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I 1 I $ i t EFTA01713378  A if DtrET2_ POSTS 27 N1 EFTA01713379 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 1 of 9 Governor to dump cash from billionaire arid By STEVE TERRELL I The New Mexican August 16, 2006 Gov. Bill Richardson plans to donate money he received from a billionaire financier recently indicted in Florida on felony charges of soliciting prostitutes. Jeffrey Epstein, who owns a 26,700-square-foot hilltop mansion in southern Santa Fe County, allegedly had sex with five teenagers as young as 14 in his Palm Beach home after luring them to give him massages. Epstein, 53, insists he is innocent and blames his indictment on an overzealous police chief, according to a recent story in the Palm Beach Post. According to a police affidavit, he paid the girls between $200 and $1,000 each. Epstein — who also has addresses in New York and the Virgin Islands — gave thousands to New Mexico political candidates. According to state campaign contribution reports, Epstein gave: _$50,000 for Gov. Bill Richardson's 2002 campaign and, under the name of one of his companies, The Zorro Trust, another $50,000 to Richardson's re- election campaign this year. _$15,000 to attorney general candidate Gary King. _$10,000 to state land commissioner candidate Jim Baca. _$2,000 to Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano. Richardson's campaign manager Amanda Cooper said Tuesday that the campaign would donate the money from the Zorro Trust to charities around the state. His campaign did the same thing with more than $44,000 it received from Albuquerque investor Guy Riordan after Riordan was implicated in the state treasurer scandal. Riordan never has been charged with a crime. King said Tuesday that "to avoid any appearance of impropriety," he plans to return the $15,000 to Epstein. • "I don't think I've ever met him personally," King said. "He knows other members of my family better." Epstein bought his 10,000-acre Zorro Ranch in Stanley from King's father, former Gov. Bruce King in 1993. Baca also said he never met Epstein in person. "He mailed me the check," he said. "I took the money in good faith." Baca said he'll discuss with his http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713380 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 2 of 9 campaign treasurer whether to return the donation. Solano said he's not in a position to return his Epstein donation. "I was $2,500 in debt after the primary," the sheriff said. "There isn't any to return." New Mexico Democrats aren't the only politicians to whom Epstein has contributed. According to the Institute of Money in State Politics, he's also given $50,000 to New York gubernatorial candidate Eliot Spitzer. He also was a contributor and friend to former President Clinton. According to the Palm Beach Post, "In September 2002, Epstein was flung into the limelight when he flew Clinton and actors Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker to Africa on his private jet." The same article said Epstein ienjoys friendships with New York developer Donald Trump and OEngland's Prince Andrew. In addition to his massive home in Stanley — reportedly the largest home in New Mexico -- the Zorro Ranch has an airplane hangar, airstrip and several other structures. In 2001, Epstein sued Santa Fe County, claiming the county assessor overcharged him in property taxes. The suit claimed the Zorro Ranch was worth only $30 million, not $33 million, as it was assessed. Epstein asked for a refund of more than $20,000. Epstein and the county settled the case before it went to trial. Comments By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/1712006 3:29 pm) Thanks Jaime. By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/17/2006 3:27 pm) Classy move Jaime! Thanks for the info. By Jaime Deloro (Submitted: 08/17/2006 3:13 pm) I contacted the Solano for Sheriff Campaign Treasurer through his website Http://www.solano4sheriff.com to make a donation of $100. I was given an address of: Solano for Sheriff Campaign 1068 Willow Way, Santa Fe, N.M. 87507 You can also donate at the Web site with credit or debit cards. I did so and I hope anyone else who wants to help will do the same. Its going to two good charities anyway. By Josef Baushofer (submitted: 08/17/2006 3:06 pm) Good job Mr. Solano. By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/17/20061:11 pm) http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713381 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 3 of 9 Marco: The pediophilia charges are against Epstein, not Solano. When the Sheriff received these contributions these charges never existed. I think we can all agree that the Sheriff has high moral standards and would have returned the donation if these charges pre-existed. I don't think he did anything immoral or unethical. Look at his most recent post, he's digging into his pocket's again. By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/17/2006 12:52 pm) Sheriff Solano: I saw in the paper yesterday there is a food and school supply drive to benefit Bienvenidos Outreach for the month of August. There are alot of kids who start school with no school supplies and no food just a thought since it is August and school starts soon. By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/17/2006 12:24 pm) James, You're missing the point. I know where Greg grew up , what he went through to get where he's at (not personally), I grew up with Casper, and no, law enforcement officers aren't paid nearly enough but they should be held to a higher ethical standard. You want them to all be like Danny Valdez. Look I know ifs an if, but if convicted, it's pedophilia James. I guess we'll just both have to agree to disagree. Enjoy you're day. By Eric Radosevich (Submitted: 08/17/2006 11:42 am) This is a truely righteous thing to do.More power to you Sheriff Solano. By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/17/2006 11:09 am) Who do I write the check to and where can I drop it off or mail it to? Let's go people. He doesn't need to be using his own money. Bravo Sheriff! Bravo! By Solano Greg (Submitted: 08/17/2006 11:04 am) PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE Sheriff Solano to donate funds to Charity August 17, 2006 Sheriff Greg Solano will be donating $1000 to Mothers Against Drunk Driving and $1000 to Challenge New Mexico both local charities doing important work for citizens of New Mexico. The money represents money donated by Jeffrey Epstein to Sheriff Solano's Campaign in 2005. Although the money had been spent and the election over in June of 2006 Sheriff Solano felt it was the right thing to do in this circumstance. Sheriff Solano will make the donations using a combination of new donations and his own money. By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/17/2006 10:52 am) Marco: What I am saying is that the bigger the office the bigger the contribution. It would be easier for someone running for president or governor to return the money or donate it like Richardson did. Sheriff Solano was working with a shoe string campaign budget compared to a higher office like the http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713382 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 4 of 9 Governor. It would be harder for Solano to return his contributions because he doesn't receive the funding that Richardson would get. You wanting Sheriff Solano to go deeper in debt doesn't make sense. He has a family and bills to pay just like most people. By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/17/2006 10:33 am) James, My bad. But where are you on the topic or the question I posed? What are you saying James? The lower the office, the lower your ethics can be? By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/17/2006 10:31 am) Eldon: I have many clients from Los Alamos, Santa Fe, Eldorado, and Albuquerque. I go to my clients homes and Chef for parties of 2 through 30. I do the planning, shopping, cooking, serving, and cleanup for one fiat rate. I didn't go to culinary school but I have been cooking since I was 8 years old. I am self -taught along with mentoring with a Chef from Phoenix (Roberto Rosales La Mancha Athletic and Resort Hotel). I also was the Personal Chef for one of the principal owners of Penthouse Magazine. I am emailing you my brochure and a sample menu to your email address. By Eldon Howell (Submitted: 08/17/2006 10:16 am) James....do you go around preparing for parties, or do you only work for one client, or how does that work? Did you go to school just for that? If we start getting off topic you can email me at eldon.howelleomaij.com By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/17/2006 9:58 am) Marco: I am not a deputy nor do I work for SF County. I am a Personal Chef who pays taxes and is a registered voter. It would be hard to for me to arrest anyone with a spatula LOL way off dude! By Eric Radosevich (Submitted: 08/17/2006 8:08 am) I am not policing ANYONE marco,just killing time for break once in a while. By paul white (Submitted: 08/16/2006 7:03 pm) I applaud Sheriff Solano for his comments on this issue. How many other politicians are willing to comment in this kind of forum? -Pablo Blanco By Jaime Deloro (Submitted: 08/16/2006 6:11 pm) I am not saying he was cornered into corruption. I am saying that if politicians have to keep a cache of cash to cover money which may have to be refunded years later when a donor is arrested or charged with a crime that will encourage even more fundraising and the possibility of someone acting badly out of desperation. It is bad enough that a simple low level office like http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713383 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 5 of 9 Sheriff has to raise $30,000 just to run, much less pay for the future mistakes or misdeeds of donors. By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/16/2006 3:34 pm) What are you doing here Eric? Policing us? Yes Sherriff Solano has a hard job that is under a microscope but it is his choice. These cases take years to prosecute, so if this guy is found innocent or guilty in another year or two does the politician now have to come up with money out of his or her own pocket? That would depend on his character? I'd gladly pitch in $10-20. Jaime, are you saying Robert Vigil was cornered into corruption? By Jaime Deloro (Submitted: 08/16/2006 3:10 pm) So, On Sheriff Solano's Blog he says he received the donation in August of 2005. Almost a year later and months after the campaign and election are done the guy is arrested or charged with a crime. How many years or how long after the elections are done do candidates still have to take money out of their own pockets if a donor gets in trouble. These cases take years to prosecute, so if this guy is found innocent or guilty in another year or two does the politician now have to come up with money out of his or her own pocket? The Kings and Richardson's have tons of campaign money to throw around and Bill could easily throw a $100 a plate diner to raise the money he is donating to charity. How many people are going to donate to a Sheriffs campaign that is already over? I could not find on the Internet how much the sheriff makes but I think it is around $50,000 before taxes. So we really want our elected officials paying for other peoples mistakes? That only encourages things like Robert Vigil or kickbacks and schemes for the elected officials which really are not paid that much to • begin with to try and have money to pay for other peoples mistakes. By marco Ortlz (Submitted: 08116/20063:04 pm) Here here Josef. Come on Greg. He's charged with pedophilia (sp?). Give US a break Officer Trujillo. You are an officer aren't you or are you one of Sherriff Solano's duputies? What are you saying James? The lower the office, the lower your ethics can be? By Eric Radosevich (Submitted: 08/16/2006 2:43 pm) If he does good things with bad money,who cares.lf Sherriff Solano goes to Las Vegas and plays some poker,who cares.lf maybe more of you people got off this web page and went to Vegas,maybe you'd come back a little less anal about everything.Lighten up for goodness sakes,your gonna' give yourselves a stroke.Sherriff Solano has a hard job and he does http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713384 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 6 of 9 just fine while being under a bunch of you busy bodyswatchful eyes because you all have nothing better to do. By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/16/20062:24 pm) Okay Jaime, say this Epstein guy does get convicted. You're alright that a convicted pedophile is giving money to our sherriffs campaign? Yeah yeah they are allegations but just to be clear, if convicted, you're alright with this? How about you Sherriff Solano? If convicted? Regarding other comments; I agree with you Jaime on Sherriff Solano's Las Vegas trip as well as his participation here on-line. By Josef Baushofer (Submitted: 08/16/2006 2:16 pm) Greg - I'm suggesting you return the $2,000 and be $4,500 in debt instead of $2,500. • By Jaime Deloro (Submitted: 08/16/2006 2:03 pm) Maria, I read the Albuquerque Journal Article which says that the Sheriff was in Vegas for a wedding and while he was there he visited the World Series of Poker. According to the article he spent a Whopping $175 while he was there to play in a tournament. He also chronicles the trip extensively in his blog so why is this an issue? What is there for the New Mexican to catch? He talked openly about this trip the same way he seems to talk openly about everything. He is the only politician who bothers to even talk here and his life seems like an open book to me. I would not want everyone knowing as much about me as we do about him. Jeffery Epstein also gave millions to Charity's should they all borrow money to pay it back? I am sure allot of those charity's spent the money already. Unless the money is obtained illegally or the politicians blackmail, or it is proven they get the money in exchange for political favors then the money is no different than if you or I write a check for $10 or $100. If I write a check for $100 and get arrested tomorrow are we going to demand that money be returned? This really is ridiculous and you wonder why we can't attract good people to run for office. When we do have someone good we tear them down . Why anyone would even do this to .themselves is beyond me. By james trujillo (Submitted: 08/16/20061:54 pm) Give the Sheriff a break! He does a good job for us and running for office requires funds. I believe he spent some of his own money to fund his campaign. He ran for Sheriff not President of the US get a grip Josef. By marco Ortiz (Submitted: 08/16/2006 1:44 pm) Jeffrey Epstein, who owns a 26,700-square-foot hilltop mansion in southern Santa Fe County, allegedly had sex with five teenagers as young as 14 in his Palm Beach home after luring them to give him massages. Though it is alleged, this is the kind of guy you want believing in you and that you want to make a difference in our community? If he's found guilty will you give it back? Oh, right there's nothing http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713385 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 7 of 9 to give back. So you, The Sherriff are fine with keeping money from this sort of person? Oh that's right , you have political assperations. Just practicing huh? By Jean Vigil (Submitted: 08/16/20061:27 pm) Marc Rich is a fine example , Mr. Radosevich. By Eric Radosevich (Submitted: 08/161200612:29 pm) Are all the Clinton cronies on here going to ask the original "DirtyBill" to return his donation?He probably spent it having Monicas dress cleaned right?LMAO. By Maria Leyba (Submitted: 08/16/200612:23 pm) Is that what you were doing in Vegas at the World Series of Poker Solano?Trying to make funds for your campaign? It was in the ABO Journal, I wondered why the New Mexican hadn't caught it. By Solano Greg (Submitted: 08/1612006 11:58 am) Josef, I am not sure how you think I was in debt before the campaign started. The truth is that when a campaign is in debt that means the debt still had to be covered therefor the $2,500 came ouf of my pocket already. The campaign started with zero, not with a debt. I speak more about this in my blog at http://sberiffgreqsolano.blogspolcorn . The truth is that to run for sheriff cost both myself and my opponent about $30,000 each. It is sad that we have to raise money to be a public servant but such is the system now. For a regular Joe, like me, to run it is even harder as we are not independently wealthy and therefor must rely on help from people who believe in you and want to make a difference in their community. That is the system as it is now. Perhaps we really should look at public campaign financing or some other solution. I just don't want to see it get to the point were only the rich can run for office. Sheriff Greg Solano By J Green (Submitted: 08/16/2006 11:35 am) Keep on washin' those hands, Billy. But the stain is still there. By Jay Raymond (Submitted: 08/16/2006 9:21 am) Ironic that Baushofer just now seems illuminated. That light has been left shining on most GOP0 uh, roaches for so many years that global circadian rhythms have been permanently skewed. Sad denial, but predictably lockstep with their "do as I say, but not as I do" mantra. Now that's what real character is all about, heh Josef? By Hector Sanchez (Submitted: 08/16/2006 9:02 am) "By Pat Garcia (Submitted: 08/16/2006 7:55 am) ( Report this comment ) If someone knows how to get in contact with Governor Richardson," http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713386 Governor to dump cash from billionaire 'Page 8 of If you don't know how to get in touch with your own governor, that's pretty sad. Even sadder is that you're an Internet user.... I'll guess (it was hard): Governor Bill Richardson Governors Mansion Santa Fe, NM 87501 That would probably do it, but you really should look it up on his web site. By Josef Baushofer (Submitted: 08/1612006 8:52 am) I love it when the light is turned on and all of the cockroaches start to scatter. So is he donating $50K or the full $100K that he received? ...and Mr. Solano, does it really matter whether you are in debt or not? You were in debt before receiving the donation - why not just borrow to pay it back and be back in debt for awhile? Very lame excuse if you ask me. By Oliver Klozov (Submitted: 08/16/2006 8:49 am) Chavez is probably standing outside the Roundhouse with his hand out. By Preciliano Martin (Submitted: 08/16/20068:21 am) And haven't heard from "Progressive Independent Eli Chavez". Where are you? By Preciliano Martin (Submitted: 08116/2006 8:20 am) Tom Hyland, Tell Ole Heather to "do the right thing" and turn back the money from the corrupt Delay Tell her that, ok. By Tom Hyland (Submitted: 08/16/2006 8:11 am) I see a huge irony here. If anybody is a solicited prostitute, it's Richardson. If the story about the billionaire hadn't been published, our governor wouldn't be going through this charade to "do the right thing." By Pat Garcia (Submitted: 08/16/2006 7:55 am) If someone knows how to get in contact with Governor Richardson, then tell him to put that money towards our community. We do not have enough shelters for the homeless and most importantly, alcoholic people who do not have money for treatment really need a place to go. These 90 day treatment centers are not going to help these people. Governor Richardson, have you been to the shelters in Albuquerque lately? Have you seen the lines of people trying to get food, have you seen them be turned away because there is not enough? Have you seen the alcoholics laying in the cold street because they can't afford to go into good treatment? It's time you took control of this problem. How can people continue to close their eyes to this problem. Alcoholism is a terrible disease. Help these people. The illegals coming across to live here get more pity and help than our local people with these http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713387 Governor to dump cash from billionaire Page 9 of 9 problems. The mentally ill are walking the streets when they need to be placed somewhere. Wake up Governor Richardson, people are taking notice. How can you go to your mansion to sleep knowing that there are people sleeping in the wet streets and not even eating any food. Wake up. Close I Print Questions? Comments? Send an email to webeditocasfnewmexican.00m http://www.freenewmexican.com/story_print.php?storyid=47952 4/25/2007 EFTA01713388 Jeffrey E. Epstein Named CFO of Advo Page 1 of 1 Coral PRII DIRECT Powered by (V Jeffrey E. Epstein Named CFO of Advo Jun 21, 2005 4:58 PM Advo Inc. has tapped Jeffrey E. Epstein to be its executive vice president and chief financial officer. Epstein assumed his new position on June 6. In his new position, he will direct financial planning, analysis and reporting, treasury, tax, accounting and investor relations operations. Previously, he was chairman of the board and acting president and CEO of Revonet Inc., a database company located in New Canaan, CT. He has also served as CFO at VNU Inc.'s Media Measurement and Information Group, Doubleclick Inc., and King Weird Productions. Epstein will report to S. Scott Harding, Advo's CEO. Find this article at: http://www.directmag.corninewsijeffrepepstein-cfo-advo..062205/index.html 0 Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. O 2007 Penton Media, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.printthis.elickability.com/pt/ept?action=ept&title=Jeffrey+E.+Epstein+Named... 4/25/2007 EFTA01713389  CSAM NOT SCANNED J/Dc?-5 EFTA01713390 Billionaires Are Free - The Money Guide -- New York Magazine Page I of 5 0% in.ty; Gal PRINT Billionaires Are Free And, these days, a dime a dozen. But even for today's b boys, there are some things money can't buy. By Vanessa Grigoriadis eep in the wilds of Chelsea. there is a door. The door has a screen, and the jet-black eye of a promoter D behind that screen. peeping out to gauge your social %lability. Are you a model? Ora billionaire? It will be hard to get in otherwise. Around midnight, the most beautiful young models in the city arrive. squired in quickly, their backs with shoulder blades like arrows disappearing inside. Door, as the nightclub is creatively called, popped up late this summer. No one is supposed to know it's there. It is where moguls go: After the Yahoo board meeting, http://www.prinithis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Billionaires+Are+Free+-+T... 4/25/2007 EFTA01713391 • Billionaires Are Free - The Money Guide -- New York Magazine Page 2 of 5 Jerry Yang and David Fib came by. Another night in the fall, Sergey Brin and Larry Page were there. Supermarket billionaire Ron Burkle, Virgin head Richard Branson, and Steve Bing, the down-to-earth Democratic donor who inherited nearly a billion dollars from his real-estate-magnate grandfather, the developer of some of the most beautiful Art Deco buildings on Park Avenue and the West Village. Advance men for President Clinton. Few other guys can get in, except for a couple of model wranglers, those handsome, usually South American guys who round up models at their apartments and herd them to nightclubs. Promoter Danny A., a friend of Ron Burkle's, runs this place—he even got to go on a trip to Israel with President Clinton. The wranglers are the only people in here not having fun: One hand on a mojito, they are nervous as they text madly on the phone to more girls, more girls, more girls. For the rest of the city, the door is closed. A few handsome bankers wait on the sidewalk outside the club for a half-hour, scraping their shoes. "I guess I'm a zero-value-added person in this equation," says one, stepping away, disappointed. At the very pinnacle of the New York social scene these days is the billionaire, once a reclusive character who secretively moved world markets from his castle on the hill but now is more likely to be dining at a booth next to you. They're everywhere: This year, for the first time, everyone on the Forbes 400 list was a billionaire, up from thirteen billionaires in the early eighties. One can imagine them, swathed in Pyrex, looking down from their apartments in new designer buildings at our tenement buildings and bobbing umbrellas, as though the world outside were some vast boho terrarium. Now that it seems you need a million dollars just to stay alive, the cultural imagination has been captured by a billion. "I've met six billionaires!" crowed a friend of mine, counting them on his hands, and then correcting himself—"Seven!" Our mayor, of course, is a billionaire five times over, with seven homes, a few worth sin million, and a Florida estate he bought for his daughter to strengthen her equestrian training. Over brunch on a recent Sunday, my girlfriends and I chatted about their Saturday night out—this one talked to one of the Dells; that one sat next to Stewart Rahr, the pharmaceutical mogul and owner of the most expensive home in the Hamptons; and everyone saw Ian Schrager. "He's not a billionaire!" huffed one of my friends, outraged at our ignorance. To be a billionaire is to be radically free. You are your own galaxy. You make your own rules, hang out with the former• president, send tourists to space. Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein, who lives in the largest dwelling in Manhattan, a 51,00o-square-foot palace on 71st Street—though his business, naturally, is located on a 7o-acre private island in the Virgin Islands—was humiliated this summer when his lifestyle was made public. Epstein was known to be a womanizer: He usually travels with three women, who are "strictly not of our class, darling," says a friend. They serve his guests dinner on his private 727, and are also there for touching. But it seems that he was also interested in younger women: Over the past few years, a then-17-year-old Olive Garden waitress, , brought at least five high-school girls between the ages of 14 and 16 over to Epstein's house in Palm Beach to "massage" him, which meant watching him masturbate and even allegedly having sex. Epstein's defense seems to be that he didn't know the girls were minors, and that he is "very passionate about massage," as one of his lawyers says. littp://www.printthis.clickability.corn/ptkpt?action=cptectitle=Billionaires+Are+Free+-+T... 4/25/2007 EFTA01713392 • Billionaires Are Free - The Money Guide -- New York Magazine Page 3 of 5 Those who know Epstein say he's unfazed by his travails. "He's totally open about his life: His life is about making money and living an erotic life, and his escape isn't alcohol or drugs—it's sex," says a friend. "I was talking to him the other day, and he said to me that he was doing well and working steadily—between massages." In books, the billionaire has become a symbol of ultimate power and freedom—they're Gatsbys, yes, but they own the light at the end of the dock. In Michael Tolldn's The Return of the Player, the player tries to make a fortune working for a $750,000,000 man (a pauper) and the billionaire who pulls his strings. The billionaire tells the player: "You don't know what a few extra decimal places taste like. There are wines—my God, you don't know what they do for you—from vineyards that stopped selling to the public about forty popes ago ... The provenance of this [Rembrandt) is without blemish, and the painting has never been publicly catalogued, like a lot of the most amazing pieces in the world, and I paid for it using the interest of the interest of the interest. A hundred and twenty-five million dollars. I had more money an hour after I signed the check than I did when I bought it." But art falls short when describing the lives of billionaires. Steve Wynn is free enough to afford to buy a Picasso, even when his eyesight is famously challenged, and to rip a hole in that Picasso with his elbow while distractedly showing the painting before he closed the deal with hedge-fund billionaire Steve Cohen to buy it for $139 million, which would have been the highest price ever paid for a work of art. Convinced that the elbow gaffe was fate, Wynn decided to keep the picture—what's $139 million, after all, to a man like him? A billionaire has the wherewithal to match his moral vanity: While the rest of us struggle to keep our heads above water, billionaires are saving the world. There's Branson's pledge to invest the next ten years of profit from his Virgin Group's airline and train businesses in renewable-energy initiatives, worth $3 billion. Bing, along with Burkle and others, has pledged $1 billion to do the same. In June, Warren Buffett, the thrifty bridge player with the five-bedroom house in Nebraska, donated $31 billion to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for education and global development. Buffett plans to give away 70 percent of his fortune. "If I wanted to," he has said, "I could hire io,000 people to do nothing but paint my picture every day for the rest of my life. And the gross national product would go up." But "there's no reason future generations of Buffetts should command society just because they came from the right womb. Where's the justice in that?" illionaires can seem to have a power to conceal their actions that the Greek goddess Athena would have B understood—and they are as susceptible as any mortal to believing their own mythology. But this can lead to problems when their power is questioned, as possibly happened to this year's chattering-class billionaire, Ron Buckle, the mysterious 53-year-old who made his fortune in the very non-mysterious business of investing in supermarkets. Burkle—who also works with President Clinton—is a fixture at the Mercer Hotel, where he prefers to have brealcfast and meetings when he's in town, instead of in his office at Clinton's headquarters in Harlem. He has a pied-a-terre under renovation in New York—which he splits with Leonardo DiCaprio—but is looking for something nicer. He offered $17 million in cash to the owner of Sky Studios, the city's preeminent bachelor pad, with rooftop pool, on lower Broadway, several times, but the owner, himself a rich man, won't take anything under $17.2 million. They go back and forth about it—pennies between stubborn men. A large part of Burkle's life is spent doing business for unions—hence the script on his 757 private plane, “770BB," or Box Boy Local no, the union he was in when he started as a bag boy. He has given generously to http://www.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Billionaires+Are+Free+-+T... 4/25/2007 EFTA01713393 • Billionaires Are Free - The Money Guide -- New York Magazine Page 4 of 5 the Urban League, Harlem Children's Zone, and UCLA, among others. Some portion of the other half of his life is spent being glamorous. He's invested in Scoop, the fancy boutique chain, and has anonymously underwritten model enthusiasms, like his $200,000 contribution to Petra Nemcova's charity benefit for tsunami victims. His stunning home in Los Angeles, Green Acres, is the most exceptional charity-event space in the city—Wo million has been raised there in the past year, with $1 million at a recent Clinton event. This fall, when the California governor asked his help, he flew the Dalai Lama from New York and back. It's difficult to live in the public eye while keeping full control of your image, even for a billionaire, as Burkle found when he made the acquaintance of a "Page Six" writer of questionable wardrobe and integrity named Jared Paul Stern. Burkle caught Stern on tape allegedly trying to shake him down—but possibly in this case the cure.was worse than the disease, with Burkle, by many accounts an ordinary guy who does his own laundry, suddenly as famous as Brad Pitt. To defend his zone of privacy, Burkle has put together a fearsome, cloak-and-daggerish security apparatus, including crisis manager Mike Sibick (who was brought in to quiet things down when hedge-fund manager Bruce McMahan was accused of conducting an affair with his own daughter) and Frank Renzi (who was in President Clinton's Secret Service detail). His wife—who petitioned for alimony of $410,000 per month but eventually received S40,000—provided a sobering view of the end of billionaire romance: "My husband is enormously wealthy, a billionaire, has his own 7S7 jet, and literally could track me down anywhere in the world," she testified. "He is used to exerting control over all the people he comes into contact with, including myself ... He cannot stand losing— anything!" It may not always be this way with billionaires. The new crop of Internet billionaires seem to have learned from the example of their forerunners and are determined to live life differently in the "Gooveau Riche" era. Sergey Brin and Larry Page guard their privacy so closely that little is known about where they live other than it's in Palo Alto, and the most impressive cars they own are Priuses. When Brin and Page met with the Stanford grad students who started YouTube to negotiate the deal earlier this week, it was for lunch at a Denny's. They do, however, own their own Boeing 767 jet, which includes two bedrooms and hammocks hung from the common-room ceiling. Hammocks may not be the style of billionaire Roustam Tariko, the Russian banking and vodka tycoon, but he has a similarly freewheeling approach to life. Tariko had one of the city's most incredible parties at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, to toast his new brand of vodka. Over a thousand people, dressed in their finest bling, gathered there to eat borscht and caviar under the lit statue. I remember Tariko running around, slightly flushed in a pressed suit with a crisp white collar, greeting everyone from Helena Christensen to Donna Karan as Duran Duran played their old hits onstage. More recently, it was rumored he'd bought Picasso's Dora Maar With Cat for $95 million. Tariko told Lillian Ross that he had done nothing of the sort. "Not me," he said. "Art dealers from all over the world arc now asking me to buy Picassos, other Impressionists. I prefer Renaissance, Caravaggio. But I do not buy them. I'd rather invest in my freedom, rather than in my walls." http://www.printthis.clickability.com/ptkpt?action=cpt&title=Billionaires+Are+Free+-+T... 4/25/2007 EFTA01713394 • Billionaires Are Free - The Money Guide -- New York Magazine Page 5 of 5 Find this article at: http://www.nymag.comiguides/money/2006/23463 ❑ Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. http://wwvv.printthis.elickability.corn/pUcpt?action=cpt&title=Billionaires+Are+Free+-+T... 4/25/2007 EFTA01713395 t THE PALM BEACH POST • TUESDAY, MARCH 13, 2007 Delays in Epstein case unusual, lawyers say ell, who has no involvement in the case. A federal probe or a plea deal "As a general rule, it would be unusual for nothing to have happened." agreed could explain the wait in the Michael Dutko, a criminal defense at- Palm Beacher's solicitation case. torney in Fort Lauderdale. He represents 20, of Royal Palm Beach, ey witness in the case. By LARRY KELLER A routine hearing for Epstein was Palm Beath Post StaffRiiter pulled from the court docket last week Epstein Nearly eight months after Palm Beach and reset for May 16. The delays and in- Money tycoon Jeffrey Epstein was charged with action could be due to a potential federal manager in felony solicitation of prostitution, there probe of Epstein or because a plea deal is New York has has been no discernible progress in his in the works, attorneys say. powerful allies. case. No witnesses deposed. No trial date Unusual is the word that best describes set. Nothing. save for routine court hear- everything about the case against Ep- ings reset without explanation. stein, 54, an enigmatic money manager `Usually that would be unusual," said in New York City who counts Bill Clinton criminal defense attome'r Glenn Mitch- See EPSTEIN. 8B ► EFTA01713396 FBI: `We still have a pending case ► EPSTEIN from 1B Attorneys say inertia in a Teenage girls were criminal case often points to and Donald Trump among a pending plea deal. his friends. recruited to visit "It would not surprise me "Highly unusual" is how Epstein for massages if something has happened Palm Beach Police Chief Mi- that's not reflected in the chael Reiter described State and sex, police say. court file," said Dutko, such Attorney Barry Krischer's as an agreement that will be handling of the case in a formalized later. bluntly critical letter to rather than file charges di- Defense attorney Marc Krischer last year before rectly against Epstein. Shiner said defense at- Epstein was indicted. Epstein's attorneys deny torneys sometimes put off Reiter referred the mat- he had sex with underage overtly conducting discov- ter to the FBI to determine girls. The lawyers say the ery — deposing witnesses, whether any federal laws had girls' stories are not credible. requesting documents and been violated. Epstein's allies But if the court file is any the like — because doing so countered by attacking the indicator, they've made no ef- creates more work for har- chief personally and profes- fort to depose the girls. ried prosecutors who may sionally. Neither prosecutors nor become angry and not offer Reiter's department in- defense attorneys a plea deal. vestigated Epstein for 11 sought to question "Sometimes defense law- months. Police sifted repeat- said Dutko, her attorney. She yers, knowing that, will try, edly through his trash and recruited teenage girls to vis- and do discovery without conducted surveillance on it Epstein for massages and taking depositions." said his five-bedroom, 7'h-bath, sexual activity, Palm Beach Shiner, a former prosecutor 7.234-square-foot home on police said, and presumably for 13 years. the Intracoastal Waterway. would be a key witness. Instead, they may conduct Police said Epstein paid Epstein's attorney Jack a below-the-radar probe such women and girls as young Goldberger did not return as having a private investiga- as 14 to give him erotic mas- phone messages. tor check out leads, he said. sages at his home. Police A source close to the case Shiner and others say a thought there was probable suggested it is languishing plea deal for Epstein probably cause to charge him with pending a decision by the would result in pretrial inter- unlawful sex acts with a mi- FBI on whether to refer it to vention, in which a defendant nor and lewd and lascivious federal prosecutors. may be ordered to undergo molestation. "We still have a pending a psychological evaluation, Epstein responded by case," FBI spokeswoman counseling or other condi- hiring a phalanx of lawyers. Judy Orihuela said Monday. tions in return for dropping One of them, Harvard law State Attorney Krischer the charge. professor and author Alan did not return a call for com- Edmondson, spokesman Dershowitz, provided the ment. His spokesman, Mike for State Attorney Krischer, state attorney's office with Edmondson, declined to say said there is no plea offer information about alcohol whether federal investiga- and no request for the pros- and marijuana use by some tors are delaying the Epstein ecution to show its cards. of the girls who said they case. But, he added, "if an- "To my knowledge, it's were with Epstein. other agency is looking at never happened before on a Prosecutors then referred something, we wouldn't want filed case," he said. the case to the grand jury to step on their toes." O [email protected] EFTA01713397  PALM BEACH POLICE DEPARTMENT Special Investigations Unit 345 South County Road. Pain, Beach, FL 33480 Telephoie (561) 838-54741FAX (561) 655-9653 CONFIDENTIAL FAX COVER SHEET To: Ageit Location: FBI Phone: 833-7517 FAX 833-7970 From: Detective Pain Beach Po ice Department I' you have any questions or need anything else. pease contact me at 561 227-5377 Number of pages includng this page 4 Date•C4-05-2007 345 Scud" Carly Road. P3IM Beach, Florida. 33480 tit d << £5965591.95 XVd 9h:60 50-h0-2002 EFTA01713398 2007- 04 - 05 09:48 FAX 5616559653 » P 2/4 Fresh Intelligence : Radar Online Pagel of 11 PReYii INYELLi6Pitge rest:art% in tr 4 HOLLYWOOD MAMA POLMI 4 &A04 !t) mean INT1iLLIGENCE }PREVIOUS NCXI* ps ill A DIRTY OLD MAN FOR A DIRTY JOB • He's been a pornographer, a RUSH IN defendant, a derelict, and an author Now Al Goldstein wants to be the EDITED BY President of the United States. The CAnnooher Screw magazine founder announced oech Tyke C his candidacy yesterday in a CONTRiFUJ statement: "I'm coming to you today, a Jeff Deccan,