DS9 Document EFTA01153151

th•" an aily the esti- is- the has 30 PRINCE ANDREW Tense yesterday. I took $$ from Peru: Fergie Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson yesterday ad- mitted she took cash from pervert billionaire Jeffrey Epstein in a mini-bailout brokered through Prince Andrew's office. Fergie said Epstein — a longtime personal pal of Andrew's — coughed up $24,000 to pay off money owed to a former Sarah as- sistant. Epstein offered his help after speaking to her ex- hubby, who "sorted out my debts," Ferguson said. Prince Andrew is under pressure in Britain to stop palling around with Ep- stein, a Level 3 sex of- fender who was recently sprung from jail. Epstein copped to solic- iting sex from girls as young as 14 and has paid millions to settle lawsuits. Fergie apologized for taking Epstein's cash infu- sion, calling it "a gigantic error of judgment." Jeane Macintosh Fan's spy suit WAITING: Officers Franklin Mata (left) anc Rape case By LAURA ITALIAN° Manhattan prosecutors yester- day admitted that they failed to present a key piece of evidence to grand jurors in the case of two cops accused of raping a drunken female clubgoer they had escorted home. The embarrassing revelation came as jury selection was about to begin in the case against Offi- cers Kenneth Moreno and Frank- lin Mata and was met by a stern rebuke from Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Gregory Carro, who was clearly annoyed that prosecutors had waited until the very last minute to admit their blunder and ask for a two-week delay so they could re-present the case to a new grand jury. Jury selection had been sched- uled to begin today, as the cops were set to fight accusations that they "helped" a drunken wol Ir Cla the Ma up' ere en Cl. Cc th th EFTA01153151