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Jeffrey Epstein to agree to plea in prostitution case Part-time Palm Beach resident to trade 18 months in prison, house arrest for end to federal probe.
By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer
Friday, December 14, 2007
Money manager and part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled to go before a judge Jan. 4 for a plea hearing in his felony prostitution case.
The hearing will be before Circuit Judge Sandra McSorley, the court docket shows.
Sources have confirmed that the deal will result in the Manhattan money manager serving 18 months in prison followed by house arrest.
In exchange for a guilty plea, federal authorities are expected to drop their probe into whether Epstein broke federal laws, the sources said.
Epstein, 54, was indicted in July 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution.
The charge capped an 11-month investigation by Palm Beach police that began after a woman told police that her 14-year-old stepdaughter might have been molested by a man in Palm Beach.
Police said Epstein paid five underage girls for massages and sometimes sex at his El Brillo Way home.
(enlarge photo) Money manager Jeffrey Epstein accused of paying underage girls for massages, sometimes sex at his home on El Brillo Way.
Investigators watched Epstein's 7,234-square-foot waterfront home and private jet, and rummaged through his trash to build their case.
They took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses.
The investigation also focused on Epstein's assistant, of New York City, and
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Neither nor was charged.
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By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, July 01, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH — A lawyer for financier Jeffrey Epstein have filed an emergency request with Fourth District of Appeal seeking to block the unsealing of Epstein's secret non-prosecution agreement with United States Attorney's Office.
A circuit judge has ordered the release of the documents at noon on Thursday.
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Share This Story Attorneys for women now suing Epstein, together with an attorney for The Palm Beach Post, have pressed for the public release of Epstein's deal with federal prosecutors, arguing the public has right to see it and the victims have a right to use it in their litigation.
Epstein pleaded guilty in state court a year ago to solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. He was sentenced to 18 months incarceration, which is due to end five months early on July 22.
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His plea followed investigations by both state and federal authorities of accounts of teenage girls brought to the money manager's Palm Beach manse for massages and sexual encounters.
At the time of his plea, his secret deal with federal prosecutors to avoid charges by them was sealed and placed in his court file without following court rules that govern sealing.
The seven-page agreement - which Epstein's own attorneys have referred to in federal filings as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual" - promises a behind-the-scenes look at justice for Epstein who, according to Vanity Fair, hobnobbed with the likes of Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton, as he managed accounts for billionaires.
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#### MARJORIE A. McKINLEY
Age 84, aped away peacefully at home June 2009, with family by her side. Marge. Bucyvvs OM, resided in Palm Beach County since 1971. She Ned careen in Untwist lembrig, and was music secretary at First Baptist Clutch. West Palm Beach for I? work n addition to raising five children. She enjoyed crafting, quilting, reeding and doing crossword puzzles. Marge was • aura of endless bee, calm endear:at for her family, friends and anyone who met her. One of her many gifts was her ability to keep Illes vos and downs in perspective. "v
She is survival by • sew. Rosemary Cowan; five children, William. Barry John, Susan (Chuck). David (Yvette ; grandchildin, Megan. Emily. Dula Carly, Cody. Sarah, Sophie. Amends. Jade. Olivia: beloved niece, Jeanne Bevis. She will also be missed by her 'maul dog Take
Manama services rill be 1000 AM Saturday, June 27 at Christ Fellowship. South Campus, Wraithlike Blvd. Pan Beech Garden.. Donative May he made to Hospice of Pea Beach County.
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#### JAMES H. BRODERICK
James II. Broderick. 72 year. old. of West Palm Beath. FL died at his home on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. Born in Yonkers. NY, Mr. Broderick had a promising athletic future until he contorted Polio in 1954. He graduated from the University of Miami Cless of 1961 444VFW being a mina.. of the HurricaneBoosters C ub. Mr. Broderick subsectiendy moved to West NM wadi. and in mite of his physical challenges, leved :ti ns. coaching baseball. and t ' his ferrety. He worked as a Stock Broker in Palm Beach for over 10 yeas; and was instrumental in mtamil/INLIM Kral Lague Baseball Dation MPh ti e Pak
He 11 Survived by hit wile of_46 won. Law &Stria of West PahnSea.M. FL; three children, Terry Broderick end ha wile( Patti of Le•Wwg, VA; Danny Broderick and hi, wife. Mere. of Fe Nov GA. and Colleen Broderick of tiei efryCiln eight greachildren. T nl. n, NveandChresorci. and Ashley, Cwolins, and Jacqueline; • brother, Ames May end • ester, Noel Alm. both a W.
A Memorial Service in celebration of Mr. Broderick's life all be held at 6:30 PM on Friday Jun\* 26 M at OvQuattlebaumNon) Haws, 12,201 South Olive Avenue. West Poem Beach, FL 33401 The lanes, will receive Needs at the funeral home on Friday. from 5.00 PM until the time of Service. In lieu of IlOwerl. COhUilautons may be made In his memory to Hospce of Palm Beech County 5300 East Avenue. West Palm Beech. A 33407.
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Saul Diaz. 18. York ynton Beach and formerly of Now C ended kis He's journey On Anne 25, 2009.
Saul was predeceased by his daughter. Lynn. end brothers. Beale end Enoch He n survived by his wife. Edith: stepchildren, Luis and Karen, eight grandchildren; sera greet-grenildsldrim. and his brother. Noe - ell who take comfort in the memories they've shared with Sea oar the years
Saul was a Navy man. electrical engineer and Mania candidate with a passion and talent for Marc. Ha was a member of thellerbershoppers of Boynton Beech and Staten Island: and along with ha wife, the aorta, Beach Chocolates. He wee also • proud member of the Boynton /each Police Citizens Ob \*\*\*\*\*\* ion Patrol in his comemnity.
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Trond R. Naton, 5\$. passed are/ Friday, June 19, 2039 after a courageous battle with canter.
A long time resident of Lantana he laves Wanda son. Kristian; two sisters. Elea Watson (Crag) end Inger Lewis (Jess) rd a host of feray and great friends.
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Our Beloved Father Johnnie H. Patiford eras geed to be with tat lord on June 22. 2009 m Boynton Beach, FL. He lams to cherish his denoted chicken. Tracy Watford, Johnnie H. Peafowl and Lenwood •Slen' Pettiford all of Delray Beach, Trinette Piste! ord.ledsome (Calvin) of Boynton Beech. FL. six grandchildren and a host of sorrowing napes and birds.
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Abner Daniel DOM. 71, of Altoona, FL passed away on Thursdoy. Jun\* 21 2009 in Tavares, FL Born in Lyons. G.k he moved to Altoona from SurnewrfieW in 2006. before that Mr. Bigbie hied in West Pan SeeCh. FL. He played footbel for FSU before becoming on Industrial Artsteacher and comb fora years
He is lierv,v sal by hit wife: Pam. Altoona. FL sons Abner Bight Jr.. West Palm Beech, FL and Michael Stable Tallahassa. FL brothers: Donnie Bight. West Palm Beach FL Charlie Biro, IrefiCOle Heights. FL, aid Sammy Bight Lim Oak, FL sista Evelyn Peoples West P•kn Beau FL thragrirdWaren.
A celebration of Meal be held 2 FM. Tuesday. June 30, 2009 et Littering Terrace. Altoona, FL. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to CURE PSP. Society for Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Executive Plaza III, 11350 McCormick Road. Ste 906. Hunt Volley. Bewn MD 2103u eral Horn& 1 or your Ufma avorite charity. Fnlla.
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She men maned to leo Simon for Knelt 69 years and raised two sons, Howard and Steven. who veal be in her debt forever. She worked as a clerk for the New York Public Library. In adcktion to her husband and sons, the is survived by deughter.in.lart Sharon Lutz, four sisters, Pane, Mn. Celia end Laken, Ova nephews, two nieces end many other retains and friends.
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The financier's accusers want the case unsealed to use in litigation against the Palm Beadier
By SUSAN SPENCER—WENDEL Pabst Beach Paul Ste Writer
IVENI PALM BEACH — A judge on Friday declined to suspend his ruling to unseal financier Jeffrey Epstein's secret non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors, but delayed the document's release until Thursday.
The delay gives Epstein's attorneys time to challenge the ruling in the 4th District Court of Appeal.
"We'll let the appellate court tell us, teach us what the law in this case will be," Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath said.
Epstein's attorneys Jack Goldberger and Robert Critton argued that release of the confidential document would violate a federal rule restricting release of information about federal grand juries and would also cause Epstein irreparable harm.
"If the proverbial horse is out of the barn. you can't get him back in, Critton argued.
Attorneys for women now suing Epstein. together with an attorney for
The Palm Reath PS, had asked Colbath to release the deal, arguing the publk has right to see it and the victims have a right to
use it in their litigation. Epstein pleaded guilty in state court nearly a year ago to solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution and was sentenced to 18
#### AREA DEATHS
Palm Beach County
Aaitonen, Rose Mane, 83, of Lake Worth, died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Bolley, Luther Ray, 58, of Greenacres, died Wednesday Service in Michigan.
Carmadello,Alleen M., 50, of Boca Raton. died Thursday. Neptune Society Pompano Beach.
Esposito, Dana Susan, 50. of Palm Beach Gardens, died Feb. 9. All County Funeral Home and Crematory. Stuart. Service today.
Gast Tina, of Lake Worth, died Thursday. Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach.
Germinal, Marie A., of Lake Worth, died June 16. Rubin Memorial Chapel. Boynton Beach.
Madeline P.. 76, of West Palm Beach, dierl Sunday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory Lake Worth.
Leaphart, Nina Kate, 96, of Royal Palm Beach, died Thursday. Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory. Royal Palm Beach. Service in South Carolina.
Martin, Margaret Z..7.4. of Atlantis, died Vli'ednilsday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, lake
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Nancy passed away quietly alter an k napected illness. She graduated from Forest Hill High School in 1963. and maned her high school emietwart Jack Daniel. They recently celebrated their 45th weddltit anniversary. Her family moved I dueDlando area in 1916 She was • long time empayers at Jecobsons and Plods where she lied working in the dacha's dept She was also as rod tennis player en smearing cook and estnenmly dedicated to her family and friends. Nancy is preceded In death by Mr father. &Heed (Carl) Zeamann and her step father James E. Gamer.
She is survived by her Dying and devoted husband, John lard) Richard Daniel II, three beautiful caldron, Katie
ZEILMANN DANIEL McCloskey, Edward, 77, of Boynton Beach, died Thursday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Denial O'Brien (babe/a Brian) of North Palm Beach, Michael Daniel and Kelli Donald Altamonte Springs; her mother Debris Garner of Pam Beech Gardens FL: and two sisters Susie G S burger ()wawa Bay) of Santa Fe, NM, Genre Garner Van Semen of North Palm Beach; and sister-Inaw,= oof and brotheth-law, Joe West Palm Beach. Nancy we blessed with three grandchildren. CJ Lyons. and Brian and &Nana G leen, nieces and nephews. Stacy and David Berton of North Palm Beach. Steve end Cory Svassburger of Los Angeles. CA and EM and Aced ran Bostic NC: she hen one grandniece. Kendall Barton or North Perm Beech
Services will be had it Mitell.Fmale. Zern Funeral Home & Milkiest Memorial Park Cemetery on Sunday, Jun\* 28 at 300PM. In lieu of flowers, the family requests • donation be made to Hospice of the Comforter, 410 W. Central Partway, Mtwara Springs. FL 32714. in memory of Nancy Dana.
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Meisel, Edith, 88, of Boca Raton, died Wednesday. Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach.
Owns, John Robert, 65, of West Palm Beach, died Wednesday. Quattlebaum Funeral Home, West Palm
Beach. Service Thesday.
Pacelfl, Americo George, 96. of Boynton Beach. died Friday Scobee-Combs-Bowden Funeral Home and Crematory, Boynton Beach. Funeral Monday.
Palmieri, Theresa, 92, of West Palm Beach, died Thursday. Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Funeral in Rhode Island.
Rau, Lothar F., 59, of Lake Park, died Monday. Northwood Funeral Home
and Crematory, West Palm Beach.
Robinson, Hervine, 72, of Boynton Beach. died Monday. Shuler's Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach. Service today.
Vaherds, Udla P., 79, of Lake Worth. died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Whkefield, Amy B., 91, of Lake Worth. died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory Lake Worth.
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Ades,VIolette, 92, of Palm City, died Thursday. Forest Hills Funeral Home, Palm City- Service Sunday.
Defenthaler, Donald, 77, of Jensen Beach, died Tuesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory. Stu.
art. Service Monday. St. Lucie County Cuoco, Eleanor T., 73,
of Port St. Lucie, died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory. Stuart.
Hite, Jane E., 75. of Port St. Lucie, died Thursday. Yates Funeral Home and Crematory, Port St. Lucie.
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Martin County and the City of Stuart Utilities will temporarily change their method of chlorinating potable water to insure the future safety of the water. The Utilities water users may notice an unusual chlorine taste or odor in their tap water during the period of June 28, 2009 through July 12, 2009.
These temporary conditions will not be harmful to your health; however, if you are on kidney dialysis, you should consult your physician for special instructions concerning this matter. If you have tropical fish or aquatic animals, you should contact your local tropical fish store for advice and take appropriate action to insure that you have properly treated the water before adding it to your aquarium.
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We sincerely regret any inconvenience you may experience during this time. Please keep in mind that this is necessary to provide safe water for the customers of the Area Utilities water systems.
For more information contact Martin County Utilities, Merle Stokes at 221-1442; or the City of Stuart, Jim Parks at 288-5343. Thank you for your cooperation. PUB: The Palm Beach Post, June 27, 2009
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His plea followed investigations by state and federal authorities checking accounts of teenage girls brought to Epstein's Palm Beach manse for massages and sexual encounters.
At the time of his plea, his secret deal with federal prosecutors under which he would not be charged by them was sealed even though court rules on sealing were not followed.
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began holding monthly crime-watch meetings in May after Emma Bates returned from a trip to the Bahamas to find her television, computer and .38-caliber Colt pistol missing from her home on West 26th Street. Burglars came in through her back door by chipping away the wood around the door lock.
Verdina Coleman was late to the crime-watch meeting of June 11 because the window of her home on 26th Street had been mashed that morning while she was at work. Coleman was lucky. A neighbor saw the 11:30 a.m. break-in and called 911. Police recovered her stolen video camera and arrested four young men.
Riviera Beach Mice Cmdr. Michael Madden praised the crime-watch group for working together and for keeping a keen eye on the neighborhood. especially during the day when many homeowners are working
"I have a hard-working group of detectives," Madden told them. If we can get them the information, they'll run through walls to
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Juvenile burglars can be back on the streets the day after being charged and booked, Madden said. That's one reason vigilance is so important in Monroe Heights.
Madden told residents to call the police department's non-emergency number to report unusual cars or people wandering the neighborhood, any! thing out of .the ordinary. He told them to call 911 if they see a crime in progress and to ask strangers their names to show that they're paying attention.
The police department's District 2 Insider newsletter advises residents to report violations of the city's curfew, which requires youths under 18 to be off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 12:01 a.m. until 6 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
Madden also recom-
mends that burglary victims go to court to plead their cases as victims before the judge.
Bates, who has lived in her home for more than 30 years, vowed to fight the burglars as long as it takes to stop them.
"I can't sleep without a weapon," said Bates "We've got to band together and fight these criminals."
## Show not over at Caldwell, chief says
#### By KEVIN D. THOMPSON Palm Beach Port Stall Writer
BOCA RATON — Its not a great time to be in the theater business.
Just ask Clive Cholerton, the Caldwell Theatre Company's newly appointed artistic director.
There have been whispers in the local theater community that the Caldwell owes money to vendors, is two months behind in mortgage payments and has not been managed effectively.
He said Friday that the Caldwell's woes have been greatly exaggerated. As for owing money to vendors or falling behind in mortgage payments. Cholerton would only say, "We're working with our vendors and the bank. Were doing everything to keep ourselves current and
there are no plans for a foreclosure? Cholerton replaced Michael Hall. the Caldwell's co-founder, on June 1. Cholerton joined the Boca Raton-
based theater six years ago and has been its chairman of the board the past four. To address its financial problems,
Cholerton said the Caldwell plans to trim \$250,000 from its \$1.9 million operating budget this year.
Recently all the theater's executives took a 50 percent pay cut. Two staffers left and three board members quit.
'lb reduce expenses, the theater will cut down on warehouse space and no longer finance apartments to house actors.
Cholerton said next season 95 percent of the actors the company hires will be local.
Despite the numerous challenges, Cholerton is bullish on the Caldwell's immediate future.
"We can get this turned around," he said. "We're working on having a
great summer and having a great
next year."
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#### By PAUL QUINLAN Palm heath Post St¢q Writer
Palm Beach County's real estate values will continue to fall next year by 10 percent or more, say county leaders, who estimate the deeper slide will open up a \$110 million budget gap in 2011.
The prospect of another gaping budget hole — this one, about 10 percent of the county's \$1.1 billion operating budget — will likely require a fundamental rethinking of what services the county government should provide and at what cost to taxpayers already grappling with double-digit unemployment amid the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Even as residential real estate shows signs of recovery, commercial property values, which had shown some resilience, are now plunging further, Property Appraiser Gary Nikolits said. He predicted a lagging commercial real estate decline would at least offset any slowing or stabilizing of residential values.
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## Riviera Beach residents rally to battle crime
Monroe Heights neighbors take to the streets after a surge in burglaries.
#### By WILLIE HOWARD Palm heads Post SteeRstty
RIVIERA BEACH — "No more breakins, no more crime," Amon Yisrael repeated on the loudspeaker of a police cruiser as Monroe Heights residents walked slowly down West 26th Court with Mawr Thomas Masters carrying signs reading No Violence on My Block.
"Enough is enough," Yisrael said. "The law will be strictly enforced."
Thursday night's walk against crime was one of several Masters plans to lead in Monroe Heights as residents fight a recent rash of burglaries.
In Police Service Area 21, which includes Monroe Heights, burglaries spiked to 35 in April. Another 38 break-ins were reported in May, and 19 had been reported for June as of Tuesday.
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Robertson, Florida's minority AIDS coordinator in Palm Beach County, and Rollins, a Tampa minister and photographer, debuted their book at a reception Thursday night. Their hope is to draw more attention to this year's HIV Test Day. to be held today at locations across the county.
To make the test available to as many people as possible, a few test locations will include nighttime hours, such as the Sunset Night Club in West Palm Beach, which will offer testing from midnight tonight until 5 a.m. Sunday.
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## Boca accountant pleads in tax case
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FORT LAUDERDALE — A - wealthy Boca Raton accountant who is the first US. citizen charged in a wide-ranging tax probe of Swiss banking giant UBS AG pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false tax return.
Steven Michael Rubinstein pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in 2004, the U.S Attorney's Office reported.
Rubinstein failed to report UBS income on his returns from 2001 to 2007. the Internal Revenue Service claimed. As part of his plea agreement, Rubinstein agreed to pay a 50 percent penalty for the year with the highest balance in the account as of June 30. That was 2004.
Rubinstein's name was among roughly 300 American account holders turned over to U.S. authorities by UBS in a deal that also required the Swiss bank to pay \$780 million in fines and restitution.
In a separate lawsuit filed in Miami, the IRS was seeking the identities of another 52,000 UBS customers suspected of using bank secrecy to shield assets from US. taxes. UBS is contesting the lawsuit.
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of creating a shell corporation in the British Virgin Islands in 2001 to conceal his ownership of the UBS account, which he then used to finance construction of a multimillion-dollar Florida home, deposit some S2 million in Krugerrand gold coins and make numerous investments.
In all, prosecutors said he hid some \$6 million with UBS.
A message left at the office of his attorney. Robert Panoff, was not immediately returned.
Rubinstein is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 30. He faces a maximum three years in prison. Rubinstein remains free on \$12 milyn bail.
## Competition drives fares out of cities
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a bargain. Chances are some of your favorite spots will be on sale.
Take a closer look at travel Web sites, including the airline sites, that often throw in additional discounts if you enter a specific code usually found in a section for promotional fares. Airline Web sites also offer deals that include hotel and sometimes car rental.
Gabe Saglie, senior editor at travel information Web site "fravelzoo, expects promotions to continue into the summer as people remain hesitant to book far in advance.
"People are definitely becoming more impulse-driven," he said.
If you still want to go somewhere before mid-August, Parsons says buy your tickets now Its unlikely
the deals will get any better. After that it's another story. Parsons says airlines haven't started serious discounting for flights after mid-August, so you might want' to wait to book tickets for then.
Parsons and other travel watchers have noticed that fare hikes have eliminated ultra-cheap tickets to Europe between now and Aug. 17.
Fares out of any particular city are driven mostly by competition to a destination. For instance, Frontier, Southwest and United were already competing vigorously in Denver before the recession. So fares there fell just 1 percent through June 1, according to Bob Harrell of airfaretracking firm Harrell Associates.
Regardless of where you live, it's not too late to get out for the sum- •
mer. For example, AirTran has a fan: sale out of Atlanta. You can fly on Iliesdays and Wednesdays for under \$100 each way to Cancun, Mexico; Fort Myers and Orlando; Minneapolis and Washington. Escape the heat with \$128 fares each way to Seattle.
AirTran aLso has Knoxville, Tenn., to Orlando, flights for S44 and Memphis to Los Angeles for \$119 each way
All tlx: Aiaran sale fares have to be purchased by Tiresday for travel through Nov. 4.
You can fly from Atlanta to do/ ens of cities on Delta Air Lines, for as low as \$49 one-way, if you but your ticket by lbesday
Leisure fares from the South were 12 percent lower than at the same time last year, according to HarrelL
## Savings rate jump makes investors jumpy
#### ► **SAVINGS** from .10B
time payments to people receiving Social Security and other government pension benefits.
"Personal tax cuts and government income support have brought consumers back from the dead, but the recuperation period promises to be a long one," said Sal Guatieri. an economist at BMO Capital Markets.
The big jump in the savings rate also made some Wall tStreet investors nervous. The Dow Jones industrial average lost about 50 points in afternoon trading. Broader indices were mixed.
The stimulus package also featured reductions in payroll tax withholding designed to get people to start spending more money and boost the economy. Those factors helped increase after-tax incomes 1.6 percent in May. How• ever, without the special factors, after-tax incomes would have risen just 0.2 percent.
#### Payroll tax reductions help income rise 1.6 percent in May.
The savings rate, which is a percentage of disposable income, nave to 6.9 percent from 5.6 percent in April. Last month's savings rate was far above recent annual rates, which dipped below 1 percent from 2005 through 2007 as a booming economy and soaring home prices
pushed Americans tt, spend most of what they earned.
Those factors have been reversed amid the longest recession since World War II. Triggered by a housing bust, the downturn has depressed home prices by the largest amounts since the Great Depression.
Still, economists viewed the 0.3 percent rise in spending in May as encouraging after no change in April and a 0.3 percent drop in March.
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## Ritzy trip? It's no day at beach for poor officials
My heart goes out to the Palm Beach County commissioners who have slogged across the state to do the public's business at a luxury resort on Marco Island.
It's not as easy at it seems: You have to get up every morning at a beachfront resort, pull yourself away from the buffet, avert your eyes from the 18-hole golf course. sidestep the spa, and head to a meeting mom for a discussion of plebeian topics, such as public transportation or homelessness.
It's enough to drive you back to your room for the scented soap and the mini-bar.
How easy can it be to focus on the homeless when you're staying in a resort that asks, -Searching fur Paradise?"
Not ideal. Certainly, the fact that taxpayers are ponying up about 810.000 to help pay for the trip to the Marco Island Marriott Reach Resort comes as some solace.
But it's a true test of public see vice, and I'm not talking about the champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries that come with the resort's "escape romance" package.
#### They closerse a break, and a tan
This is no escape for our public servants. It wasn't their idea to take time out from the daily task of finding ways to lay off county workers and grind out a few dollars from an overstretched budget.
They're just part of a Florida Association of Counties gathering. And so it's only fitting that four of our commissioners and some staffers show up.
After all, one of the seminars is on "honest services and public integrity" Not having Palm Beach County public officials at that discussion would be like holding a steroids chat without the teammates of Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds.
So I applaud them. It took a great deal of courage for our county commissioners to go to
this conference, knowing full well that they'd be criticized by commission hopefuls such as Karl Dickey, who has suggested checking them for tan lines when they return.
I mean, c'mon, Karl. Some of that tanning will certainly be warranted. A golf outing is actually part of the schedule, and there may be some accidental tanning during the early moments of the sunset dinner cruise.
#### Fertile ground for Ideas
I think you just need to trust that our commissioners are working hard, instead of imagining the worst, which would be that Commissioners Jeff Koons. Karen Marcus, Steve Abrams and Shelley Vana are there to take advantage of the resort's "fertile turtle package" — a pituitary gland-stimulating couples massage combined with fertilitypromoting aromatherapy and a "special offer for couples who actually conceive during their visit."
Ugh. Now look what you made me do: Ruin everybody's breakfast.
Are you happy? All this distrust of your public officials has led to a visual that will take hours to erase.
So just take a few deep breaths. Calm down. It's no big deal. Our commissioners are just learning how to get by in these tough times by spending a few days at a beachfront resort in Southwest Florida.
It's not as if they've disappeared to Argentina. O frank cerabirt,0099100sf Dom
# Lake Worth High in trouble
Rated one of the state's wont schools, it will be shut down if it doesn't go from a D to a C grade.
#### By LAURA GREEN Polm Beath Post Staff Writer Lake Worth High School was named among the state's worst schools on Thurs-
day The school has performed so poorly under federal standards that it was named one of 17 "intervene" schools, meaning it re quires the state's immediate intervention.
If Lake Wirth High does not improve front the D grade it earned last week to a C next year and come closer to meeting federal standards, it will be shut down.
If that happens, students could be sent to other schools. Or the school could be reopened as a district-managed school, a charter school or even a privately managed school.
Principal Ian Saltzman could not be
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A G-Star School of the Arts student cameraman Marcos Gasc (center) prepares to shoot a scene Thursday.
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#### Palm Beach County school ratings
The level of sanction and support increases with each category, with 'intervene' being the worst.
Prevent I: 33 schools Coned I: 68 schools Prevent II: 11 schools Correct II: 32 schools Intervene: 1 school
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Actors Ron Palillo (left) and Barry Bostwick work a scene Thursday in west Boca Raton for A Dog-Gone Tail: Destiny's Stand.
# G-Star students making movie
The teens work with famous actors and do all the jobs a Hollywood film crew would do.
By LESLIE GRAY STREE7ER Palm Beath Fuji Ste Writer
Since Greg Hauptner founded C-Star School of the Arts six years ago, there have been two feature-length films shot on the Palm Springs campus. tow a third movie shoot has taken up residence at G-Star. but the biggest difference between it and the previous projects is obvious the minute you walk onto the set.
-This crew has a curfew." Hauptner said this week, as 17-year-olds with headsets walked carefully around 15.yearolds scrutinizing the next shot in the foyer of the suburban Boca Raton home where
scenes were being shot. We lose crew members because they say 'My morn's here to pick nit up I gotta go.—
Those teenaged grips, editors. assistant directors and actors have been running around Palm Beach County for two weeks filming A See G-STAR, 5B I\*
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## Appointed or not, Rep. Taylor to seek Greene's seat in 2010
By GEORGE BENNETT Patin Heath net Staff Hinter
WEST PALM BEACH — State Rep. Priscilla Taylor will run for a Palm Beach County Commission seat in 2010 regardless of whether Gov. Charlie Crist appoints her to the now-vacant post this year.
Taylor, D-West Palm Beach, is one of four finalists to replace Addie Greene, who stepped down from the commission April 30 because of health concerns. The governor's appointee will serve through November 2010, when the seat is up for election.
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Greene. who attended Taylor's announcement, said she is disappointed her former seat has been vacant for nearly two months.
"My constituents are now looking at me, blaming me because the See TAYLOR. 48 P.
## Judge agrees to unseal Epstein's sex scandal deal
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Pohl" Heath Post S' Winer
WEST PALM BEACH — A circuit judge agreed Thursday to unseal a deal billionaire Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal prosecutors to avoid their filing of charges in the wake of his sex scandal with underage girls.
Circuit Judge Jeff Colbath said he would not release Epstein's agreement with federal prosecutors until Monday, allowing him time to redact the
Epstein
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torney, immediately asked
fora stay of Colbath's decision to unseal the agreement in order to appeal it. A hearing on that request is set for this morning.
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PALM BEACH GARDENS — Mosquito spraying from trucks is scheduled to begin Wednesday and continue as needed
throughout the city's neighborhoods. The spraying, depending on the weather, will start about an hour before sunset and continue for about two hours after sunset. Palm Beach County also has begun spraying in unincorporated areas. For more information about spraying in the city, go to pbgfl.com. Residents can request spraying in their neighborhood by calling (561) 804- 7000. The Aerial Spray Hotline for the county is (561) 642-8775.
RIVIERA BEACH — Frustrated by the lack of specifics in a revised marina redevelopment plan, the city council Wednesday set a July 22 deadline for Viking Developers LLC and the Community Redevelopment Agency staff to deliver cost estimates and details of land swaps proposed for the redevelopment of the marina and surrounding properties. In September. Viking Developers responded to the city's request for proposals with a \$500 million plan to rebuild the marina, Bicentennial Park and Newcomb Hall as well as adding a parking garage, a hotel, offices, shops and restaurants.
## Riviera budget proposals may result in 40 job cuts
#### By VALUE HOWARD Paint Blare Post Staff 'Warr
RIVIERA BEACH — As many as 40 police officers, firefighters and general employees could lose their jobs under budget-cutting scenarios presented to the city council Thursday.
Because the taxable value of city property is expected to drop 16 percent during the budget year that begins Oct. 1, the city is expected to bring in \$2.5 million less in property tax revenue at the current tax rate of \$8.43 per \$1,000 taxable value.
Revenues from permit fees and other sources also are down.
Under the tightest
budget scenario, with no tax increase, 60 full-time positions would be cut — 14 police officers, 21 firefighters, four commu-
nications officers and 21 general employees. Councilman Shelby Lowe noted that 22 positions are vacant, meaning about 40 employees would be laid off under that sce-
nario. Under a second proposal that calls for increasing the tax rate by 50 cents per S1,000 taxable value, to \$8.93. the city would keep all police and firefighters but would cut 30 full-time positions — about 10 percent of the general employee workforce — and seven parttime positions.
A third scenario that increases the tax rate by S1 per \$1,000 taxable value, to .43, also calls for eliminating 30 full-time and seven part-time positions but takes less money from reserves — about \$500,000 versus \$2 million under the first two scenarios.
All three scenarios presented Thursday call for all employees to take one unpaid day off a month for a savings of \$1 million. All department heads have been told to cut their budgets by 10 percent.
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## Man, 42, faked sleepover to assault girl, 8, cops say
#### By ELIOT KLONBERG Paint Bradt Pas Staff Writer
The 8-year-old said "John" had invited her to a sleepover birthday party for his daughter.
But there was no party or even a daughter. Instead, the girl told authorities, John Henry Peek spent the night sexually assaulting her.
A judge Thursday ordered Peek, 42, of suburban West Palm Beach, held without bail. He is charged with sexual battery on a child under 12, technically a felony punishable by death.
According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report, the victim's
mother said a man she knew only as John invited the girl to a sleepover birthday party for his daughter.
The mother said that when she dropped the girl off on June 16, she saw children playing outside and saw pizza and children's videos inside. The next morning: the woman said, "John" dropped off her (laughter at 6 a.m., saying his girlfriend and daughter had
been in an accident. The woman said the girl told her she wasn't feeling well.
The mother said she saw physical signs of the assault and asked thg girl
about them. She said the girl told her "John" had given her beer, had kissed her and had fondled her.
On Monday, the girl spoke with investigators from the Child Protection .Team. She told them the man "did nasty stuff to me." the report said. She repeated to them what she had told her mother and added that Peek had exposed himself to her.
On Wednesday, the report said. Peek came into the sheriff's office and admitted to investigators that he'd molested the girl, but only at her request. Peek said she had seduced him.
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## Deal reached on school cops' pay
#### By MARC FREEMAN Sun-Sentinel
Negotiators Wednesday reached a tentative agreement on a new threeyear contract for Palm Beach County school police officers.
It includes a salary freeze for all of this year. and the option to reopen negotiations for pay issues for 2010 and 2011.
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The deal, subject to ratification by the officer members of the county Police Benevolent Association, came together after seven months of sporadic
talks between the union and the school district. School bus drivers, secretaries and other employees had already agreed to contracts that did not include raises.
District administrators said budget reductions and the state's weak economy prevented them from offering salary increases.
The police contract includes some new non-salary benefits for the 144 officers on the force. including perfect attendance awards.
## Man arrested in Boca liquor store robbery
By ADAM PLAYFORO Paint Brach Port Staff Hinter
A man was arrested Wednesday and accused of robbing a Boca Raton liquor store in March by smashing through the store's front door with a vehicle and then snatching several bottles of rum, according to Boca
news release, Fabian Vazquez told detectives that he burglarized the ABC Liquor Store at 6998 N. Federal Highway on March 16.
The vehicle, a Mercury Sable, was reported stolen that same day and was lat-
Raton police. cr found in Delray Beach According to a police after a tip from a suspect in an unrelated case, the release said.
That suspect also pointed police toward Vazquez, it said.
Vazquez was charged with burglary and theft.
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## Camp counselor, at least one child get illness on trip
The Jewish Community Center sports camp cut short their Atlanta visit after symptoms showed.
#### By MICHAEL LaFORGIA and LONA O'CONNOR Palm Heath Post Staff Wntert
A camp counselor and at least one child from a suburban Boynton Beach Jewish Community Center sports camp came down with swine flu during a sports trip to Atlanta earher this week, officials said.
"Several children subsequently began exhibiting flu-like symptoms, so we cut short the trip," JCC spokesman Scott Benarde said in a statement Thursday. "The group returned to Boynton Beach on Wednesday."
County health officials now are watching what they are describing as a mild outbreak at Hochman JCC, at 8500 Jog Road west of Boynton Beach.
"Starting this week, we experienced an increase in children and counselors with flu-like symptoms at our camp in Boynton Beach." Benarde said. "They were sent home and must be symptom free for at least 24 hours and have a dodoes note before returning to camp."
Health department officials learned Wednesday of several cases among summer campers and counselors, said spokesman Tim O'Connor
"One of the counselors tested positive and there are two other kids we assume are positive," said O'Connor. adding that public-health nurses have been calling families whose chiklren became sick.
"We're not finding any severities," he said.
O'Connor advised the standard response to flu: consult a physician and stay home if you have symptoms.
JCC camp officials sent e-maiLs to parents this week advising families to keep sick children at home. The Hochman JCC has 275 children aged 5 to pi and 35 staffers.
Benarde said there have been no reports of illness at the JCC' other camp near West Palm Beach. • moat? laforoaRpOposi corn
## Pahokee middle school breaks ground
By LAURA GREEN Palm Bradt Post StAtIVTIleT
PAHOKEE — In the football-loving city of Pahokee, it rivals even the new football stadium.
Pahokee's middle school students are finally getting a home of their own.
The school district broke ground Thursday on a three-story middle school with capacity for 736 students.
Students in grades seven through 12 now share the Pahokee Middle/
Senior High. The new school opens in 2010.
Ranking the city's major events in history, Pahokee Mayor Wayne Whitaker said the new school is "almost number
It's being built on the old high school football field.
The new football stadium will be ready for the start of the season in August.
Alfred Jones. the school district's senior projects administrator, said every-
where he goes in Pahokee, residents want to talk about the projects.
"I'm stopped on the street and people are asking me questions." Jones said. "They're telling me how beautiful the stadium is and they can't wait for the new middle school."
The school also will serve as the city's first hurricane shelter.
Now residents have to drive about 10 miles to Belle Glade. And while that may not seem far. Whitaker said some residents brave storms in their homes. With a shelter close to home, more residents will be safe, he said.
Once middle school students move out of the high school, some spare space will be turned into a clinic. Jones said.
Another plus is separating the middle and high school students.
"You don't want that (seventh) grade girl intermingling with 17-, 18-yearold boys," Whitaker said. sawa_greenlipbposicom
## Kickball fest to aid fallen officers families
#### By JASON SCHULTZ Palm Head. Post Sten/Mu
ROYAL PALM BEACH — It is an American pastime that most people haven't played since they were pint-sized children on the hallowed fiekls and frozen tundras of their elementary schools.
On Sunday, however, dozens of full-grown men and women from the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue and several restaurants will take to a Royal Palm Beach field to compete and reclaim their former athletic glory at the game of kickball.
Scott Cotton, a bartender at Max & Erma's in Royal Palm Beach, organized the tournament to raise money for the families of police officers and firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty.
Cotton. the former owner of a restaurant in Tampa, said he almost became a police officer and likes to organize events to help police and fire agencies.
#### Kickball Fest
Where: 151 Ornstein lane. Royal Palm Beach
When: Sunday, 1-7 p.m. Cost: \$5 Questions: E-mail Scott Cotton at
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"It started as a thing between us and Duffy's," but then blossomed into a full-blown tournament. Cotton said, adding that he chose kickball because it required less equipment than softball or baseball.
Deputy Roy DeMarco said he will be playing on one of two sheriff's office teams — one team will be deputies who patrol the Wellington area and the other will be those who cover Royal Palm Beach. A team from the fire department also will play, along with teams from Max & Erma's, Duffy's, Hooters and Outback restaurants in the Wellington and Royal Palm Beach areas. DeMarco said.
Cotton said the village of Royal Palm Beach donated the use of the field, and friends and co-workers will help organize face paintings and raffles to raise money.
One thing the teams may be short on is experience. When asked how long it had been since he had played kickball, the 43-year-old Cotton simply laughed.
"Ifs probably been at least 20 years." he said.
DeMarco said he hadn't played since he was a child. But he said his team of Wellington-area deputies planned to practice their kickball skills this week.
Cotton said he plans to make the tournament ah annual event in Royal Palm Beach.
"If I get 50 people I'll be happy," he said. "If I get 250 people Ill be ecstatic."
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Attorneys for women now suing Epstein, as well as attorneys for The Palm Beach Post, had asked Colbath to release the deal, arguing the public and the victims have a right to see it.
"There is nothing more fundamentally important than for the public and press to observe how the government is doing its job," Post attorney Deanna Shullman said. "There is great public interest in how everybody in this case is doing their job."
Goldberger argued that the confidential agreement Epstein struck with federal prosecutors should remain confidential. Included in it, Goldberger said, are references to federal grand jury proceedings, which are secret and protected by federal rules. A federal judge should decide the issue, he said.
Attorneys Spencer Kuvin and Brad Edwards, who represent sonic of the women now suing Epstein, both said they were not surprised by Epstein's attorney moving to appeal.
"Any chance to stall in any way and keep the agreement out of public disclosure, they will take it," said Edwards outside court.
He will have served about 13 months of an 18-month sentence. .
Epstein pleaded guilty nearly one year ago to solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.
A sheriff's office official confirmed Thursday that Epstein will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade on July 22 — nearly 13 months into his sentence.
Sheriff's office spokesperson Eric Davis said Epstein has earned gain time for good behavior and for participating in a work-release program.
The saga began years ago after Palm Beach police began investigating reports that young women were being brought to his manse on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money.
Displeased with the way the state attorney's office handled the case, Palm Beach police later forwarded information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. • susen spencer etude'
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## Some teens skipped camp to work on film
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**Dog-Gone Tale: Destiny's Stand.**
**A kids' movie about a courageous shelter dog and her young human friends, it's the first feature with a student**
**crew shot at G-Star or anywhere.**
**"On the first two MENies. (the production) came in with a whole crew set and the students were interns, but now they're doing everything," Hauptner said, as Tony-winning actor Barry Bostwick, who plays the movie's villain, conferred with screenwriter/actor Ron Palillo, who has grayer hair but the same face he had 30 years ago when he was Welcome Back Kotter's Arnold Horshack.**
**Palillo and Bostwick are being paid for their participation per the rules of the Screen Actors Guild, but are donating their salaries to the**
**school's scholarship foundation.**
**'The purpose of this is education and an experience (the kids) can use for their whole careers." said Bostwick, best known as the dim-bulb mayor on TV's Spin City and his Tony-winning role in Broadway's The Robber Bridegroom. "It's OK if we have to block (a scene) three or four times if they're learning."**
**The student crew of about 100 is working in every conceivable position on the film. Many of them skipped going to camp and taking paying jobs to work long days, tote equipment and sweat during many outdoor shots.**
**"My mom said it was either this or surf camp. And I really wanted to go to surf camp," said Ashlee Hudak, 15, a student script supervisor and actor from West Palm Beach- "But I'm glad I did this" IlikeSheStreeterOPISPOSt COM**
## North Palm duo accused of stealing library videos
#### By BILL DIPAOLO
Palm Reath Post Staff WriMr NORTH PALM BEACH — Almost 200 videos have been stolen from the village library, prompting tighter security and questions from officials on how they are going to replace almost 8 percent of the village collection.
"That's a big whack," Village Manger Jimmy Knight said. "It's going to be difficult to find money for new videos."
Village police arrested Edward Walters, 39, and
Elaine RUIZ. 40, both of the 500 block of East Wind Drive on charges they stole 42 videos from the library on Anchorage Drive. But lots more have recently vanished.
Librarians, after an audit, reported to police that 192 videos from the collection of 2,500 were stolen between June 1 and June 11. The stolen videos are valued at about \$4,800.
Staff writer Eliot Kleinberg contributed to this story. • Gs.\_Dpsoioe/Snost Corn
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#### AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BASED ON THE ADOPTED EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT
NOTICE IS HERESY GIVEN that the Vigor of Palm Springs ' ,sal, bald public hearings on the village Hot, located at 226 Cypress Drive, Palm Spri Hondo to consider Ted Amendments to the = an and tit Pliztan bosaedndonio lhe franVrllts i Adopted Amendments to Florida of Communiijoirs These hearings shall be held as
land Development Board meeting on Tuesday, July 7, 2009 at 630p m.
Local Planning Agency public hearing on Thursday, July 23, 2009 at 7:15 m
Mine Carta public hearing on Thursday, July 23, 2009 0' 30 pm
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#### ORDNANCE NO. 2009-10
AN ORDNANCE Or THE VILLAGE OF PALM SPRINGS, FLORIDA, AMENDING 11\* COMPREHEN9VE PLAN BASED ON THE VILLAGE'S ADOPTED EVALUADON AN APPRAISAL REPORT AND UPDATED DATA AND ANALYSIS, WHiCH INCLUDE AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT Of NE FUTURE LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE, CONSERVATION, RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE, INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS, AND PUNK SCHCO. FACILITIES ELEMENTS Of THE ADOPTED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS AMENDED; TO REVISE AND UPDATE THE EXISTING GOALS, OBJEC11VES, AND POLICIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MANDATES SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 163, FLORIDA STATUTES, AUTHORIZING TRANSMITTAL Of THESE AMENDMENTS TO THE TREASURE COAST REGIONAL PLANNING COUNCIL FLORIDA DEPARTMENT Of COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, AND OTHER APPLICABLE AGENCIES FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT AS REQUIRED BY FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL Of AU ORDNANCES EN CONFECT; PROYMEG FOR SEVERABRITY; MO PROW\*\* FOR AN EFFKITVE DAN.
Coshes of the proposed Comprehensive Plop Amendments may be viewed by the publican's\* Village Clerk's Office or the land Deuekresen1 Office located a 226 Cypress Erne. Palm Springs, Florida, from 9:00 am until 4.30 pm. Monday through Friday
The public is invited to attend this meeting and/or submit written comments to the Village Clerk's Office regarding the Amendments
If A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE VILLAGE CONCH WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT THE HEARING, THAT PERSON WILL NEED A RECORD Of THE PROCEEDINGS, AND HE MUST ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD OF THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHOI RECORD NCLUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHKH 1HE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. PERSONS WHO NEED ACCOAWODATICNS IN ORDER 10 ATTEND OR PARDOPAN Pk THIS MEETNG SHOULD CONTACT THE VILLAGE CLERK AT 561465.4010 AT LEAST 3 DAYS PFOOR TO THIS MEE11NG IN ORDER TO REQUEST SUCH ASSISTANCE.
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# BUSINESS Bernanke fends off GOP's heat
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#### THE MARKET REPORT
| | A Dow | 8,472.40 +172.54 | |
| --- | ---------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------- |
| | A NASDAQ | 1,829.54 +37.20 | |
| | A S&P 500 | | 920.26 +19.32 |
| | A RUSSELL 2000 509.18 +14.23 | | |
| • | 10-YR NOTE | 3.54% | -0.15 |
| | CRUDE OIL | | \$70.23 41.56 |
#### Home builders help stocks up
NEW YORK — Investors rushed back into stocks as profits at a handful of companies indicated the economy might be gaining strength. Gains in home builders, retailers and other consumer discretionary stocks led the market sharply higher Thursday.
#### THE MORNING TINE
#### New Jobless claims increase
wasium, ION —The Labor Department said Thursday that new jobless claims jumped unexpectedly last week. And the number of people continuing to receive unemployment aid rose more than expected.
The figures indicate that jobs remain scarce even as the economy shows some signs of recovering from the longest recession since World War II.
A revised reading on gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the nation's output — said the economy posted a 5.5 percent annualized decline from January through March. That was slightly better than the 5.7 percent estimate made a month ago.
#### Mortgage rates up slightly
WASHINGTON —The average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.42 percent, up from 5.38 percent a week earlier, mortgage company Freddie Mac said Thursday. Rates on 30-year mortgages fell to a record low of 4.78 percent earlier this year. But then they rose as high as 5.6 percent earlier this month after yields on long-term government debt, which are tied to mortgages rate, climbed as investors worried that the huge surplus of government debt hitting the market could trigger inflation.
#### AIG to reduce debt by S25 billion
NEW YORK - American International Group Inc. said Thursday it will reduce outstanding federal loans by \$25 billion by giving the government a preferred stake in two units that will be spun off from the insurance giant. AIG is placing two life insurance subsidiaries — American International Assurance Co. and American Life Insurance Co. — into special purpose vehicles ahead of planned initial public offerings. As part of the plan, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will receive preferred interests in the SPN's which will eventually be independent companies once a public offering is completed.
## Oil up on positive economic news
#### NEW VICK — Oil prices jumped above
\$70 a barrel Thursday after the government said that the economy may be faring better than previously thought. In a revised reading on gross domestic product in the first quarter, the Commerce Department reported a 5.5 percent annualized decline from January to March. rather than the 5.7 percent it reported a month ago. The slowing economy has slashed demand for energy as factories shut down and 'fewer people drive to work or take leisure trips.
#### Lennar's orders up, stock surges
MIAMI - Stuart Miller, CEO of Lennar Corp.. tried to temper enthusiasm about a housing market recovery, but investors zeroed in on one number a 63 percent spike in new home orders between the builder's first and second quarters. While Lennar still posted a slightly wider quarterly loss, its stock jumped 17 percent (NYSE: \$9.19) and led the entire sector in a rally Thursday.
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| West Palm Beach, Boca Raton | \$2.77 | \$2.79 |
| Martin County | \$2.77 | 52.74 |
| St. Lucie County | \$2.75 | \$2.75 |
| Indian River County | 52.68 | \$2.70 |
| Okeechobee County | \$2.69 | \$2.70 |
| Fort Lauderdale | \$2.74 | \$2.76 |
| Miami | \$2.76 | \$2.?? |
| Orlando | \$2.64 | \$2.64 |
| Reda | \$2.69 | \$2.70 |
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#### On Capitol Hill, he denies coercing Bank of America to buy Merrill.
#### ByJEANNINE AVERSA The Associated Ness
WASHINKIION — Facing an unusual political trial. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke disputed accusations Thursday that he pressured Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch in a deal that cost taxpayers \$20 billion.
In a three-hour hearing of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Bernanke denied threatening to oust Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis or the bank's board members if they abandoned the takeover after discovering spiraling losses at MerrilL
never said that I would
replace the board and management" if Lewis decided to invoke a clause in the acquisition contract to try to stop the deal, Bernanke told the committee.
It was Bernanke's first public response since the committee launched an investigation into whether he or other government officials bullied Bank of America to stick with its plan to combine the two financial powers.
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## T-shirt business gives back
nanke faced often hostile questions — unusual for a Fed chief, who typically commands deference in public.
Of Bemanke's denial that lie threatened Lewis' job, Rep. Jason Chaffetz R-Utah, said: -With all due respect, I'm just not buying that?
Neither was Rep. Dan Burton, R-Ind., who huffed: -This is not a socialist society."
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'We are using T-shirts as a vehicle to help the community,' says Jeff Firestone. who created his Boca Raton business ChanTEES when he began to print T-shirts at a discount for local charities.
# ChariTEES helps printer, groups thrive
By TRACEY McMANUS Palsy Broth Post Staff Wnlry
I3OCA RA11114 — When his tJxtile business slammed to a halt in 1998, Jeff Firestone looked around at the idle printing machines in his Miami warehouse and thought he had become a feast-to-famine story.
His financial partner of eight years had just backed out of their T-shirt production business, leaving Firestone needing a plan —and a use — for his printing equipment.
He needed a niche market. And when he began offering to print rshirts at least 25 percent below market rates for the events of local charities, ChariTEES was born. Since relocating to Boca Raton in 2000, ChariTEES has printed T-shirts for hundreds of charities nationwide with its low-cost pitch, and has donated thousands of dollars in products and cash to Palm Beach County charities. 1 believe in taking my profits and putting it back in the community," Firestone said. -There's a major disparity in this county of the haves and have-nots, and I want to equal that disparity"
Firestone donates 10 percent of his annual sales
#### ChariTEES
Location: Boca Raton
Annual sales (2008): \$300,000
Business: ChanTEES provides T-shirt design and printing
at below market-rate costs to nonprofit organizations, schools, hospitals and camps.
Web site: www.ChariTEES.org
revenue to local and national charities, which came to \$30,000 in donations in 2008.
The 57-year-old veteran of the printing industry chooses the charities that receive his donations on a need basis. But often when charities buy T-shirts from ChariTEES, donations follow, he said.
For instance, he donated 50 shirts and \$400 towards a carousel for Child Life Institute's pediatric center Christmas Party last year.
And when Elinor Josephson bought nearly 1,000 shirts for staff and campers for the 2009 JCC Ted Weisberg camp in Boca Raton, she also received a \$350 donation to help support the camp's lunch program.
-What he gave us was the financial ability to help feed those kids," Josephson said.
His low prices have
given him an edge in the \$22 billion garment printing industry, attracting business from Chicago's DePaul University and The National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington.
Firestone does most of the networking, but he has
recently hired sales representatives in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles on the condition they donate 5 percent of their yearly commissions to the charities of their choice.
By the end of this year, Firestone also plans to launch LiberTEES, a Tshirt printing company that uses all US. made materials and will employ Iraq war veterans as sales representatives.
-We are using T-shirts as a vehicle to help the community," Firestone said. "It started as a business, but now it's a labor of love?
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Prosecutors say he's a flight risk and want him held without bail.
#### By NAN A. LOZANO TheAssociatedPress
HOUSTON — Texas billionaire R. Allen Stanford pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he swindled investors out of S7 billion as part of a massive investment scam.
Stanford entered his plea during his arraignment in federal court. The financier was indicted on charges that his international banking empire was really just a colossal Ponzi scheme.
Laura Pendergest-Holt. Gilberto Lopez and Mark Kuhrt, three executives with the now defunct Houston-based Stanford Financial Group who were indicted along with their former boss, also entered not guilty pleas.
At a bond hearing shortly after the executives' arraignment, prosecutors argued Stanford should be held without bail as he awaits trial on fraud charges because he might have access to billions of dollars in secret funds.
Prosecutor Paul Pelletier said investigators found a secret Swiss account Stanford controlled that was drained of more than \$100 million in December 2008.
Jeffrey Ferguson, a forensic examiner hired to review the records of Stanford Financial Group and
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## Boca supplement firm to refund \$10 million
By SUSAN SALISBURY Palm Heath Poi Staff Wnter
A Boca Raton-based company that markets non-prescription dietary and health supplements, including acai berry supplements, has refunded almost \$10 million to customers nationwide, Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said Thursday.
The attorney general's office said it reached a settlement with Aton Solutions and its subsidiaries that resolves allegations sin-rounding 15 day free trials of its products. Customers were unable to cancel their subscriptions before being continuously billed a monthly fee of \$80 or
returned. The company also Aton's customers were unable to cancel a free trial. must maintain enough personnel to field cancellation requests.
more for products that they were unable to contact the The company has cooperneither ordered nor wanted. company or its subsidiaries ated in the investigation that In March, the Washington- — GIC LLC. SFI. Nutrition began in December and has based Center for Science in LW, Globalnet Pharmacies said it will continue to issue the Public Interest issued a LW and Glades Distribution refunds to any customers warning to consumers not Services — by telephone, who have complaints. to enroll online in suppos- email or through the corn- Earlier this year, The for acai berry pany's Web sites to cancel Better Business Bureau of
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ATLANTA — Carl Sperber. creative director for Living Essentials, has at least one theory for why his company's 5-Hour Energy shots have gained a foothold in the competitive energy drink segment.
Its tiny 2-ounce bottles are marketed with a straightforward pitch punch as larger canned designed to reach adults, energy drinks.
Sperber said. The broader For the 12 weeks energy drink market, led through mid-May, 5-Hour by the likes of Red Bull, Energy accounted for 9 Monster, Rockstar and percent of energy drink AMP, takes a different ap- sales at convenience proach, he said. stores, according to Bev- "If you look at the nage Digest. a New Yorkcanned energy drink ar- based trade publication. ray out there, if you look That placed it behirld only at the names, if you look at larger canned versions of the graphics on the cans, Red Bull and Monster Enit's obvious who they have ergo and well ahead of any
in mind for this — teen- other energy shot.
age boys." Sperber said. Other major players are "I have teenage boys at moving in. Red Bull rehome, and they're the last cently launched an energy people on Earth who need shot. NOS, a Coke brand, more energy." has a shot and Monster, Since its launch in 2004, distributed by Coke. has 5-Hour has carved out a a smaller version called
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► STANFORDfirom 6B
its affiliated bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua, testified nearly 51.2 billion of the \$7 billion Stanford and his co-defendants are accused of bilking from investors can't be accounted for.
In court documents filed Thursday, prosecutors also said Stanford faces a potential life sentence, has access to a private jet and has an international network of wealthy acquaintances who would help him, including one who recently agreed to give him \$36,000 to pay his lease on a Houston apartment for a year.
Dick DeGuerin. Stanford's attorney, objected to Pelletier characterizing the account as secret. saying it was known to Stanford's employees.
## S1.2 billion of alleged scam
Stanford denies allegations h. defrauded investors, but tried to surrender to federal authorities still unaccounted for• in the months before his indictment was handed down last week. Authorities couldn't take him into custody until charges were filed.
-Ifs designed to prejudice poten- Stanford was returned to Texas
tial jurors who will hear this case," on Tuesday.
DeGuerin said. Each of the most serious counts DeGuerin argued in court docu- that Stanford faces carry prison ments that Stanford is not a flight terms of up to 2O years. But prosrisk and highlighted his charity ecutors say sentencing guidelines efforts, including his work with a could increase his total sentence to
foundation for single mothers in life in prison.
Antigua. strong ties to his children The billionaire and the execuand amicable relationships with the fives are accused of orchestrating mothers of his children\* as examples a fraud by misusing most of the Si of his strong character billion they advised clients to invest Stanford has been in federal in certificates of deposit from the custody since he was arrested in Stanford International Bank. based
Virginia on June 18. on the Caribbean island of Antigua.
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aggressive toward Bernanke, trying vestment bank, he said. to link him to the Obama adminis- "I expressed those concerns,
tration as advocates of government which is appropriate. but it was almeddling in private industry. ways (Lewis) decision whether or It's an odd shift, because Ber- not to go ahead and take that dcci-
nanke is a Republican appointee, sion," Bernanke said.
and many of his key advocates This month. Lewis testified that e are Democrats. And it comes at a his job had been threatened after he mvx,.thd P w. pivotal time: Bernanke's term ex- expressed second thoughts about Ben Bemanke, testifying Thursday. said pires early next year, and President the deal. Lewis said the Treasury he never urged Bank of America to keep Obama will have to decide whether secretary at the time, Henry Paul- Quiet about Merrill Lynch's troubles. to pick his own Fed chief or re- son, and federal regulators made
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Edited by Robertson. Silence Is Death contains essays, poetry and fiction. accompanied by Rollins photos of the writers.
The 2008 testing numbers show that Silence Is Death is a true statement, particularly in the black community, said Robertson, who lives and works in Pahokee and was diagnosed with AIDS 12 years ago.
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State Sen. Chris Smith, D-Fort Lauderdale, is planning to be tested.
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Rollins recalled when
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#### Stocks mixed on savings rate
NEW YORK — Stocks ended mixed Friday after the Commerce Department reported that personal spending, incomes and savings all rose in May. The trend suggests consumers are being extremely careful with their money. That's good for the individual, but not great for the overall economy in the short-term.
#### Stanford Jailed until ball review
HOUSTON -Texas financier R. Allen Stanford. facing trial on charges he swindled investors out of \$7 billion, will spend at least the weekend behind bars after a federal judge Friday ruled to delay his release on bond.
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US. District Judge David Hittner granted a prosecution request to delay a magistrate's order granting Stanford, once considered one of the richest men in America, a \$500,000 bond.
Hittner, who is presiding over Stanford's case, ordered a hearing for Monday to hear arguments on whether Stanford's bond should be revoked.
#### Temporary labs ready for Planck
JUPITER -The Max Planck Florida Institute will move in to its temporary labs at Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter campus on July 6, the institute announced Friday.
Max Planck's Dr. Claudia Hillinger, vice president of institute development, signed the sublease agreement on the 40,000-square-foot lab alongside FAU President Frank Brogan at the university's June 10 trustee's meeting. The first scientist to move in will be Nobel Laureate Dr. Bert Sakmann, whose work explaining how charged atoms move across neuron cell membranes earned him and a colleague the 1991 Nobel Prize in Medicine.
#### KB Home new orders rise
LOS ANGELES- Going into its second quarter, KB Home had everyone wondering whether the home builder could duplicate the standout performance of its first quarter — posting a 26 percent year-over-year increase in new orders for the first time in more than three years. The builder didn't even come close. On Friday, KB said new orders in the second quarter were 31 percent below the second quarter last year The comparison to the first quarter fared far better however. increasing by 59 percent.
#### 'Jumbo' mortgages revived
NEW YORK — JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. are expanding in "jumbo" mortgages used to buy the most expensive homes. helping revive a market that shriveled amid a three-year jump in homeowner defaults.
JPMorgan resumed buying new jumbo loans made by other lenders this month, after halting purchases in March, spokesman Tom Kelly said. Borrowers must have checking accounts with the bank, he said. Citigroup is again offering the loans through independent mortgage brokers, spokesman Mark Rodgers said.
#### Report: Nestle stonewalled FDA
NEW YORK - Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company refused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information. The records, which date back to 2004, were made public after Nestle's Toll House refrigerated, prepackaged cookie dough was discovered to be the likely culprit in an E. al outbreak that has sickened 69 people in 29 states, according to the latest estimates from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC is investigating the outbreak along with the FDA.
#### Gas pump price slides 4 cents
NEW YORK - Pump prices fell every day this week, easing off a summer peak near \$2.70 a gallon as US. storage facilities swelled with unused gasoline. The national average for gasoline dropped less than a penny Friday to \$2.658 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Benchmark crude • for August delivery fell SL07 cents to • settle at \$69.16 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange
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## Retailer redoes stores, stock for high-spending customers
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The recession steered a new type of customer to Walmart — deeper in the pockets and suddenly looking for bargains. Now the world's largest retailer has to figure out how to keep that customer when the
economy recovers.
So Walmart is bringing in more brand names, ditching scores of other products and even redesigning hundreds of stores to give them wider aisles, better lighting and better sight lines.
metic upgrade. That new
breed of customer also spends about 40 percent more than the traditional Walmart shopper, and the retailer senses an opportunity to accelerate its growth.
Take Aditya Krishnan, a 42-year-old lawyer from San Jose, Calif. He used to buy only light bulbs at Walmart but now finds himself spending \$150 a month there, including buying workout clothes he used to get at Mactyk.
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The prototype for the remodeling includes lower shelves to make it easier to seeacross the store, better lighting and wider aisles. Expanded electronics areas will include interactive displays to test video games and portable gadgets.
The store now carries
brands like Danskin and Better Homes and Gardens, and its electronics section now stocks pricier products like Palm Inc.'s wellreceived new Pre smart phone.
Whether it all works, Wall Street analysts say, depends in part on how quickly the behemoth retailer can remodel and keep shoppers satisfied. Concerns about how Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will keep its momentum have sent its stock down 13 percent this year.
The early signs are positive, putting pressure on the rest of the industry.
Target Corp, whose sales have been hampered by its emphasis on nonessentials like trendy jeans. is expanding its fresh food offerings. Best Buy Co. is beefing up customer service.
"I believe a lot of what (Wal-Mart) is doing is working," said Joseph Feldman, a retail analyst at Telsey Advisory Group. "They are a threat to everyone."
Other discounters, including TJX Cos. Inc.. which sells name-brand fashions and home furnishings, Costco Wholesale Coax and BJk Wholesale Club Inc, are focusing on how to hold on to new customers lured by low prices during the recession.
But Wal-Mart has a tall reputation to overcome.
## Stimulus money winds up in savings
People socked away cash at the highest rate in 15 years.
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WASHINGTON — Households pushed their savings rate to the highest level in more than 15 years in May as a big boostiin incomes from the government's stimulus program was devoted more to bolstering nest eggs than increased spending
The higher savings rate is healthy in the long term, economists said. But without vigorous consumer spending, the government may have to do more to revive the economy, possibly through further tax breaks and spending
The Commerce Department said Friday that consumer spending rose 0.3 percent in May. in line with expectations. But incomes jumped 1.4 percent, the biggest gain in a year and easily outpacing the 0.3 percent increase that economists expected.
The savings rate; which was hovering near zero in early 2008, surged to 6.9 percent, the highest level since December 1993.
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## Feds set warrant process for bailed-out banks
By DANIEL WAGNER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Prete
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday established its process for pricing billions of dollars' worth of warrants that large banks must repurchase to exit the \$700 billibn bailout program.
The Treasury Department said the banks will make the first offer for the warrants. Treasury then will decide to sell at that price or make a counteroffer. If the government and a bank cannot
agree on a fair price for the warrants, the two sides will have the right to use private
appraisers. Treasury also could auction to private bidders warrants from banks that choose not to repurchase them.
The banking industry endorsed the plan, but critics said it could shortchange taxpayers in the long run.
The warrants give the government the right to purchase shares of bailed-out banks at a set price in 10 years. If stock prices have risen by then, taxpayers could reap a
healthy profit.
But many of the banks already have paid 5 percent dividends on their Treasury investments and have bristled at paying an extra fee for a program they were pressured to join,
Treasury has faced pressure from Congress to get a good return for taxpayers, and from banks not to penalize them just as the industry stabilizes. Friday's announcement reflected a middle path: The purchase prices may be lower than the warrants would fetch on the open mar-
ket, but they still will cost the banks a substantial amount.
"Treasury faces a real dilemma here," said banking consultant Bert Ely. "Taxpayers ought to make some money for the risk they took here, but they were taking that risk for a lot less time than anyone anticipated."
Some of the nation's largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley, have been eagerly awaiting Treasury's decision. They were among 10 banks that repaid a total of \$68 billion in bailout money last week.
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• POMPANO BEACH - Tri-Rail will limp along for another year without any cuts to its schedule.
The board that oversees the commuter train voted Friday morning to tap into \$8 million in county gas tax money to avoid drastic cuts in service this fall.
The money is normally used to pay for things like locomotives, new cars and station improvements.
Instead, it will be spent just to keep the trains running.
Tri-Rail's budget Is taking a \$9 million hit next year because Broward, Palm
Beach and Miami-Dade counties plan to cut their annual subsidies used to run the trains.
While riders don't want to lose service, they also say passenger cars need to be upgraded or replaced.
-What I don't see anyone discussing is that the trains have been breaking down for the last couple of weeks because of the heat," said Steven Daun of Boca Raton, who rides the train on weekdays to Miami.
"Many of the air conditioners in many of the cars either don't work or circulate warm air. Tri-Rail has become the epitome of what mass transit shouldn't be."
Without additional cash for operations. 111-Rail faced slashing the number of weekday trains front 50 to 30 and canceling all service on weekends and holidays starting Oct. 5.
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values would drop 13.5 percent.
To collect the same amount of money this year as last year, the county would have to raise its property tax rate 149 percent.
Meanwhile, county budget-writers learned this week that the state will pass down about \$8 million less in revenues and sales taxes this year, bringing state contributions to 2001 levels.
-We can't catch a break," said Liz Bloeser, the county budget director.
The year stands in stark contrast to almost any prior year in Florida. where it seemed property values would increase as sure as the sun would rise. Real numbers always surpassed conservative expectations. County and city leaders made an annual habit of slashing tax rates. And still, more tax money rolled in, as values surged.
-This is exactly 100 percent different than the way it used to be," Bloeser said. "It's exactly stairstepping back down the way v(e went up."
Cities are sharing in the pain. This year's hardest-hit appear to be Loxahatchee Groves, Lake Worth and Greenacres. whose property values are expected to plunge 26 percent, 24 percent and 22 percent, according to lat-
est estimates. Only Briny Breezes is expected to see an uptick — of about 2 percent, the
figures show. Resilient municipalities include Pahokee and Palm Beach, where values are
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| Lake Worth | \$1.9 billion | \$1.5 billion | -23.7% |
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| Pahokee | | \$94.7 million I \$92.2 million | -2.7% |
| Palm Beach | \$13.7 billion | \$13.3 billion | 2.8% |
| Palm Beath Gardens | \$9.6 biltion | \$8.7 billion | .9.9% |
| Palm Beam Shores | \$601.4 million | \$534.9 million | -11.1% |
| Palm Sprints | \$884.4 million | \$666.0 millIce | -23.0% |
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By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath ruled today that the federal government's non-prosecution agreement for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be unsealed Monday.
However, defense attorney Jack Goldberger immediately handed up a motion asking Colbath to keep the ruling in abeyance until after he appeals the ruling to the Fourth District Court of Appeal.
Colbath will hear arguments at 9 a.m. Friday.
The agreement was sealed when Epstein, of Palm Beach, pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two felonies: procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution.
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.
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.
Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards, who represents three of Epstein's victims, asked Colbath to unseal the federal agreement to the public. Edwards asked that the records be unsealed on behalf of one of the victims, E.W. An attorney for The Palm Beach Post also 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 has said he wants to use that document "in the deposition of various material witnesses" relative to his cases.
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
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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 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."
Epstein 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 Sheriffs 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 has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, where 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.
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## Unseal the Epstein deal
A rich, middle-aged Palm Beacher who preyed on girls almost 40 years younger already has received too many breaks from the system. He doesn't deserve another.
In July 2008, at the age of 55 and
after paying the equivalent of a small country's giuss domestic product in legal fees, Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges and pleaded guilty in state court to a pair of charges related to his luring five girls
ages 14 to 17 — to his house. The girls undressed and massaged him in return for \$200 to \$300. He's serving only 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail, and he's serving only nights. And now he wants just one more favor.
Epstein
When Epstein entered his state plea, the terms of his federal deal were sealed from the public. That violated normal procedures. Attorneys for some of the victims, who have filed civil lawsuits, want that plea deal unsealed, probably because the details would help their cases.
But given the nature of this case, there's also a public interest. One condition of the federal plea, for example, was that he take the state deal. That's why The Post also is seeking to have the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers,
Palm Beach sex offender deserves no more breaks,
of course, want it kept secret. Last week, a Palm Beach County judge set a hearing for June 25.
Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger claims that the file should stay sealed to protect the "orderly administration of justice" and "protect a compelling government interest." Oh, and third parties might get hurt. The compelling interest is Epstein's, and there is no privacy issue since the victims themselves are making the request.
Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein, only to see then-State Attorney Barry Krischer kick the case to a grand jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when one of Epstein's gold-plated attorneys, Alan Dershowitz, announced that some of the victims had posted MySpace comments about their alcohol and marijuana use.
Epstein's "best" defense has been that he didn't know the girls were underage. "How he verified that," Mr. Goldberger said, "I don't know." Investigators found a high school transcript in Epstein's house. He didn't know? The public should know what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the system did for him.
## Improving flu symptoms
Six area residents may not like it, but China's new attitude toward public health will mean a safer world.
In 2003, China drew justified criticism for trying to cover up an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS. Authorities worried that the news would hurt the country's economy. The issue showed the conflict between the information-repressing China and the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. When it came to public health, China
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As The Post has reported, some students from The Benjamin School were quarantined, with almost no notice, after being exposed to swine flu. A West Palm Beach accountant who has swine flu also was quarantined. But last week, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. China acted properly. What may seem like overreaction now looks good compared with the underreaction six years ago.
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— WEST PALM BEACH The line of civil law- suits against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has grown again, with the filing of at least the 12th claim by a young woman who also says she was lured to his Palm Beach mansion as a teen and sexually abused. Prominent Miami at- torney Robert Josefsberg filed the most recent federal lawsuit last week, on behalf of the Jane Doe 101 who allegedly visited Epstein a few times while 17 years old and was paid \$200 at least once for her time there, according to the complaint.
The .lawsuit mirrors facts alleged in other suits: that Epstein had a predilection for teenage girls, identified poor, vulnerable ones and lured them to his home via other young women. The teens describe as- cending a staircase lined with nude photographs of young girls and to the spa room where Epstein would appear in a small, towel.
Miami attorney Adam Jailed Palm Beecher Horowitz, who sents repre- six other Does;
the cases are still in the "discovery" process, with plaintiffs request- ing from Epstein phone records, pictures, videos. Horowitz said Epstein is refusing materials, to turn over the citing a Fifth Amendment right not to do so. "Stonewalling and delaying," Horowitz said. "I'm not surprised."
Horowitz said he has asked US. District Judge Kenneth Marra to order Epstein to turn over the information.
A local attorney for Epstein, Jack Goldberger, did not rebpond to a re- quest seeking comment. Epstein was jailed in July 2008 following a plea deal where he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for solicitation of prostitution and procur- ing a person under the age of 18 for prostitu- tion and must register as a sex offender. He is serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County Stockade, according to jail records, and is due out in September • susan_spencer_wendel @pbpost.com
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illionaire sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is spending his nights at the county stockade. but that hasn't prevented him from getting sued yet again.
Only this time, it's not by a very young suburban girl who performed sex acts for him.
The 56-year-old massage-loving Epstein is now accused of stiffing a contractor who built a larger dock for his \$10.7 million Palm Beach home and dredged the Intracoastal to allow access to bigger ships.
The West Palm-based Palm Beach Marine Construction filed in federal court here.
"He owes \$105,000 for the dredging and my client has been trying to collect since August" said Alexander Lian. the attorney for Palm Beach Marine. "Apparently. Mr. Epstein blew his top when he saw the bill. Still. 100 grand shouldn't really matter to him.
"This happens often with wealthy people. They have the time and the money to take someone to court and try to get a better deal."
So far. Epstein paid the contract's original 530.000. But an Epstein gofer. according to the lawsuit, told the contractor to keep dredging and the final bill swelled. At the time, Epstein was unavailable. He'd just started serving 18 months for his guilty plea on two prostitution-related charges, including for procuring a woman younger than 18.
l.ian's filing shows the contractor also placed a lien on Epstein's home.
The man who rcppcd Epstein when the contract was signed. Douglas Shoettle. said he had no comment.
Epstein is also being sued by two of the girls he is accused of fondling. They say they were dropped off at his home and paid to perform various sexual services.
A friend of former prcz Bill Clinton and magician David Copperfield, Wall Street prodigy Epstein was facing decades in prison after Palm Beach Police found out he did business with girls as young as 14. But his guilty plea bought him a lighter sentence and a registration as sex offender.
Already, Epstein is allowed to leave the stockade even morning to work at his office. He's supposed to return to the county jail every night according to State Attorney spokesman Mike Edmondson.
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## Attorneys push to open sealed deal Epstein made in pleading guilty to procuring teens for prostitution
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach pleaded guilty last year to procuring teens for prostitution, his case detoured around local and state rules regarding the sealing of court documents.
At a plea conference on state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a prosecutor huddled at the bench and decided that a deal Epstein had struck with federal prosecutors to avoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of the hearing.
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But Florida rules of judicial administration, as well as rules of the Palm Beach County court system, require public notification that a court document has been or will be sealed, meaning kept from public view. The rules also require a judge to find a significant reason to seal, such as protecting a trade secret or a compelling government interest.
Yet no notification or reason occurred in Epstein's case, according to court records.
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On the beat, behind the agenda: Post reporters cover your area in City Pulse. referred to his confidential
Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have deferred prosecution Share This Story agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, struck in
September 2007, as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual."
And it was "a significant inducement" for Epstein to accept the state's deal, observed the state judge who accepted his plea, County Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo.
Epstein now faces at least a dozen civil lawsuits in federal and state courts filed by young women who said they had sex with him and now are seeking damages.
Attorneys for some of those women want Epstein's agreement with federal prosecutors unsealed and will ask Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to do so today.
"It is against public policy for these documents to have been sealed and hidden from public scrutiny. As a member of the public, E.W. has the right to have these documents unsealed," wrote former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, now in private practice and representing one of the women.
The Palm Beach Post also will ask Colbath to unseal the agreement. Post attorney Deanna Shullman will argue that the public has a right to know the specifics of Epstein's deal.
According to various media accounts, Epstein moved in circles that included President Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew. "International Moneyman of Mystery," declared a 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein.
Epstein, 56, is in the Palm Beach County Stockade, serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty nearly a year ago to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution.
He is allowed out from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., escorted by a deputy, said Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera.
During a Palm Beach Police Department investigation, five victims and 17 witnesses gave statements. They told of young women brought by his assistants to Eptstein's mansion on El Brillo Way for massages and sexual activity, and then being paid afterward.
At Epstein's plea conference last year, his attorney, Jack Goldberger, and then-Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek approached Pucillo in a sidebar conference. Pucillo, who had left the bench nine years earlier, was there as a senior judge filling in temporarily.
According to a transcript, Goldberger told Pucillo that Epstein had entered a confidential agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, in which federal prosecutors brokered not pursuing charges against him if he pleaded guilty in state court, Pucillo then said she wanted a sealed copy of the agreement filed in his case, and Goldberger concurred that he wanted it sealed. Belohlavek later signed off on it.
The Florida Supreme Court has expressed "serious concern" and launched an all-out inquiry into sealing procedures across the state following media reports in 2006 of entire cases being sealed and disappearing from court records.
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"The public's constitutional right of access to court records must remain inviolate, and this court is fully committed to safeguarding this right." the justices wrote in their final report.
Epstein's office on Tuesday referred any questions to Goldberger, who declined to comment. Pucillo also has declined to comment, citing a judge's inability to discuss an open case.
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Judge rules Jeffrey Epstein agreement to remain sealed
By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer
Monday, February 16, 2009
A federal judge has ruled that a non-prosecution document under which the government agreed not to pursue federal charges against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will remain under seal — at least for now.
The U.S. Attorney's Office and Epstein's lawyers reached the agreement before Epstein pleaded guilty to state felony charges, and the document is under seal in Epstein's state criminal file.
Representing two of Epstein's victims, attorney Brad Edwards asked to have the document unsealed as part of his federal lawsuit against the Manhattan money manager. Although Edwards and his victims have seen the agreement, Edwards says in his pleadings that the government has "inaccurately described the agreement ... creating a false impression that the agreement protects the victims."
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the claims, even if true, haven't damaged Edwards' case.
"If and when such alleged mischaracterizations become relevant to an issue to be decided by the court, the parties will be given the opportunity to advance their positions and the court will resolve the issue," he wrote. "If disclosure of the agreement will be required for the court to resolve this issue, appropriate disclosure will be ordered."
Seeking to keep the agreement sealed, Assistant U.S. Attorney argued that the agreement is not part of any case before Marra.
"The non-prosecution agreement has never been filed under seal in federal court," he wrote.
He also denied that the agreement has been inaccurately described.
Marra sided with on the argument that the agreement was not filed in federal court "under seal or otherwise.
On Aug. 14, Marra ruled that the non-prosecution agreement would be unsealed for Edwards and any of the victims who want to see it. But the ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who
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sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else.
In his motion to unseal, Edwards said he wants to be able to discuss the terms of the agreement with other victims and their attorneys as well as with other victims' rights groups such as the National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys.
The desire to discuss the agreement with third parties is not justification for unsealing the document, Marra ruled.
"If a specific tangible need arises in a civil case ... relief should be sought in that case," he wrote.
Epstein, 56, is serving 18 months in jail for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution.
Under the agreement, federal prosecutors will defer their decision on whether to prosecute Epstein on federal charges until 90 days after Epstein completes all requirements of his state sentence. If he abides by all court conditions and restrictions, the federal case would be dropped.
In addition to the state criminal case, there are nine federal and seven state lawsuits pending against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: The Manhattan money manager, through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home at 358 El Brillo Way for erotic massages and sometimes sex.
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#### By Btu. IVAN.° MIT Bomb Pot! Staff Writer
Another member of the Greatest Generation was laid to rest Tuesday amid the roar of a Navy airplane salute and the quiet tears of his family and friends.
"This is not a sad time," said Alex Hewko's widow, Barbara, standing near the resting place of her husband of 58 years at the South Florida National Cemetery west of Lantana. "This is a celebration of a wonderful life."
Mr. Hewko, 90, was one of five brothers from Northampton, Pa., who served in World War II. When their sons left, the servicemen's parents put stars in their windows. They lived in fear of a government telegram.
Mr. Hewko was the eldest of the five sons of Aksenty and Anna Hewko, who were born in Ukraine. He was the leader, the best athlete, the first to
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# Women want sex plea deal unsealed
Their attorneys will ask a judge to open Jeffrey Epstein's records.
#### By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Reath Post Staff Wntor
WELT PALM BFACH - When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach pleaded guilty last year to procuring teens for prostitution, his case detoured around local and
state rules regarding the sealing of court documents.
At a plea conference on the state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a prosecutor huddled at the bench and decided that a deal Epstein
Epstein had struck with federal prc6ecutors to avoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of the hearing And so it was.
But Florida rules of judicial administration, as well as rules of the Palm Beach County court system, require public notification that a court document has been or will be sealed, meaning kept from public view. The rules also require a judge to find a significant reason to seal,
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## First Guantanamo detainee arrives in U.S. to face trial
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WASHINGTON -The Mama administration for the first time has transferred a
Guantanamo Bay detainee into the United States, flying the suspect to New Yorks
early Thesday to face federal charges in the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings.
US. Marshals took custody of Ahmed Ghailani. a Tanzanian, at the military prison in Cuba and moved
him OMIIanI to the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, officials said. Ghailani later pleaded not guilty in federal court.
Wearing a blue prison uniform but no handcuffs, Ghailani was told he has a right to legal counsel and that he needs to fill out financial forms if he wants a court-appointed lawyer
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## Obama's budget rules proposal not exactly \`pay as you go
The Associated less
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thesday proposed budget rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jump-start the administration's emerging health care overhaul.
The "pay-as-you-go" budget formula plan is significantly weaker than a proposal Obama issued with little fanfare last month.
It woukl carve out about \$2.5 trillion worth of exemptions for Obama's priorities over the next decade. His health care reform plan also would get a green light to run big deficits in its early years. But over a decade. Congress would have to come up with money to
#### His plan would allow big deficits for a health care overhaul.
cover those early deficits.
Obama's latest proposal for addressing deficits urges Congress to pass a law requiring lawmakers to pay for new spending programs and tax cuts without further adding to deficits projected to total about \$10 trillion over the next decade.
If new spending or tax reductions are not offset, there would be automatic cuts in so-called mandatory programs — although Social Security payments and the Medicaid health care program for poor
House passes
clunkers' bill
to aid car sales
The law would encourage driven to conserve fuel.
The Associated Pms WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday approved a "cash for clunkers" bill that aims to boost new auto sales by allowing consumers to turn in their gas-guzzling cars and trucks for votichers worth up to \$4.500 toward more fuel-efficient
vehicles.
President Obama has encouraged Congress to approve consumer incentives for new car purchases as part of the government's work to restructure General Motors
and Chrysler.
The House approved
the bill 298-119.
Local Democrats Alcee Hastings, Ron Klein and Robert Wexler sided with the majority.
Republican Torn Rooney voted against the
measure.
Supporters pushed for the measure to stimulate car sales and increase the fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles on the nation's
highways.
The auto industry has sought the incentives after months of poor auto sales. In May, overall sales were 34 percent lower than a year ago. "Stimulating sales is the only way to get the
auto industry back on its feet," said Rep. Donald Manzullo,
General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have received billions of dol- .
tars in government aid and the entire auto industry has watched car sales plummet during the past year. In May, overall sales were 34 percent lower than a year ago.
"Our industry has been stuck in neutral and really has not started to move," said Larry Kull, president of Marlton. N.J.-based Burns Kull Automotive Group, which includes General Motors, Honda and Toyota dealerships.
The vehicle scrappage bill has been under negotiations for months as lawmakers try to find a solution that boosts car sales while providing some environmental
benefits.
Proponents have pointed to similar programs in Europe that have en-
hanced auto sales.
Opponents said the bill failed to include incentives for used vehicles and represented an artificial incentive for the industry.
# "It's defying the laws of
economics and saying we can manufacture enough of a demand to keep t auto industry afloat," said Rep. Jeff Flake. R-Ariz.
Separately, House and Senate appropriators were discussing providing \$1 billion to a supplemental war funding bill for the "cash for clunkers" program, which aims to generate about 1 million
new auto sales. Since the yearlong vehicle program is expected to cost \$4 billion, lawmakers would attempt to find the additional money later this year.
## Bird alerts little help for aircraft, pilot says
#### The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Shortly after takeoff, the pilot of Flight 1549 remarked on two things almost immediately: a breathtaking view of the Hudson River and the sickening thump of birds hitting his engines.
Warnings about the birds probably would not have helped. Capt. Chesley Sullenberger told federal safety officials lliesday as they looked for ways to prevent a recurrence.
in my experience, the warnings we get are general in nature and not specific and therefore have limited usefulness." Sullenberger said at a hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board.
The board began three days of hearings into safety issues arising from the Jan. 15 accident, including efforts to prevent bird strikes and the ability of engines to withstand collisions with large birds. Other issues Include whether Federal
Aviation Administration aircraft standards are adequate
Sullenberger to protect passengers in the event
of a forced water lapding. In the case of US
Airways Flight 1549, the Airbus A320 suffered a rupture near the tailcone that sent water gushing into the cabin after its forced landing on the Hudson River. All 155 aboard managed to escape the sinking craft.
A cockpit voice recorder transcript released by the board showed Sullenberger and copilot Jeffrey Skiles were admiring their surroundings less than a minute before their plane struck a flock of Canada geese and lost thrust in both
Sullenberger told the board that he didn't attempt to return to New York's LaGuardia Airport because he thought, "I cannot afford to be wrong."
and disabled would be exempt and cuts to Medicare would be sharply limited.
"The 'pay-as-you-go rule is very simple," Obama said. "Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere."
Last month, Obama suggested a tougher plan that would prohibit Congress from swelling the deficit in one year by putting off until later years the tax increases or spending cuts to pay for it.
The requirement for legislation to be financed over the coming decade generally mirrors existing congressional rules and reflects the likelihood that Obama's health care plan will add many billions of dollars to the deficit in the early years.
#### Senate hastens hearings on Sotomayor
The Ancriatid Press convene the hearings July WASHINGTON - Senate 13 — considerably earlier Democrats, determined than Republicans wanted on the Supreme Court ents a "fair and adequate" quickly, announced mid- schedule in line with the July hearings on her timeline for past Supreme
to seat Sonia Sotomayor — saying the date presnomination Tuesday in Court nominees. angry Republicans said R-Ky., called the Democlouded the prospects for c-rats tactics "heavy-handlegislative business. reconsider the schedule.
a surprising move that Sen. Mitch McConnell, the nomination and other ed" and urged them to
GOP leaders lashed out President Obama has after Sen. Patrick Leahy, pressed the Senate to vote D-Vt., the Senate Judiciary on confirming Sotomayor Committee chairman, to the high count before it announced that he would leaves for recess in August.
## 'I saw a fire, and things just started exploding.'
JANELLE LYNCH, an eight-year 'nether at the plant
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A ConAgra Foods plant at Gamer, N.C., exploded Tuesday, killing two and injuring dozens.
## Plant blast kills 2 workers
#### The Slim Jim meat products facility's wall collapses.
#### The Associated Press
GARNER N.C. - Police say they have found the bodies of two people in the rubble of a Slim Jim meat products plant that was rocked by an explosion Tuesday.
Garner police Sgt. Joe Binns said Tbesday night that the bodies had not yet been recovered.
The search continued for a third person believed to have been inside the plant, Binns said.
More than 40 people were taken to hospitals after the blast at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant just south of Raleigh. The explosion blew workers off their feet and collapsed a wall, crushing parked cars. Three firefighters needed medical attention after inhaling ammonia gases.
The explosion left gaping holes in the roof. An exterior wall collapsed, smashing cars parked next to the 500.000-square-foot building
Some of the more than 300 employees on duty described chaos after the
explosion. Authorities could not say exactly where in the plant the blast happened or what caused it.
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Janelle Lynch, who has worked at the plant for eight years, said she saw flames and ran. She planned to leave through the cutting department, but the roof started to collapse. She went in the other direction, escaping through a warehouse.
"I saw a fire, and things just started exploding," Lynch said.
ConAgra Foods spokesman Dave Jackson said someone called the plant over the weekend, threatening to start a fire. He said company officials don't believe the threat was connected to the explosion.
Four people were in critical condition at UNC Hospitals with burns over as much as 60 percent of their bodies. said Dr. Charles Cairns, professor and chairman of the department of emergency medicine at the University of North Carolina. The Environmental Protection Agency was on the scene to monitor the air, but officials said there was no threat to people living near the plant.
## Abortion doctor's clinic shuttered
The Washigeott Post
CHICAGO - The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller announced Tuesday that it will not reoptm his Kansas clinic, eliminating one of the few medical practices in the country that performed abortions late in pregnancies.
Abortion opponents welcomed the closure, while supporters of a woman's right to choose lamented the decision as a product of violence and harassment.
A prominent Colorado abortion provider said he understands the family's decision but fears that the news, announced 10 days after Tiller's slaying, will inspire tactics designed to drive others out of busineSS.
"It's hideous that it's come to this," said Warren Hern, who is among a handful of doctors known to perform abortions late in a pregnancy. "The antiabortion movement got exactly what they wanted. For the last 20 or 30 years. they've wanted hint dead and his clinic closed. And they got it.
"The question is, 'Who's next?'"
The American Life League noted in a news release that Tiller, 67, had aborted thousands of fetuses and said the group is "working actively for the day when the remaining 731 abortion clinics across America shut their doors."
Tiller's suspected killer,
Scott P Roeder, replied. "good, good" when told of the clinic's closing
Tiller died from a gunshot fired inside his church.
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NEW YORK - A rare copy of Benjamin Franklin's Poor Richard alananac has made somebody rich — selling at a New York City auction for more than half a million dollars. It's the second-highest price ever paid for a book printed in America.
The Sotheby's auction house said the 1733 book sold for \$556,500 on Tuesday to an anonymous bidder. The almanac's presale estimate was \$150,000. The book was discovered recently at the local historical society in Berwick, Pa., a town of 10,000 residents north of Philadelphia.
Sotheby's written Americana expert Selby Kilter said it's one of three known copies of the Franklin classic from 1733.
Five bidders participated in the sale, one in the room and four by phone. Sotheby's said they included private and institutional collectors.
Sotheby's said the sale was exceeded only by the \$1.4 million paid for George Washington's copy of the Federal& Papers in 1990. •
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## Swine flu pandemic could be imminent
The World Health Organization wants to avoid 'adverse effects.'
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Tuesday a spike in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce the first flu pandemic in 41 years. It also expressed concern about an unusual rise in severe illness from the disease in Canada.
WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the agency wanted to avoid "adverse effects" if it announces a global outbreak of swine flu. Fukuda said people might panic or governments might take inappropriate actions if WHO declares a pandemic.
Some flu experts think the world is in a pandemic and that WHO has caved in to some nations' requests that a declaration be postponed.
"On the surface of it, I think we are in phase 6." or a pandemic, said Margaret Chan, WHO's director-general.
Chan said it was important to verify the reports that the virus is becoming established outside North America before declaring a pandemic.
1 need to be convinced that I have indisputable evidence," she said.
Chan will hold a conference call w it h governments today to verify some of the reports before making a formal announcement.
WHO said the virus has infected 26.563 people in 73 countries and has caused 140 deaths.
## Insurgents hit luxury hotel in Pakistan
Medical workers treat an injured guest Tuesday at the Pearl Continental Hotel.
# Massive blast kills 11
#### The attack is in response to the Swat Valley offensive.
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— A massive truck bomb exploded outside a luxury hotel in northwestern Pakistan's provincial capital Tuesday night, killing 11 people and injuring at least 50. officials said.
The attack marked the latest salvo by insurgents who have vowed to avenge an army offensive in the nearby Swat Valley, and it underscored their ability to strike at some of the country's mast heavily fortified targets.
Peshawar's Pearl Continental Hotel had been considered an oasis of relative security in a city that has become a front line in the battle between the Pakistani government and radical Islamist groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The hotel, a local landmark, had been popular among foreigners, including aid workers who have been using it in recent weeks as a base for their efforts to assist the more than 2 million Pakistanis displaced from their homes by the fighting in Swat.
The bomb, estimated to contain more than 1,000 pounds of explosives. caused one section of the hotel to collapse.
The dead included at least two foreigners, according to law enforcement and hospital sources. One was an official with the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees a U.N. spokesman said. He had hi:en part of a group of U.N. staff who had been working to assist the displaced.
US. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor said there was no indication that Americans had been injured or killed. US. government personnel had been prohibited from the hotel because of security concerns.
The Pearl Continental, part of a chain of Pakistani hotels, is one of the few in Peshawar that caters to foreign visitors and well-to-do Pakistanis. It is located in one of the most heavily fortified areas of the city.
Police and an intelligence official reported that two vehicles were involved in the attack. First, a Toyota Corolla drove up and distracted the guards, then a mini-truck followed. The truck's passengers opened fire on the guards at the gate as the truck sped toward the building Moments later, the blast shook the hotel and reverberated across the city.
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RECIF'E. Brazil — Airlines moved quickly Tuesday to replace speed monitors like those suspected of feeding false information to the computers on Air France Flight 447 and possibly leading the plane to break up over the Atlantic Ocean.
Seventeen more bodies were pulled from the sea Tuesday, bringing the number recovered to 41. Another 187 have yet to be found. The first remains were brought to land by helicopter and will be flown to this coastal city today for identification.
Federal police began visiting families in Rio de Janeiro to collect genetic material — hair, blood. a cheek swab — to help identify the corpses.
Figuring out where the victims were seated and studying their injuries might help explain what brought down Flight 447 as it flew into thunderstorms on May 31, according to Peter Cock a former managing director of the National '11-ansportat ion Safety Board.
With the plane's data recorders still missing, investigators have been focusing on the possibility that external speed monitors — called Pitot tubes — iced over and gave false readings to the plane's computers in a thunderstorm.
A key part of the investigation relies on a burst of 24 automatic messages the plane sent during the last minutes of the flight. The signals showed the plane's autopilot was not on. officials said, but it was not clear if the autopilot had been switched off by
#### Seventeen more bodies were retrieved, bringing the total to 41.
the pilots or had stopped working due to conflicting airspeed readings.
The 1.-shaped metal Pitot tubes jut from the wing or fuselage of a plane and are usually heated to prevent- icing. The pressure of air entering the tubes lets internal sensors measure the speed and angle of flight. A malfunctioning tube could mislead computers controlling the plane, causing it to dangerously accelerate or decelerate.
Air France said it began replacing the tubes on its A330 and A340 jets in May after pilots reported several incidents of icing leading to a loss of airspeed data and that it had already replaced the Pitots in smaller A320 jets after similar problems were reported.
"What we know is that other planes that have experienced incorrect airspeed indications have had the same Pilots. And airplanes with the new Pitot tubes have never had such problems." said Air France pilot Eric Derivry a spokesman for the SNPL pilots union.
While no cause has been established for the disaster, Derivry said the Pitot failures create "a web of presumptions. but only presumptions."
The monitors had not yet been replaced on the Ar30 that was destroyed May 31 during the flight from from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
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such as protecting a trade secret or a compelling government interest.
Yet no notification or reason occurred in Epstein's case, according to court records.
Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have referred to his confidential deferred prosecution agreement with the US. attorney's office, struck in September 2007, as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual." And it was "a significant inducement" for Epstein to accept the state's deal, observed the state judge who accepted his plea. County Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo.
Epstein now faces at least a dozen civil lawsuits in federal and state courts filed by young women who said they had sex with him and now are seeking damage&
Attorneys for sonic of those women want his agreement with federal prosecutors unsealed and will ask Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to do so today
"It is against public policy for these documents to be have been sealed and hidden from public scrutiny As a member of the public. EW. has a right to have these documents unsealed" wrote former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, now in private practice and representing one of the women.
The Palm Beach Post also will ask Colbath to unseal the agreement. Post attorney Deanna Shullman will argue that the public has a right to know the specifics of Epstein's deal.
According to various media accounts, Epstein moved in circles that included President Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew. "International Nioneyinan of Mystery." declared a 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein.
Epstein. 56. is in the Palm Beach County Stockade, serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty nearly a year ago to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution.
He is allowed out from 7 am. to 11 p.m., escorted by a deputy. said Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera.
During a Palm Beach Police Department investigation, five victims and 17 witnesses gave statement& They told of young women brought by his assistants to Epstein's mansion on El Brill() Way for massages and sexual activity, and then being
paid afterward. At Epstein's plea conference last year, his attorney, Jack Goldberger, and then-Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek approached Pucillo in a sidebar conference. l'ucillo, who had left the bench nine years earlier. was filling in temporarily as a senior judge.
Accordingtoatranscript, Goldberger told Pucillo that Epstein had entered a confidential agreement with the US. attorney's office in which federal prosecutors brokered not pursuing against him if he plc guilty in state court. Pucillo then said she wanted a sealed copy of the agreement filed in his case. and Goldberger concurred that he wanted it sealed. Belohlavek later signed off on it.
The Florida Supreme Court has expressed "serious concern" and launched an all-out inquiry into sealing procedures across the state following media reports in 2006 of entire cases being sealed and disappearing from court records.
"The public's constitutional right of access to court records remain inviolate, and this court is fully committed to safeguarding this right," justices wrote in their final report.
Epstein's off ice on TUesday referred any questions to Goldberger, who declined to comment. Pucillo also has declined to comment.
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Alex Hewko's widow, Barbara, is comforted by her four sons — Bob (from left), Eric, Alex Jr. and Jon - and Alex's brother Wass (second from left) at the funeral Tuesday at the South Florida National Cemetery west of Lantana. Mr. Hewko and his wife were part-time Jupiter residents.
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"He was like our clad." said Wass Hewko, 85, one of two surviving brother& "He worked in a bakery. He cut people's hair to earn money. We all looked up to him."
The other surviving brother, John, 86, is ill and was unable to attend Ttiesday's ceremonies, which included services at Oceanview United Methodist Church in Juno Beach.
Alex Hewko was a pilot in the South Pacific, where he was awarded the Purple Heart and Bronze Star for flying missions over New Guinea. Another brother. lider, was a Marine and was injured in a near-fatal bus accident in California. Ben served on the USS Corry off Normandy.
The youngest, John, was serving aboard a troop carrier in London when it was hit by a German V-1 buzz bomb. He survived.
Wass served as a cook aboard a Navy troop carrier.
When the war ended in the summer of 1945, all five brothers returned to Northampton.
Alex and Barbara met at a Christmas party and married five years later.
"He was a hunk," said Barbara, her eyes shining. "What a dapper dresser. And such a dancer. He was so full of life."
The couple bought a home in Pennsylvania and had four sons. Three played on football scholarships at the University of Florida.
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## Everyone's looking for next big thing
Staying on top of trends can help restaurants survive during tough economic times.
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For all the financial woes local restaurants are facing, food supplier Greg Bates believes there is hope. And it comes in the form of a duck wing.
"They're taking off in sports bars." said Bates, of Keylmpact Sales, one of an estimated 400 vendors pushing their products at a restaurant trade show Tuesday at the South Florida Fair's Americralt Expo Center.
The annual event, organized by Cheney Brothers Inc., a Riviera Beach-based food distributor, is all about giving restaurateurs a way to hook customers. And when many are struggling to stay afloat. especially during the off-season, it's a message they wanted to hear: Attendance soared to an estimated 5,000 restaurant owners, country club managers and other food-service professionals, a 20 percent increase over the previous year.
"They're looking for new products,or innovative ways to use old products," said Kinna Denowitz, a marketing director for Cheney.
The 84-year-old company, which has produced the restaurant "buyer's show" for nearly two decades, serves as the year-round local sales representative for companies and brands at Tuesday's event. But it's one thing for a chef to read about a product in a sales brochure: it's another to taste a Cuban spring roll (think a Cuban sandwich in the form of an egg roll) or a "crisscut" sweet potato fry.
Nicolle Baker of ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston ("North America's premier supplier of frozen potato. appetizer and vegetable products) was hawking the fries, saying the whole sweet-potato-fries category was attracting interest.
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## Bust the driver license ring
Criminals use lots of tools, from assault weapons to lock picks. But one of the most sought-after tools is an official driver license. That's why law enforcement came down so hard on the operation in the Delray Beach office supplying Florida licenses to illegal immigrants. That's why the crackdown must continue until it shuts down the entire operation.
As The Post reported Monday, employees at the driver license bureau were accepting bribes of
\$500 to S2,500 in return for issufig valid licenses to illegals who supplied bogus immigration papers and usually didn't even take the driving test. The licenses can be useful for such relatively harmless scams
as avoiding arrest and deportation if stopped by a police officer while driving.
But South Floridians know that there are much darker masons why criminals obtain dFiver licenses. Mohamed Atta and other 9/11 hijackers had driver licenses to help avoid difficult questions and buy airplane tickets. Ease of travel by air and on the road also is a reason that drug mules would want driver licenses.
Because of all the ways criminals can use driver licenses, law enforcement correctly set up a task force. It was led by the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office and included the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, police departments in Boynton Beach and Delray Beach, the US. Drug Enforcement Agency and Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Florida Highway Patrol.
The task force has arrested five women who worked at the Delray Beach driver license office and one Haitian immigrant who allegedly provided fake immigration
MICHAEL McAULIFFE Pam Beach County state attorney
Floridians know why criminals want them.
documents. State Attorney Michael McAuliffe said in an interview that won't be the end of it. "The investigalion is very active and focused." he said, "so you'll see a second round in a timely manner."
'The investigation is very active and focused, so you'll see a second round in a timely manner.' and new offices in Palm Beach County. Mr. McAuliffe said that he's seen no evidence of terrorism. He would
Mr. McAuliffe said the probe, which started in February. likely would spread to new people
> not say whether there was evidence of drug trafficking
or whether higherups in the scheme have yet to be arrested. But it seems safe to assume that a scam on this scale — hundreds or even thousands of licenses were issued fraudulently — could not have been financed by individual immigrants seeking minimum-wage jobs.
Mr. McAuliffe said his investigation was centered "in this community," but that he suspected it could be going on elsewhere, a thought echoed by David iNesterberry, communications director for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles that runs the license offices. "As strong as we think our quality assurance is," he said, "recent arrests have given us a reason to step back and make sure the integrity of (licensing) is upheld."
A few states allow illegal immigrants to have driver licenses. Recently, though. Michigan and Maryland ended the practice. State employees in Delray and elsewhere who were issuing phony licenses weren't just misusing their jobs. They were endangering public safety.
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## Late move, but smart move
After years of failing to properly finance KidCare and making it as hard as possible for parents to enroll their children in the state's subsidized health insurance program, state legislators finally did something right.
They passed a bill, which Gov. Crist signed last week, that streamlines the application process for Kid-Care and expands the program so another 50,000 children can join. Kid-Care provides coverage to children whose parents work but can't afford coverage. There are nearly 800,000 uninsured children in Florida.
Perhaps because the idea came
from former Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat, the Republican-led Legislature hamstrung the 11-year-old program from the start. First, legislators limited the coverage. Then, legislators made it hard for parents to enroll by increasing the paperwork required to prove eligibility and decreasing the amount of time to sign up. The state also cut marketing that would inform parents about KidCare.
As a result, enrollment in KidCare dropped. The state had to return to the federal government nearly 8140 million in matching money. If that isn't a serious political crime, we don't know what is.
Richard Robleto, executive director of Florida Healthy Kids Corp., which administers KidCare, said the agency for years has tried to have the administrative barriers to the program eliminated. The legislation,
#### Health care for more kids of the state's working poor,
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The law requires KitICare to attempt to verify eligibility electronically from external sources first before requiring families to produce documents. Parents who pay more than 5 percent of their income for group health insurance no longer must wait six months after dropping the more expensive coverage before being eligible for KidCare. That wait has been cut to two months. Mr. Robleto said the six-month waiting period was an "extreme burden" for families who did not want to be without coverage for so long Also, families that miss a premium payment will lose coverage only one month instead of two months. Mr Robleto said the bill and the money provided for the year means that KidCare can add 45,000 to 50000 children to the current 250,000. There also will be a study of the outreach effort. Still, as he says, more needs to be done. "I hope I will be going back to the Legislature and saying Thank you very much. We enrolled those 50,000 and now we need more money.' " Having done right, legislators should do even better
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more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20 summit. In Middle East negotiations, he told al-Arabiya, America will henceforth "start by listening. because all too often the United States starts by dictating"
An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone — Iran, Russia. Cuba, Syria. even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secretary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions."
What's the issue? No "natural growth" means stranglingto death the thriving towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem, that every, negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining It means no increase in population. Which means for every chikl born, someone has to move out. No community can survive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns —even before negtitiations.
To what end? Over the past decade, the US. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the closein settlements — and compensating the Palestinians accordingly with land from within Israel itself.
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Democratic and Republican administrations for the past decade, but was agreed to in the letters of understanding exchanged between Israel and the US. in 2004 — and subsequently overwhelmingly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of Congress.
Yet the Obama State Department repeatedly has' refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a president who piously insists that all parties to the conflict honor previous obligations.
The entire "natural growth" issue is a concoction. It's farcical to suggest that the peace process is moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchildren — when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Abbas. having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert's peace offers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode — waiting for llamas to become moderate and for Israel to cave — before hell do anything to advance peace.
In his much•heralded "Muslim world" address in Cairo Thursday, President Obama declared that the Palestinian people's "situation" is "intolerable." Indeed it is, the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its people corruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced mili-
tarization: leadership that for three generations — Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1947, Yasser Arafat in 200Q Mr. Abbas in December 2008 — rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and despair rather than accept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel.
In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians. their leaders — Fatah and llamas alike — built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals. no institutions that would relieve their people's suffering Instead they poured everything into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gullible Western donors) into their Swiss bank accounts.
Mr. Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of that. Instead, he issued but one concrete declaration of new policy: "The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements," thus reinforcing the myth that Palestinian misery and statelessness are the fault of Israel and the settlements.
Blaming Israel and picking a fight over "natural growth" may curry favor with the Muslim "street." But it will only induce the Arab states to do like Mr. Abbas: sit and wait for America to deliver Israel on a platter. Which makes the Obama strategy not just dishonorable but self-defeating.
Charles Krauthammer's e-mail address is lettendreharleskraut hammercom
## I.ETTERS TO THE EDITOR
#### Post now backs expediency over public process?
The Post's strong editorial endorsement of the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections request for Riviera Beach warehouse space is contrary to another major Post editorial position regarding county government: integrity of public process.
What did the state attorney's grand jury philosophically discuss and what would an inspector general say about this specific proposal: that the selection of the proposed site was not transparent, not competitive and the deal shouldn't be done. The site was identified among a number of potential propert ies and was selected by the supervisor without any public process. The price will be negotiated with the owner knowing that he has been selected as having the favored site. Other potential competitors were not given the opportunity to bid. This is all contrary to thoughts expressed in the grand jury report.
So. if there were an inspector general. what would happen in this case? Nothing' County staff expressed concerns about the pituding and other shortcomings with
#### Too soon to stop harsh tactics that work?
President Obama labels the harsh interrogation techniques of the Bush administration "brutal" and "torture." Dick Cheney said they were lawful, safe, successful and not torture. This fundamental disagreement probably never will be reconciled. But the American people can examine and judge these other important issues:
First, is it wise to change policy while we still are subject to terrorist attack? Next, is it time for Mr. Obama to provide the evidence to support his claims that harsh techniques do not work and serve as an Al-Qaeda recruiting tool? Mr. Cheney said the measures did work on three high-value terrorists, averting an attack on Los Angeles. when milder methods did not.
Finally, on the day Mr. Obama gave the nation his Guantanamo vision, his administration announced that the first of the terrorist detainees will be tried in New York. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-Fe'Y., concurred. What will Mr. Obama and Sen. Schum-
the Riviera site as compared with the current county-owned site to the county commission, but the commission felt the' ame as The Post that turning down the supervisor's request was unacceptable. No one wants to be perceived as having impeded the supervisor, whom the public elected. from doing her duties as she sees fit.
So. it appears The Post thinks that expediency — time constraint, in this case — is sufficient justification to violate tenets of good government as called out by the state attorney and grand jury. There are always expediencies, sometimes real, sometimes less so. What was done is not illegal. As we move forward to address how county government functions in the future, and what new bureaucracies, if any, are going to be formed to protect the public interest at taxpayers expense, people need to remember cases like this.
> ROBERT WEISMAN Palm Beach County administrator West Palm Beach
er do if the man is acquitted and freed to walk the streets of New York? Does this proposal. like the promise to close Gitmo, need more vetting before implementation? • RAY ELDERD
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#### Renaming party dinner a slap to true heroes
In answer to a letter-writer, I don't understand how a lobbyist can say that the Palm Beach County Democratic Party made the correct decision in changing the name of the Jeffersomjackson Dinner to the Truman-Kennedy-Johnson Dinner •
This is a major fund-raiser and has always been called Jefferson-Jackson in honor of our third and seventh presidents. Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of Index pendence. Andrew Jackson helped to shaped the party and was a hero in his time. Truman used atomic bombs on Japan. killing 120,000 innocent people. Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam that ended up costing 58,000 American lives. He was a one-term president. Even Barack Obama said
that he wanted a recovery plan that would put people beck to work, "not because I believe in bigger government." I don't. Changing the name of this fund-raiser does not reflect current Democratic policies. Let's not casually cast aside our history and those who are held in high esteem to this day.
LYNN ANDERSON Lake Worth
#### Judge's ignorance of law is no excuse, or Is It?
Let me get this straight. A Palm Beach County circuit judge claims two homestead exemptions, and it took a battle between the judge and his wife's exhusband to bring it to the attention of the property appraiser? Something's very wrong here.
First, there's incompetence at the appraiser's office. Second, Judge Martin Colin wasn't aware that two homestead exemptions was illegal? Yeah, right. Ifs a travesty for all of us who follow the law, pay our property taxes honestly and work hard to do the right thing
STEVEN GIDDENS North Palm Beach
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## David Brooks Cautious at heart
Sonia Sotomayor she'd entered college in the late-la50s or early-1960s, she would have been surrounded by an ethos that encouraged smart young ethnic kids to assimilate. If she'd entered Princeton and
Yale in the 1980s, her ethnicity and gender would have been mildly interesting traits among the many she might possess.
But she happened to attend Princeton and then Yale Law School in the 1970s. These were the days when what we now call multiculturalism was just coming into its own. These were the days when the whole race, class and gender academic-industrial complex seemed fresh, exciting and just.
There was no way she was going to get out of that unscarred. And, in fact, in the years since she has given a series of speeches that have made her a poster child for identity politics In these speeches. race and gender take center stage. It's not only the one comment about a wise Latina making better decisions than a white male: it's the whole litany. If you read just these speeches you might come away with the impression that she was a racial activist who is just using the judicial system as a vehicle for her social crusade.
And yet her history and conversations with her colleagues suggest this is not the main story. If you look at the whole record, you come away with the impression that Judge Sotomayor is a hardworking, careful-though-unspectacular jurist whose primary commitment is to the law.
When she left Yale, she didn't take the mute designed to reinforce her ideological dispositions. She became a prosecutor with District Attorney Robert Moigenthau in Manhattan. She told The New York Times in 1983 that in making this decision, she faced "a tremendous amount of pressure from my community, from the third-world community at Yale. They could not understand why I was taking this job."
In the years since, she has not followed the easy course. More than any current member of the Supreme Court, she worked her way up through the furnace levels of the legal system. And when she reached a position of authority, she did not turn herself into an Al Sharpton in robes.
She is quite liberal. But there's little evidence that she is motivated by racialist thinking or an activist attitude.
Tom Goldstein of Scotushlog conducted a much-cited study of the 96 race-related cases that have come before her. Like almost all judges, she has rejected a vast \`ill majority' of the claims of racial discrimination that came to her. She dissented from her colleagues in only four of those cases. And in only one did she find racial discrimination where they did not. Even with what she calls
her "Latina soul," she saw almost every case pretty much as they did.
When you read her opinions, race and gender are invisible. I'm obviously not qualified to judge the legal quality of her opinions. But when you read the documents merely as examples of persuasive writing, you find that they are almost entirely impersonal and deracinated.
To my eye Judge Sotomayor's opinions are the products of a clear and honest if unimaginative mind. She sticks close to precedent and the details of a case. There's no personal flavor (in the boring parts one wishes there were). There's no evidence of a grand ideological style or even much intellectual ambition. If you had to pick a word to describe them, it would be 'restraint?
Looked at in her totality, Judge Sotomayor seems to be a smart, careful, hardworking judicial professional, who along the way picked up a patina of 1970s race-. class- and gender-consciousness.
It's interesting to compare Judge Sotomayor's thinking with Barack Obama's. On the grand matters of race in America, they are quite different. Judge Sotomayor has given a series of speeches arguing that it is not possible or even desirable to transcend our racial or gender sympathies and prejudices. During the presidential campaign, then-Sen. Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia arguing for precisely that, calling on America to move beyond the old categories and arguments.
Judge Sotomayor sometimes draws a straight line between ethnicity, gender and behavior. President Obama emphasizes our multiple identities and the complex blend of influences on an individual life.
Yet in practice, they do have a lot in common. In practice. Judge Sotomayor is a liberal incrementalist. Her careful opinions embody the sort of judicial minimalism that President Obama and his aide Cass Sunstein admire most.
In short, Judge Sotomayor's career surpasses the crude categories she sometimes articulates. Despite the ideas she picked up while young she has, over many years, chosen to submit herself to the discipline of the law, and she has not abused its institutions. I hope she's confirmed.
David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times.
## Madoff Jewish? Big deal.
#### By H NM MANDELL
Jewish news flash: Not everyone is as keenly aware as you are that the world's most notorious I'onzi schemer is Jewish.
A professor of mine who closely followed news about Bernard Madoff had no idea about his religious back-
ground. As it turned out. she was hospitalized when Madoff's Jewish affiliation, and the disproportionate number of his, Jewish investors made news And after her release, it never mew sired on her radar. Another professor expressed surprise to learn that Jews may be sensitive to Madoffs religious background.
Neither professor is Jewish. That's the point.
Cognitive psychology instructs us that information important to us is kept in the forefront of our minds. Perhaps the professors didn't associate Madoff and Jewish because Judaism does not place their radars on high alert. As a Ph.D. student studying Madoff, I have spent much time thinking about how people of various religious backgrounds react to Madoffs Jewish identity.
People with a Jewish identity (of which I'm one) seem to have reached a consensus that Madoffs Jewish background may fuel anti-Semitism. But we also tend to assume that non-Jews will think less of us simply because Medoff shares our religime; customs. In February Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in The Post that the Madoff story prompted "an outpouring of anti-Semitic comments on mainstream and extremist Web sites." His statement leads me to • i believe that anti-Jewish exTints out it is, but
Internet's anonymity. However, a survey I conducted in March as part
of my research contradicts that statement. The anonymous, online survey was completed by 178 individuals from across the US. It was sent to Jewish e-mail lists and a Christian seminary in Boston, and Christian e-mail lists in New York. It also was posted on the Web site of the Jewish Journal of Los Angeles.
Jewish respondents generally agreed that "Madoff gives Jews a bad name," with the Jewish average resting at "I feel this way often: Non-Jews, however, had a different response. Whether one identified as Protestant, Catholic. Christian or having no religious affiliation, the average response was the same: It fell muck in the middle of I feel this way rarely" and "I never feel this way" So much for non-Jewish respondents thinking that Madoff is a dark smudge on all Jews.
only i f you're Jewish. pression was commonplace, and perhaps increased, thanks to Madoff and the "just right." Respondents probably recognized that Madoff's Jewish background played a role in how he recruited investors. Therefore, they saw media coverage of this fact as relevant to the story, even if Madoffs specific religion
Generally, Protestants, Catholics, Christians and those without religious affiliation did not find Madoffs religion to be relevant. Instead, his religious identity was more important to Jewish respondents; 59 percent have thought at some point that they would feel better if Madoff were Protestant, Muslim, Catholic or Hindu.
Regardless of these differences, my survey also finds a similarity between the groups. All religious groups agreed that the media focus on Madoffs Jewish hex:kg-round was
was irrelevant to them. While I cannot gen-
eralize, the findings still offer insight. Jews may be. surprised to learn that non-Jewish respondents have expressed cool-headed opinions about Madoff's religious background, not anti-Semitic ramblings. Non-Jews may be surprised to learn how sensitive Jewish respondents are to Madoff's religion, and the extent to which Jewish respondents worry about how non-Jews think about them.
Not surprisingly, Madoffs religion is a source of shame for many Jews. It's impossible to reflect on Jewish concern over what "the Gentiles must think" without acknowledging a history pockmarked with extreme persecution. If the Madoff scandal took place in early 20th-century Europe, one can imagine it prompting a pogrom against Jews. But if the survey results are any indication. Jews are their toughest critics
Cognitive psychology can help explain that, too. When something is dear to you, you seek to protect its reputation. Personal issues such as religion are intertwined with identity And while Madoff's house of cards toppled, identity is a much harder enterprise to collapse.
Hisao Mandell, a doctoral student in mass communications at the St Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse University, has reported on Madoff for The Boston Globe
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WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- Attorneys representing several young women suing Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein were in court today, asking a judge to unseal what they call a "sweetheart deal" made between Epstein and the U.S. Attorney's Office.
Federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges against Epstein. now 56, when the financier agreed to plead guilty to state charges last year.
The Palm Beach billionaire was convicted of procuring teenagers for prostitution.
"I can't think of any other reason why it would happen in this case, but for his power. influence and wealth." said the plaintiffs' attorney Brad Edwards.
The sealed agreement, says Edwards. contains information relevant if not vital to their civil case.
"And every day that goes by their rights are violated," said Edwards' law partner Wiliam Berger. "and why should their rights be violated any further?"
Epstein's attorney argues the deal his client made with federal prosecutors should remain sealed.
"You've got to remember that it was the court that asked the record to be sealed and it was done during the course of the proceedings." said Epstein's lawyer Jack Goldenberger.
Deanna Shullman. another attorney, weighed in as well. Shullman, representing the media and the public's right to see what's in those documents. says there was. as best as
she can tell, no compelling legal standard applied when the judge originally sealed the documents
"The frustration is we have no idea why these records were sealed because it seems to have been sealed by a simple agreement of the parties," said Shullman.
Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath seemed inclined to agree the deal should never have been sealed in the first place. but gave Epstein's lawyers until Friday to file papers and arguments persuading him otherwise.
They're scheduled to meet again in court June 25th
"Justice delayed is justice denied and that's where we are now," said a disappointed Edwards.
"He's not getting special treatment," insisted Epstein's lawyer Jack Goldberger, "The law does not require the
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## Judge delays ruling on request to unseal plea deal in sex case
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WEST PALM BEACH — A circuit judge on Wednesday did not unseal the deal that money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach struck with federal prosecutors to avoid charges, opting instead to give Epstein's lawyers a chance to
demonstrate why it should remain hidden from public view. Circuit
Judge Jeff Epstein Colbath acknowledged at a hearing that Epstein's deal was not sealed in state court in accordance with the rules.
"1 don't see where any of the procedures were ever followed," he said.
Colbath has given Epstein's defense attorney. Jack Goldberger, an opportunity to argue that the document was properly sealed and asked lawyers to submit briefs to him by Friday. Colbath also set a full hearing for June 25.
women now suing Epstein are asking Colbath to unseal the deal that Epstein brokered with federal prosecutors. A lawyer for. The Palm Beach Post also has joined in the request.
"It's a secret agreement. A secret, sweetheart agreement: said former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, who now represents some of the women.
"Everybody was in on this deal except the victims and the public," Berger said. "The public should be outraged it has gone as far as it has."
A second attorney representing the woolen, Brad Edwards, has seen the sealed document. A federal judge allowed him and his clients to view it, but not to discuss its contents.
Edwards said the women were "outraged" at what had been negotiated without their knowledge. A reporter asked Edwards if he thought Epstein received special treatment by federal prosecutors.
Are you kidding? It's
one else gets treated like that," Edwards said.
Epstein. 56, a reported money manager of billionaires, is currently serving an 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County Stockade after pleading guilty nearly a year ago in state court to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution.
The saga began years ago when the Palm Beach Police Department began investigating whether young women were be-: ing brought to Epstein's mansion on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money.
Epstein's attorneys. in federal filings, have referred to sealed documents as a deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors and have called it "unprecedented" and "highly unusual."
Goldberger said his client has not received any special treatment.
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After being hit with the double-barrel crisis of fewer donations and more people in need of basics such as food and shelter, more than 30 local charities were shown a glimmer of hope Wednesday.
They will be getting a piece of \$1.3 million raised in just one month.
The organizers report that the payoff is bigger than the charities bottom lines
They say more than 11,300 families and 200.000 individuals will receive food; the money will provide shelter to more than 14.925 families. More than 27,525 patients will get access to health care and 518 children of working poor parents, homeless children and those living with elderly caretakers began summer camp this week.
Tito four biggest funders of nonprofits in Palm Beach and Martin counties set out to raise the money on May 1.
The Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Children's Services Council of Palm Beach County, the Allegany Franciscan Ministries and Quantum Foundation called it the Safety Net Challenge.
They report that private donors pitched in more than \$291,000, corporate donors such as Bank of America came up with another 850,000, and foundations such as the Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation and the John S. and James L Knight foundations contributed
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BOCA RATON - Fewer future doctors will be accepted to the fledgling medical program at Florida Atlantic University as the school wrestles with overall budget cuts of \$16.7 million.
The program, which is part of the University of Miami's medical school, plans to drop new enrollment to 48 students this fall from initial hopes of admitting 64 annually.
The College of Biomedical Science's share of the university's total budget reduction plan is \$1.5 million. The budget proposal was presented to a committee of FAU's board of trustees during a meeting Wednesday.
About 130 students are currently enrolled in the Budget cuts will lower new enrollment to 48 Instead of the goal of 64 students annually.
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The medical school opened at FAU in August 2004, enrolling an initial 16 students who took their fins two years of classes in Boca Raton and the final two years at UM.
A full-four year program at FAU opened in 2007 — a year ahead of schedule and one reason school officials aren't overly concerned about the current reduction in enrollment.
"SW are not immune to what is happening statewide and nationally," said Ken Jessell, FAU's vice president for university finance, about the \$16.7 million cut — the single
largest reduction in university history.
Overall, FAU proposes cutting 45 majors, 140 unfilled jobs and 30 filled positions, Five of those filled positions are tenured faculty in the College of Engineering and Computer Science, which underwent a reorganization this year.
Faculty members have expressed concerns about how their colleagues were laid off, stating during a meeting last week that the reorganization was a way to circumvent tenure policies that require less experienced faculty to be laid off first.
FAU President Frank Brogan, in an exchange
## Trustee policy backs materials law
Florida Atlantic aims to give some teeth to the affordability measure.
By KIMBERLY MILLER Palm Brack Part Staff Writer
Florida's auditor general will review university textbook purchases to ensure compliance with a new law requiring schools to seek out cheaper materials for students.
A Florida Atlantic University trustee committee adopted a policy Wednesday to comply with the law, learning that if professors dont comply, they will be called out in the audit.
Students had expressed concerns that there were no repercussions for noncompliance.
"This has been a hot issue for students because
of increased tuition and increased fees," said FAU student government President Tiffany Weimar. "But
while the implementation is great, a strong follow-up is missing."
FAU Associate Vice President for Financial Main: Dennis Crudele said he hopes the attention from state auditors will help with enforcement.
The new textbook affordability law was passed in 2008.
It requires several initiatives including:
• Ensure textbook access to students who cannot afford to buy their own.
■ **Post a list of required textbooks at least 30 days before the first day of class so students can shop around for the best deals.**
**• Require professors to state their intent to use all items that come with a textbook such as CDs, which can increase a book's cost.**
**• Determine the need for a new edition of a book when one is assigned.**
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that belied his normally
jovial demeanor, said the personnel decisions made during the budget cut process were not an attack on tenure. "FAU rewects tenure as
much as any other state university" Brogan said.
As president of this university, I want that quote to be entered into the record in a way that cannot be misunderstood and shouldn't be accepted as anything but what I mean it to be. This university supports tenure. That's a fact."
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## Tennis tour idea losing in Delray
#### By MARIA HERRERA SIM &antra
DELRAY BEACH — A promoter who wants to bring an international tennis tournament to Delray Beach must change his proposal for the city's budget task force to recommend approval.
Mark Baron, whose Match Point Inc. runs the International lbnnis Championships and the ATP World Tour. asked the city last week to co-sponsor the ATP Champions Tour and pay \$375,000, plus an annual 3 percent increase for the next 20 years.
"The end result is that he's supposed to revise the contract." said Todd L'Herrou, a member of the task force, after the group met with Baron on Tuesday. "It would be very hard to recommend approval at this point."
Baron said the AM Champions "Purr is played around the world and featines retired players such as John McEnroe and Pete Sampras Baron billed the tour as the first of its kind in the United States.
Opposition to the event is mounting
Renzo Reiss, a Delray
Revise the contract, the city's budget task force tells a promoter.
resident who worked with professional tennis players in the 1970s. said the tour has not been successful in other cities in the country.
"This is normally a sponsorship of a hotel to stimulate a bit of interest in the location," he said.
Raiss said he would organize his neighbors against the proposal should taxpayers be stuck with the bill.
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Delray is facing a n percent decrease in tax revenue, or about \$7 million, and officials said they already have been criticized for sponsoring other tennis events.
The city's budget task force said last year thai such sponsorships artcosting Delray about 82 million a year because of a 25-year agreement with Match Point. The deal makes the city responsible for cleanup, security. prize money and maintenance of the center to ATP standards.
The Florida Public Service Commission has scDeduled seven customer service hearings in your area as part of its decisionmaking process in Docket No. 080677-EL regarding Florida Power & Light COmParly'S reaveat for a rate increase. If the rod is approved, base rates would increase by \$12.40 in 2010 over the January 2009 typical 1.000 'dead-hoof residentia till. However, if the Commission approves FPL's fuel cost recovery request for 2010. FPL estimates that a typical resident would actually decrease by about \$5 montNy from atXXOXiMateti \$109 to \$104 starting Jan. 1. 2010. That's because the base increase of \$12.40 would be more thanOtfael due to lower fuel costs. The lower fuel costs are based on Feb. 9, 2009. fuel pot, protections for 2010 as well as improvements in payer plant fuel efficiency. Most business customer bills would decrease as well In 2011, FPL is requesting an additional base rate increase of \$2.84 a month on a typical residential bill.
#### Service Hearing Schedule
The customer service hearings scheduled in your area will be conducted by the Commission at the limes and places indicated below'.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009 — 4:00 p.m. Daytona Beach City Commission Chambers City Hall 301 S. Ridgewood Avenue Daytona Beach, FL 32114
Wednesday, June 24,2009 - 9:00 a.m. Brevard County Governmental Center Commission Roan, Building C. 1st floor 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way Melbourne, FL 32940 •
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 4:00 p.m. Palm Beach County Governmental Center Jane Thompson Memorial Chambers, 6th floor 301 N. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401
Thursday, June 25, 2009 — 9:00 a.m. Broward County Main Library Auditorium 100 S. Andrews Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301
The purpose of these customer servce hearings is to take testimony from the pubic on the quality and adequacy of FBI's service at other matters related to FPL's petition fa a rate adjustment. Members of the pubic wto vnsh to present testimony are urged to appear promptly at each scheduied nearing time snce the hearing may be adjourned early if no witnesses are present to testify.
Customer comments regarding FPL's quality of servo or proposed rate adjustment may also be submitted to the following address: Camnission Clerk. Office of Commission Clerk. Florida Public Service Commission. 2540 Shumard Oak Boulevard. Tallahassee. FL, 32399-0850. 5..c- •• - Hier to Docket No. 080677-El. In addrticet customers may also contact FPL with questions, • comments a six r ' Drsposal or any other aspects of the company's service a service quality through FPL's Web sire at www.FPLcom/resporise
Pursuant to the provisions of the .3rs with Disabilities Act, any person requiring special accommodation at these hearings Commiss ',tett at (850) 413-6770 at least 48 hours prior to the hearing. Any person who is hearing or speech-impaired callthe°fite of ion should contact the Florida Public Service Commission by using the Florida Relay Service, which can be reached at PO955-8771 (IDOL
tf a named storm a other disaster requires cancellation of the customer service hearing. Commission staff will attempt to give tritest notice to parties. Notice of can:LA.0°n of the meeting will also be wowed on the Commission's websim (htto./AwMOSC.Statell.us) under the Hot Tackt 0350s tiNc found on the home page. Cancellation can also be co-timed Fry calling Me Office of the General Counael a 1413-6199.
Thursday, June 25, 2009 — 4:00 p.m. Miami Science Museum 3280 South Miami Avenue Miami, FL 33129
Friday, June 26, 2009 -10:30 a.m. North Dade Regional Library 2455 NW 183 Street Miami, FL 33056
Friday, June 26, 2009 — 6:00 p.m. Plantation City Council Chambers 400 NW 73 Avenue Plantation, FL 33317
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## Water district won't raise tax rate
#### Managers hope that property values don't fall as far as expected.
#### By PAUL QUINLAN Palm Beach Past Staff Writer
The South Florida Water Management District will not hike its property tax rate despite plans to finance the states priciest-ever conservation land purchase amid a historic plunge in real estate values. leaders said Wednesday.
The agency expects revenues to drop about \$340 million this year, in part because property values across the district's 16 counties in South and Central Florida are anticipated to plunge 12.3 percent, water managers said.
The district is planning a \$1.5 billion budget for the 2010 spending year, which begins Oct. 1.
The agency's tax rate is 62.4 cents for each \$1,000 of taxable value. At that rate, the owner of a \$250,000 home with a \$50,000 homestead exemption would pay S124.80 to the district.
Wednesday's discussion came as the district prepares to finance Gov. Charlie Crist's monumental Everglades restoration plan: a \$536 million purchase of 73.000 acres of
U.S. Sugar Corp. farmland. The concept calls for eventually building a chain of reservoirs and marshes that could re-create the historic flowing connection between Lake Okeechobee and the Ev-
erglades. The land deal alone will saddle the district with \$45.7 million in annual debt payments over the next 30 years, Budget Director Doug Bergstrom told the district's board at a meeting in Naples.
Water managers maintain that the deal with US. Sugar — downsized twice from Crist's original plan to buy out the company for 81.75 billion — would not
impair the district's ability to perform its core duties of flood control and water supply management.
The one silver lining to this year's dire budget season: Water managers are optimistic that district-wide property values actually may drop less than 12.3 percent as June estimates tend to be overly conservative, Bergstrom said.
The board will meet in July to review the proposed budget before holding two public hearings in September. The district also must submit the budget to Crist, who has the power to veto it.
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## Copter to spray west county mosquitoes
#### By BILL DIPAOLO Palm Beach Post Ste Wit
If you're an adult mosquito. Friday night would be a good time to bug out of western Palm Beach County.
A Huey helicopter is scheduled to spray Dibmm, a chemical that bumps off the irritating insects by disrupting their nervous systems.
Spraying will start at sundown and is planned for four hours over 215.000 acres west of Military Trail in south county, the Glades, Wellington, Jupiter Farms, Palm Beach Country Estates, Caloosa, Loxahatchee. The Acreage and Royal Palm Beach.
"The mosquitoes are really annoying people." said Gary Goode. environmental analyst with the Palm Beach County mosquito control division.
The spraying is necessary because of recent rains, Goode said.
The 15.7 inches of precipitation recorded in made May the second wettest month since 1890, when 16.2 inches fell at Palm Beach International Airport. This year's heavy rains followed one of the driest November-to-May dry seasons on record, according to the National Weather Service.
If South Florida has steady precipitation, the rains will wash away the eggs that the insects lay
on the ground. But if rains are heavy for two weeks . then drop off for the next two weeks, the eggs will have time and a place to hatch, Goode said.
Rubbing out nuisance mosquitoes — females can lay 200 eggs every time they bite — is the goal of
Friday night's spraying.
So far, the county has
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executive director of water resources, during a board meeting in Naples. "This has been a soaking rain from the top of the system to the bottom?
Water now has reached above-average depths in vast swaths of the Even glades that had run dry.
Meanwhile, monitor wells whose drying had triggered last month's tightening of restrictions now have filled to aboveaverage levels, with some reaching some of the highest levels seen in decades, said Peter Kwiatkowski, tHe district's director of resource evaluation.
#### Watering limits
These restrictions are in place for most of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, including Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties. Water managers may make them permanent.
Odd-numbered addresses: Watering allowed Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Even-numbered addresses and properties with no address: Watering allowed Thursdays and Sundays.
Hours: No watering between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
Exceptions: One-day-a-week limits remain-in Lake Worth. No restrictions are in effect for Highland Beach. which draws all of its water from the Floridan Aquifer.
"Rainfall has recharged the aquifer levels to the point where things are in really great shape," he said. The region is not en-
tirely in the clear, water managers cautioned. July usually ranks as
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the driest month of the wet season. Water managers said they cannot be sure whether the wet season will bring below- or aboveaverage rainfall, although forecasts suggest the latter.
Exceptional one-day-aweek watering limits will remain in place in a few communities, including the city of Lake Worth, where saltwater threatens to intrude on vulnerable coastal wells
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## Union files complaint against Jupiter rehab center
By BILL DIPAOLO Palm Beach Post Staff {Thin
JUPITER — Charging management with trying to bust their union. members of the Service
Employees International Union filed charges Wednesday with the National Labor Relations Board against the owners of Courtyard Gardens Rehabilitation Center.
Formerly Jupiter Care Center, the 120-bed private facility on Thelma Road was taken over June 1 by the new owners, based in North Palm Beach. They have hired about 30 of nearly 135 former employ-
ees of Jupiter Care Center, many of whom had worked at the facility for about 20 years and made about \$12 per hour, said SEIU organizer Ucha Ndukwe.
About 90 percent of the former workers are union members.
"We want the rest of the employees to get their jobs back. The new company did not hire them because they are trying to get rid of the union." Ndukwe said.
Deb Peck, spokeswoman for Courtyard Gardens. declined to comment on specific charges.
The company also owns Courtyard Gardens Assisted Living facility on Indian Creek Parkway.
Courtyard Garden.; has
reduced the workforce to about 70 full- and part-time employees.
The facility, which required about 135 employees at capacity, now has about
70 patients, Peck said. Most of them, both adults and children, are long-term and on Medicaid. she said.
SEW represents about 16.000 health-care workers in Florida and the Southeastern United States. • artyOa7bpost ion.;
#### Paying for disposal
Palm Beach County commissioners gave initial approval Wednesday to a plan that would increase the county's garbage-hauling rates by as much as 13 percent for residents of the unincorporated areas. Rates for residents inside municipalities will not increase. A public hearing on the plan is set for Aug. 19.
| Service area | Current rate' | New rate' | Percent change | | | | |
| ------------ | ------------- | --------- | -------------- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | \$366 | \$406 | 11% | | | | |
| 2 | \$405 | 5453 | 12% | | | | |
| 3 | \$282 | \$306 | 9% | | | | |
| 4 | 5277 | 5300 | 8% | | | | |
| 5 | \$258 | \$278 | 8% | | | | |
| 6 | \$235 | \$250 | 6% | | | | |
| 7 | \$292 | \$318 | 9% | | | | |
| 8 | \$427 | 5479 | 12% | | | | |
| 9 | \$507 | \$575 | 13% | | | | |
| 10 | \$331 | 5365 | 10% | | | | |
| II | \$256 | \$276 | 8% | | | | |
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## Aaronson: Authority's debt load a concern
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Meanwhile, Commissioner Burt Aaronson said he is concerned about the amount of debt the authority is carrying. and questioned whether commissioners should continue to seek an alternative location for a new
landfill.
In 2007, the authority scrapped plans to build the new landfill on 1,600 acres it owns next to the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. Environ-
mentalists argued that the landfill would damage wildlife and water quality in the refuge, the northernmost remnant of the Everglades.
Commissioners are evaluating two new sites. But Aaronson said the plan would cost the county \$70 million.
"It is a very difficult thing for me knowing full well that we have this piece of property," Aaronson said. He added: "We should take advantage of anything that doesn't cost us money."
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## Convict admits strangling Lake Worth waitress in '83
By JASON SCBuLTZ — Pal:natal Post Staff latter
WEST PALM BEACH — woman when Justice in the slaying of he was sena waitress was served 25 tenced to 37 years late, but it finally more years on came Wednesday after a Wednesday. 69-year-old man admitted He pleaded .strangling her, according guilty to second-degree flo the Palm Beach County murder in the Sept. 29, :State Attorney's Office. 1983. death of Lynn C.
Bruce Albert Tessier Julin. ,t-was already serving three The 29-year-old was E lecades in prison for mur- found strangled in her
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Lake Worth apartment.
"It's been a long time since Lynn has been gone," said her mother. BeverlyJulin, Fe, of Sebastian. "We've all mourned her, and I'm just glad it is over"
Julin said her (laughter had five brothers and one sister and the news of Tessiers plea will help them all find closure.
According to the state attorney's office, Tessier was Julin's neighbor referring to the woman Elizabeth Ann Hucco, 29,
in 1983 and on probation lbssier was convicted of of Lake Worth, was found after being convicted of killing in 19'12 in Alachua dead in September in Melsexual battery. In April, County. "That is who I feel bourne; and Carla Lowe. he was charged in Junin sad for" 21, of Pompano Beach. death after DNA evidence At the time of Julin's was found dead in Delray
found on her nightgown slaying, media outlets and Beach on Nov. 13, 1983. linked him to the case. investigators wondered if After Tessier's arrest. "What I feel sadly about her death was connected to sheriff's officials and Del. is all the people who suf- the slayings of three other ray Beach police said they fered from the time my waitresses, Gayle McNeil, did not have any evidence daughter died, the people 30, of Cocoa Beach, was that Tessier was involved in he was responsible for kill- found dead west of Delray the other three murders. ing," Beverly Julin said. Beach on Oct. 21. 1983; •joson schultrepOposnom
## (Dispatcher honored for talking \[Boca dad through son's delivery
By CHRISTINA DeNARDO • Palm Reads Post Staff Water
BOCA RATON — It was 5 a.m. ;'• and Kenn Haupert had just awakened to his wife's screams. She was in labor.
Haupert picked up the phone to call the doctor, but when his wife, Teresa. screamed again, he dropped the phone to run back into the bedroom. He could see 1:the baby's head.
Haupert hung up on the doe- : for and called 911. On the other line was Jessica Sullivan, a Boca Raton 911 dispatcher who helped Haupert deliver son Justin, who ; weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces.
"Without her I would have been lying face-down on the floor," said Haupert. "I was ready
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#### Palm Beach County
Albright, Edna Foster, 89, of Juno Beach, died Wednesday. Edgley Cremation Services, West Palm Beach.
Allen, Sylvester, 84, of Boynton Beach. died Friday. Shuler's Memorial Chapel. Mangonia Park. Service Saturday.
Alvarez, Javier, 64, of Atlantis, died May 29. Genesis Funeral Home. Hollymxxl.
Bannister, Clarence, 83, of Royal Palm Beach, died Saturday. Shuler's Memorial Chapel, Mangonia Park. Funeral Saturday
Bussey, Harris, 77, of Riviera Beach, died June 2. Shuler's Me- ' morial Chapel, Mangonia Park. Service Saturday.
Cameron, Marian E., 87 of Atlantis, died Wednesday. Scobee- ' Combs-Bowden Fbneral Home Crematory, Boynton Beach. "Memorial service Saturday.
Chlapponi, Guy Francis, 23, of Jupiter, died Thesday. Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory,
to pass out."
On Wednesday, three months after Just i n was born, Sullivan became the first civilian to receive her department's Distinguished Service Award.
Sullivan, who has worked for the city for six years, was nearing the end of her 12-hour shift when she got the call from Haupert. She guided him through delivering the baby to tying the umbilical cord.
"It was amazing to hear hint cry on the other end." said Sullivan, who lives in Port St. Lucie.
After receiving her award, Sullivan cradled Justin in her arm. "He is absolutely adorable," she said. "
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## Benacquisto gets key GOP backing
The primary is more than dens, who has said it is "highly in Lee County, with a smatter-
By GEORGE BENNETT Republican state Rep. Sharon percent of voters live in Palm Palm Bemis Post SA:Plaster Merchant of Palm Beach Gar- Beach County and 45 percent 14 months away, but key Re- likely" she will enter the race. ing in Glades and Charlotte publicans lined up Wednesday Along with the senators' counties. Democrats hold a 40 behind Wellington Council- endorsements, Benacquisto to-36 percent registration edge. woman IAzbeth Benacquisto on Wednesday picked up the About 60 percent of the
in her bid for a state Senate support of Matt Caldwell, the district's Republican voters live district that could be a partisan Lee County Republican who in Lee County. and geographic battleground was the party's 2008 nominee In garnering Caldwell's enin 2010. for that Senate district. dorsement Wednesday, Benac-
Three key GOP senators District 27 is now repre- quisto said she would support — Senate President Jeff At- sented by Sen. Dave Aronberg, a redistricting after the 2010 water, Majority Leader Alex DCreenacres, who last week census that creates at least one Diaz de la Portilla and former launched a 2010 campaign for Senate district with a major-Senate President Ken Pruitt attorney general. ity of Lee County voters. The — endorsed Benacquisto to In addition to Republicans three senators who now reprerepresent District 27 which Benacquisto and Merchant, sent parts ofLeeCounty—Arstretches from West Palm Democratic attorney Peter onberg and Republicans Mike Beach to Fort Myers. Burkert of Fort Myers is ex- Bennett and Garrett Richter
In backing Benacquisto, the peeled to run. — live in other counties.
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Royal Palm Beach. Memorial service Saturday.
Dixon, Gosslin W, 72, of West Palm Beach, died Monday. Royal Palm Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home. West Palm Beach,
Gold, Jack, 80, of Boynton Beach. died Tuesday. Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Service Monday.
Gregory, Joseph k, 80, of West Palm Beach. died TUesday. Edgley Cremation Services, West Palm Beach.
Gummere, Jerry Victor, 75, of Wellington, died Wednesday. Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory, Royal Palm Beach. Visitation Monday.
Kellner•Feinsteln, Diane 5-, 63. of Defray Beach. died Friday. Weiss Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Memorial service Sunday.
Paugh, Josephine Ann, 93, of West Palm Beach, died Tuesday. National Cremation Society, Lake Worth.
Perez, Gilberto, 47, of Lake Worth, died Saturday All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Pletenlk, Samuel, 91, of Boynton Beach, died Monday. A Cremation Service of the Palm. Beaches. Boynton Beach
Prater, Martha E 91, of Lantana. died Saturday. Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Service Sunday.
Rendon, Oscar, of Delray Brach, died Sunday. Genesis Funeral Home, Hollywood. Memorial service Saturday.
Rodriguez, Eugenio, 64, of West Palm Beach, died June 2. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Rothstein, Violet, 86. of Boca Raton. died Tuesday. Levitt-Weinstein Memorial Chapel. West Palm Beach. Service Friday.
Rulz,Marla F,83, of Boca Raton, died Monday. Hudson Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach
Russo, Anthony, 96, of Boca Raton, died Sunday. Neptune Society, Pompano Beach.
Schattle, John G., 92, of Lake Worth, died Monday All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Sprow Patsy L, 79, of Wellington. died Monday Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory, Royal Palm Beach.
Walling, Wanda G., 93, of Lake Worth, died Monday All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth.
Weissel, Ira M., 9Z of West Palm Beach. died Tuesday. I. J. Morris Funeral Directors, West Palm Beach.
Winston, Howard L, 82, of Boynton Beach, died Monday. Riverside Gordon Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach.
#### Martin County
Pusleko, Jeffrey, 51, of Stuart, died May 30. Martin Funeral Home and Crematory, Stuart.
Wadsworth, Irma, 88, of Stuart. died Monday. Aycock Funeral Home, Stuart. Funeral in New York.
#### St. Lucie County
Burke, Glory H., 82, of Port St. Lucie, died Wednesday. Yates Funeral Home and Crematory Port St. Lucie. Service Monday.
Caste Charles McKinley, 40, formerly of Fort Pierce. died June 4. Stone Brothers Funeral Home, Fort Pierce. Visitation Friday and Saturday; service Saturday.
Fuller, Emmett Jr., 83, of Fort Pierce, died Friday. Stone Brothen Funeral Home, Fort Pierce.
Lee, William C. Jr., 47, of Port St. Luck'. died Sunday. Martin Funeral Home and Crematory. Stuart.
McMartin, Mary Jane, 74. of Port St. Lucie. died Friday. Yates Funeral Home and Crematory, Port St. Lucie. Visitation and service Friday.
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nu. Funeral Service will be held Saturday .June - 13,20a at 1E:0 PM.' St. Paul - Church 119 NW 5th Avenue Delray 'tech FL 33444. Visitation es( be held t-friclay. June 12, 2009, 6 PIA to 8 PM at ••Shuler's Memorial Chapel, 006 West l'Adentic Avenue, Deny Beach FL 33444. 710414630.elteMice entrusted toShut'''. Menoriel Paget, INI•ay Beach FL
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&ninon Reenrmng. age 62, of Delray Beech. FL went home tobe with the Lord on June 6,2009. He Neves to cherish he memory; tus role, lk. Glenda Reaming • of Delray Beach; two sons and one I daughter end a host of other relative. I and sorrowag french.
I Funeral Service ell be held Saturday ' June 13, 2009 at 1210 PM at Shoat s Memorial Chapel. 606 West Atlantic Avenue, Deltey Beach FL 33444. 3 Professonal Service entrusted to 9.4ees ..t,Mmcessl OnsPel, Debby Beads FL
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was a licensed Practical Nurse at Middlesex Memorial Hospital and Omens Convalescent Home, both in Middletown, CT. Mrs. Bernal- was a !gingko.\* parishioner with Notre Dame Ca hob( Church in Durham CT.
wm S s indale heramt usband. Henry S. nack, alb pi r; one daughter, Maureen A. Bermicki of Jupiter, two sons. Henry Bernet Li of Jusiter and Peter S. flernertli of Dungen. CT; on granddaughter, Leah Bernell,: one gnat-grandson, Tyler Kelm and one greg-groddaughter, Sadie Kobus. She was preceded in death by her Parents. AM. and Dort Klee end her two was. Leon J. and ache It Serneal
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He is survived by hit loving wife. Carolyn; his children; step.children; grendchldne and great-grandchildalso several brothers, step-brothers and sap-sisters.
Memorial Services will be held on Satires, lone 13, 2009 at 11:00 AM at the HOWARD-PRICE FUNERAL HOME. 754 US Highway One. North Pan Beech :•4 o' lowers donations may be made to The Salvaton Army. 2100 Palm Beach Lain Blvd, West Palm Beech, FL 33409. Te n one( omielemee &MM. mole Mmes.
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#### LYDIA DENISE SLOAN-SMITH "Lit"
Age 48. of Bowmen Beach. FL passed away on Thursday. Jun 4. 2009.
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#### Oil prices hit new 2009 high
HOUSTON - Oil prices surged again Wednesday to a new high for the year with investors pouring money into crude markets as a hedge against inflation.
Adding to crude's advance was new government data that showed an uptick in U.S. demand for gasoline.
#### THE MORNING! TINE
#### Local foreclosure filings spike
Foreclosure filings spiked in Palm Beach County in May, research firm RealtyTrac says in a report released Thursday.
According to RealtyTrac, 3,782 homes entered some stage of foreclosure, up 33 percent from April and up 42 percent from May 2008. In St. Lucie County, 1,293 homes received foreclosure filings. down 9 percent from April but up 13 percent from May 2008. And in Martin County, 256 homes went into foreclosure, up 17 percent from April and up 1 percent from May 2008.
Nationally, foreclosure filings were reported on 321,480 properties in May, a decrease of 6 percent from the previous month but an increase of nearly 18 percent from May 2008. One in every 398 US. homes received a foreclosure filing in May.
#### Piper Aircraft names new CEO
VERO BEACH — Piper Aircraft Inc. is getting a new top executive. The Vero Beach-based plane maker announced Wednesday that James Bass, its president and chief executive officer since 2005, will resign on June 26.
Kevin Gould, Piper's vice president of operations, will take over as CEO. John Becker, a 20-year Piper veteran and vice president of engineering, will become president.
Bass said his goal when he took the helm at Piper was to turn around the then-struggling company and make it attractive to a buyer. The Asian investment firm Imprimis bought the firm April.
#### Regulators warn Sterling Bank
LANTANA - Federal and state regulators have ordered Sterling Bank to improve its risk management and keep a close eye on past-due loans.
In an enforcement action released by regulators Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Florida Office of Financial Regulation said Sterling Bank must, among other things. he "adequately staffed by qualified and trained personnel" and create "an ac-
ceptable written plan to strengthen the bank's management of commercial real estate."
The 22-year-old bank has assets of \$421 million and reported a loss of \$2 million in the first quarter of 2009. Sterling Bank has five offices in Palm Beach County and two in Broward County.
#### Rain to boost state orange crop
okLANix)- Rain is expected to boost Florida's orange crop to 159.6 million 90-pound boxes for the 2008-09 season, up by 2 million boxes from last month's estimate, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday.
The USDA said the increase this year is made up entirely of Valencias, now estimated at 75 million boxes. But not all citrus fared as well, as grapefruit is forecast to now come in at 21.8 million boxes, down 3 percent from a month ago. The entire crop totaled 26.6 million 85-pound boxes in the 2007-08 season.
#### Starbucks: Over-charges'resolved
NEW YORK — Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday it has repaid all 1 million customers the gourmet coffee chain inadvertently double-charged on Memorial Day weekend.
A processing computer problem caused the company to bill some credit and debit card customers twice on May 22 and May 23. The error occurred at about 7,800 company-owned stores in the US. and Canada.
Starbucks spokes-woman Trina Smith said all the double charges were resolved as of May 29. She added that Starbucks is not aware of any outstanding charges but said any customers with questions should contact the company's customer relations hot line at (800) 23-LATTE.
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The new company will focus on fuel efficient vehicles.
By TOM KRiSHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON The Associated Press
DETROTT - Italy's Fiat is the new owner of most of Chrysler's assets. closing a deal Wednesday that saves the troubled US. automaker from liquidation and places a
new company in the hands of Fiat's CEO.
The deal creates a leaner company known as Chrysler Group LLC, which is not in bankruptcy protection and is free of billions in debt. 789 underperforming dealerships and burdensome labor costs that hobbled the old Chrysler LLC.
Fiat CEO Sergio Marchionne immediately was named CEO of the new company, which said in a statement that it would soon nvpen Chrysler factories that were idled during the bankruptcy process, costing the automaker \$100 million per day.
The new company will focus on smaller vehicles, areas
## \`RV-ing' remains popular amid recession
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'The demand for RV-ing is still unbelievably strong,' Silver Palms RV Village developer Bill Harvey says. Since constructiong began last July. Harvey has sold about one-third of the completed 167 sites.
## RV resort builder hopes to keep business rolling in
By TRACEY McMANUS Palm Reach Poi Staff Writer OKEECHOBEE— In a pocket of land north of Lake Okeechobee, past the winding nature trails that fill this 5,600-person town, Bill Harvey is patiently waiting.
He waits for the flock of snowbirds traveling in recreational vehicles headed for the warmth of the South. But the commercial real estate developer's also hoping to point those travelers to his new Silver Palms RV Village, a \$15 million project built on faith that a recession could never kill Americans passion for RV travel.
"The demand for RV-ing is still unbelievably strong." Harvey said. "and it's not something people are willing to give up now."
Harvey bases that optimistic outlook on the fact that over the past five years, nearly 50 Florida campgrounds have been sold to developers and turned into condos and strip malls. That's left a gaping hole in the demand for RV sites, he said; one he aims to fill.
A PKF Consulting study has shown that even with gas prices on an upswing, RV vacations can be 27 percent to 61 percent less expensive than other forms of travel for the savings on hotel, airfare and rental car casts.
As families turn to vacationing in mobile homes, Kampgrounds of America, a chain of 450 RV parks in North America. reported a 3 percent increase in campers this Memorial Day weekend.
"A lot of people are camping today instead of other forms of travel," said Bobby Cornwell, executive director of the Florida Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds. "It's the RV sales that are down; not because of a lack of popularity, but it's ... lending and being able to get financing."
In fact, new RV sales are down 57.6 percent in the past year because of financing trouble, but Cornwell said current owners of mobile homes are camping now more
#### Silver Palms RV Village
Location: 4143 U.S. 441 S.. Okeechobee Owner/Developer: Bill Harvey Amenities: Fitness center; 9,000-square-foot clubhouse; pool; athletic courts; library; card room; fishing lakes; and plannedactivities. Prices: Ranging from \$55,900 to \$80,000 per site
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#### than ever.
And Harvey said those faithful to the RV lifestyle are now demanding a new generation of campsites, equipped with the activities of a recreation center and the atmosphere of a country club.
When construction wraps up on Silver Palms in late July, the park will be a part of this new species of campgrounds — with a pool, hot tub. 9,000-square-foot clubhouse with a ballroom, lakes and daily activities for residents. Moreover, the 1W sites sit in the landscaped. 90-acre gated community and are paved in flashy stone.
Since construction began last July. Harvey has sold about one-third of the completed 167 sites. Eventually, the park will have 512 RV sites, starting at \$55,900. which Harvey said people are willing to pay to be able to own their own site in a competitive market.
"I felt really good at the prospect of moving forward and spending millions on this,' he said. "There's nothing in Okeechobee that's even close to us."
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The 'new' Chrysk Fiat says Chrysler plants idled by bankruptcy will start up soon.
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## County won't get ethanol facility
UF instead plans to build the plant closer to Gainesville.
> By SUSAN ssuseurty Palm Beach Post Staff Kfittr
Palm Beach County has been jettisoned as the site of a University of Florida ethanol plant.
In the works for two years. the proposed S20 million research and demonstration plant was slated to be built next to Florida Crystals Corp.'s Okeelanta mill and refinery near South Bay.
But University or Florida officials said Wednesday that revamped plans now call for building a smaller plant closer to Gainesville, where it will benefit from proximity to UF's faculty and staff.
With Verenium Corp.. BP and Lykes Brothers proceeding with plans to build a 36 million-gallon-ayear commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County that will use similar technology, the idea of a demonstration plant became obsolete.
"The process moved faster than the project... Florida Crystals' spokesman Gaston Cantens said Wednesday. "That combined with the fact that the S20 million was not going to be sufficient to build the project we had anticipated and no other funds were available led to this change."
In 2007, the state legislature awarded \$20 million to UFs Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to establish a research plant to commercialize UF Professor Lonnie Ingram's patented technology for producing ethanol from the woody parts of plants. The "next-generation' biorefinery will produce ethanol and plastics from agricultural residues and woody materials. said Joe Joyce. UF executive associate vice president for agriculture and natural resources. Also in 2007, a UF panel chose the southwestern Palm Beach County location from among six contenders. Florida Crystals had agreed to provide the land and utilities for the plant. Buckeye Florida
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By JEFF OSTROWSKI Palm Beach Post Staff lihster
WELLINGTON — After spending billions to bail out banks, taxpayers are poised to offer a much smaller amount for loans to struggling small businesses.
Starting Monday, employers can apply for loans of up to \$35,000 through the Small Business Administration's America's Recovery Capital program. The terms are generous: No payments for the first year, and no interest for five years after that.
Not everyone will qualify. lb land one of the emergency loans, a small business must
be in trouble — but not too much trouble.
Borrowers must face Immediate financial hardship," SBA says, meaning that their sales are falling or they can't pay employees or lenders. But borrowers also must be "viable." defined as positive cash flow for at least one of the past two years.
#### Bailout plan offers small businesses up to 35,000
Borrowers can't be more than 60 days behind on any loan, must have "an acceptable business credit score" and must present a convincing plan for surviving the recession.
"You've got to show us what you're going to do." said Tom
Gallman spoke to 25 small business own-
Wellington organized by the Palms West Chamber of Commerce.
Lenders said they're still waiting for details from the SBA about the program, but they predict a flood of interest from borrowers.
"I'm assuming everybody in the room is going to at least ask the question," said Jaene Miranda, chief execu-
tive of the Palms West Chamber of Commerce.
Lenders from Wachovia, SunTrust, TD Bank, Washington Mutual and National City said theyll make loans through the SBA program. However, all said they'll offer the loans only to businesses that already have accounts with them.
The SBA has S250 million for the America's Recovery Capital loans. It expects to make about 10,000 loans nationwide.
For more information, visit http://www.sba.gov/recovery/ arcloanprogramiindex.html. octostrovnutpoponcom
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A sex offender charged last week in a quarter-century old 'cold case' rape of a 3-year-old girl in Boynton Beach was in Palm Beach County court Wednesday and ordered held without bail. Walter Earl Taylor, 39, was arrested June 4 in Lake City, where he now lives, Boynton Beach police said. He is charged with sexual assault on a person under 12. and was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail Tuesday night.
Charges that a Buffalo Bills fullback exposed himself outside a woman's home In Port St. Lucie have been dismissed because the woman who reported the incident now says she didn't see the man exposing himself and couldn't give other details, authorities said Wednesday Corey McIntyre, 30, who played football at South Fork High School in Stuart and lives in Indiantown, was arrested on a warrant charging him with indecent exposure related to a March 20 incident
A suburban West Palm Beach man sew ally assaulted a woman Monday after she refused to work for him as a prostitute, authorities say. Pedro Martinez, -12. was charged with sexual assault, felony battery and possession of a weapon by felon. He was ordered held in lieu of \$60,000 bail Wednesday. The attack occurred as Martinez and the 3I-year-old woman were drinking and smoking marijuana in an apartment in the 5100 block of Jaczko lane. according to a Palm Beach County sheriff's report
#### A Loxahatchee woman who authorities say drove drunk Into a head-on collision with her 23-month-old son In the back seat has heck charged with injury DUI and
child abuse. Diann Lopez. 34, was booked Monday morning at the Palm Beach County Jail. Palm Beach County sheriff's officials reported that on April 18. she was driv-
Lopez ing on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road when she crossed a double yellow line, sideswiped a Honda and slammed head-on into a pickup driven by Kelsea Frick, 17, of Loxahatchee. In Lopez' car, deputies found an 18-pack of beer, reports
said. The child was turned over to a
family member
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A 23-Year-old Jupiter man who wrecked his car on Interstate 95 near West Palm Beach last week has died from.his injuries. Guy E Chialiponi was southbound on the highway north of Belveders Road about 3:20 a.m. on June 3 when he lost control of his car Florida Highway Patrol officials reported. The car spun, hit a guardrail and flipped. He was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center, where he died Tuesday afternoon. The FHP report indicated that the crash was alcohol-related and that Chiapponi was not wearing a seat belt. A passenger. Willie M. Booker of Riviera Beach. suffered minor injuries.
#### LAKE INORTF
Residents can stack large piles of tree limbs and other vegetation beginning
Monday. City officials said no citations for excess vegetation will be issued through June 19 as part of Green & Clean Week, intended to encourage tree trimming for hurricane season. Residents should put vegetation on the curb on regularly scheduled pickup days. For information on permitted
Weather, traffic, breaking news and special reports
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#### Chick-fil-A to feed 5,000 for free
WEST PALM BEACH — Five thousand free Chick-fit-A chicken lunches will be distributed today at City Center, Mayor Lois Frankel tells a news conference Wednesday. The fast-food) chain also donated 2,000 sandwiches to six homeless shelters, a spokesman said.
tree-trimming methods. call city Horticulturist Martin Cybulski at (561) 586-1720 or the grounds maintenance division at (561) 586-1677. '
#### RIVIERA REACH
The Community Redevelopment Agency mooting scheduled for Wednesday was can celed and rescheduled for June 24. The city council, sitting as the CM board, was scheduled to discuss terms submitted by Viking Developers LLC for the redevelopment of the city marina.
#### BRIEFLY
Palm Beach County will get 52.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help restore 192,300 cubic yards of sand that eroded from beaches last year as a result of Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Hanna, county environmental managers said Wednesday. The money represents the federal share of a \$2.9 million project to rebuild shoreline damaged by the storms.
TNlawasSEE — Charles E. Fetscher Jr., 62, of Wellington was appointed to the Palm Beach County Housing Authority on Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Crist. Fetscher, a processor with KAF Processing. was appointed to a term that ends Jan. 20. 2013. He succeeds Sally Hamadeh Byrd.
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FORT PIERCE --Two Fort Pierce residents were arrested Tuesday after deputies discovered tools used to make counterfeit money in their home on Yedra Avenue, the St. Luck. County Sheriff's Office said. Brenda Hopkins, 46, was arrested on charges of counterfeiting money and possessing tools for counterfeiting. Ronald Jensen, 51, was arrested on charges of counterfeiting money, possessing toots for counterfeiting and tampering with evidence. Both were taken to the St. Lucie County Jail. Deputies found counterfeit \$20 bills in their home, according to a sheriff's report.
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Nine male manatees pursued a female while trying to mate Sunday on Lauderdale-by-the-Sea.
## Give them privacy, manatee club says
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**slapping their tails, hugging each other with their flippers, and occasionally piling up on sandbars or the beach.**
**Thesday's beaching was tame compared to the spectacle on Lauderdale-by-the-Sea on Sunday, when a female in heat was pursued by nine males. Onlookers snapped photos of the manatees cavorting in the shallow surf as the fire department kept order.**
**Katie Tripp, director of**
**science and conservation at the Save the Manatee Club, said that with each animal weighing in at more than 1,000 pounds, a herd of amorous manatees can be quite a sight.**
**it's really no wonder that people get fascinated," Tripp said, "when you get 5, 10, 15, manatees splashing around in the shallow water.?**
**The act itself is over in 15 to 30 seconds, but a female in heat may attract many eager males that pursue her for days. Marine biologists don't agree** **on why they sometimes swim onto the beach — it might help with mating, or maybe the females just get tired.**
**If all goes well, a calf will be born in about 12 months.**
**It's fine to watch the manatees mate front a distance. Tripp said, but give them a little privacy**
**"If they can not really know that you are there, that's really for the best," Tripp said. "Just stay back and allow them to focus on making new manatees." •kattteenchermanepeocat tom**
## **TREASURE COAST** Teacher suspended in boy's vote-out can keep contract
By CARA FITZPATRICK Palm Beath Post Staff Hisao-
FORT PIERCE — After teary pleas from supporters, the St. Lucie County School Board voted unanimously Wednesday to uphold a one-year unpaid sus-
a child could stay in class, but rejected a recommendation to terminate her continuing contract.
pension for Wendy Portillo. a teacher who asked students last year to vote on whether a Perini('
Portillo, a 12-year veteran of Morningside Elementary, put her head down and wept after the vote. When she looked up she was smiling.
"I didn't think this was going to happen, and I'm just happy I'm going to go
#### back to doing what I love," she said after the personnel hearing.
Portillo, who will finish her suspension in November, faced a tougher punishment.
Superintendent Michael Lannon recommended that Portillo be suspended without pay for a year, returned to an annual contract and prohibited from teaching young children again in St. Lucie. He had considered, but ultimately rejected firing her.
Portillo appealed the punishment to the state Division of Administrative Hearings, but the judge ruled against her.
School board members had to decide Wednesday whether to accept the judge's ruling in full or, based on the case record, to modify it. Their parameters for doing so were
narrow.
The incident, in which Portillo asked her kindergarten students to vote on whether then 5-year-old Alex Barton could remain in class, polarized the community and attracted an onslaught of attention. Students voted 14-2 for him to leave.
That Alex was later diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and had been under evaluation for it at the time only added to the controversy.
Melissa Barton, Alex's mother, didn't attend the hearing. She said she and her family had been threatened • since the incident. She removed Alex from public school afterward.
She called Wednesday's decision "disgusting"
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## Renter fatally shoots driver in yard
The Royal Palm grad was trying to steal a trailer, deputies say.
By JASON SCHULTZ Palm Beach Past Staff14'7,k,
A former baseball pitcher at Royal Palm Beach High School was shot and killed Tuesday while trying to steal a trailer full of car-detailing supplies from a man's front yard. Palm Beach County sheriff's investigators said.
That account dots not make sense to the family of 22-year-old Jason Boden of Loxahatchee.
"He was a wonderful boy, and he did a lot for
the community,- said his shocked mother, Sandra Boden. "He was probably helping out a friend."
Sheriff's investigators believe Boden backed his truck into a yard in the 5800 block of Coconut Boulevard, near Royal Palm Beach, shortly before 4 p.m. There is no evidence that he knew the man who lived there, but Boden hooked up a trailer full of car-detailing supplies to his truck, then started to drive away, said sheriff's office spokeswoman Teri Barbera.
While leaving, the trailer hit the house's awning The man who rents the
home there looked out his window, grabbed a handgun and went outside,
Barbera said. The renter, whose identity has not been released, called 911.
As Boden tried to unhook the trailer from his truck, the man demanded his keys so he could not get away.
The two men struggled, and the gun went off, Barbera said. Investigators do not believe the man intentionally shot Boden, Barbera said.
Boden, who graduated from Royal Palm Beach High in 2004, died at the scene. He did not have a criminal record.
The case will be turned over to the state attorney's office to determine whether charges will be filed.
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## Rules on watering won't get tougher
By PAUL QUINLAN Palm Beaeh Post Ste Wriest
You can thank the rain for preventing water managers from imposing even stricter. limits on your sprinklers.
Had this spring's severe drought continued, oneday-a-week restrictions might have been imposed in Palm Beach and Tiro-
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The commissioners' budget proposal would affect rates in unincorporated areas.
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Palm Beach County commissioners signed off Wednesday on a budgetproposal that would increase garbage-hauling rates by as much as 13 percent for residents in unincorporated areas.
The commission. meeting as the county's Solid Wate
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Authority managers began warning residents about the sharp hikes in 2007, as haulers faced higher fuel, employee and equipment costs.
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## Government to loan company \$4.7 billion
#### I\* CHRYSLER from 88
on developing new environmentally friendly. fuel-efficient, high-quality vehicles that we intend to become Chrysler's hallmark going forward," the new company said in a statement.
The Italian automaker won't put any money into the deal but will give Chrysler billions worth of all car and engine technology.
"We intend to build on Chrysler's culture of innovation and Fiat's complementary technology and expertise to expand Chrysler's product portfolio both in North America and overseas," Marchionne said in a statement.
The sale to Fiat SpA marks a victory for the Obama administration, which shepherded Chrysler LLC into Chapter 11 protection on April 30 with the hope that the company would emerge in a matter of months with a new partner
"This morning's closing represents a proud moment in Chrysler's storied history," said the Treasury Department in a written statement Wednesday "The Chrysler-Fiat Alliance has now exited the bankruptcy process and is poised to emerge as a competitive, viable automaker."
The government will loan the new company \$4.7 billion, to be repaid within eight years along with interest and \$288 million in fees.
The Treasury had given Chrysler LIE \$3.3 billion in debtor-in-possession financing to support the company throughout the bankruptcy process. Chrysler LIE remains in bankruptcy court, as it winds down operations, selling plants it doesn't want, dispersing payments to debtholders and settling any other claims that were not transferred to the new company. Those actions could linger until next year. if not longer.
Marchionne, 56, who won acclaim for his turnaround of Fiat, brings a different style to Chrysler. The year after taking over Fiat in 2004. Marchionne led the company to post its
## Local dealers end Chrysler work, will sell other lines or used cars
STUART - Several Chrysler dealerships in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties closed Wednesday as their franchise agreements were severed with the bankrupt automaker.
Those affected: Ed Napleton's Jupiter Dodge and Wallace Chrysler Jeep in Fort Pierce. A Mazda franchise will remain at Napleton's dealership, and several brands will continue operating at Wallace in Fort Pierce. Massey-Yardley Chrysler Dodge in Hobe Sound stopped operating as a new-car dealer but plans to continue selling used cars at the location. a sales manager said.
On Tuesday in New York. US. Bankruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez approved Chrysler's motion to terminate 789 of its dealer franchises, or about percent of its dealer base.
Chrysler has maintained that the closures are a necessary part of its plan to cut costs. The dealers had argued that they cover their own costs and little would be gained by terminating their franchises.
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Rusty Wallace, general manager of Wallace Chrysler Jeep, which unsuccessfully fought the decision to cancel the dealership's franchise.
Chrysler attorneys said the automaker would extend until Monday its program to help the affected dealers send any unsold vehicles to stores that will ranain open.
— Staff writer Eve Saneks
#### Chrysler Group will be divided into four units to speed decision making.
first net profit in five years, He also streamlined its management, burnished the brand with the award-winning update of the Fiat 500 and entered a series of strategic alliances to share costs and enter new markets.
Chrysler Group will be divided into four
divisions, representing the Chrysler, Jeep, Ikxlge, and Mopar brands. Peter Fong will become president and CEO of Chrysler brand. Michael Manley will become presi• dent and CEO of the Jeep brand and Michael Accavitti will assume the same position for Dodge. Pietro Gorlier of Fiat Group will run the Mopar division.
Marchionne said the organization will be designed to give leaders broad control and increase the speed of decision making.
## Florida Crystals to stay involved
#### ► **ETHANOL from 88**
**LP, which operates a pulp mill in Perry, will be getting the plant instead, said Ingram, director at UF's Florida Center for Renewable Chemicals and Fuels.**
**Florida Crystals will remain a member of the technical advisory committee helping to evaluate the commercial viability of the processes and various feedstocks used to make the alternative fuel, Cantens said. 'We continue to have an enormous interest ' in renewable energy and biofuels, and we will continue to work with the University of Florida as well as technology companies," he said.**
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## The Palm Beach Post Who would Jesus outsource?
• MEC TAYLOR. Pubtither
TIM BURKE, Executive Editor RANDY SCHULTZ, Editor of the Editorial Page
It's been slightly more than a year since teacher Wendy Portillo let her kindergarten students at Morningside Elementary in Port St. Luck "vote" 5-year-okl Alex Barton out of her classroom. We said that Ms. Fortino should not be allowed to teach again. We still think that reinstating
her is a mistake. But the district didn't fire her. And last week the St. Lucie County School Board unanimously decided not to revoke Ms. Portillo's Portillo long-term contract and
place her on a year-toyear contract that would have made it easier to dismiss her. The board, however, did vote to uphold Ms. Portillo's one-year suspension without pay. The suspension is over in November.
The case attracted worldwide attention, and school board member Kathryn Hensley summed up its effects: "This became an emotional firestorm that crucified everybody."
As far as Ms. Portillo goes, the best thing is to declare the case closed. She has paid a price in humiliation and salary. She will be under scrutiny if she returns to the classroom.
With the decision about the individual teacher concluded, other issues become more important. Alex's mother. Melissa Barton. has
Issues go beyond one St Lucie County teacher
said that her son — who later was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome — had been making progress since the incident. She has worried, however. about the message it sends if Ms. Portillo gets to teach again. She also says that people unhappy with her for pressing the case against Ms. Portillo have threatened her. Clearly. Alex will need continued help from his parents, the district, health-care
professionals and possibly the police. Most important is for the district to follow through with proposed changes to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Ms. Portillo did not have sufficient training or support when faced with a very disruptive child who had been identified as needing special instruction.
The district has a number of problems. It faces big budget cuts even as its FCAT scores, SAT results and the percentage of students passing Advanced Placement tests all lag behind state averages. Such districtwide problems could overshadow issues with students such as Alex. If that happens, sooner or later there will be another firestorm.
Should Wendy Portillo be allowed back in the classroom?
r,s.PaIntBeach Pc 'Montt),
## Unseal the Epstein deal
A rich, middle-aged Palm Beacher who preyed on girls almost 40 years younger already has received too many breaks from the system. He doesn't deserve another.
In July 2008, at the age of 55 and
after paying the equivalent of a small country's gross domestic product in legal fees, Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges and pleaded guilty in state court to a pair of charges related to his luring five girls
- ages 14 to 17 — to his house. The girls undressed and ' massaged him in return for \$200 to \$300. He's serving only 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail, and he's serving only nights. And now he wants just one more favor.
When Epstein entered his state plea, the terms of his federal deal were sealed from the public. That violated normal procedures. Attorneys for some of the victims, who have filed civil lawsuits, want that plea deal unsealed, probably because
the details would help their cases.
But given the nature of this case, there's also a public interest. One condition of the federal plea, for example, was that he take the state deal. That's why The Past also is seeking to have the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers, Palm Beach sex offender deserves no more breaks.
of course, want it kept secret. Last week, a Palm Beach County judge set a hearing for June 25.
Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger claims that the file should stay sealed to protect the "orderly administration of justice" and "protect a compelling government interest." Oh, and third parties might get hurt. The compelling interest is Epstein's, and there is no privacy issue since the victims themselves are making the request.
Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein, only to see then-State Attorney Barry Krischer kick the case to a grand jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when one of Epstein's gold-plated attorneys, Alan Dershowitz announced that some of the victims had posted MySpace comments about their alcohol and marijuana use.
Epstein's "best" defense has been that he didn't know the girls were underage. "How he verified that," Mr. Goldberger said. "I don't know." Investigators found a high school transcript in Epstein's house. He didn't know? The public should know what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the system did for him.
Improving flu symptoms
Six area residents may not like it, but China's new attitude toward public health will mean a safer world.
In 2003, China drew justified criticism for trying to cover up an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS. Authorities worried that the news would hurt the country's economy. The issue showed the conflict between the information-repressing China and the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. When it came to public health, China
couldn't have it both ways.
As The Post has reported, some students from The Benjamin School were quarantined, with almost no notice, after being exposed to swine flu. A West Palm Beach accountant who has swine flu also was quarantined. But last week, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. China acted properly. What may seem like overreaction now looks good compared with the underreact ion six years ago.
C1AY BENNET1 'Chattanooga Toys Flee rev s
"There cannot be two masters in the management of business," said George F Baer, who was master of the Reading Railroad at the start of the 20th century. "God in his infinite wisdom has put the control of business into the hands of Christian gentlemen." They lost
control of General Motors. GM now seems to be under the control of unsaved labor Tom Blackburn unions that were explicitly excluded
by Mr. Baer's theology of management. Sharing in the mastery is "government," a word that
conservatives use the way a rapper repeats four-letter words — to shock fans and sell downloads.
A lot depends on what you mean by "government." If you are referring to the ways in which we collectively seek the common good, government is all of us. and GM is our problem.
The Obama administration got in the driver's seat hoping to avert runaway unemployment and prevent the public from being stuck with the autoworkers pensions and medical care. The engine was shot, as it turned out, and the car has no brakes. We are getting the unemployment, and probably will end up with the pensioe• and medical care, neithx. If which will be as good tor the retirees as it was when GM had it.
Along the way, we ran over people who had loaned the company money, the
#### Christ, health care no longer fit biz models.
bondholders. We will pay a price for stiffing lenders, and probably sooner rather than later. That is a moan for another column.
For a while after World War II, American companies could be warm cocoons. They paid enough to clothe and feed a family, and then they provided more than ban Social rity for old age and the kind of health care governments in other countries pay for with taxes. They even backed bowling leagues for the grown-ups and ball teams for the kids.
Then America went back to Mr. Baer's management theology and dropped the sissy stuff. A new generation of masters discovered outsourcing. We changed: GM couldn't. That's how we all ended up with it.
The change is adored by people who would have only a 1-in-4 chance of inserting a time card correctly. They say health care can continue the way it has, with some tax tweaking even though the way it runs needs employers to pay for insurance, and increasingly they don't.
Maybe I'm reading the wrong Web sites, but I see more sympathy for the downtrodden bankers who got us into the current mess than for the folks at GM who went down with the mess. The bankers took our money spent some of it lobbying against the common good, used their clout to clear the way back to greed with a half-baked "stress test" and now want our tears because
we told them not to use our money to reward themselves the way that God in his infinite wisdom wants them to be rewarded.
As for 'the effort to find sugar and make lemonade out of GM, you can stand around screaming at "socialism" or "Pdosi, Pelosi, Pelosi" for all I care, until the rubes send money. But if you want Americans to have health care, you have to get it through either the government or companies like General Motors. And if you excoriate GM and its unions for their health care, you aren't going to get it through them for very long. You probably won't get it through them much longer anyway, whatever you do. So, what are you going to do?
While you think about it, let me recommend the article by Dr. Guy Clifton in the June 8.15 issue of America magazine. He tells the story of a friend who had to wait four months after the diagnosis of a lifethreatening disease for the paperwork to go through to allow her expensive surgery. The "world's greatest health-care system" paid for the surgery, but too late. It lost the patient. Dr. Clifton counts her as one of 22,000 uninsured Americans who die prematurely each year in our system.
lb the question of what you want to do, "nothing", should not be the answer.
Tom Blackburn is a former member of The Post Editorial Board Ilis e-mail address is torn_blackburnikuno.com
## LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/Lifeguard layoffs Saving money not as important as saving swimmers
Palm Beach County's lifeguards need a
lifeline from the county commission. The recent Post story, "County's crunch: Layoffs, tax hikes," could have included more details about p d layoffs of our ocean rescue lifeguards al'he story stated that "several" ocean rescue lifeguards would be laid off. In this case, "several" means 36 of 83. These lifeguards protect hundreds of thousands of beach-goers. They warn us about sharks and rip currents. They save more lives than most of us know. The story stated that "an" ocean rescue chief would also be laid off. but there is only one ocean rescue chief.
The city of Lake Mbrth returned to a full staff of ocean rescue lifeguards recently, after an ill-fated experiment of having none two days per week. Public outcry helped in the decision to return to full coverage. Palm Beach County has not had a drowning at a
#### guarded county beach in at least a decade, and dozers of lives are saved by lifeguards each year. Laying off one-third of our ocean rescue guards is a dangerous idea. Public safety is our first priority, and the Palm Beach County Commission must find a way to save our ocean rescue lifeguards.
TOM WARNKE Lantana
Editor's note: Tom IVarrike founded the Palm Beach aunty chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
#### What did pair do to get arrested in N. Korea?
Not many-of the news items even bothered to mention the crime supposedly committed by Lisa Ling and North Korea. I did discover that it had something to do with an inadvertent border crossing Inadvertent? What does that mean? There was an open field between China and North Korea, and they No fence? I think we should hear more about what they were supposed to have done.
Euna Lee. the two journalists who were at rested by were just walking there?
RAY WICKS
West Palm Beach Editor's note: The Ins Angeles Times reported that "it is not clear uitether they ever actually entered North Korean territory before being arrested The families have emphasized that when Ms. ling and Ms.
#### Accident Just waiting to happen
lifeguard Rick Moore said it all: "Lifeguards do lots more than save swimmers. We warn beach-goers of rip currents, man ()War and other dangers. We put up the flags for sea conditions. We answer their questions. We treat injuries. Just us being there creates a feeling of security." ("4 Palm Beach County beaches lose lifeguards.")
We are missing the big picture if we close more beaches and continue to cut lifeguards. Tourists flock to our beaches. The closure of four more beaches and staff cuts will signal a major accident waiting to happen. People will continue to visit the closed beaches, continue to swim and surf, and continue to meet up with friends. Now a drowning will be the victim's own fault because he swam at a closed beach? I hope the county lawyers will be prepared to answer
that question when the victim's family sues.
The beach is one of the few places without an admission charge. This poor decision is not really a surprise. We voted for those confusing amendments and officials who promised not to raise taxes. Like it or not, taxes keep this country functioning All those services we enjoyed for so long are drying up, along with many people's lives. We will miss walking the beach. JEAN AND JAMES LA SPINA
Tequesta
lee le the United States. they had no intention of entering North Korea. "A North Korean court sentenced the women to 12yrars at hard labor.
#### Aid terrorist wannabes, then 'catch' them
Let's see. There are three or four really stupid guys down at the bar talking about wanting to commit jihad. They were not Islamist, but talking tough sounded good-
So, somebody shows up, agrees with everything they are saying, eggs them on and gets them bombs and anti-aircraft missiles they never could have gotten without this new friend. and they pull off a plan that the new friend helped them make up. Then they are arrested after huge amounts of personnel and money have been put into the project, and now the New York Police I)epartment gets to be a hero, having saved the world from the four people that they helped train and supply Sounds like good, efficient law enforcement to me.
JOHN BODEN Delray Beach
#### Find other way, but keep Shopper Hopper
I was horrified to read that Boynton Beach may discontinue the Shopper Hopper (May 14). I implore the city to find a better means of cutting costs. The service is the lifeblood for so many riders, especially senior citizens and the handicapped. I-br many. alternate forms of travel to stores would be a financial burden. There arc other options, such as raising the fare and/or cutting trips in half one week to Publix, one week to Walmart etc.
LILLIAN BROADWICK Boynton Beach
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## The Palm Beach Post Who would Jesus outsource?
ALEX TAYLOR Publisher
TIM BURKE. Executive Miter RANDY SCHULTZ. Editor of the Editorial Page
## Avoid another \`firestorm
Ifs been slightly more than a year since teacher Wendy Portillo let her kindergarten students at Morningside Elementary in Port St. Lucie "vote" 5-year-old Alex Barton out of her classroom. We said that Ms. Portillo should not be allowed to teach again. We still think that reinstating
t
her is a mistake. But the district didn't fire her. And last week the St. Lucie County School Board unanimously decided not to revoke Ms. Port PortIllo longterm contract and
place her on a year-toyear contract that would have made it easier to dismiss her. The board, however, did vote to uphold Ms. Portillo's one-year suspension without pay. The suspension is over in November.
The case attracted worldwide attention, and school board member Kathryn Hensley summed up its effects: "This became an emotional firestorm that crucified everybody."
As far as Ms. Fortino goes, the best thing is to declare the case closed. She has paid a price in humiliation and salary. She will be under scrutiny if she returns to the classroom.
With the decision about the individual teacher concluded, other issues become more important. Alex's mother, Melissa Barton, has
Issues go beyond one St. Lucie County teacher
said that her son — who later was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome — had been making progress since the incident. She has worried, however, about the message it sends if Ms. Portillo gets to teach again. She also says that people unhappy with her for pressing the case against Ms. Portillo have threatened her. Clearly, Alex will need continued help from his parents, the district, health-care professionals and possibly the police. Most important is for the district
to follow through with proposed changes to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Ms. Portillo did not have sufficient training or support when faced with a very disruptive child who had been identified as needing special instruction.
The district has a number of problem& It faces big budget cuts even as its FCAT scores, SAT results and the percentage of students passing Advanced Placement tests all lag behind state averages. Such districtwide problems could overshadow issues with students such as Alex. If that happens, sooner or later there will be another firestorm.
TALK BACK! Should Wendy Portillo be allowed back In the classroom?
http:// blogs.Pa I in Beach Po t.com/ opinlortione
## Unseal the Epstein deal
A rich, middle-aged Palm Beacher who preyed on girls almost 40 years younger already has received too many breaks from the system. He doesn't deserve another.
In July 2008, at the age of 55 and
after paying the equivalent of a small country's gross domestic product in legal fees, Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges and pleaded guilty in state court to a pair of charges related to his luring five girls
— ages 14 to 17 — to his house. The girls undressed and massaged him in return for 5200 to \$300. He's serving only 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail, and he's serving only nights. And now he wants just one more favor.
When Epstein entered his state plea the terms of his federal deal were sealed from the public. That violated normal procedures. Attorneys for sonic of the victims, who have filed civil lawsuits, want that plea deal unsealed, probably because
the details would help their cases.
But given the nature of this case. there's also a public interest. One condition of the federal plea for example. was that he take the state deal. That's why The Post also is seeking to have the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers.
#### Palm Beach sex offender deserves no ntore breaks.
of course, want it kept secret. Last week, a Palm Beach County judge set a hearing for June 25.
Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger claims that the file should stay sealed to protect the "orderly administration of justice" and "protect a compelling government interest." Oh, and third parties might get hurt. The compelling interest is Epstein's, and there is no privacy issue since the victims themselves are making the request.
Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein, only to see then-State Attorney Barry Krischer kick the case to a grand jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when one of Epstein's gold-plated attorneys, Alan Herskowitz, announced that some of the victims had posted MySpace comments about their alcohol and marijuana use.
Epstein's "best" defense has been that he didn't know the girls were underage. "How he verified that," Mr. Goldberger said, "I don't know." Investigators found a high school transcript in Epstein's house. He didn't know? The public should know what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the system did for him.
## Improving flu symptoms
Six area residents may not like it. but China's new attitude toward public health will mean a safer world.
In 2003, China drew justified criticism for trying to cover up an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS. Authorities worried that the news would hurt the country's economy. The issue showed the conflict between the information-repressing China and the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. When it came to public health, China
couldn't have it both ways.
CLAY IMINETTChettanects TIM Fite Press
As The Post has reported, some students from The Benjamin School were quarantined, with almost no notice, after being exposed to swine flu. A West Palm Beach accountant who has swine flu also was quarantined. But last week, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. China acted properly. What may seem like overreaction now looks good compared with the underreaction six years ago.
Tom Blackburn
"There cannot be two masters in the management of business," said George E Baer, who was master of the Reading Railroad at the start of the 20th century. "God in his infinite wisdom has put the control of business into the hands of Christian
gentlemen."
They lost
unions that were explicitly excluded
by Mr. Baer's theology of management. Sharing in the mastery is "government," a word that conservatives use the way a rapper repeats four-letter words — to shock fans and sell downloads.
A' lot depends on what jou mean by "government." ff you are referring to the ways in which we collectively seek the common good, government is all of us, and GM is our problem.
The Obama administration got in the driver's seal hoping to avert runaway unemployment and prevent the public from being stuck with the autoworkers' pensions and medical care. The engine was shot, as it turned out, and the car has no brakes. We are getting the unemployment, and probably will end up with the pensior • and medical care, neithe, of which will be as good tor the retirees as it was when GM had it.
Along the way, we ran over people who had loaned the company money, the
#### Christ, health care no longer fit biz models.
bondholder. We will pay a price for stiffing lenders, and probably sooner rather than later. That is a moan for another column.
For a while after World War II, American companies could be warm cocoons. They paid enough to clothe and feed a family, and then they provided more than bare Social Security for old age and the kind of health care governments in other countries pay for with taxes. They even backed bowling leagues for the grown-ups and ball teams for the kids.
Then America went back to Mr. Baer's management theology and dropped the sissy stuff. A new generation of masters discovered outsourcing. We changed; GM couldn't. That's how we all ended up with it.
The change is adored by people who would have only a 1-in-4 chance of inserting a time card correctly. They say health care can continue the way it has, with some tax tweaking, even though the way it runs needs employers to pay for insurance, and increasingly they don't.
Maybe I'm reading the wrong Web sites, but I see more sympathy for the downtrodden bankers who got us into the current mess than for the folks at GM who went down with the mess. The bankers took our money, spent some of it lobbying against the common good. used their clout to clear the way back to greed with a half-baked "stress test" and now want our tears because we told them not to use our money to reward themselves the way that God in his infinite wisdom wants them to be rewarded.
As for 'the effort to find sugar and make lemonade out of GM, you can stand around screaming at "socialign" or "Peksi, Pelosi" for all I care, until the rubes send money. But if you want Americans to have health care, you have to get it through either the government or companies like General Motors. And if you excoriate GM and its unions for their health care, you aren't going to get it through them for very tong. You probably won't get it through them much longer anyway, whatever you do. So, what are you going to do?
While you think about it, let me recommend the article by Dr. Guy Clifton in the June 8-15 issue of America magazine. He tells the story of a friend who had to wait four months after the diagnosis of a lifethreatening disease for the paperwork to go through to allow her expensive surgery. The "world's greatest health-care system" paid for the surgery, but too late. It lost the patient. Dr. Clifton counts her as one of 22,000 uninsured Americans who die prematurely each year in our system.
To the question of what you want to do, "nothing", should not be the answer.
Tom Blackburn is a former member of The Rut Editorial Board. Ills e-mail address is tom_blackbum?juno.com
## LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/Lifeguard layoffs Saving money not as Important as saving swimmers
Palm Beach County's lifeguards need a lifeline from the county commission.
The recent Post story, "County's crunch: Layoffs, tax hikes," could have included more details about proposed layoffs of our ocean rescue lifeguards. The story stated that "several" ocean rescue lifeguards would be laid off. In this case, "several" means 36 of 83. These lifeguards protect hundreds of thousands of beach-goers. They warn us about sharks and rip currents They save more lives than most of us know. The story stated that "an" ocean rescue chief would also be laid off, but there is
only one ocean rescue chief. The city of Lake 11brth returned to a hill staff of ocean rescue lifeguards recently, after an ill-fated experiment of having none two days per week. Public outcry helped in the decision to return to full coverage. Palm Beach County has not had a drowning at a guarded county beach in at least a decade. and dozens of lives are saved by lifeguards each year. laying off one-third of our ocean rescue guards is a dangerous idea. Public safety is our first priority, and the Palm Beach County Commission must find a way to save our ocean rescue lifeguards. TOM WARNKE Lantana
Editor's note: Tom IVarnke founded the Palm Beach County chapter of the Surfrider Foundation.
#### What did pair do to get arrested In N. Korea?
Not many of the news items even bothered to mention the crime supposedly committed by Lisa ling and Euna Lee, the two journalists who were arrested by North Korea. I did discover that it had something to do with an inadvertent border crossing Inadvertent? What does that mean? There was an open field between China and North Korea, and they were just walking there? No fence? I think we should hear more about what they were supposed to have done. RAY WICKS
West Palm Beach Editor's note: The Los Angeles Times reported that "it is not clear uhether they ever actually entered North Korean territory before being arrested The families have emphasized that Oren Ms. Ling and Ms.
#### Accident Just waiting to happen
lifeguard Rick Moore said it all: "Lifeguards do lots more than save swimmers. We warn beach-goers of rip currents. man ()War and other dangers. We put up the flags for sea conditions. We answer their questions. We treat injuries. Just us being there creates a feeling of security." ("4 Palm Beach County beaches lose lifeguards?)
We are missing the big picture if we close more beaches and continue to cut lifeguards. Tourists flock to our beaches. The closure of four more beaches and staff cuts will signal a major accident waiting to happen. People will continue to visit the closed beaches, continue to swim and surf, and continue to meet up with friends. Now a drowning will be the victim's own fault because he swam at a closed beach? I hope the county lawyers will be prepared to answer that question when the victim's family sues. The beach is one of the few places without an admission charge. This poor decision is not really a surprise. We voted for those confusing amendments and officials who promised not to raise taxes. Like it or not, taxes keep this country functioning All those services we enjoyed for so long are drying up, along with many people's lives We will miss walking the beach. JEAN AND JAMES LA SPINA Tequesta
Lee le the United States, they had no intention of entering North Korea. "A North Korean court sentenced the women to 12 years at hard labor
#### Aid terrorist wannabes, then 'catch' them
Let's see. There are three or four really stupid guys down at the bar talking about wanting to commit jihad. They were not Islamist, but talking tough sounded good.
So. somebody shows up, agrees with everything they are saying, eggs them on and gets them bombs and anti-aircraft missiles they never could have gotten without this new friend, and they pull off a plan that the new friend helped them make up. Then they are arrested after huge amounts of personnel and money have been put into the project and now the New York Police Department gets to be a hem. having saved the world from the four people that they helped train and supply. Sounds like good, efficient law enforcement to me.
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I was horrified to read that Boynton Beach may discontinue the Shopper Hopper (May 14). I implore the city to find a better means of cutting costs. The service is the lifeblood for so many riders, especially senior citizens and the handicapped. For many. alternate forms of travel to stores would be a financial bunlen. There are other options, such as raising the fare and/or cutting trips in half. one week to Publix, one week to Walmart, etc.
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A compromise would arpand coverage but with no direct control.
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WASHINGTON — With Republicans fighting the idea of a government-run health insurance plan. Obama administration officials said Sunday that they are open to a compromise: a cooperative program that would expand coverage with taxpayer money but without direct governmental control.
Congress begins work
lawmakers
are expected to introduce specific plans that run counter to Obama's political promises.
The concessions could be the smoothest way to deliver the bipartisan health-care legislation that the administration seeks by its self-imposed August deadline, officials said.
"There is no one-sizefits-all idea," said Health
and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. "The president has said, These are the kinds of goals I'm after: lowering costs, covering all Americans. higher-quality care.' And around those goals, there are lots of ways to get there."
Some of those ways, though, run counter to the White House's earlier positions and those of Obama's political base.
While supporters from his left have advocated a government-run option championed by an ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy. O-Mass., and his surrogate,
Sen. Chris Dodd. D-Conn. — presidential aides and congressional leaders in both parties have sought a speedy compromise.
Leading that pack: the cooperative approach, similar to rural utilities that have government financial support but operate independently. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who chairs the Budget Committee, has offered the coop idea as a way to avoid a bruising and protracted political wrangle on Capitol Hill.
- This really isn't, to me, a matter of right or wrong." Conrad said. "This is a
## Candidate asks that elections be voided as riots persist
Ahmadinejad calls the protesters 'weeds that are making problems.'
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TEHRAN — A defiant mir Hossein Mousavi, koding an opposition movement against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, called on his supporters Sunday to con- (inue protests against the outcome of the election in which Ahmadinejad was proclaimed the landslide winner. Mousavi asked the influential Guardian Council to declare the elections void because of fraud and irregularities
Riots erupted for a second day, with gunshots heard in several locations in Tehran and unrest in the Caspian Sea city of Rasht and the central Iranian city of Shiraz, witnesses said in phone interviews. A large rally is planned by Mousavi supporters for this afternoon in Tehran.
On Sunday, Ahmadinejad led a victory rally near Vali-e Asr
Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad react as he speaks at a rally in Tehran on Sunday. Tens of thousands attended waving the nation's flag, the symbol of his campaign.
square attended by tens of tied batons as they roamed thousands of people way- the streets in groups on ing Iranian flags, which motorcycles, many wearhis campaign adopted as ing black helmets and its symbol. At an earlier green vests. Ahmadinejad news conference he declared the Iranian elections a "true manifestation of people's right to decide their own destiny."
"Some ... say the vote is disrupted, there has been a fraud," he said at the rally. "Where- are the irregularities in the election?"
Young members of Iran's voluntary paramilitary force, the baste/. car-
said the demonstrators were "a few weeds that are making problems." To cheers, he said there would be no more place for them in Iran.
In asking the Guardian Council to nullify the elections. Mousavi wrote on his Web site, "I believe this to be the only way to return the general trust and support of the people for the government: The site is
now blocked in Iran.
The council is a 12 member commission that must validate the elections before an official winner can be declared. Council members are appointed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. Iran's supreme leader, and the head of the judiciary. The council vets candidates and has the power to veto laws deemed inconsistent with Islam.
It has not yet acted, although state media have already pronounced Ahmadinejad the victor. Mousavi complained to the council about interference from security forces and the use of irregular procedures in the election.
"Those who with great violations have issued results unbelievable for the Iranian nation. are now trying to stabilize those results and start a new era in the history of our nation," Mousavi's statement said. He added that the protests were not about him. "They are because of worries over the new method of political life which is being forced onto our country," he wrote.
matter of: Where are the votes in the United States Senate?"
That political situation has guided most of the talks. While Democrats control both chambers of Congress. they have only 59 senators — one short of the number needed to end a Republican filibuster.
Even if Al Franken were seated as Minnesota's second senator, Kennedy and Sen. Robert Byrd. D-W.Va., are suffering health problems that could preclude them from casting votes to end the procedural delay.
To offset the numeric challenge, Conrad proposed a compromise that drew interest from moderate Republicans. including one who helped Obama pass his economic stimulus plan over GOP objection.
"It's far preferable to the government-run plan that has been discussed by the administration," said Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. "We need to better understand how it would work. But it's certainly better than a Washington-run plan."
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More than 70 retailers and payment processors have disclosed breaches since 2006, involving tens of millions of credit and debit card numbers, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse. Meanwhile, many others likely have been breached and didn't detect it. Even the companies that had the payment industry's top rating for computer security, a seal of approval known as PCI compliance, have fallen victim to huge heists.
Companies that are not compliant with the PCI standards — including one in 10 of the mediumsize and large retailers in the United States — face fines but are left free to process credit and debit card payments.
Most retailers don't have to endure security audits, but can evaluate themselves.
Credit card providers don't appear to be in a rush to tighten the rules. They see fraud as a cost of doing business and say stricter security would throw sand into the gears of the payment system. which is built on speed, convenience and low cost.
That is of little consolation to consumers who bet on the industry's payment security and lost.
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LaMotte, who was unemployed at the time, says she had to borrow money from her mother and boyfriend to pay \$500 in overdraft and late fees — which eventually were refunded — while the banks investigated.
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'It's almost as if he's wishing' for another US. attack, he says.
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WASHING roN — CIA Director Leon Panetta says dormer Vice President, Dick Cheney's critidsin of the Obama .,dministrat ion's approach :0 torrorism almost suggestehe's wishing that this btoentry would be attacktg again, in order to make his point."
Panetta told The New Yorker for an article in its June 22 issue that Cheney "smqns some blood in the water' on the issue of national security.
Cheney has said in
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He has been critical of Obama for ordering the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, halting enhanced interrogations of suspected terrorists and reversing other Bush administration initiatives he says helped
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Panetta said of Cheney's remarks: "It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again. in order to make his point. I think that's dangerous politics."
to prevent attacks on the vice president offered a withering critique of I think Dick Cheney's judgment about• how to secure America is faulty." Biden said. "1 think our judgment is correct."
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The Navy device, called a Towed Finger Locator, will try to detect emergency audio beacons, or pings, from Flight 447's black boxes, which may he thousands of feet below the ocean surface.
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months later, CIA Director Leon Panetta fired Mitchell \_lessen & Associates and all other contractors that aided the CIA in its interrogations of alleged terrorists, the New Yorker reported this weekend.
time the Senate Armed Services Committee re- ported on the role played by James Mitchell and Bruce lessen in develop- ing "countermeasures to defeat" the resistance of captured enemy detainees from whom intelligence was being sought. — Palm Reach Post tore services
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LONDON -A person with underlying health conditions died of swine flu in Scotland on Sunday — the first reported death from the illness outside the Americas, health officials said.
Britain has been harder hit by the virus — known as HIN1— than elsewhere in Europe. Earlier Sunday, Britain had reported another 61 cases of swine flu. bringing the U.K. total to 1,226 cases.
"Tragic though today's death is, I
would like to emphasize that the vast majority of those who have HIN1 are suffering from relatively mild symptoms," Scottish Health Secretary Nicola Sturgeon said. "I would reiterate that the risk to the general public remains low and we can all play our Rant in slowing the spread of the virus by following simple hygiene procedures."
Health authorities expect to see more swine flu cases and deaths worldwide not that it has been declared a pandemic. The World Health Organization said last week that the virus has not become any more lethal, but is now unstoppable.
So far. swine flu appears to be a relatively mild virus, and most people who get it do not need treatment to get better.
## Protect civilians, Karzai tells U.S. commander
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KABUL Afghanistan — President Hamid Kauai told the incoming commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan on Sunday that the most important part of his new mission was to protect Afghan civilians.
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President Obama has increased the US. focus on Afghanistan this year, ordering 21,000 additional troops to the country as the US. military begins to pull out of Iraq.
Civilian casualties have long been a point of friction between Karzai and the US.. and the early warning reflects Karzals impatience over the con.
villagers during military operations.
In May, dozens of civilians were killed when US. and Afghan troops backed by US. fighter aircraft battled militants in southwestern Farah province. The Afghan government says 140 civilians died, while an Afghan human rights group says about 100 were killed. The US, however, says no more than 30 civilians were killed, and
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CAMILLO de MURCIA, Spain — A man representing the devil jumps over babies Sunday in an act known as /12 Colado during the Corpus Christi festival The rite is supposed to protect the children from evil spirits.
## Pakistan sends army to hunt Taliban chief
The offensive is in an area where bin Laden also may be hiding.
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ISLAMABAD. Pakistan — Pakistan ordered its army to go after the country% top Taliban commander, a feared militant whose remote stronghold could prove a difficult test for troops but whose demise would be a major blow to the insurgencies here and in Afghanistan.
The announcement Sunday of the operation in South Waziristan, rumored for weeks, came hours after a suspected US. missile strike killed five alleged militants there The Move will likely please Washington, which considers the tribal region
a particularly troublesome hideout for Al-Qaeda and Tafiban fighters implicated in attacks on US. troops in Afghanistan.
°vials Ghani, the governor of North West Frontier Province, told reporters in Islamabad late Sunday that the government felt it had no choice but to resort to force against Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud and his network Past army action in the region had usually faltered or ended in truces.
"Baitullah Mehsud is the root cause of all evils," Ghani said, noting a slew of suicide bombings that have shaken Pakistan in recent days.
South Waziristan, part of Pakistan; semiautonomous tribal belt, is a rumored hideout of Al-Qaeda chief Osama bin Laden.
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trapped in a flaming gocart May 25 west of Jupiter and suffered major burns. he needed emergency specialized burn care. He became the latest victim evacuated from Palm Beach County to Jackson. the closest burn center certified by the American College of Surgeons.
• There are 53 such cengen in North America. tioduding two more in !Florida at Shands hospital lee Gainesville and the University of South Florida in Ihmpa.
Delray Medical Center And St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm 'Beach received funding After the Sept. 11 attacks ,lo treat multiple burn pa-Vents in case of another large terrorist attack. but the centers are not certifled to treat major burns.
Any person suffering lerious burns in Palm 'Beach County should be taken to one of those locations. If necessary, staffers there will send the patient to Jackson Memorial.
Waiting to whisk burn victims off the coiner is Namias' team — which \*ill eventually include 'terse specialists, physical therapists and psychologists.
"More than any other kind of medicine, treatment of burns is a tears 'activity," Namias said. L"The doctor alone isn't !that important."
Namias said the popular perception is correct: !Nothing causes more pain than burns
f "Pain management is Ione of the most important things we do." he said.
At first, most burn victims are heavily sedated to relieve the initial agony. For the majority, one of ;the first stops will be the !operating mom, where !dead skin and tissue must ;be removed. For that, they are anesthetized in what !otherwise would be an ex-
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SPECIALIZED CARE: Physical therapist Orlando Sendon treats Bum Center patient Darryl McLetchie, who suffered major burns to his arm and hand in an industrial accident. Burn victims are susceptible to infection.
rious injuries must be treated: broken bones suffered in leaps from flaming houses or injuries incurred in car crashes.
The team then goes into a vault where it stockpiles cadaver skin from organ donors. That skin is used to cover wounds, but only temporarily.
"Eventually the body will reject skin from anyone else. and we need to harvest skin from the victim in order to do the graft," Namias said.
Burn surgeons cannot use skin from other people for final grafts because they cannot employ the immune system suppression drugs used in other transplants. !Vannes said. Burn victims are so susceptible to infection that their immune systems cannot be interdicted.
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"That means an increase in metabolism, which means they need many more calories in order to begin to heal," Namias said. "For major burns, we'll give them 1500 calories per day. If they could eat Whoppers, that would he easy, but many are so sedated, they can't eat, so we put it into them through Ills, and that's a lot of calories to pump into
a body that way." Fluids are also an issue. "Your average appendix patient will get about 3 liters per day," Namias said. "A major burn patient will need as much as 30 to 35 liters per day."
Physical stability isn't the only issue. The psychology of burn patients begins with the shock and pain of the fire and possible deformities.
"But these incidents are
also typically associated with some other tragedy,"
Namias said. "The house has burned down, and they have no home.
. "Maybe somebody else was injured or killed. And we have lots of people who worry about the cat. 'No one has seen the cat.' "
Burn victims often suffer from past-traumatic stress syndrome, he said. Meanwhile, the graft-
ing goes on. "We can save people with burns over 90 percent of their bodies," Namias said. "We harvest skin from the victim, and we have machines that expand the skin as much as six times, create a mesh from it. and then it grows in."
Some patients need "10, 20, 30 operations" for both functional and cosmetic reasons, he said.
And there is always the pain. which is managed so that as much as possible patients remain alert, walking and in physical therapy.
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Dickford Cohn, 64, of Key West was admitted to the Burn Center on May 16 with second-degree burns over almost half of his body after a house fire.
"I certainly expected a great deal more pain," he said. "The first thing they do • is manage the pain without doping you all up"
Cohn said that has made his recovery much quicker. Originally expecting three months in the hospital. he believes it will be closer to a month.
The Burn Center also gives courses in how to prevent burns. Children Namias said.
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The Swiss-born chef's hearty laughter filled the ritzy Manhattan restaurant's kitchen for 36 years. He served guests from Jacqueline Onassis and Elton John to President Clinton, Princess Diana and Martha Stewart.
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"He was our hem: the man we always turned to when we knew we had to achieve the impossible." said a statement released by the 50-year-old restaurant's managing partners, Julian Niccolini and Alex von Bidder.
The "impossible" at times meant wealthy guests "who would ask for everything you can possibly imagine!" Mr. Albin joked recently. "Like, an English muffin with an egg on top, for dinner."
He sent a waiter out to buy muffins — and the special request was served alongside fancier fare such as filet of buffalo.
A bigger-than-life man, he put in 14-hour days at the restaurant off Park Avenue. With him in the kitchen, The Four Seasons won a James Beard Award, equivalent to a culinary Oscar.
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But action from Tallahassee has been limited, even with nearly 11 percent of mortgages in Florida in foreclosure — the highest rate in the country, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association. Foreclosures in Florida dropped from April to May but were still up 50 percent front the same time last year. according to numbers RealtyTrac released Thursday.
During the spring session that ended last month, state lawmakers introduced 15 bills to address foreclosure issues. But 10 bills never received a hearing, including several that would have required mediation between lenders and borrowers. The Center for Responsible Lending estimates that one of every three homeowners facing foreclosure in Florida could stay in their homes with mediation.
Instead, lawmakers approved just two foreclosure-related bills: one to comply with new minimum federal regulations for lenders and another to increase court costs for foreclosure cases from \$300 to as much as \$1.900.
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state Financial Regulation Office's failure to regulate mortgage lenders, a problem that allowed thousands of people with criminal records into the industry. The office's chief resigned in August after the problems were first reported by The Miami Herald. but a replacement
still has not been hired. Attorney General Bill McCollum, a Republican also running for governor, called the foreclosure crisis a "very tough issue" that his office has tried to address by cracking down on fraud. But he said options for helping homeowners are limited.
"It is not something you can pump money out to avoid foreclosures," he said. "We don't have the resources to do that. There is no bailout in the state of Florida."
Gov. Charlie Crist noted the rise in foreclosures in his State of the State speeches in 2008 and this year. But he has never included any specific foreclosure-related bills among his legislative priorities.
"We want to do all we can to help people." Crist said when asked about the state's responsibility to address foreclosures. "It's a tough time right now."
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Crist also named a foreclosure task force in February 2008. including elected officials and people from the banking and real estate industries. But the panel made just one recommendation to the legislature: to increase protections for people with subprime loans.
Lawmakers did not adopt it.
—There is just not an inclination to give the light of day to any of these foreclosure remedies," said Rep. Darren Soto, D-Orlando. whose "Fort-closure Bill of Rights" would have delayed payments for many homeowners.
McCollum, who created a Mortgage Fraud Task Force in 2007, said homeowners facing foreclosure
need to be more proactive with their lenders. "In many cases the lender can and will work this out," he said.
Several states, including Ohio and New Jersey, have implethented aggressive programs to require mediation between bankers and lenders. In Florida, two Leon County circuit judges made a proposal in December to the state's 20 chief judges to create similar mediation programs.
Three of the state's 20 judicial circuits have enlisted the nonprofit Collins Center for Public Policy to offer mediation.
The first such program arose in the Treasure Coast's 19th Circuit, where borrowers and lenders are required to meet before their first court appearance. In the past month, 22 of the first 31 mediated foreclosure cases in the circuit were settled with renegotiated loans.
In Palm Beach County. Chief Circuit Judge Kathleen Kroll signed an order to require banks to consider revising a loan at the homeowner's request. The court receives an average of 500 new foreclosures each week.
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**Each will have its own flag. its own national anthem, its own government. Neither will threaten the security or survival of the other"**
**But Netanyahu insisted on Ironclad" guarantees from the United States and the international community for Palestinian demilitarization and recognition of Israel's Jewish character.**
**Given those conditions, Netanyahu said, "we will be ready in a future peace agreement to reach a solution where a demilitarized Palestinian state exists alongside the Jewish state.**
**He also said that no new settlements would be created and no more land would be expropriated for expansion but that "normal life" must be allowed to continue in the settlements, a term he has used to mean that limited building should be allowed to continue within existing settlements to accommodate -natural growth."**
**While this position did not diverge from Netanyahu's previous statements, he delivered it on Sunday in the context of a speech he had billed as a major foreign policy address, one he had urged Obama to watch. It came 10 days after Obama bluntly rejected "the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements" in his Cairo address to the Muslim world.**
**The White House reaction was positive, if limited, focusing on what it called "the important step forward" of Netanyahu's support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.**
**White House press secretary Robert Gibbs reiterated Obama's commitment to a two-state solution that "can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfillment of the Palestinians' legitimate aspirations for a viable state," and he said that °barna -welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal."**
**In moving closer to ward the American and international consensus for a two-state solution, Netanyahu risked alienating right-wing ideologues within his party and his governing coalition.**
**Citing the biblical vision of Isaiah of swords beaten into plowshares, Netanyahu said of the Palestinians, "Ike do not want to rule over them, to govern their lives, or**
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**But beyond the idea of a state, he seemed to offer little room for compromise or negotiation.**
**He referred repeatedly to the West Rank, the territory presumed to comprise the bulk of a future Palestinian state, by its biblical name of Judea and Samaria, declaring it "the land of our forefathers."**
**Netanyahu made no mention of existing frameworks for negotiations, like the U.S.-backed 2003 peace plan known as the road map.**
**He did not address the geographical area a Palestinian state might cover, and he said that the Palestinian refugee problem must be resolved outside Israel's borders, rejecting the Palestinian demand for a right of return for refugees of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and their millions of descendants.**
**He insisted that Jerusalem remain united as the . Israeli capital. The Palestinians demand the eastern part of the city as a future capital.**
**"Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about negotiations, but left us with nothing to negotiate as he systematically took nearly every permanent status issue off the table," said Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestinian negotiator. "Nor did he accept a Palestinian state. Instead, he announced a series of conditions and qualifications that render**
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**Ron Dermer, Netanyahu's communications director, said that Palestinians recognition of Israel as a Jewish state was -not a precondition" for negotiations. But, he said, "there will not be an agreement without that recognition.'**
**Timed to coincide with the Israeli evening television news. the speech was rich in Zionist rhetoric and seemed aimed as much at the Israeli public as at the Obatna administration. Experts said it was unlikely to cause a political earthquake here, because it largely expressed the prevailing consensus in**
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WEST PALM BEACH — An attorney representing one of the passel of young women now suing billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is asking a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over Epstein's property to prevent him from hiding or transferring assets abroad.
Bradley Edwards also has asked that the receiver order Epstein post a \$15 million bond to ensure money is available if the women prevail in their lawsuits seeking damages because of the sexual contact they say Epstein had with them as minors.
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More local news Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories. In a request entered into the court record Friday. Edwards wrote that Epstein, a man of "phenomenal wealth," now faces more than two dozen lawsuits. The woman he represents is seeking more than \$50 million in damages.
"Accordingly, Epstein has currently pending against him lawsuits seeking more than \$1 billion in damages. He thus faces financial ruin." Edwards wrote to U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra.
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Epstein is serving an 18-month sentence in the stockade after pleading guilty nearly a year ago to state charges of felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. Epstein is allowed out of the stockade, though, each day from 7 a.m. to II p.m., a spokeswoman for the sheriff's office recently said.
The saga began years ago after Town of Palm Beach police investigated reports that young women were king brought to Epstcin's manse on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money.
Attorneys representing the women have questioned Epstein about his sexual activities with their clients as well as his finances. Epstein has responded by invoking his right to remain silent and not incriminate himself.
"The silence in the face of these questions speaks far louder than words," Edwards wrote. "As Justice Brandeis recognized long ago 'Silence is often evidence of the most persuasive character.' "This is plainly one of those situations."
An attorney who represented Epstein during the questioning, Robert D. Critton Jr. of West Palm Beach, did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment.
On Thursday, Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath, will consider whether to unseal a deferred-prosecution agreement Epstein entered with federal prosecutors. Attorneys have said that they seek to unseal that document in part to use it in striking at Epstein's right to remain silent.
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Thursday. June 25, 2009
WEST PALM BEACH — A Palm Beach Circuit Court judge will again consider today whether to unseal a deal that purported billionaire Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal prosecutors to avoid charges by them following his sex scandal with underage girls.
Attorneys for women now suing the money manager, as well as the Palm Beach Post, have asked Circuit Judge Jeff Colbath to unseal Epstein's federal deferred-prosecution agreement. The hearing is set for 1:30 p.m.
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Recently in court. Colbath acknowledged that Epstein's deal with the feds had not been 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 then said.
He has since given Epstein's attorney, Jack Goldberger, an opportunity to argue that the document was properly sealed and why it should remain so.
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justice struck for the New York money manager who according to Vanity Fair. of Prince Andrew and Share This Story former President Bill Clinton.
"It's a secret agreement. A secret sweetheart agreement," former Circuit Judge Bill Berger who now represents some of the women has said. "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."
A second attorney representing the women, Brad Edwards, has seen the sealed deal after a federal judge allowed him and his clients to view it, but not discuss its contents.
Edwards would only say that the women were "outraged" that it had been negotiated behind their backs. A reporter asked Edwards if he believed Epstein received special treatment by federal prosecutors.
"Are you kidding? It's transparent. Certainly no one else gets treated like that," Edwards has said.
Epstein is currently serving an 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County Stockade after pleading guilty 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 spokeswoman for the sheriffs office has said.
The saga began years ago after Town of Palm Beach police began investigating reports that young women were being brought to his manse on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money.
Displeased with the way the State Attorney's Office handled the case, Palm Beach police later forwarded information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have referred to Epstein's deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual."
Goldberger has said he believes the law allows the record to continue to be sealed and is opposing it being opened. Epstein has not gotten any special treatment, according to Goldberger.
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Jeffrey Epstein to get out of jail early: July 22
By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade July 22, after RELATED LINKS serving less than 13 months of his 18-month sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution. Radaronline.com story
Ted Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, confirmed his release date Tuesday.
#### Epstein's projected date was September 24, but gain time — which includes his participation in a work-release program — brings his release date to July 22, Barbera said.
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.
Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger could not be reached for comment.
Epstein, 56, has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, where 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.
The Manhattan money manager has been incarcerated since June 30, when he pleaded guilty to two felony counts: soliciting prostitution and procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. 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 for erotic massages and sometimes sex.
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As part of his state plea agreement, the U.S. Attorneys 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 is under seal in state court.
Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards represents three Epstein victims and has asked Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to unseal the non-prosecution agreement to the public. A hearing is set for Thursday, when Colbath will issue a ruling.
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.
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## EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein To Be Released From Prison Early
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Jeffrey Epstein, the Florida money manager who once roamed in the same social circle as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and other high profile figures, is going to be released from prison early, a source tells RadarOnline.com.
Epstein pleaded guilty last year to procuring teen girls for prostitution, ending his lifestyle with the rich and famous in a Palm Beach, Florida scandal that reverberated through highprofile society. He received an 18-month sentence and was slated to be incarcerated until the end of this year.
But now, says the source, the jail door is about to swing open because Epstein has been secretly helping the feds unravel a suspected Ponzi scheme. He had inside knowledge of the scheme because he was one of its victims, losing \$67 million.
The source says it's all tied to the indictment of former managers of Bear Stearns Mortgage Investment Fund, and in that case Epstein is the person who is identified only as Victim # 1.
Meanwhile, Epstein's life behind bars hasn't been too rough — in fact he's allowed to spend most days at his attorney's office. He was supposedly working on a charity venture but the source says he was actually busy helping the feds with the Ponzi scheme. One source says that he's been guarded by men in suits with earphones.
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