New Delhi, March 8 -- Newly released Department of Justice documents show that one of Jeffrey Epstein's prison guards, Tova Noel, searched for information about the disgraced financier just minutes before he was found dead in his jail cell.

According to FBI records cited in the documents reviewed by The New York Post, Tova Noel - one of two Metropolitan Correctional Center guards on duty the night of Epstein's death - searched for the phrase "latest on Epstein in jail" at 5:42 a.m. and again at 5:52 a.m. on August 10, 2019, less than 40 minutes before her colleague, correctional officer Michael Thomas, discovered Epstein dead by hanging at 6:30 a.m.

Prosecutors say Noel shopped for furniture online and napped during her shift, neglectin...