"Prison guards discussed cover-up of Epstein's death, inmate tells FBI"

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https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article314966334.html

An inmate housed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York told the FBI he overheard guards talking about covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s death on the morning he died.

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“Breathe! Breathe!” he recalled officers shouting about 6:30 a.m. Then he said he heard an officer say “Dudes, you killed that dude.” A female guard replied “If he is dead, we’re going to cover it up and he’s going to have an alibi -- my officers,” the FBI notes said. The inmate claimed the whole wing overheard the exchange. Later, after learning Epstein had died, he said inmates said “Miss Noel killed Jeffrey.”

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1. This might seem to support the story that the suicide was real, except that it goes on to say,

...the New York Post also reported on Saturday that Noel’s bank flagged a $5,000 cash deposit she made to her Chase Bank account on July 30, 2019 – a week after Epstein was found in his cell.... The official reports into that incident show that Epstein initially told prison officials that his cellmate had tried to kill him after extorting him for money.

The Post also reported that on the morning of Epstein’s death on Aug. 10, Noel searched the term “latest on Epstein in jail” twice – once at 5:42 a.m. and again at 5:52 a.m., about 40 minutes before the other guard, Michael Thomas, found Epstein.

Her bank records, which are in the files, showed that Noel received thousands of dollars in cash and Zelle payments in the months before Epstein died. ...

But she was not asked about the cash during her DOJ interview.