From: Matthew Hiltzik To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: RE: Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2017 15:59:30 +0000 Lets discuss - need to better understand the situation Can we discuss with your lawyer? NOTICE OF CONFIDENTIALITY: This entail is confidential and may also he privileged. If'yott are not the intended recipient please delete it and notify us immediately kr telephoning or e-mailing the sender You should not copy it or use it for any purpose nor disclose its contents to any other person. Begin forwarded message: From: Ben Sosenko Date: July 7, 2017 To: Matthew Hiltzik Subject: RE: Sent you this article — Below Trial date set for lawsuit against billionaire sex offender Epstein Jane Musgrave Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 5:08 p.m Thursday, July 6, 2017 Central Palm Beach County WEST PALM BEACH A trial that promises to offer the first public airing of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's activities with teenage girls at his Palm Beach mansion is to be held in December, a Palm Beach County circuit judge agreed Thursday. The malicious prosecution lawsuit that attorney Bradley Edwards filed against the Palm Beach billionaire has been on hold for years while various appeals were filed. With the issues resolved by the Florida Supreme Court last month, Circuit Judge Donald Hafele said the jury trial should begin Dec. 5. While attorney Jack Scarola, who represents Edwards, had put President Donald Trump on the witness list, he has said he won't need Epstein's fellow part-time Palm Beacher to prove his case. The legal hurdles he would face to try to force a sitting president to take the witness stand are unnecessary, he said. "We can prove our case without Donald Trump's testimony," Scarola said in May. Scarola claims Epstein sued Edwards in 2009 to punish him for representing roughly a half-dozen women against Epstein. The women claimed Epstein paid them for sexually charged massages at his mansion when some were as young as 1