Ex-Epstein worker faces obstruction charges

Ex-Epstein worker faces obstruction charges Page I of 2 The Palm Beach Post Print this pago Close Ex-Epstein worker faces obstruction charges By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Updated: 7:32 p.m. Monday. Jan. 25.2010 Posted: 3:12 p.m. Monday. Jan. 25.2010 A former employee of sex-scandal-plagued Jeffrey Epstein has been charged with obstruction of justice after the employee allegedly withheld critical information from federal agents - an expansive list of Epstein victims and witnesses - as investigators probed the Palm Beach financier for sexual exploitation of minors. According to an FBI agent's affidavit, Alfredo Rodriguez offered to later sell the information for $50,000 - Rodriguez calling it the "Holy Grail" or "Golden Nugget" - to a government witness, who is not named in the affidavit. The affidavit does not refer to Epstein by name, either. In early November, an undercover FBI agent was sent in to make the buy from Rodriguez. Rodriguez, born in