State of Florida v. Jeffrey E. Epstein — Palm Beach County Case No. 50-2008-CF-009381-AXX-MB

Case No. 50-2008-CF-009381-AXX-MB was filed in the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida on June 26, 2008, four days before the negotiated plea conference, charging the defendant by Information with a single count of "Procurement of Person Under 18 for Prostitution" (a second-degree felony under Florida Statute Chapter 796) (EFTA00188561, EFTA00221399). The case was assigned to Criminal Division "W," the same division as the long-pending companion case 50-2006-CF-009454-AXX-MB. Defense counsel were Jack A. Goldberger of Atterbury, Goldberger & Weiss, P.A. and, on the federal-NPA side, Roy Black of Black, Srebnick, Kornspan & Stumpf, P.A.; the State was represented by Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek under State Attorney Barry E. Krischer (EFTA00178147, EFTA00183038).

On June 30, 2008 the defendant appeared before retired Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo, who was sitting in Division "W" for permanent Judge Sandra K. McSorley, and entered a negotiated guilty plea on the consolidated state cases. The plea conference transcript (EFTA00178147) records the appearances, the colloquy, and the sentence: twelve months in the Palm Beach County Detention Facility on case 06CF9454-AMB, followed by a consecutive six months in this case (08-9381-CFAMB), with a one-year period of community control beginning only after the two jail sentences had been served. The Order of Community Control specific to case 2008CF009381A was signed eighteen days later, on July 18, 2008, by Judge McSorley nunc pro tunc to June 30, 2008, after the parties realized the substitute judge had not signed an Order of Community Control at the plea hearing (EFTA00216007, EFTA00221399). A subsequent agreed order corrected scrivener's errors and deleted Special Conditions #26 and #27 — a docket entry that later drew scrutiny from the U.S. Attorney's Office (EFTA00014175, EFTA00214055).

During the eighteen-month custodial period, Epstein was admitted to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office work-release program. On November 24, 2008 Assistant U.S. Attorney A. Marie Villafaña wrote Roy Black taking the position that work-release participation — and the practice of Epstein paying off-duty Sheriff's Deputies to guard him while he "worked" at a private office — was a material breach of the Non-Prosecution Agreement, which had specified consecutive twelve- and six-month "county jail" sentences (EFTA00192625, EFTA00223149). The corpus also documents Florida Department of Corrections records for case 502008CF009381 reflecting the cost-of-supervision schedule, drug-testing surcharge, and supervision begin date of July 22, 2009 under Lake Worth probation officer Carmen Sloane (EFTA00181807). On July 21, 2010 the Florida Department of Corrections issued a Termination of Supervision letter to Epstein at 358 El Brillo Way, formally closing the state supervision (EFTA00601913).

The 2008 case was also a vehicle for the 2009 public-records litigation that pried portions of the federal Non-Prosecution Agreement into the open: the Fourth District Court of Appeal's per curiam opinion in 4D09-2554 lists both 502006CF009454AXXMB and 502008CF009381AXXMB as the trial-court case numbers under review (EFTA00721990, EFTA00724596). The unsealed materials and ensuing CVRA litigation (Doe v. United States, S.D. Fla. 08-cv-80736) are reflected in the corpus through Judge Marra's August 21, 2008 Order to Compel Production of the Non-Prosecution Agreement (EFTA00183868).

The corpus carries 51 EFTA-stamped documents and 69 emails linked to Palm Beach County case 502008CF009381, drawn principally from DOJ datasets 8, 9, and 10 of the January 2026 EFTA release, with cross-stamped copies bearing SDNY_GM and DB-SDNY Bates numbers (EFTA01255158, EFTA01256987, EFTA01296720) showing the same Florida-state filings were re-produced in 2019-2021 federal proceedings against Ghislaine Maxwell and Deutsche Bank. The sampled documents fall into four clusters.

First, the dispositive plea record: the 212-page June 30, 2008 plea conference transcript before Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo (EFTA00178147) and the 128-page sentencing-portion transcript before Judge Jeffrey J. Colbath (EFTA00180735) record the negotiated disposition; the 49- and 39-page plea-agreement compilations (EFTA00183038, EFTA00223149) and the 45-page draft (EFTA00192625) preserve the underlying Non-Prosecution Agreement-linked terms. Second, the supervision file: the Order of Community Control specific to case 2008CF009381 (EFTA00221399, EFTA00221496), the December 2009 Motion to Clarify Sentence to Correct Scrivener's Error filed by Goldberger explaining the substitute-judge sequence (EFTA00216007), the Florida Department of Corrections offender financial-obligation records and cost-of-supervision schedule under Officer Carmen Sloane (EFTA00181807), and the July 21, 2010 Termination of Supervision letter from FDOC to 358 El Brillo Way (EFTA00601913). Third, the contemporaneous federal correspondence: the November 24, 2008 letter from AUSA Villafaña to Roy Black declaring work-release participation a material breach of the NPA (EFTA00192625, EFTA00223149); the June 12, 2009 letter from the U.S. Attorney's Office to Goldberger declaring an additional NPA breach based on Epstein's Motion to Dismiss in Doe No. 101 v. Epstein (EFTA00230786); July 21-22, 2011 letters from Martin G. Weinberg, P.C. and Roy Black objecting to disclosure of the NPA and witness/victim list to the Manhattan District Attorney's office (EFTA00181217); and the August 4, 2009 internal AUSA email (Villafaña to Sloman) flagging "Docket entry 7 in the procurement of child prostitution case" — the agreed order deleting Special Conditions #26 and #27 — along with concerns that Epstein was claiming Madoff-cooperation credit (EFTA00014175, EFTA00214055). Fourth, the unsealing-litigation paper trail: Judge Marra's August 21, 2008 Order to Compel Production and Protective Order in the CVRA action (EFTA00183868); the June 30, 2009 hand-delivery letter from appellate counsel Jane Kreusler-Walsh to Judge Colbath enclosing Epstein's Emergency Petition for Writ of Certiorari (EFTA00180621); the Palm Beach Post editorial "Unseal the Epstein deal" preserved in the docket (EFTA00183935); the Fourth DCA's per curiam opinion (EFTA00724596) and mandate (EFTA00721990); and the July 3, 2008 letter from victims' counsel Brad Edwards and Jay Howell to the U.S. Attorney's Office urging federal prosecution despite the just-entered state plea (EFTA00233329). The corpus does not contain the 2008 charging Information itself in unredacted form, the State Attorney's Office's internal charging memoranda, or the full sealed exhibit set; one large item linked to this case (EFTA00101560) is a 318-page commercial due-diligence report on the defendant rather than a court filing.