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Mount Clipping in Space Below) Women want sex plea deal unsealed Their attorneys will ask a judge to open Jeffrey Epsiein’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- curing teens for prostitution, his c case detoured around local and paye-—y; state rules regarding the fF 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 ‘has been or will be sealed, meaning kept from public view. The rules also require a ' judge to find a significant reason to seal, See EPSTEIN, 4A > - See past coverage of Jeffrey Epstein’s SEX scandals. PalmBeachPost.com/epsteln (Indicate page, name af newspaper, city and state.) 1A, 4A Palm Beach Post Date: 6/10/2009 Title: Women want sex plea deal unsealed 1 Character or Classification: 37E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM 4 os04(108 _ Ble-| ly H- (95062 -21F ~DOJ-OGR-00029034