Epstein Secrets

BY NIALL SKLAUCHLAN. Esquire 13 Chad Pugatch, P-u-g-a-t-c-h, here as co-counsel for II JOSEPH IANNO. Esquire 14 Jeffrey Epstein, along with Mr. Scott Link, who will IS On behalf of Fowler White 15 introduce himself. 16 AKERMAN. LLP. by 16 MR. LINK: Good morning, Judge. Do you need 17 JOAN LEVET

he In Re: McClean case, 2 Courts have held, and we've cited them in 2 and countless other 11th Circuit cases, and lower court 3 our motion, that Bankruptcy Courts don't have the inherent 3 cases, that's seeking criminal contempt sanctions, which 4 power to find criminal contempt. 4 I've already discussed

tions in the motion. MR. PUGATCH: Good afternoon, your Honor. Chad Pugatch, P-u-g-a-t-c-h, here as co-counsel for Jeffrey Epstein, along with Mr. Scott Link, who will introduce himself. MR. LINK: Good morning, Judge. Do you need me to spell -- L-i-n-k, first name is Scott, S-c-o-t-t. Thank you, ma'am.

12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Page 29 provisions of Title 11. Courts have held, and we've cited them in our motion, that Bankruptcy Courts don't have the inherent power to find criminal contempt. Now based on the facts that I just laid out, I don't think there could ever be a basis fo

k between the printing of the documents in December 2010 and 2 Movants claim that current counsel for Jeffrey Epstein in a pending state court case (Scott Link, Esq.) sent counsel for Bradley Edwards in that case (Jack Scarola, Esq.) a flash drive which purported to duplicate "the disc we located in Fowler

ontempt powers only to Article III judges and that magistrates are not empowered to try criminal proceedings. As a result, the court concluded that Bankruptcy Courts do not have the inherent power to consider criminal contempt sanctions. See also In re Lickman, 288 B.R. 291, 292-93 (Bankr. M.D. Fla. 2003)(as Art