Epstein Secrets

FIELD JR,H E SANDERS,LEWIS A TIEFEL,WILLIAM SMITH,HAROLD B COLE,JEFFREY A BRAUER,CAMI

KENT MD,SEBASTIAN PORRECA,VANESSA WRIGHT,SUZANNE FURLO,PAUL W TOWN OF PALM B

rney, Guy Frons tin, he said he investigators worked for Roy Black, the high-powered Miami lawyer who has defended the likes of Rush limbaugh and William Kennedy Smith. While the private eyes were conducting a parallel investigation, Dershowita. the Harvard law pro- fessor. traveled to West Palm Beach with inform

onflict. lb accept the bait. as the Israelis did in assaulting Leb- anon and as America did in Iraq. is to risk stepping into a trap. As Law- rence Wright says in his new book, The Zooming Tower, the master of this approach is Osama bin Laden: "His strategy was to continually at- tack until the U.S.

, the prosecutors and agents in this case met with Mr. Epstein's attorney, Roy Black. Mr. Black is perhaps best known for his successful defense of William Kennedy Smith. The prosecutors presented Epstein a choice: plead to more serious state felony charges (that would result in 2 years' imprisonment, registration a

laim against Robson must fail. As a general rule, "[a]n actionable conspiracy [under Florida law] requires an actionable underlying tort or wrong." Wright v. Yurko, 446 So. 2d 1162, 1165 (Fla. 5th DCA 1984) (citations omitted) (emphasis added).1° 10 This case is governed by the general rule. Cf. Churr

ney, Guy Fronstin, he said the investigators worked for Roy Black, the· high-p~Jv,ered M1arni lawyer who has defended the 1ikes ofRush Limbaugh 1and William Kennedy Smith. While the private eyes were conducting .a parallel investigation, Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, tr'aveledtb WestPalrh Beach with informat

ral courts, but more recently, it has faced some appropriate criticism. The rule of abatement is best explained in the Second Circuit case of U.S, v. Wright. In that Wright case, two defendants had pled guilty to embezzlement and tax evasion. Both defendants appealed, but one of the defendants died while