House Oversight Committee Chair James Comer revealed Tuesday that the panel intends to interview one of Jeffery Epstein’s prison guards – after The Post reported she googled the disgraced financier shortly before he took his own life.
Comer told Fox News host Jesse Watters that the committee will ask former Metropolitan Correctional Center guard Tova Noel to answer questions posed by the committee, but the Republican congressman noted that she hasn’t been accused of any wrongdoing.
Noel was on duty during Epstein’s Aug. 10, 2019, suicide at the Lower Manhattan lockup.
She was one of two MCC workers accused of falsifying records to claim they checked on the sex predator the night before he was found dead.
“No one is accusing this prison guard of wrongdoing, but I will announce tonight on your show, we are going to ask her to come in and sit for an interview,” Comer told the host on “Jesse Watters Primetime.”
“We have a lot of questions,” Comer continued.
Noel, 37, googled “latest on Epstein in jail” at 5:42 a.m. and then again at 5:52 a.m. — less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier dead in his cell by hanging at 6:30 a.m., according to an FBI record included in new Department of Justice documents.
Chase Bank also flagged several cash deposits in Noel’s bank account in a “suspicious activity report” to the FBI in November 2019, another DOJ file revealed.
A total of 12 deposits began in April 2018, the bank said, and culminated in the largest deposit of $5,000 on July 30, 2019, according to the records.
Comer told Watters he believed the mysterious deposits to Noel were “concerning.”
“That’s something that, according to the DOJ documents, something they never looked into, never asked her about,” he continued.
“Honestly, most people on the committee aren’t confident one hundred percent that Epstein’s death was by suicide; we’re going to ask for Ms. Noel to come in for a transcribed interview.”
“Was Epstein’s death a suicide as the government has reported, or was there some other mysterious factor involved in his death?” he said.
The files only contain Noel’s bank records beginning in December 2018. They show seven cash deposits totaling $11,880.
Noel began working at the Special Housing Unit — where Epstein had been held — on July 7, 2019, just weeks before the pedophile’s death.
The prison guard denied googling Epstein when questioned during her sworn statement to the DOJ in 2021.
“I don’t remember doing that,” she claimed, according to a transcript. She said FBI records were not “accurate. I don’t recall looking him up.”
An internal FBI briefing revealed the agency thought Noel was likely the mysterious orange shape spotted in a blurry surveillance video near Epstein’s cell around 10:40 p.m. that night, according to a DOJ file.
Noel and Thomas were accused of falsifying records to say they checked on Epstein throughout the night before he was found dead in his jail cell.
The two guards were fired, but criminal charges against both were later dropped.
