James PATTERSON : i TL; Jeffrey Epstein. Finally, desperately, he tried to sell the informa- 4 * tion he'd stolen. The papers named underage girls and the places where ] Two months later, on Octob ’ obe Epstein had taken them. The list included locations in Califor- j who insisted once more ; on nia, Paris, New Mexico, New York, and Michigan. The papers 1 lawyer told him that ana sso also included the names, addresses, and phone numbers of 1 3 What the lawyer kne 2 S. wa famous individuals—Henry Kissinger, Mick Jagger, Dustin Hoff- E the associate in question Ps : was. man, Ralph Fiennes, David Koch, Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, J the FBI. A few days late i Bay . Tr, on Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, and former Israeli prime minister a guez and sets up a meeting, wt aa g, W. Ehud Barak among them. - “During the meeting, Roc This was intriguing, if not at all damning. Epstein made a Se book and several sheets of | ; r ‘ . . ae a e€ga habit of collecting such information for future use. But informa- o ten notes,” Special Agent Pryo tion pertaining to the girls would have bolstered the state’s case 9) — continues: against Jeffrey Epstein, and by withholding it from the Palm i i Beach PD and the FBI, Rodriguez had committed a crime. a Rodriguez explained that he In his defense, Rodriguez would say that the papers were an yO his former employer's resid : esi “insurance policy.” Without them, he believed, Epstein would 2004 to 2005 and that the b : «4: ” af % € DO have made him “disappear. a working for his former em But now Rodriguez needed the money. And so a few weeks ~ detail the information withi 4 A in after Epstein’s release from the Stockade, he approached a lawyer ~ 4 ant information to the UCE. I who was representing some of Epstein’s masseuses. He had the © 4 he had previously lied to di | 4 E é. “holy grail,” he insisted. A*“golden nugget.” The names of hun- ~ q about the $50,000. took a ; > ? OSSE dreds of girls, he said, who had been abused by Epstein. q count