EFTA00191347 Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 247-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/02/2014 22 Page 19 of Page 1 # 7 of 11 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2009 ProQuest Information and Learning All Rights Reserved ProQuest SuperText Copyright 2009 Palm Beach Post Palm Beach Daily News June 25, 2009 Thursday Final Edition SECTION: A SECTION; Pg. A.1 LENGTH: 557 words HEADLINE: JUDGE TO RULE ON SEALED PLEA-DEAL PAPERS TODAY BYLINE: MICHELE DARGAN, MICHELE DARGAN, Daily News Staff Writer ## BODY: A circuit judge will decide today whether the public will be privy to the federal government's non-prosecution deal with Jeffrey Epstein, which was sealed when the convicted sex offender pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two felony counts. Epstein, of Palm Beach, will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade July 22, after serving less than 13 months of his 18-month sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, confirmed his release date Tuesday. Epstein's projected release date had been Sept. 24, but gain time -- which includes his participation in a work-release program -- moves the date up to July 22, Barbera said. Epstein, 56, has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, in which he is allowed out of the stockade six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., to go to his West Palm Beach office, the Florida Science Foundation, monitored by an ankle bracelet and accompanied by a deputy. As part of Epstein's state plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office agreed not to prosecute Epstein on federal charges as long as he fulfills all requirements of his sentence and probation. The federal non-prosecution agreement has been under seal in state court. Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger filed court papers asking that the documents stay sealed for the following reasons: "to prevent a serious imminent threat to the fair, impartial and orderly administration of justice; to protect a compelling government interest; to avoid substantial injury to innocent third parties and to avoid substantial injury to a party by disclosure of matters protected by a common law and privacy right, not generally inherent in these specific type of proceedings, sought to be closed." Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards represents three Epstein victims and has asked Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to unseal the federal agreement to the public. An attorney for The Palm Beach Post also has asked that the records be unsealed. Edwards and his clients have seen the agreement after a federal judge ruled that they are allowed to see it. But that ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. Edwards said he wants to use that document "in the deposition of various material witnesses" relative to his cases. EFTA00191348 Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 247-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/02/2014 Page 20 of 22 Page 2 # JUDGE TO RULE ON SEALED PLEA-DEAL PAPERS TODAY Palm Beach Daily News June 25, 2009 Thursday Radaronline.com has reported that Epstein has "secretly been helping the feds unravel a Ponzi scheme" related to the June 2008 indictment of two former managers of Bear Stearns Mortgage Investment Fund. Epstein's rep, Howard Rubenstein, confirmed last year that Epstein is "Major Investor No. 1" in the indictment, which says he lost about $57 million. Goldberger could not be reached for comment. The Manhattan money manager has been incarcerated since June 30, when he pleaded guilty to the two felony counts. As part of the plea agreement, Epstein must serve one year of house arrest after his release and register as a lifelong sex offender. In addition to the criminal case, there are more than a dozen civil lawsuits -- both state and federal -- pending against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: Epstein, through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home on El Brillo Way for erotic massages and sometimes sex. -- mdargan@pbdailynews.com GRAPHIC: Caption: Epstein To be released from jail July 22. LOAD-DATE: September 1, 2010 EFTA00191349 Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 247-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/02/2014 22 Page 21 of Page 1 # 9 of 13 DOCUMENTS Copyright 2009 Sun-Sentinel Company All Rights Reserved Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) June 15, 2009 Monday Palm Beach Edition SECTION: LOCAL; Pg. 3B LENGTH: 348 words **HEADLINE:** HEARING SET TO CONSIDER SECRECY OF PLEA BARGAIN BYLINE: Susan Spencer-Wendell The Palm Beach Post ## BODY: A Palm Beach Circuit Court judge will not immediately unseal a deal that wealthy Palm Beach money manager Jeffrey Epstein made with federal prosecutors to avoid charges. Circuit Judge Jeff Colbath acknowledged, though, at a hearing last week that Epstein's deal was not sealed in accordance with state and local court rules. "I don't see where any of the procedures were ever followed to begin with," Colbath said. Colbath also set a full hearing on the matter for June 25. Attorneys for young women now suing Epstein, together with The Palm Beach Post, are asking Colbath to unseal the deal that Epstein made with federal prosecutors. "It's a secret agreement, a secret sweetheart agreement," said former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, who represents some of the women. "Everybody was in on this deal except the victims and the public. The public should be outraged it has gone as far as it has." Brad Edwards, a second attorney representing the women, has seen the sealed deal after a federal judge allowed him and his clients to view it, but would not discuss its contents. Edwards would say only that the women were "outraged" that it had been negotiated behind their backs. A reporter asked Edwards whether he thought Epstein received special treatment by federal prosecutors. "Are you kidding? It's transparent. Certainly, no one else gets treated like that," Edwards said. Epstein, 56, a reported money manager of billionaires, is serving an 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County Stockade after pleading guilty almost a year ago in state court to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. Epstein is allowed out, though, each day from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., a Sheriff's Office spokesman said. Displeased with the way the State Attorney's Office handled the case, Palm Beach police forwarded information to the FBI. INFORMATIONAL BOX: Young women have sued EFTA00191350 Case 9:08-cv-80736-KAM Document 247-2 Entered on FLSD Docket 05/02/2014 Page 22 of Page 2 HEARING SET TO CONSIDER SECRECY OF PLEA BARGAIN Sun-Sentinel (Fort Lauderdale, Florida) June 15, 2009 Monday Money manager Jeffrey Epstein made a deal and is serving an 18-month sentence in jail. Attorneys for young women suing Epstein are asking a judge to unseal the deal that Epstein made with federal prosecutors. NOTES: < Informational box at end of text. {TOPIC} Prostitution solicitation case LOAD-DATE: June 15, 2009