In a video analysis included in the Epstein files, an FBI agent noted the “flash” of orange ascending the stairs “could possibly be an inmate escorted up to that Tier.”
In that same document, the Justice Department’s Office of the Inspector General also noted a “flash of orange.” But its analysis said inmates were locked in for the night and raised a different theory: “it is possible someone is carrying inmate linen or bedding up the stairs.”
An inspector general’s report in 2023 that detailed various staffing failures ahead of Epstein’s death concluded that a correctional officer, “believed to be Noel,” had carried linen or clothing to an inmate around that time.
But in her interview with the inspector general’s office in 2021, Noel said she did not know why Epstein had extra linen and clothing in his cell on the morning he died. “I never gave out linen. Ever. Because that’s done
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