EFTA02729839.pdf

(, - 1/ 1 1 IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE FIFTEENTH JUDI 2 CIAL CIRCUIT IN AND FOR PALt hznBEACI COU DIVISION 4 STATE OF FLORID 5 A ) vs ) 6 ) CASE NO. 06 CF9454AMB JEFFREY EPSTEI ) 08 9381CFAMB 7 N ) Defendant. ) ) _ ) ea ( 9 -n 10 PLEA CONFERENCE pt•-n iz3a 11 PRESIDING: n HONORABLE DEBO 0 RAH DALE PUCI LatT in! 12 APPEARANCES: )4i N) 13 ON BEHALF OP TH E STATE: BARRY 15. KRISCH 14 ER, ESQUIRE State Attorney 401 North Dixi 15 e Highway West Palm Beac h, Florida 33 By: LANNA BELORLAV 401 16 EK, ESQUIRE Assistant Stat e Attorney 17 ON BEHALF OF THE DEFENDANT: ATTERBURY, 'GOL 18 DBERGER & WEIS 250 Australian S,P,A. Avenue South Suite 1400 19 Nest Palm Beach, Florida 33401 By: JACK GOLD 20 BERGER, ESQUIR E 21 22 23 ORIGINAL June 30, 2008 24 Palm Beach Coun ty Courthouse West Palm Beac 25 h, Florida 3340 Beginning at 8: 1 40 o'clock, a. m. • - _ • • - • • • . • . - - . • PHYLLIS A. DAMES, U C PORTER 09/12/2019 Agency to Agency Raquel: 19-411 U CONFIDENTIAL SONY_GM_00332129 EFTA _00204A5 EFTA02729839  c:-) 38 1 on that, Your Honor? 2 THE COURT: It is going ro bp 3 recorded. 4 MR. GOLDBERGER: That's fine. 5 THE COURT: Defendant needs to 6 approach as well. 7 (Whereupon, there was a conference at 8 the bench.) 9 MR. GOLDBERGER: The reason why I 10 asked to come sideba r, there is a 11 nonprosecution agreement with the United 12 States Attorney's off ice that triggers as a 13 result of this plea agreement. In other 14 words, they have sig ned off and said they 15 will not prosecute. Mr. Epstein in the ll 16 Southern District of Florida for. any LA 17 18 offense upon his suc plea today. That is cessful taking of thi s a confidential 19 document that the partie s have agreed to. 20 Just in an abundance of caution, I wante id 21 to tell the court. 22 U 23 THE COURT: also be invalidated I understand, tha t would should he violate his U 24 community control? 25 MR. GOLDBERGER: Absolutely. That U PHYLLIS A. DAMES, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER 09/12/2019 4112 Agency to Agency Requet: 19-011 U CONFiate5gNTIAL SDNY_GM_00332130 EFTA_00204856 EFTA02729840  1.-• 1) 0 39 nonprosecution agreement -- 2 MS. SELOHLAV EE: They well- 3 all that out. 4 THE COURT: Mr. Epstein 5 needs to came closer. 6 Mr. Epstein, your attorney 7 has told me that in addition to everything 8 , we talked about another Induce ment, shall 9 we say, to your taking this plea is that 10 the U.S. Attorney for the Sout hern District 11 of the State of Florida, fede ral prosecutor 12 , has agreed to a nonprosecu tion agreemen 13 t with you, mean ing that if you success-rut 14 ty complete prob ation and do everything yo 14 u're supposed to, they have, ha ve agYeed no 16 t to prosecute yo u federally, did you unde 17 rstand that? 18 THE. DEFENDANT: Yes, ma'am. U 19 28 THE COURT: And I would view that as a significan U t indu cement in ac 21 cepting this plea. 22 MS. RELOHLAV EK: They are ac 23 tually in court here to day, also. 24 THE COURT: Okay. 25 u) MR. GOLDBERGER : And the plea PHYLLIS A. DAME S, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER 09112/2019 Agency to Agency RequeC 19-411 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00332131 EFTA _0020485 EFTA02729841  1 . 1 nonpro s ecutio r) 2 n agre ement 39 -- MS. SE 3 LOHL AVEK: out. Thpy apall 4 all th at THE CO URT: Mr. E closer pstei n need . s to com 6 e 7 Mr. Ep stein, told m your a e that ttorne 8 in add y has ition talked to eve about rythin 9 anothe g, we r Indu say, t cement o your , shal 10 taking l we U.S. t his pl Attorn ea is 11 ey for that t the So he the St u thern ate of Distri 12 Florid ct of a, fed has ag eral p 13 reed t rosecu o a no tor, nprose with y cution 14 ou, me agreem aning ent that i comple f you te prob succes 15 ation sfully and do suppos e v e rythin ed to, g you' 16 they h re ave, h prosec ave a ute yo greed 17 u fede not to rally, that? did yo u und 18 erstan d 19 THE. DEF ENDANT : Yes, m THE CO a'am. 20 UR T: And I a sign would ifi cant in view t 21 duceme hat as plea. nt in acc epting 22 this MS. BE 23 L OHLAVE K: Th court ey are here t actual 24 oday, ly in also, THE CO 25 URT: Okay. MR. I01 ,08ERGE R: An d the plea PHYLLIS A. DAME ognv2019 S, OFF/1 mow° Age"? Requet: 4y diela er lle COI iiikt N - sow Gm 0033 2' 32 EFTA.PC EFTA02729842  J. 40 agreement very carefully spelled out if _ • 3 agreement, so we are well aware of it. 4 THE COURT: Okay. I would re quest that a sealed copy of that -- Mr. Ep 6 stein has signed th at document? 7 MR. GOLDBERG ER: Yes, I would 8 like to seal the copy . 9 THE COURT: I want a seal 10 ed copy of that filed in this case. That is the 11 only other conditio n of the agreemen 12 t that is influencing th is defendan t to make this 13 decision? 14 MR. GOLDBERGER ; Absolutely. 15 I think that's the ri ght idea . 16 (Return to op en court.) 17 THE COURT: Mr. Epstein, 18 is there • anything else? 19 THE DEFENDANT: No, ma'am. 20 THE COURT: Because I don' 21 t take - these pleas un less they are freely and 22 voluntarily ma de. 23 THE DEFENDANT: I understand 24 that. THE COURT: I also don't 25 want .. somebody or an ybody coming_b acX.a_yeAx,.— st." PHYLLIS A. DAME S, OFFICIAL COURT REPORTER Pa 15 CONFIDgeENTIAL 09112/2019 Agency to AgeaCY Requet: 19-411 SONY_GM_00332133 EFTA (X)2(485 EFTA02729843 U El 11 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00332134 EFTA_OD204860 EFTA02729844