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By LANDON THOMAS Jr, 
The bad news arrived by phone last week on Little St. James Island, the palm-fringed Xanadu 
in the Caribbean where Jeffrey E. Epstein, adviser to billionaires, lives in secluded splendor. 
Report to the Palm Beach County jail, the caller, Mr. Epstein's lawyer, said. 
So over the weekend Mr. Epstein quit his pleasure dome, with its staff of 70 and its flamingo-
stocked lagoon, and flew to Florida. On Monday morning, he turned himself in and began 
serving 18 months for soliciting prostitution. 
"I respect the legal process," Mr. Epstein, 55, said by phone as he prepared to leave his 78-acre 
island, which he calls Little St. Jeff's. "I will abide by this." 
It is a stunning downfall for Mr. Epstein, who grew up in Coney Island and went on to live the 
life of a billionaire, only to become a tabloid monument to an age of hyperwealth. Mr. Epstein 
owns a Boeing 727 and the largest town house in Manhattan. He has paid for college 
educations for personal employees and students from Rwanda, and spent millions on a project 
to develop a thinking and feeling computer and on music intended to alleviate depression. 
But Mr. Epstein also paid women, some of them under age, to give him massages that ended 
with a sexual favor, the authorities say. 
Federal prosecutors initially threatened to bring him to trial on a variety of charges and seek 
the maximum penalty, to years in prison. After years of legal wrangling, Mr. Epstein pleaded 
guilty to lesser state charges. 
Upon his release from jail, he must register as a sex offender wherever he goes in the United 
States. 
People from all walks of life break the law, of course. But for the rich, wrapped in a cocoon of 
immense comfort, it can be easy to yield to temptation, experts say. 
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"A sense of entitlement sets in," said Dennis Pearne, a psychologist who counsels people on 
matters related to extreme wealth. The attitude, he said, becomes, "I deserve anything I want, I 
can have anything I want — and I can afford it." 
To prosecutors, Mr. Epstein is just another sex offender. He did what he did because he could, 
and because he never dreamed he would get caught, they say. Mr. Epstein's defenders counter 
that he has been unjustly persecuted because of his wealth and lofty connections. 
Sitting on his patio on "Little St. Jeff's" in the Virgin Islands several months ago, as his legal 
troubles deepened, Mr. Epstein gazed at the azure sea and the lush hills of St. Thomas in the 
distance, poked at a lunch of crab and rare steak prepared by his personal chef, and tried 
explain how his life had taken such a turn. He likened himself to Gulliver shipwrecked among 
the diminutive denizens of Lilliput. 
"Gulliver's playfulness had unintended consequences," Mr. Epstein said. "That is what happens 
with wealth. There are unexpected burdens as well as benefits." 
Those benefits are on full display on his island where, despite his time in jail, Mr. Epstein has 
commissioned a new estate. The villa will occupy the island's promontory, which offers views of 
the Atlantic on one side and the Caribbean on the other. It will have a separate library to house 
Mr. Epstein's 90,000 volumes, a Japanese bathhouse and what he calls a "Ziegfeld" movie 
theater. 
For now, however, those visions of a private paradise have been replaced by the cold reality of a 
jail cell. 
The legal drama began in 2005, when a young woman who gave Mr. Epstein massages at his 
Palm Beach mansion told the local police about the encounter. She was 14 at the time, and was 
paid $200. 
The police submitted the results of their investigation to the state attorney, asking that Mr. 
Epstein be charged with sexual relations with minors. His lawyers say Mr. Epstein never knew 
the young women were under age, and point to depositions in which the masseuses — several 
of whom have filed civil suits — admitted to lying about their age. 
In July 2005, a Florida grand jury charged Mr. Epstein with a lesser offense, soliciting 
prostitution. Mr. Epstein's legal team, which would eventually include the former prosecutor 
Kenneth W. Starr and the Harvard law professor Alan M. Dershowitz, was elated: Mr. Epstein 
would avoid prison. 
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But then the United States attorney's office in Miami became involved. Last summer, Mr. 
Epstein got an ultimatum: plead guilty to a charge that would require him to register as a sex 
offender, or the government would charge him with sexual tourism, according to people who 
were briefed on the discussions. 
David Weinstein, an attorney in the government's Miami office, declined to discuss the 
specifics of the case. But he did address the subject of Mr. Epstein's means and prominent legal 
team, and dismissed a proposal by Mr. Epstein's lawyers — who opposed the application of 
federal statutes in the case — that he be confined to his house in Palm Beach for a probationary 
period. 
"In their mind that would be an adequate resolution," Mr. Weinstein said. "Our view is that is 
not enough of a punishment to fit the crime that occurred." 
The lurid details of the case have captivated wealthy circles in Palm Beach and New York and 
transformed Mr. Epstein, who shuns publicity and whose business depends on discretion, into 
a figure of public ridicule. 
He said he has been trailed by stalkers and has become the target of lawsuits. In recent 
months, he said, he received over too letters a week asking for money or jobs as a masseuse. 
lie recently received a package of gold-tinted condoms. 
It has been a long, strange journey from Coney Island, where Mr. Epstein grew up in middle-
class surroundings. He taught briefly at Dalton, the Manhattan private school, and then joined 
BeaLatearr_ts, becoming a derivatives specialist. He struck out on his own in the 1980s. 
His business is something of a mystery. He says he manages money for billionaires, but the 
only client he is willing to disclose is Leslie H. Wexner, the founder of Limited Brands. 
As Mr. Epstein explains it, he provides a specialized form of superelite financial advice. He 
counsels people on everything from taxes and trusts to prenuptial agreements and paternity 
suits, and even provides interior decorating tips for private jets. Industry sources say he 
charges flat annual fees ranging from $25 million to more than 8100 million. 
As it became clear that he was headed for jail, Mr. Epstein has tried to put on a brave face. 
"Your body can be confined, but not your mind," he said in a recent interview by phone. 
But the strains were showing. "I am anxious," he said in another recent interview, referring to 
how inmates would treat him. "I make a great effort to treat people equally, but I recognize that 
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I might be perceived as one of the New York arrogant rich." 
Jail will certainly be a big change. Mr. Epstein is a man of precise, at times unconventional, 
habits. He starts his mornings with a secret-ingredient bran muffin prepared by his chef. He 
seems to have a germ phobia. He never wears a suit, preferring monogrammed sweatsuits and 
jeans. And he rarely attends meetings — "I never have to be anywhere," he tells his pilots, when 
he cautions them to avoid flying through chancy weather. 
Looking back, Mr. Epstein admits that his behavior was inappropriate. "I am not blameless," 
he said. He said he has taken steps to make sure the same thing never happens again. 
For starters, Mr. Epstein has hired a full-time male masseur (the man happens to be a former 
Ultimate Fighting champion). He also has organized what he calls a board of directors of 
friends to counsel him on his behavior. 
And Mr. Epstein has changed his e-mail address to alert people that he will be unavailable for 
the next 18 months. The new address indicates he is "on vacation." 
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WEST PALM BEACH, Ma. (AP) -- New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to 
soliciting prostitution from underage girls in South Florida. 
Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 
months in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be 
designated a sex offender. 
Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 
$200 to $3oo each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes 
became sexual. 
He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. 
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Investment banker Jeffrey 
Epstein waits in court Monday 
before his guilty plea. 
Palm 
Beacher 
pleads in 
sex case 
Jerey Epstein will 
serve h years on teen 
solicitation charges. 
Pah:L . dA t PortiCESer Rion 
WEST PALM BEACH — He 
lives in a Palm Beach water,
front mansion and has kept 
company with the Riess of 
President Clinton, Prince An-
drew and Donald Trump, but 
investment banker Jeffrey Ep-
stein will call the Palm Beach 
County Jail home for the next 
18 months. 
Epstein, 55, pleaded guilty 
Monday to felony solicitation 
of prostitution and procuring 
a person under the age of 18 
for prostitution. After serving 
18 months in jail, he will be 
under house arrest for a year 
And he will have a lifelong 
obligation to register as a mac 
offender. He must submit to 
an HIV test within 48 hours, 
with the results being pro-
vided to his victims or their 
parents. 
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TUESDAY, JULY 1, 2008 
As part of the plea deal, 
federal investigators agreed 
to drop their investigation 
of Epstein, which they had 
taken to a grand jury, two law 
enforcement sources said. 
Epstein wan indicted two 
years ago after an 11-month 
investigation by Palm Bejph 
police. They 
received 
a 
complaint from a relative of 
a 14-yearold girl who had 
given Epstein a naked mas-
sage at his five-bedroom, 
7,234-square-toot, $8.5 million 
Intracoastal home. 
Fblice concluded that there 
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were several other girls 
brought in 2004 and 2006 to 
an upstairs room at the home 
for similar massages and 
sexual touching 
The indictment charged 
Epstein only with felony so-
licitation of prostitution. The 
state attorney's office later 
added the charge of procur-
ing underage girls for that 
Pul
e
 
Prosecutor 
Lanna 
Be-
lohlavek said of the plea: "I 
took into consideration the 
length the trial would have 
been and witnesses having 
to testify" about sometimes 
embarrassing incidents. 
Epstein may have made 
a serious mistake soon after 
he was charged. He rejected 
an offer to plead guilty to one 
count of aggravated assault 
with intent to commit a felo-
ny, according to police docu 
coeds. He would have gotten 
five years' probation. had no 
Criminal record and not been 
a registered sex offender, the 
documents indicate. 
Epstein arrived in court 
Monday with at least three 
attorneys. He wore a blue 
blazer blue shirt:blue jeans 
and white and gray sneakers. 
After Circuit Judge Deborah 
Dale Pucillo accepted the 
lea, he 'was fingerprinted. 
then removed his 
and was handcuffed 
for the trip to jail while his,
attorneys tried to shield him 
frodtwatoLiraphers' lenses 
eventually is 
released to house attest Ep-
stein will have to observe a 
10 pan. to 6 a.m. curfew, have 
no 
unsupervised 
contact 
with anyone younger than 
13 and neither awn nor pos-
sess pornographic or sexual 
materials "that are relevant 
toy 
r deviant behavior? the 
judge said. 
Epstein will be allowed 
to leave home for woitc 
The New York-based money 
manager told the judge he 
has formed the not-for-profit 
Florida Science Fbundatlon 
to finance scientific re-
search "lin there every day," 
Epstein said. 
The foundation was in-
corporated 
in 
November. 
Epstein said he already has 
awarded money to Harvard 
and M1T. 
When he is released from 
jail, there la a chance that Ep-
stein will be forced to move. 
Sex offenders are not allowed 
to live within 1.000 fed of a 
school park or other areas 
where children may gather 
No determination has been 
made as to whether Epstein% 
home complies, but attorneys 
said it likely does. 
Sex offenders also typi-
cally must attend counseling 
sessions 
Belohlavelc said 
that was waived for Epstein 
because his private psychia-
trist is working with him. 
'It's validation 
of what we're saying 
in the civil cases: 
JEFFREY HERMAN 
Attorney who represents slated 
'hems. commenting on the plea 
The judge was skeptical but 
agreed to it. 
Epstein legal woes don't 
end with Monday% plea. 
There are four pending fed-
eral civil lawsuit. and one 
in state court related to, his 
behavior At least one woman 
has sued him in New York, 
where he • owns a 51,000-
square-foot Manhattan man-
sion. 
It% validation of what 
we're saying .in the civil 
rata? said mouth attorney 
Jeffrey Herman, who repre-
dints the alleged victims in 
the federal lawsuits West 
Palm Beach attorney Ted 
Leopold represents one al-
leged victim in a civil suit In 
state court He said be antici-
pates unending that lawsuit 
to 'add s few other dente" 
as welt 
In the criminal use. po-
lice went so far as to scour 
Epstein% trash and conduct 
surveillance at Palm Beach 
international Airport, where 
they watched for his private 
jet so they would know when 
he was in town. They con-
cluded that Epstein paid girls 
S200 to $300 each after the 
massage sessions. 
ellnisH ereicli Reiss," 
Haley 
, now 22, told 
police 
u 
efforts in 
recruiting girls for Epstein. 
There was probable cause 
to charge Epstein with un-
lawful sex acts with a minor 
and lewd and lascivious mo-
lestation. Police concluded-
The state attorney% of-
fice said questions about 
the girls' credibility led it to 
take the unprecedented step 
of presenting the evidence 
against Epstein to a grand 
jury, rather than directly 
c 
ing 
Beach Police Chief 
Michael Reiter was furious 
with Statesay 
Attorney Barry, 
Krische
ing in a MaY 
2006 letr,ter that the prosecu-
tor should disqualify himself-
"' continue to find your 
officeb treatment of these 
cases highly unusual," he 
wrote. He the' asked for and 
got a federal Investigation. 
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Epstein hired a phalanx of 
high-priced lawyers —induct-
lag Harvard law professor 
and author Alan Dersbowitz 
— and public relations people 
who questioned Reitees com-
petence and the victims' 
truthfulness. 
In addition to mansions 
in Palm Beach and Manhat-
tan, Epstein owns homes in 
New Mexico and the Virgin 
Islands. He a frequent con-
tributor to Democratic Party 
candidates. He also donated 
S30 million to Harvard in 
2003. 
Former New • York Gov. 
Eliot Spitzer returned a 
$50,000 campaign contrilw 
tion from Epstein after his 
indictment, then resigned 
this year during his own sex 
scandal. And the same Palm 
Beach Police Depart:Meat 
that vigorously investigated 
Epstein returned his swum 
donation for the purchase of 
a fireartns simulator 
Staff writer Eliot Xleirtberg and 
staff researcher Michelle Quig-
ley contributed to this story. 
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Jeffrey Epstein (left) appeirs In court Monday. Soon after he was charged two years ago, Epstein reject-
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Billionaire heads to jail on teen prostitution charges 
By Missy Diaz 
South Florida Sun-Sentinel 
11:28 PM EDT, June 30, 2008 
WEST PALM BEACH 
Billionaire Palm Beach- New York-Virgin Islands money manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport 
coat for a jail uniform Monday after pleading guilty to hiring underage PalmJsach County girls for 
erotic massages and sex. The 55-year-old will be designated a sex offender, requiring him to register 
annually with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement. 
Epstein, who lives in a 13,000-square-foot mansion on El Brillo Way in Palm Beach, will spend 18 
months in the Palm Beach County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. 
Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his attorneys throughout the hearing, read off a litany of 
other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, including a 10 p.m.-to-6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity 
log and a stern warning that he not possess, watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually 
stimulating material relative to your deviant behavior." 
The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact — direct or indirect — with his victims, 
something Pucillo clarified explicitly, saying it includes things like Facebook, MySpace, c-mail and text 
messages. 
"That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third parties. ... Is that clear?" 
she asked. 
Epstein told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the very rich and counts among 
his friends former President Bill Clinton. His real estate holdings include a private island in the U.S. 
Virgin Islands and a 50,000-square-foot townhouse on Manhattan's tony Upper East Side. 
According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005 Epstein paid==, 
then 20 to find girls — "the 
younger the better"— to "work" for him. Epstein rejected a 23-year-old who 
brought to 
Epstein's home. 
once referred to herself as Heidi Fleiss, the Ho 
madam whose client list included 
ce e rities. "The more you do, the more you get paid," 
reportedly told thesi
llte going rate 
was $200 to $300 per massage. All of the girls knew what to expect, according to 
"provide a 
massage, possibly naked, and allow some touching." 
Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty Monday to two 
counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution and felony offer to commit prostitution. The 
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maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. 
Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court filed by four girls seeking in excess of $50 million each. 
"We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the 
claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. 
Missy Din can be reached at [email protected] or 561-228-5505. 
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Palm Beach money manager pleads guilty to hiring underage 
girls for sex 
By Missy Diaz 
Sun-Sentinel.com 
12:25 PM EDT, Junc 30, 2008 
WEST PALM BEACH 
Mega-rich Palm Beach-New York-Virgin Islands money 
manager Jeffrey Epstein traded his navy sport coat for a 
jail uniform today after pleading guilty to hiring 
underage Palm Beach County girls for erotic massages 
and sex. 
As a result, Epstein will be designated a sex offender, a 
moniker that will require he register annually with the 
Florida Department of Law Enforcement and any other 
jurisdiction that so requires. 
Epstein, 55, will spend 18 months in the Palm Beach 
County Jail followed by a year of house arrest. 
Judge Deborah Pucillo, who grilled Epstein and his 
attorneys throughout today's hearing, read off a litany of other conditions of Epstein's house arrest, 
including a 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. curfew, an hourly daily activity log and a stem warning that he not possess, 
watch or view any "obscene, pornographic or sexually stimulating material relative to your deviant 
behavior." 
The judge admonished Epstein not to have any contact — direct or indirect -- with his victims, something 
Pucillo explained includes things like Facebook, MySpacc, c-mail and text messages. 
"That means no messages through carrier pigeons, no messages through third paries ... is that clear?" she 
asked. 
Epstein, a billionaire who lives in a five bedroom, 7'A bath, 13,000-square-foot mansion on El 
BrilloWay in Palm Beach, told the judge he's an investment banker. He manages money for the super 
wealthy and counts among his friends former President Bill Clinton. 
According to police reports, in 2004 and 2005, Epstein used a then 20-year-old girl to find 14- to 16-
year-old girls from her school to "work" for him. 
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In return, according to police, Epstein paid her $200 for each girl she found. 
Epstein's assistant kept the recruiter apprised of when Epstein would be in Palm Beach and the recruiter 
would take the girls to the mansion. 
Once there, Epstein's assistant escorted the girl to a bedroom furnished with a massage table and oils. 
Epstein would enter in only a towel and would touch himself during some sessions and try fondling the 
girls with sex toys in others, according to police. 
Following lengthy negotiations dating to Epstein's July 2006 arrest, he pleaded guilty today to two 
counts: procuring a person under 18 for prostitution, and felony offer to commit prostitution. 
The maximum penalty was 15 years in prison. 
Epstein told the judge he takes no prescription medication other than for his cholesterol. He works in the 
Virgin Islands, he said, but while on house arrest he plans to do charitable work at a non-profit he 
formed charity called The Florida Science Foundation. 
State records show the foundation was formed in November for the purpose of providing grants to 
organizations in science and research. 
"My background is in physics," Epstein told Pucillo. 
Harvard and MIT have been recipients of grants from the organization, he said. 
While the criminal case may have been disposed today, Epstein still faces civil lawsuits in federal court 
filed by four of the girls who are each seeking in excess of $50 million. 
"We think the guilty plea today is a very positive development for the civil cases and validates the 
claims the girls were making," said Jeffrey Herman, the Miami attorney representing the girls. "An 
important measure of justice is that he'll be a registered sex offender." 
As deputies fingerprinted Epstein, who was dressed in a navy sport coat, jeans and sneakers, a phalanx 
of his handlers congregated outside the courtroom. 
His attorney, Jack Goldberger, along with two other men, one in a seersucker suit, the other typing 
furiously on a laptop computer, stayed with Epstein until lawmen escorted him from the courtroom. 
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Posted on Mon, Jun. 30, 2008 
Billionaire pleads to Fla. prostitution charge 
New York billionaire Jeffrey Epstein has pleaded guilty to soliciting prostitution from underage girls 
in South Florida. 
Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo sentenced the 55-year-old money manager Monday to 18 months 
in the Palm Beach County jail, followed by a year of house arrest. He will also be designated a sex 
offender. 
Epstein was arrested two years ago. Authorities allege he paid several girls under the age of 18 $200 
to $300 each in return for naked massages at his Palm Beach home that sometimes became sexual. 
He also faces state and federal lawsuits filed by several women over similar allegations. 
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FW NEWS RELEASE: MIAMI-DADE HUSBAND AND WIFE SENTENCED FOR MONEY 
LAUNDERING 
June 30, 2008 
NEWS RELEASE:
MIAMI-DADE HUSBAND AND WIFE 
SENTENCED FOR MONEY LAUNDERING 
R. Alexander Acosta, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Michael E. 
Yasofsky, Special Agent in Charge, Internal Revenue Service, Criminal Investigation Division, and 
Mark R. Trouville. Special Agent in Charge, Drug Enforcement Administration, Miami Field Office, 
announced that defendants, Irven Pressley and his ex-wife, Cynthia Pressley, were sentenced in 
federal court in Fort Lauderdale. The defendants, who were charged in an 88-count indictment, had 
previously pled guilty to money laundering, in violation of Title 18 United States Code, Section 
1956(h). On June 26. 2008, United States District Court Judge William J Zloch sentenced Irven 
Pressley to 114 months in prison. On June 27, 2008. he sentenced Cynthia Pressley to 54 months in 
prison. 
According to the court documents, Irven Pressley distributed cocaine in the Southern District of 
Florida. In addition, from late 1989 until December 2004, Irven and Cynthia Pressley conspired to 
launder funds obtained from Irven Pressley's cocaine sales. In total, the conspiracy laundered more 
than $1.5 million. 
Mr. Acosta commended the investigative efforts of the Internal Revenue Service, Criminal 
Investigation and of the Drug Enforcement Administration. This case was prosecuted by Assistant 
United States Attorneys Marcus A. Christian and Michael Davis. 
A copy of this press release may be found on the website of the United States Attorney's 
Office for the Southern District of Florida at www.usdojgov/usao/fls. Related court documents and 
information may be found on the website of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida at 
http://www.flsd.uscourts.00v/ or on http://pacer.flsd uscourts.gov/. 
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Smuggling trial heads to jury 
1. By Megan V. Winslow (Contact) 
Originally published 09:58 p.m., June 30, 2008 
Updated 09:58 p.m., June 30, 2008 
WEST PALM BEACH — Among stacks of photographs and bags of narcotics the Rickey 
Thompson jury mulls over today during deliberations are two exhibits attorneys said should settle 
the case: a picture of a dead man and a secretly recorded telephone conversation. 
The picture shows the body of Nigel Warren, one of three illegal immigrants whose 2006 
drowning death could mean a life sentence for Thompson, a 43-year-old fisherman and part-time 
smuggler from the Bahamas. But that's if jurors reject the defense that Warren's choice of dress 
caused his death in the dark Jupiter Island surf. 
"That man put on four shirts," said defense attorney David Patrick Rowe during his closing 
statements Monday. "He put on four pants. He put on construction boots, and he put on a jacket 
... and then he went into the water, not because someone pointed a gun at him 
as they want 
you to believe — but because he wanted to come to America." 
Federal prosecutors said the telephone conversation proves Thompson captained yet another boat 
of illegal immigrants from the Bahamas to Jupiter Island four months earlier in August 2006, 
when two Haitians drowned and 12 kilos of cocaine washed ashore. 
During the conversation, a drug mule-turned-informant tells Thompson a passenger from the 
August trip drowned, prosecutors said, and Thompson replies by warning the informant not to 
talk about the trip on the phone. 
The conversation connects two extremely similar smuggling trips, prosecutors said, and supports 
witness testimony that Thompson used a gun to usher his passengers quickly from his 36-foot 
power boat and make them swim to shore — whether they knew how to swim or not. 
"They did not drown because of what they were wearing," said Adrienne Rabinowitz, assistant 
U.S. attorney. "They did not drown because of what they drank. They drowned because this 
defendant forced them off the boat." 
Thompson's shipmate in the smugglings, U.S. citizen Leon Brice Johnson, pleaded guilty in 
March to six charges, including alien smuggling resulting in death, and is scheduled to be 
sentenced July 11. He also faces a maximum penalty of life in prison. 
In addition to three counts of second-degree murder for the deaths of Warren, of Jamaica, and 
Haitian citizens Roselyne Lubin and Alnert Charles. Thompson faces 27 other criminal counts, 
including alien smuggling resulting in death and importing drugs . such as marijuana, cocaine 
and heroin into the U.S. 
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Posted on Tue, Jul. 01, 2008 
Justice to seek more information from Swiss bank 
By CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER 
The Justice Department said it is seeking information from Swiss bank UBS AG about U.S. 
taxpayers who may have used offshore accounts to avoid paying federal income taxes. 
The broadening investigation centers on UBS clients in the United States who may have hidden up to 
$20 billion in assets from the Internal Revenue Service. 
The Justice Department said Monday it asked a federal court in Miami to authorize the IRS to serve 
UBS with a "John Doe" summons. The IRS uses a "John Doe" summons to obtain information about 
potential tax fraud by unknown individuals. 
If approved, the summons will direct the bank to identify U.S. taxpapers with accounts at UBS who 
did not fill out required tax forms. 
The Justice Department's move comes after Bradley Birkenfeld, a former UBS employee, pleaded 
guilty June 19 to conspiring to defraud the IRS by helping the bank's clients avoid U.S. tax reporting 
requirements. 
Birkenfeld said in a court statement that UBS has about $20 billion in assets in "undeclared" accounts 
for U.S. taxpayers. 
UBS employees created sham offshore entities and then filled out IRS forms that falsely claimed the 
entities owned the accounts, Birkenfeld said. 
"Offshore accounts harbor billions of dollars, and people should take notice that the secrecy 
surrounding these deals is rapidly fading," IRS Commissioner Doug Shulman said. 
"There is reason to suspect that ... many United States taxpayers used UBS's services to shelter their 
assets and, as a result, failed to file accurate tax returns," U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta said in a 
statement filed with the court. 
UBS has said it will cooperate with both Swiss and U.S. authorities and disclose any instances in 
which U.S. clients may have broken tax laws. 
Prosecutors say that Birkenfeld and others helped California real estate magnate Igor Olenicoff hide 
$200 million in assets overseas. 
Olenicoff, whose fortune is estimated at SI.6 billion by Forbes magazine, pleaded guilty last year to 
tax charges and agreed to pay the IRS more than $52 million in back taxes, penalties and interest. A 
Liechtenstein banker charged along with Birkenfeld, 43-year-old Mario Staggl, has been declared a 
fugitive. 
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By LYNNLEY BROWNINQ 
Published July 1, 2008 
Federal authorities, turning up the pressure on UBS, the Swiss banking giant, asked a 
federal court on Monday to force the bank to turn over the names of wealthy American 
clients suspected of evading taxes through secret offshore accounts. 
The request, from the Justice Department, comes amid a widening federal 
investigation into the private banking services offered by UBS to Americans. While that 
investigation has centered on a former top UBS private banker, Bradley Birkenfeld, an 
American, it is rapidly broadening to include clients of the bank. 
The request was made in court papers filed in the United States District Court for the 
Southern District of Florida in Miami by R. Alexander Acosta, the top federal 
prosecutor in Florida. The papers are related to the separate criminal case against Mr. 
Birkenfeld, who pleaded guilty last month to a single fraud charge and is cooperating 
with investigators. 
Amid the disclosure request, the investigation threatens to peel back layers of Swiss 
banking secrecy, whose tradition began in the Middle Ages. It also increasingly 
promises to put UBS, the world's largest private bank, on a collision course with 
American prosecutors and regulators, who argue that Swiss secrecy laws do not apply 
to American clients who were sold UBS services. 
A federal judge could rule on the request as early as this week, according to people 
briefed on the matter. 
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The request could open the floodgates to a flow of information about offshore tax 
evasion. 
Douglas Shulman, the commissioner of the Internal  Revenue Service, said in a written 
statement: "We will be taking additional steps to ferret out offshore tax avoidance 
beyond today's announcement involving UBS. If service of the John Doe summons is 
approved, the I.R.S. will pursue people and advisers identified through the summons 
process who use offshore bank and financial accounts to circumvent their tax 
responsibilities." 
UBS is considering whether to turn over to the United States authorities up to 20,000 
American client names as part of the criminal investigation, but it is grappling with 
pressure from Swiss banking and legal circles not to betray Swiss confidences. Unlike 
in the United States, tax evasion is legal in Switzerland. Tax fraud, however is not. 
Prosecutors suspect that UBS helped American clients stash $20 billion overseas in 
secret offshore accounts, evading $300 million or more in taxes. 
Specifically, the I.R.S. and federal prosecutors want to force UBS to turn over the 
names of all American clients who from December 2002 through 2007 had control 
over accounts at the Swiss-based offices of UBS, its subsidiaries or affiliates — and for 
which UBS did not have a special tax form known as a W-9. 
Under United States tax laws, American clients of UBS with assets or investments in 
offshore undeclared accounts are supposed to sign that form, which discloses names, 
addresses and taxpayer identification numbers, and then file it with UBS. UBS is 
supposed to let clients know when they have to sign the form and also withhold any 
taxes that might be owed to the I.R.S., typically at 28 percent. 
Clients who do not sign the W-9 are supposed to sell their United States investments 
held in undeclared offshore accounts. Many UBS clients did not sign the forms but 
continued to hold the investments — with UBS's knowledge — all while not paying 
taxes on them, prosecutors said. 
The request for American client and account names is broad and covers any clients for 
whom financial advice or solicitations at Swiss-based UBS entities were made. It also 
covers any United States taxpayers with the authority to receive account statements or 
trade confirmations or to withdraw money from the Swiss-based accounts. And it 
covers accounts that were not just managed by but also maintained and monitored by 
UBS. 
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Last but not least, the request for names, or summons, also covers clients for whom 
UBS did not accurately or timely file 1099 forms, which report income earned, or 
withhold taxes. 
The UBS case is the first to turn the spotlight on the rarefied world of private banking, 
and any disclosure of client names would batter the bank's reputation. 
Judges have been sympathetic to similar requests in the past from the government. 
In 2000, the I.R.S. won a Florida federal judge's approval to force Mastercard 
International to turn over the names of American clients whom the agency suspected of 
using their credit cards to withdraw money from offshore tax havens, thereby evading 
payment of income taxes. 
MasterCard turned over names tied to 230,00o accounts, and more later. The judge 
also issued similar orders for American Express. Also that year, a San Francisco federal 
judge backed an I.R.S. request to force Visa International to turn over names of clients 
with offshore accounts. 
The case could also become an embarrassment for Marcel Rohner, the chief executive 
of UBS, as well as for Phil Gramm, the former Republican senator from Texas who is 
now the vice chairman of UBS Securities, the bank's investment banking arm. 
Assistant United States Attorney 
United States Attorney's Office 
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