HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028922 LINKEDIN http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/community/miami- dadeiarticle5342709.html Page 1 of 3 Salacious new chapter n Florida billionaire's sex scandal I The Miami Herald 1/2/15 6:11 PM In 2008, Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge of solicitingprostitution with a minor and served 13 months of an 18-month sentence. After his conviction, Epstein's story grew even more bizarre, with anonymous women accusinghim in federal court of conspiring with Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late British mediabaron Robert Maxwell, to operate an international underage sex ring. Edwards, the Fort Lauderdale lawyer, and Paul Cassell, a former federal judge who now teaches law at the University of Utah, filed a Jane Doe lawsuit against the U.S. government in July 2008, alleging that Epstein had committed crimes against their clients, including sex trafficking of children by fraud. The case, whichhas been pending for more than sixyears before U.S. District JudgeKenneth A. Marra, initially involved two women, identified as Jane Doe#1 and Jane Doe #2, who said they were sexually abused by Epstein and trafficked as minors. On Dec.30, 2014, Edwards asked to have two new accusers added to the case —identified as Jane Doe #3 and Jane Doe #4. Jane Doe#3 alleges inthe court filing that Maxwell and Epstein kept her as a "sex slave" from 1999 through20002, when she escaped to an unspecified foreign country. Epstein forced Jane Doe#3, who was then a minor, to have sex with politically connected and wealthy people , the court filing alleges. "Epstein's purpose in 'lending' Jane Doe [along with otheryoung girls] to such powerful people [was] to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political and financial gain, as well as to obtain blackmail information," the filing alleges. Jane Doe#3 identifies one of the men she was forced to have sex with as Dershowitz, a former Harvard lawprofessorandhigh- profile criminal defense lawyer. "Ders