WASHINGTON
Lawyers representing the two guards who have been criminally charged for allegedly failing to check in on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein when he killed himself said their clients are victims of a broken system.
Defense lawyers said in court Monday that Tova Noel, 31, and Michael Thomas, 41, are being made scapegoats for a federal prisons system that is fundamentally flawed, according to multiple reports.
“Unfortunately, the decisions that led to the death of Mr. Epstein were not only because of what my client did or did not do,” Montell Figgins, Thomas' lawyer, said, according to the New York