EFTA01106903.pdf

I have up until now , not told my side of the story„ I was advised by attorneys , and pr people , to just stay quiet , and it will all go away. I have received the same advice for five years now.. I realize , my silence is now causing collateral damage to my friends and other innocent bystanders. The time has come to let , the hounds of investigative reporters, loose on those that, driven by money, have made false claims, concocted malicious fabrications. , and have expanded their fictions , now to include others in my orbit. I was investigated for soliciting underage girls. To be precise „ girls under the age of 18 , who were brought to my house, by their close friends, worked in local massage parlors., ( west palm beach, has scores of massage parlor , happy ending places, that reoutinely advertise in the same local papers that have chastised my behavior or strip clubs.. ( see palm beach post < classified ). I am and have always been a bachelor. I have used massage parlor girls, licenced massge therapists, and girls with no massage experience. I have never ever, used force, coercion or in fact had intercourse with any of these girls. When the police investigated me, went through my garbage, searched my house, they found, sex toys, NO cameras, or camera equiptment, Nothing in fact out of the ordinary from many homes of single men. There were never any photos of underage girls , never. A careful reading of any law enforcment document makes that clear.. Te camera that was referred to in the search warrant, was the camera installed in the house , with the help of the local police to catch my houseman , Joh allessi, the same houseman, mentioned in many articles. He was breaking into the house and stealing money , after being fired . The camera caught him in the act,. These cameras were the only cameras at the house, security cameras. The local state attorney, after conducting an extensive investigation, and interviewing the girls herself. A sex crimes prosecutor with over 13 years experience, and who had herself authored the more tough legislagations dealing with sex crimes, said in her own words There were no real victims here.. The girls knew , they were going to a house in palm beach„ they had their boyfriends or family members drive them to the house, and wait outside , They then encouraged their friends to go . Many of the girls interviewed were in their mid twenties, some in their early thirties„ and some, younger than 18„ . The girl , that the newsppare have referred to as a fourtenn year old. Told the police that she had repeatedly told me that she was 18, she was a senior in high school„ like many of the massage parlor girls , and in her own words, to the police , said the reason she said that was that she was told that if she didn't MR EPSTEIN would not let her in the house. These reports are available. The state attorney, offered me to take a plea to agg assault, with only probation . My attorneys told me that , it would be a forever blight on my record, and I should refuse the deal. I did so.. The state attorney Barry Krisher, took the unusual step of bringing the facts before a state grand jury„ In florida, this happens most often in capital murder cases, not prostituion in someones own home, .. To be certain that the publice would not criticize the outcome, the state grand jury was given all the evidence and returned a verdict of Solicitation of prositution. Solicitiaion, a no registrable offense that carried with it a sentice of MANDATory EFTA01106903 Probation.Mandatory probation . one of the few statues , that has such a designation. This charge however, was met with great disdain by the local police chief . He believed something untoward had gone on for the grand jury to return such a mild verdict after his departent had spent hundreds of thousands of dollars examining the behavior of a resident that rarely left his, house, .. girls seems to come and go girls of ALL ages, some masseusges interviewed wwere in their sixties.. some were men. The police chief, unhappy with the decision of twelve florida citizines that weighed the evidence , took the unprecedented step of releasling„, the raw police reports, to the press.. the raw sewage of an investigation, not corobated or it turn out, not even transcribed, from the actual in terview tapes correctly.. Before a plea to the indictement was entered, and the case was still open , he released the reports , and then sent a letter off to the parents of some of the girls, and to the fbi, asking for their assistance.. Only two days after the grand jury decided that I should only be charged with soliciation of prostition NOT underage, girls, not pimping but usint prostitutes as a john. I received my first FEDERAL subpoena. What resulted after a thirteen month investigation , and can be read in my non prosecution agreement, Was they federal govt threatened me with a fifity page indictment „alleging that I had broken federal law.. though all actions took place in my home in florida, the girls were from florida, and no interstate travel took place. The AUSA said that my secretary, had made telephone calls to the girls. Many of those calls were return calls., and the use of the telephone by my secretary, to confirm massage appointments, was equvalent federally to some guy surfing the internet, knowing full well that the person on the other end of the connection is under age, and trying to coerce them into some illegal sex activity. The internet luring statute , says that someone uses the means of intersate commerce , ( in my case as phone ), to knowingly coerce underage persons into sex. .. This was the first time in history, that this statute would be stretched, twisted, beyond all recognion , in an attempt to threaten prosecution . I had hired Ken Starr„ former solictiotr general, Alan Dershowitzm law professor, Roy black, Trial attorney, Joe Whitley„ former ass attorney general , and guy Lewis former us attny in south florida, to defend me against what each one of the had said was no federalcrime, Ken starr, wrote a brief using a federalism argument, that was clear that my crime of being a john, could not be a federal crime, .. To no avail.. What the federal govt required was as follows. They required that my defense team, not the feds but my team, go to the state attorney , ask that he up my charge to a pimping charge. ( a charge that carried with it sex registaration, ), they would not give him the facts to support that charge , or give me evidence that they said they had that I had under florida law received money FROM these girls to offer them out as prostitutes, Florida is very clear , that the pimp must have a financial benefit from the crime.. It would be our repsonisbility to ask the stae attoryney to up my charge and agree to sentence me to 18 months in jail and a year of house arrest IN the history of the state attorneys office, they have no other instance of someone requesting a higher charge, than the grand jury decided. And a harsher penalty.. In addition the federal govt would require me to pay, a minimum of 50 thousand dollars to each girl on a list of girls, that they would choose. A list that would be EFTA01106904 kept secret, and no names on their list would be disclosed to me or my attorneys until, I was already firmly in a jail cell. A list that we would not only be obliged to pay money to, but if any of the girls did not accept the 50k dollars , I would be required to pay an attorney, chosen by the govt. to represent the girls , to enable them to sue me, and I would have to pay their attny fees. I would be given the names, after being in jail, not be allowed to appeal this deal, pay girls, some of whom I never even met„ and If I chose to fight this deal , I would be threatened over and over with being in breach of my agreement.. \ The attorney chosen , hired his own daughter, a sitting state prosecutor, who received special leave to represent these girls, and though she continued to receive her state salary, billed me over 800 thousand dollars in a period of a year to represent girls , suing me.. When my side raised objections , we were told that if we fought this, the govt would declare a breach an indict me . The AUSA actually files an affadavit with the court that stated that the protection from ( the govt), that Epstein though he bargained for really is "illusory ", We can always bring a case against him for the livespan of any girl we think has been a victim. After serving my sentence, I was sued by many girls on the govt list During many of the depostions taken in those case. The girls admitted to the following, they had many other clients , they got paid thousands of dollars a week to work in the local massage parlor , sex club„ they kept their list of johns, in their bible. They had abusive borfriends, abortion, way before they ever met me, and though they claimed sex assault abuse, and various other sex claims, most, later brought their best friends to the house, who also claimed the same abuse , in the hopes of getting money, EFTA01106905