Epstein Secrets

h Amendment right not to do so. "Stonewalling and delaying," Horowitz said. "I'm not surprised." Horowitz said he has asked US. District Judge Kenneth Marra to order Epstein to turn over the information. A local attorney for Epstein, Jack Goldberger, did not respond to a re- quest seeking comment. E

isclosure will be ordered." Seeking to keep the agreement sealed, Assistant U.S. Attorney argued that the agreement is not part of any case before Marra. "The non-prosecution agreement has never been filed under seal in federal court," he wrote. He also denied that the agreement has been inaccuratel

alm Beach Post Staff IVriter Army National Guard Spec. Keith Maul lost his lower right leg and lower right arm to a gre- ;,,tnade in February near Baghdad, iiibut not his spirit. "I knew what the risk was 'when I signed uµ" said Maul, 20, wearing a Pittsburgh Pen- ins hat and a smile. "Now. I just

Brad Edwards, a Hollywood attor- ney representing three girls who claim they were sexually abused by Epstein, appeared before U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra late last week in an at- tempt to have the judge throw out the deal reached in Palm Beach County Circuit Court. That deal, which calls for 12 mon

S. District Court spokeswoman Alicia Valle wrote in an e-mail. "The parties are conferring to determine if an evidentiary hearing is necessary." Marra did not rule but asked for more information about the girls' involvement, if any, in the plea negotiations. Marra, ac- cording to Edwards, also exp

had a "fundamental misunderstanding" of the role the military should play in postwar Iraq. Gen. Franks retired in mid-2003. with perfect timing. Baghdad had fallen, and he left the mess from that "fundamental misunderstand- ing" for someone else to dean up. The Army is supposed to publish unclassi

and, investigators say, underage girls By ANDREW MARRA, Palm Beach Post Staff Writer LNGED GARGOYLES gu

2163 4A THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. AUGUST 14. 2006 Mayhem mounts despite added troops Five bombings kill 57 civilians in a Shiite area of Baghdad. As New ler* Times itAGIMAD — As U.S. forces conducted a new se- curity sweep in western Baghdad on Sunday, five ap- parently coordinated bomb.-