PBS NewsHour - The Latest | Who is Tova Noel, a former prison guard testifying in the Epstein investigation by Hannah Grabenstein AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Tova Noel, a former correctional officer at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, is set to testify before the House Oversight Committee about the night Jeffrey Epstein died in August 2019; she was on duty the evening of Aug. 9 2019, believes she was the last person to see Epstein alive, and previously testified to the DOJ inspector‑general, where she was charged—along with fellow guard Michael Thomas—with falsifying inmate‑count records, later receiving a plea deal that spared jail time; in her deposition Noel said she had only a routine interaction with Epstein, plugging in his CPAP machine, denied falling asleep that night though admitted to using the internet, and maintains she did not receive any special instructions regarding his monitoring, making her testimony a key part of the congressional investigation into the federal handling of the Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell cases. Read more: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/who-is-tova-noel-a-former-prison-guard-testifying-in-the-epstein-investigation #TovaNoel #JeffreyEpstein #GhislaineMaxwell #MichaelThomas