{"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_count": 94, "url": "https://epstein-data.com/EFTA02732526", "pdf_url": "https://epstein-data.com/pdf/EFTA02732526.pdf", "pages": [{"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 0, "text_content": "Filing # 101840557 E-Filed 01/17/2020 12:23:06 PM\n\nIN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE\nI.11. CbENTH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN AND\nFOR PALM BEACH COUNTY, FLORIDA\nCA FLORIDA HOLDINGS, LLC,\nPublisher of THE PALM BEACH POSZ\n\nCASE NO.: 50-2019-CA-0146814OOOC-MB\nDiv.: AG\n\nPlaintiff,\n\nA\n\nv.\n\nDAVE ARONBERG, as State Attorney of\nPalm Beach County, Florida; SHARON IL\nBOCK, as Clerk and Comptroller of Palm\nBeach County, Florida,\n\nCos\n\nDefendants.\nT AMENDED\nCA Florida Holdings, LLC, publisher of\nComplaint against Dave Aronberg, the Sta\n\nteach Post, for its First Amended\n\na\n\ntto\n\nfor Palm Beach County, Florida, in his\n\nofficial capacity (\"State Attorney\"), ag\n\nnn R. Bock, the Clerk of the Court for Palm Beach\n\nCounty, Florida, in her official\n\nurt Clerk\"), alleges as follows:\nJURISDICTION\n\n1.\n\nThis is an\n\nFla. Stat. Sectioif%\ns .012(\n\nriy within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Circuit Court pursuant to\na) and 86.011 et seq.\nPARTIES\n\ne Palm Beach Post is a daily community newspaper published by Plaintiff CA\nFlorida Holdings, LLC, with offices located at 2751 S. Dixie Highway, West Palm Beach, Florida.\n3.\n\nDefendant Dave Aronberg is the duly elected State Attorney for the Fifteenth\n\nJudicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, pursuant to Fla. Stat. Section 27.01 and\nhas authority in grand jury proceedings pursuant to Fla. Stat. Section 27.03. He is sued herein in\n\nFILED: PALM BEACH COUNTY. FL. SHARON R BOCK. CLERK, 01/17/2020 12:23:06 PM\nEFTA02732526\n\n\f", "char_count": 1462}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 1, "text_content": "his official capacity as his office is in possession and/or control of documents that are the subject\nof this action.\n4.\n\nDefendant Sharon R. Bock is the duly elected Clerk and Comptroller of Palm Beach\n\nCounty, Florida. She is sued herein in her official capacity as her office is in possession and/or\ncontrol of documents that are the subject of this action.\nINTRODI1CT ION\n5.\n\nIn what is now widely if belatedly recognized as a colossal\n\nwhich led to the further needless victimization of countless young gi\npolitically connected, and powerful financier was not held a\nconfront, allegations of serious sex trafficking crimes. Wha\n• It I\n\nAlk\ne of justice —\nen — a wealthy,\n\nto\n\nor, nor even forced to\nthat Jeffrey Epstein's 2008\n\ndeal with the State of Florida was not consistent iw\" S rese\nVdence gathered against him, what\nremains shrouded in mystery is how that evid iset\npresented - to the grand jury that return\n\nnsin\n\nnted — and the extent to which it was\nment far more limited in scope than expected\n\nand deserved.\n6.\n\nThrough this ac 'on, T\n\nminutes, and other evid\n\nPalm Beach Post seeks public access to the testimony,\n\nented in 2006 to the Palm Beach County grand jury empaneled\n\nduring the first E\n\nsex\n\nexample, in\n\np vent the flight of those whose indictment may be contemplated and their\n\nability\n\nuse investigation. Typically, access to such materials is limited, for\n\n1 or destroy evidence; to ensure jurors' candor in deliberations; and to protect an\n\naccused who is later exonerated. However, these factors are inapplicable here. Also, Florida law\nexpressly authorizes the disclosure of grand jury proceedings under certain circumstances,\nincluding, as here, in the furtherance of justice. Fla. Stat. § 905.27(1Xc).\n7.\n\nIt can no longer credibly be maintained that continued blanket secrecy over the\n\nproceedings that led to the egregiously flawed 2006 Epstein indictment is warranted under the law.\n2\n\nEFTA02732527\n\n\f", "char_count": 1940}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 2, "text_content": "To the contrary, transparency is required to promote public understanding of the criminal justice\nsystem and public confidence in the fair administration of justice. As detailed below, Epstein was\naccused of sexually abusing and trafficking dozens of women and girls in south Florida (among\nother locations) over a period of several years while exploiting his wealth and political connections\nto obstruct the administration of justice at every turn. Public disclosure of the Epste' grand jury\nproceedings will shed light on the extent to which those in our government enf\nsolemn responsibility of enforcing our criminal laws equally as to all citize\nin this instance. Justice will be furthered where it is either (1) demons\nlike others accused of similar heinous crimes, or (2) as app\nwho chose to give Epstein favorable — \"unusual,\" in the\n\nwith the\ntheir duties\n\nstein was treated\ny to be the case, those\nTown of Palm Beach Police\n\nChief — treatment, are exposed and held accountable \\s\no w\n, t limited information is now in the\npublic domain, the State Attorney's referral o\n\ni'ut case to the grand jury — which would be\n\nout of the ordinary for this type of c\n\nrise to a strong inference of favoritism and\n\ncorresponding disregard for the ri\n\ngt\nt\n\ninor victims of Epstein's sex trafficking. Access to\n\nthe grand jury materials will all w the ublic to determine whether the grand jury process, and the\nsecrecy that comes with i\nhis co-conspiratq\nSection 905.\n+\n\nsed to further justice or, instead, operated to shield Epstein and\ne consequences of their criminal activities. Accordingly, Fla. Stat.\n\nonzes the disclosure of Epstein's 2006 grand jury proceedings.\nven in the absence of such a statutory basis, this Court is empowered to order\n\npublic disclosure pursuant to its inherent authority and supervisory powers over the grand jury.\nIndeed, courts throughout the country in the past several decades have ordered the disclosure of\nhigh-profile grand jury proceedings pursuant to their inhere\n... [truncated, 2157 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/2 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=2]", "char_count": 2157}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 3, "text_content": "as here, many of the details of Epstein's criminal misdeeds have already been made available in\nthe public domain through extensive news reporting by, among others, The Palm Beach Post; by\nthe many civil suits brought against Epstein and his co-conspirators; and by the victims themselves.\nIn recognition of the sensitivity of the materials being sought, and in the interest of\n\n9.\n\nprotecting any victims who wish to remain anonymous, The Palm Beach Post has no bjection to\ncopies of the testimony, minutes, and other evidence presented in 2006 to the Pal\ngrand jury first being submitted to this Court for in camera review, where0\n\nh County\nbe redacted,\n\nas appropriate, to protect those who deserve such protection.\nFACTUAL BACKGROUND\n10.\n\nThe following facts were gathered, in largit\n\nPalm Beach Post through various Florida Public iIt\npublicly available in other related judicial p\n\nres,\n\ndocuments obtained by The\nrequests, documents unsealed or\n\ni rcc\nin , and information and documents in the\n\npublic record.\nA.\n\nFirst Epstein Sex Crinrgs lav\n2005-2008.\n11.\n\nThe investigatio\n\nwhen a 14-year-old 'rl's\nEpstein and oft\nrequired t\n$300. Ep\n12.\n\nintion, Indictment, and Plea Agreement:\n\nEpstein's sex crimes began more than fourteen years ago,\n\nprliother reported to police in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida, that\n\nworked for him arranged for her to give Epstein a \"massage.\" Epstein\nto trip, exposed himself, and masturbated while touching her. The girl was paid\n\nn was 52 years old at the time.\nFollowing this initial report in 2005, the Town of Palm Beach Police, and later, in\n\n2006, the FBI, investigated Epstein. Interviews under oath with five additional alleged victims and\nseventeen witnesses revealed that the events described by the 14-year-old girl occurred, with\ndisturbingly similar details, with each of the other victims.\n\n4\n\nEFTA02732529\n\n\f", "char_count": 1863}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 4, "text_content": "13.\n\nBoth the victim/witness interviews, as well as evidence retrieved following a search\n\nof Epstein's home, showed that some of the girls involved were under the age of 18. The police\nsearch of Epstein's residence also found two hidden cameras and, throughout the house, large\nnumbers of nude photos of girls, including victims whom the police had not interviewed in the\ncourse of their investigation.\n14.\n\nIn March 2006, a State grand jury was scheduled at which all of\n\nexpected to testify. The proceeding was postponed, however, due to meet\nAttorney's office and Epstein's prominent criminal defense lawyeqz\nDershowitz.\n15.\n\nAnother grand jury was convened in April\n\nto begin receiving evidence.\n(I)\n16.\n\ntms were\neen the State\n\nonal friend, Alan\n\nc\n\n4,., 4) anceled the day before it was\n\ni\\\nPolice Chief Reit\n( s i irtse , r to the State Attorney.\n\nOn May I, 2006, Town\n\n\"personal and confidential\" letter\n\nPa\nn\n\nBeach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote a\n\nIm Beach County State Attorney, Barry Krischer,\n\nstating:\nI must renew m\nobservation to you that I continue to find your office's\ntreatment of the E to ] cases highly unusual. It is regrettable that I am forced to\ncommunic' in tin manner, but my most recent telephone calls to you and those\nof the\ntive to your assigned attorneys have been unanswered and\nmes es nain unreturned. After giving this much thought and consideration, I\nmuk\nou to examine the unusual course that your office's handling ofthis\nas taken and consider if good and sufficient reason exists to requireyour\ndiIgpalification from the prosecution ofthese cases. (Emphasis supplied)\n17.\n\nChief Reiter's letter to State Attorney Krischer enclosed the Town of Palm Beach\n\nPolice Department's probable cause affidavits charging Epstein and two of his assistants with\nmultiple counts of unlawful sex acts with a minor and one count of sexual abuse, and requested\n\n5\n\nEFTA02732530\n\n\f", "char_count": 1908}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 5, "text_content": "that either an arrest warrant be issued for Epstein or the State Attorney directly initiate the charges\nagainst him, which would be public.\n(2)\n18.\n\nThe July 2006 State Grand Jury Presentation.\n\nInstead, State Attorney Krischer elected to refer the case to a grand jury, which is\n\nmandatory for capital cases but rarely used for all other crimes. According to an official\nspokesperson, this was the first time that a sex crimes case was presented to a\nBeach County.\n19.\n\nIn July 2006, after State Attorney Krischer presented t\n\none victim, the grand jury returned an indictment on a sole coj\nA\nThere is no mention in the indictment of the victim being\n20.\n\nOn information and belief, a second\n\nbefore the grand jury, but was unable to atten\n21.\n\nNo reasonable explanatio\n\nvictims were not presented as with\nNor has any reasonable expla lion\ninitially eager to investigIr\n\ns\nbe\n\nO\n\nnd evidence from\n\ntation of prostitution.\n\ns victims was supposed to testify\n\nf a school exam.\n\nrovided as to why the numerous other known\n\nme victims to the grand jury convened in July 2006.\nn provided as to why State Attorney Krischer, who was\n\nyd prosecute Epstein for his crimes, over time lost the desire to do\n\nt\n\nso.\n\n22.\nwho t\n\nes\n\nto\n\nf\n\nin Palm\n\nOn\n\nformation and belief, during the grand jury appearance of the single victim\n\nhe State Attorney presented evidence that vilified the victim and attacked her\n\ncredibility, including soliciting testimony regarding underage drinking and questionable personal\nbehavior that was unrelated to the charges against Epstein. Further upon information and belief,\nthis information was initially brought to the attention of the State Attorney's office by Epstein's\ndefense counsel.\n\n6\n\nEFTA02732531\n\n\f", "char_count": 1729}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 6, "text_content": "(3) The FBI's Investigation and Epstein's Non-Prosecution\nAgreement With Federal Authorities.\n23.\n\nOn information and belief, following the deficient July 2006 indictment, and with\n\nChief Reiter's encouragement, the FBI began its own investigation of Epstein.\n24.\n\nRecords unsealed in 2015 revealed that the FBI compiled reports on \"34 confirmed\n\nminors\" that were victims ofEpstein's sexual predations. Based on evidence gath\n\ny the FBI,\n\na 53-page indictment was prepared by the U.S. Attorney's Office in June 200g\n\nowe\n,\ner, at the\n\nrequest ofEpstein's lawyers, the indictment was never presented to a fed\n\njury.\n\n25.\n\nInstead, then U.S. Attorney for the Southern District o\n\n, Alexander Acosta,\n\nnegotiated a plea deal with Epstein's team of lawyers to\n\nity to Epstein (along with\n\nfour named co-conspirators and any unnamed potentiais\n\nors) from all federal criminal\n\ncharges.\n26.\n\nThroughout the remainder\n\n7\n\nlawyers and the U.S. Attorney contin\n\nd through the first half of 2008, Epstein's\n\nting the plea arrangement. Upon information and\n\nbelief, Epstein's lawyers insis\n\n) the victims not be notified, (2) the deal be kept\n\nconfidential and under seal, and\n\nI grand jury subpoenas (including one that had already been\n\nissued for Epstein's\n\nbe withdrawn.\n\n27.\n\n0, 2008, Epstein pled guilty to State charges: one count of solicitation of\n\nprostituti\n\ncount of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18. He was\n\nsentencedhq,18 months in jail, followed by a year of community control or house arrest, and was\nadjudicated as a convicted sex offender required to register twice a year in Florida.\n28.\n\nThe plea deal, called a non-prosecution agreement (\"NPA\"), allowed Epstein to\n\nreceive immunity from federal sex-trafficking charges that could have sent him to prison for life.\n\n7\n\nEFTA02732532\n\n\f", "char_count": 1824}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 7, "text_content": "On information and belief, based on public records, former State Attorney Krischer communicated\nwith then U.S. Attorney Acosta concerning the NPA's negotiation with Epstein's lawyers.\n29.\n\nIndeed, Epstein was not incarcerated in a Florida prison for the State crimes for\n\nwhich he was convicted. Instead, he was placed in a private wing of the Palm Beach County\nStockade, where, after 3 I/2 months, he was allowed to leave the jail on \"work release\" for up to\n12 hours a day, 6 days a week. His private driver provided his transportation to a\n30.\n\nEpstein was released five months early.\n\n31.\n\nUpon information and belief, Epstein violated the to\n\n\"work.\"\n\n0\n\nACt'\nrobation, but was\n\nnot prosecuted.\n(4) The Crime Victims' Rights\n32.\n\nAcL i) tion.\n\nEpstein's victims only learned after t INV ut his plea in State court and filed\n\nan emergency petition to force federal prosec\n\nply with the Crime Victims' Rights Act\nin rights for crime victims, including the right\n\n(18 U.S.C. § 3771, \"CVRA\"), which ,*\nt.\n\n.e\n\nto be informed about plea agreem\n\ne right to appear at sentencing. U.S. District Judge\n\nKenneth A. Marra recently rul\nEpstein's victims before r\n33.\ncontravenes\n\nT\n\nderal prosecutors violated the CVRA by failing to notify\n\n' vg him to plead guilty to only the two State offenses.\n\nrosecu on's failure to keep the victims apprised, among other things, also\nd Constitution, Article I, § 16(b) and Ha. Stat. § 960.001.\n\nollowing publicity exposing the extraordinary leniency of the plea deal, dozens of\ncivil suits were brought against Epstein, most of which Epstein's lawyers settled out-of-court.\n35.\n\nIn 2010, Epstein was registered as a \"level three\" (i.e., high risk of repeat offense)\n\nsex offender in New York, a lifelong designation. In 2011, the New York County District\nAttorney's office unsuccessfully sought to lower his registration to low-risk \"level one.\"\n\n8\n\nEFTA02732533\n\n\f", "char_count": 1898}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 8, "text_content": "Upon information and belief, during the course of the Town of Palm Beach and FBI\n\n36.\n\ninvestigations, Epstein retained private investigators to follow, harass, and photograph his victims\nand their families, as well as Chief Reiter and the Town of Palm Beach detective who investigated\ndie case against Epstein.\nUpon information and belief, Epstein's victims were threatened against cooperating\n\n37.\n\nwith law enforcement and told that they would be compensated only if they did no\n\nrate with\n\nlaw enforcement.\nSecond Epstein Sex Crimes Investigation, Indictment., S1iici :\n\nB.\n38.\n\nOn July 6, 2019, Epstein was arrested on federal\n\n39.\n\nUpon information and belief, the United S\n\n.\n\n40.\n\nIn a July 8, 2019, letter\n\nSouthern District of New York, E\ndozens of minor girls over a pe\n\niw\n\niirra\ne\n\ns\n\nScIeing charges.\nent's investigation of new\n\nallegations and charges stemmed, in part, from con 111\nu 4\n/;„\non the mishandling of the 2006 charges and th\n\n19.\n\ninvestigations into and reporting\n\nthat followed.\n\nI district court by the U.S. Attorney for the\n\nescribed as \"a serial sexual predator who preyed on\n.\" The letter emphasized that \"the Government has real\n\nence with this defendant — that if allowed to remain out on bail,\n\nconcerns — grounded in p\ndie defendant co\n\nattem\n\ncase, inclucf\n\nrms and their families, and otherwise attempt to obstruct justice.\" It also\n\ndescri\n\nto pressure and intimidate witnesses and potential witnesses in this\n\nesults of the FBI's search of Epstein's Manhattan townhouse: evidence of sex\n\ntrafficking in the form of \"hundreds — and perhaps thousands — of sexually suggestive photographs\nof fully- or partially-nude females,\" including underage females. In a locked safe, compact discs\nwere found with handwritten labels including the descriptions: \"Young [Name] + [Name],\" \"Misc\nnudes 1,\" and \"Girl pies nude.\"\n\n9\n\nEFTA02732534\n\n\f", "char_count": 1870}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 9, "text_content": "41.\n\nOn July 8, 2019, prosecutors with the Public Corruption Unit of the U.S. Attorney's\n\noffice for the Southern District of New York charged Epstein with sex trafficking and conspiracy\nto traffic minors for sex. The grand jury indictment alleges that \"dozens\" of underage girls were\nbrought into Epstein's mansions for sexual encounters. A few days later, owing to public outcry\nover the NPA with Epstein entered into by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida,\nAlexander Acosta, who by then was serving as U.S. Secretary of Labor\nadministration, resigned from office.\n42.\n\ne Trump\n\nIS\n\nEpstein was denied bail and was placed into pre\n\nn at the federal\n\nMetropolitan Correction Center in lower Manhattan.\n43.\n\nOn or about August 6, 2019, Florida GovAget) Santis ordered a state criminal\n\nprobe into the actions of the Palm Beach SheriffS Sip\n,\n\nState Attorney Krischer for their\n\ni\n\nhandling of the Epstein underage sex traffickic cos\n?\n44.\nOn August 10, 2019, E\nin\nfound dead in his cell at the Metropolitan\nCorrectional Center. His cause of\n\nt\n\nThe August 27, 201\n\nD\n\nC.\n45.\n\nHearing: Epstein's Victims Speak.\n\nOn accou%r ip,\nhis death, prosecutors sought to dismiss the indictment against\n\nEpstein, while m\n\nming at they would continue to investigate his co-conspirators.\nStates Senior District Judge Richard M. Berman ordered a hearing on\n\n46.\nAugus\n\netermined to be suicide.\n\n9, on the prosecutors' decision to dismiss the indictment and allowed victims to\n\nspeak at the hearing.\n47.\n\nIn the course of the hearing, more than two dozen victims delivered their personal\n\nstories of pain, frustration, and sexual abuse at the hands of Epstein. Several victims spoke of\nviolent rape by Epstein. Many more victims were present in the courtroom but did not testify.\n\n10\n\nEFTA02732535\n\n\f", "char_count": 1802}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 10, "text_content": "48.\n\nWhile some questioned the reasoning behind the court's decision to give the victims\n\nvoice after Epstein's death, District Judge Berman noted that \"a public hearing is [the] preferred\nvehicle of resolution,\" emphasizing that \"public hearings are exactly what judges do. Hearings\npromote transparency and they provide the court with insights and information which the court\nmay not otherwise be aware of.\" Indeed, even Epstein's defense lawyer noted at the earing that\nthe court \"is the institution that most people have confidence in, in these very tro\n49.\n\nAt the August 27th hearing, the girls, now women, spoke a\n\n\"exploitation\n\nand coercion,\" and to the fact that many of them \"were in very vulnera a ic3\n\nA4c5\n,cit)\n\n.”\n\nns and in extreme\n\npoverty, circumstances where [they] didn't have anyone on\n\nir\n\nbehalf....\" One victim lamented that \"as a victim, [she]\n\nsee what the agreement was\n\nor why the special treatment got approved\" in the\n\"completely different\" the investigators lead'\nprosecutors in the Florida case, both '\n\nte t\n\ng\n\nits\n' „ c,\n\n8s\n\ne, to speak on [their]\n\nyears earlier. Another noted how\n\n2019 federal indictment were from the\n\neirs atment of her and their investigation of her\n\nvictimization by Epstein.\n50.\n\nA former fede\n\n\"transparency is one of th\n51.\nEpstein has\nwrong\n\nN\n\nudg in attendance at the August 27th hearing emphasized that\nding objectives in our criminal justice system.\"\n\nall o the victims expressed the conviction that the secrecy that shielded\nthem \"irreparable harm\" and that an opportunity to address his criminal\n\nd those of the individuals who enabled his sexual racketeering, would allow for\n\nat least some measure of justice to be served after his death. Indeed, one victim stated: \"Any efforts\nmade to protect Epstein's name and legacy send a message to the victims that he wins and that he\nis untouchable.\" Another victim expressed fear that this is a world \"where there are predators in\npower, a world where people can avoid justice if their\n... [truncated, 2061 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/10 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=10]", "char_count": 2061}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 11, "text_content": "\"unusual\" treatment Epstein received in Florida in 2006 based on his wealth, social status, and\nconnections severely eroded the public's faith in the integrity and impartiality of the criminal\njustice system.\nD.\n\nThe Palm Beach Post's Standing and the Public Interest.\n\n(1)\n52.\n\nThe Palm Beach Post Has Renorted Extensively On Ea\nCrimes For Nearly 15 Years.\n\nPlaintiff, The Palm Beach Post, is a community newspaper seri\nijct ad\n\n0\n\nBeach County and the Treasure Coast vicinity.\n53.\n\nin Palm\n\nThe Palm Beach Post has been a Pulitzer Prize wineeCand) ominated as a finalist\n\nthree other times.\n54.\n\nBeginning in 2004, The Palm Beach Pos\n\non the allegations against, the law enforcement\nEpstein and his co-conspirators. The Ne\n\nively investigated and reported\n*ga lbn of, and the crimes committed by,\nortage has included publication of the\n\nfollowing articles:\n• \"The Man Who Ha\ng: Jeffrey Epstein Craved Big Homes, Elite Friends\nand Investi tors Say, Und ge Girls.,\" published on August 14, 2006, reporting that:\na localsommunity college student, admitted in a sworn statement to\npolice that \"sl\nd taken at least six girls to visit Epstein, all between the ages of 14\nh Police \"interviewed five alleged victims and 17 witnesses;\"\nth arvard law professor, traveled to West Palm Beach with information\ns,\" including social media discussions about \"their use of alcohol and\na;\" after meeting with Epstein's legal team, \"prosecutors postponed their\nto take the case to a grand jury;\" Palm Beach Police subsequently \"received\naints that two of the victims or their families had been harassed or threatened;\"\nlations between police and prosecutors were fraying\" as the investigation continued;\nnd \"one girl who was subpoenaed — the one who said she had sexual intercourse with\nEpstein — never showed up\" to testify before the grand jury.\n• \"Trump Snags Gosman Estate for $41 Million\" published on November 16, 2004,\nreporting on the bidding war between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein for the\npurchase of a\n... [truncated, 2135 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/11 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=11]", "char_count": 2135}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 12, "text_content": "• \"Indictment: Billionaire Solicited 3 Times\" published on July 25, 2006, reporting that\n\"Billionaire money manager and Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey Epstein\nsolicited or procured prostitutes three or more times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last\nyear, according to an indictment charging him with felony solicitation of prostitution.\"\nThe article further reported that \"Epstein's case is unusual in that suspected prostitution\njohns are usually charged with a misdemeanor, and even a felony charge is typically\nmade in a criminal information — an alternative to an indictment charging a person with\nthe commission of a crime.\"\n• \"After Long Probe, Billionaire Faces Solicitation Charge\" published on J 26, 2006,\nreporting that \"Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause t\ne Epstein\nwith unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious moles\ne article\nfurther reported that \"Police Chief Michael Reiter was so an\nwi State Attorney\nBarry ICrischer's handling of the case that he wrote a memo iggeiiti g the county's\ntop prosecutor disqualify himself,\" and identified a 20-y\n1 on-fhe-record female\nsource who said \"she gave Epstein a massage in the nud thenjbrought him six girls,\nages 14 to 16, for massage and sex-tinged sessions a ' ho\n• \"Police Say Lawyer Tried to Discredit Teena\n•ublished on July 29, 2006,\nreporting that \"[flamed Harvard law prof\nhowitz met with the Palm\nBeach County State Attorney's Office\ned damaging information about\nteenage girls who say they gave his\nP\nBeach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein,\nsexually charged massages\" and th\nh\nto attorney's office said it presented the\nEpstein case to a county grand •\nthis onth rather than directly charging Epstein\nbecause of concerns about the\nibility.\"\n• \"Expert: Ignorance of A\nn\nefense In Sex Cases\" published on August 5, 2006,\nreporting that \"fflath\nt charges, the state attorney's office presented the case\nto a county grand j\nh \"indicted Epstein last week on a single, less serious\ncharge of felony so\non o\n... [truncated, 3055 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/12 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=12]", "char_count": 3055}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 13, "text_content": "• \"Woman Sues Billionaire Investor, Says They Had Sex When She Was 16\" published\non October 18, 2007, reporting on a lawsuit brought in New York State court against\nEpstein \"by a young woman who says he had sex with her when she was 16 and had\nsought his help becoming a model.\"\n• \"Palm Beacher Pleads In Sex Case\" published on July 1, 2008, reporting that \"Epstein,\n55, pleaded guilty ... to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring a person under\nthe age of 18 for prostitution,\" resulting in \"a lifelong obligation to register as a sex\noffender,\" and that \"[a]s part of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop their\ninvestigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a grand jury.\"\n• \"Jeffrey Epstein: Scientist, Stuntman, `Sex Slave' Visit Jailed Ty\npuNished on\nAugust 13 2008 reporting that \"[d]uring his first month of con\nt\" Epstein was\nvisited by\nwho allegedly escorted victims \"upon\nal at his Palm\nBeach waterfront home to an upstairs room, where she p\nassa e table and\nprovided the oils for their encounters\" with Epstein, an\nadia\n\"a\nyoung woman whom Epstein purportedly described\nslavian sex slave.\"\n• \"Billionaire Sex Offender Leaves Jail Six Da\n1, 2008, reporting that Epstein \"is allowed t\nsix days a week on a work-release pro\n\nr Work\" published on July\nPalm Beach County Stockade\n\n• \"Women Want Epstein Sex Plea Dea\n' published on June 10, 2009, reporting\nthat attorneys for women suing\narious courts \"want his [non-prosecution]\nagreement [NPA] with federal\nors unsealed\" and were moving to unseal the\nagreement in Circuit Court\nnth Judicial Circuit, and that \"Epstein now faces\nat least a dozen civil la\nederal and state courts filed by young women who\nsaid they had sex wit\nnow are seeking damages.\" On that date, The Palm\nBeach Post moved t\ne in the matter for the purpose of obtaining public access\nto the NPA, which\nered disclosed by this Court on June 25, 2009.\n• \"Epstein's Sec\nt With Feds Reveals `Highly Unusual' Terms\" published on\nSeptem\n19, 09, reporti\n... [truncated, 2841 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/13 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=13]", "char_count": 2841}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 14, "text_content": "• \"Epstein Journal's Findings Could Resurrect Abuse Case\" published on March 20,\n2010, reporting that \"[a] purloined journal that is said to contain the names of\n'hundreds' of victims of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein could be used to reopen\nthe investigation into the multi-millionaire's appetite for teenage girls.\"\n• \"Epstein Paid Three Women $5.5 Million to End Underage Sex Lawsuits\" published\non October 4, 2017, reporting that, according to court documents, Epstein \"shelled out\n$5.5 million to settle lawsuits with three of more than two dozen teens who sued him.\"\n• \"Judge Rules Feds' Agreement With Jeffrey Epstein Pact Violated Tefn Victims'\nRights\" published on February 22, 2019, reporting on a ruling by U.\ntrict Judge\nKenneth Marra that \"Federal prosecutors violated the rights o\ny pstein's\nteenage victims [under the Crime Victims' Rights Act] by fail'\nveal they had\ndropped plans to prosecute the billionaire on dozens of fede\nm connection\nwith the girls' claims that he paid them for sex at his Palm\nion.\"\n• \"Epstein Indicted On Sex Charges/Part-Time Palm Beach&2Wads Not Guilty to Sex\nTrafficking, Conspiracy Charges In Federal Court a\nattan\" published on July 9,\n2019, reporting on Epstein's appearance in U.S.\nourt for the Southern District\nof New York in which he \"pleaded not guilty\naccusing him of creating a vast\nnetwork of girls as young as 14 that he e\nhis sexual pleasure at his homes\nin Palm Beach and Manhattan.\"\nA true and correct copy of the above news\nare maintained in The Palm Beach Po\noriginally published, is annexed\n55.\n\nSince the filing\n\nwith media worldwide —\nproceedings resulft\n\ner the computerized format in which they\nmc archives or the news print edition in which\nhibit 1.\n\nitial Complaint in this matter, The Palm Beach Post— along\nntinued to report on Epstein's crimes and the ongoing official\n\nm those crimes.\n(2)\n\nThe Palm Beach Post's Standimz and tic l'uldic Interest.\n\ne press has a constitutional right of access to criminal proceedings, s\n... [truncated, 2408 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/14 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=14]", "char_count": 2408}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 15, "text_content": "Co. v.\n\n, 426 So. 2d 1, 6-7 (Fla. 1982) (identifying the news media as a \"public surrogate\" in\n\nmatters concerning the closure of judicial proceedings). The press also has a First Amendment\ninterest in receiving information from willing speakers. See Va. Pharmacy Bd. v. Va. Consumer\nCouncil, 425 U.S. 748, 756-57 (1976) (\"Where a speaker exists . . . the protection afforded [by\n\nv.\n\nM,\n\nthe First Amendment] is to the communication, to its source and to its recipients both.\"); Pittman\n267 F.3d 1269, 1283 n.12 (11th Cir. 2001) (\"The Supreme Court has rec\n\nFirst Amendment offers protection to both speakers and those wishing to\nalso Stephens v. Co'. ofAlbemarle, Va., 524 F.3d 485, 492 (4th Cir. 20\nhas \"standing to assert a right to receive speech\" by \"show[ing\n\nret)\n\nthat the\npeech.\"); see\n\nami mg that a plaintiff\n\nthe exists a speaker willing\n\nto convey the information to her\").\n57.\n\nBecause of the unique role perform\n\n426 So. 2d at 6-7) in protecting the right of\nI\ncriminal proceedings, news organizatioAcct resu\n..,\n\nass as a \"public surrogate\" (=,\ninterest in reporting information about\nively have a right to access judicial records,\"\n\nComm 'r, Ala. Dep't of Corr. v. A\n\n!Media, LLC, 918 F.3d 1161, 1166 (11th Cir. 2019),\n\nand \"standing to question the v\n\nan order restricting publicity because its ability to gather\n\nnews is directly impaired\n837 F.3d 753, 75\n\niled.\"=, 426 So. 2d at 4; see also Carlson v. United States,\ntr. 2016) (\"[a]s a member of the public, [the Reporters Committee]\n\n[its] claim\" to grand jury materials because such materials are \"public records\nto whi\n\nlic may seek access, even if that effort is ultimately unsuccessful\").\n58.\n\nHere, the continued denial of access to information The Palm Beach Post seeks on\n\nbehalf of its journalists and the public it serves \"unquestionably constitutes irreparable injury.\"\nGainesville Woman Care, LLC v. State of Florida, 210 So. 3d 1243, 1263 (Fla. 2017); see also\nZerilli v.M, 656 F.2d 705, 711 (D.C. Cir. 1981) (noting\n... [truncated, 2058 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/15 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=15]", "char_count": 2058}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 16, "text_content": "source of information is weakened whenever the ability of journalists to gather information is\nimpaired,\" as it is by Attorney General's refusal to disclose unredacted report and underlying grand\njury materials).\n59.\n\nThe Palm Beach Post has the right to maintain this private right of action because\n\nthe furtherance of justice, an express legislative exception to grand jury secrecy, is ' tended for\nthe public benefit, and The Palm Beach Post seeks access on behalf of the\n4\n§ 905.27(1Xc). It is further express in Fla. Stat. § 905.27 that the legisla\nto be the party to make the determination of disclosure. Fla. Stat. § 9\nlegislature intended for recourse to the courts in considering\n\n, ete\n\n' t\n\nFla. Stat.\nd for a court\nother words, the\n\nming the propriety and\n\nscope of grand jury secrecy.\nE.\n\nThe Court's Jurisdiction And Authority. t 14/\\,\"S' )\nThe Court's Sunervisiob-of the Grand Jury Process and Its\nAuthority to Order Public Disclosure of the Epstein Evidence.\n...*\nThe Florida Supreme Cturt 14,s, noted that \"in states such as Florida, where the\n(1)\n\n60.\n\ngrand jury is preserved, it is an\n\n\\8 1ppendage of the court which impanels it. At the same\n\ntime it should not be forgotten\n\njudge of that court is equally important and he is generally\n\ncharged with the supervisetit' o the grand jury's activities...It is, therefore, of vital importance to\nmaintain the di\nClemons,\n6\n\nthe integrity of both the grand jury and the presiding judge.\" State v.\n231, 233-34 (Fla. 1963).\n\nChapter 905 of the Florida Statutes governs the empanelment and conduct of\n\nFlorida grand juries. The court gives the grand jury its initial charge and advises the grand jury\nabout its legal duties. Fla. Stat. § 905.18.\n62.\n\nFlorida Stat. Section 905.27(1) provides that \"the testimony of a witness examined\n\nbefore the grand jury . .. or other evidence received by it\" may be disclosed \"when required by a\n\n17\n\nEFTA02732542\n\n\f", "char_count": 1917}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 17, "text_content": "court .. . for the purpose of: (a) Ascertaining whether it is consistent with the testimony given by\nthe witness before the court; (b) Determining whether the witness is guilty of perjury; or (c)\nFurthering justice.\" Fla. Stat. § 905.27(1Xa)-(c).\n63.\n\nFurther, disclosure is appropriate pursuant to this Court's inherent authority over\n\ngrand jury proceedings because of the exceptional public interest in this case and the compelling\ncircumstances supporting transparency. Carlson v. United States, 837 F.3d at 766\nhas the inherent power to disclose [grand jury] materials in exceptional\nhistoric importance can be a sufficient reason when there is little coun\n64.\n\nThe Florida Supreme Court has confirmed that\nA4Q\n\nand that any \"potential harm to public officeholders\" frot\nown conduct, and not the consequence of an un\nHerald Pub. Co. v. Marko, 352 So. 2d 51\nextraordinary exercise in citizen partici\nfruits of that activity were not ava\nthe power of the grand jury to\n\nofficeholde\n\nces and . . .\need for secrecy\").\nsecrecy is not absolute\n\n\"will be the product of their\n\ni ll4, dy of misguided citizens.\" Miami\nThe benefits to be derived from this\n\n' n [in e grand jury] would be severely limited if the\npublic on whose behalf it is undertaken. Implicit in\ne and expose official misconduct is the right of the people\n\nto be informed of its find\nrisk of reputatio\n\ncl\n\nd\n\nv i\n\ntrict court\n\nde public disclosure of grand jury findings inevitably entails the\ne, the legislature has ensured that any potential harm to public\n\nthe product of their own conduct, and not the consequence of an unrestrained\ned citizens.\").\n\nbody\n\n(2)\n65.\n\nThe Court's Jurisdiction To Declare Ri2lits And Construe\nStatutes.\n\nThis Court has jurisdiction to declare rights, status, and other equitable or legal\n\nrelations whether or not further relief is or could be claimed. Florida Stat. Section 86.011.\n\n18\n\nEFTA02732543\n\n\f", "char_count": 1902}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 18, "text_content": "66.\n\nFlorida law specifically provides that a declaration may be sought from the Court\n\nconcerning a petitioner's rights under a statute. Florida Stat. Section 86.021 (\"Any person...whose\nrights, status, or other equitable or legal relations are affected by a statute, or any regulation made\nunder statutory authority,...may have determined any question of construction or validity arising\nunder such statute,...or any part thereof, and obtain a declaration of rights, status, or other equitable\nor legal relations thereunder.\").\n67.\n\nThe Court's exercise of its power to declare rights \"is to\n\nadministered\n\nand construed.\" Florida Stat. Section 86.101.\nCOUNT I\n(Declaratory Relief - Florida Stat. Sec\n68.\n\nThe allegations set forth in paragrapeac 8il,\nf\n\nl et seq.)\n67 are incorporated by reference\n\nas if fully set forth herein.\n69.\n\nThis is an action for Dec\n\nelicf pursuant to Chapter 86, Florida Statutes,\n\nfor\n\nand other supplemental relief.\n70.\n\nThe Palm Beac\n\nFla. Stat. Section 905.27\npresented in 200\nbe in the fu\nseekin\n\npectfully requests that the Court declare that pursuant to\ns entitled access to the testimony, minutes, and other evidence\n\nBeach County grand jury because such disclosure and access would\ne of justice. Fla. Stat. § 905.27(1Xc). Because The Palm Beach Post is not\n\naterials in connection with either a civil or criminal case, it seeks a declaration that\n\nthe scope of its use of the disclosed materials is not limited. See Fla. Stat. § 905.27(2).\n71.\n\nThe Palm Beach Post further seeks a declaration that disclosure of the testimony,\n\nminutes, and other evidence presented in 2006 to the Palm Beach County grand jury is appropriate\n\n19\n\nEFTA02732544\n\n\f", "char_count": 1685}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 19, "text_content": "pursuant to this Court's inherent authority over grand jury proceedings because of the exceptional\npublic interest in this case and the compelling circumstances supporting transparency.\n72.\n\nThe Palm Beach Post has sought from Defendants, but Defendants have refused to\n\nprovide, access to the testimony, minutes, and other evidence presented in 2006 to the Palm Beach\nCounty grand jury. Indeed, Defendants have each filed motions to dismiss the Complaint and the\nrelief it sought under Fla. Stat. Section 905.27(1). Accordingly, a good-faith disput M\nthe parties.\n73.\n\nThrough this Complaint, The Palm Beach Post presen\n\nconcerning its rights to obtain the 2006 grand jury materials purs\n\nbetween\n\nQ\n\nticiable question\n\nto Fll . Stat. Section 905.27(1)\n\nand the Court's inherent authority.\n74.\n\nA bona fide, actual, present, and pr ctic\nSv „\n\nDefendants have denied to The Palm Beach\n\nS\n\nfor the declaration exists in that\n\nto the public at large — the grand jury\n\nmaterials sought to be disclosed. The reli\n\nughStom the Court is therefore not merely the giving\n\nof legal advice or to answer hypoth4cfl q\n\ntions.\n\nWHEREFORE, The P\nrights and obligations of\n\nPost respectfully requests that the Court determine the\nties by declaring that pursuant to Fla. Stat. Section 905.27(lXc)\n\nand the Court's r\n\nt\n\nminutes, and\n\nence presented in 2006 to the Palm Beach County grand jury and use those\n\nmaterittll\n\nthority, The Palm Beach Post may gain access to the testimony,\n\ne purpose of informing the public.\nCOUNT H\n(Florida Stat. Section 905.27)\n\n75.\n\nThe allegations set forth in paragraphs 1 through 74 are incorporated by reference\n\nas if fully set forth herein.\n\n20\n\nEFTA02732545\n\n\f", "char_count": 1682}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 20, "text_content": "76.\n\nBased on information learned by The Palm Beach Post through its Florida Public\n\nRecords Law requests, law enforcement sources with direct knowledge of the grand jury evidence\nand proceedings, judicial documents obtained from independent but related court proceedings, and\ndocuments otherwise available in the public record, the State Attorney for Palm Beach County\npresented truncated evidence of Epstein's criminal wrongdoing to the 2006 grand jury jn a manner\nthat precluded his indictment for the serious crimes he committed, including se\nsexual assault.\n77.\n\neking and\n\nO\n\nPursuant to Florida Stat. Section 905.27, in order to\n\ntice for Epstein's\n\nvictims and the public, and to provide public disclosure to illjp\n\nae\n\nunreasonably lenient treatment based on the available e\n\ne Palm Beach Post requests\n\nimmediate access to the testimony, minutes, and o\n\nether Epstein received\n\ne presented in 2006 to the Palm\n\nBeach County grand jury.\n78.\n\nIn a case of this magnitudy dSlt5\nim rtance, where the accused is dead and so many\n\nof his crimes, as well as the identr\nvictims have already been exp\nv. Socony-Vacuum Oil\nended, disclosure\n\nlimes of his co-conspirators, and the identities of the\ne need for grand jury secrecy is no more. See United States\n\nU.S. 150, 234 (1940) (\"[A]fler the grand jury's functions are\n\nholly roper where the ends of justice require it.').\n, The Palm Beach Post respectfully requests that this Court, pursuant to Fla.\n\nStat. 55.27(1)\n\nand the Court's inherent authority, order the State Attorney and the Clerk\n\nof the Court to file with this Court copies of the testimony, minutes, and other evidence presented\nin 2006 to the Palm Beach County grand jury during the first Epstein sex abuse investigation so\nthat, following an in camera inspection, it can be made available to The Palm Beach Post and the\n\n21\n\nEFTA02732546\n\n\f\n\n[═══ TRANSCRIPT ═══]\nCERTIFICATE OF SERVICE I HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 17th day of January, 2020, a copy of the foregoing has been elect\n... 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BOYAJIAN\n(Pro Hac Vice application pending)\n1840 Century Park East, Suite 1900\nLos Angeles CA 90067\nTelephone: (310) 586 -7700\nFacsimile: (310) 586 -7800\nboyajiann®gtlaw.com\nriveraal®gtlaw.com\n\n22\n\nEFTA02732547\n\n\f\n\n[═══ TRANSCRIPT ═══]\nEXHIBIT 1 The Newspaper's Reportage on Jeffrey Epstein  EFTA02732549", "char_count": 1022}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 22, "text_content": "CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE\nI HEREBY CERTIFY that on this 17th day of January, 2020, a copy of the foregoing has\nbeen electronically filed with the Florida E-File Portal for e-service on all parties of record herein.\nIs/ Stephen A. Mendelsohn\nSTEPHEN A. MENDELSOHN\n\nCO S\n\n23\n\nEFTA02732548\n\n\f", "char_count": 286}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 23, "text_content": "EXHIBIT 1\nThe Newspaper's Reportage on Jeffrey Epstein\n\nEFTA02732549\n\n\f", "char_count": 71}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 24, "text_content": "The Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nThe Man Who Had Everything: Jeffrey Epstein craved big\nhomes, elite friends and underage girls\nBy Andrew Marra\nPosted Jul 17, 2019 at 6:02 AM\n\nAl'-pa\nFrom the archives: When Palm Beach detectives start\nski ng\nv\nquestions and teenage girls started talking, a wave e f 1\nresistance\nfollowed.\nEditor's Note: This article appeared in The Palm Beach Post o\n\nJeffrey Epstein's arrest in Palm Beach County on a charge\nWINGED GARGOYLES guarded the gate at\n\n, 2006, three weeks after\nolicitation of prostitution.\n\nstein's Palm Beach mansion. Inside,\n\nhidden cameras trolled two rooms, while th\n\nis\n\ne and went.\n\nFor the police detectives who sifted\n\ne garbage outside and kept records of visitors, it\n\nwas the lair of a troubling urge\nEpstein, one of the most\n\nsterious of the country's mega-rich, was known as much for his\n\nsecrecy as for his love of fi\n\nngs: magnificent homes, private jets, beautiful women,\n\nfriendships with\nBut at PalmI\nregular at \\\n\norld's elite.\n\neie j\nf p lice headquarters, he was becoming known for something else: the\nteenage girls he hired to give him massages and, police say, perform sexual\n\nfavors.\nEpstein was different from most sexual abuse suspects; he was far more powerful. He counted\namong his friends former President Bill Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew, along\nwith some of the most prominent legal, scientific and business minds in the country.\nWhen detectives started asking questions and teenage girls started talking, a wave of legal\nresistance followed.\n\nEFTA02732550\n\n\f", "char_count": 1557}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 25, "text_content": "» NEW: Jeffrey Epstein: Lawyer said financier had sex with woman during workrelease\nIf Palm Beach police didn't know quite who Jeffrey Epstein was, they found out soon enough.\nEpstein, now 53, was a quintessential man of mystery. He amassed his fortune and friends\nquietly, always in the background as he navigated New York high society.\nWhen he first attracted notice in the early 1990s, it was on account of the wo\n\ne was\n\ndating: Ghislaine Maxwell, daughter of the late British media tycoon Robe\nIn a lengthy article, headlined \"The Mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell's Se\nMail on Sunday tabloid laid out speculative stories that the socialit\n\n,\" the British\nwas a CIA spook, a\n\nmath teacher, a concert pianist or a corporate headhunter.\"But what is the truth about him?\" the newspaper won\n\ne Maxwell, Epstein is both\n\nflamboyant and intensely private.\"\nThe media frenzy did not begin in full until aidetle ter. In September 2002, Epstein was\nflung into the limelight when he flew CI' ton ay actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to\nAfrica on his private jet.\nSuddenly everyone wanted to ke::w Wh6 Epstein was. New York magazine and Vanity Fair\npublished lengthy profiles. The New York Post listed him as one of the city's most eligible\nbachelors and began descr\"ng\nt\nhim in its gossip columns with adjectives such as \"mysterious\"\nand \"reclusive.\"\n\n4\n\nAlthough E s\n\nve no interviews, the broad strokes of his past started to come into focus.\n\nBuilding a li e of extravagance\nHe was born blue-collar in 1953, the son of a New York City\n\ndepartment employee, and\n\nraised in Brooklyn's Coney Island neighborhood. He left college without a bachelor's degree\nbut became a math teacher at the prestigious Dalton School in Manhattan.\nThe story goes that the father of one of Epstein's students was so impressed with the man that\nhe put him in touch with a senior partner at Bear Stearns, the global investment bank and\nsecurities firm.\n\nEFTA02732551\n\n\f", "char_count": 1941}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 26, "text_content": "In 1976, Epstein left Dalton for a job at Bear Stearns. By the early 1980s, he had started J.\nEpstein and Co. That is when he began making his millions in earnest.\nLittle is known or said about Epstein's business except this: He manages money for the\nextremely wealthy. He is said to handle accounts only of $1 billion or greater.\nIt has been estimated he has roughly 15 clients, but their identities are the subject of only\nspeculation. All except for one: Leslie Wexner, founder of The Limited retail chain and a\nformer Palm Beacher who is said to have been a mentor to Epstein.\nWexner sold Epstein one of his most lavish residences: a massive townh\n\nat dominates a\n\nblock on Manhattan's Upper East Side. It is reported to have, amont og,\n's\n\neatures, closed-\n\ncircuit television and a heated sidewalk to melt away fallen snow.\nThat townhouse, thought to be the largest private residence in Manhattan, is only a piece of\nthe extravagant world Epstein built over time.\nIn New Mexico, he constructed a 27,000-squars fill n\noutside Santa Fe. Many believed it to be the,leak\n\np mansion on a 10,000-acre ranch\ne in the state.\n\nIn Palm Beach, he bought a waterfront houie_on El Brillo Way. And he owns a 100-acre\nprivate island in the Virgin Islands.\n» PHOTOS: The players in thtjeffrey Epstein saga\nPerhaps as remarkable as hi lavish homes is his extensive network of friends and associates at\nthe highest echelons of power. This includes not only socialites but also business tycoons,\nmedia moguls oltcians, royalty and Nobel Prize-winning scientists whose research he often\nfunds.\n\"Just like other people collect art, he collects scientists,\" said\n\nNowak, who directs the\n\nProgram for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University and was reportedly the recipient of\na $30 million research donation from Epstein.\nEpstein is said to have befriended former Harvard President Larry Summers, prominent law\nProfessor Alan Dershowitz, Donald Trump and New York Daily News Publisher Mon\nZuckerman.\n\nEFTA0273255\n... [truncated, 2004 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/26 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=26]", "char_count": 2004}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 27, "text_content": "And yet he managed for decades to maintain a low profile. He avoids eating out and was rarely\nphotographed.\n\"The odd thing is I never met him,\" said Dominick Dunne, the famous chronicler of the trials\nand tribulations of the very rich. \"I wasn't even aware of him,\" except for a Vanity Fair article..\nEpstein's friendship with Clinton has attracted the most attention.\nEpstein met Clinton as early as 1995, when he paid tens of thousands of dollars to in him at\nan intimate fund-raising dinner in Palm Beach. But from all appearances, the\n\nbecome\n\nclose friends until after Clinton left the Oval Office and moved to New Y\nEpstein has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates'\n\npaigns, including John\n\nKerry's presidential bid, the reelection campaign of New Mexico Go\n\nand the\n\nSenate bids of Joe\n\nHillary Rodham Clinton, C\n\nr Dodd and Charles\n\nSchumer.\nPowerful friends and enemies\nA Vanity Fair profile found cracks in the ve\n\nofEpstein's life story. The 2003 article said he\n\nleft Bear Stearns in the wake of a fede\n\nand a possible Securities and Exchange\n\nCommission violation. It also poi\ne ss)\n\nat Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20\n\nmillion loan.\nThe article suggested that\nHoffenberg, now se\nin one of the lar\nAs he amuse\nman who i\n\nhis business mentors and previous employers was Steven\n\ng a prison term after \"bilking investors out of more than $450 million\ni schemes in American history.\"\nealth, Epstein made enemies in disputes both large and small. He sued the\n\n90 sold him his multimillion-dollar Palm Beach home over a dispute about less\n\nthan $16,000 in furnishings.\nA former friend claimed Epstein backed out of a promise to reimburse him hundreds of\nthousands of dollars after their failed investment in Texas oil wells. A judge decided Epstein\nowed him nothing.\n» Jeffrey Epstein: Model prisoner who swept, mopped floors, official says\n\nEFTA02732553\n\n\f", "char_count": 1894}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 28, "text_content": "\"It's a bad memory. I would rather not have ever met Jeffrey Epstein,\" said Michael Stroll, the\nretired former president of\n\nElectronics and Sega Corp. \"Suffice it to say I have\n\nnothing good to say about him?\nAmong the characteristics most attributed to Epstein is a penchant for women.\nHe has been linked to Maxwell, a fixture on the high-society party circuits in both New York\nand London. Previous girlfriends are said to include a former Ms. Sweden and a R manian\nmodel.\n\"He's a lot of fun to be with,\" Donald Trump told New York magazine in.\n\n\"It is even said\n\nthat he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them areR he\n\nunger side. No\n\ndoubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys his social life.\"\nInvestigation leads to Epstein\nAlthough he was not a frequenter of the Palm Bea4 illi\n, t ••ri\nAmong his charitable donations, he gave $90,0 \\\n\nne, he made his presence felt.\n\ne alm Beach Police Department and\n\n$100,000 to Ballet Florida.\nIn Palm Beach, he lived in luxury. Th e\n\nMercedes sat in his garage, alongside a\n\nHarley-Davidson. His jet waited a\n\nat Palm Beach International Airport. At home, a\n\nprivate chef and a small staff sti\n\ne ready. From a window in his mansion, he could look\n\nout on the Intracoastal W term\n\nnd the West Palm Beach skyline. He seemed to be a man\n\nwho had everything.\nBut extraordinryegfi eatth can fuel extraordinary desires.\n» Epstein wants to leave jail for mansion in sex-trafficking case\nIn March 2005, a worried mother contacted Palm Beach police. She said another parent had\noverheard a conversation between their children.\nNow the mother was afraid her 14-year-old daughter had been molested by a man on the\nisland.\nThe phone call triggered an extensive investigation, one that would lead detectives to Epstein\nbut leave them frustrated.\n\nEFTA02732554\n\n\f", "char_count": 1801}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 29, "text_content": "Palm Beach police and the state attorney's office have declined to discuss the case. But a Palm\nBeach police report detailing the criminal probe offers a window into what detectives faced as\nthey sought to close in on Epstein.\nDetectives interviewed the girl, who told them a friend had invited her to a rich man's house to\nperform a massage. She said the friend told her to say she was 18 if asked. At the house, she\nsaid she was paid $300 after stripping to her panties and massaging the man while he\nmasturbated.\nPolice interview 5 alleged victims\nThe investigation began in full after the girl identified Epstein in a pho\n\ne man who had\n\npaid her. Police arranged for garbage trucks to set aside Epstein's trash so police could sift\nthrough it. They set up a video camera to record the\n\noings at his home. They\n\nmonitored an airport hangar for signs of his private jet's\ncomingg d departures.\nThey quickly learned that the woman who took\n\nold girl to Epstein's house was\n\na Palm Beach Community Coll\n\nt from Loxahatchee. In a sworn\n18,\n\nstatement at police headquarters,\n\nmitted she had taken at least six girls to\n\nvisit Epstein, all between the ages of 14\n\n16. pstein paid her for each visit, she said.\n\nDuring the drive back to her hoviccr\nst,)\n\ntold detectives, \"I'm like a Heidi Fleiss.\"\n\nPolice interviewed five alleged\n\nms and 17 witnesses. Their report shows some of the girls\n\nsaid they had been instructed to have sex with another woman in front of Epstein, and one said\nshe had direct intertcuse with him.\nIn October, %o •\nlooking ferns\n\nsearched the Palm Beach mansion. They discovered photos of naked, young-\n\n) just as several of the girls had described in interviews. Hidden cameras were\n\nfound in the garage area and inside a clock on Epstein's desk, alongside a girl's high school\ntranscript.\nTwo of Epstein's former employees told investigators that young-looking girls showed up to\nperform massages two or three times a day when Epstein was in town.\nThey said the girls were pe\n... [truncated, 2136 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/29 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=29]", "char_count": 2136}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 30, "text_content": "One employee told detectives he was told to send a dozen roses to one teenage girl after a high\nschool drama performance. Others were given rental cars. One, according to police, received a\n$200 Christmas bonus.\nThe cops moved to cement their case. But as they tried to tighten the noose, they encountered\nother forces at work.\nIn Orlando they interviewed a possible victim who told them nothing inappropriate had\nhappened between her and Epstein. They asked her whether she had spoken to,zone else.\nShe said yes, a private investigator had asked her the same questions.\n» Jeffrey Epstein: Acosta, Krischer trade barbs over sweethe3Kt\nWhen they subpoenaed one of Epstein's former employees, he told them the same thing. He\nand a private eye had met at a restaurant days earlier to go over what the man would tell\ninvestigators.\nASi IC)\nDetectives received complaints that private eyes NVC posing as police officers. When they told\nEpstein's local attorney, Guy Fronstin, he said the investigators worked for Roy Black, the\nhigh-powered Miami lawyer who has defe deSe likes of Rush Limbaugh and William\nKennedy\nWhile the private eyes were corCictin a parallel investigation, Dershowitz, the Harvard law\nprofessor, traveled to West Palm Beach with information about the girls. From their own\nprofiles on the popular Web site MySpace.com, he obtained copies of their discussions about\ntheir use of alcohol and marijuana.\nHe took his research to a meeting with prosecutors in early 2006, where he sought to cast\ndoubt on the teens' reliability.\nThe private eyes had dug up enough dirt on the girls to make prosecutors skeptical. Not only\ndid some of the girls have issues with drugs or alcohol but also some had criminal records and\nother troubles, Epstein's legal team claimed. And at least one of them, they said, lied when she\ntold police she was younger than 18 when she started performing massages for Epstein.\nAfter the meeting, prosecutors postponed their decision to take the case to a grand jury\n... [truncated, 2018 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/30 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=30]", "char_count": 2018}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 31, "text_content": "In the following weeks, police received complaints that two of the victims or their families had\nbeen harassed or threatened. Epstein's legal team maintains that its private investigators did\nnothing illegal or unethical during their research.\nBy then, relations between police and prosecutors were fraying. At a key meeting with\nprosecutors and the defense, Detective\n\nRecarey, the lead investigator, was a no-show,\n\naccording to Epstein's attorney.\n\"The embarrassment on the prosecutor's face was evident when the police offissizever\nshowed up for the meeting,\" attorney Jack Goldberger said.\nLater in April, Recarey walked into a prosecutor's office at the stateC\n\nS\n) .tt office and\n\nlearned the case was taking an unexpected turn.\nThe prosecutor, Lanna Belohlavek, told Recarey the state attorneys office had offered Epstein\na plea deal that would not require him to serve jail tim\n\nwe a felony conviction.\n\nRecarey told her he disapproved of the plea offe\n\\AS,\nThe deal never came to pass, however.\nFuture unclear after charge\nOn May 1, the department asks\n\nro ecutors to approve warrants to arrest Epstein on four\n\ncounts of unlawful sexual 7r *vip with a minor and to charge his personal assistant,\n, now 27, fclher alle ed role in arranging the visits. Police officials also wanted to\ncharge\n\nthe self-described Heidi Fleiss, with lewd and lascivious acts.\n\nBy then, th\n\nItartment was frustrated with the way the state attorney's office had handled the\n\ncase. On t\n\nsame day the warrants were requested, Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter\n\nwrote a letter to State Attorney Barry Krischer suggesting he disqualify himself from the case if\nhe would not act.\nTwo weeks later, Recarey was told that prosecutors had decided once again to take the case to\nthe grand jury.\n\nEFTA02732557\n\n\f", "char_count": 1795}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 32, "text_content": "It is not known how many of the girls testified before the grand jury. But Epstein's defense\nteam said one girl who was subpoenaed - the one who said she had sexual intercourse with\nEpstein - never showed up.\nThe grand jury's indictment was handed down in July. It was not the one the police\ndepartment had wanted.\nInstead of being slapped with a charge of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, Epstein was\ncharged with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution, which carries a\n\n• urn penalty\n\nof five years in prison. He was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail ear\n\n23 nd\n\nreleased hours later.\n0\n\nEpstein's legal team \"doesn't dispute that he had girls over for mas\nhe said their claims that they had sexual encounters with W\n\"They are incapable of being believed,\" he said. \"They h\naccusations of theft made against them by their e \\ plo\n\nIdberger said. But\ncr\n\nbility.\n\n' 1 al records. They had\nere was evidence of drug use by\n\nsome of them.\"\nWhat remains for Epstein is yet to be se\n%\nThe Palm Beach Police Departme\nreturned the $90,000 Epstein d\n\nd the FBI to investigate the case. It also has\n(tedV2004.\n\nIn New York, candidates 1Qlsrernor and state attorney general have vowed to return a total\nof at least $60,000 •\n\npa gn contributions from Epstein. Meanwhile, Epstein's powerful\n\nfriends have re\n\nent as tabloids and Internet blogs feast on the public details of the\n\npolice inves\nGoldberge\n\nntains Epstein's innocence but says the legal team has not ruled out a future\n\nplea deal. He insists Epstein will emerge in the end with his reputation untarnished.\n\"He will recover from this,\" he said.\nStaff writer Larry\n\nand staff researchers Bridget Bulger, Angelica Corte; Amy Hanaway and\n\nMelanie Mena contributed to this story.\namarra@pbpost.com\n\nEFTA02732558\n\n\f", "char_count": 1783}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 33, "text_content": "@AMarraPBPost\n\nTIHIF\n\nNTELLIGENT\n\nerai0\nft'S\n\nEFTA02732559\n\n\f", "char_count": 61}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 34, "text_content": "273 / 278 - Tuesday, November 16, 2004\nEdition: FINAL\nSection: A SECTION\nPage: 1A\nSource: By PAUL OWERS Palm Beach Post Staff Writer\nIllustration: PHOTO (C & 2 B&W) & MAP (B&W)\nMemo: Ran all editions.\nDateline: WEST PALM BEACH\nTRUMP SNAGS GOSMAN ESTATE FOR $41 MILLION\n\n4, Alk\n\nWhen it came time to bid Monday for the palatial Palm Beach digs of\nNnan, The\nDonald was not about to be trumped.\n\"Nobody was going to outbid me,\" the brash developer-turnedality said from his\nNew York office.\nTrump bested two other bidders with a $41.35 million offer or\n43,000-square-foot,\nseven-bedroom estate on 6 oceanfront acres along the s\nder's Row.\"\nBut Trump, 58, proud possessor of Mar-a-Lago, has o\no live in the Gosman home at\n513 N. County Road. He wants to - what else? - s it d eke more money.\nThe star of the mega-hit The Apprentice said\ns o redevelop the site into a \"super\nluxury house\" that would be the \"finest an\ne United States.\" He might build\nanother house before flipping the entire p\n\"I've known about this house for quite\n,\" Trump said. \"It's probably the best piece\nof land in Florida - and probably\nfor luxury real estate.\"\nAlthouigrump said he could\ne property into nine lots, Palm Beach Ma.\nLesly\nsaid zoning regul\nw for only two houses - and maybe a third.\nsaid she's not worried about T\nplans.\n\"He's been a very good\nrty owner in the town of Palm Beach,\" she said. \"He does his\nprojects very well. He's a\nctionist\"\nMonday's auction k pl\nat U.S. Bankruptcy Court in West Palm Beach as part of\nGosman's Cha\nankruptcy case. Proceeds from the sale will go into escrow for eventual\ndistribution\nito\nThe aucti\nt exactly noon after Judge Steven\ndismissed an objection from\nan atto\nresenting money manager Jeffrey Epstein. The lawyer argued unsuccessfully\nthat T\nas not a qualified bidder because his contract stipulated that he would not close\non the sale unless title insurance was in place beforehand.\nWith Trump listening via conference call, Epstein began the bidding at $37.25 million $250,\n... [truncated, 2391 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/34 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=34]", "char_count": 2391}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 35, "text_content": "But\nallowed the offer to stand, and Pulte and Trump went back and forth until\nPulte dropped out at $41.1 million. Epstein, a part-time Palm Beach resident, bowed out at\n$38.6 million.\nclosed the bidding 10 minutes after it started, leaving Trump with the right to buy\nthe 29,000-square-foot home (a typical Palm Beach County single-family house is about\n2,200 square feet). The property also has a tennis house, a pool house and 1930s-era service\nquarters.\nThe closing could take place within a week but probably won't happen until next month.\nTrustee Joe Luzinski and creditors said they were pleased with the outcome.\n\"We knew we were dealing with some substantial people ... who were going ter i it up a\nbit,\" Luzinski said.\n\"The system worked,\" said Charles Tatelbaum, a lawyer for creditor JPM.\nChase Bank.\n\"In bankruptcy court, the idea is to get the most for creditors, and that'\n.pened.\"\nThe auction proved to be a bonanza for creditors, Luzinski said, no •\ne highest offer\nformer listing agent Sotheby's International Realty received was $ mil ion. Sotheby's won't\nreceive a commission, he said.\nPulte, 42, of Boca Raton, said he figured Trump wouldn't\nMonday.\n\"I got the feeling he was willing to go a lot higher, and\nt to chase it,\" Pulte said.\nPulte said Gosman asked him before the auction wh\nuld be willing to let him stay\nin the mansion after the closing until he decides w\nis to move. Trump and\nLuzinski said they have had no such discussio\nman.\nGosman, 75, had the house built after payin 1\nlion for the land in 1986.\nThe former health-care magnate declined\nrequests before and after the auction\nMonday. He was at the courthouse busleft befo the auction took place.\nThe $41.35 million price tag eclips the $30.35 million sale of Lowell \"Bud\" Paxson's Palm\nBeach home and guest house but port\nof the $45 million that Virginia home builder\nDwight Schar paid for Ron Pe\n6,000-square-foot estate, Casa Apava, a designated\nlandmark.\nSchar also paid $18.6 m\" ion for lakefront lot across t\n... [truncated, 3270 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/35 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=35]", "char_count": 3270}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 36, "text_content": "The trustee alleged during a weeklong trial in May that Gosman fraudulently gave his wife\nan ownership interest in his home and other belongings only to avoid losing them in\nbankruptcy. Gosman has denied any wrongdoing, saying he made the property transfers in\n1999, well before he filed for bankruptcy.\nLessen is expected to rule in the next two months whether Gosman made improper transfers,\na decision that will affect how much money will be available to creditors.\nCimo acknowledged that Monday wasn't the best of days for the Gosmans but said they were\nwilling to move forward, in part because the upkeep of the estate now exceeds their means.\n\"This is not a happy occasion for them, but at least we're moving to the next level Cimo\nsaid. \"That's not a house you want to live in unless you're making large amoun o oney\nlike Donald Trump.\"\npaul_owers@pbpost.com\n\nCoS\n\nEFTA02732562\n\n\f", "char_count": 887}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 37, "text_content": "Indictment: Billionaire Solicited 3 Times - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL\n\n11/11/2019\n\nThe Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nIndictment: Billionaire Solicited 3 Times\nPosted Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 2, 2019 at 2:30 PM\n(EDITORS NOTE: This story originally published in The Palm Beach Post on July 25,\n2006)\nti\nBillionaire money manager and Palm Beach part-time resident JeffrecEM\nsolicited or procured prostitutes three or more times between 2send Oct. 31\nof last year, according to an indictment charging him with lony solicitation of\nprostitution.\nEpstein, 53, was booked at the Palm Beach Co\n\n:45 a.m. Sunday. He\n\nwas released on $3,000 bond.\nEpstein's case is unusual in that suspecreSko 'tution johns are usually charged\nwith a misdemeanor, and even a felony charge is typically made in a criminal\ninformation - an alternative to an indictment charging a person with the\ncommission of a crime.\nHis attorney, Jack Goldberger, declined to discuss the charge.\nState attorneys offic.e spokesman Mike Edmondson also had little to say.\n\"Generally speaking, there is a case that has a number of different aspects to it,\"\nEdmondson said of a prostitution-related charge being submitted to a grand jury.\n\"We first became aware of the case months ago by Palm Beach police.\"\nProsecutors and police worked together to bring the case to the grand jury, he\nsaid.\n\nhttps:/AwAv.palmbeachposteorninews120080701findielment-billionaire-solicited-3-times\n\n1/2\n\nEFTA02732563\n\n\f", "char_count": 1494}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 38, "text_content": "Indictment: Billionaire Solicited 3 Times - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL\n\n11/11/2019\n\nPalm Beach police confirmed that and said the department will release a report\ntoday regarding its investigation.\nEpstein has owned a five-bedroom, 7 1/2-bath, 7,234-square-foot h\n\n'th a\n\npool and a boat dock on the Intracoastal Waterway since 1990,\n\nn to\n\nproperty records. A man answering the door there Monday atd\n\npstein\n\nwasn't home. A Cadillac Escalade registered to him was park\n\ni the driveway,\n\nwhich is flanked by two massive gargoyles.\nEpstein sued Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits in 2001, contending that the\nassessment of his home exceeded its fair market value. He dismissed his lawsuit\nin December 2002.\nA profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair magazine said he owns what are believed to\nbe the largest private homes in Manhattan - 51,000 square feet - and in New\nMexico - a 7,500-acre ranch. Those are in addition to his 70-acre island in the\nU.S. Virgin Islands and fleet of aircraft.\nEpstein's frie ds an\nbusinessme t,\n\ndmirers, according to the magazine, include prominent\n\ndemics and scientists and famed Harvard law professor Alan\n\nDersho\nlarra\n\nhttps:/NmwpalmbeachposLcominewsi20080701/indictment-billionaire-solicited-3-tirries\n\n2/2\n\nEFTA02732564\n\n\f", "char_count": 1274}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 39, "text_content": "After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, Fl\n\n11/11/2019\n\nThe Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nAfter long probe, billionaire faces solicitation\ncharge\nPosted Jul 27, 2006 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 3, 2019 at 3:11 PM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The Palm Beach Post alisic6,\n20%)\nPalm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls\n\noung\n\nwomen brought to his home, where he received massages and sometimes sex,\naccording to an investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department.\nPalm Beach police spent months sifting through Epstein's trash and watching his\nwaterfront home and Palm Beach International Airport to keep tabs on his\nprivate jet. An indictment charging Ep ei1 53, was unsealed Monday, charging\nhim with one count of felony solid\n\nof rostitution.\n\nPalm Beach police thought thereAcamtwe\nprobable cause to charge Epstein with\nunlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation.\nPolice Chief Michael Reiter was so angry with State Attorney Barry Krischer's\nhandling of the case that he wrote a memo suggesting the county's top\nprosecutor disqualify himself.\n\"I must urge you to examine the unusual course that your office's handling of this\nmatter has taken and consider if good and sufficient reason exists to require your\ndisqualification from the prosecution of these cases: Reiter wrote in a May I\nmemo to Krischer.\nWhile not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmondson,\nspokesman for the state attorney, said his office presents cases other than\nmurders to a grand jury when there are questions about witnesses' credibility and\ntheir ability to testify.\n\nhttpviivemv.palmbeachpostcominews/20060727/after-long-probe-billionaire-faces-solicitationcharge\n\n115\n\nEFTA02732565\n\n\f", "char_count": 1823}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 40, "text_content": "11/11/2019\n\nAfter long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL\n\nBy the nature of their jobs, police officers look at evidence from a \"one-sided\nperspective,\" Edmondson said. \"A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader\nfashion,\" weighing the veracity of witnesses and how they may fare under\ndefense attorneys questioning, he said.\nEpstein's attorney, Jack Goldberger, said his client committed no crimes.\n\"The reports and statements in question refer to false accusations that were not\ncharged because the Palm Beach County state attorney questioned the credibility\nof the witnesses,\" Goldberger said. A county grand jury \"found the allegggsnis\n-wholly unsubstantiated and not credible,\" and that's why his client w,a\nt\ncharged with sexual activity with minors, he said.\nGoldberger said Epstein passed a lie detector test administe d by reputable\npolygraph examiner in which he said he did not know\n\ntr s were minors.\n\nAlso, a search warrant served on Epstein's home f\n\nvidence to\n\ncorroborate the girls' allegations, Goldberger sk .\nsi‘\n\nAccording to police documents:\n- A Palm Beach Community Coll\n\n( 41(\nstudent said she gave Epstein a massage in\n\nthe nude, then brought him s\n\nes 14 to 16, for massage and sex-tinged\n\nsessions at his home.\n- A 27-year-old woman\n\norked as Epstein's personal assistant also\n\nfacilitated the liaisotiphoning the PBCC student to arrange for girls when\nEpstein was\narrived,,p\n\nming\n\ntown. And she escorted the girls upstairs when they\n\nesh sheets on a massage table and placing massage oils nearby.\n\n- PoliceZtki sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. They\ncontepd that on three occasions, Epstein had sex with the girls.\nA money manager for the ultra-rich, Epstein was named one of New York's most\neligible bachelors in 2003 by The New York Post. He reportedly hobnobs with\nthe likes of former President Clinton, former Harvard University President\nSummers and Donald Trump, and has\n... [truncated, 2181 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/40 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=40]", "char_count": 2181}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 41, "text_content": "11/1112019\n\nAfter long probe. billionaire faces solicitation charge - News - The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach. FL\n\nHe has contributed tens of thousands of dollars to Democratic Party candidates\nand organizations, including Sen. John Kerry's presidential bid, and the Senate\nDodd and Charles\ncampaigns of Joe\n, Hillary Clinton,\nSchumer.\n\nGoldberger is one of five attorneys Ep\ntained since he became the\n*d. Among the others: Alan\nsubject of an investigation, Edmon\nDershowitz, the well-known\nprofessor and author, who is a friend\nof Epstein. Dershowitz co\neached for comment.\nPolice said the woman w\nlisted young girls for Epstein was\n20, of\nPalm\nhas worked at an Olive Garden restaurant in\nWellington\nsaid e was a journalism major at Palm Beach Community\nCollege w r n\nwas questioned by police last October. She has an unlisted\nphong r m r r and could not be reached for comment.\nsaid she met Epstein when, at age 17, a friend asked her if she would like\nto ma e money giving him a massage. She said she was driven to his fivebedroom, 7 1/2-bath home on the Intracoastal Waterway, then escorted upstairs\nto a bedroom with a massage table and oils. Epstein and\nwere both naked\nduring the massage, she said, but when he grabbed her buttocks, she said she\ndidn't want to be touched.\n\nhttps:thwewpalmbeachpost.corn/news/20060727/after-long-probe-billionaire-faces-solicitation-tharge\n\n3/5\n\nEFTA02732567\n\n\f", "char_count": 1405}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 42, "text_content": "After long probe, billionaire laces solicitation charge - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL\n\n11/11f2019.\n\nEpstein said he'd pay her to bring him more girls - the younger the better,\ntold police. When she tried once to bring a 23-year-old woman to him,\nEpstein said she was too old,\n\nsaid.\n\nwho has not been charged in the case, said she eventually brought six\ngirls to Epstein who were paid $200 each time,\n\nsaid. \"I'm like a Heidi\n\nFleiss,\" police quoted her as saying. The girls knew what to expect when they\nwere taken to Epstein's home,\n\nsaid. Give a massage - maybe naked - and\n\nallow some touching.\nOne 14-year-old girl\n\ntook to meet Epstein led police to start\n\ninvestigation of him in March 2005. A relative of the girl called t\nthought the child had recently engaged in sex with a Palm Beath\n\nhe girl\n\nthen got into a fight with a classmate who accused her of behwirostitute, and\nshe couldn't explain why she had $300 in her purse.\nThe girl gave police this account of her meeti\nShe accompanied\n\n\\\nand a second girl M.pstein's house on a Sunday in\n\nFebruary 2005. Once there, a woman she thought was Epstein's assistant told the\ngirl to follow her upstairs to a room featuring a mural of a naked woman, several\nphotographs of naked women'on a shelf, a hot pink and\n\nsofa and a massage\n\n/\n\ntable.\n\nShe stripped to her bra and panties and gave him a massage.\nEpstein gave. the 14-year-old $300 and she and the other girls left, she said. She\nsaid Robson told her that Epstein paid her $200 that day.\nOther_guictold similar stories. In most accounts, Epstein's personal assistant at\nthen e,\n\nnow 27, escorted the girls to Epstein's bedroom.\n\nwhose most recent known address is in North Carolina, has not been\ncharged in the case.\nPalm Beach police often conducted surveillance of Epstein's home, and at Palm\nBeach International Airport to see if his private jet was there, so they would\nknow when he was in town. Police also arranged repeatedly to receive his trash\n\nhttps:/Awwe.\n... [truncated, 2106 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/42 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=42]", "char_count": 2106}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 43, "text_content": "11/112019\n\nAfter long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge - News - The Palm Beach Post - West Palm Beach, FL\n\nfrom Palm Beach sanitation workers, collecting papers with names and phone\nnumbers, sex toys and female hygiene products.\nOne note stated that a female could not come over at 7 p.m. because of soccer.\nAnother said a girl had to work Sunday - \"Monday after school?\" And still\nanother note contained the work hours of a girl, saying she leaves school at 11:30\na.m. and would come over the next day at 10:30 a.m.\nOnly three months before the police department probe began, Epstein donated\n\nN.,\n\n$90,000 to the department for the purchase of a firearms simulator, said Jane\nStruder, town finance director. The purchase was never made. The\n\no ' y was\n\nreturned to Epstein on Monday, she said.\nCO\n\nhttps://www.palmbeachpost.cominews/20060727/after-long-probe-billionaire-faces-solicitation-charge\n\nEFTA02732569\n\n\f", "char_count": 926}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 44, "text_content": "11/11/2019\n\nPolice say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls - News - Palm Beach Daily News • Palm Beach, FL\n\nPalm Beach Daily News\nPolice say lawyer tried to discredit teenage\ngirls\nPosted Jul 29, 2006 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 3, 2019 at 2:00 PM\n\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally was published in The Palm Beach Post on July\n29, 2006)\nFamed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach County\nState Attorney's Office and provided damaging information 'about teenage girls\nwho say they gave his client, Palm Beach billionaire\n\npstein, sexually\n\ncharged massages, according to police reports.\nThe reports also state that another EpsteinAtoShy, greed to a plea bargain that\nwould have allowed Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney\ndenies this happened.\n\n? ic\n\nAnd the documents also reveartha\nq r e. 'father of at least one girl complained that\nprivate investigators aggtessivelyfollowed his car, photographed his home and\nil\nchased off visitors.\nPolice also talked to somebody who said she was offered money if she refused to\n7\ncooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Epstein.\nThe scate attdrney's office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand\njurythis month rather than directly charging Epstein because of concerns about\nthe girls' credibility. The grand jury indicted Epstein, 53, on a single count of\nfelony solicitation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years\nin prison.\nPolice believed there was probable cause to charge Epstein with the more serious\ncrimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation.\nPolice Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry\nKrischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case.\n\nhttps:/Nrww.palmbeacticlailynews.comiarticle/20060729iNEVVS/190917573\n\n1/4\n\nEFTA02732570\n\n\f", "char_count": 1869}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 45, "text_content": "11/11/2019\n\nPolice say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls - News - Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach. FL\n\nThe case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but\nwas postponed after Dershowitz produced information gleaned from the Web\nsite myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol\nand marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective\nRecarey.\na 20-year-old\n\nPalm Beach woman who told police she\n\nrecruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled on myspace.com. Her page includes\nphotos of her and her friends, including one using the name \"Pimpin' Made EZ.\"\n, who was not charged in the case, is a potential prosecution witnesS\nAccording to Recarey, prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek offered Eps\n\neys\n\nDershowitz and Guy Fronstin a plea deal in April. Fronstin\n\ning with\n\nEpstein, accepted the deal, in which Epstein would plead gu\n\none count of\n\naggravated assault with intent to commit a felony, be placed on five years'\nprobation and have no criminal record. The deal also called for Epstein to submit\nto a psychiatric and sexual evaluation and have no unsupervised visits with\nminors, according to Recarey's report. The plea bargain was made in connection\nwith only one of the five alleged victims, the report states.\nFronstin - who declined to comment on the case - was subsequently fired and\nveteran defense attorney Jack Goldberger was hired. He denies there was any\nagreement by any of Epstein,s attorneys to a plea deal.\n\"We absolutely did not agree to a plea in this case,\" he said. Neither Belohlavek\nnor a state attorney's spokesman could be reached for comment.\nThe pa nt \\ p rents of alleged victims who complained of being harassed by\nprivate investigators provided license tag numbers of two of the men. Police\nfound th-e vehicles were registered to a private eye in West Palm Beach and\nanother in Jupiter, according to Recarey's report.\n\"I have no knowledge of it,\" defense attorney Goldberger said.\nThe report al\n... [truncated, 2306 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/45 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=45]", "char_count": 2306}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 46, "text_content": "11/11/2019\n\n•\n\nPolice say lawyer tried to &suede teenage girls - News - Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach. FL\n\nwho did talk \"will be dealt with,\" the woman said she was told. Phone records\nshow the woman talked with the person who allegedly intimidated her around\nthe time she said, Recarey reported.\n\nPhone records also show that the person said to have made the threat then\nplaced a call to Epstein's personal assistant, who in turn called a New York\ncorporation affiliated with Epstein, the report states.\nThe issue in the Epstein case is not whether females came to his waterfrqnt,\nhome, but whether he knew their ages.\n\"He's never denied girls came to the house,\" Goldberger said. Bu\n\nAS\n\nwas given a polygraph test, \"he passed on knowledge of age,\n\nrney said.\n\nea\n\npstein\n\nAfter the indictment against Epstein was unsealed\n\nPolice Chief Reiter\n\nreferred the matter to the FBI. 'We've received\n\nand we're reviewing\n\ne^t '\n\nsaid FBI spokeswoman Judy Orihuela in Slut\nThe chief himself has come under attack from Epstein's lawyers and friends in\nNew York, where he has a home. The New York Post quoted Epstein's\nprominent New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, as saying his client was indicted\nonly \"because of the craziness of the police chief.\"\nReiter has declined to comment on the case.\nProsecutors have not/presented a sex-related case like Epstein's to a grand jury\nbefore, said Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the state attorney's office. \"That's\nwhat you do with a case that falls into a gray area,\" he said.\nThe state attorney's office did not recommend a particular criminal charge on\nwhich to indict Epstein, Edmondson said. The grand jury was presented with a\nlist of charges from highest to lowest, then deliberated with the prosecutor out of\nthe room, he said.\n\"People are surprised at the grand jury proceeding,\" West Palm Beach defense\nattorney Richard Tendler said. \"It's a way for the prosecutor's office to not take\nthe full responsibility for not filing the (charge), and not doing \n... [truncated, 2195 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/46 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=46]", "char_count": 2195}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 47, "text_content": "11/1112019\n\nPolice say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls - News - Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach, Fl.\n\nDefense attorney Robert Gershman was a prosecutor for six years. \"Those girls\nmust have been incredible or untrustworthy, I don't know,\" he said.\nOther attorneys said Epstein's case raises the issue of whether wealthy, connected\ndefendants like Epstein - whose friends include former President Clinton and\nDonald Trump - are treated differently from others. Once he knew he was the\nsubject of a criminal probe, Epstein hired a phalanx of powerful attorneys such as\nDershowitz and Lefcourt, who is a past president of the National Association of\nCriminal Defense Lawyers.\n\nAL\n\nMiami lawyer Roy Black - who became nationally known when he s\n\nsft\n\ndefended William Kennedy\n\nas\n\non a rape charge in Palm Bea\n\ninvolved at one point.\nSaid defense attorney\n\n(1)\nSuskauer: \"I think it's unfortunate the public may\n\nget the perception that with power, you may be treated differently than the\naverage Joe.\"\n\n? S\"\n\nhttpsibewwpalmbeachdailynews.com/article/20060729/NEVVS/190917573\n\n4/4\n\nEFTA02732573\n\n\f", "char_count": 1104}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 48, "text_content": "The Palm Beach Post\n.\n\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\n\nExpert: Ignorance of age isn't\ndefense in sex cases\nPosted Aug 5, 2006 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 3, 2019 at 1:38 PM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The\nPalm Beach Post on Aug. 5, 2006)\nEven if Palm Beach money manager Jeffrey Epstein di\nknow that girls who police say gave him sexual mask\nhis Intracoastal home were under the legal age, titlkie\nwouldn't have exempted him from criminalcharges of\nsexual activity with minors.\n\"Ignorance is not a valid defensenai\nSfy\n\nDekle, a legal\n\nskills professor who was a Lake City prosecutor for nearly\n30 years, half of that time specinzing in sex crimes against\nchildren.\n\"There is no knowledge element as far as the age is\nconcerned,\" Dekle said.\nAfter an Iltmonth investigation, Palm Beach police said\n\neist\n\nth'''was probable cause to charge Epstein, 53, with\n\nO\n\na\n\nul sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious\n\nlestation. They contend that Epstein - friend of the rich\n\nand famous and financial patron of Democratic Party\norganizations and candidates - committed those acts with\nfive underage girls.\nIn the past week, New York Attorney General and\ngubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer has returned about\n$50,000 in campaign contributions he received from\nEpstein, and Mark\n\n, a candidate to replace Spitzer in\n\nEFTA02732574\n\n\f", "char_count": 1340}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 49, "text_content": "his current job, has returned 510,000 to him because of the\nPalm Beach scandal, the New York Daily News has\nreported.\nRather than file charges, the state attorney's office\npresented the case to a county grand jury. The panel\nindicted Epstein last week on a single, less serious charge of\nfelony solicitation of prostitution.\nThe case raised eyebrows because the state attorney's office\nrarely, if ever, kicks such charges to a grand jury. And it\nincreases the difficulty of prosecuting child sex abuse case\nespecially when the defendant is enormously wealthy aril\ncan hire high-priced, top-tier lawyers.\nAt least one of Epstein's alleged victims tol\n\nce heknew\n\nshe was underage when the two of the\n\nd for\n\nmassages and sexual activity. She wit\n\ns old at the\nIrk9\ntime and said Epstein asked her cluestNs about her high\nschool, according to police c\n\nnrtiV\n\nA girl who said she mg stein\n., when she was 15 said he\ntold her if she told anyb\n\ny what happened at his house,\n\nbad things co Id hapii,en, the police reports state.\nEpstein'sh oungest\nol.ir\nalleged victim was 14 when she says she\ngav him massage that included some sexual activity. She\nw 16. The girl's father says he doesn't know whether\nt d Epstein her age.\n+\n\n\"My daughter has kept a lot of what happened from me\nbecause of sheer embarrassment: he said. \"But she very\nmuch looked 14. Any prudent man would have had second\nthoughts about that.\"\nDefense attorney Jack Goldberger maintains that not only\ndid Epstein pass a polygraph test showing he did not know\nthe girls were minors, but their stories weren't credible.\nThe state attorney's office also implied that their credibility\nwas an issue when it decided not to charge Epstein directly,\nbut instead give the case to the grand jury.\nEFTA02732575\n\n\f", "char_count": 1766}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 50, "text_content": "\"A prosecutor has to look at it in a much broader fashion,\" a\nstate attorney's spokesman said last week.\n\nf\n\na,\n\nNTELLTIGIEN7 GRID\n\n►\nerciAtiijitgoprip\n\n3\n\nEpstein hired Harvard law Professor Alan ersh witz\nwhen he became aware he was under investigation, and\nDershowitz gave prosecutors information that some of the\nalleged victims had spoke of using alcohol and marijuana on\na popular Web site, according to a Palm Beach police\nreport.\nProsecutors typically consider two things in deciding\nwhether to charge somebody with sex-related offenses\nagainst minors - whether there is sufficient evidence and\nwl~etlter there is a public interest in doing so, Dekle said.\nwo teens are in a sexual relationship and the boy turns\n\n+\n\nbefore the girl, he could be charged with a sex crime if\nthe sex continues. There would be no public interest in\npursuing that, Dekle said.\nBut where there is a large gap in ages - and especially in\ncases of teachers with students - there is a public interest in\nprosecuting, he said. Likewise if the accused has a track\nrecord of sex with minors.\n\nEFTA02732576\n\n\f", "char_count": 1089}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 51, "text_content": "Still there is a \"universal constant\" in prosecuting these\ncases, Dekle said. Men who exploit underage children for\nsex often carefully choose their victims in ways that will\nminimize the risk to them, he said.\nVictims usually are from a lower social status, and they may\nsuffer from psychological problems, Dekle said.\n\"Lots of child sexual abuse victims have been victimized by\nmultiple people over a period of time. Then the act of abuse\nproduces behavior in the victims that further damages their\ncredibility.\" Examples include promiscuous behavior and\ndrug abuse.\nSome of the alleged victims in the Epstein case re me to\nhis home multiple times for the massage se\n\nan the\n\n$200 to $300 he typically paid them per ist\n\nat would\n\nbe a definite problem for the prosec\\ o\n\nBetty Resch,\n\nwho prosecuted crimes against children Palm Beach\nCounty for five years and n\n\nhis,\n*typrivate practice in Lake\n\nWorth.\n\"The victim becomesles sympathetic\" to a jury, Resch said.\n\"But she's a vigtiitit nerrtheless. She's a kid.\"\nMost mT he\ncharged with sex crimes against minors look\nnor al,\n\nsaid. A jury expecting to see a monster\n\nwill. And the victims' ages work against them and in\n\nO\n\nor of the defendant in a trial, Dekle said.\n\n+\n\nIf a child and an adult tell different stories and both swear\n\nthey're telling the truth, adult jurors are more likely to\nbelieve the adult, Dekle said.\n\"You have all these things working against you in a child\nsex abuse case. Prosecutors normally try to be very careful\nin filing those cases because they know what they're getting\ninto. There is no such thing as an iron-clad child sexual\nabuse case.\"\n\nEFTA02732577\n\n\f", "char_count": 1646}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 52, "text_content": "The Palm Beach Post\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\n\nEpstein camp calls female accusers\nliars\nPosted Aug 8, 2006 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 3, 2019 at 3:35 PM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The\nPalm Beach Post on Aug. 8, 2006)\nAttorneys and publicists for Palm Beach financier Jeff\n\nII\nEpstein went on the offensive Monday, contending th\n\nteenage girls who have accused Epstein of sexual 14\n/ .)\nshenanigans at his waterfront home are li\n\nsaying\n\nthat the Palm Beach Police Departme\n\nsh.\"\n\nI\n\n\"There never was any sex betweedlp ltsy pstein and any\nunderage women,\" his lead\n\notneyjack Goldberger, said\n\nfrom Idaho where he wa\n\ntioning with his family.\n\nEpstein did have yotpg\n%\n\nmen\nPi come to his house to give\n\nhim massages, Goldberger said. \"Mr. Epstein absolutely\ninsisted anybody who came to his house be over the age of\n18. How he verified that, I don't know. The question is, did\nanything illegal occur. The law was not violated here.\"\nir He had no explanation as to why Epstein would pay girls or\nl\n-iwomen with no massage training - as the alleged victims\nsaid was the case - $200 to $300 for their visits. \"The\ncredibility of these witnesses has been seriously\nquestioned,\" Goldberger said.\nEpstein, 53, was indicted by a county grand jury last month\non a charge of felony solicitation of prostitution. After an\n11-month investigation that included sifting through\nEpstein's trash and surveilling his home, Palm Beach police\nconcluded there was enough evidence to charge him with\nsexual activity with minors. When the grand jury indicted\n\nEFTA02732578\n\n\f", "char_count": 1571}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 53, "text_content": "Epstein on the less serious charge, Police Chief Michael\nReiter referred the case to the FBI to determine whether\nthere were federal law violations.\nAfter a spate of stories about the case last week, New York\npublicist Dan Klores - whose client list has included Paris\nHilton and Jennifer\n\n- said on Saturday that Epstein's\n\ncamp was ready \"to get their story out.\"\nThey did that Monday via Goldberger and a Los Angeles\npublicist for Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black,\nwho also has represented Epstein in the case.\n\"We just think there has been a distorted view of\nin the media presented by the Palm Beach police,\nGoldberger said.\n\nc\n\na*,\nReiter has consistently declined to com.,,\n,\nand did not respond to a requestq\n\nthe case\n\ncomment\n.,.\nMonday.\n\nThe implication that State Attorney Barry Krischer was\neasy on Epstein by presenting the case to a grand jury\nrather than filing charges directly against him is wrong,\nGoldberger said.\n\nEFTA02732579\n\n\f", "char_count": 959}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 54, "text_content": "The Palm Beach Police Department was \"happy and\necstatic\" that the panel was going to review the evidence. \"I\nthink what happened is they weren't happy with the result.\nThey decided to use the press to embarrass Mr. Epstein.\"\nBut records show that Reiter wrote Krischer on May 1 well before the case went to the grand jury - suggesting that\nKrischer \"consider if good and sufficient reason exists to\nrequire your disqualification from the prosecution of these\ncases.\nRather than flat-out decline to charge Epstein, Krischer\nreferred the case to the grand jury to \"appease\" the ch'\nGoldberger said.\n\nc\n\nA state attorney's spokesman would say on\n\nt\n\ne office\n\nrefers cases to the grand jury when the\n\nes with the\n\nviability of the evidence or witness\nBoth the state attorney and\n\nd jury concluded there\n\nwas not sufficient eviden\n\nhad sex with\nr. \"It was just a childish\n\nminors, according to\nperformance by t\n\neach Police Department,\"\n\nGoldberger s\nThe def\n\ne attorney said one of the alleged victims who\n\ndaipted s e as a minor was in fact over the age of 18.\ner alleged victim who was subpoenaed to testify to\nBand jury failed to do so. Epstein's accusers, he added,\nve histories of drug abuse and thefts. \"These women are\nliars. We've established that.\"\nBut why would they all invent their stories about meeting\nEpstein for sexual massages?\n\"I don't have an answer as to what was the motivation for\nthese women to come forward and make these allegations,\"\nGoldberger said.\n\nEFTA02732580\n\n\f", "char_count": 1491}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 55, "text_content": "Newspapers.\n\nThe Palm Beach Pc61 (West Palm Beach, Florida) • 14 Aug 2006, Mon • Page 7\nDombaded on Nov 11, 2019.\n\nPällii:Bacli., chief `fiSälls: . :','\n.g.tlit0.\n.nn:,.,t,--.. -.:.;:\n, 15'ca,.._.gOti\ning-44,....\nal,..t ir.yth:.... . Pst04:\nI\np d......abt eat.indi es\n\n.....\n... 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[truncated, 2942 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/55 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=55]", "char_count": 2942}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 56, "text_content": "The Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nDelays in Epstein case unusual,\nlawyers say\nPosted Mar 13, 2007 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 3, 2019 at 3:48 PM\n(EDITORS NOTE: This story originally published in The Palm\nBeach Post March 13, 2007)\nA federal probe or a plea deal could explain the wait i\nPalm Beacher's solicitation case.\nNearly eight months after Palm Beach tyco.\n\nffr\n\nEpstein was charged with felony solicit\n\nostitution,\n\nthere has been no discernible progr\n\ncase. No\n\nwitnesses deposed. No trial date sett\n\nhmg, save for\n\nroutine court hearings reset\ne s 'tirexplanation.\ne,\n\"Usually that would b\nattorney Glenn\n\nusu , said criminal defense\ne\n\nho has no involvement in the\n\ncase.\n\"As a ge , ral rule, it would be unusual for nothing to have\nhappene\n\na reed Michael Dutko, a criminal defense\not\n\nattorney in Fort Lauderdale. He represents\nof\n\nPalm Beach, potentially a key witness in the\n\nA routine hearing for Epstein was pulled from the court\ndocket last week and reset for May 16. The delays and\ninaction could be due to a potential federal probe of Epstein\nor because a plea deal is in the works, attorneys say.\nUnusual is the word that best describes everything about\nthe case against Epstein, 54, an enigmatic money manager\nin New York City who counts Bill Clinton and Donald\nTrump among his friends.\n\nEFTA02732582\n\n\f", "char_count": 1329}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 57, "text_content": "\"Highly unusual\" is how Palm Beach Police Chief Michael\nReiter described State Attorney Barry Krischer's handling\nof the case in a bluntly critical letter to Krischer last year\nbefore Epstein was indicted.\nReiter referred the matter to the FBI to determine whether\nany federal laws had been violated. Epstein's allies\ncountered by attacking the chief personally and\nprofessionally.\nReiter's department investigated Epstein for 11 months.\nPolice sifted repeatedly through his trash and conducted\nsurveillance on his five-bedroom, 7 1/2-bath, 7,234-s\nfoot home on the Intracoastal Waterway.\nPolice said Epstein paid women and girls as, rung as 14 to\ngive him erotic massages at his home. Police thought there\nwas probable cause to charge him with unlayirful sex acts\nwith a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation.\nEpstein responded by hiring a phalanx of lawyers. One of\nthem, Harvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz,\nprovided the state attorney's office with information about\nalcohol and marijuana use by some of the girls who said\nthey were with Epstein.\nPro ecutotsthen referred the case to the grand jury rather\ne charges directly against Epstein.\n\n0\n\ntein's attorneys deny he had sex with underage girls.\n\nThe lawyers say the girls' stories are not credible. But if the\n\ncourt file is any indicator, they've made no effort to depose\nthe girls.\n\nNeither prosecutors nor defense attorneys have sought to\nquestion\n\n, said Dutko, her attorney. She recruited\n\nteenage girls to visit Epstein for massages and sexual\nactivity, Palm Beach police said, and presumably would be a\nkey witness.\n\nEFTA02732583\n\n\f", "char_count": 1615}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 58, "text_content": "Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger did not return phone\nmessages.\nA source close to the case suggested it is languishing\npending a decision by the FBI on whether to refer it to\nfederal prosecutors.\n\"We still have a pending case,\" FBI spokeswoman Judy\nOrihuela said Monday.\nState Attorney Krischer did not return a call for comment.\nHis spokesman, Mike Edmondson, declined to say whether,\nfederal investigators are delaying the Epstein case. But\nadded, \"if another agency is looking at something,\nwouldn't want to step on their toes.\"\nAttorneys say inertia in a criminal case oft\n\npo is to a\n\npending plea deal.\n\"It would not surprise me if so\nnot reflected in the court file,\" sa\n\nas happened that's\nutko, such as an\n\nagreement that will be forillized later.\nDefense attorney Marc Shiner said defense attorneys\nsometimes put toff overtly conducting discovery -- deposing\nwitnesses, requesting documents and the like -- because\ndoing so mates more work for harried prosecutors who\nbeco e angry and not offer a plea deal.\n\n+\n\netimes defense lawyers, knowing that, will try and do\niscovery without taking depositions,\" said Shiner, a former\nprosecutor for 13 years.\nInstead, they may conduct a below-the-radar probe such as\n\nhaving a private investigator check out leads, he said.\nShiner and others say a plea deal for Epstein probably\nwould result in pretrial intervention, in which a defendant\nmay be ordered to undergo a psychological evaluation,\ncounseling or other conditions in return for dropping the\ncharge.\nEFTA02732584\n\n\f", "char_count": 1528}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 59, "text_content": "Edmondson, spokesman for State Attorney Krischer, said\nthere is no plea offer and no request for the prosecution to\nshow its cards.\n\"To my knowledge, it's never happened before on a filed\ncase,\" he said.\n\no\nG\n\nEFTA02732585\n\n\f", "char_count": 225}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 60, "text_content": "252 / 278 - Thursday, October 18, 2007\nEdition: FINAL\nSection: LOCAL\nPage: 5B\nSource: The Associated Press\nIllustration: PHOTO (B&W)\nMemo: Ran all editions.\nDateline: NEW YORK\nWOMAN SUES BILLIONAIRE INVESTOR, SAYS THEY HAD SEX WHEN.\n\nWAS 16\n\nunderage\nA billionaire investor, already facing jail in Palm Beach County on charges of\nprostitutes, is being sued by a young woman who says he had sex with her vyhq was 16 and had\nsought his help becoming a model.\nThe lawsuit, filed late Tuesday in Manhattan's state Supreme Court, sa finllltei'€r Jeffrey Epstein had\nthe teen perform a sex act when she brought photographs of herself for\nreview in his Upper\nmansion\nsometime\nin\n2000.\nEast Side\nictoria's Secret and \"could get\nEpstein, 54, a money manager, told the teen he managed fin\npapers say being \"nice\"\nyou into the catalog\" if she were \"nice\" to him, court pape\nincluded massages and other favors.\nodel,\" he replied, \"Don't worry, I\nWhen the girl told Epstein, \"I am 16 years old and j\nanybody,\"\ncourt\npapers\nsay.\nwon't tell\nEpstein, said by London's Mail on Sunday to\nclo3,firiend of England's Prince Andrew, has been\ne prostitutes. That case is pending.\nindicted in Palm Beach on charges of solicit'\na ral months and engaged in bizarre and unnatural\nThe girl visited Epstein \"several times ov\nsex acts\" while she was a minor, the la\nturn with her 14-, 15-, and 16-year-old girlfriends,\nEpstein \"repeatedly requested that\nstating, 'Come by with your frien young e next time. Don't bring Sherrie (a mutual friend in her\n40s). I love girls your age.' \"\nThe young woman, now 23, f returning to Epstein because she has \"mental issues,\" said her\nhued to elaborate, but court papers say she was \"disabled as a result\nlawyer, William J. U • h. H\nof severe mental dise and d ect.\"\nEpstein's lawyer\nk, Gerald Lefcourt, said, \"The girl has admitted she is insane, but she can\nread a newspape\ncognize the word 'rich.'\"\nto of limitations has expired for the woman's case criminally and civilly,\nLefcourt also\nn\n... [truncated, 2543 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/60 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=60]", "char_count": 2543}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 61, "text_content": "The Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nPalm Beacher pleads in sex case\nPosted Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 3, 2019 at 1:47 PM\n(EDITORS NOTE: This story originally published in The\nPalm Beach Post on July 1, 20010\nJeffrey Epstein will serve 1 1/2 years on teen solicitation\ncharges.\nHe lives in a Palm Beach waterfront mansion and\ncompany with the likes of President Clinton, Prin\nAndrew and Donald Trump, but investm\n\ner Jeffrey\n\nEpstein will call the Palm Beach Co\n\nfor the\n\nnext 18 months.\n- tCy\nEpstein, 55, pleaded guilty MbSlit\n\nfelony solicitation of\n\nprostitution and procuring a person under the age of 18 for\nprostitution. After\nunder house air\nobligation to\n\n• g 18 months in jail, he will be\near. And he will have a lifelong\n\nist r as a sex offender. He must submit to\n\nan HIV st wit in 48 hours, with the results being\nproyided\n\ni s victims or their parents.\n\np31je of the plea deal, federal investigators agreed to drop\n\n+\n\nth it investigation of Epstein, which they had taken to a\ngrand jury, two law enforcement sources said.\nEpstein was indicted two years ago after an 11-month\ninvestigation by Palm Beach police. They received a\ncomplaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had\ngiven Epstein a naked massage at his five-bedroom, 7,234square-foot, $8.5 million Intracoastal home.\nPolice concluded that there were several other girls brought\nin 2004 and 2005 to an upstairs room at the home for\nsimilar massages and sexual touching.\nEFTA02732587\n\n\f", "char_count": 1480}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 62, "text_content": "The indictment charged Epstein only with felony\nsolicitation of prostitution. The state attorney's office later\nadded the charge of procuring underage girls for that\npurpose.\nProsecutor Lanna Belohlavek said of the plea: \"I took into\nconsideration the length the trial would have been and\nwitnesses having to testify\" about sometimes embarrassing\nincidents.\nEpstein may have made a serious mistake soon after he was\ncharged. He rejected an offer to plead guilty to one count of\n\n—\n\n4\nii,\n\naggravated assault with intent to commit a felony,\naccording to police documents. He would have goiglten to)\nyears' probation, had no criminal record and not\n\nun\n\nregistered sex offender, the documents in\nthree\nEpstein arrived in court Monday w'oc u\n.\n.\nattorneys. He wore a blue blazer, blue rt, blue jeans and\nand gray sneakers. After Circuit Judge Deborah Dale\nPucillo accepted the plea, hews fingerprinted. Epstein\nhandcuffed for the trip to\n\nthen removed his bl\njail while his attot\n\n9 tft\n\nto shield him from\n\nphotographe\nWhen htr#\nh\n\nto o\n\ntually is released to house arrest, Epstein will\nrye a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, have no\n\nrvised contact with anyone younger than 18 and\nher own nor possess pornographic or sexual materials\nthat are relevant to your deviant behavior,\" the judge said.\nEpstein will be allowed to leave home for work. The New\nYork-based money manager told the judge he has formed\nthe not-for-profit Florida Science Foundation to finance\nscientific research. \"I'm there every day,\" Epstein said.\nThe foundation was incorporated in November. Epstein\nsaid he already has awarded money to Harvard and MIT.\n\nEFTA02732588\n\n\f", "char_count": 1635}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 63, "text_content": "When he is released from jail, there is a chance that Epstein\nwill be forced to move. Sex offenders are not allowed to live\nwithin 1,000 feet of a school, park or other areas where\nchildren may gather. No determination has been made as to\nwhether Epstein's home complies, but attorneys said it\nlikely does.\nSex offenders also typically must attend counseling sessions.\nBelohlavek said that was waived for Epstein because his\nprivate psychiatrist is working with him. The judge was\nskeptical but agreed to it.\nr\n\n- k7\n\nEpstein's legal woes don't end with Monday's plea. Tfter- -*,,\\\nare four pending federal civil lawsuits and one in t-ate`tourt\nrelated to his behavior. At least one woman has sued him in\nNew York, where he owns a 51,000-squar fool Manhattan\nmansion.\n\nS\n\n\"It's validation of what we're sayiliAn i)e civil cases,\" said\nMiami attorney Jeffrey He\nvictims in the federal law\nTed Leopold represe\n\nttwho represents the alleged\ni\n\nWest Palm Beach attorney\nleged victim in a civil suit in\n\n°pates amending that lawsuit to\n\nstate court. He\nadd \"a few of\n\nr die s\" as well.\n\nIn the\n\ncase, police went so far as to scour Epstein's\n\nt\n\nand a nduct surveillance at Palm Beach International\nwhere they watched for his private jet so they\n\n+\n\nuld know when he was in town. They concluded that\npstein paid girls $200 to $300 each after the massage\nsessions.\n\"I'm like a Heidi Fleiss,\"\n\nnow 22, told police\n\nabout her efforts in recruiting girls for Epstein.\nThere was probable cause to charge Epstein with unlawful\nsex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation,\npolice concluded.\n\nEFTA02732589\n\n\f", "char_count": 1609}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 64, "text_content": "The state attorney's office said questions about the girls'\ncredibility led it to take the unprecedented step of\npresenting the evidence against Epstein to a grand jury,\nrather than directly charging him.\nPalm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter was furious with\nState Attorney Barry Krischer, saying in a May 2006 letter\nthat the prosecutor should disqualify himself. \"I continue to\nfind your office's treatment of these cases highly unusual,\"\nhe wrote. He then asked for and got a federal investigation.\nEpstein hired a phalanx of high-priced lawyers - includin\nHarvard law professor and author Alan Dershowitz -\n\nAlat\\''\n\ngaCt.\n\npublic relations people who questioned Reiter's c\nand the victims' truthfulness.\nattan,\n\nIn addition to mansions in Palm Beach\nEpstein owns homes in New Met\n\nth\n\nirgin Islands.\n\nHe's a frequent contributor to D\n\ncr 'c Party candidates.\n\nHe also donated $30 milli°\n\nrd in 2003.\n\nFormer New York G\n\nGot Spitzer returned a $50,000\n\ncampaign contribution\n\nm Epstein after his indictment,\n\nthen resigned this year during his own sex scandal. And the\nsame Palm Beach Police Department that vigorously\ninvestig\nptyfhase\n\ni\n\nstein returned his $90,000 donation for the\na firearms simulator.\n\nwriter Eliot Kleinberg and former staff researcher\n.Quigley contributed to this story.\n\nEFTA02732590\n\n\f", "char_count": 1317}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 65, "text_content": "Beach\nPost\nThe Palm\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nJeffrey Epstein: Scientist,\nstuntman, `sex slave' visit jailed\ntycoon\nBy LARRY _/\nPalm Beach Post Staff Writer\nPosted Aug 13, 2008 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Jul 16, 2019 at 4:54 PM\nTycoon Jeffrey Epstein mingled with an eclectic mix of\npeople, including beautiful young women, before he\ninto trouble for paying teenage girls to give him s xua\nmassages at his Palm Beach mansion.\nNot much has changed, even though\n\ndes in a\n\ndorm at the Palm Beach County Sh,\n\nce's 17-acre,\n\n967-bed stockade near the fair\\\nDuring his first month of\n\ntit\n\nent, Epstein was visited\n\nby the female assistan\n\ngirls told police, had escorted\n\nthem to the rootnic\n\nnsion where they gave him\n\nnaked massag\nAlso tre\nPuS\n\nrti e\n\no the jail was a young woman whom Epstein\ndescribed as his Yugoslavian sex slave.\n\nealthy financier and science wonk also has been\n\n4\n\nited by an expert on artificial intelligence, as well as a\nman who is a mixed martial arts aficionado and sometime\nmovie stuntman.\nThe only other people to visit him at the jail, according to\nrecords, are a\n\nIsland man and an individual who\n\nlisted Epstein's Palm Beach address as his own.\nEpstein, 55, pleaded guilty on June 30 to two prostitutionrelated charges and was sentenced to 18 months in jail,\nfollowed by a year of house arrest. Epstein paid teenage\n\nEFTA02732591\n\n\f", "char_count": 1351}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 66, "text_content": "girls $200 to $300 in 2004 and 2005 for massages in his\nhome that sometimes included sexual touching, Palm Beach\npolice said.\nHis jail visitors in July included:\n29, who some of the teen masseuses said\nphoned them when Epstein was in town and escorted them\nupon their arrival at his Palm Beach waterfront home to an\nupstairs room, where she prepared the massage table and\nprovided the oils for their encounters with him.\nvisited Epstein three times in July, according to a jail\nvisitor's log.\nlists a Manhattan home address.\nReached by telephone, she declined to discuss Ep\n23, whose family in Y\n\navia\n\nEpstein paid money to so that he could\n\nto the\n\nUnited States to be his \"sex slave: t7io\npolice. One girl told police that\n\ne girls told\n\nand her to kiss\nand masturbated. Anothe s\nat Epst\nin jail four time\n\n1\n\nex while he watched\n\nsh engaged in sex with\nvisited Epstein\n$.\n\n. She lists her address as on the\n\nUpper East si a of\nenormous ap\n\na\n\nstructed\n\nattan, not far from Epstein's\nnt.\n\nank, 62, founder of the Institute for Learning\n+\n\nat Northwestern University and an expert on\nficial intelligence, paid one visit to Epstein. Schank has\nwritten numerous books on that subject and has a doctorate\ndegree from Yale University in linguistics. He was one of 19\npeople who applied to be president of Florida Atlantic\nUniversity in 2003. He became \"chief learning officer's at the\nonline Trump University in 2005. Schank listed his address\nas being in Stuart, and records show he also owns a home\nin Lake Worth.\n\nEFTA02732592\n\n\f", "char_count": 1530}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 67, "text_content": "Epstein has financed a number of scientists over the years,\nincluding Nobel Prize winners. He gave $30 million to\nHarvard University in 2003. In November, he formed the\nnot-for-profit Florida Science Foundation, which he said\nfinances scientific research.\n- Igor Zinoviev, a Russian mixed martial arts fighter, who\ncoaches a Chicago team in the International Fight League.\nHe also has worked as a personal trainer, celebrity\nbodyguard and movie stuntman, according to the league's\nWeb site. The New Jersey resident visited Epstein seven\ntimes in July.\nZinoviev, Schank and\ncomment.\n\ncould not be reach\n)\n\nStaff researcher Niels Heimeriks contri\n\nis story.\n\n1\n\nEFTA02732593\n\n\f", "char_count": 675}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 68, "text_content": "Palm Beach Daily News\nBillionaire sex offender leaves jail\nsix days a week for work\nPosted Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 4, 2019 at 9:27 AM\nPalm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, who's serving 18\nmonths in jail for soliciting an underage girl for\nprostitution, is allowed to leave the Palm Beach County\nStockade six days a week on a work-release program.\nTeri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach Count\nSheriffs Office, confirmed that Epstein, 55, has been\n\nthe\n\nwork-release program since Oct. 10.\n\"He works six days a week: Friday through Wednesday 10\na.m. to 10 p.m.,\" Barbera said via e-mail. \"(He) works at his\nlocal West Palm Beach office, monitored on an active GPS\nsystem (he wears an ankle bracelet). Mr. Epstein hires a\npermit deputy, at his expense, for his own security at his\nworkplace du • -1 diStime he is out:\nMiami attorney Jeffrey Herman represents six young\nwo en who've sued Epstein, claiming he sexually abused\nat his Palm Beach home when they were minors.\n\nO\n\nrman said he received a letter about the work-release\n\nprogram from the U.S. Attorney's Office within the past\nfew days. But Herman says Epstein had been out on workrelease for several weeks before the notification.\n\n\"My clients expressed shock and disappointment,\" Herman\nsaid. \"I find it incredible that he's on work-release in the\ncommunity and my clients aren't notified of this and we get\nthis letter weeks after the fact:\nJack Goldberger, Epstein's criminal attorney, said the\nEFTA02732594\n\n\f", "char_count": 1490}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 69, "text_content": "arrangement is not unusual.\n\"He goes to work every single day and goes back to jail at\nnight, just like everybody else (in the program),\"\nGoldberger said.\nEpstein pleaded guilty June 30 to two felony counts:\nsoliciting prostitution and procuring a person under 18 for\nprostitution. As part of the plea agreement, Epstein must\nserve one year of house arrest and register as a lifelong sex\noffender.\n\nC\nO\n\niS\n\n4/)\n9\n\n? S'\n\nC\n\nEFTA02732595\n\n\f", "char_count": 439}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 70, "text_content": "The Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nWomen want Epstein sex plea deal\nunsealed\nPosted Jul 1, 2008 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 2, 2019 at 2:23 PM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The\nPalm Beach Post June 10, 2009)\nTheir attorneys will ask a judge to open Jeffrey Epste*0 '\nrecords.\nWhen wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epsteing\nBeach pleaded guilty last year to procuring teens for\nprostitution, his case detoured around local and state rules\nregarding the sealing of court d9\n\neN.\n,\n\nAt a plea conference on djetStharges, a judge, a defense\nlawyer and a prosecutor huddled at the bench and decided\nthat a deal Epstein had struck with federal prosecutors to\navoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of\nthe hearing.\nAnd so it\"Was.\nBut Florida rules of judicial administration, as well as rules\n\\\n\nof the Palm Beach County court system, require public\n\n=== notification that a court document has been or will be\nsealed, meaning kept from public view. The rules also\nrequire a judge to find a significant reason to seal, such as\nprotecting a trade secret or a compelling government\ninterest.\nYet no notification or reason occurred in Epstein's case,\naccording to court records.\n\nEFTA02732596\n\n\f", "char_count": 1224}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 71, "text_content": "Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have referred to\nhis confidential deferred prosecution agreement with the\nU.S. attorney's office, struck in September 2007, as\n\"unprecedented\" and \"highly unusual: And it was \"a\nsignificant inducement\" for Epstein to accept the state's\ndeal, observed the state judge who accepted his plea,\nCounty Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo.\nEpstein now faces at least a dozen civil lawsuits in federal\nand state courts filed by young women who said they had\nsex with him and now are seeking damages.\nAttorneys for some of those women want his agreement`\nwith federal prosecutors unsealed and will ask Circuit Judge\nJeffrey Colbath to do so today.\n\"It is against public policy for these do\n\nt be have\n\nbeen sealed and hidden from public\n\ns a member\n\nof the public, E.W. has a right to have t\n\ne documents\n\nunsealed,\" wrote former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, now in\nprivate practice and represent,\n\none of the women.\n\nThe Palm Beac\n\nwill ask Colbath to unseal the\n\nagreement. P\n\nthey Deanna Shullman will argue that\n\nthe publift asva right to know the specifics of Epstein's deal.\nding o various media accounts, Epstein moved in\nat included President Clinton, Donald Trump and\n\n4\n\nce Andrew. \"International Moneyman of Mystery,\"\ndeclared a 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein.\nEpstein, 56, is in the Palm Beach County Stockade, serving\nan 18-month sentence after pleading guilty nearly a year\nago to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring\nteenagers for prostitution.\nHe is allowed out from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., escorted by a\ndeputy, said Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office\nspokeswoman Teri Barbera.\n\nEFTA02732597\n\n\f", "char_count": 1655}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 72, "text_content": "During a Palm Beach Police Department investigation, five\nvictims and 17 witnesses gave statements. They told of\nyoung women brought by his assistants to Epstein's\nmansion on El Brillo Way for massages and sexual activity,\nand then being paid afterward.\nAt Epstein's plea conference last year, his attorney, Jack\nGoldberger, and then-Assistant State Attorney Lanna\nBelohlavek approached Pucillo in a sidebar conference.\nPucillo, who had left the bench nine years earlier, was\nfilling in temporarily as a senior judge.\nAccording to a transcript, Goldberger told Pucillo tha\nEpstein had entered a confidential agreement wit\nattorney's office in which federal prosecutors bro\n\ne not\n\npursuing charges against him if he pleadedw'in\n1 p in state\ncourt. Pucillo then said she wanted a seat ‘c\nagreement filed in his case, and Gol\nhe wanted it sealed. Belohlave\n\nr\n\nof the\n\nconcurred that\ned off on it.\n\nThe Florida Supreme Courts expressed \"serious concern\"\nand launched an all-o\n\ninquiry into sealing procedures\n\nacross the state fog;*inginedia reports in 2006 of entire\n1 -1‘\"\ncases being se4iled an disappearing from court records.\n\"The pubt4constitutional right of access to court records\nmktSt remain inviolate, and this court is fully committed to\nrding this right,\" justices wrote in their final report.\nstein's office on Tuesday referred any questions to\nGoldberger, who declined to comment. Pucillo also has\ndeclined to comment.\n\nEFTA02732598\n\n\f", "char_count": 1448}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 73, "text_content": "Beach\nPost\nThe Palm\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nEpstein secret pact with Feds\nreveals \"highly unusual\" terms\nPosted Jun 10, 2009 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 4, 2019 at 9:23 AM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The\nPalm Beach Post on September 19, 2009)\nA secret non-prosecution agreement multimillionaire -financier Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal prosecutors is\nbeing called \"highly unusual\" by former federal prosecutors\nand downright outrageous by attorneys n\n\nesenting\n\nyoung women who serviced him.\n\\SS. Attorney's Office\nThe deal reveals that the FBI anckitc\ninvestigated him for several federal crimes, including\nengaging minors in commercial sex. The crimes are\npunishable by anywhere from 1O years to life in prison.\nN./\nBut federal prosecutOrs,backed down and agreed to recall\ngrand jury subpoenas if Epstein pleaded guilty to\nprostitution-related felonies in state court, which he\nul *mately did. He received an 18-month jail sentence, of\nh\n\nhe served 13 months.\n\noAish\n\ne U.S. Attorney's Office also agreed not to charge any of\n\nEpstein's possible co-conspirators: ==,\nLesley Groff and\n\nThe deal was negotiated in part by heavyweight New York\ncriminal defense attorney Gerald Lefcourt.\nUnsealed on Friday after attorneys for some of Epstein's\nvictims and The Palm Beach Post sought its release, it offers\nthe first public look at the deal Epstein's high-powered legal\ncounsel brokered on his behalf.\n\nEFTA02732599\n\n\f", "char_count": 1439}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 74, "text_content": "Mark\n\nof Stuart, a former federal prosecutor,\n\ndescribed the disparity in potential sentences as unusual,\nbut even more so a provision on attorney payment.\nThe first draft of the agreement in September 2007\nrequired that Epstein pay an attorney -- tapped by the U.S.\nAttorney's Office and approved by Epstein -- to represent\nsome of the victims. That attorney is prominent Miami\nlawyer Bob Josefsberg.\nBut an addendum to the agreement signed the following\nmonth struck Epstein's duty to pay Josefsberg if he and t\nvictims did not accept settlements -- capped at $150,0O\nand instead pursued lawsuits.\n\nc\n\nsaid it appears the government was4vicng o\n\nbalance the lesser sentence for Epstein with recovering\n\n$150,000 for each victim. \"I've never] ever seen anything\n\\\\ \\--,/\nlike that in my life,\" he said \"les.higblanusual.\"\n.\n\\\nThe deal does not say whether any victims were contacted\nor consulted before the deal was made.\nAttorney Brad,fidirard.stf Fort Lauderdale, who represents\nthree of the young women, believes that none of the 30 to\n40 woman identified as victims in the federal investigation\nwere told ahead of time.\n\nsaid his clients received\n\nlitikers yfrom the U.S. Attorney's Office months after the deal\ns'gned, assuring them Epstein would be prosecuted.\n\n\"Never consulting the victims is probably the most\noutrageous aspect of it,\"\n\nsaid. \"It taught them that\n\nsomeone with money can buy his way out of anything. It's\noutrageous and embarrassing for United States Attorney's\nOffice and the State Attorney's Office.\"\nEpstein now faces many civil lawsuits filed by the women,\nwho are represented by a variety of attorneys. In many, the\nallegations are the same: that Epstein had a predilection for\nteenage girls, identified poor, vulnerable ones and used\nEFTA02732600\n\n\f", "char_count": 1782}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 75, "text_content": "other young women to lure them to his Palm Beach\nmansion. They walked away with between $200 and\n$1,000.\nFormer Circuit Judge Bill Berger, also representing victims,\ncalled the agreement a \"sweetheart deal.\"\n\"Why was it so important for the government to make this\ndeal?\" Berger asked rhetorically. \"We have not yet had an\nhonest explanation by any public official as to why it was\nmade ... and why the victims were sold down the river!\nFormer federal prosecutor Ryon McCabe described th\nagreement as \"very unorthodox! Such agreements\nare usually reserved for corporations, not individ\n\"It's very, very rare. I've never seen or h\nprocedure that was set up here,\" said\n\nwho has no\n\ninvolvement in any Epstein litig\n\"He's essentially avoiding eralpdsecution because he\ncan afford to pay that\ny la ers to help those victims\nreview their cases.\nbe able to st\n\non has no money, he couldn't\ne this and avoid federal\n\nprosecution.\nThe ba\nrk\n\n+\nO\n\ndeal with federal prosecutors is all the more\nin light of the legal powerhouses who have\nfor Epstein, including Harvard professor Alan\n\nrshowitz and Bill Clinton investigator Kenneth Stan.\nLefcourt is a past president of the National Association of\nCriminal Defense Lawyers.\nEpstein's local defense attorney, Jack Goldberger, issued a\nstatement Friday saying he had fought the release of the\nsealed agreement to protect the third parties named there.\n\"Mr. Epstein has fully abided by all of its terms and\nconditions. He is looking forward to putting this difficult\nperiod in his life behind him. He is continuing his longstanding history of science philanthropy.\"\n\nEFTA02732601\n\n\f", "char_count": 1620}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 76, "text_content": "The investigation triggered tensions between police and\nprosecutors, with then-Palm Beach Chief Michael Reiter\nsaying in a May 2006 letter to then-State Attorney Barry\nKrischer that the thief prosecutor should disqualify himself..\n\"I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases\nhighly unusual,\" Reiter wrote. He then asked for and got\nthe federal investigation that ended in the sealed deal.\n\"The Jeffrey Epstein matter was an experience of what a\nmany-million-dollar defense can accomplish,\" Reiter told\nthe Palm Beach Daily News upon his retirement.\n\nEFTA02732602\n\n\f", "char_count": 580}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 77, "text_content": "187 / 278 - Wednesday, January 27, 2010\nEdition: FINAL\nSection: LOCAL & BUSINESS\nPage: 3B\nSource: By JANE MUSGRAVE Palm Beach Post Staff Writer\nDateline: WEST PALM BEACH\nJUDGE RULES EPSTEIN ATTORNEYS CAN SUBPOENA ABORTION RECORDS\n\n1\n\nIn a decision that could spark a constitutional showdown over privacy righ\nTuesday gave lawyers representing multimillionaire sex offender Jeffrey\nn the right to\nt m the partsubpoena abortion records from women who are seeking millions in\ntime Palm Beach resident\nPalm Beach County Circuit Judge Donald Hafele said the records uld elp Epstein rebut\nthe women's claims that they suffered psychological ills after ng\nto give him\nsexually-charged massages at his Palm Beach mansion w\nwere as young as 14.\nHafele told Epstein's attorneys they couldn't go on a fis\nition. The medical records,\nhe said, can't be sought until the women are asked w\nhave ever had an abortion,\nhow many and where. Further, he said, the reco\no\nt be made public and might not\nbe admissible during trial.\nBut, he said, since the women claim Epste\ns responsible for their emotional\ndistress, his attorneys can explore the\no er events. Medical records, Hafele said,\nimps\nare a better source of information thanAtiperson\nmemory.\nAttorney Louis Silver, who represe thePresidential Women's Health Center, a West Palm\nBeach clinic where abortions\nali, warned Hafele that he was stepping on shaky\nconstitutional grounds.\n\"These records are protected b\nnstitutional right of privacy,\" he said, refening to the\nFlorida Constitution.\nAfter the hearing, Silver\nappeal won't be necessary until Epstein attorneys seek the\nrecords.\nIn another rulin\nesday, Hafele also said that videos from depositions in the state cases\ncan't be rele'\nth\na court order. The ruling came after Epstein attorney Robert Critton\ncomplain\nt a ideo of Epstein being asked whether he had an \"egg-shaped\" penis\nbecam\n.e.com sensation. It first appeared on The Palm Beach Post Web site.\nCritton b ed attorney Spencer Kuvin for releasin\n... [truncated, 2508 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/77 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=77]", "char_count": 2508}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 78, "text_content": "The Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nEpstein Journal's Findings Could.\nResurrect Case\nBy Jane Musgrave\nPosted Sep 17, 2019 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 1, 2019 at 10:51 AM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The\nPalm Beach Post on March 20, 2010)\nA purloined journal that is said to contain the names, O\n\"hundreds\" of victims of convicted sex offenderit\nEpstein could be used to reopen the invest\n\ninto the\n\nmulti-millionaire's appetite for teenage4irL\n\nttorney\n\nrepresenting seven of the victims s\nNew details about the conte\nthis week when Alfredo\n\ns t\n\nournal were released\n, who worked as a\n\nproperty manager for the Palm Reach resident, pleaded\nguilty to obstruction of justice for lying to federal agents\nwhen asked if he had any information about his former\nboss' criminal activity. He later tried to sell the journal he\nstole from EpINI for $50,000 to an unidentified person,\nalerted authorities, according to court records.\npart of the plea agreement, federal prosecutors said the\nurnal \"contains information material to the Epstein\ninvestigation, including the names of material witnesses\nand additional victims.\"\n\"Had the items been produced in response to the inquiries\nof state or federal authorities ... the materials would have\nbeen presented to the federal grand jury,' federal\nprosecutors wrote.\n\nEFTA02732604\n\n\f", "char_count": 1344}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 79, "text_content": "Instead, prosecutors short-circuited the grand jury\ninvestigation and cut a deal with Epstein. They agreed not\nto pursue federal charges if he didn't contest prostitutionrelated felonies in state court. The money manager pleaded\nguilty in July 2008 to procuring a minor for prostitution\nand soliciting prostitution. He served 13 months of an 18month sentence.\n\n1\n\nAttorney Adam Horowitz, who represents seven of the\nroughly 18 women who have filed civil suits against\nEpstein, said the new information could trump the socalled non-prosecution agreement.\nThe multifaceted agreement, he said, deals only\nspecific list of victims that the U.S. Attorney's Oi\nabout when it penned the deal in 2007. If\nare listed in the journal Rodriguez sto\n\new\n\nal victims\ntz said\n\nfederal prosecutors could reopen\n\nation.\n\n\"It opens the door for furth\n? s 14\n/ ,„s\n\n'on,\" he said.\n\njournal to federal agents,\nIn addition to\nRodriguez told\nhis former boss was having\nsex with unde turning' en he worked for him in 2004\nand 2005. He\nen naked girls, who looked like minors,\nin the p\npstein's $8.6 million mansion. He had seen\npcyttogra is images of young girls on Epstein's computer,\ng to court records.\n\n+\n\nNeither Epstein's criminal defense attorney, Jack\nGoldberger, nor attorney Robert Critton, who represents\nEpstein in the civil lawsuits, could be reached. Federal\nprosecutors have consistently declined comment.\nThe wording of the controversial agreement is unclear. It\nsays federal prosecutors would provide Epstein's attorneys\n'with a list of individuals whom it has identified as victims?\nMiami attorney Robert Josefsberg was appointed to\n\nEFTA02732605\n\n\f", "char_count": 1643}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 80, "text_content": "represent any of the victims on the list who wanted to\npursue Epstein in civil court. As part of the agreement,\nEpstein is to pay for Josefsberg to represent the women.\nSome of the women, most identified as Jane Doe in\nlawsuits, had already hired attorneys to represent them.\nSome have since settled their suits with Epstein, although\nterms were not disclosed.\nHorowitz said he has filed court papers to get the journal\nthat Rodriguez stole. \"It's another piece of evidence that\nshows our clients were at Epstein's mansion,\" he said.\nRodriguez told prosecutors he didn't turn over thejo\nwhen both FBI and Palm Beach police asked for i eca\nhe wanted money for it. He also said he wa a\n\n'd Epstein\n\nwould make him \"disappear.\" The inforniata\n\ne told\n\ninvestigators, was his \"insurance po\nHe faces a maximum 20 year\n\nwhen he is\n\nsentenced on June 18.\njane_musgrave@p\n@pbpcourts\n\n•\n\nEFTA02732606\n\n\f", "char_count": 894}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 81, "text_content": "The Palm\nBeach\nPost\nREAL NEWS STARTS HERE\nEpstein paid three women $5.5 million to end underagesex lawsuits\nBy Jane Musgrave\nPosted Oct 3, 2017 at 12:01 AM\nUpdated Oct 4, 2017 at 12:46 AM\nEnding years of speculation about how much Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey E1\n\npaid young\n\nwomen who claimed he used them as sex toys, court documents filed last week show he shelled\nout $5.5 million to settle lawsuits with three of more than two dot's\nResponding to requests from Epstein's attorneys in a com\nsex scandal, attorney\n\nsaid the political\n\noffender paid more than $1 million to each of thekliireecymen\n\nwho sued him.\n\nuit that was spawned by the\ncted 64-year-old convicted sex\nrepresented.\n\nIdentified in court papers only by their initi\n\ndonyms because of the nature of the\n\nallegations and their youthful ages, L.M, was p\n\n$I million, E.W. $2 million and Jane Doe\n\n$2.5 million,\n\nsaid of the se\n\nJack Goldberger, one of Epstel\nthe revelations, citing confidenna\n\nm8S he negotiated with Epstein to end the lawsuits.\nal defense attorneys, on Tuesday declined comment on\nagreements that were pan of the settlements. For the\n\nsame reason, he declined t\n\nay whether Epstein paid similar amounts to settle roughly two\n\ndozen lawsuits file\n\nyoung women against Epstein, claiming he paid them for sex\n\nwhen some w\nAttorne\n\noth\n\ngas 14 years old.\nrola, who is representing\n\n, said his client was compelled to divulge\n\nthe confidential settlements to answer questions posed by Epstein's attorneys. \"Brilliant move\non their part,\" he said.\nEven if Epstein's attorneys hadn't opened the door, Scarola said the information would have\nlikely come out. He says the information will help him undermine Epstein's claims that\n\"ginned up\" the allegations to help his former law partner, imprisoned and disbarred\nFort Lauderdale lawyer Scott Rothstein, perpetuate a $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme.\n\nEFTA02732607\n\n\f", "char_count": 1891}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 82, "text_content": "The revelations of the settlements came as part of an ongoing lawsuit that started as a dispute\nbetween Epstein and Rothstein, both billionaires.\nA year after Epstein in 2008 pleaded guilty to solicitation of prostitution and procuring a\nminor for prostitution, he sued Rothstein and\n\n, claiming they trumped up the\n\nallegations of sexual molestation to perpetuate the Ponzi scheme.\nRothstein was sentenced to 50 years in prison in 2010 after admitting he had built his wildly\nsuccessful law firm by forging the names of federal judges and others to persua\n\nit vectors he\n\nhad negotiated settlements in lawsuits against high-profile people. Investorfto\n\ntdTh they\n\ncould get a cut of the cash.\nOne of the high-profile people Rothstein used to lure investors wa\n\nO\n\npst in, according to a\n\nlawsuit West Palm Beach attorney Robert Critton filed on E\n\nalf. According to the\n\nlawsuit, Rothstein told investors Epstein, a money mana\n\nto settle the lawsuits\n\nwith the teens for $200 million — a claim Critton des\n\na complete fabrication.\"\n\nAfter Epstein dropped the lawsuit in 2012\n\nrned the tables on him.\n\nEpstein of filing the lawsuit maliciously to\n\nfor representing the young women.\n\nAlthough\nno evidence\n\nwas a partner in Ro\nwas involved 'Kt e\n\ncharged other attorneys and me ter\nsaid in the malicious prosecutio\n\naccused\n\nin's ow defunct firm, Scarola claims Epstein had\nnzi scheme. Federal prosecutors successfully\ne firm, but\n\nwas never implicated, Scarola\n\nuit.\n\nThe revelations about theliZry Epstein paid to three of the young woman came last week in\ndocuments filed for\"Nafing Tuesday in preparation for a December trial on the lawsuit.\n\nAttorney To'kja Haddad Coleman, who represents Epstein, on Tuesday sought a delay of the\ntrial, in part, because she claimed she has been unable to talk to her client since his estate on his\nprivate island in the U.S. Virgin Islands was devastated last month by Hurricane Irma. \"I've had\nno ability to communicate with Mr. Epstein,\" she said.\n\nEFTA0273260\n... [truncated, 2004 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/82 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=82]", "char_count": 2004}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 83, "text_content": "Pointing out Epstein's enormous wealth and his private jet, Palm Beach County Circuit Judge\nDonald Hafele rejected her request. While saying he didn't want to appear insensitive to those\nvictimized by the storm that hammered the Caribbean and roared through South Florida, he\nsaid Coleman offered no proof, such as an affidavit from Epstein, to shore up her claims.\nStill, Hafele gave Coleman extra time to respond to various motions that he will have to decide\nbefore the case goes to trial.\nDespite Scarola's insistence that\n\nhad nothing to do with Rothstein's P\n\ncheme,\n\nColeman said the evidence indicates otherwise. Why else would he try to demo\n\nEp ein's\n\nwell-known friends, such as now President Donald Trump, former Pre\n\nClinton and\n\nillusionist David Copperfield, she asked. He used the celebrities as ac t'a\n\nsaid.\n\n\"The Epstein cases were used to fleece money and defraud\n\ns,\" s e said.\n\nEdward's malicious prosecution case has been difficult fdCb&\nins\n\ns because both Epstein and\n\nM. have refused to answer questions. As he did in the civil lawsuits, Epstein has invoked\nhis Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination when questioned by Scarola.\nhas claimed that much of the information Epstein is seeking is protected by attorney-client\nprivilege.\nThe malicious prosecution lawsuit is one of two hotly-contested lawsuits that continue to pit\nis suing the U.S. attorney's office, claiming it violated\nME against Epstein. Edwards also\nthe federal Crime Victims Rights Act when it negotiated a non-prosecution agreement with\nEpstein.\nOnly after federal prosecutors agreed to drop their investigation of Epstein, did he agree to\nplead guilty to two piostitution charges in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. In federal court\nrecords, p-rojecutors claim one of the key reasons they agreed to drop their case was Epstein's\nagreement to settle lawsuits filed against him by dozens of his underage victims.\n\nEFTA02732609\n\n\f", "char_count": 1933}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 84, "text_content": "Falco :Beach Daily News.\nJudge rules feds' agreement with'\nJeffrey Epstein pact violated teen\nvictims' rights\nBy Jane Musgrave\nPosted Sep 17, 2019 at 4:02 PM\nUpdated Oct 8, 2019 at 12:31 PM\n(EDITOR'S NOTE: This story originally published in The 'S\n\ne\n\nPalm Beach Post on February 22, 2019)\nFederal prosecutors violated the rights of Jeffrey\n\nCEIN\nped plans\n\nteenage victims by failing to reveal they\nto prosecute the billionaire on dozen\n\neral charges in\n\nconnection with the girls' claims\n\nid them for sex\n\nat his Palm Beach mansion, U\n\ntri Judge Kenneth\n\nMarra ruled on Thursday., ? s‘\n\\./\ng,\nMarra meticulously and\nIn a blistering 33-p\nnumerous steps federal\n\nmethodically de\nprosecutors t\n\nde the agreement from more than 40\n\nyoung vomen\n\no claim Epstein paid them for sex when\n\nthe wer\n\noung as 14.\n\nthe government spent untold hours negotiating the\n\n+\n\nto\n\ns and implications of the NPA with Epstein's attorneys,\n\nscant information was shared with the victims,\" Marra\nwrote. \"Instead, the victims were told to be 'patient while\nthe investigation proceeded.\"\nBy then, it was too late. A deal had already been cut with\nthen-South Florida U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta and Epstein's\nattorneys to shelve a 52-page federal indictment against\nEpstein, a former math teacher turned money manager\nwho counts Presidents Donald Trump and Bill Clinton\namong his friends.\n\nEFTA02732610\n\n\f", "char_count": 1378}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 85, "text_content": "Prosecutors' failure to alert the young women about the\ndeal violated the Crime Victims' Rights Act, Marra ruled.\n\"At a bare minimum the (act) required the government to\ninform (the young women) that it intended to enter into an\nagreement not to prosecute Epstein: he wrote.\nStill, Marra said he wasn't second-guessing prosecutors'\ndecision not to pursue Epstein on federal charges if he\npleaded guilty to minor state prostitution charges and\nagreed to compensate his victims for the trauma he caused.\n\n1\n\n€\n€\n\n\"The court is not ruling that the decision not to prosecuteS e\nwas improper,\" Marra wrote. \"The court is simply rut\nthat, under the facts of this case, there was a viol\nthe CVRA.\"\nFurther, he made no decision about w, k\nshould be. He gave prosecutors an tt\nthe young women 15 days to m°\nthe complex legal web that\nand his young victims fo\n\nis\n\nedy\n\nrepresenting\nde how to unravel\n\nC; anging over Epstein\nan a decade.\n\nThe chances an a\n\nI be reached are slim, said\n\nattorney Jack ca o\n\no is representing the two Jane\n\nDoes who ch\n\n€\n\nd the prosecutors' actions.\n\ner, l e sraid, there is no road map to follow. The\nattorney\nfiled on behalf of the two\n\n€\n\ndentified young women, daiming prosecutors violated\ne federal act, is unique, he said.\n\"We are treading on virgin ground, to use what is probably\nan inappropriate phrase in this situation,\" he said.\nScarola said he and\n\nwill ask that the non-\n\ns\n\nprosecution agreement be thrown out. That would open\nthe possibility that the long-shelved federal indictment\ncould be dusted off and filed against the 66-year-old\nEpstein, who spends most of his time on a private island he\nowns in the U.S. Virgin Islands.\n\nEFTA02732611\n\n\f", "char_count": 1684}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 86, "text_content": "\"I don't see the government conceding to that remedy,\"\nScarola admitted. Further, he said, it is likely Epstein will be\nallowed to weigh in. Miami attorney Roy Black years ago\nfiled papers asking to intervene on Epstein's behalf.\nThe U.S. Attorney's Office said it wouldn't comment on\n\nI\nE\nI\ng\n;\nI\n\nMarra's ruling. Neither Black nor New York City attorney\nJay Lefkowitz, who led efforts to bury the federal\nindictment, responded to emails or phone calls for\ncomment. West Palm Beach attorneyJack Goldberger, who A\nrepresents Epstein, also didn't respond.\nScarola said it is likely Epstein's star-studded legal tea\n\ni\n1\ng\n\nS\n\nargue that Epstein fully complied with the terms fa\nhe made in 2007 with federal prosecuted\ntherefore the agreement can't be undone.\nAs he promised, Epstein pleaded g\ncharges of soliciting a minor fo\nprostitution. He served 13\nin a vacant wing of the co\nto leave 12 hours a\n\n,\n\ne 2008 to state\non and soliciting\nan 18-month jail term\n\nockade that he was allowed\n\n1\n\nys week.\n\nFurther, as ag\n\naid settlements to the young women\nwho sued him.\ne the settlements were confidential,\ncourt re\nhow he paid three women a total of $5.5\n\nr.\n\nturn, federal prosecutors held up their end of the\nrgain. Their investigation ceased.\n\nHaving done all that prosecutors asked of him, Scarola said\nEpstein will make a simple argument \"You can't turn\naround and deprive me of the benefits I bargained for.\"\nHowever, Scarola said, using Marra's ruling, he will counter\nthat the contract Epstein signed was illegal and therefore\nunenforceable.\n\nEFTA02732612\n\n\f", "char_count": 1563}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 87, "text_content": "Even if Marra agrees to toss out the non-prosecution\nagreement, Scarola conceded that doesn't mean Epstein will\nface federal charges.\n\"The contract can be set aside and the federal government\ncan attempt to enter into the same agreement,\" lie said.\n\"Except the spotlight of public attention will be on them\nand the 40 victims will be able to explain to the court why\nthis sweetheart deal should not be approved.\"\nScarola said that prosecutors may have had good reason not\nto pursue Epstein. \"There may be a reasonable explanatio\nbut we don't know what that reason may have been,\"\nsaid.\nIn court papers, federal prosecutors have s\n\n( 1)\nt many of\n\nthe young women were afraid to cross\n\nful,\n\npolitically connected money manager a\n\nsiMply refused to\n\ntestify against him.\nIn other cases, they said, the women changed their stories.\nJane Doe 2, who is trying to have the non-prosecution\nagreement thrown out, initially described Epstein as \"an\nawesome ma nc\n\"and told prosecutors she hoped \"nothing\nhappens\" to hi_ While she later agreed to testify against\nEpstein,\n\nutors said they feared Epstein's attorneys\n\nd us\n\ner words to destroy her if she ever took the\n\nstand.\n\n+\n\nMarra, however, said the young woman's comments didn't\nmean she wasn't entitled to know about the prosecutors'\nplans to drop the charges. \"There is no dispute that Epstein\nsexually abused Jane Doe 2 while she was a minor,\" he\nwrote. \"Therefore, regardless of her comments to the\nprosecutor, she was a victim.\"\nBefore the case is finally resolved, Scarola predicted that \"a\nlot of people are going to have to answer a lot of questions.\"\n\nEFTA02732613\n\n\f", "char_count": 1623}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 88, "text_content": "In his ruling, Marra detailed what appeared to be a cozy\nrelationship between Acosta, his line prosecutors and\nEpstein's team of lawyers. His phalanx of lawyers included\nnoted Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth\nStarr, the former U.S. solicitor general whose investigation\nled to the impeachment of President Clinton.\nMarra describes an October 2007 breakfast meeting\nbetween Acosta, who is now U.S. labor secretary, and\nLefkowitz shortly after the non-prosecution agreement was\ninked.\n.77-7 I\n\n7\n\nAfter the meeting, Lefkowitz sent Acosta a note thankftig\nhim for \"the commitment you made to me during our\n\n_21\n\nOctober 12 meeting in which you assured me thatyour\nOffice would not ... contact any of the ide\nindividuals, potential witnesses, or po\n\nclaimants\n\nand their respective counsel in thi\nMarra quoted an equally ple\n\nthen-Palm Beach\n\nCounty State Attorney B\n\ncher sent to Assistant U.S.\n\nAttorney\n\nVill\n\nwas the lead prosecutor in\n\nEpstein's case.\n\nuld get this worked out for\n\nreasons I wo\n\nting,\" Krischer wrote, shortly\n\nafter the non-p\n\ncution agreement was signed. \"After this\n\nis resolved I would love to buy you a cup at Starbucks and\nly\n\n+\n\na conversation.\"\ny of the notes that were exchanged dealt with\n\nprosecutors' and Epstein's lawyers' shared desire to keep the\ndeal secret from Epstein's accusers. In a September email,\nVillafana asked Lefkowitz for guidance about what she\nshould reveal. \"And can we have a conference call to discuss\nwhat I may disclose to ... the girls regarding the\nAgreement,\" she asked.\n\nEFTA02732614\n\n\f", "char_count": 1561}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 89, "text_content": "Such cooperation between prosecutors and defense\nattorneys is unusual, Marra said. \"It was a deviation from\nthe government's standard practice to negotiate with\ndefense counsel about the extent of crime victim\nnotifications,\" he wrote.\nFurther, he noted, that when\n\nand his two young\n\nclients asked for information, they were repeatedly misled.\n\"The CRVA was designed to protect victims' right and\nensure their involvement in the criminal justice process,\"\nMarra wrote. \"When the government gives information to Aft,\nvictims it cannot be misleading.\"\nUltimately, the terms of the non-prosecution agre\nwere revealed only after\nand attorneys f 14/ 1.0'\npress successfully sued to make them publ'\njmusgrave@pbpost.com\n\"S\n\n)\n\n@pbpcourts\n\nEFTA02732615\n\n\f", "char_count": 749}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 90, "text_content": "76 / 278 - Tuesday, July 9, 2019\nEdition: Final\nSection: A Section\nPage: 1A\nSource: By Jane Musgrave, The Palm Beach Post\n\nEpstein indicted on sex charges\nPart-time Palm Beadier pleads not guilty to\ntrafficking, conspiracy charges in federal c\nManhattan\nDressed in a blue prison jumpsuit, billionaire Jeffrey Epstein on\npleaded not guilty\nto charges accusing him of creating a vast network of girls ps y\nas 14 that he exploited\nfor his sexual pleasure at his homes in Palm Beach and Ranh\nThe 66-year-old money manager's appearance in U.S.\ntrick LFourt in New York City\ncapped more than a decade of recriminations by y\nomen and their attorneys who\nclaimed Epstein used his money and political i\navoid federal prosecution.\nEpstein's attorney Reid Weingarten dismisse\nunt indictment on sex trafficking\ncharges as \"essentially a do-over\" of alleg\nended Epstein in the Palm Beach\nCounty Jail for 13 months more than a\no.\nHowever, unlike in 2007 when then;\nrids U.S. Attorney Alex Acosta agreed to\nshelve a 53-page federal indictm\nin agreed to plead guilty to two state\nork indicated they aren't willing to deal. Acosta is\nprostitution charges, prosecute,\nnow U.S. labor secretary.\n\"The alleged behavior shocks\nnscience,\" New York City U.S. Attorney Geoffrey\nBerman said at a\nAnd while the charged conduct is from a number of years ago, it\nmorning news con\nis still profoundl\nrtant to many of the alleged victims, now young women. They\ndeserve their\nAt a deten\ng scheduled for Monday, Berman said he will ask a federal judge to\nkeep Este\nd bars until he is tried on charges of sex trafficking and conspiracy to\ncommit\neking. Epstein paid dozens of young women to give him nude massages\nthat, for m t, led to sex, he said.\nIf convicted of exploitislozens of young women, including many Palm Beach County girls\nwho were students at =I Palm Beach High School, Epstein faces a maximum 45-year\nprison sentence.\nCiting Epstein's enormous wealth, his homes in New York, Palm Beach, the U.S. Virgin\nIslands, New Me\n... [truncated, 2179 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/90 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=90]", "char_count": 2179}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 91, "text_content": "\"We think he's a significant flight risk,\" Berman said of the man who ferried Britain's Prince\nAndrew, actor Kevin Spacey, famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz and former\nPresident Bill Clinton on his jet, dubbed the Lolita Express.\nBerman's hard-line stance was welcomed by young women who for years have been told that\nEpstein couldn't be touched because Acosta signed off on the nonprosecution agreement,\npromising not to charge Epstein in federal court.\nFormer Palm Beach County resident Virginia Guiffre, who has accused Epstein of turning\nher into his sex slave and forcing her to have sex with others, including Dershowitz and\nPrince Andrew, praised Berman. He showed the case is \"being taken in a serious ay,\" she\ntold the Associated Press. Dershowitz has vehemently denied Guiffre's claims.\ntt nt\nNew York prosecutors were able to ignore the controversial nonprosecutio\nCassell, who\nbecause it contained some significant fine print, said former federal Judie\ncould be\nfor years has fought to get the agreement thrown out. It says only that\nfiled against Epstein in South Florida, he said.\nSouthern District of\nBerman agreed. \"That agreement only binds, by its terms, only b\nat agreement and\nFlorida,\" he said. \"The Southern District of New York is not min\nwasn't a signatory of it.\"\nin for years are now part of\nThat means the sordid allegations that have been leveleOE\na federal indictment.\nContrary to Epstein's claims, he knew the women\nt\n,\nto his homes in New York and\ng , according to the indictment.\nPalm Beach were minors because they told h'\nere \"vulnerable to exploitation,\"\nEpstein preyed on young girls because he\nprosecutors added.\nAs part of a carefully orchestrated sex\nEp in or his associates would call girls while\nhe was in New York so they would\ne for sex once he returned to Palm Beach, the\ned. They were identified only as \"Employee-1,\"\nindictment says. The employees\n\"Employee-2\" and \"Employ\nTo ensure he had a steady str\no oung girls, Epstein would turn some vic\n... [truncated, 3187 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/91 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=91]", "char_count": 3187}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 92, "text_content": "U.S. District Judge Kenenth Marra has already ruled that Acosta violated the federal Crime\nVictims' Rights Act by not telling Epstein's victims about the agreement before it was inked.\nCoincidentally, Cassell and Epstein attorney Roy Black had to file papers by midnight\nMonday, explaining what action Marra should take to redress that wrong.\nCassell insisted Epstein should face charges in federal court in West Palm Beach. \"Florida\nvictims deserve justice in Floridi,tidCassell, who is working on behalf of Epstein's\nand Jack Scarola.\nvictims with attorneys\nSince it's likely Florida women will get to testify against Epstein in New York, Scarola said\nhe's not focused on whether Epstein will face charges here. Instead, he said he was to know\nhow and why the agreement was reached.\n\"There's been no explanation as to how a deal like this could have been cut\nfederal government could have been involved in a conspiracy to violate f e law,\" Scarola\nsaid of his interest in continuing the legal battle over the nonprosecutio\nent.\nWhen Acosta agreed to drop the federal investigation, Epstein in 2\nguilty to two\nprostitution charges and served 13 months of an 18-month senten m a avant wing of the\nPalm Beach County Jail - a cell he was allowed to leave 12 h\n, six days a week. He\nwas also forced to register as a sex offender and settle civi\nmore than 30 young\nwomen filed against him.\nU.S. Rep. Lois Frankel, D-West Palm Beach, said\ns\ncarola's interest in finding out\nhow the agreement came to be.\"I am especially\ned in why Epstein got the deal\nhe got,\" Frankel said. \"We need to know why m'\nn such an easy sentence.\nWhile she has asked the House Oversight\ninvestigate Acosta, Frankel said she\nis not sure that will happen. \"It just seems\nit as a travesty that this guy got off the\nway he did and, without pre-judging i\nha a proper court case,\" Frankel said.\nFormer Palm Beach Police Chief\nter was inflamed in 2006 when then-State\nAttorney Barry Krischer refused\npstein with serious crimes. Reiter t\n... [truncated, 3262 chars — for the full page use /api/corpus/document/EFTA02732526/92 or ?id=EFTA02732526&page=92]", "char_count": 3262}, {"efta_number": "EFTA02732526", "page_number": 93, "text_content": "\"If you believe you are a victim of this man, Jeffrey Epstein, we want to hear from you,\"\nBerman said. A special number, 1-800-CALLFBI, will link victims of authorities.\nBill Sweeney, assistant director of the FBI's New York office, said after years of being\nignored by federal agents, the victims' voices will be heard.\n\"The Jeffrey Epstein matter is No. 1 on the major case list in the country,\" Sweeney said.\nTurning to address Epstein's victims directly, he said: \"Your bravery may empower others to\nspeak out against crimes against them.\"\njmusgrave@pbpost.com\n\nEFTA02732619\n\n.1\n\n\f", "char_count": 585}]}