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Palm Beach sex offender's secret plea deal: 
Possible co-conspirators not charged, presses 
victims to settle civil suits 
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL 
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 
Friday. September 18.2009 
WEST PALM BEACH — Benire financier sex offender Jeffrey Epstern's secret non-prosecution agreement he 
struck with federal prosecutors was unsealed Friday. offering the first public look at the deal Epstein's high-powered 
legal counsel brokered on res behalf. 
According the agreement. the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Attorney's Office investigated Epstein 
for various federal crimes. Including prostitution. some puNshable by a minimum of 10 years up to bfe in prison 
But federal prosecutors backed down and agreed to recall grand Jury subpoeanas. if Epstein pleaded guilty to 
prostitution-related felonies in state court. which he ultimately did. He received an 18-month Jail sentence. of which 
he served 13. 
A former federal prosecutor of 15 years. Mark Johnson of Stuart. said the disparity in the potential sentences was 
unusual. 
The United States Attorneys Office also a reed not to char e any of Epsten's possible co-conspirators 
Lesley Groff are 
The agreement was negotiated in pail by New York heavyweight crinnnal defense attorney Gerald Lefcoral. 
On its fret draft in September 2007. it required that Epstern pay an attorney - tapped by the U.S. Attorneys Office 
and approved by Epsten - to represent some of the victims n okra suits they had filed against Epstein. That 
attorney is prominent Miami lawyer Bob Josefsberg. 
Former prosecutor Johnson said he has never seen a provision like that before. 
But an addendum to the agreement signed the following month struck Epstein's duty to pay Joseteterg if he and the 
victims did not accept a settlement and instead pursued litigation. 
The agreement. signed by Assistant U.S. Attorney 
does not expressly state whether any victims 
were contacted or ccasulted before the deal was
Attorney Brad Edwards of Fort Lauderdale. who represents three of the young women. weaves that none of the 
between 30 and 40 woman identified as victrns in the federal investigation were told of the deal. Edwards said his 
clients were still receiving letters in the mail months afterwards saying the U.S. Attorneys Office assuring them 
Epstein would be prosecuted. 
'Never consulting the victims is probably the most outrageous aspect of IL.' Edwards said. 'It taught them that 
someone with money can buy his way out of anything. Its outrageous and embarrassing for United States 
Attorney's Office and the State Attorneys Office' 
Epstein now faces many cMI lawsuits filed by the wcinen, who are represented by a variety attorneys. In many. the 
facts alleged are the seine: that Epstein had a predilection for teenage girls. identified poor, vulnerable cries and 
lured them to his home via other young worsen. The teens describe ascending a staircase lined with nude 
photographs of young girls and to the spa roan xtere Epstein would appear in a small towel. 
Former Circuit Judge Bill Berger. who represents one of the vicbms. and The Paint Beach Post sought the 
unsealing of the agreement. Berger refers to it as a "sweetheart deal.' 
"Why was ri so important for the government to make this deal?' Berger asked rhelcocally. 'We have not yet had 
honest explanation by any public official as to why ri was made _ and why the victim's were sold down the river." 
Former federal prosecutor Ryon McCabe described the agreement as 'very unorthodox.' Such agreements, he said. 
are usually reserved for corporations, not individuals. 
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'Its very. very rare. I've never seen or heard of the procedure that was set up here.* said McCabe. who has no 
involvement in any Epstein litigation and is now a securities litigation attorney. 
'He's essentialy avoiding federal prosecution because he can afford to pay that many lawyers to help those victims 
review their cases.... If a person has no money he couldn't be able to strike a deal like this and avoid federal 
prosecution.* 
The back-room deal with federal prosecutors all the more interesting in light of the legal heavyweights who have 
worked for Epstein. including Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth Starr of Clinton impeachment fame. 
Lefcourt is a past president of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. 
Epstein's local defense attorney. Jack Goldberger. issued a statement Enday saying he had fought the release of 
the sealed agreement to protect the third parties named there. 1*. Epstein has fully abided by all of its terms and 
conditions. He is looking forward to putting this difficult period in ohs life behind him. He is continuing his long 
standing history of science phlanthropy...-
Epstein ended up avoiding federal charges. and pleaded guilty in state court to felony solicitation of prostitution and 
procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution. In July 2008. he was sentenced to 18 months in Jail. and 
later allowed out up to six days a week on work release. 
Epstein left the Jail in late July 2009 after serving not quite 13 months of the sentence, having earned gain time for 
good behavior. 
Palm Beach Police began vesbgating the - nternational moneyman of mystery.' as the New York magazine 
dubbed him, after they recewed a complaint from a relative 01 a 14-year-old girl who had given Epstein a naked 
massage at his home on the Intracoastal Waterway. 
Police sought and found in poor neighburhwds a variety of tall. tit. model-like young women, who told stones of 
begin recruiting. then going to Epsten's home and massaging and stimulating him. They walked away with between 
$200 and $1.000. 
The investigation triggered tensions between 
lice and prosecutors. with then-Chief 
saying in a 
May 2006 letter to then-State Attome 
that the chief troseonor shout 
i 
inne r. 
continue to find your office's treatment of these cases hogNy unusual, 
note. He then asked for and got 
the federal investigation that ended in the sealed deal. 
"The Jeffrey Epstein matter was en experience of what a many-million-dollar defense can accomplish." Mtold 
the Palm Beach Daily News upon ms retirement. 
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