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Multimillionaire Palm Beach sex offender's secret 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 
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WEST PALM BEACH - Billionaire financier sex offender Jeffrey Epstein's secret non-prosecution agreement he struck 
with federal prosecutors was unsealed this morning, offering the first public look at the deal Epstein's high-powered legal 
counsel brokered on his behalf. 
Following requests by The Palm Beach Post and attorneys for some of his alleged young victims, the document - sealed in state court without 
following proper sealing procedures - was released by Circuit Judge Jeffery Colbath. Epstein's attorney have unsuccessfully fought the 
release. 
Read the agreement unsealed today(pdf) 
According the agreement, the Federal 
Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. 
Attorney's Office investigated Epstein for 
various federal crimes, including using a 
facility or means of interstate or foreign 
commerce to induce minor females to 
engage in prostitution and for purposes of 
engaging it. 
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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. 
The federal prosecutors also agreed not to 
charge an 
otential co-cons irators of 
Epstein -
Lesley Groff or 
The agreement, negotiated in part by 
New York heavyweight criminal defense 
attorney Gerald Lefcourt, on its first draft 
in September 2007 required Epstein to 
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financier 
Jeffrey 
Epstein has 
been 
sentenced to 18 months 
for felony solicitation of 
prostitution following 
accusations by teen girls. 
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But the following month, an addendum to 
the agreement relieved Epstein of the 
duty to pay the victim's lawyers if they do 
not accept a settlement. 
Former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, who 
represents one of the victims, sought the 
unsealing of the agreement, which he 
refers to as a "sweetheart deal." 
"Why was it so important for the 
government to make his deal?" Berger 
asked rhetorically. "We have not yet had 
honest explanation by any public official 
as to why it was made." 
The back room deal with federal 
prosecutors is all the more interesting in 
light of the legal heavyweights who have 
worked for Epstein, including Harvard 
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professor Alan Dershowitz and Kenneth 
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Starr of Clinton impeachment fame. 
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 an 11-month investigation of "international moneyman of mystery," as New York magazine dubbed him, after they 
received a complaint from a relative of a 14-year-old girl who had given Epstein a naked massage at his home, an $8.5 million mansion on the 
Intracoastal Waterway. 
Police sought and found in poor neighborhoods a variety of tall, thin, model-like young women, who told stories of being recruited to go to 
Epstein's home, massaging and stimulating him and walking away with between $200 and $1,000. 
The investigation triggered tensions between police and prosecutors, with then-Chief Michael Reiter saying in a May 2006 letter to then-State 
Attorney Barry Krischer that the chief prosecutor should disqualify himself. 
"I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases highly unusual," Reiter wrote. He then asked for and got the federal investigation that 
ended in the sealed deal. 
"The Jeffrey Epstein matter was an experience of what a many-million-dollar defense can accomplish," Reiter told the Palm Beach Daily 
News upon his retirement. 
Epstein now faces at least 20 civil suits filed by young woman represented by prominent attorneys. The civil litigation intensified recently 
with a lawyer for the one of the women, Spencer Kuvin, making a request to inspect and photograph Epstein's genitalia. One of the young 
women, who told police she was Epstein's "number one girl," described his genitalia as being deformed, "egg-shaped", according to a police 
record. 
Attorneys, including former Cirucit Judge William Berger, sought the release of the sealed deal also as part of their legal strategy in those 
civil suits. 
Epstein has repeatedly invoked his right to remain silent and not incriminate himself when being deposed in the civil lawsuits, the The 
attorneys sought the deal to clarify whether Epstein faces the possibility of further prosecution, which may or may not impact his right to 
remain silent. 
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