Judge approves deal for Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards who 'napped and browsed the internet' instead of monitoring him the night he was killed to avoid jail in exchange for cooperating in federal probe of his death Michael Thomas and Tova Noel, two federal jail guards responsible for monitoring Jeffrey Epstein the night he killed himself, will not go to prison The pair admitted they falsified records under a deal with federal prosecutors, which was approved by a federal judge on Tuesday In the hours before Epstein's death, Noel shopped online for furniture while Thomas surfed the internet for sports news and motorcycle sales