ene Wi SR SE SI ES a SS OES jo (Rev. 5-8-81) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1A, 4A Palm Beach Post Mount Clipping in Space Below) Palm Beach, FL Date: 6/10/2009 . | Edition: | ' Title: Women want sex plea omen — sa f { . . Character ; or Classification: 31E-MM-108062 . ; Submitting Office: MM plea deal = | | ‘unsealed | Their attorneys will ask a judge to open Jeffrey Epsiein’s records. By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL | . _ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm | Beach pleaded guilty last year to pro- ' | curing teens for prostitution, his case | detoured around local and paye-—a | state rules regarding the fF’ BS | sealing of court documents. | ot : | At a plea conference on A. - | the state charges, a judge, ke ~ 't a defense lawyer and a pros-- LF. _.,j | ecutor huddled at the bench ; and decided that a deal Epstein ) Epstein had-struck with federal prosecu- | tors to avoid charges should be sealed, | according to a transcript of the hearing. | And so it was, | But Florida rules of judicial admin- | | istration, as well as rules of the Palm | Beach County court’ system, require | \ public notification that a court document 7 | ' thas been or will be sealed, meaning kept . | | from public view. The rules also require a . | ' judge to find a significant reason to seal, . . | , See EPSTEIN, 4A > | ’ See past coverage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex. | scandals. PalmBeachPost.comi/epstein ° Ci * b7C B/E-WH - (08062-2'1F _ HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021654 —