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Palm Beach Daily News 
June 25, 2009 Thursday 
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HEADLINE: JUDGE TO RULE ON SEALED PLEA-DEAL PAPERS TODAY 
BYLINE: MICHELE DARGAN, MICHELE DARGAN, Daily News Staff Writer 
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A circuit judge will decide today whether the public will be privy to the federal government's non-prosecution deal 
with Jeffrey Epstein, which was sealed when the convicted sex offender pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two felony 
counts. 
Epstein, of Palm Beach, will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade July 22, after serving less than 13 
months of his I8- 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, 56. has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, in which he is allowed out of the stockade six days 
a week, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., to go to his West Palm Beach office, the Florida Science Foundation, monitored by an 
ankle bracelet and accompanied by a deputy. 
As part of Epstein's state plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office agreed not to prosecute Epstein on federal 
charges as long as he fulfills all requirements of his sentence and probation. The federal non-prosecution agreement has 
been under seal in state court. 
Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger filed court papers asking that the documents stay sealed for the following rea-
sons: "to prevent a serious imminent threat to the fair, impartial and orderly administration of justice; to protect a com-
pelling government interest; to avoid substantial injury to innocent third parties and to avoid substantial injury to a party 
by disclosure of matters protected by a common law and privacy right, not generally inherent in these specific type of 
proceedings, sought to be closed." 
Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards represents three Epstein victims and has asked Circuit Judge Jeffrey 
Colbath to unseal the federal agreement to the public. An attorney for The Palm Beach Post also has asked that the rec-
ords be unsealed. 
Edwards and his clients have seen the agreement after a federal judge ruled that they are allowed to see it. But that 
ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. 
Edwards said he wants to use that document "in the deposition of various material witnesses" relative to his cases. 
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JUDGE TO RULE ON SEALED PLEA-DEAL PAPERS TODAY Palm Beach Daily News June 25, 2009 Thursday 
Radaronline.com has reported that Epstein has "secretly been helping the feds unravel a Ponzi scheme" related to 
the June 2008 indictment of two former managers of Bear Stearns Mortgage Investment Fund. 
Epstein's rep, Howard Rubenstein, confirmed last year that Epstein is "Major Investor No. I" in the indictment, 
which says he lost about $57 million. 
Goldberger could not be reached for comment. 
The Manhattan money manager has been incarcerated since June 30, when he pleaded guilty to the two felony 
counts. As part of the plea agreement, Epstein must serve one year of house arrest after his release and register as a life-
long sex offender. 
In addition to the criminal case, there are more than a dozen civil lawsuits — both state and federal -- pending 
against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: Epstein, through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his 
Palm Beach home on El Brillo Way for erotic massages and sometimes sex. 
[email protected] 
GRAPHIC: Caption: Epstein To be released from jail July 22. 
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