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Visit of United States Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York October 10, 2019 MCC-Epstein Investigation will present on their investigation into the events at the Metropolitan Correctional Center on August 9-10, 2019, the night that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. In the last two months, our Office, along with agents from the FBI and DOJ-OIG, have interviewed more than 40 witnesses, including 27 MCC employees and 16 inmates at MCC; reviewed records from the MCC as well as financial records for the relevant employees; conducted searches of the cellphones used by certain of the relevant prison guards, and reviewed dozens of hours of the limited videotape evidence the FBI has thus far been able to recover in the face of technical data recovery issues. The investigation has determined principally that the two prison officers responsible for the SHU area during the night of August 9 and early morning hours of August 10 - Michael Thomas and Tova Noel - d