and returned to retrieve them, they were gone...
Imagine that...
This is very good news as now the two guards can move to either FL or Hi and enjoy living on their curiously bulging bank accounts.
Did they get a lake house?
The "cleaners" from the feebles got in there [Epstein's mansion, 2019] and took care of the two REALLY spicy hard drives in the safe:
‘We brought a saw’: FBI found diamonds, cash, passports, CDs and hard drives after cracking open safe in 2019 raid on Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse
FBI "cleaner" Maguire, a member of an FBI Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force, testified Monday that her team found the safe in a dressing room on the building's fifth floor. The mansion had forty rooms and took about 12 hours for her team to fully search.
Asked by a prosecutor at the trial whether the safe was open, Maguire answered: "We brought a saw." Prosecutors showed jurors and members of the public a photo of the safe, dragged by FBI agents to the middle of the dressing room. The hard drives Maguire said were found inside were piled on top of it. It also held jewelry, diamonds, CDs, and multiple passports, Maguire testified.
Maguire said that the scope of the search warrant didn't permit the agents to seize the hard drives and CDs, so she left them atop the safe.
When she got a broader warrant and returned to retrieve them, they were gone...
Imagine that...
You don’t say.
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