From: To: Cc Subject: Epstein issue with State Attorney's Office Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:16:38 +0000 Importance: Normal It is Tuesday, so there must be a new issue with Epstein. This one potentially involves the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office so I included poor on the email chain. Here are the two issues: First, I have heard from several sources that Epstein is trying to convince (or perhaps has already convinced) the SAO to give him "cooperation credit" to shorten the length of his home confinement based upon "cooperation" that he is giving to the Feds in the Bernie Madoff case. As you probably remember, a couple of weeks ago some newspapers reported that Epstein is cooperating with FBI in the Madoff prosecution and that was the real reason for him receiving such a light sentence. After those newspaper reports came out, the AUSA prosecuting the Madoff case called me asking who Epstein was and stating in no uncertain terms that Epstein is not cooperating. Nonetheless, I can imagine our good friends (Goldberger, Lefkowitz, and others) telling the SAO that Epstein actually is cooperating and that the USA() agrees that he should have his sentence reduced. Now, this could all be rumor, but and I have heard it from so many different places (Town of Palm Beach PD, plaintiffs' attorneys, etc.), that it seems like someone should reach out to the SAO to make sure that they aren't beinr, any lies. I, of course, am happy to do so, but I didn't know if you felt that the contact should be made by Or I also just pulled the state docket sheet and found another motion to "correct" Epstein's sentence that we were never told about. Docket entry 7 in the procurement of child prostitution case reads: "Agreed Order that the Order of Community Control is Corrected to Delete Special Condition #26 and #27." Something tells me that there was no "correction," this was a "change" that takes out things we considered important. Can you get this from the