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Palm Beach Daily News: Archives 4/7/11 1:32 PM 0 site O web HOME NEWS SOCIETY OBITUARIES OPINION LIFESTYLES SHINY SHOTS ADVERTISE CONTACT US MIS WYO4OO! Newsletter Center I Log In Start or Renew Your Subscription Thursday. April 7. 2011 II Search for Palm Beach Daly News Follow @ShinySheet on Twitter! NEWS Religion I Archives L E-mail this page Job Print this page It Most popular New Search Return to results Printer Friendly About your archives purchase: Your purchase of 20 articles expires on 04107/2011 4:22 PM. You have viewed 2 articles and have 18 articles remaining. Classifieds Real Estate Palm Beach Daily News (FL) LAWYER: EPSTEIN MADE ADMISSIONS ON TAPE MICHELE DARGAN. Daily News Staff Writer Published: April 29. 2010 A tape recorded interview between a reporter and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein contains "damning admissions by Epstein.' which includes Epstein saying he had come "close to crossing a Ina' concerning sex with underage girls. Those and other revelations about the 22-minute interview by New York Dally News reporter George Rush with Epstein are contained in a 24-page court filing by attorneys Brad Edwards and Paul Cassell on behalf of Jane Doe. Edwards represents Doe and two other Epstein victims. Edwards and Cassell are fighting to obtain the tape to further their case of sexual abuse by Epstein when Doe was a minor. Epstein. 57. was released from jail in July after serving 13 months of an 18-month state sentence for soliciting a minor for prostitution and soliciting prostitution. Nearly two dozen young women have filed lawsuits against Epstein -- some already settled -- al alleging Epstein sexually abused them as minors at his El Brill° Way home. where he is now serving house arrest. The New York Daily News is seeking to keep the tape confidential. citing reporter's protected pdviege. In response. Cassell says the newspaper waived its protected privilege when Rush played the recording for three people and described its contents to two others, including Edwards. In addition. Cassell writes that privilege can't be applied in this situation because it doesn't involve an issue related to a confidential source. The person on the tape is Epstein. Even if there is "qualified privilege' Cassell maintains it is outweighed by Doe's inability to obtain the information anywhere else and her 'compelling need to obtain Jeffrey Epstein's own words about his sexual abuse and lack of remorse." When reached by phone Wednesday. Anne Carroll. attorney for the New York Daily News, said she will answer Cassell in a court filing. Both the New York Daily News and Doe have asked a federal court judge in Manhattan to ksten to the tape in chambers to help determine whether privilege applies. Epstein and others who helped him procure minor girls for massages and sex acts have taken the Fifth Amendment in their depositions. stymieing Doe and the other victims suing Epstein. the documents say. Michael Fisten. an investigator working for Doe. discovered the existence of the tape in fall 2009. An author who had listened to the tape told Fisten that Rush had a tape recording of Epstein "discussing the sexual abuse of minor gils." According to a sworn affidavit by Fisten. he called Rush. who confirmed he interviewed Epstein and made a tape. According to Fisten. Rush told him that he compiled negative information from Epstein about his exploits with underage girls and how he eluded the justice system. But Fisten said that Rush told him that his pubisher, who knows Epstein. killed it after receiving a cal from Epstein. Fisten said Rush told him. among other things. that the following information was contained on the tape: That Epstein said he went to jail in Florida for no reason and if the sexual abuse of minors had happened in New York. he would have only received a 5200 fine. That L.M., one of Edwards' clients who sued Epstein for sexual abuse as a minor. came to him as a prostitute and a drug user (meaning she came to him for sex. rather than him pursuing her). That all the girls suing him are only trying to get a meal ticket. That the only thing he might have done wrong was to maybe cross the Ire a little too closely. In a sworn deposition. Edwards states that Rush disclosed much of the information contained on the tape to him in a conversation. Edwards said in his statement that the Rush interview is "unique and not otherwise obtainable from other witnesses because it can be used to prove perjury -- a federal crime. Edwards said Epstein testified in a deposition that he did not recognize the name George Rush from the New York Daily News "despite the fact that he gave a personal interview that we all now know to have been tape recorded' [email protected] Advertise Automotive updates in your e-mail our e-mail newsletters here. Palm Beach Daily News NEWSLETTERS http://nl.newsbank.cominl-search/weiArchives?p_action=docdp_doci...ername=dkiesq&s_accoundd=AC0111040620221012261&s_upgradeablemno Page 1 of 2 EFTA01199189 Palm Beach Daily News: Archives 4/7111 1:32 PM Epstein Has tome close to crossing a line' Copyright (c) 2010 Palm Beach Daily News Refinance Rates at 2.65% 5160,000 Mortgage for S659/mo. No SSN req leadGoccm/mortgage LEAKED: £25 Car !neuron Your Auto Insurer hates this. News7BrealciogNows.com Man "Cheats" rrMit genre He Added 126 POIntS To His Credit Score www.CreOtRepaolromHogne.com $79/Hr 30b - 262 Cloeninos Make $79/hr Working From Home. 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