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(Rev. 5-8-81) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1A, 4A Palm Beach Post Palm Beach, FL Date: 6/10/2009 Mount Clipping in Space Below) Title: Women want sex plea deal unsealed . or Classification: 37E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM 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- 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, , See EPSTEIN, 4A > ’ See past coverage of Jeffrey Epstein’s Sex. scandals. PalmBeachPost.comi/epstein ° CI x b7C 3B/E-UH - (08062-2'1F HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021654