'Sloman, Jeff

From To 'Sloman, Jeff Cc: Subject: Epstein issue with State Attorney's Office Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 17:16:38 +0000 Importance: Normal It is Tuesday, so there must be a new issue with E stein. This one potentially involves the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office so I included poo on the email chain. Here are the two issues: First, I have heard from several sources that Epstein is trying to convince (or perhaps has already convinced) the SAO to give him "cooperation credit" to shorten the length of his home confinement based upon "cooperation" that he is giving to the Feds in the Bernie Madoff case. As you probably remember, a couple of weeks ago some newspapers reported that Epstein is cooperating with FBI in the Madoff prosecution and that was the real reason for him receiving such a light sentence. After those newspaper reports came out, the AUSA prosecuting the Madoff case called me asking who Epstein was and stating in no uncertain terms that Epstein is not co