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Subject: Times: Jeffrey Epstein Offers Mansion and Jet as Bond to Avoid Jail Before Trial 
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2019 16:58:57 +0000 
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/11/nyregion/jeffrey-epstein-bail.html? 
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Jeffrey Epstein Offers Mansion and Jet as Bond to 
Avoid Jail Before Trial 
Prosecutors have argued that the financier, who is accused of abusing dozens of underage girls, posed "an 
extraordinary risk of flight." 
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Geoffrey S. Berman, the United States attorney in Manhattan, announced the indictment on 
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By Benjamin Weiser 
July 11, 2019 
Jeffrey Epstein, the financier facing sex-trafficking charges in New York, has been described by 
prosecutors as a man of enormous wealth: He owns a $77 million mansion on the Upper East Side, a $12 
million estate in Palm Beach, Fla., a private island in the Caribbean and a private jet, they said. 
And on Thursday, Mr. Epstein, 66, asked a federal judge to allow him to use some of his wealth to stay out 
of jail while he awaits trial, filing a detailed bail proposal with the court. 
Mr. Epstein asked the court to release him on substantial bond and pledged to put up his palatial 
Manhattan townhouse and his private jet as collateral. He also proposed he be allowed to remain under 
house arrest in his Upper East Side house, and said he would agree to electronic monitoring of his 
location. He said he would surrender his passport and ground his jet. 
In addition, his lawyers proposed that Mr. Epstein would hire private round-the-clock security guards who 
would "virtually guarantee" that he would not flee his house and would show up for court. 
A handful of superrich defendants have sought and occasionally obtained, over sharp objections from the 
government, similar bail provisions that allow them to finance a kind of …
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