Michael Thomas was a defendant in the case USA v Michael Thomas, et al., with the docket number 1:19-cr-00830 [1]. He was charged along with Tova Noel for dereliction of their duties as correctional officers at the Metropolitan Correctional Center ("MCC") on or about August 10, 2019 [3] [4] [5]. Thomas and Noel repeatedly failed to perform mandated counts of prisoners under their watch in the MCC's Special Housing Unit ("SHU") and instead sat at their desk, browsed the internet, and moved around the common area of the SHU [3] [4] [5]. They signed false certifications attesting to having conducted multiple counts of inmates when, in truth, they had not [3] [4] [5]. The case was being handled by the U.S. District Court Southern District of New York [1] [3] [4] [5] [6]. An addendum to a letter brief was submitted in support of Thomas' Application for Deferred Prosecution [1].