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(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1A, 4A Palm Beach Post Palm Beach, FL
Date: 6/10/2009
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Title: Women want sex plea deal unsealed
Classification: 31E-MM-108062
Submitting Office: MM
plea deal unsealed
Their attorneys will ask a judge to open Jeffrey Epstein’s records.
By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL | _ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm | Beach pleaded guilty last year to pro- j curing teens for prostitution, his casey | detoured around local and paye-—y,
state rules regarding the
sealing of court documents. | At a plea conference on the state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a pros-- ecutor huddled at the bench and decided that a deal Epstein Epstein had-struck with federal prosecu- tors to avoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of the hearing.
And so it was.
But Florida rules of judicial admin- istration, as well as rules of the Palm : Beach County court’ system, require | \ public notification that a court document | ' thas been or will be sealed, meaning kept | from public view. The rules also require a ' judge to find a significant reason to seal,
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’ See past coverage of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex. ‘scandals. PalmBeachPost.comi/epstein °
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