Epstein Secrets

11 4:22 PM. You have viewed 2 edge* and have 10 adds* remaining. Palm Beach Day News (FL) LAWYER: EPSTEIN MADE ADMISSIONS ON TAPE MICHELE DAROAN, Deily News Staff Wn:er Published: AprI1213, 2010 A tape recorded intervIew between a reporter and come:led sex offender Jeffrey Epstein co-tains 1damntrg adm

Epsten saying he hod come 'dose to crossing a line concerning sox with underage girls. Those end other rewitaticns about the 22-rranute nterview by New York Deily News reporter Dooms Rush win Epstein are contained in a 24.page Mud fang by stomeys Brad Edwards and Pad Casa" On behalf of Jone Doe Edwards repents Doe

lo obtain Jeffrey Eptlelati own words trout Na sexual abuse and tedt of remorse! When reached by phone Wednesday. Mae Carrot Money for the New York Daly News, said she will answer Cassell In • court Sing. Both the New York Daily New end Doe have asked a federal coon judge in Manhattan to listen to re lap

cKenna reserved ruLng on whether the recording will be re'eased to atierneYs representing young women who were sexually abused by Epstein as mfrors. McKenna didn't Wen to the recanting tiring the hearing. Fon Lauderdale attorney Bald Edwards and Utah allomey and low professor Paul Casten ors flghtng to

ood reason for defeating Brad Edwards' search for the truth. This case does not involve an issue relating to a confidential source. Accordingly, the Daily News possesses (at most) a qualified privilege, which can be overcome by Edwards making "a clear and specific showing that the [information]: (i) is high

y News filed a motion to quash, claiming that the tape recording is somehow protected by a journalist's privilege. In June 2010, the District Court (McKenna, J.,) rejected that argument, finding that, in view of its importance. the tape was properly discoverable despite the claim of journalist privilege

recording was somehow protected by a journalist's privilege. Jane Doe responded, and the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (McKenna, J.) held a hearing and listened to the tape in camera. The district court then ruled that the tape was not protected by the journalist's privilege

me is hereby granted. A commissioner shall be appointed in New York for the purpose of taking the deposition duce tecum of the Records Custodian of The New York Daily News. Said commissioner to be: Metro Attorney Service, Inc., 305 Broadway, 14th Floor, New York, NY 10007. DONE and ORDERED in Chambers at West Palm Bea

meone representing themselves to be Jeffrey Epstein," and the testimony of George Rush and Anne B. Carroll, a Vice President and General Counsel of Daily News, L.P. (Carroll Decl., Apr. 7, 2010, Exs. A & B.) In the alternative, the subpoenaed parties seek a protective order barring disclosure under Fed. R

- Jane Doe -- filed a proper subpoena for the tape in the U.S. District Court for the South District of New York. In June 2010, the District Court (McKenna, J.,) denied the Daily News' motion to quash the subpoena, finding that in view of its importance, the tape was properly discoverable despite the c

In the event that the Second Circuit, either in the Appeal or in any Contempt Appeal, determines that the district court was correct in ordering the Daily News parties to tum over the Epstein Recording and Transcript to Doe (the "Affirm- ance"), (a) the Daily News Parties shall seek no further appeal or revi

3970112-000042 EFTA00725201 device) and a written transcript thereof (the "Transcript") to the district court judge in the Ancillary Proceeding (McKenna, J.) for in camera review; and WHEREAS, the Daily News Parties do not have in their possession a copy of the Epstein Recording; and WHEREAS, by Me

amson Tobacco Corp. v. Wigand No. 101678/96, 1996 WL 350827 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Feb. 28, 1996), a leak of confidential interview transcripts from CBS to the New York Daily News during the epic face-off between 60 Minutes and whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand on one side and the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company on the other, d

nally required, or rooted in federal common law"); Persky v. Yeshiva Univ. No. 01 Civ. 4278 (LMM), 2002 WL 31769704, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 10, 2002) (McKenna. J.) ("This circuit has long recognized the existence of a qualified privilege for journalistic information. This privilege is based. at least in p

s does not acknowledge that its reporter has repeatedly and thoroughly disclosed the contents of the recording. For example, the single sentence in Daily News' memorandum on the disclosure to Edwards' investigator states — misleadingly — that its reporter "paraphrased aspects of the Epstein interview." Daily

called Edwards' investigator and said, "My god, you've [got to] get this tape. [Epstein] talks about the girls." Fisten Aft at I 3. Similarly, Judge McKenna — who had the benefit of listening to the recording' — specifically ruled that the recording contains statements that are "of likely relevance to a

amson Tobacco Corp. v. Wigand No. 101678/96, 1996 WL 350827 (N.Y. Sup. Ct. Feb. 28, 1996), a leak of confidential interview transcripts from CBS to the New York Daily News during the epic face-off between 60 Minutes and whistleblower Jeffrey Wigand on one side and the Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company on the other, d

nally required, or rooted in federal common law"); Persky v. Yeshiva Univ. No. 01 Civ. 4278 (LMM), 2002 WL 31769704, at *2 (S.D.N.Y. Dec. 10, 2002) (McKenna. J.) ("This circuit has long recognized the existence of a qualified privilege for journalistic information. This privilege is based. at least in p

Consider Secrecy of Plea Bargain (Fla.) SUN- SENTINEL, June 15, 2009 29 Dwr 1584534343 3970112-000042 EFTA00596454 Daily News, II, publisher of the New York Daily News, respectfully submits this memorandum of law in opposition to Bradley J. Edwards' motion to compel the Daily News to produce a tape recording that

se in Opposition to Motion of Daily News, to Quash Subpoena), at 6-13) — the same exact waiver argument he makes here. The federal District Court (McKenna, J.) did not accept Edwards' waiver argument; but, instead, ruled that, since Epstein was known to be the source for the interview, he was a non- co