(CNN)A national justice successful New York connected Monday dismissed charges against 2 Bureau of Prisons guards who admitted to falsifying records connected the nighttime Jeffrey Epstein died by termination successful 2019, tribunal documents show.
US District Court Judge Analisa Torres ordered the charges dropped against guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas aft prosecutors said successful a filing past week that the guards completed deferred prosecution agreements signed successful May.
The guards agreed to supply “truthful accusation related to their employment by the Bureau of Prisons, including astir the events and circumstances described successful the Indictment,” according to a missive from national prosecutors that was filed successful tribunal papers.
The guards had to implicit 100 hours of assemblage work and cooperate with a Department of Justice Inspector General review, authorities said successful May.
CNN has reached retired to the attorneys for Noel and Thomas but did not instantly perceive back.
Epstein was awaiting proceedings astatine the Metropolitan Correctional Center successful Manhattan, having pleaded not blameworthy to national charges accusing him of operating a enactment trafficking ringing from 2002 to 2005 astatine his Manhattan mansion and his Palm Beach estate, and allegedly paying girls arsenic young arsenic 14 for sex.
He was recovered dormant successful his compartment connected August 10, 2019. A aesculapian examiner ruled it was termination by hanging.
Noel and Thomas were moving arsenic guards that night. According to the archetypal indictment successful the case, the guards repeatedly failed to implicit the required counts of prisoners connected their ticker successful the specialized lodging portion wherever helium was being held.
In November 2019, Noel and Thomas pleaded not guilty to conspiracy and filing mendacious records.
According to the archetypal indictment, the 2 signed mendacious certifications saying they had performed their duties.
The nighttime Epstein died, nary serviceman completed immoderate number oregon circular successful the portion betwixt 10:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., astatine which clip Noel and Thomas discovered Epstein’s body, the indictment said.
The determination comes arsenic Epstein’s beingness has received caller scrutiny successful the aftermath of the prosecution of his longtime woman Ghislaine Maxwell for enactment trafficking charges.
A assemblage successful New York past week found her blameworthy connected 5 of six counts related to her relation successful Epstein’s intersexual maltreatment of insignificant girls betwixt 1994 and 2004.
Maxwell present faces up to 65 years successful prison, but some ineligible commentators deliberation she mightiness cooperate with prosecutors connected different cases earlier sentencing.
CNN’s Julie In, Laura Ly and Lauren del Valle contributed to this report.
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