Email chain questioning Manhattan DA's handling of Jeffrey Epstein's Level 3 sex‑offender status and alleged housing violations

Date: Sunday, April 32011 02:08 PM Subject: Fwd: raw text From: Lesley Grof <a To: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>; Darren Indyke P| Scott was able to send me the attachments below but there are no highlights. Darren, if you want to call me and read me the highlights, I can type them on a Word Doc as you dictate...(?) (Even when Scott opened them on his end he had no highlights) ---------- Forwarded — From: Scott Dene Date: Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 10:04 AM Subject: raw text To: Lesley Groff <a! > According to Friday's NY Post Jeffrey Epstein returned to New York City "making wisecracks about his just- ended jail stint for having sex with an underage girl". "I'm not a sexual predator, I'm an 'offender,'" the Wall Street hedge fund manager told The Post. "It's the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel," said Epstein. Well that's not exactly the correct analogy... Not only are Epstein's comments brazen, they are arrogant and self-implicating. By telling a reporter "I'm an offender", he seems to be admitting guilt. Which brings me to the big question of the day. Why did Cyrus R. Vance Jr., the Manhattan D.A., allow a Level 3 sex offender (the most dangerous kind) to reside -- even for ten minutes -- in a house that is right next to Central Park and a school? Isn't that unlawful given the housing guidelines for sex offenders? According to the NYPost, Epstein's Level 3 designation means that he is at "high risk" to repeat his offense and poses "a threat to public safety." When I rang Vance (twice) to discuss Epstein's residential guidelines he did not take my calls. According to a few of the attorneys who represented Epstein's victims in the civil cases, the financier never agreed to a psychological evaluation prior to or during his sentence, a requirement of all sexual predators. While Epstein's self-incriminating statements are published (this week he told the Post "the crime that was supposedly committed in Florida is not a crime in New York" -- an interesting choice of words -- he continues to mock the law that applies to all other sex offenders who are found guilty of the same crime. Epstein served 13 months in the West Palm Beach Stockade and 18 months under community control (a rather permissive version of house arrest), for 2 Counts of Solicitation of Prostitution with a Minor. In August of 2010, immediately following his release from "community control", Epstein returned to his $50 million East 71st Street town house given to him by his former client and long time friend Leslie Wexner. Just in the last few weeks he held a house warming dinner to celebrate his release from jail and reportedly invited television reporters Katie Couric, Charlie Rose, George Stephanopoulus and his close friend, HRH Prince Andrew, according to the VY Post. You would think these professional television reporters would have done their homework prior to accepting his invitation no matter how desperate they were to rub elbows with Prince Andrew. According to a 53-page sealed indictment Epstein was facing 10 years to life on multiple counts of statutory rape, and child sex trafficking. Court documents in that case claimed he routinely sought out girls as young as 14 and paid them $200 to $1,000 for sexually explicit massages in his homes in Palm Beach, Fla., and Manhattan. In the New York sex-offender database, Epstein isn't registered under a zip code rather a "name search" option that does not list his New York address. The reason for this is because Epstein's Upper East Side home is considered "temporary" and by NY state law, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029766