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Billionaire sex otfe jail six days a week for work
Lawyer: Six women suing him for abuse are shocked, disappointed.
By MICHELE DARGAN Palm Beach Daily News -Palm Beach billionaire Jef- frey Epstein, who’ serving 18 months in jail for soliciting an
. underage girl for prostitution,
is allowed to leave the Palm Beach County Stockade six
‘days a week on a work-release
program.
Teri Barbera, spokes- woman for the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, confirmed that Epstein, 55, has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10.
“He works six days a week: Friday through Wednesday 10 a.m. to 10 pm.,” Barbera said via e-mail. “(He) works
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office, monitored on an active GPS system (he wears an ankle bracelet). Mr Epstein hires a permit deputy, at his expense, for his own security at his workplace during the time he is out.”
Miami attorney Jeffrey Herman represents six young women who've sued Epstein, claiming he sexually abused them at his Palm Beach home when they were minors.
Herman said he received a letter about the work-re- lease program from the US. Attorney's Office within the past few days. But Herman
nder leaves
. plea agrgement, Epstein must
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says Epstein had been out- on workrelease for several weeks before the notification.«u
“My clients expressed. shock and disappointment, = Herman said. “I find itincred"” ible that he’s on work-release, in the community and. my clients aren’t notified of this and we get this letter weeks after the fact.”
Jack Goldberger, Epstein’s criminal attorney, said the ar rangement is not unusual.
“He goes to work every single day and goes back to jail at night, just like every- body else (in the program), Goldberger said.
Epstein pleaded guilty June 30 to two felony counts: soliciting prostitution and procuring’a ‘person under 18 for prostitution. As part of the
serve orie year of house arrest
and register as a lifelong sex offender.
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