James PaTTERSON Bre Jeffrey Epstein. Finally, desperately, he tried to sell the informa- § tion he'd stolen. The papers named underage girls and the places where ] Two months later, on Octobe: Epstein had taken them. The list included locations in Califor- | who insisted once more on by nia, Paris, New Mexico, New York, and Michigan. The papers : { lawyer told him that an associ also included the names, addresses, and phone numbers of § What the 1 awyer knewane famous individuals— Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoff- 7 the associate in question was. man, Ralph Fiennes, David Koch, Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, q t the FBI. A few days later, on } Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, and former Israeli prime minister u q guez and sets up a meeting, wi Ehud Barak among them. a q “During the meeting, Roc This was intriguing, if not at all damning. Epstein made a a 9 book and several sheets of legs habit of collecting such information for future use. But informa- 4 | _ ten notes,” Special Agent Pryo: tion pertaining to the girls would have bolstered the state's case = | continues: against Jeffrey Epstein, and by withholding it from the Palm a E Beach PD and the FBI, Rodriguez had committed a crime. a 3 Rodriguez explained that he In his defense, Rodriguez would say that the papers were an 4 my his former employer's resid “insurance policy.” Without them, he believed, Epstein would Rh a 2004 to 2005 and that the bo have made him “disappear.” a a working for his former emp But now Rodriguez needed the money. And so a few weeks 7) detail the information within after Epstein’s release from the Stockade, he approached a lawyer q 9 ant information to the UCE. | who was representing some of Epstein’s masseuses. He had the 4 4 he had previously lied to the. “holy grail,” he insisted. A “golden nugget.” The names of hun- q q about the $50,000, took nes dreds of girls, he said, who had been abused by Epstein. 4 4 counting it. The lawyer told Rodriguez in no uncertain terms that