A-108 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK x IN RE APPLICATION TO QUASH SUBPOENAS TO DAILY NEWS, E., AND GEORGE RUSH x No. 10 M8-85 (LAK) AFFIDAVIT OF GEORGE RUSH STATE OF NEW YORK ) ) ss.: COUNTY OF NEW YORK ) GEORGE RUSH, being duly sworn, deposes and says: 1. I am a reporter for the New York Daily News and co-writer with my wife, Joanna Molloy, of the News' weekly gossip column, Rush & Molloy. 2. In the fall of last year, I began to follow as a reporter developments in the evol- ving scandal surrounding Jeffrey Epstein, including the institution of a large number of civil suits against him by young women who claimed that he had sexually molested them over a period of years when they were in their mid-teens, the mushrooming of the scandal to touch other indivi- duals who had long been associated with him, the continued ferment in Palm Beach over his lurid criminal case, the controversy over a recently-unsealed Non-Prosecution Agreement he had entered into with the U.S. Attorney's office, and the arrest of a prominent south Florida attorney who was accused of defrauding investors by inducing them to put money into a fictitious fund supposedly backed by a pool of hundreds of millions of dollars put up by Epstein to finance settlements with the young women who were suing him. 3. Over time, I began to develop contacts among lawyers, residents of Palm Beach, and others close to the case or to major figures in the case who could provide tips, leads and EFTA00596640