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Attorneys want Jeffrey Epstein agreement thrown out 4/7/11 1:37 PM Regster Now I Sign in I Envii preferences I! Thursday, April 7, 2011 Renew CLASSIFIEDS I REAL ESTATE I DINING I SPECIAL SECTIONS HOI/E I NEWS SOCIETY I BUSINESS I AI I I rESTYLES I HOWE d LOGGIA I SHINY SHOTS I SLOGS I ADVERTISE I CONTACT US : S t" PahnBea Dai New .corn Home > Palm Beach News SEARCH . Attorneys want Jeffrey Epstein agreement thrown out 0 Site O web web Search by YAHOO? LATEST NEWS By MICHELE DARGAN DAV( NEWS STAFF WRITER PALM BEACH ESTATE R Today: Thursday, April 7. Updated: 9:41 a.m. Wednesday. March 23. 2011 2011 Posted: 7:21 p.m. Monday. Mardi 21. 2011 P• Tat al Sea Gull Cottage to focus on gencrwics Ernst I Rint I Share I Larger Type R Palm Beach Warren's Court papers filed Monday say the U.S. Attorney's Office violated International Film Festival debuts Thursday in support of the Crime Victims' Rights Act by signing a nonprosecution women filmmakers agreement with sex offender Jeffrey Epstein without notifying his victims. l> Day Academy pupas revisit 241 La Puerta Way, Palm Beach notable characters in Palm Attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell, representing Jane Doe Exquisitely designed Mediterranean Palm Bears- Beach history #1 and Jane Doe #2. want a court hearing. where they will ask that walled estate. a More Details R Gov. Scott at Midtown the agreement be invalidated because, they say, the victims' rights Beach: 'Give me the list: he were violated. If that happens, it could open up the 58-year-old Corcoran.nmi tells officials about beach Palm Beach billionaire to a slew of federal charges involving sex concerns crimes with minors that were set aside by the agreement. in OWN OF PALM REACH The motion, filed Monday in federal court in West Palm Beach, accuses the U.S. Attorneys Office of deliberately misleading the 1911* CENTENNIAL • 20II victims by telling them the investigation was ongoing, while la) Click here for the latest events! icb concealing they had already signed a deal with Epstein. According to the motion, the U.S. Attorneys Office sent 'false Find us on Facebook notification" letters in January 2008 and May 2008 to the victims saying "(t)his case is currently under investigation" after the II Palm Beach Daily News government had signed the agreement with Epstein in September 2007. Like 'The only reason that the (U.S. Attorney's Office) concealed the 2,413 people like Palm Beach Daily News. existence of the non-prosecution agreement from the victims was not to comply with some legal restriction, but rather to avoid a firestorm of public controversy that would have erupted if the sweetheart plea deal with a politically connected billionaire had been Todd Diana Stanton •ckw revealed." the motion says. If Epstein were found guilty on federal charges. Statutory penalties ranged from 10 years to life. Cadman, lames Karts Instead. the sealed pact was part and parcel of Epstein's acceptance of a state plea deal, where he received an 18-month sentence for soliciting a minor for prostitution and soliciting rirata* aortal Phan prostitution. He served 13 months segregated in a vacant wing of MOST RECENT ALBUMS the county stockade and was let out on work release six days a week for up to 16 hours a day. Edwards and other attorneys fought in court for a year before successfully getting the agreement unsealed in September 2009. More than 30 minor girls were identified as Epstein's victims in the The Pan Beach The Society of the Pomona Roland pact. Opera Fois Arts benefit http:/ /www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/attorneys-want-jeffrey-epstein-agreement-thrown-out-1338111.html Page 1 of 3 EFTA01199124 Attorneys want Jeffrey Epstein agreement thrown out 4/7/11 1:37 PM More • Doe 1 and 2. who were 14 and 13. respectively, at the time of the incidents. received monetary settlements in civil cases. They are among more than two-dozen underage girls who filed lawsuits or settled claims against Epstein. alleging they were lured to his Palm Beach mansion to give him sexually charged massages and/or sex in exchange for money. The motion filed Monday says the agreement is Illegal because the government did not protect the "Congressionally mandated rights of victims before it entered this agreement: Alicia Valle. special counsel for the U.S. Attorney's Office Southern District of Florida. said in an e-mail that the U.S. Attorneys Office will respond in court filings. 'However, as we stated more than two years ago in July 2008 in our response to the plaintiffs' then-emergency petition for enforcement of the Crime Victim Rights Act, the CVRA was not violated because no federal charges were ever filed in the Southern District of Florida: Valle said. "Because the matter remains pending in court. It would be inappropriate at this time to provide additional comment on the merits of the current motion." The attorneys reference e-mails and letters from the federal office to Epstein's lawyers acknowledging the government's legal obligation to inform victims about the pact. The e-mails are redacted in the motion because they are under seal. The attorneys filed a separate motion Monday to unseal the correspondence. 'The reasonable inference from the evidence is that the U.S. Attorney's Office wanted to keep the agreement a secret to avoid intense criticism that would surely ensued had the victims and the public learned that a billionaire sex offender with political connections had arranged to avoid federal prosecution for numerous felony sex offenses against minor girls: the motion says. "As pan of this pattern of deception, the U.S. Attorney's Office discussed victim notification with the defendant sex offender and. after he raised objections, stopped making notifications." Epstein sought "a higher level of review" within the Department of Justice, the motion says. 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