New Justice Department documents reveal that Tovah Noel, one of Jeffrey Epstein’s prison guards at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, Googled the sexual predator minutes before he was found dead and deposited $5,000 in cash 10 days before Epstein’s Aug. 10, 2019, jail-cell suicide.Noel was one of two employees of the Metropolitan Correctional Center accused of falsifying records and said they had checked on Epstein all night before his suicide. The guards were fired but criminal charges against both were later dropped, the New York Post reports.According to FBI records of Noel’s Internet search history that night, Noel Googled “latest on Epstein in prison” at 5:42 a.m. and again at 5:52 a.m., less than 40 minutes before his co-worker, corrections officer Michael Thomas, found the disgraced financier hanged in his cell at 6:30 a.m.On the first shift, Noel, 37, shopped online for furniture and took naps at work instead of doing mandatory checks on Epstein every 30 minutes, while Thomas looked at motorcycles, prosecutors said.The FBI highlighted Internet searches in a 66-page forensic examination of Noel and Thomas’ Bureau of Prison desktop computers. This was the only search highlighted.According to a transcript, she claimed, “I don’t remember doing that.” He said the FBI records “were not accurate. I don’t remember finding them.”Noel also claimed to investigators that everyone in the Manhattan federal lockup failed to make rounds and falsified records about it.“I’ve never worked in a special housing unit and literally make rounds every 30 minutes,” she told investigators.Another DOJ file revealed that Chase Bank flagged cash deposits into Noel’s bank account in a “suspicious activity report” to the FBI in November 2019.The bank said a total of 12 deposits began in April 2018 and culminated in the largest deposit of $5,000 on July 30, 2019, records show.The files only included Noel’s bank records starting in December 2018. They showed seven cash deposits totaling $11,880. Noel began working in the special housing unit where Epstein was housed from July 7, 2019, just weeks before his death.Records show that Noel, who drove a $62,000 2019 Land Rover Range Rover, was not asked about the cash during her DOJ interview.An internal FBI briefing, also released in the DOJ files, said the agency thought Noel was likely the mysterious orange figure seen in blurry surveillance video near Epstein’s cell around 10:40 p.m. that night.“At approximately 10:40 p.m., a corrections officer, believed to be Tova Noel, carried linen or inmate clothing up to the L-tier, the last time a corrections officer approached the only entrance to the SHU level,” the agency wrote. Epstein apparently hanged himself with orange clothing strips.In a sworn statement, Noel, who was working a double shift that day, told investigators that she last saw Epstein alive “somewhere after about 10 p.m.” and that she “never gave the inmates linens” or clothing as that was done before the shift.The identity of the pixelated orange blob in the video has been the source of debate and conspiracies since the FBI released the footage last summer. The original 2023 Inspector General report said it was an “unidentified correctional officer,” making the recently released FBI document the first time a name was publicly named in the mysterious figure.She testified that she did not know why there were extra linens in Epstein’s closet. He said the other guard on duty was sleeping between 10 pm and midnight.Personnel said it would be a violation of policy for a prison employee to enter the area of Epstein’s cell alone.Noel has been sued in Westchester County Supreme Court for the alleged assault at her new job as a medical office assistant at Montefiore Einstein Advanced Care.Noel’s lawyers declined to comment. When asked during his sworn statement whether he had any role in Epstein’s death, Noel replied “No.”