Jeffrey Epstein to agree to plea in prostitution case Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachDailyilyvi csciran PRINTTH IS Pottered by iiKkkability Jeffrey Epstein to agree to plea in prostitution case Part-time Palm Beach resident to trade 18 months in prison, house arrest for end to federal probe. By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Friday, December 14, 2007 Money manager and part-time Palm Beacher Jeffrey Epstein is scheduled to go before a judge Jan. 4 for a plea hearing in his felony prostitution case. The hearing will be before Circuit Judge Sandra McSorley, the court docket shows. Sources have confirmed that the deal will result in the Manhattan money manager serving 18 months in prison followed by house arrest. In exchange for a guilty plea, federal authorities are expected to drop their probe into whether Epstein broke federal laws, the sources said. Epstein, 54, was indicted in July 2006 on a felony charge of solicitation of prostitution. The charge capped an 11-month investigation by Palm Beach police that began after a woman told police that her 14-year-old stepdaughter might have been molested by a man in Palm Beach. Police said Epstein paid five underage girls for massages and sometimes sex at his El Brillo Way home. (enlarge photo) Money manager Jeffrey Epstein accused of paying underage girls for massages, sometimes sex at his home on El Brillo Way. Investigators watched Epstein's 7,234-square-foot waterfront home and private jet, and rummaged through his trash to build their case. They took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. The investigation also focused on Epstein's assistant, of New York City, and http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstein+to+agree+to... 12/14/2007 EFTA00259898

Jeffrey Epstein to agree to plea in prostitution case Page 2 of 2 of Royal Palm Beach, both of whom were paid to facilitate the massages and d. Neither nor was charged. Find this article at: httplfwvm.palmbeachdailynews.cominewsionntentlnewskpstein1214.html El Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright 2007 Palm Beach Daily News. All rights reserved. http://cox.printthis.clickability.corn/pt/cpt?action=cpt&titl Jeffrey+Epstein±to+agree-Fto... 12/14/2007 EFTA00259899

Epstein seeks to block unsealing of secret deal with feds Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachPost.carn Epstein seeks to block unsealing of secret deal with feds By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, July 01, 2009 €driki- PRINTTHIS WEST PALM BEACH — A lawyer for financier Jeffrey Epstein have filed an emergency request with Fourth District of Appeal seeking to block the unsealing of Epstein's secret non-prosecution agreement with United States Attorney's Office. A circuit judge has ordered the release of the documents at noon on Thursday. pot your omments on this story below More local news Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories. Attorney Jane Kreusler- Walsh, a board-certified appellate attorney now working on Esptein's behalf, is asking the appellate court to quash that order. "Production of these documents will cause irreparable harm ("cat out f the bag") to Mr. On the beat behind the agenda: Post reporters cover your area in City Pulse. - o Epstein," she wrote. Share This Story Attorneys for women now suing Epstein, together with an attorney for The Palm Beach Post, have pressed for the public release of Epstein's deal with federal prosecutors, arguing the public has right to see it and the victims have a right to use it in their litigation. Epstein pleaded guilty in state court a year ago to solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. He was sentenced to 18 months incarceration, which is due to end five months early on July 22. http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Epstein+seeks+to+b... 7/1/2009 EFTA00259900

Epstein seeks to block unsealing of secret deal with feds Page 2 of 2 His plea followed investigations by both state and federal authorities of accounts of teenage girls brought to the money manager's Palm Beach manse for massages and sexual encounters. At the time of his plea, his secret deal with federal prosecutors to avoid charges by them was sealed and placed in his court file without following court rules that govern sealing. The seven-page agreement - which Epstein's own attorneys have referred to in federal filings as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual" - promises a behind-the-scenes look at justice for Epstein who, according to Vanity Fair, hobnobbed with the likes of Prince Andrew and former President Bill Clinton, as he managed accounts for billionaires. .L Find this article at: htt?://www.palmbeachpost.corn/localnews/content/local news/epaper/2009/07/01 /0701 epstein.html fl Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. • http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.com/m/cpt/action=cpt&title=Epstein+seeks+to+b... 7/1/2009 EFTA00259901

• 88 THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, JUNE 27,2009 FUNERAL NOTICES Epstein ruling likely to face appeal MARJORIE A. McKINLEY Age 84, cis sed away peacefully at home, June 2009, with fereda by kw side. Verge, of Bucyrus OH, residedin Palm Beach County since 1971. She had careers is lithography, banking. arid O as music set ttttt y at Fiat Baptist id% West Palm geed% for 17 yews, addition to raising fire children. She enjoyed coshing, quilting, reeding end doing crossword puzzles. Marge was • source Manatee becalm and support for her famiy, friends and anyone who met her. One of her many gifts wee her ability to keep Ilfe's ups end downs in ParsPectiv• • She 4 survived by a ester. Rosemary Cowan 'iv* cis Id,en WI' am. grey, John, Sc,,' Ch,ci . Da, ; grandchild-en, Wren. Err. y Etreoath. Carly. Cody, Saran. Sophie, Amanda, Jade, Ohms; beloved niece, Janine Davis. She will also be mined by her 'adidol dos Testa. Memorel services will be 1010 AM Saturday. June 27 at Christ Fellowship, South Campus. Northlak• Blvd. Palm Beech Gsrdens. Donations may be made to Hospice of Palm Beach County. Tenecgder.f=•-- JAMES H. BRODERICK James H. Broderick. 72 years old. of West Palm Beach. FL died at his horse on Wednissdea, June 24. 2009. Born in Yonkers. NY, Mr. Broderick had a promising athletic future until he contiecte(Polo in 1954. He graduated from the University of Miami Class of 1961 and *Word being a menthe of the Hurricane &otters ClUb. Mr. Broderick subleibettly moved to West Palen end.. and in spite of his physical challenges, loved sports. coat ling baseball, and raisang his family. He worked as a Stock Broker in Palm Beach for over 40 years; and was instrumental in establishing the Minor League Baseball Dmsion et Phelps Park. He Is survived by his wife of 46 pre 'Ailey Broderick of West Palm Beath. FL three children, Terry Broderick and his wife, Patti of Leesbomp. VA; Danny Broderick and his wife. Maria of Fermill• GA, and Colleen Broderick of osarate4s, CA eight syseloSeinm. T. ni. Is, Bryan. Dowd and Chretine and Ashley. Caroline, and Jacqueline. a brother. Am., Mtn), and a sister, Noel Alm both el Adam. GA. A Memorial Service in celebration of Mr. Broderick's life will be held at 6.30 PM on Friday, June 26, 2009 at Ouanlebaum Funeral Home 1201 South Olive Avenue, West Patm Beach, FL 33401. The limb receive friends at the funeral home on Friday. from 5 OM until the time*, Service In lieu of Roses, contributions may be made in his memory to. HospaCe of Palm Beach Count/4.5300 East Avenue West Palm Beach. re 31807. Ouattlebinot Funeral B Gernatian Sewers Family Owned end Operwed Ulf 832.5171 ra wens rearkemna We nese earns Van Palmilimdreetcoer nabbihreries SAUL DIAZ Saul Dee 7$. of Boynton Beach and formerly of New York Cite ended his He's Sarney on June 25.2009 Saul was pred•c•as• by his cleughter. Lynn. rod brothers, Dann and Enoch. He is survived by his wife Edith; stepchildren. Luis and Karen. , eight gnandcMdme semen great-grancithldren, and his brother. Woe - all who take comfort in the memories they've Mated .4th SW over the Wars Saul was a Navy man, isiettrical engineer and Memo cendadate with a passion and talent for music. He was a member of the.Berbershoppers of Boynton Beach and Staten bled; and along MTh his wife, the Boynton leech Choraletµ. Ha was also a proud member of the Boynton Beech Polka Citieeae Observation Patrol in his Conewrit . A memorial service will be held on Saturday (today) Jun* 27. 2009 at the Swathe Quantal/1C Boynton Beach at 2.80 PM. LORNE A SONS FUNERAL HOME, %key Beach 'n chap ef arrangements Te•••••••miodenesion meet nem d Wit Palregoacteeilonaloblbewlee TROND R. ISAKSEN Trond R. liaison, 58. passed away Friday. Are 19. 2009 after a courepechn belle with came. A long lima resident of Lantana ha bawl behind a toe Kristen; two sisters. Eby Watson fCre and Inger Lmins Oen) and a host of rannly and great fronds There mil be a celebration of his fife on Sunday. June 28. 2009 at 12 PM at Ill S 911' Street. Lantana 547.0931 In IN of flovrem ptcylease make a donation to Hospice of t.••••••acmisalwamorotoo mei* Meet.. visit Pelnithrachlbst.comrobituaries JOHNNIE H. PETTIFORD Our Beloved Father Johnnie H Pettiford was Celled to be with the Lord *oho* 22.2009 in Boynton Beath FL He lam tap cherish his devoted chidden. Tray Pertutoed. -tato* H. Pettiford and Lenwood "Slim' Petted all of Delray Beach, Trinetta Pettiford.tedsome (Calvin) of Boynton Beach. FL; six grandchildren and a host of sorrowing tabby'send friends. Friends may call on Sundary Jute 28. 2079 born 6 to B P.M.at Beth Spaeth hscro,.s: C.'s* Funeral Sermon welt be Ned Yo-clar June 29.2039 at 11-00 A.M. at nw abet inted chapel. stiPAG.N 6 SON TRI.CITY FUNERAL hOMk \C •.Chafge of wrengementt To owns woomon wdm mace is.* ' Wit PahnJoachrostconsioNtuarbs ABNER DANIEL BIGBIE Abner Daniel Bp i& 71, of Altoona, FL passed away on Thursday, June 24. 2009 in Tavern, FL Bann Lyons, Gh, he moved to Moons from Summer5etd in 2006. before that Mr Bigbie lived in West Palm Beach. FL lie Plarmlf09609 for ESL/ before becoming en Industrial Arts teethe, and coach for32 yore He is survived by his wife: Pam, Altoona. FL sons- Abner MOM, k. West Palm Beach, D. and Michael digbio. Tallahassee. Ft. brothers: Dante Plebe. West Palm Beach, Ft. Charlie B.gbe. Keystone Heights, F1, arcaloSthadit Bight Live Oeli, FL sister. Evelyn P s. West Pain Booth FL dyer gr en. A celebration of life MI be herd 2 PM Tuesday, June 30 2009 at Lekeview Terrace, Altoona, FL. b lieu of Bowers donations Tay be made to CURE PSP, Society for Progressive Suranuclear Palsy, Executive Plaza Ill. 11350 McCormick Road, Ste. 906. Hunt Valley, MD 21031 or your favorite charity. Beyes Funeral Home, Umatilla. Myers Fund HOTS 352-669-2146 re eapme a••••• srell - 'Jo dwiniciso Vek PelmBeechPost.combOttuarles RUTH SIMON Of Y. Delray con Beah. formerly of The Brom. N U. fled hm* 25 She was married to Leo Simon for almost 69 years and raised two sons. Hawed and Steven. who will be in her debt forever. She worked at a dark for the New York Public Library. In addition to hr husband and sons. she a survived by deughter..n.law Sharon Lutz, four sliters. Anne, Mn Cala and URN b dun nephews. two neves and many other retithes and trends. A graves service will be held on Sunday. June 2$. at 12:15 PM at Eternal Light Memorial Gardens, 11520 State Rood 7. Boynton Beads In Hue Bass, donations to the ACLU Foundation of Florida. 4500 (Escape Blvd.. Miami, FL 33t37 or to the Amenten Lung Associa- tion or similar ant •IIPC4,-.9 orgenintion would be sCriscecit•d To mermomml.Im,w maw ona. VIM PalmthachPost tom/obituaries 77te financier's accusers want the case unsealed to use in litigation against the Palm Reacher By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beath Rot Staff ;Voter WEST PALM BEACH — A judge on Friday declined to suspend his ruling to unseal financier Jeffrey Epstein's secret non-pros- ecution deal with federal prosecutors. but delayed the docwnent's release until Thursday. The delay gives Ep- stein's attorneys time to challenge the ruling in the 4th District Court of Appeal. "We'll let the appellate court tell us, teach us what the law in this case will be," Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath said. Epstein's attorneys Jack Goldberger and Robert Critton argued that re- lease of the confidential document would violate a federal rule restricting re- lease of information about federal grand juries and would also cause Epstein irreparable harm. "If the proverbial horse is out of the barn, you can't get him back in." Critton argued. Attorneys for women now suing Epstein. to- gether with an attorney for Epstein Pleaded guilty to solicitation and procunng teenagers for prostitution. The Palm Reath Post, had asked Colbath to release the deal, arguing the pub- lic has right to see it and the victims have a right to use it in their litigation. Epstein pleaded guilty in state court nearly a year ago to solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution and was sentenced to 18 AREA DEATHS Palm Beach County Aaltonen, Rose Made, 83, of Lake Worth. died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crema- tory. Lake Worth. Bolley, Luther Ray, 58, of Greenacres. died Wednes- day Service in Michigan. Carmadello,Alleen M., 50. of Boca Raton, died Thurs- day. Neptune Flociety, Pm- pano Beach. Esposito, Dana Susan, 50, of Palm Beach Gardens, died Feb. 9. All County Funeral Home and Crema- tory. Stuart. Service today. 04941, Tina, of Lake Worth, died Thursday Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Germinal, Marie A., of Lake Worth, died June 16. Rubin Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Grano, Madeline P., 76. of \Vest Palm Beach, died Sunday. All County Funer- al Home and Crematory, Lake Viiirth. Leaphart. Nina Kate 96. of Royal Palm Beach, died Thursday. Palms West Funeral Home and Crema- tory, Royal Palm Beach. Service in South Carolina. Martin, Margaret L. 74, of Atlantis, died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory Lake NANCY LEA Worth. ZEILMANN DANIEL McCloskey, Edward, 7Z February 17, 1945 June 24, 2009 Nancy passed away <belly after en unexpected illness Si. graduated from Forest Hill Koh School in 1963 and married her high school tweeds* art. Jack Denial They recently celebrated their 45th weddinganniversary Her family moved to the-Orlando eta in 1976 She wes a deny time employe* at Jacobsons and Wards, whore ale bed waking in the dadren5 dept She was also an and tennis player, an amazing cook and f ttromtly dedicated to her family and riends. Nam is preceded in death by her father, Emmet (Croy) 2e2mane and her step father Amos E. Gunn. She is survived by her loving and devoted husband, John (Jack) Richard Denial II: three beautiful children, Katie Daniel O'Brien (husband Brian) °, North Palm Beach, Michael Daniel and Kolb Daniel of Altamonte, Springs; her mother. Debris DetnOn of Palm Beech Gardens FL: and two sisters Susie G SUMsburger (husband Rey) of Sense Fe, NM. Gann Garner Van Seders of North Palm Beach' and siste-in.law.= Mc:: arid bethar.in-law, Joe Palm Beath. Nancy roes blessed mth three grandchildren. CJ Lyons. and Brian and arena O'Brien; nieces and nephews, Stacy and David Barton of North Palm Beach. Steve and Cory Ine !ZinsApbrItirteratisti4A•arttlic.;4 CAr 1 she has one grandniece. Kendall Barton of North PPM Beach Services will be held at Mizell.Favlb. Zorn Funeral Home ei Hilkrest Mernore! Park Cemetery on Sunday. June 24 at 3.00PM. In lieu of flowers, the family ItgueSta • donation be made to Hospice of the Comforter 410 W. Central Partway. Ma/nonce Springs. FL 32714, w memory of Nancy Derwit s=rait rasi,L7t eba dis= of Boynton Beach, died Thursday. All County Funeral Home and Crema- tory Lake Worth. Meisel, Edith, 88, of Boca Raton, died Wednesday Beth Israel Memorial Cha- pel, Delray Beach. Owens, John Robert, 65, of West Palm Beach. died Wednesday. Quattlebaum Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Service Thesday. Pacelli, Americo George, 96. of Boynton Beach, died Friday. Seobee-ComIxt- Bowden Funeral Home and Crematory, Boynton Beach. Funeral Monday. Palmieri, Theresa, 92, of West Palm Beach, died Thursday Tillman Funeral Home. West Palm Beach. Funeral in Rhode Island. Rau, Lothar F., 11), of Lake Park, died Monday. Northwood Funeral Home and Crematory, West Palm Beach. Robinson, Herrin, 72, of Boynton Beach, (lied Monday. Shuler's Memo rial Chapel, Delray Beach. Service today. Valverde. Odle P., 79, of Lake Worth, died Wednes- day. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. Whitehead, Amy B., 91. of Lake Worth, died Wednes- day. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. Martin County Ades,Violette,92, of Palm City, died Thursday. Forest Hills Funeral Home, Palm City. Service Sunday. Defenthaler, Donald, T of Jensen Beach, died Thes- day All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Stu- art. Service Monday. St. Lucie County Cuoco, Eleanor T., 73, of Port St. Lucie, died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crema- tory, Stuart. NU, Jane E., 75, of Port St. Lucie, died Thursday. Yates Funeral Home and Crematory, Port St. Lucie. North, Donald M., 52. of Port St. Lucie, died Wednesday. Yates Funeral Home and Crematory, Port St. Lucie. Service today. Reeb, Norma L,71. of Port St. Lucie, died VVednesday. Yates Funeral Home and Crematory, Port St. Lucie. Service Sunday. Thomas, Mary 1, 60, of Port St. Lucie. died June 19. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Stu- art. Service July 10. In Loving Memory Larry Sr. MARCH 11.1958 • JUNE 27.2005 Soren:feels )vu were See among us. And 10 g/tyenrweie gcne. Hgb on wags vounse. Onward. upwardtakeaway skies. were re the nods. we iongoouy 'Ti', moots they do nor tome. forearms our extend flit out pain. Sorbet we may Nen 'ohms!. aid look kr a age'. law Amy. Saw lay Is dr amine her lefey lams P. km* • Sham. New brass Greareseps. lass NO. 4498164 MARTIN COUNTY UTILITIES CITY OF STUART UTILITY Martin County and the City of Stuart Utilities will temporarily change their method of chlorinating potable water to insure the future safety of the water. The Utilities water users may notice an unusual chlorine taste or odor in their tap water during the period of June 28, 2009 through July 12, 2009. These temporary conditions will not be harmful to your health; however, if you ore on kidney dialysis, you should consult your physician for special instructions concerning this matter. If you have tropical fish or aquatic animals, you should contact your local tropical fish store for advice and take appropriate action to insure that you have properly treated the water before adding it to your aquarium. The hydrant flushing during this period may cause the water to become close and discolored. This is a temporary condition and should not last more than a few hours. 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• • 6B THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY. JUNE 27. 2009 Wood chipped from around lock in one case ► RESIDENTSfrom 18 began holding monthly crime-watch meetings in May after Emma Bates returned from a trip to the Bahamas to find her television, computer and .38-caliber Colt pistol missing from her home on West 26th Street. Burglars came in through her back door by chipping away the wood around the door lock. Verdina Coleman was late to the crime-watch meeting of June 11 be- cause the window of her home on 26th Street had been gnashed that morning while she was at work. Coleman was lucky. A neighbor saw the 11:30 a.m. break-in and called 911. Police recovered her stolen video camera and arrested four young men. Riviera Beach Police Cmdr. Michael Madden praised the crime-watch group for working togeth- er and for keeping a keen eye on the neighborhood. especially during the day when many homeowners are working 1 have a hard-working group of detectives," Mad- den told them. "If we can get them the information, they'll run through walls to CAtc CORONADO)Sliontrceau•no Amon Yisrael odes along with officer Glen Meyer announcing 'no more break-ins, no more crime' as Monroe Heights residents marched through their neighborhood in a show of force against crime. get somebody in jail? Juvenile burglars can be back on the streets the day after being charged and booked, Madden said. That's one reason vigilance is so important in Monroe Heights. Madden told residents to call the police depart- ment's non-emergency number to report unusual cars or people wandering the neighborhood, any! thing out of the ordinary. He told them to call 911 if they see a crime in prog- ress and to ask strangers their names to show that they're paying attention. The police departments District 2 !wider newsletter advises residents to report violations of the city's curfew, which requires youths under 18 to be off the streets from 11 p.m. to 6 a.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 12:01 a.m. until 6 a.m. on Friday and Saturday. Madden also recom- mends that burglary vic- tims go to court to plead their cases as victims before the judge. Bates, who has lived in her home for more than 30 years, vowed to fight the burglars as long as it takes to stop them. "I can't sleep without a weapon," said Bate, "We've got to band to gether and fight thest' criminals." ilbe_ricerarchaptyposl com Show not over at Caldwell, chief says By KEVIN D. THOMPSON Palm Beach Post Stall Writer BOCA RATON — It's not a great time to be in the theater business. Just ask Clive Cholerton, the Caldwell Theatre Company's newly appointed artistic director. 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The Palm Beach Ebst B SATURDAY, TUNE 27.2009 'almBeachPost.com LOCAL BUSINESS Workers killed: Driver plows through work site, killing two; one hurt. Story, 2B Get on the plane: Deals plentiful for summer vacations, travel insiders say. Business, 10B '11 shortfall may hit $110 million Falling property values will torment county budget writers, officials say. By PAUL QUINLAN Palm Beath Post Stay Palm Beach County's real estate val- ues will continue to fall next year by 10 percent or more, say county leaders, who estimate the deeper slide will open up a $110 million budget gap in 2011. The prospect of another gaping bud- get hole — this one, about 10 percent of the county's $1.1 billion operating bud- get — will likely require a fundamental rethinking of what services the county government should provide and at what cost to taxpayers already grappling with double-digit unemployment amid the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. Even as residential real estate shows signs of recovery, commercial property values, which had shown some resilience, are now plunging further, Property Ap- praiser Gary Nikolits said. He predicted a lagging commercial real estate decline would at least offset any slowing or stabi- lizing of residential values. "I think next year is going to be at least as tough, if not tougher," Nikolits said. "I wish I could be more optimistic." The dire forecast emerged alongside new estimates that said Palm Beach County's tax base is on track to fall 12.9 percent this year, a decline not seen in more than a century, Nikolits said. The numbers were a slight, albeit insiipift- cant, improvement over last months es- timate, which said the county's property See TAXES, 98 ► Riviera Beach residents rally to battle crime Monroe Heights neighbors take to the streets after a surge in burglaries. By WILLIE HOWARD Palm B' eath Poor Staff Iilter RIVIERA BEACH — "No more break- ins, no more crime," Amon Yisrael repeated on the loudspeaker of a police cruiser as Monroe Heights residents walked slowly down West 26th Court with Mawr Thomas Masters carrying signs reading No Violence on My Block. 'Enough is enough," Yisrael said. "The law will be strictly enforced." Thursday night's walk against crime was one of several Masters plans to lead in Monroe Heights as residents fight a recent rash of burglaries. In Police Service Area 21, which in- cludes Monroe Heights, burglaries spiked to 35 in April. Another 38 break-ins were reported in May, and 19 had been report- ed for June as of Tuesday. A group called the 26th Street Pioneers and other Monroe Heights residents See RESIDENTS, 68 ► IOU INS In the fight: Lorenzo Robertson, minority AIDS coordinator for Palm Beach County. edited Silence Is Death, Unleashed Voices. 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2B THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY. JUNE 27..2009 Jupiter trip provides wounded troops respite from rehab CLOTHING 1000'S OF MEN & WOMEN'S ITEMS $2 EACH By BILL DIPA0L0 Palm 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 want to have some fun with y family" The Portage, Pa„ native was zone of five severely wounded Army servicemen welcomed El-1day night at Palm Beach In- ternational Airport in suburban West Palm Beach. The servicemen and their families will spend a week in Ju- piter away from the white sheets and plastic tubes at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Wash- ington. The families are staying for free in separate Jupiter homes owned by Jupiter residents Sara Ashworth Lankier, a West Palm Beach native and former elementary education professor at Florida Atlantic University. and her husband, Alexander. a retired corporate attorney. "We're part of the healing process. We're doing what gov- ernment can't do," Ashworth Lankletsaid. The trip was set up by Opera- tion Second Chance, a Maryland- based nonprofit whose mission is to help wounded service women and men hospitalized at Walter Reed transition back to duty or to civilian life. Operation Second Chance, which bought the plane tickets and rented transportation for the families, is making its first visit to Palm Beach County. The organization operates on private grants and donations. Charter fishing excursions, gift cards from local grocery stores, restaurant meals and tickets to local sporting events have been donated for the Jupi- ter stay. After the week is uµ the ser- vicemen will return to Walter Reed. "Jet skiing and some four- wheeling That's what I'm look- ing forward to." said Corey Lyons, 23, an Army corporal and Avon Park native who lost his right leg below the knee a year ago. "I'm going to keep moving" For more information about Operation Second Chance or to make a donation, go to operationsecondchance.org or call (561) 744-0190. Obill_clipaoloOpOpost corn "METRO REPORT POLICE BLOTTER The lawyer forAnthony L. Martin, arrested this week in connection with a Houston murder 26 years ago, told a judge Friday morning he will fight extradition because he's - not satisfied authori- ties have the right man. ,I7iThe 1983 Texas warrant 1- said Martin had been l a drug dealer and had slain one of his work- ers, Junior Galloway, when he learned the man was selling drugs to for a competitor on the I' side. Kevin R. Anderson "'told Judge Richard L / Oftedal, "I haven't seen • any documentation or warrant to suggest he (Martin) is who they say he is or if any of the paperwork is accurate.' TRAFFIC Bryan 0. Zelaya, 19 . of suburban Royal Palm Beach, Is in critical condi- tion after losing control of his vehicle and flipping near the South Florida Fairgrounds, the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office said. He was heading north on Ben- oist Farms Road. north of Belvedere Road. at about 3:30 a.m. Friday and was trying to round a curve when he went into the east shoulder, a report said. The driver overcompensated and flipped at least twice be- fore stopping alongside a tree. Authorities are asking the public to help them find a hit-and-run driver of a red sedan that fatally struck a man In May 2008 as he ran across South Military Trail, north of Lake Worth Road. at about 9µm. May 21, 2008. Francis E. Bartko, 54, died last month. The car should have damage to its front end. Anyone with information is asked to contact sheriff's office investigator Robert Stephan at (561) 688.3700. Weather, traffic. breaking news and special reports PalmBeachPosttomilooal Search For a New Home. PalnilleachPostrom Driver hits, kills two road workers By BILL DiPAOLO Palm Beath Post Staff Wiiter They are almost every- where these days — road construction crews — on Interstate 95 and State Roads 7 and Alk And the work is some of the most dangerous out there, say workers and authorities. In the early morning hours of Friday, a driver plowed through a con- struction site on Alternate A1A in Jupiter, killing two workers and sending a third to the hospital. The crash happened in the northbound lanes be- tween lbney Penna Drive and Frederick Small Road. Steven Dunn, 53, of Stone Mountain, Ga., and Jesus Antonio Resen- diz-Banales, 34, a Palm Beach County resident, died when they were hit by a northbound Toyota Solara while they were working on a county re- surfacing project. A third worker, Clint Talley, 39, also a Palm Beach County residents, remains at Jupi- ter Medical Center. No charges have been filed against the Toyota driver, Cynthia Castoro, 43, of Tequesta, who was not injured. Police are awaiting toxicology re- ports, said Jupiter police spokeswoman Sally Col- lins-Ortiz. The word spread quick- ly to other mad crews Fri- day morning. "Watch this this guy won't move over," shouts Wayne Retty, waving his red flag to warn an upcoming blact SUV to slow down to protect land- scapers trimming the me- dian on US. 1 just south of Donald Ross Road. Sure enough, the driver — on a cellphone — stays in the lane, buzzing by at about 50 mph just a few feet away from Retty. "It's dangerous work. We have to concentrate on our jobs. We need the public to slow down and be careful at construction sites." said county road supervisor John Brand. Road workers earn be- tween $10-$18 hourly, he said, and they take safety training. "We need more public safety education. Even with signs, doubling fines in construction zones and flaggers, we still have ac- cidents: Brand said. Obiq OpaoloOpttpostcorr Library worker spots missing DVDs By ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Beath Post Ste Writer RIVIERA BEACH — DVDs for sale at a Riviera Beach thrift store caught the eye of a shopper who noticed some of them bore stickers identifying them as property of the Palm Beach County Public Library System. The shopper should know: He shelves items for the library. Riviera Beach police have re- covered 174 DVDs and nine music CDs„ Sgt. Pat Galligan said Friday. Some were from the North Palm Beach library; but police have yet to determine if those were part of the 192 DVDs, worth about $4,800, that were stolen from that library between June 1 and June 11. Two people have been arrested in that case. A student worker at the county system's Palm Beach Gardens branch had spotted the DVDs as he shopped at Thrift Store Items, 6831 N. Military Trail. At an average price to the county of $22.50 each, the loss was close to 64,000. Assistant Director Sharon Hill said the system has about 70.000 titles at its branches and simply didn't notice so many were miss- ing. Hill said the DVDs came from several of the county's branches and at least two music CDs were from the West Palm Beach library. Workers at the thrift store told police they had paid a man $75 to $100. A manager at the store did not • return a call Friday. Galligan asked anyone with information to call him at (561) 629-6032 or Crime Stop pers at (800) 458T1PS (8477). Staff writer Bill DiPaolo contributed to this story 0 ern klembetelhietpeatem THE LARGEST THRIFT STORE 44,000 SQ. FT.!!! HUGE LIQUIDATION SALE!!! NEW AND PRE-OWNED FURNITURE!!! 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Check your daily stocks at PainiffeachPost.com/business oi cd (800) 926-7678 to order The Palm Beach Post's Weekend Stocks. a comprehensive weekly stocks listings Boca accountant pleads in tax case The Associated Ara FORT LAUDERDALE — A - wealthy Boca Raton ac- countant who is the first US. citizen charged in a :- wide-ranging tax probe of Swiss banking giant UBS AG pleaded guilty Thursday to filing a false tax return. Steven Michael Rubin- stein pleaded guilty to filing a false tax return in 2004, the US. Attorney's Office reported. Rubinstein failed to report UBS income on his returns from 2001 to 2007. the Internal Revenue Service claimed. As part of his plea agreement, Rubinstein agreed to pay a 50 percent penalty for the year with the highest bal- ance in the account as of June 30. That was 2004. Rubinstein's name was among roughly 300 American account holders • turned over to U.S. authori- ties by UBS in a deal that also required the Swiss bank to pay $780 million in fines and restitution. In a separate lawsuit filed in Miami, the IRS was seeking the identities of another 52,000 UBS cus- tomers suspected of using bank secrecy to shield as- sets from US. taxes. UBS is contesting the lawsuit. Rubinstein was accused Eitornbent OM Steven Michael Rubinstein leaves court in Apnl. of creating a shell corpora- tion in the British Virgin Islands in 2001 to conceal his ownership of the UBS account, which he then used to finance construc- tion of a multimillion-dol- lar Florida home, deposit some S2 million in Kruger- rand gold coins and make numerous investments. In all, prosecutors said he hid some $6 million with UBS. A message left at the of- fice of his attorney. Robert Panoff, was not immedi- ately returned. Rubinstein is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 30. He faces a maximum three years in prison. Ru- binstein remains free on S12 milyn bail. Competition drives fares out of cities .• AIRFARES from we a bargain. Chances are some of your favorite spots will be on sale. Take a closer look at travel Web sites, including the airline sites, that often throw in additional discounts if you enter a specific code usually found in a section for promotional fares. Airline Web sites also offer deals that include hotel and sometimes car rental. Gabe Wire, senior editor at travel information Web site Thwel- zoo, expects promotions to continue into the summer as people remain hesitant to book far in advance. "People are definitely becoming more impulse-driven," he said. if you still want to go somewhere before mid-August, Parsons says buy your tickets now. It's unlikely the deals will get any better. After that it's another story. Parsons says airlines haven't started serious discounting for flights after mid- August, so you might want to wait to book tickets for then. Parsons and other travel watch- ers have noticed that fare hikes have eliminated ultra-cheap tickets to Europe between now and Aug. 17. Fares out of any particular city are driven mostly by competition to a destination. For instance, Frontier, Southwest and United were already competing vigorously in Denver before the recession. So fares there fell just 1 percent through June 1, according to Bob Harrell of airfare- tracking firm Harrell Associates. Regardless of where you live, it's not too late to get out for the sum- • mer. For example. AirTran has a fart, sale out of Atlanta. You can fly on Thesdays and Wednesdays for under S100 each way to Cancun, Mexico; Fort Myers and Orlando; Minneapo- lis and Washington. Escape the heat with $128 fares each way to Seattle. AirTran also has Knoxville, Tenn., to Orlando, flights for $44 and Memphis to Los Angeles for $119 each way All the Aiaran sale fares have to be purchased by Tiresday for travel through Nov 4. You can fly from Atlanta to do, ens of cities on Delta Air Lines, for as low as $49 one-way, if you but your ticket by Thesday. Leisure fares from the South were 12 percent lower than at the same time last year, according In HarrelL Savings rate jump makes investors jumpy IP' SAVINGS from 10B time payments to people receiving Social Security and other government pension benefits. "Personal tax cuts and government income support have brought consumers back from the dead, but the recuperation period promises to be a long one," said Sal Guat- ieri, an economist at BMO Capital Markets. The big jump in the savings rate also made some Wall Street inves- tors nervous. The Dow Jones industrial average lost about 50 points in af- ternoon trading. Broader indices were mixed. The stimulus package also featured reductions in payroll tax withholding designed to get people to start spending more mon- ey and boost the economy. Those factors helped in- crease after-tax incomes 1.6 percent in May. How- ever, without the special factors, after-tax incomes would have risen just 0.2 percent. Payroll tax reductions help income rise 1.6 percent in May. The savings rate, which is a percentage of disposable income, rine to 6.9 percent from 5.6 per- cent in April. Last month's savings rate was far above recent annual rates, which dipped below 1 percent from 2005 through 2007 as a booming economy and soaring home prices pushed Americans it, spend most of what they earned. Those factors have been reversed amid the longest recession since World War II. Triggered by a housing bust, the downturn has depressed home prices by the larg- est amounts since the Great Depression. Still, economists viewed the 0.3 percent rise in spending in May as encouraging after no change in April and a 0.3 percent drop in March. EFTA00259909

• The Palm Beach Pog B FRIDAY. JUNE 26.2009 PalmBeaehPost.com LOCAL BUSINESS • Swine flu: Camp counselor, student from suburban Boynton camp fall ill on trip to Atlanta. Story, 3B Giving back: Businessman prints T-shirts for charities at discount. Business, 6B Frank Cerablne Ritzy trip? It's no day at beach for poor officials My heart goes out to the Palm Beach County commissioners who have slogged across the state to do the public's business at a luxury resort on Marco Island. It's not as easy at it seems: You have to get up every morn- ing at a beachfront resort, pull yourself away from the buffet, avert your eyes from the 18-hole golf course. sidestep the spa, and head to a meeting room for a discussion of plebeian topics, such as public transportation or homelessness. It's enough to drive you back to your room for the scented soap and the mini-bar. How easy can it be to focus on the homeless when you're staying in a resort that asks, "Searching for Paradise?" Not ideal. Certainly, the fact that taxpayers are ponying up about S10.000 to help pay for the trip to the Marco Island Marriott Beach Resort comes as some solace. But it's a true test of public see vice. and I'm not talking about the champagne and chocolate-dipped strawberries that come with the resort's "escape romance" pack- age. They deserte a break, and a tan This is no escape for our public servants. It wasn't their idea to take time out from the daily task of finding ways to lay off county workers and grind out a few dollars from an overstretched budget. They're just part of a Florida Association of Counties gather- ing And so it's only fitting that tour of our commissioners and some staffers show up. After all, one of the seminars is on "honest services and public in- tegrity" Not having Palm Beach County public officials at that discussion would be like holding a steroids chat without the team- mates of Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez and Barry Bonds. So I applaud them. It took a great deal of courage for our county commissioners to go to this conference, knowing full well that they'd be criticized by commission hopefuls such as Karl Dickey, who has suggested checking them for tan lines when they return. I mean, c'mon, Karl. Some of that tanning will certainly be warranted. A golf outing is actual- ly part of the schedule, and there may be some accidental tanning during the early moments of the sunset dinner cruise. Fertile ground for Ideas I think you just need to trust that our commissioners are working hard, instead of imagin- ing the worst, which would be that Commissioners Jeff Koons, Karen Marcus, Steve Abrams and Shelley Vana are there to take advantage of the resort's "fertile turtle package" — a pituitary gland-stimulating couples mas- sage combined with fertility- promoting aromatherapy and a "special offer for couples who actually conceive during their visit." Ugh. Now look what you made me do: Ruin everybody's break- fast. Are you happy? All this dis- trust of your public officials has led to a visual that will take hours to erase. So just take a few deep breaths. Calm down. It's no big deal. Our commissioners are just learn- ing how to get by in these tough times by spending a few days at a beachfront resort in Southwest Florida. It's not as if they've disap- peared to Argentina. O frank cerabirroflpbpost corn Lake Worth High in trouble Rated one of the state's wont schools, it will be shut down if it doesn't go from a D to a C grade. By LAURA GREEN Palm Beath Post Staff Miter Lake Worth High School was named among the state's worst schools on Thurs- day. The school has performed so poorly under federal standards that it was named one of 17 "intervene" schools, meaning it re quires the state's immediate intervention. If Lake Warth High does not improve from the D grade it earned last week to a C next year and come closer to meeting fed- eral standards, it will be shut down. If that happens, students could be sent to other schools. Or the school could be reopened as a district-managed school, a charter school or even a privately managed school. Principal Ian Saltzman could not be See SCHOOL. 5B Ow A G-Star School of the Arts student cameraman Marcos Gasc (center) prepares to shoot a scene Thursday. The kids are the crew Palm Beach County school ratings The level of sanction and support increases with each category, with 'intervene' being the worst. Prevent I: 33 schools Correct I: 68 schools Prevent 11: 11 schools Correct 11: 32 schools Intervene: 1 school Shnyantha Wimalasekera operates the boom nuc on the set of A Dog. Gone Tad: Destiny's Stand. Statt Pnotas M TAYLOR JONES Actors Ron Palillo (left) and Barry Bostwick work a scene Thursday in west Boca Raton for A Dog-Gone Tail: Destiny's Stand. G-Star students making movie The teens work with famous actors and do all the jobs a Hollywood film crew would do. • LESLIE GRAY STREETER Palm Beath Ant Ste Mins Since Greg Hauptner founded C-Star School of the Arts six years ago, there have been two feature-length films shot on the Palm Springs campus. Now a third movie shoot has taken up residence at G-Star. but the biggest differ- ence between it and the pivvious projects is obvious the minute you walk onto the set. "This crew has a curfew." Haupt- ner said this week, as 17-year-olds with headsets walked carefully around 15-year-olds scrutinizing the next shot in the foyer of the suburban Boca Raton home where scenes were being shot. "We lose crew members because they say 'My mom's here to pick me up I gotta go." Those teenaged grips. editors. assistant directors and actors have been running around Palm Beach County for two weeks filming A See G-STAR, 5B P. > WANT MORE? See a gallery of photos from the movie set. pbcals*.com Appointed or not, Rep. Taylor to seek Greene's seat in 2010 By GEORGE BENNETT Palm Beath Post Staff Hinter WEST MLNI BEACH — State Rep. Priscilla Taylor will run for a Palm Beach County Commission seat in 2010 regardless of whether Gov. Charlie Crist appoints her to the now-vacant post this year. Taylor, D-West Palm Beach, is one of four finalists to replace Addie Greene, who stepped down from the commission April 30 because of health concerns. The governor's appointee will serve through November 2010, when the seat is up for election. 'While I have the utmost respect Taylor for Gov. Crist and I do hope certainly that I am the governor's choice ... I see no reason to wait on the governor's decision to launch my cam- paign," Taylor said at a Thursday news conference. Greene. who attended Taylor's announcement, said she is disap- pointed her former seat has been vacant for nearly two months. "My constituents are now look- ing at me, blaming me because the See TAYLOR. 48 Iv Judge agrees to unseal Epstein's sex scandal deal By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Heads Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — A circuit judge agreed Thursday to unseal a deal billionaire Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal pros- ecutors to avoid their fil- ing of charges in the wake of his sex scandal with underage girls. Circuit Judge Jeff Col- bath said he would not re- lease Epstein's agreement with federal prosecutors until Monday, allowing him time to redact the Epstein names of vic- tims. Colbath ruled that the deal had not been sealed properly. sk y. Goldberger, Epstein's at- torney, immediately asked fora stay of Colbath's deci- sion to unseal the agree- ment in order to appeal it. A hearing on that request is set for this morning. See EPSTEIN. 5B a• • • 40 Riviera workers could be laid off under budget scenarios, 2B 12 Lake Worth must move quickly on water plant to get grant money, 4B EFTA00259910

• n THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. JUNE 26, 2009 X • affordable luxury that reflects my METRO REPORT Weather, traffic, breaking news and special reports PelmBeachPost.com/local 9,rrnItrm cpprtyc PALM REACH GARDENS — Mosquito spraying from trucks is scheduled to begin Wednesday and continue as needed throughout the city's neighborhoods. The spraying, depending on the weath- er, will start about an hour before sun- set and continue for about two hours after sunset. Palm Beach County also has begun spraying in unincorporated areas. For more information about spraying in the city, go to pbgfl.com. Residents can request spraying in their neighborhood by calling (561) 804- 7000. The Aerial Spray Hotline for the county is (561) 642-8775. BrAPP RIVIERA BEACH — Frustrated by the lack of specifics in a revised marina redevelopment plan, the city council Wednesday set a July 22 deadline for Viking Developers 1,1.0 and the Community Redevelopment Agency staff to deliver cost estimates and details of land swaps proposed for the redevelopment of the marina and surrounding properties. In September. Viking Developers responded to the city's request for proposals with a $500 million plan to rebuild the marina, Bicentennial Park and Newcomb Hall as well as adding a parking garage, a hotel, offices, shops and restaurants. Riviera budget proposals may result in 40 job cuts By WILLIE HOWARD Palm Beach Past Staff Writer RIVIERA BEACH — As many as 40 police officers, firefighters and general employees could lose their jobs under budget-cutting scenarios presented to the city council Thursday. Because the taxable value of city property is expected to drop 16 per- cent during the budget year that begins Oct. 1, the city is expected to bring in $2.5 million less in property tax revenue at the current tax rate of $8.43 per $1,000 taxable value. Revenues from permit fees and other sources also are down. Under the tightest budget scenario, with no tax increase, 60 full-time positions would be cut — 14 police officers, 21 firefighters, four commu- nications officers and 21 general employees. Councilman Shelby Lowe noted that 22 posi- tions are vacant, meaning about 40 employees would be laid off under that sce- nario. Under a second pro- posal that calls for in- creasing the tax rate by 50 cents per S1,000 tax- able value, to $8.93. the city would keep all police and firefighters but would cut 30 full-time positions — about 10 percent of the general employee work- force — and seven part- BONAIR time positions. A third scenario that in- creases the tax rate by $1 per $1,000 taxable value, to .43, also calls for elimi- nating 30 full-time and seven part-time positions but takes less money from reserves — about $500,000 versus $2 million under the first two scenarios. All three scenarios pre- sented Thursday call for all employees to take one unpaid day off a month for a savings of $1 million. All department heads have been told to cut their bud- gets by 10 percent. City Manager Ruth Jones plans to present a tentative budget to the council by July 30. 0 wee_ tioraniepOpost corn CONVERSATION PIECES gc In Store • expires 7/11 /09 FREE Delivery & Removal when you spend $1500 or more* _r and lasting quality unique personality99 CHARLESTON VILLANOVA In Store expires 7/11/09 $100 off plus Delivery & Removal when you spend $2500 or more* Deerfield Beach 545 S. Federal Hwy 954-570-6210 Mon Sot: 10am - 8:30pm Sun: llam - 6pm West Palm Beach 3661 W. Blue Heron Blvd. 561-881-0800 Open Daily: 10am - 6pm Markt/Decor worldofdecor.com LOOKING FOR SOME FUN? Check out restaurant and movie reviews every Friday in TGIF Man, 42, faked sleepover to assault girl, 8, cops say By ELIOT KLEINBERG Palm Bead Post Staff Writer The 8-year-old said "John" had invited her to a sleepover birthday party for his daughter. But there was no party or even a daughter. In- stead. the girl told author- ities, John Henry Peek spent the night sexually assaulting her. A judge Thursday ordered Peek, 42, of sub- urban West Palm Beach, held without bail. He is charged with sexual bat- tery on a child under 12, technically a felony pun- ishable by death. According to a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office report, the victim's mother said a man she knew only as John invited the girl to a sleepover birthday party for his daughter. The mother said that when she dropped the girl off on June 16, she saw children playing outside and saw pizza and children's videos in- side. The next morning:. the woman said, "John" dropped off her daughter at 6 a.m., saying his girl- friend and daughter had been in an accident. The woman said the girl told her she wasn't feeling well. The mother said she saw physical signs of the assault and asked the girl about them. She said the girl told her "John" had given her beer, had kissed her and had fondled her. On Monday, the girl spoke with investigators from the Child Protection .Team. She told them the man "did nasty stuff to me." the report said. She repeated to them what she had told her mother and added that Peek had exposed himself to her. On Wednesday, the re- port said, Peek came into the sheriff's office and admitted to investigators that he'd molested the girl. but only at her re- quest. Peek said she had seduced him. ionot kleinbergeptv•st com Deal reached on school cops' pay By MARC FREEMAN StasSntharl Negotiators Wednesday reached a tentative agreement on a new three- year contract for Palm Beach County school police officers. It includes a salary freeze for all of this year. and the option to reopen nego- tiations for pay issues for 2010 and 2011. The deal, subject to ratification by the officer members of the county Police Benevolent Association, came together alter seven months of sporadic talks between the union and the school district. School bus drivers, secretar- ies and other employees had already agreed to contracts that did not include raises. District administrators said bud- get reductions and the state's weak economy prevented them from offering salary increases. The police contract includes some new non-salary benefits for the 144 of- ficers on the force. including perfect attendance awards. 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• THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. JUNE 26,2009 3B SWINE FLU Camp counselor, at least one child get illness on trip The Jewish Community Center sports camp cut short their Atlanta visit after symptoms showed. By MICHAEL LaFORGIA and LONA O'CONNOR Palm Beath Post Staff Write., A camp counselor and at least one child from a suburban Boynton Beach Jewish Community Cen- ter sports camp came down with swine flu dur- ing a sports trip to Atlanta earlier this week, officials said. "Several children sub- sequently began exhibit- ing flu-like symptoms, so we cut short the trip," JCC spokesman Scott Be- narde said in a statement Thursday. "The group re- turned to Boynton Beach on Wednesday" County health officials now are watching what they are describing as a mild outbreak at Hochman JCC, at 8500 Jog Road west of Boynton Beach. "Starting this week, we experienced an increase in children and counselors with flu-like symptoms at our camp in Boynton Beach." Benarde said. "They were sent home and must be symptom free for at least 24 hours and have a doctor's note before returning to camp." Health department of- ficials learned Wednesday of several cases among summer campers and counselors, said spokes- man Tim O'Connor "One of the counselors tested positive and there are two other kids we as- sume are positive," said O'Connor, adding that public-health nurses have been calling families whose chiklren became sick. "We're not finding any severities," he said. O'Connor advised the standard response to flu: consult a physician and stay home if you have symptoms. JCC camp officials sent e-mails to parents this week advising families to keep sick children at home. The Hochman JCC has 275 children aged 5 to J4 and 35 staffers. Benarde said there have been no reports of illness at the JCC's other camp near West Palm Beach. • nichaei jeforpattaposi com Pahokee middle school breaks ground By LAURA GREEN hum Brach Post SI4tWraar PAHOKEE — In the football-loving city of Pa- hokee, it rivals even the new football stadium. Pahokee's middle school students are finally getting a home of their own. The school district broke ground Thursday on a three-story middle school with capacity for 736 students. Students in grades sev- en through 12 now share the Pahokee Middle/ Senior High. The new school opens in 2010. Ranking the city's major events in history, Pahokee Mayor Wayne Whitaker said the new school is "almost number It's being built on the old high school football field. The new football sta- dium will be ready for the start of the season in August. Alfred Jones, the school district's senior projects administrator, said every- where he goes in Paho- kee, residents want to talk about the projects. "I'm stopped on the street and people are ask- ing me questions." Jones said. "They're telling me how beautiful the stadium is and they can't wait for the new middle school." The school also will serve as the city's first hurricane shelter. Now residents have to drive about 10 miles to Belle Glade. And while that may not seem far. Whitaker said some residents brave storms in their homes. With a shel- ter close to home, more residents will be safe, he said. Once middle school students move out of the high school, some span space will be turned into a clinic, Jones said. Another plus is sepa- rating the middle and high school students. "You don't want that (seventh) grade girl inter- mingling with 17-, 18-year- old boys," Whitaker said. laura_greenlipOposicom Kickball fest to aid fallen officers' families By JASON SCHULTZ Palm Brach Post Ste IVrilir ROYAL PALM BEACH — It is an American pastime that most people haven't played since they were pint-sized children on the hallowed fiekls and frozen tundras of their elementary schools. On Sunday, however, dozens of full-grown men and women from the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office, Palm Beach County Fire-Rescue and several restaurants will take to a Royal Palm Beach field to com- pete and reclaim their former ath- letic glory at the game of kickball. Scott Cotton, a bartender at Max & Erma's in Royal Palm Beach. organized the tournament to raise money for the families of police offi- cers and firefighters who lost their lives in the line of duty. Cotton, the former owner of a restaurant in Tampa, said he almost became a police officer and likes to organize events to help police and fire agencies. Kickball Fest Where: 151 Lamstein Lane, Royal Palm Beach When: Sunday, 1.7 p.m. Cost: $5 Questions: Email Scott Cotton at robkickbaltlestityahoo.com "It started as a thing between us and Duffy's," but then blossomed into a full-blown tournament. Cotton said, adding that he chose kickball because it required less equipment than softball or baseball. Deputy Roy DeMarco said he will be playing on one of two sheriff's office teams — one team will be deputies who patrol the Wel- lington area and the other will be those who cover Royal Palm Beach. A team from the fire department also will play, along with teams from Max & Erma, Duffy's, Hoot- ers and Outback restaurants in the Wellington and Royal Palm Beach areas, DeMarco said. Cotton said the village of Royal Palm Beach donated the use of the field, and friends and co-workers will help organize face paintings and raffles to raise money. One thing the teams may be short on is experience. When asked how long it had been since he had played kickball, the 43-year-old Cot- ton simply laughed. "Ifs probably been at least 20 years." he said. DeMarco said he hadn't played since he was a child. But he said his team of Wellington-area deputies planned to practice their kickball skills this week. Cotton said he plans to make the tournament ah annual event in Royal Palm Beach. "If 1 get 50 people I'll be happy," he said. "If I get 250 people Ill be ecstatic." @Jason schultiPpboost tom • a auto dealer directory, "as ir=momi Flamm Fmrsi cans DELRAIrAcuNA ciar-76..tim!‘•35.3434.1 U51 BEACH ACURA 6870 Okeechobee elvd. 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4 4B THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. JUNE 26.2009 Lake Worth must make decision on water plant 77w city has to act soon on a proposed facility to get a $25 million grant. By WILLIE HOWARD Palm Heath Post Staff ;Enter LAKE WORTH — City commissioners must make key decisions soon on the proposed reverse- osmosis water treatment plant if they want $2.5 million in federal stimu- lus money for plant con- struction. Utility Director Re- becca Mattey told com- missioners Tuesday that they must decide at the July 7 commission meet- ing whether to build a deep injection well and must authorize engineer- ing work to update 2-year- old plans for the water plant if they want to meet deadlines for the stimulus money. The 4,000-foot-deep injection well is needed to dispose of the briny byproduct of the reverse- osmosis water treatment process, which presses salty water from the deep aquifer through a mem- brane to make drinking water. The city's plans for the reverse-osmosis plant were tabled two years ago after the state denied per- mits for an ocean outfall to dispose of the brine water. The city already has three wells to serve the reverse-osmosis treat- ment plant, which it plans to build near the existing water plant near Lake Worth High School. If the commission agrees to solicit propos- als to build the deep injection well and autho- rizes engineering work for the reverse-osmosis plant design on July 7. bid packages for plant con- struction would be dis- tributed in early August. Bids would be opened in early September, and commissioners would award a contract later that month. To receive the $2.5 million grant, the water plant construction con- tract must be awarded by Oct. 1. Commissioners could decide whether to pursue a plant that will produce 4.5 million gallons a day or scale back to one that produces 3 million gallons a day. Water from the re- verse-osmosis plant would supplement water treated at the existing city water plant, which draws water from shallow wells, Per- mits call for withdrawals from the surface wells to gradually decline in the years ahead. The cost of a 3 million- gallon plant and a deep injection well is estimated at $25 million. If the commission follows the schedule outlined by Matte% the reverse-osmosis plant should be completed in 2012. Still unknown is how much, if any, water the city will purchase from Palm Beach County un- der a 2008 agreement. The commission voted in May not to pay the county $6 million due under the county water agreement and instead attempt to rework terms of the con- tract. *wait hOwardipbg0St COM Man, 3 rescue workers hurt after crash By ANDREW MARRA and KATHLEEN CHAPMAN Palms Beath Ibis Staff {Strain WEST PALM BEACH — Police on Thursday were investigating a crash that sent three city firefighters and a pickup driver to the hospital late Wednesday. The pickup driver is in critical condition at St. Mary's Medical Cen- ter after officials say he smashed a West Palm Beach Fire-Rescue truck by mowing through a red light at the corner of Palm Beach Lakes Boulevard and Congress Avenue. "Apparently, be was in bad shape," city spokes- man Chase Scott said. "We had to extricate him from the vehicle." He said the three fire- rescue workers were not as seriously injured in the crash, which happened just after 10 p.m., but were treated at a local hospital as well. The city's fire-rescue truck had significant damage to its front-left side. The impact shat- tered all the windows on the pickup and deployed its air bags.' "If it had been a family in a regular truck they would have been dead," Scott said. .andrear mar/410000M COM Greene hopes announcement prods Crist to fill seat soon ► TAYLOR from 1B governor has not filled the seat," Greene said. "That's why I'm hoping what she (Taylor) is doing today will get back to the governor and maybe this will make him hasten filling the seat." Crist spokesman Sterling Ivey said the governor's office is following normal pro- cedures in filling the vacancy: He said he did not know a timeline for announcing the appointment. Greene. who was the county's only black commissioner, announced her intent to resign in March and said she hoped Crist would name a black appoin- tee to represent minority-dominated District 7. The district runs from Lake Park to Defray Beach and is 48.4 percent black. 5.5 percent Hispanic and 40.1 per- cent white. In April, Crist in- terviewed four black candidates: Taylor, Riv- iera Beach Councilwoman Bobbie Brooks, business- man Randy Johnson and retired educator Vincent Goodman. Taylor. 59. owns an insurance agency and served on the Port of Palm Beach commission from 1998 to 2004, when she was elected to the state House. Her House seat is likely to attract a slew of candidates, including at least two people who attended her Thursday conference: Delray Beach City Commissioner Mack Bernard and former Democratic state Rep. James Henry "Hank" Harper Jr. egeorKe bennetleptipost corn Id Greene Wants a black apPointee to represent District 7 in her place. AREA DEATHS Palm Beach County Appal. Joan R., 80, of Boynton Beach. died Wednesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. Bailey, Luther, 58. of Boynton Beach, died Wednesday. Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Funeral in Michigan. Brother, Stanley, of Boca Raton. died Thursday. Gutterman-Warheit Memorial Chapel. Boca Raton. Cerebella Madeline, 91, of Palm Beach Gardens, died Thursday. Tillman Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Visitation and funeral Monday. Fallek, Jerome, 84, of Boynton Beach. died Wednesday. Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Foetus% Kenneth Russell, 25, of Boca Raton, died l'uesday. Babione Funeral Home, Boca Raton. Visitation Sunday; Mass Monday Gauger, Hazel, 84. of Greenacres, died Iliesday All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. Kelson. Lester, 87, of Lake Worth, died Wednesday. Beth Israel Memorial Cha- pel, Boynton Beach. Service today. Krull, Jeanette, of Boca Raton, died Wednesday. Gutterman-Warheit Memo- rial Chapel. Boca Raton. Moil-GaAs, Arlene, of Boynton Beach, died Sunday. Rubin Memorial Chapel. Boynton Beach. Port, Renee, 77, of Delray Beach, died Wednesday. Beth Israel Memorial Cha- pel. Delray Beach. Service today. Porter, Myrtle 1, 86, of Delray Beach, died Wednesday. Babione Funeral Home, Boca Raton. Rogart, Margaret S., W. of Palm Beach Gardens, died Monday. Beth Israel Me- morial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Service Tuesday. Sabra, Edward, 81, of Boynton Beach, died Thursday. Beth Israel Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Service Sunday. Solomon, Al, of Boynton Beach, died Tuesday Gutterman-Warheit Memorial Chapel. Boca Raton. Stubb, Aiphonso, 85, of Riviera Beach. died Tuesday. Royal Palm Memorial Gardens and Funeral Home, West Palm Beach. Service Saturday. Martin County Imhulse, Diane M., 74. of Hobe Sound. died Tuesday Martin Funeral Home and Crematory, Stuart. St. Lucie County Donehower. Laura M., 71. of Port St. Lucie. died Monday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Stuart. Memorial service Saturday. Moorer, Louise, 69, of Fort Pierce, died June 19. Stone Brothers Funeral Home, Fort Pierce. North, Judith, 69, of Port St. Lucie, died Tuesday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Stuart. Showers, Kenneth R., tia of Port St. Lu- cie, died Tuesday. Stone Brothers Funeral Home, Fort Pierre. Visitation today: ser- vice Saturday. FUNERAL NOTICES JAMAAL T.0 ANDERSON 27. of West Pam Bea. FL. passed ;;;;..71(17e'lib! ar tinjirtdaVOnjI nC!D22Y Frday. June 26 from 6.81M and • <aeration of Ida at iCIAM on Saturday. Jon* 27 at Mt Callum Baptist Church. 1111 36th Street, West Palm Beach FL, Bishop O'Shea Granger. Pastor On, Philip A Branel, pastor of Mt Zion 5.1istion Beath cZteptist Church, Watt Pare • Arrangements entrusted to. Timothy .E. Kitchens & Staff LC POW.. Funeral None. 317 NW. 6th Street. Pompano Mae Rorie 33060 Tgreanu esralelam edipsonceav adrea mete Min AMOS JAMES H. BRODERICK James H. Broderick. 72 yens old. of Ws Pain Bed, FL. ded at hashes Wednesdey. June 24. 2009. Born a Yonkers. NY, Mr. Broderick had a 'promising athletic future until he f cratactedPolio in 1954. Me graduated rom the Um may of Mien. Class of 1961 and en;yed bens mender of the Henke* boosters Club. Mr. Broderick subsectuenthy moved to West Palm Beach. end in spec of his ems& cheeps. .loved sports, coaching baseball, end raising his family. No waked as • Stock Brea in Palm Beach for on, 4(1 yeas; and we instrumental in 'enteblishing the Minor League ambit Onion et nim He is suriereed by his vide of 46 years. Lisle Banded of West Palm Beach. Ft.; three children. Terry Broderick and 9ris wife. Patti of Leesburg, VA; Danny /Broderick and his v ife. Marie oT Jcpe•il I. GA and iColken Broderick 'of s Arens. CA; epics pervichadren, in, Chris, Bryan. David and Chian*. [end Ashley. Cagan, and Jacrtnel me • !brother. Janes Almy and • sister, Noel ;Ms. Min of Atlanta. GA A Memorial Service in celebration !of Mr. Broderick's life nil be held at 6:30 PM on Friday, June 20 2009 at 'Ovettlebets Funeral Home, 1701 South Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach, FL '33401. rha family will wen mends at the funnel home on Friday. from 5:00 PM until the tee of SerViCa. In lieu of flows, coSnetions me be med. in his memory toi Hospice of Palm Beach County 5300 East Avenue, Wan Palm Bach. k 3340i. Osattlebmon %mei 4 Cremation Seruces FMN/ 00,110 and Operated 15611832.5171 le ammo corder.. sin- rook* &MAN ParelenhPortconvolswirs KEVIN DOYLE CASSIDY Kevin Doyle Cassidy, 43, of Okeechobee went to be with our Lord Sunday. Ane 21, 2009. He is survived by his wilt Wendy; four children; Kevin and Kyle of Venus, Kristne of Wee Pen Beach and Kee of Wellington; thief stepsons; Eric. Ryan end Brandon of Okeechobee. He else I behind • sister. Lynn Sullivan of WerInglott Peahen, Derry et Seethe Bed and Todd of Claellefield, SC and many &Kat 6-4 nephews. A memorial unity will be hold Saturday, Ja,• 27 at 11100 AM at St. Peters WIC in Wellington. Hemet veil be in South Carols. ' I.1,17.17;nsiteph.14.17torirralbeless ""thle" PATRICIA A. DANIELS 81, of Okeechobee. FloridA passed army on Wednesday, June 24.2M. She wasborn on Apia 141928, inSomerville. Massachusetts. Sunivis family members irdkrde her husband, Pike Naito; children. Lynne Cheathamand Peter Daniell; three gr dch4dron; ;OW greistesedchikken. was preceded n death by son, Phikp enrols. Her extended family also includes the Nee %may there grand- cede. and peet.grenckedres. The family will receive deli. friends from 10 /OA until Noon on Saturday, June 77 at the funeral home. A funeral sere ell follow at Noon with Pastor Blaine WNtt officiating. Patrice will be laid to rest remedietily following the funeral manual Lake Wore. Memory Gardens. Funeral arrangements hare been entriated to Doney4 Earl Smith Memory Gerdes Funeral Home 3041 C.t Road, Wu Worth. FL (5611961-3772 0.52)in To eons maw denatios Visit Palm&eceintersiobinwies ROBERT L. NEIL Robert L. Neil (Noil Electric) paned June 22, 2009 et Wen Palm Beech. Funniness...ill be June 26.2009 Friday, 11 00 AM at Sinsi.Manorial Cheils,15213) Jog Rd.. °eke Beech FL 344*, (561)865-1747. To r ime saalema• ..4/•• *was PerdeedePostconerobibewlee TROND R. ISAKSEN Trond R tsetse,. 54, passed away Friday. Am* 19, 2029 after e courageous beneath cancer. A long tins resident of Lantana he loaves behind a son, Kristian. two Stars, EM ease (Craig) rd Inge. Len Wesel and a host of 'funky and greet fronds. There will be a trilebstor of his Ida on Sunday. Juno 28. 2009 at 12 PM at 821 5. 90 Street tontine 547.0931. In lau of flaws pease sae a donation to Hasps of PBC le teed oinleionces.41•• ••••• *mugs Wet Peelhaceost con/obtains SHELDON H. GROSS Sheldon ' y passed away an Jane 19, 2009 in Pain, Beach Gardens, Fl. et the age of 88 Born and hem e most of his Ilre in Philadelphia, PA, Shelly son renowned bu theatrical andproducer and impreseo. who founded tweet the Music Fair chain of theaers (West ry Music Pan Valley Forge Music Fair sad others) for forty sere and produced numerous Broadway shoats and national roan. Pro, to entering the theater world. Shelly Mined • CaNaViliCIIIr Afar W the Navy in the South Pacific during orld War II and worked le a radio and tension broadesten le the owly dap of TV. Shelly was also • writer, bonnets novels published, en avid fisherman, a chess player. and a joke.teller street- eels. Na is survived by his beloved wife of 63 years, Joan; his sons, Byron of Los Angeles. CA (Ricky Ten). Rink of EsteroJL (Debra Hardesty) and Dan of %Minn. MA (Anne Marie Becker); lour grandchildren. Tim Moffatt Ted Moffitt. Jake Gross. and litienne Gross: alert, Roberta Key; nephew. Larry Key and goddaughter, Sara Amen. A Memorial Simko well be held on July 11.2009 et 2 PM at Gs Doyens/0o in Palm Beach Gardens. Memorial donations can be made to Palm Beek gasworks. 322 Banyan Blvd., West Pains Beth, Ft 33401. • Week theater that Shelly was actively involved sePPoning in his tem yeas TO *ea Candelasta a,rw ma* da•••••• Wit PeelloachPeetwelobibearn DOROTHY A. LANG Grw*Count/Dorothy A. Lang. also known as 'Mier, passed any June 23, 2009. at her hors. She was 73 years young. Dorothy was born In AlkerFle. Mebane on December S. 1935 to Anse C and Annie A. (Hall) Bono. lin family moved to Winfield, Alabama in 1950, ovher• she met her husband. Jack. Dorothy and Ma were wenn en July 4. 1951, and secedes. St twee/ years together. They moved to West Palm Beach, FL, In 1766. and Ovid there until retirement in 1997. She then seemed to Alabama in 1997 and has Wed at Leafs Rival Roost anti Mr untimely departure from the Ide Dorothy was very poison- ate about life. famiy her chicken end grandchildren. She Wye wore a smile . end loved bong Preppy. She abo WI • beautiful voice and loved to sing end 'put on a show.' Dorothy was a long.tirne mamba of the Church of Christ She was currently a member of the Alicosais Church of Ovist. She is preceded in death by her beloved parents, Jesse C end Ann A. Hal) Bone end straw. N Rube Burgess. Sit. is survived by her husband, Jack B Lang. three child-en. deughte Teresa A Amuses Mirk). daughter. Deers J. MaKendrick (Keith) end son, Michel S. Lang. !mother, Lail C, Bone Barbara) and wsW, Betty J Dave (Jew* sere grandchildren, Kristin J. Arnim: els, Maria A. Annetiate, Mark A AP44044,11 Lauren Brooke tang, Logan Brune Lang. Jesse Ha n al:Sang. Colton Ceases' J. M merry sues, eaKtl, nephews and fr' . A manorial service will be held on Sat .ircl ay. June 27, 2009 al 2PM at the Alicitylle Church of Christ, 629 3rd Away Ta awns owdiaoss. toad*. PeelleadentenVelituaries COMFORTING Find bereavement support groups at Ge-W COMPANIONS PalmBeachPost.com Click on Obituaries • JOANNE LEIBMANN 65 of tenet FL passed anal on June 24,2009 SM survived by her husband Frank Loiterer. of Venice; three chicken- Michael Hummel of Boca Raton, Freak and Peck Sewn both of WHOA FL; theit• ems Merest MwpF of Trout. man NC, DeniseOffie of loaseatchee. FL, Perini* Bremen of Boynton Beech; and five grandchildren Amanda. kens, Won. Destine and Madison Friends ney call on Sunday. Arne 28. 2009 horn ?PIA to 9PM et the LORNE 8 SONS FUNERAL HOME, 745 NE 6th Ave., IN. Fed. Hon). Delnay Beach. A funeral mass will be celebrated en Monday Juno 29 2309. 11:00AM at St. Mark's Chur 643 NE Ave.. Boynton Beech with ch burial 4th to follow et the Boyrton Beach Cemetery Ta Visit PalmBsercnt.comobauariet WANK CULLEN LUCIUS Fronk Cullen Lucius died on 24th of Ara 2009. at Grose Memoral nose tal Mr. Lucius 67. resided at Clemson Downs. Clemson. S C. Memorial services will be held 2:00 PM Sunday, June 28.2009 et Clemson Down,. Owen Myth Carolina, in the Erna Cain Center. Aflame of Elliott. he in West Palm Beach. Florida,,and1ers the se on Charles Green and Mare Cullen Lucius He graduated from Palm Beach High School and held a Bachelor of Scene in Agricultural Engineering from Clemson College. Me was an Army Engineer veteran or World War II serving ri, be Pacific. He was a member of the Enlisted Reserve ledAmerican Lope. He west resident of Aken from 1953 to 1997 and retired from E. I. Dupont with 40 yews service at the Savannah Reef Met Mt* Projects Department Mr. Luau was a member of St Jolent Methodist Church where he served on the Administrative Board and was a mender of the Methodst Men's Club. Sunrises ere two nephews. c Cherie, G. Lucius IS, of Marietta, and frank M. Lucius of Greensboro, NC. and two nieces, Anne Kleithes, of Columbia, SC, and Mario Taylor, of genet SC. Tn. Mackey Mortuary. Greenville. SC. Obitueries and °mime registry at wets rnackeymtxtuary. To we nn. sdebeaso• a.LNi• Mane. Visit PisimeeschPott.comhsbkoades LILA JUANITA DANIELS Funeral Service for the 'ate Iris Juanita Daniels who passed away June 18,2009 after • long aerie. She Itfavers to mourn one son. Reginald Daniels (Delor•s). two daughters, Lois Grimes and Paulette Salomon Ile); host of grand.; r eetwands; grestereegrane and two rends M y Arco Go do • Wren, Days Services will be had Saturday. June 27. 2009 at 11:00 AM at Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church. 101. 8th Street. West Palm Beach, FL. Viewing at Sieves Funeral Home. Tamarind An Friday June 26.2009 horn 5:00 PM keel It* ok yy w erA mso war r warm ~ tar MARJORIE A. McKINLEY Age 84. posed away peacefully at horn. Jane 22,2009, with family by Mr side. Marge. of Bucyrus, OH. resided in Palm Bosch County since 1971. She had careers nlegogrephy. banking, and was music secretary at First Baptist Church. West Unshed% fa 17 sore in addition to raising five children. She enjoyed crafting, netting. reading and doing crossword puzzles. Merge was • woo of endless fore, calm and support for Mr Wally, kends and anyone who met her. One of her many gifts was her ability to keep life's ups and downs in Perspeotwo. SM is sewed by a ester, Rosemary Cowan; five children. Will.am2:11, John Suss. (Chuck). Dowd (Yvette : grandchildren. Mogen. Emily. . Carly, Cody, Sarah, Sophia, Amend', Jade. Olin.; beloved niece. Joanne perta.4114. 7;14:Vio be missed by her Montreal services will be 10:00 AM Saturday, June 27 at Christ Fellowship, South Campus, Northleke Blvd. Palm Beech Gardens. Donations may be made to Hospice of Paim Beech Corey. To earzictapoiattlire MARSHALL DAVID RIDLON MarsNall David Ridlon, 41 of West Palm Beach, dad aside June 2 2009. Mansholt was born in , .23 Merck 4, 1968. He has been • reedoia Mona sin 1979. &swag Marshall is As mother, Cindy of NC; his faker Mt (Ann) of Upsets; a brother. Sam gale and their sons. Jake and saw. hr; his uncle, Edthe Ohlin. aunt MarthaJo Niches; uncle. Walter Ridlon; several cousins, many friends: especially Joy Rudman of NC My loved him *Hey l the McColhe fertn/y whodewed MnI as their own. Ho WI be massed by all of these and by ell who ever Mew ham. hovel Services will be held et Noon on Saturday. June 27, 2009 at Oregebern Funeral Hors, 1201 South Olive Avenue, West Palm Beach FL 33401 TM family rocaire fresh at 11:00W until service time Ciumeebaurn Funetal & Cremation Service Truly Owned end Operated (561)6325171 I. narks. ardeleniss rated Vials PerrelschPost.cmWobituenits RUTH SIMON Of Dalin Beach. formerly of The Brae, NY, 84 ded on Ane 25. She was married to Leo Simon for almost 69 yens and raised two sons, Howard and Steven. who will be in her debt forever. She worked as &clerk for the New York Public Library. In addition to her husband and sons. she is survived by daughter-in-law Sharon Lutz. four /Mat MIN. Mm. COY and Lillian. throe nephews. two nieces and may other relative and friends. A gwruke service will be held on Sunday.. June 2B, at 14.15 PM el Eternal Light Memorial Gardens, 115;LS4::: Road 7, Boynton Mae in destions to the ACLU Foundation of Florida, 4500 Biscayne Blunt. Miami, FL 33137 or to the American Lung Associa- tion or seem oninsmoking organization would be apprecleted. To wens moololonom moor mam erste. VIA Pelmerrechketeena/obleserie AMY B. WHITEFIELD Amy B. Whitefield, 91, passed away surrounded by her beloved family on Arne 24 2009. A widen of Lake Worth since 145. Amy was tern February 27, 1918 in Richmond, VA. She attended Westhampton College, University of Richmond, and later worked for the American Oil Company. On S•glerriber 12. 1942, Amy seed Owned Thomas 'Tommy' White' led, who was then serving rn the U S. Navy Amy lost the lore or Mr Me and boat 'need& SO years when Tommy pissed any at Mr side on June 70 Y. I .Ist"su.rvived by their children: Diane Martin of Scant. NJ; husband. Charles( deught•r, M•rger•t. B.T. MASAI BINS of Jacksonville. FL; diughter•In-law, Carol Hope White ;adz children L. Adam and Benjamin; Benjamin's wife, ton, and d , Rya and Rnley. Amer Hadfield Otr Mtwe lti ll GA; son James tletio) end Na MU Keik. Jane Shupe of Greer, Al; us husbaiwi tes.lnarePobea mmil9owl RicsatO., V wNivimbaynay metes. nephews. and dear 'made hays Me ell be celebrated Saturday. June 27, 2:00 PM at The Church of the Guardian Angels. 1325 Cardinal Lane, lartit•511. In lieu of flowers, Mr family would appreciate nwerelcontnbutions to Hospice of Palm Beech County 5300 fest Avenue. West Palm Buck. FL. 334070r dimity of thee. Mama, you ell live in our hearts lower. toreecemblegesarie suss t NreBeePostooetroblererles a WILLIAM "Bill" WODA Ae92 of Boynton Beech died June 23. nO9 Bill was ben in Akron, Ohio and served his money tieing WWII in the Army National Guard. He was a meter of the knew Gene Chao of the Palm Mde. He is survived by his three children and their spouses; our grandchildren; and a geat-grandson A Funeral Service will be bad 4PM. Saturday, June 27. 2009 at Boynton Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. A visitation mg be held from 2:30PM until the gee of sent. Contrbgbona may be mere to the American Cancer Society or to Hospice of Palm Beech County. Boynton Morena Chapel Femelymeed lopersted 1561)7344600 www.boyntonownorelccen teneesednow nese nein MAPdsaidadtleelolOidlObleallelee Ne.9n .20.44.n9 RatersCaloy % lotwo•dhaia4 trilmn mica yy goo hy Jar len surd morn= nos wadi ken 14Mevont VVV Low Ahmys. Mad • jaws iLRCH 9.1955.0/NE26,1M 1 EFTA00259913

• THE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. JUNE 26, 2009 58 State puts schools in categories Br Pond %on SOANIT AVM olnartle. es Pko or,,, a art E Atka.* US stows) coluCTION Alevrest vett kt Weft 0AIX0, ► SCHOOL from Ill reached for comment. The state Department of Education released the ratings. John E Kennedy Middle, which had been an intervene school last year and risked being shut down, improved its rating this year. The state switched to the rating system last school year as a way to differentiate generally high-per- forming schools that fail to meet some federal standards from those Only 23% of Palm Beach County schools met federal standards in 2009. that are chronically failing In 2009, only 23 percent of Palm Beach County schools met federal standards, but most schools won't face sanctions. Schools are divided into five cat- Epstein scheduled for release in July No EPSTEIN from 111 Attorneys for women now suing Epstein, as well as attorneys for The Palm Beach Post, had asked Col- bath to release the deal, arguing the public and the victims have a right to see it. "There is nothing more fundamentally important than for the public and press to observe how the government is doing its job," Post attorney Deanna Shullman said. "There is great public interest in how everybody in this case is doing their job." Goldberger argued that the confidential agreement Epstein struck with federal prosecutors shoukl remain confidential. Included in it, Goldberger said, are ref- erences to federal grand jury proceedings, which are secret and protected by federal rules. A federal judge should decide the issue, he said. Attorneys Spencer Kuvin and Brad Edwards, who represent some of the women now suing Epstein, both said they were not surprised by Epstein's at- torney moving to appeal. "Any chance to stall in any way and keep the agreement out of public disclosure, they will take it," said Edwards outside court. He will have served about 13 months of an 18-month sentence. . Epstein pleaded guilty nearly one year ago to solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in prison. A sheriff's office official confirmed Thursday that Epstein will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade on July 22 — nearly 13 months into his sentence. Sheriff's office spokes- person Eric Davis said Epstein has earned gain time for good behavior and for participating in a work-release program. The saga began years ago after Palm Beach po- lice began investigating reports that young women were being brought to his manse on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money. Displeased with the way the state attorney's office handled the case, Palm Beach police later forwarded information to the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation. • Susan _spencer .endel OpOtopost cam Some teens skipped camp to work on film ► G-STAR /WM 18 Dog-Gone Tale: Destiny's Stand. A kids movie about a courageous shelter dog and her young human friends, it's the first feature with a student crew shot at G-Star or anywhere. "On the first two mov- ies, (the production) came in with a whole crew set and the students were interns, but now they're doing everything," Haupt- ner said, as Tony-winning actor Barry Bostwick, who plays the movie's villain, conferred with screenwriter/actor Ron Palillo, who has grayer hair but the same face he had 30 years ago when he was Welcome Back Kotter's Arnold Horshack. Palillo and Bostwick are being paid for their participation per the rules of the Screen Actors Guild, but are donat- ing their salaries to the school's scholarship foun- dation. "The purpose of this is education and an experi- ence (the kids) can use for their whole careers," said Bostwick, best known as the dim-bulb mayor on TV's Spin City and his Tony-winning role in Broadway's The Robber Bridegroom. "It's OK if we have to block (a scene) three or four times if they're learning" The student crew of about 100 is working in every conceivable position on the film. Many of them skipped going to camp and taking paying jobs to work long days, tote equip- ment and sweat during many outdoor shots. "My mom said it was either this or surf camp. And I really wanted to go to surf camp," said Ashley Hudak, 15, a student script supervisor and actor from West Palm Beach. "But I'm glad I did this." WenitstreeterfitimPOst COM North Palm duo accused of stealing library videos By BILE DIPAOLO Palm Beath Part Stafffiler NORTH PALM BEACH — Almost 200 videos have been stolen from the vil- lage library, prompting tighter security and ques- tions from officials on how they arc going to replace almost 8 percent of the vil- lage collection. "That's a big whack," Village Manger Jimmy Knight said- "It's going to be difficult to find money for new videos." Village police arrested Edward Walters, 39, and Elaine Ruiz 40, both of the 500 block of East Wind Drive on charges they stole 42 videos from the library on Anchorage Drive. But lots more have recently vanished. Librarians, after an au- dit, reported to police that 192 videos from the collec- tion of 2,500 were stolen between June 1 and June 11. The stolen videos are valued at about $4,800. Staff writer Eliot Kieinberg contributed to this story. • 06 00.3010@Dtnat con egories. with varying levels of pun- ishment and support from the state and the school district. At the lowest level of sanction, the district must put together a support team, such as curriculum specialists and trainers, to help the school. At the most intense level, the school's teachers and administrators are re- placed with those who have a track record of improving test scores and turning around a school. • Laufa_greeralpOpost.com SOCIAL SECURITY DISABILITY Bissi & Associates Disability Advocates, L.L.C. If you are under 65 and are suffering from any of the following diseases Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus, Hepatitis C, Seizures, Diabetes, fibromyalgia, Psoriosis or Crohns Disease, you may w. 6.1 helP4MI Immlielelthr be entitled to retroactive disabled people, disability benefits For a Confidential FREE Personal Consultation Call 561.642-8060 NO. 4504225R PUBLIC NOTICE PALM BEACH COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT NEIGHBORHOOD STABILIZATION PROGRAM 2 (NSP-2) On Ay 30, 2008 the United Stow Congress approved thibk tart 10 289 - Tide el oldie Hcoung ond Economic Rica. y Act. 2008 (HERAT approprionng a the U S Dworman of Haring and Urbon Devekprisen• INO) funding For ems( inseam. For the rederalopment of abandoned ad harm and residecrial amides HERA vies amended, and appopriad on Manson:el S2 bil‘on o:amide For 440 lam purpose "s word rand of neighborhood siobloorion fords mind to as Neighbahcod So6L:000n Program 2 (NISP.21 ts arotakfe rhea* o cargeetwe process and n order lot Polm Beach Canty a obtain the.. Arndt the County m 0 wane a Fundrg appAcohon to KID no later Wan July 17, 2009 HUCD Dwriphoe Noiajborhocd StabikatiogProgram 2 The papers el the Neighbabccd Siobtaation Progrom is a assist k the -edwelopenere of &adored ad loreckeed r irnol properties All ,.,,p funded soder the program mg be used to peon& Moths a Mindsets ard families idiot* anon do not exceed 120% ol he medon mane N least 25% c4 the grog mot be agerded on IthelLio omvihn that voll provide houseig for patens a ',rotas whom icane is bobs, 50% al the asso make, income. NSP digide ocSvties indde A) creation of Lacing inechotoilt) Ice pschase and redevelopment of Forecksed pen harm ord resdenbal prowess, B) pa:haw ad rehabilitate homes and widowed hot hom been abandoned Icreclosid upon n order to re- I, roe, a reclevekip; C) establish land tanks for haws dm ham been foreclosed upon: DI dernord bIgNorl muosms, and E) redemkp danchshed a- recant properties PregnediregtothAchithel Palm Bead Canty a apply /or a oral mount of 550 mar she hs.SP 2 droded over Manahan os 11 Secarel...MagAlemolompen Funds a be unload as a word mover to reduce the laming cods - principal and clang costs - of hoerebuyen wit. WOW at or below I20% AMR Mho/Masi 25% °IN finds going to hemetholds Mils incomes no year Ras 50% AMI The prcgram be implemented by HCD Second mortgage criteria a vary for sod Ware grows wah wry law income howeickls receiving a greater cacuo of fine Fading request- S9 15 rnilion 21 bliitatiolggiggem•Litegon This actray offers gronb croVor loans fate guidon el vacate and Foreclosed residenial precedes, herded to be mold or rented. ohs repairs, to MOM potential hoornebuyers or Main E4ble applies* wider Si category ore romicactifies with Set local wean with Polo Beads Can% PAIK ores, and cut ova. COG. CPAs and other nom pro& crganimans lacied in Pahl Beads Canty HCD yea &Sibyls kw hells no a RFP/NOA process This program be kneed to households wrong less than BO% AM Funding reginist-.S20 13 Slim 3) FighbothethiLbdththligthwtina: This mom? " prove goat and/or loon anisionce through on RFP/ NOM to munkipoifies, non-paths organizations, lopproth orgonamons, nen profit orgonaarkee in pained* with fopproSts, and other local agencies to redevelop a reksbilifige lowland and vacant residential properties for nom as affordable renal housing, ad to purchase vacant "bainia 6,4 span Arch new rental hamkg shal be (=shad. N Mae 25% of win assisted wider this progrom ad 6/ NI aide kr households at or below 30% AM. I c onicipcied that thew units wil be occupied by households who are pal of Palm Bach Coatis Heads CasimArn of Cane At lead 55% oi the new or redevekped ones rant be leased a homeholds earning less *on 50% of AM, will the wards of the Won bong Mid to households mama sip a 120% of NN. The awlimsts must secure Ent mortgage Enceang cur pep finonorg Fu rdeg request -S16 A7 maon 0en .&_L2 S, end CNN HCD o proposing to Loam no Inc.,' Can 8 Si or SA 25 million a plan ad implemest the NSP2 Pogrom over a paid 4 3 yeas Funding mast.-SA 25 nation. WCOIMAIOAVOIOLI caimpecoosniamaketictunlimacemeleitattCD aL100Aisienion Mots Sit 500. Weal Pt Beads, /1.33406..wal SLY 6, 2009. Palm Basch 0:AnV$ Board of Con" Commtssonors IBCC) veil daces iw Neighborhood Siabilamon Program 2 and consider For approval h, applootion at a register manna to be held Ag 7.2009 AP anted parrot ow maid a acid The KC macro n a be held as Wks» leaden: Rolm leach Gamy Gavemimaral Comp ',cc Oaken te• Mod A) 301 North Crim Amnia Wed Polo Beat R. 33401 Ten No taw certain ICC ~mg s begth at 9:30ons.) 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Piet( 055.1 Jr. rang AV A. r4 Invite You And A Guest To An Advance Screening Of Saturday, June 27th • I0 am Bring this od into The Palm Beach Post in Delray today 4 to redeem your complimentary past 291$ South Congress Avenue, Delray Beach, FL 33445 I In Theatres Nationwide July 1st _ wt «a.... oat avail a Ow a pm a land rine.. lg. vin ,..w .•••••• oh roam.ly aegiaast pa S. wean t.&,, A IN Nis &La N. set sin... sum fr. in nem e.-, • 4 VI% A kigaill A) &AMMO AM 00B WI AMAMI, • WI a NO. 4501465R NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BASED ON THE ADOPTED EVALUATION AND APPRAISAL REPORT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN thot the Villoge of Palm Springs that hold public hearings in the Village Hulk located al 226 Cypress DliVIA, Palm Springs, Fkrielo to consider Text Amendments to the ithon m CoprAentess Plan bosed on the Village's Adopted and Appraisal R and to transmit the pr Amendments so the Honda of Community Mt These hearings shall be held as Land Carrelopment Boord meeting on Tuesday, /sty 7, 2009 cs 6:30 p m. Local Planning Agency public beau og on Thursday, July 23, 2009 as 7:15 pm Vane Council public hearing cc Thursday, July 23, 2009 a' 30 p The Amendments ore For the follavong Ordinance ORDINANCE NO. 2009-10 AN ORDNANCE Of THE VILLAGE Of MIM SPRINGS, FLORIDA, AMENDING 134E COMPIMENSIVE PLAN BASED ON THE VILLAGE'S ADOPTED EVALUADON AN APPRAISAL REPORT AND UPDATED DAM AND ANALYSIS, WHKH INCLUDE AMENDMENTS TO 11* TEXT Of THE FUTURE LAND USE, TRANSPORTATION. HOUSING, INFRASTRUCTURE, CONSERVATION- RKREADON AND OPEN SPACE, INTERGOVERNMENTAL COORDINATION. CAPITAL PAPROVEMENTS, AND MAX SCHOOL FACILITIES ELEMENTS Of THE ADOPTED COMPREHENSIVE PLAN AS AMENDED; TO REVISE AND UPDATE THE EXISTING GOALS, OBJECTIVES, AND POLICIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE MANDATES SET FORTH IN CHAPTER 163, FLORIDA STATUTES, AUTHORIZING TRANSMITTAL Of THESE AMENDMENTS TO THE TREASURE COAST REGCNAL PLANNING COUNCIL FLORIDA DEPARTMENT Of COMMUNITY AFFAIRS, AND OTHER APPUCAILE AGENCIES FOR REVIEW AND COMMENT AS REQUIRED BY FLORIDA STATUTES; PROVIDING FOR REPEAL Of AU ORDINANCES IN CONTIK1; PROYONG FOR SEVERABRITY; AND PRCNIONG FOR AN NIKITA DATE. Copies of the proposed Comprehensive Plan Amendments may be viewed by the public at the village Clerk's Office or the tend Development Offke located at 226 Cypress Dom. Palm Springs, Florida, from 9:00 an until A.30 pre Monday through Friday. The public is Meted to attend this nearing and/or submit mines cornromts to the Village Clerk's Office recording the Amendments IF A PERSON DECIDES TO APPEAL ANY DECISION MADE BY THE VILLAGE COUNCIL WITH RESPECT TO ANY MATTER CONSIDERED AT THE HEARING, THAT PERSON WILL NEED A RECORD Of THE FRCCEEDNGS, AND HE MUST ENSURE THAT A VERBATIM RECORD Of THE PROCEEDINGS IS MADE, WHICH RECORD NOUDES THE TESTIMONY AND EVIDENCE UPON WHICH THE APPEAL IS TO BE BASED. PERSONS WHO NEED ACCOAWCOATIONS IN ORDER 10 ATTEND OR PARTIORATE N THIS MEETING SHOULD CONTACT THE VILLAGE CIERK AT 561.9654010 AT LEAST 3 DAYS PRROR TO TI-RS MEETING IN ORDER TO REQUEST SUCH ASSISTANCE. Village of Palm Springs VI•gwa M Wohon. CMC, Village Clerk Publish: Palm Beach Post' June 26, 2009 • EFTA00259914

ONE PALM BEACH POST • FRIDAY. JUNE 26.2009 BUSINESS Bernanke fends off GOP's heat YAWL PalmBeachPost.com/business THE MARKET REPORT A DOW 8,472.40 +172.54 1 NASDAQ 1,829.54 +37.20 A S&P 500 920.26 +19.32 A RUSSELL 2000 509.18 +14.23 • 10-YR NOTE 3.54% -0.15 CRUDE OIL $70.23 41.56 Home builders help stocks up NEW YORK — Investors rushed back into stocks as profits at a handful of companies indicated the economy might be gaining strength. Gains in home builders, retailers and other consumer discretionary stocks led the market sharply higher Thursday. THE MORNING LINE New Jobless claims increase wkiiiim; ION —The Labor Depart- ment said Thursday that new jobless claims jumped unexpectedly last week. And the number of people continuing to receive unemployment aid rose more than expected. The figures indicate that jobs remain scarce even as the economy shows some signs of recovering from the lon- gest recession since World War II. A revised reading on gross domestic product — the broadest measure of the nation's output — said the economy posted a 5.5 percent annualized decline from January through March. That was slightly better than the 5.7 percent estimate made a month ago. Mortgage rates up slightly WksilINKITON —11w average rate for a 30-year fixed mortgage was 5.42 percent, up from 5.38 percent a week earlier, mortgage company Freddie Mac said Thursday. Rates on 30-year mort- gages fell to a record low of 4.78 percent earlier this year. But then they rose as high as 5.6 percent earlier this month after yields on long-term government debt, which are tied to mortgages rate, climbed as investors worried that the huge surplus of government debt hitting the market could trigger inflation. AIG to reduce debt by S25 billion NEW YORK - American International Group Inc. said Thursday it will reduce outstanding federal loans by $25 billion by giving the government a preferred stake in two units that will be spun off front the insurance giant. AIG is placing two life insurance subsidiaries — American International Assurance Co. and American Life Insurance Co. — into special purpose vehicles ahead of planned initial public offerings. As part of the plan, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will receive preferred interests in the SPVs which will eventu- ally be independent companies once a public offering is compkt.d. Oil up on positive economic news NEW YORK — Oil prices jumped above $70 a barrel Thursday after the govern- ment said that the economy may be far- ing better than previously thought. In a revised reading on gross domestic prod- uct in the first quarter, the Commerce Department reported a 5.5 percent an- nualized decline front January to March. rather than the 5.7 percent it reported a month ago. The slowing economy has slashed demand for energy as factories shut down and 'fewer people drive to work or take leisure trips. Lennar's orders up, stock surges MIAMI - Stuart Miller, CEO of Len- nar Corp.. tried to temper enthusiasm about a housing market recovery, but investors zeroed in on one number a 63 percent spike in new home orders between the builder's first and second quarters. While Lennar still posted a slightly wider quarterly loss, its stock jumped 17 percent (NYSE: $9.19) and led the entire sector in a rally Thursday. — Palm Beath Post inn serrices. The pump primer Average prices for regular grade gas as of Thursday. West Palm Beach, Boca Ratan $2.77 $2.79 Martin County St. Lucie County Indian River County Okeechobee County Fort Lauderdale Mianu Orlando Florida ibis task Last *PK 52.77 52.74 $2.75 $2.75 52.68 52.70 32.69 $2.70 $2.74 $2.76 $2.76 $2.77 52.64 52.64 $2.69 $2.70 !TM' CAAPIC PalmBeachPostcent: Post the lowest fuel prices yOu'm found in your area and read what others say Click on Business. • ; On Capitol Hill, he denies coercing Bank of America to buy Merrill. ByJEANNINE AVERSA The Associated Piss WASHINGEON — Facing an unusual political trial. Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke disputed ac- cusations Thursday that he pressured Bank of America to acquire Merrill Lynch in a deal that cost taxpayers $20 billion. In a three-hour hearing of the House Oversight and Gov- ernment Reform Committee, Bernanke denied threaten- ing to oust Bank of America CEO Kenneth Lewis or the bank's board members if they abandoned the takeover after discovering spiraling losses at MerrilL 1 never said that I would replace the board and man- agement" if Lewis decided to invoke a clause in the acqui- sition contract to try to stop the deal, Bemanke told the committee. It was Bernanke's first public response since the committee launched an in- vestigation into whether he or other government officials bullied Bank of America to stick with its plan to combine the two financial powers. Throughout the day. Her- T-shirt business gives back nanke faced often hostile questions — unusual for a Fed chief, who typically com- mands deference in public. Of Bernanke's denial that he threatened Lewis' job, Rep. Jason Chaffetz R-Utah, said: -With all due respect, I'm just not buying that." Neither was Rep. Dan Bur- ton. R-Ind., who huffed: "This is not a socialist society" Adopting the role of outsid- er, Republicans have turned See BERNANKE, 78 M PAY GRAHAM/Surf PvAoLtopew 'We are using T-shirts as a vehicle to help the community.' says Jeff Firestone, who created his Boca Raton business ChanTEES when he began to print T-shirts at a discount for local charities. ChariTEES helps printer, groups thrive By TRACEY McMANUS Palm Broth Port Sae venter BOCA RA1T/N —When his tJxtile business slammed to a halt in 1998, Jeff Fire- stone looked around at the idle printing machines in his Miami warehouse and thought he had become a feast-to-famine story. His financial partner of eight years had just backed out of their T-shirt produc- tion business, leaving Fire- stone needing a plan —and a use — for his printing equipment. He needed a niche mar- ket. And when he began offering to print T-shirts at least 25 percent below mar- ket rates for the events of local charities, ChariTEES was born. Since relocating to Boca Raton in 2000, ChariTEES has printed T-shirts for hundreds of charities na- tionwide with its low-cost pitch, and has donated thou- sands of dollars in products and cash to Palm Beach County charities. "I believe in taking my profits and putting it back in the community," Fires- tone said. "There's a major disparity in this county of the haves and have-nots, and I want to equal that disparity." Firestone donates 10 percent of his annual sales ChariTEES Location: Boca Raton Annual sales (2008): $300,000 Business: ChanTEES provides T-shirt design and printing at below market-rate costs to nonprofit organizations. schools. hospitals and camps. Web slte: www.ChariTEES.org revenue to local and nation- al charities, which came to $30,000 in donations in 2008. The 57-year-old veteran of the printing industry chooses the charities that receive his donations on a need basis. But often when charities buy T-shirts from ChariTEES, donations fol- low, he said. For instance, he donated 50 shirts and $400 towards a carousel for Child Life Institute's pediatric center Christmas Party last year. And when Elinor Joseph- son bought nearly 1,000 shirts for staff and campers for the 2009 JCC Ted Weis- berg camp in Boca Raton. she also received a $350 do- nation to help support the camp's lunch program. "What he gave us was the financial ability to help feed those kids," Josephson said. His low prices have given him an edge in the 2 billion garment print- ing industry, attracting business from Chicago's DePaul University and The National Coalition for the Homeless in Washington. Firestone does most of the networking, but he has recently hired sales repre- sentatives in Chicago. New York and Los Angeles on the condition they donate 5 percent of their yearly com- missions to the charities of their choice. By the end of this year, Firestone also plans to launch LiberTEES, a T- shirt printing company that uses all US. made materials and will employ Iraq war veterans as sales representatives. "We are using T-shirts as a vehicle to help the com- munity," Firestone said. "It started as a business, but now it's a labor of love." O tratey_mcmanusep0post con Stanford pleads not guilty to fraud Prosecutors say he's a flight risk and want him held without bail. By MAN A. LOZANO The Assonated Press HOUSTON — Texas billionaire R. Allen Stan- ford pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he swindled investors out of $7 billion as part of a mas- sive investment scam. Stanford entered his plea during his arraign- ment in federal court. The financier was indicted on charges that his interna- tional banking empire was really just a colossal Ponzi scheme. Laura Pendergest-Holt. Gilberto Lopez and Mark Kuhrt, three executives with the now defunct Houston-based Stanford Financial Group who were indicted along with their former boss, also entered not guilty pleas. At a bond hearing shortly after the execu- tives' arraignment, pros- ecutors argued Stanford should be held without bail as he awaits trial on fraud charges because he might have access to billions of dollars in secret funds. Prosecutor Paul Pelleti- er said investigators found a secret Swiss account Stanford controlled that was drained of more than $100 million in December 2008. Jeffrey Ferguson, a fo- rensic examiner hired to review the records of Stan- ford Financial Group and See STANFORD, 7B M (MVO h•nr(IM 13/000WI heal R. Allen Stanford faces federal charges that he ran a S7 billion scheme to defraud investors. Boca supplement firm to refund $10 million By SUSAN SALISBURY Palm Kraal Post Staff Wnter A Boca Raton-based com- pany that markets non-pre- scription dietary and health supplements, including acai berry supplements, has refunded almost $10 million to customers nationwide, Florida Attorney General I3ill McCollum said Thursday. The attorney general's of- fice said it reached a settle- ment with Aton Solutions and its subsidiaries that resolves allegations sin-rounding 15- day free trials of its products. Customers were unable to cancel their subscriptions before being continuously billed a monthly fee of $80 or Aton's customers were unable to cancel a free trial. more for products that they neither ordered nor wanted. In March, the Washington- based Center for Science in the Public Interest issued a warning to consumers not to enroll online in suppos- edly free trials for acai berry products, and said there is no evidence to suggest that acai pills will help shed pounds, flatten tummies or perform any of the other commonly advertised functions. Customers who filed complaints with the attorney general's' office claimed they were unable to contact the company or its subsidiaries — (;IC LLC, Sig. Nutrition LW, Globalnet Pharmacies LW and Glades Distribution Services — by telephone, e-mail or through the com- pany's Web sites to cancel future orders. Under the settlement with the attorney general's office, Aton and its subsidiaries have agreed to openly describe all terms and conditions of trial offers on the company's Web site and will disclose how and when th returned. The company also must maintain enough per- sonnel to field cancellation requests. The company has cooper- ated in the investigation that began in December and has said it will continue to issue refunds to any customers who have complaints. Earlier this year, The Better Business Bureau of South Florida gave Aton and its related companies an "V' rating and received a total of 3,889 complaints about the company. Of those, 3,381 , acco ftior mt bureau's report on ing the went e products may be Osusan_saVotry.pbpost corn EFTA00259915

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Since its launch in 2004, 5-Hour has carved out a niche in the energy drink market that's added a new twist to the segment and attracted plenty of compe- tition from bigger players. These shots, sold in 2- or 3-Ounce capsules depending on the brand, pack about the same Living Essentials' 5-Hour Energy drink packs a punch in a 2- ounce shot marketed toward adults. punch as larger canned energy drinks. For the 12 weeks through mid-May, 5-Hour Energy accounted for 9 percent of energy drink sales at convenience stores, according to Bev- erage Digest, a New York- based trade publication. That placed it behind only larger canned versions of Red Bull and Monster En- ergy and well ahead of any other energy shot. Other major players are moving in. Red Bull re- cently launched an energy shot. NOS, a Coke brand, has a shot and Monster, distributed by Coke, has a smaller version called Hitman. Energy shots are the second major product for Living Essentials, based in Farmington Hills, Mich. In 2001, Living Essentials launched Chaser, a pill the company says can help prevent hangovers. He faces possible life sentence if convicted ► STANFORD from 6B its affiliated bank on the Caribbean island of Antigua. testified nearly $1.2 billion of the S7 billion Stanford and his co-defendants are accused of bilking from investors can't be accounted for in court documents filed Thurs- day, prosecutors also said Stanford faces a potential life sentence, has access to a private jet and has an international network of wealthy acquaintances who would help him, including one who recently agreed to give him $36,000 to pay his lease on a Houston apartment for a year Dick DeGuerin, Stanford's at- torney, objected to Pelletier char- acterizing the account as secret, saying it was known to Stanford's employees. 81.2 billion of alleged scam still unaccounted for. "It's designed to prejudice poten- tial jurors who will hear this case," DeGuerin said. DeGuerin argued in court docu- ments that Stanford is not a flight risk and highlighted his charity efforts, including his work with a foundation for single mothers in Antigua, strong ties to his children and amicable relationships with the mothers of his children as examples of his strong character. Stanford has been in federal custody since he was arrested in Virginia on June 18. Stanford denies allegations he defrauded investors, but tried to surremkt to federal authorities in the months before his indict- ment was handed down last week. Authorities couldn't take him into custody until charges were filed. Stanford was returned to Texas on Tuesday. Each of the most serious counts that Stanford faces carry prison terms of up to 20 years. But pros- ecutors say sentencing guidelines could increase his total sentence to life in prison. The billionaire and the execu- tives are accused of orchestrating a fraud by misusing most of the $7 billion they advised clients to invest in certificates of deposit from the Stanford international Bank. based on the Caribbean island of Antigua. Fed chief's future may hinge on controversy Ito BERNANKEfrom 613 aggressive toward Bernanke. trying to link him to the Obama adminis- tration as advocates of government meddling in private industry. it's an odd shift, because Ber- nanke is a Republican appointee, and many of his key advocates are Democrats. And it comes at a pivotal time: Bernanke's term ex- pires early next year, and President Obama will have to decide whether to pick his own Fed chief or re- appoint Bernanke. The Fed chairman said it would have been a bad idea for Bank of America to invoke the deal's escape clause, because it would have led to costly litigation with Merrill Lynch. That would have "gi-eatly reduced or destroyed" the value of the in- vestment bank, he said. 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108 THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY, NNE 27.2009 Summer airfare deals abound BUSINESS twatiodullueltPosteoemssiness THE "ItIRKET REPORT V DOW 8,438.39 -34.01 A NASDAQ 1,838.22 +8.68 V S&P 500 918.90 -1.36 A RUSSELL 2000 513.22 +4.04 • 10-YR NOTE 3.53% -0.01 V CRUDE OIL $69.16 -$1.07 Stocks mixed on savings rate NEW YORK — Stocks ended mixed Friday after the Commerce Department reported that personal spending, in- comes and savings all rose in May. The trend suggests consumers are being extremely careful with their money. That's good for the individual, but not great for the overall economy in the short-term. THE MORNING LINE Stanford jailed until ball review HOUSTON -Texas financier R. Allen Stanford, facing trial on charges he swindled investors out of $7 billion, will spend at least the weekend behind bars after a federal judge Friday ruled to delay his release on bond. US. District Judge David Hittner granted a prosecution request to delay a magistrate's order granting Stanford. once considered one of the richest men in America, a $500,000 bond. Hittner, who is presiding over Stanford's case, ordered a hearing for Monday to hear arguments on whether Stanford's bond should be revoked. Temporary labs ready for Planck RIVETER-The Max Planck Florida Institute will move in to its temporary labs at Florida Atlantic University's Jupiter campus on July 6, the institute announced Friday. Max Planck's Dr. Claudia Hi'linger, vice president of institute development, signed the sublease agreement on the 40,000-square-foot lab alongside FAU President Frank Brogan at the universi- ty's June 10 trustee's meeting The first scientist to move in will be Nobel Laure- ate Dr. Bert Sakmann, whose work explaining how charged atoms move across neuron cell membranes earned him and a colleague the 1901 Nobel Prize in Medicine. KB Home new orders rise LOS ANGELES- Going into its second quarter, KB Home had everyone won- dering whether the home builder could duplicate the standout performance of its first quarter — posting a 26 percent year-over-year increase in new orders for the first time in more than' three years. The builder didn't even come close. On Friday, KB said new orders in the second quarter were 31 percent below the sec- ond quarter last year The comparison to the first quarter fared far better, however, increasing by 59 percent. 'Jumbo' mortgages revived NEW YORK —JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Citigroup Inc. are expanding , in "jumbo" mortgages used to buy the most expensive homes, helping revive a market that shriveled amid a three-year jump in homeowner defaults. JPMorgan resumed buying new jumbo loans made by other lenders this month, after halting purchases in March. spokesman Tom Kelly said. Bor- rowers must have checking accounts with the bank, he said. Citigroup is again offering the loans through inde- pendent mortgage brokers, spokesman Mark Rodgers said. Report: Nestle stonewalled FDA NEW YORK - Inspection reports from a Nestle USA cookie dough factory released Friday show the company re- fused several times to provide Food and Drug Administration inspectors with complaint logs, pest-control records and other information. The records, which date back to 2004, were made public after Nestle'sToll House refrigerated, prepack- aged cookie dough was discovered to be the likely culprit in an E eon outbreak that has sickened 69 people in'.) states, according to the latest estimates from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC is investigat- ing the outbreak along with the FDA. Gas pump price slides 4 cents NEW YORK- Pump prices fell every day this week, easing off a summer peak near $2.70 a gallon as US. storage facilities swelled with unused gaso- line. The national average for gasoline dropped less than a penny Friday to $2.658 a gallon, according to auto club AAA, Wright Express and Oil Price Information Service. Benchmark crude for August delivery fell $1.07 cents to - settle at $69.16 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange — Palrealileaell Post staff mid inns If you've been hesitating to book a flight, it's time to act, travel insiders say. By JOSHUA FREED 71.• Associated Press MINNEAPOLIS — If you've been waiting for the lowest possible airfare for a trip this summer, it may be time to get off the fence. Fares have dropped for months while travelers held off buying tickets because they were afraid of losing a job or worried about af- fording even a scaled-back vacation. But with July 4 fast approaching and jet fuel pric- es rising, some fares could be set to climb again. Rick Seaney, CEO of FareCompare.Com, said it looks like airlines are trying to halt the fare slide, with recent hikes of $10 and $20 round-trip. Still, he wrote in an e-mail that the minor increases in the past two weeks have by no means completely curtailed the flood of cheap airline" tickets from the first half of the year. In fact, AirTran recently put out fares that hit new market lows on hundreds of routes, he wrote. Memorial Day usually sig- nals the end of the best time to book travel, but this year was different. With fewer people traveling, the sales continued. A 'Il-avelocity survey shows fares down 17 percent for travel between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day. The travel Web site also says travelers are booking 86 days before departure in- stead of 90 days. That might not sound like a big deal, but Genevieve Shaw Brown, se- nior editor at the online travel Web site, said it takes lots of people booking later to move the needle that much. Tom Parsons, CEO of discount travel Web site Bestfares.com, recommends making a top-10 list and checking fares until you find See AIRFARES. 116 l• DAYBD 2AtIllOWSAVIN Asiociated Prey Fares for travel between now and Labor Day are down 17 percent, according to a Travelocity survey. Walmart upgrades APRIL L 'ROAN 'The Assocaled Press Steve Cantrell of Rogers, Ark., shops for produce at a renovated Walmart. The company's $1.6 billion remodeling program of 3,600 stores will lower shelves and widen aisles to give clearer paths. Retailer redoes stores, stock for high-spending customers By ANNE D'INNOCENZIO The Associated Press The recession steered a new type of customer to Walmart — deeper in the pockets and suddenly look- tng for bargains. Now the world's largest retailer has to figure out how to keep that customer when the economy recovers. So Walmart is bringing in more brand names, ditch- ing scores of other products and even redesigning hun- dreds of stores to give them wider aisles, better lighting and better sight lines. It's more than just a cos- metic upgrade. That new breed of customer also spends about 40 percent more than the traditional Walmart shopper, and the retailer senses an op- portunity to accelerate its growth. Take Aditya Krishnan, a 42-year-old lawyer from San Jose, Calif. He used to buy only light bulbs at Walmart but now finds him- self spending $150 a month there, including buying workout clothes he used to get at Macy's. "If I am able to get good stuff at Walmart, and I am able to save money, why would I change?" Krishnan asked. "I am seeing better brands. and the shopping experience is better" than before. Walmart says that's no Big box finances Wal-Mart is trying to retain customers who turned to it dunng the current economic crisis by remodeling stores and upgrading inventory. O WalAtart ow runs Le. Poway S80 $70 $60 $50 SAO S30 $20 $10 J110801 IFMAIll 2008 2001 nrstplattet sae-sten saes 3.7%l faf AssOOAND miSS accident. It's placing a big bet on the redesign of most of its 3.600 stores, started last fall. This fiscal year. it plans to redo up to 600 at a cost from $1.6 billion to $1.7 billion. The prototype for the remodeling includes lower shelves to make it easier to seeacross the store, better lighting and wider aisles. Expanded electronics ar- eas will include interactive displays to test video games and portable gadgets. The store now carries brands like Danskin and Better Homes and Gardens, and its electronics section now stocks pricier prod- ucts like Palm Inc.'s well- received new Pre smart phone. Whether it all works, Wall Street analysts say, depends in part on how quickly the behemoth retailer can re- model and keep shoppers satisfied. Concerns about how Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will keep its momentum have sent its stock down 13 percent this year. The early signs are positive, putting pressure on the rest of the industry. Target Corp.. whose sales have been hampered by its emphasis on nonessentials like trendy jeans, is expand- ing its fresh food offerings. Best Buy Co. is beefing up customer service. "I believe a lot of what (Wal-Mart) is doing is work- ing." said Joseph Feldman, a retail analyst at 'I'elsey Advisory Group. "They are a threat to everyone." Other discounters, including TJX Cos. Inc.. which sells name-brand fashions and home furnish- ings, Costco Wholesale Corp. and BJ's Wholesale Club Inc., are focusing on how to hold on to new cus- tomers lured by low prices during the recession. But Wal-Mart has a tall reputation to overcome. Stimulus money winds up in savings People socked away cash at the highest rate it: 15 years. By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Pens %WASHING-TON — House- holds pushed their savings rate to the highest level in more than 15 years in May as a big boost•in incomes from the government's • stimulus program was devoted more to bolstering nest eggs than increased spending. The higher savings rate is healthy in the long term, economists said. But with- out vigorous consumer spending, the government may have to do more to revive the economy, pos- sibly through further tax breaks and spending The Commerce De- partment said Friday that consumer spending rose 0.3 percent in May, in line with expectations. But in- comes jumped 1.4 percent, the biggest gain in a year and easily outpacing the 03 percent increase that economists expected. The savings rate; which was hovering near zero in early 2008, surged to 6.9 percent, the highest level since December 1993. The income increase reflected temporary fac- tors relating to the $787 billion economic stimulus program that President Obama pushed through Congress in February to fight the recession. That program included one- See SAVINGS, 11810 MU (VANS: TM Am.ac,Ved Pon A man empties a bag of toms into a counting machine at TD Sank in Fairless Hills, Pa. Feds set warrant process for bailed-out banks By DANIEL WAGNER and MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Pens WASHINGTON — The Obama administration on Friday established its process for pricing billions of dollars' worth of warrants that large banks must repurchase to exit the $700 billion bailout program. The Treasury Department said the banks will make the first offer for the warrants. Treasury then will decide to sell at that price or make a counteroffer. If the govern- ment and a bank cannot agree on a fair price for the warrants, the two sides will have the right to use private appraisers. Treasury also could auc- tion to private bidders war- rants from banks that choose not to repurchase them. The banking industry endorsed the plan, but crit- ics said it could shortchange taxpayers in the long run. The warrants give the gov- ernment the right to purchase shares of bailed-out banks at a set price in 10 years. If stock prices have risen by then, taxpayers could reap a healthy profit. But many of the banks already have paid 5 percent dividends on their Trea- sury investments and have bristled at paying an extra fee for a program they were pressured to join, Treasury has faced pres- sure from Congress to get a good return for taxpayers, and from banks not to penal- ize them just as the industry stabilizes. Friday's announce- ment reflected a middle path: The purchase prices may be lower than the warrants would fetch on the open mar- ket, but they still will cost the banks a substantial amount. -Treasury faces a real di- lemma here," said banking consultant Bert Ely. "Taxpay- ers ought to make some mon- ey for the risk they took here, but they were taking that risk for a lot less time than anyone anticipated." Some of the nation's largest banks, including JPMorgan Chase and Morgan Stanley. have been eagerly awaiting Treasury's decision. They were among 10 banks that repaid a total of $68 billion in bailout money last week. > COMING SUNDAY Litigants are discovering that tIeir cases may be wiped out by Chrysler's pankruptcy PalmBeacbPost.com/businessi EFTA00259920

• Tri-Rail opts to keep schedule • THE PALM BEACH POST • SATURDAY. JUNE 27.2009 9B a Money that would go to upgrading twins will go to avoid service cuts. By MICHAEL TURNBELL Sun Sochi's, • POMPANO BEACH - Tri-Rail will limp along for another year without any cuts to its schedule. The board that oversees the commuter train voted Friday morning to tap into $8 million in county gas tax money to avoid drastic cuts in service this fall. The money is normally used to pay for things like locomotives, new cars and sta- tion improvements. Instead, it will be spent just to keep the trains running. Tri-Rail's budget is taking a $9 million hit next year because Broward, Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties plan to cut their annual subsidies used to run the trains. While riders don't want to lose service, they also say passenger cars need to be upgraded or replaced. What I don't see anyone discussing is that the trains have been breaking down for the last couple of weeks because of the heat." said Steven Daun of Boca Raton, who rides the train on weekdays to Miami. "Many of the air conditioners in many of the cars either don't work or circulate warm air. Tri-Rail has become the epito- me of what mass transit shouldn't be." Without additional cash for operations. Ill -Rail faced slashing the number of weekday trains from 50 to 30 and cancel- ing all service on weekends and holidays starting Oct. 5. Local governments weigh cuts to balance budgets Pa TAXES from 18 values would drop 13.5 percent. To collect the same amount of money this year as last year, the county would have to raise its property tax rate 14 9 percent. Meanwhile, county budget-writers learned this week that the state will pass down about $8 million less in revenues and sales taxes this year, bringing state contribu- tions to 2001 levels. "We can't catch a break," said Liz Bloeser, the county budget direc- tor. The year stands in stark contrast to almost any prior year in Florida. where it seemed property values would increase as sure as the sun would rise. Real numbers always surpassed conservative expectations. County and city leaders made an an- nual habit of slashing tax rates. And still, more tax money rolled in, as values surged. "This is exactly 100 percent different than the way it used to be," Bloeser said. "It's exactly stair- stepping back down the way ste went up." Cities are sharing in the pain. This year's hardest-hit appear to be Loxahatchee Groves, Lake Worth and Greenacres. whose property values are expected to plunge 26 percent. 24 percent and 22 percent, according to lat- est estimates. Only Briny Breezes is expected to see an uptick — of about 2 percent, the figures show. Resilient municipalities include Pahokee and Palm Beach, where values are expected to dip just 3 per- cent, the figures show. • North Palm Beach, which expects to see a 9.6 percent drop in values, expects to make further Big tumble Palm Beach County's property tax base shrank 12.9 percent this past year, the worst decline in a century, Properly Appraiser Gary Nikolits said. The town of Loxahatchee Groves saw the sharpest estimated decline, losing more than a quarter of its value. 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In Riviera Beach, which faces a 15.7 percent drop in its tax base, the city council is considering cutting up to 60 positions.' including police officers and firefighters; imposing a mandatory one-day-a- month furlough for city employees: and dipping into reserves to balance the budget. Staff writers Bill DiPaolo, Willie Howard, Lona O'Connor and Tony Doris contributed to this story. • Paul [email protected] TODAY ONLY! ," south florida FAIR SUMMER GARAGE SALE Saturday, June 27, 2009 8:00am to 2:00pm Toys • Clothing • Jewelry • Furniture Electronics • Books • Movies and lots more... efriNeHavft EXPO CENTER I I l ' Bring this coupon to the gate for FREE Admission One ocupon per perm). Cannot a corrivvkl coy cc t- .,"cr Moe as reeselial al gate on Ogee al event Enna 06 0-, For more information call: 561.793.0333 www.SouthFloridaFair.com 3rd and 4th at RogerDean Stadium Northern Palm Beach County's Largest Fireworks Extravaganza! 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Judge orders Jeffrey Epstein plea deal documents unsealed, but attorney seeks stay Page 1 of 2 Parrii-teacliCiallciRiew .scant Tilt SHINY SEM Ct PRINTTHIS Powered by ri aldcabllity Judge orders Jeffrey Epstein plea deal documents unsealed, but attorney seeks stay By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Thursday, June 25, 2009 Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath ruled today that the federal government's non-prosecution agreement for convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein should be unsealed Monday. However, defense attorney Jack Goldberger immediately handed up a motion asking Colbath to keep the ruling in abeyance until after he appeals the ruling to the Fourth District Court of Appeal. Colbath will hear arguments at 9 a.m. Friday. The agreement was sealed when Epstein, of Palm Beach, pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two felonies: procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. As part of Epstein's state plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office agreed not to prosecute Epstein on federal charges as long as he fulfills all requirements of his sentence and probation. The federal non-prosecution agreement has been under seal in state court. There are more than a dozen civil lawsuits — both state and federal — pending against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: Epstein, through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home on El Brillo Way for erotic massages and sometimes sex. Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards, who represents three of Epstein's victims, asked Colbath to unseal the federal agreement to the public. Edwards asked that the records be unsealed on behalf of one of the victims, E.W. An attorney for The Palm Beach Post also asked that the records be unsealed. Edwards and his clients have seen the agreement after a federal judge ruled that they are allowed to see it. But that ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. Edwards has said he wants to use that document "in the deposition of various material witnesses" relative to his cases. Radaronline.com has reported that Epstein has "secretly been helping the feds unravel a Ponzi scheme" related to the June 2008 indictment of two former managers of Bear Stearns http://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Judge+orders+Jeffrey+Epstei... 6/25/2009 EFTA00259922

1, Judge orders Jeffrey Epstein plea deal documents unsealed, but attorney seeks stay Page 2 of 2 Mortgage Investment Fund. Epstein's rep, Howard Rubenstein, confirmed last year that Epstein is "Major Investor No. 1" in the indictment, which says he lost about $57 million. Goldberger filed court papers asking that the documents stay sealed for the following reasons: "to prevent a serious imminent threat to the fair, impartial and orderly administration of justice; to protect a compelling government interest; to avoid substantial injury to innocent third parties and to avoid substantial injury to a party by disclosure of matters protected by a common law and privacy right, not generally inherent in these specific type of proceedings, sought to be closed." Epstein will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade July 22, after serving less than 13 months of his 18-month sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution. Ted Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, confirmed his release date Tuesday. Epstein's projected release date had been Sept. 24, but gain time — which includes his participation in a work-release program — moves the date up to July 22, Barbera said. Epstein has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, where he is allowed out of the stockade six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., to go to his West Palm Beach office, the Florida Science Foundation, monitored by an ankle bracelet and accompanied by a deputy. Find this article at: httpg/witnv.palmbeachdailynews.corninews/contentinews/2009106/25fwebepstein062509.html ri Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright 2008 Palm Beach Daily News. All rights reserved. http://cox.printfids.clickability.corn/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Judge+orders+Jeffrey+Epstei... 6/25/2009 EFTA00259923

Epstein Unseal the Epstein deal A rich, middle-aged Palm Beacher who preyed on girls almost 40 years younger already has received too many breaks from the system. He doesn't deserve another. In July 2008, at the age of 55 and after paying the equiva- lent of a small country's gloss domestic product in legal fees, Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges and pleaded guilty in state court to a pair of charges related to his luring five girls — ages 14 to 17 — to his house. The girls undressed and massaged him in return for $200 to $300. He's serving only 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail, and he's serving only nights. And now he wants just one more favor. When Epstein entered his state plea, the terms of his federal deal were sealed from the public. That violated normal procedures. Attor- neys for some of the victims, who have filed civil lawsuits, want that plea deal unsealed, probably because the details would help their cases. But given the nature of this case, there's also a public interest. One con- dition of the federal plea, for example, was that he take the state deal. That's why The Post also is seeking to have the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers, Palm Beach sex offender deserves no mare breaks. of course, want it kept secret. Last week, a Palm Beach County judge set a hearing for June 25. Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger claims that the file should stay sealed to protect the "orderly administration of justice" and "protect a compelling government interest." Oh, and third parties might get hurt. The compel- ling interest is Epstein's, and there is no privacy issue since the victims themselves are making the request. Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein, only to see then-State Attorney Barry Krischer kick the case to a grand jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when one of Epstein's gold-plated attor- neys, Alan Dershowitz, announced that some of the victims had posted MySpace comments about their alco- hol and marijuana use. Epstein's "best" defense has been that he didn't know the girls were underage. "How he verified that," Mr. Goldberger said, "I don't know." Investigators found a high school transcript in Epstein's house. He didn't know? The public should know what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the system did for hint. Improving flu symptoms Six area residents may not like it, but China's new attitude toward pub- lic health will mean a safer world. In 2003, China drew justified criticism for trying to cover up an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS. Authori- ties worried that the news would hurt the country's economy. The issue showed the conflict between the information-repressing China and the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. When it came to public health, China couldn't have it both ways. As The Post has reported, some students from The Benjamin School were quarantined, with almost no notice, after being exposed to swine flu. A West Palm Beach ac- countant who has swine flu also was quarantined. But last week, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. China acted properly. What may seem like over- reaction now looks good compared with the underreaction six years ago. We must not be browbeaten into surrendering our best rhetoric, actions and images. We hold NO responsibility for this death. What he said. I LE Savi m hund They rents. know. cue c only o The staff o after two the Be gu and each saf Beach to sa w items lion com Euna ists that with c does an EFTA00259924

PID Thcr k_0(_ gac\Ao°i Suit accuses jailed tycoon of sex crime Jeffrey Epstein is in the county stockade. By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer WEST PALM BEACH — The line of civil law- suits against billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has grown again, with the filing of at least the 12th claim by a young woman who also says she was lured to his Palm Beach mansion as a teen and sexually abused. Prominent Miami at- torney Robert Josefsberg filed the most recent federal lawsuit last week, on behalf of the Jane Doe 101 who allegedly visited Epstein a few times while 17 years old and was paid S200 at least once for her time there, according to the complaint. The lawsuit mirrors facts alleged in other suits: that Epstein had a predilection for teenage girls, identified poor, vulnerable ones and lured them to his home via other young women. The teens describe as- cending a staircase lined with nude photographs of young girls and to the spa room where Epstein would appear in a small towel. Miami attorney Adam Horowitz, who repre- sents six other Jane Does, said Monday that the cases are still in the "discovery" process, with plaintiffs request- ing from Epstein phone records, pictures, videos. Horowitz said Epstein is refusing to turn over the materials, citing a Fifth 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. Epstein was jailed in July 2008 following a plea deal where he was sentenced to 18 months in jail for solicitation of prostitution and procur- ing a person under the age of 18 for prostitu- tion and must register as a sex offender. He is serving his sentence at the Palm Beach County Stockade, according to jail records, and is due out in September. susan_spencer_wendel Opbpost.com Jailed Palm Beecher See past coverage PalmBeachPost.com/epsteln Police ( ► CAMERASfrom 11 of finding perches for They need to bt least 30 feet high and source, but power cot tions make it diff let, OK for installation on she said. As a result, there's strong demand property owners, the to draw up a standar to spell out liability anc such as access, electri monitoring would be hi Images from the car can read the registrati a license plate a mile t viewed from screens a station and on officers `This war h ► BOATfrom 18 he refused to stop talkin about his houseboat case. The city tried t evict Lozman from th. marina in 2006, citing . marina resident's clain that Lozman's dog bit hin on the ankle. Lozmar challenged the eviction in court, claiming it was being made in retaliation for challenging former Mayor Michael Brown's waterfront redevelopment plan, which never came to fruition. Lozman represented himself in the January 2007 trial before Palm Beach County Judge Pe- ter Evans and convinced a jury that he should be Royal Palm man one of four arrested in B By JASON SCHULTZ Palm Beach Post Staff Writer A Royal Palm Beach man is one of four people charged with killing a Sunrise man last weekend in Broward County. Investi- gators believe the suspects killed the wrong man and cellphone texting, accord- ing to a Broward County Sheriff's Office report. Henry Mancilla, 24, was found shot dead Saturday morning behind the driv- er's seat of a gold Mitsubi- shi Galant at a Lauderdale Lakes intersection. Crime watch See photos of fugitives, read about unsolved cases. PalmBeachPost.comicrIme Palm Beach. EFTA00259925

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Palm Beach & South Florida gossip & celebrity news I Jose Lambiet's Page2Live.com » ... Page 3 of 4 Posted by lose lambiet I Cash I Friday 13 February 2009 8:27 am ;2 illionairc sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is spending his nights at the county stockade, but that hasn't prevented him from getting sued yet again. Only this time, it's not by a very young suburban girl who performed sex acts for him. The 56-year-old massage-loving Epstein is now accused of stifling a contractor who built a larger dock for his S10.7 million Palm Beach home and dredged the Intracoastal to allow access to bigger ships. The West Palm-based Palm Beach Marine Construction filed in federal court here. "Ile owes $105,000 for the dredging and my client has been trying to collect since August." said Alexander Lian, the attorney for Palm Beach Marine. "Apparently, Mr. Epstein blew his top when he saw the bill. Still, 100 grand shouldn't really matter to him. "This happens often with wealthy people. They have the time and the money to take someone to court and try to get a better deal.- So far. Epstein paid the contract's original $30,000. But an Epstein gofer, according to the lawsuit, told the contractor to keep dredging and the final bill swelled. At the time, Epstein was unavailable. He'd just started serving 18 months for his guilty plea on two prostitution-related charges including for procuring a woman younger than IS. Lian's filing shows the contractor also placed a lien on Epstein's home. The man who repped Epstein when the contract was signed. Douglas Shoettle. said he had no comment. Epstein is also being sued by two of the girls he is accused of fondling. They say they were dropped off at his home and paid to perform various sexual services. A friend of former prez Bill Clinton and magician David Copperfield. Wall Street prodigy Epstein was facing decades in prison after Palm Beach Police found out he did business with girls as young as 14. But his guilty plea bought him a lighter sentence and a registration as sex offender. Already, Epstein is allowed to leave the stockade even moming to work at his office. He's supposed to return to the county jail every night according to State Attorney spokesman Mike Edmondson. Share this No Comments No comments yet. RSS feed forsommgMastiitis_ROS TrackBack URI Leave a comment Wed like )our thoughts on this stay We appreciate your willingness to share them At Pagc2kisc corn, we want to asoid comments that are obscene. hateful. racist or otherwise inappropnate If you post ollensive comments. we will delete them as soon as we can. If )ou see such comments. please report them to us by clicking this hub Name (required) hup://www.page2live.com/2009/02/13/sex-offender-jeffrey-epstein-on-the-hot-seat-again/ 2/13/2009 EFTA00259928

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Attorneys push to open sealed deal Epstein made in pleading guilty to procuring teens for ... Page 1 of 3 PalmBeachPost.com Attorneys push to open sealed deal Epstein made in pleading guilty to procuring teens for prostitution By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Ct PRINTTHIS WEST PALM BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach pleaded guilty last year to procuring teens for prostitution, his case detoured around local and state rules regarding the sealing of court documents. At a plea conference on state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a prosecutor huddled at the bench and decided that a deal Epstein had struck with federal prosecutors to avoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of the hearing. Jeffrey Epstein And so it was. . Billionaire Jeffrey ff • Epstein has been sentenced to 18 months for felony solicitation of prostitution following accusations by teen girls. Past coverage - O v - ' Post your A comments on this story below More local news Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories. But Florida rules of judicial administration, as well as rules of the Palm Beach County court system, require public notification that a court document has been or will be sealed, meaning kept from public view. The rules also require a judge to find a significant reason to seal, such as protecting a trade secret or a compelling government interest. Yet no notification or reason occurred in Epstein's case, according to court records. http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt8aitle=Attomeys+push-ht... 6/10/2009 EFTA00259930

Attorneys push to open sealed deal Epstein made in pleading guilty to procuring teens for ... Page 2 of 3 Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have On the beat, behind the agenda: Posi reporters cover your area in City Pulse. referred to his confidential deferred prosecution Share This Story agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, struck in September 2007, as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual." And it was "a significant inducement" for Epstein to accept the state's deal, observed the state judge who accepted his plea, County Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo. Epstein now faces at least a dozen civil lawsuits in federal and state courts filed by young women who said they had sex with him and now are seeking damages. Attorneys for some of those women want Epstein's agreement with federal prosecutors unsealed and will ask Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to do so today. "It is against public policy for these documents to have been sealed and hidden from public scrutiny. As a member of the public, E.W. has the right to have these documents unsealed," wrote former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, now in private practice and representing one of the women. The Palm Beach Post also will ask Colbath to unseal the agreement. Post attorney Deanna Shullman will argue that the public has a right to know the specifics of Epstein's deal. According to various media accounts, Epstein moved in circles that included President Clinton, Donald Trump and Prince Andrew. "International Moneyman of Mystery," declared a 2002 New York magazine profile of Epstein. Epstein, 56, is in the Palm Beach County Stockade, serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guilty nearly a year ago to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. He is allowed out from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., escorted by a deputy, said Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera. During a Palm Beach Police Department investigation, five victims and 17 witnesses gave statements. They told of young women brought by his assistants to Eptstein's mansion on El Brillo Way for massages and sexual activity, and then being paid afterward. At Epstein's plea conference last year, his attorney, Jack Goldberger, and then-Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek approached Pucillo in a sidebar conference. Pucillo, who had left the bench nine years earlier, was there as a senior judge filling in temporarily. According to a transcript, Goldberger told Pucillo that Epstein had entered a confidential agreement with the U.S. Attorney's Office, in which federal prosecutors brokered not pursuing charges against him if he pleaded guilty in state court, Pucillo then said she wanted a sealed copy of the agreement filed in his case, and Goldberger concurred that he wanted it sealed. Belohlavek later signed off on it. The Florida Supreme Court has expressed "serious concern" and launched an all-out inquiry into sealing procedures across the state following media reports in 2006 of entire cases being sealed and disappearing from court records. http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.corn/pl/cpt?action=cpt&title=Attorneys+push+t... 6/10/2009 EFTA00259931

Attorneys push to open sealed deal Epstein made in pleading guilty to procuring teens for ... Page 3 of 3 "The public's constitutional right of access to court records must remain inviolate, and this court is fully committed to safeguarding this right." the justices wrote in their final report. Epstein's office on Tuesday referred any questions to Goldberger, who declined to comment. Pucillo also has declined to comment, citing a judge's inability to discuss an open case. Find this article at: http://vniew palmbeachpost comilocatnews/contentflocal_news/epaperf2009/06/10/0610epstein html Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Attorneys+push+t... 6/10/2009 EFTA00259932

Judge rules Jeffrey Epstein agreement to remain sealed Page 1 of 2 Mala rilMFOR r 112 Judge rules Jeffrey Epstein agreement to remain sealed By WILC_HELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Monday, February 16, 2009 tr-FEs+1 :. PRINTTHIS Powered by Vlickability A federal judge has ruled that a non-prosecution document under which the government agreed not to pursue federal charges against sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will remain under seal — at least for now. The U.S. Attorney's Office and Epstein's lawyers reached the agreement before Epstein pleaded guilty to state felony charges, and the document is under seal in Epstein's state criminal file. Representing two of Epstein's victims, attorney Brad Edwards asked to have the document unsealed as part of his federal lawsuit against the Manhattan money manager. Although Edwards and his victims have seen the agreement, Edwards says in his pleadings that the government has "inaccurately described the agreement ... creating a false impression that the agreement protects the victims." U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that the claims, even if true, haven't damaged Edwards' case. "If and when such alleged mischaracterizations become relevant to an issue to be decided by the court, the parties will be given the opportunity to advance their positions and the court will resolve the issue," he wrote. "If disclosure of the agreement will be required for the court to resolve this issue, appropriate disclosure 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 inaccurately described. Marra sided with 5on the argument that the agreement was not filed in federal court "under seal or otherwise. On Aug. 14, Marra ruled that the non-prosecution agreement would be unsealed for Edwards and any of the victims who want to see it. But the ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who http://cox.printthis.clickability.corn/pilept?action—ept&title—Judge+rules+Jeffrey+Epstein... 2/17/2009 EFTA00259933

"PP Judge rules Jeffrey Epstein agreement to remain sealed Page 2 of 2 sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. In his motion to unseal, Edwards said he wants to be able to discuss the terms of the agreement with other victims and their attorneys as well as with other victims' rights groups such as the National Alliance of Victims' Rights Attorneys. The desire to discuss the agreement with third parties is not justification for unsealing the document, Marra ruled. "If a specific tangible need arises in a civil case ... relief should be sought in that case," he wrote. Epstein, 56, is serving 18 months in jail for soliciting prostitution and procuring a minor for prostitution. Under the agreement, federal prosecutors will defer their decision on whether to prosecute Epstein on federal charges until 90 days after Epstein completes all requirements of his state sentence. If he abides by all court conditions and restrictions, the federal case would be dropped. In addition to the state criminal case, there are nine federal and seven state lawsuits pending against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: The Manhattan money manager, through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home at 358 El Brillo Way for erotic massages and sometimes sex. Find this article at: http://www.palmbeachdailynews.00minews/contenUnews/2009/02/16/epstein021709.html E Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright 2008 Palm Beach Daily News. MI rights reserved. fittp://cox.printthis.elickability.com/pt/ept?action=ept8ctitle=Judge+rules+Jeffrey+Epstein... 2/17/2009 EFTA00259934

• Page2Live.com JOSE'S BACK! SoFla's hottest gossip columnist dishes on Palm Beachers trial and more OUR SUMMER OUTDOOR COOKING ISSUE! THE THRILL OF THE GRILL In Food & Accent Penguins' 2-1 win over Red Wings forces Game 7 In Sports Downtown condo testing drywall An air-conditioner repair fans fears it's tainted In Local be Palm Beach Post Wednesday, June 10. 2009 The Home Page of Parades, First edition ALEX HEWKO 1 1918-2009 HE AND FOUR SIBLINGS SERVED IN WWII Five brothers leave a legacy of service A Jupiter veteran's military funeral recalls his 'wonderful life,' and the extraordinary wartime sacrifice he and his family made. By BILL DiPA0LO Palm Beath hat Staff Water Another member of the Greatest Generation was laid to rest Tkesday amid the roar of a Navy airplane salute and the quiet tears of his family and friends. 'This is not a sad time," said Alex Hewko's wid- ow, Barbara, standing near the resting place of her husband of 58 years at the South Florida National Cemetery west of Lantana. "This is a celebration of a wonderful life." Mr. Hewko, 90, was one of five brothers from Northampton, Pa.. who served in World War II. When their sons left, the servicemen's parents put stars in their windows. They lived in fear of a gov- ernment telegram. Mr. Hewko was the eldest of the five sons of Ak- senty and Anna Hewko, who were born in Ukraine. He was the leader, the best athlete, the first to See MR. HEWKO. 4A I. 2002 USA bear photo They answered the call Alex Hewko (from left) and brothers Ben, Wass, Pete and John hold photos from their service days during World War II at a 2002 gathering at Wass' home in Northampton, Pa. Wass, now 85. and John, 86, are the only surviving brothers. Wass attended Alex's funeral, but John was ill. 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By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm &WA Post Ste Winter WEST l'Al/bt BEACH — When wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach pleaded guilty last year to pro- curing teens for prostitution, his case detoured around local and state rules regarding the sealing of court documents. At a plea conference on the state charges, a judge, a defense lawyer and a pros- ecutor huddled at the bench and decided that a deal Epstein Epstein had struck with federal prosecu- tors to avoid charges should be sealed, according to a transcript of the hearing. And so it was. But Florida rules of judicial admin- istration, as well as rules of the Palm Beach County court sytitem, require public notification that a court document has been or will be sealed, meaning kept from public view. The rules also require a judge to find a significant reason to seal. JLA See EPSTEIN. 4A► See past coverage of Jeffrey Epstein's sex scandals. 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2A THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.2009 Obama's budget rules proposal not exactly `pay as you go The Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Obama on lbesday proposed bud- get rules that would allow Congress to borrow tens of billions of dollars and put the nation deeper in debt to jump-start the administration's emerging health care overhaul. The "pay-as-you-go" budget for- mula plan is significantly weaker than a proposal Obama issued with little fanfare last month. It woukl carve out about $2.5 trillion worth of exemptions for Obama's priorities over the next decade. His health care reform plan also would get a green light to run big deficits in its early years. But over a decade. Congress would have to come tip with money to HIS plan would allow big deficits for a health care overhaul. cover those early deficits. Obama's latest proposal for ad- dressing deficits urges Congress to pass a law requiring lawmakers to pay for new spending programs and tax cuts without further adding to deficits projected to total about $10 trillion over the next decade. If new spending or tax reduc- tions are not offset, there would be automatic cuts in so-called manda- tory programs — although Social Security payments and the Med- icaid health care program for poor House passes clunkers' bill to aid car sales The law would encourage driven to conserve fuel. Th. Associated Hess WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday ap- proved a "cash for clunk- ers" bill that aims to boost new auto sales by allowing consumers to turn in their gas-guzzling cars and trucks for votich- ers worth up to $4.500 to- ward more fuel-efficient vehicles. President Obaina has encouraged Congress to approve consumer incentives for new car purchases as part of the government's work to re- structure General Motors and Chrysler. The House approved the bill 298-119. Local Democrats Al- cee Hastings, Ron Klein and Robert Wexler sided with the majority. Republican Tom Roo- ney voted against the measure. Supporters pushed for the measure to stimulate car sales and increase the fleet of fuel-efficient vehicles on the nation's highways. The auto industry has sought the incentives after months of poor auto sales. In May, overall sales were 34 percent lower than a year ago. "Stimulating sales is the only way to get the auto industry back on its led," said Rep. Donald Manzullo, General Motors Corp. and Chrysler LLC have received billions of dol- lars in government aid and the entire auto indus- try has watched car sales plummet during the past year In May, overall sales were 34 percent lower than a year ago. "Our industry has been stuck in neutral and really has not started to move," said Larry Kull, president of Marlton. N.J.-based Burns Kull Automotive Group, which includes General Motors, Honda and Toyota dealer- ships. The vehicle scrap- page bill has been under negotiations for months as lawmakers try to find a solution that boosts car sales while provid- ing some environmental benefits. Proponents have point- ed to similar programs in Europe that have en- hanced auto sales. Opponents said the bill failed to include in- centives for used vehicles and represented an ar- tificial incentive for the industry. "It's defying the laws of economics and saying we can manufacture enough of a demand to keep t auto industry afloat," said Rep. Jeff Flake, R-Ariz. Separately, House and Senate appropriators were discussing provid- ing $1 billion to a supple- mental war funding bill for the "cash for clunkers" program, which aims to generate about 1 million new auto sales. Since the yearlong vehicle program is ex- pected to cost $4 billion, lawmakers would attempt to find the additional money later this year. Bird alerts little help for aircraft, pilot says The Associated Pins WASHINGTON — Short- ly after takeoff, the pilot of Flight 1549 remarked on two things almost im- mediately: a breathtak- ing view of the Hudson River and the sickening thump of birds hitting his engines. Warnings about the birds probably would not have helped, Capt. Ches- ley Sullenberger told federal safety officials lbesday as they looked for ways to prevent a re- currence. in my experience, the warnings we get are general in nature and not specific and therefore have limited usefulness," Sullenberger said at a hearing by the National Transportation Safety Board. The board began three days of hearings into safety issues arising from the Jan. 15 accident, including efforts to pre- vent bird strikes and the ability of engines to withstand collisions with large birds. Other issues include whether Federal 4 Sullenberger Aviation Ad- ministration aircraft standards are adequate to protect passengers in the event of a forced water lapding. In the case of US Airways Flight 1549, the Airbus A320 suffered a rupture near the tailcone that sent water gushing into the cabin after its forced landing on the Hudson River. All 155 aboard managed to es- cape the sinking craft. A cockpit voice record- er transcript released by the board showed Sullenberger and co- pilot Jeffrey Skiles were admiring their surround- ings less than a minute before their plane struck a flock of Canada geese and lost thrust in both engines. Sullenberger told the board that he didn't at- tempt to return to New York's LaGuardia Airport because he thought, "I cannot afford to be wrong." and disabled would be exempt and cuts to Medicare would be sharply limited. "The 'pay-as-you-go rule is very simple," Obama said. "Congress can only spend a dollar if it saves a dollar elsewhere." Last month, Obama suggested a tougher plan that would prohibit Congress from swelling the deficit in one year by putting off until later years the tax increases or spending cuts to pay for it. The requirement for legislation to be financed over the coming decade generally mirrors existing congressional rules and reflects the likelihood that Obama's health care plan will add many billions of dollars to the deficit in the early years.. Senate hastens hearings on Sotomayor The Associated Press WASHINGTON — Senate Democrats, determined to seat Sonia Sotomayor on the Supreme Court quickly, announced mid- July hearings on her nomination Tuesday in a surprising move that angry Republicans said clouded the prospects for the nomination and other legislative business. GOP leaders lashed out after Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., the Senate Judiciary Committee chairman. announced that he would convene the hearings July 13 — considerably earlier than Republicans wanted — saying the date pres- ents a "fair and adequate" schedule in line with the timeline for past Supreme Court nominees. Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called the Demo- crats tactics "heavy-hand- ed" and urged them to reconsider the schedule. President Obama has pressed the Senate to vote on confirming Sotomayor to the high court before it leaves for recess in August. 'I saw a fire, and things just started exploding.' JANE LLE LYNCH. an eight-year worker at the Want THOMAS BASI/Tte Assoc/KO PresA A ConAgra Foods plant at Gamer, N.C., exploded Tuesday, killing two and injuring dozens. Plant blast kills 2 workers The Slim Jim meat products facility's wall collapses. The Associated Press GARNER NC. — Police say they have found the bodies of two people in the rubble of a Slim Jim meat products plant that was rocked by an explosion 'Tuesday. Garner police Sgt. Joe Binns said lbesday night that the bodies had not yet been recovered. The search continued for a third person believed to have been inside the plant, Binns said. More than 40 people were taken to hospitals after the blast at the ConAgra Foods Inc. plant just south of Raleigh. The explosion blew work- ers off their feet and collapsed a wall, crushing parked cars. Three firefight- ers needed medical attention after inhaling ammonia gases. The explosion left gaping holes in the roof. An exterior wall collapsed, smashing cars parked next to the 500,000-square-foot build i ng. Some of the more than 300 employ- ees on duty described chaos after the explosion. Authorities could not say exactly where in the plant the blast happened or what caused it. 1 was getting ready to pick up a piece of meat off the line, and I felt it — the percussion. And you could feel it in my chest, and my ears popped," said worker Chris Woods. "One of the guys I was working with got blown back. His hat flew backwards." Janette Lynch, who has worked at the plant for eight years, said she saw flames and ran. She planned to leave through the cutting department, but the roof started to collapse. She went in the other direction, escaping through a warehouse. 1 saw a fire, and things just started exploding," Lynch said. ConAgra Foods spokesman Dave Jackson said someone called the plant over the weekend, threatening to start a fire. He said company officials don't believe the threat was connected to the explosion. Four people were in critical condi- tion at UNC Hospitals with burns over as much as 60 percent of their bodies, said Dr. Charles Cairns, professor and chairman of the department of emer- gency medicine at the University of North Carolina. The Environmental Protection Agency was on the scene to monitor the air, but officials said there was no threat to people living near the plant. Abortion doctor's clinic shuttered The Washitegtox Post CHICAGO - The family of slain abortion provider George Tiller announced Tuesday that it will not :coign his Kansas clinic, eliminating one of the few medical practices in the country that performed abortions late in pregnan- cies. Abortion opponents welcomed the closure, while supporters of a woman's right to choose lamented the decision as a product of violence and harassment. A prominent Colorado abortion provider said he understands the family's decision but fears that the news, announced 10 days after Tiller's slaying, will inspire tactics designed to drive others out of busi- ness. it's hideous that it's come to this," said War- ren Hern, who is among a handful of doctors known to perform abortions late in a pregnancy. "The anti- abortion movement got exactly what they wanted. For the last 20 or 30 years, they've wanted hint dead and his clinic closed. And they got it. "The question is, 'Who's next?'" The American Life League noted in a news release that Tiller, 67, had aborted thousands of fe- tuses and said the group is "working actively for the day when the remaining 731 abortion clinics across America shut their doors." Tiller's suspected killer, Scott P Roeder. replied, "good, good" when told of the clinic's clotting. Tiller died from a gunshot fired inside his church. Jose Lambiet's . Page Two will return Friday. Customer Slinks Seaver). 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• THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10,2009 3A Swine flu pandemic could be imminent The World Health Organization wants to avoid 'adverse effects.' The Associated ties GENEVA - The World Health Organization said Tuesday a spike in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce the first flu pandemic in 41 years. It also expressed concern about an unusual rise in severe illness from the disease in Canada. WHO flu chief Keiji Fukuda said the agency wanted to avoid "adverse effects" if it announces a global outbreak of swine flu. Fukuda said people might panic or govern- ments might take inap- propriate actions if WHO declares a pandemic. Some flu experts think the world is in a pandemic and that WHO has caved in to some nations' re- quests that a declaration be postponed. "On the surface of it, I think we are in phase 6." or a pandemic, said Mar- garet Chan. WHO's direc- tor-general. Chan said it was impor- tant to verify the reports that the virus is becoming established outside North America before declaring a pandemic. "I need to be convinced that I have indisputable evidence," she said. Chan will hold a confer- ence call with governments today to verify some of the reports before making a formal announcement. WHO said the virus has infected 26,563 people in 73 countries and has caused 140 deaths. Insurgents hit luxury hotel in Pakistan %OHM/AAP SAJJAD; Pe Assocc/1/0 Press Medical workers treat an injured guest Tuesday at the Pearl Continental Hotel. Massive blast kills 11 The attack is in response to the Swat Valley offensive. The Washregtmr Post ISLAMABAD. Pakistan — A massive truck bomb exploded outside a lux- ury hotel in northwestern Pakistan's provincial capital Tuesday night, kill- ing 11 people and injuring at least 50, officials said. The attack marked the latest salvo by insurgents who have vowed to avenge an army offensive in the nearby Swat Valley. and it under- scored their ability to strike at some of the country's most heavily forti- fied targets. Peshawar's Pearl Continental Hotel had been considered an oasis of relative security in a city that has become a front line in the battle between the Pakistani government and radical Islamist groups such as Al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The hotel, a local landmark, had been popular among foreigners, including aid workers who have been using it in re- cent weeks as a base for their efforts to assist the more than 2 million Paki- stanis displaced from their homes by the fighting in Swat. The bomb, estimated to contain more than 1,000 pounds of explo- sives, caused one section of the hotel to collapse. The dead included at least two foreigners, according to law enforce- ment and hospital sources. One was an official with the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees:., a U.N. spokesman said. He had been part of a group of U.N. staff who had been working to assist the displaced. US. Embassy spokesman Lou Fintor said there was no indication that Americans had been injured or killed. US. government personnel had been prohibited from the hotel because of security concerns. The Pearl Continental. part of a chain of Pakistani hotels, is one of the few in Peshawar that caters to foreign visitors and well-to-do Paki- stanis. It is located in one of the most heavily fortified areas of the city. Police and an intelligence official reported that two vehicles were in- volved in the attack. First, a Toyota Corolla drove up and distracted the guards, then a mini-truck followed. The truck's passengers opened fire on the guards at the gate as the truck sped toward the building. Moments later, the blast shook the hotel and reverberated across the city. PALM BEACH. WHERE YOU'LL FIND YOU NEED A BIGGER MEMORY CARD. 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4A THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.2009 Terrific Smiles of the Palm Beaches Public has right to know details of deal, Post attorney will claim 0. EPSTEIN/rpm m such as protecting a trade secret or a compelling gov- ernment interest. Yet no notification or reason occurred in Epstein's case, according to court records. Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have referred to his confiden- tial deferred prosecution agreement with the U.S. attorney's office, struck in September 2007. as "un- precedented" and "highly unusual." And it was "a significant inducement" for Epstein to accept the state's deal, observed the state judge who accepted his plea. County Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo. Epstein now faces at least a dozen civil lawsuits in federal and state courts filed by young women who said they had sex with him and now are seeking damages. Attorneys for some of those women want his agreement with federal prosecutors unsealed and will ask Circuit Judge Jef- frey Colbath to do so today. "It is against public policy for these documents to be have been sealed and hidden from public scrutiny As a member of the public. E.W. has a right to have these drx-urnents unsealed." wrote former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, now in private practice and representing ow of the women. The Palm Beach Post also will ask Colbath to unseal the agreement. Post attor- ney Deanna Shullman will argue that the public has a right to know the specifics of Epstein's deal. According to various media accounts, Epstein moved in circles that in- cluded President Clinton, Donald Trump and Wince Andrew. "International Moneyman of Mystery,- de- clared a 2002 New York mag- azine profile of Epstein. Epstein, 56. is in the Palm Beach County Stock- ade, serving an 18-month sentence after pleading guihy nearly a year ago to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. He is allowed out from 7 am. to 11 p.m., escorted by a deputy. said Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Teri Barbera. During a Palm Beach Police Department in- vestigation, five victims and 17 witnesses gave statements. They told of young women brought by his assistants to Epstein's mansion on El Brillo Way for massages and sexual activity, and then being paid afterward. At Epstein's plea confer- ence last year. his attorney, Jack Goldberger. and then-Assistant State At- torney Lanna Belohlavek approached Pacifilo in a sidebar conference. Pucillo, who had left the bench nine years earlier, was filling in temporarily as a senior judge. Accordingtoatranscript Goldberger told Pucillo that Epstein had entered a con- fidential agreement with the US. attorney's office in which federal prosecu- tors brokered not pursuing charges against him if he pleaded guilty in state court. Pucillo then said she wanted a sealed copy of the agreement filed in his case. and Goldberger concurred that he wanted it sealed. Belohlavek later signed off on it. The Florida Supreme Court has expressed "seri- ous concern" and launched an all-out inquiry into seal- ing procedures across the state following media re- ports in 2006 of entire cases being sealed and disappear- ing from court records. The public's constitu- tional right of access to court records must remain invio- late, and this court is fully committed to safeguarding this right" justices wrote in their final report. Epstein's office on Tuesday referred any questions to Goldberger, who declined to comment. Pucillo also has declined to comment. ALLEN EIESTOfif/Sistt Pliocene*, Alex Hewko's widow. Barbara, is comforted by her four sons — Bob (from left), Eric. Alex Jr. and Jon — and Alex's brother Wass (second from left) at the funeral Tuesday at the South Florida National Cemetery west of Lantana. Mr. Hewko and his wife were part-time Jupiter residents. When war ended, all 5 brothers returned to native Pennsylvania 1 MR. HEWKO from enlist. He saw the most combat. He rose to the highest rank of the brothers. "He was like our dad," said Wass Hewko, 85, one of two surviving broth- ers. "He worked in a bakery. He cut people's hair to earn money. We all looked up to him." l'he other surviving brother. John, 86, is ill and was unable to attend Thesday's ceremonies, which included services at Oceanview United Methodist Church in Juno Beach. Alex Hewko was a pilot in the South Pacific, where he was awarded the Pur- ple Heart and Bronze Star for flying mis- sions over New Guinea. Mother brother. Peter, was a Marine and was injured in a near-fatal bus accident in California. Ben served on the USS Corry off Normandy. The youngest, John. was serving aboard a troop carrier in London when it was hit by a German V-1 buzz bomb. He survived. Wass served as a cook aboard a Navy troop carrier. When the war ended in the summer of 1945. all five brothers returned to Northampton. Alex and Barbara met at a Christmas party and married five years later "He was a hunk," said Barbara, her eyes shining. "What a dapper dresser. And such a dancer. He was so full of life." The couple bought a home in Pennsyl- vania and had four sons. Three played on football scholarships at the University f Florida. "Dad wouldn't admit it, but he could RtSeIS Nr111J0 HI tom ha 'open Asttlaslt Gold Plaketa Alta A WAte rota SkiPHNG ON oquNH 080,85 ralnataklahoin Selby Shoes 3159 Forest Hill Blvd. _cars ' OPIN Mon ,Sat 9 WAST PALM BEACH 911-919.9519 throw a better pass than any of the coaches," said son Bob Hewko, 49, speaking during a cheerful video of his father's life at the church ceremony. After the war, Mr. Mewls° worked for 25 years in the Navy's aviation supply office in Philadelphia as the program di-' rector of the Navy P-3 Orion aircraft, and in the private sector for several aeronau- tics and space-related corporations. He played for two years as a catcher in the St. Louis Cardinals minor league system and played football as a running back as part of an on-base military team in Jacksonville during World War IL Like .most servicemen from his gen- eration, Mr. Hewko said little about his military service. The Hewkos kept their home in Willow Grove. Pa.. and seven years ago bought a second home in Jupi- ter. Mr. Hewko died on May 28. Since his death, his sons have learned that their father worked with the CIA and played a role in secret missions in Vietnam and Korea. Those military contacts allowed his sons to win the OK for Thesday's flyover of a P-3 Orion during the military cer- emony. An assistant to US. Navy Secre- tary Ray Mabus called Mr. Hewlco's son Jon on Monday and said the plane would pass 300 feet above their father's grave in a salute at precisely 1:2.5 p.m. "I get chills walking through here." said Bob, stepping gingerly between the white tombstones at the cemetery, which in 50 years is expected to have about 200,000 graves. "It's so honorable. Dad would be proud." • 031_09.10I0*ptipost com BANKRUPTCY • Save Your Home! You May . Stop The Calls! • Eliminate Debt! FREE IMMEDIATE CONSULTATION Low Fees, Easy Payment Plan Attorney Gregg R. Wexler has handled thousands of Bankruptcy cases. MAIN (AAFICL: WASIPAIMBLAS II. 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• THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.2009 5A Senator questions whether transfer complies with law P. DETAINEEfrom IA Asked by the judge how he wished to plead. Ghai- lani answered in English, "Not guilty." Ghailani faces mul- tiple charges and, if convicted, could face the death penalty for his role in the bombing of US. embassies in Tanzania and Kenya, which killed 224 people, including 12 Americans. "Ahmed Ghailani is being held accountable for his alleged role in the bombing of US. Embas- sies in Tanzania and Ke- nya and the murder of 224 people." Attorney Gen- eral Eric Holder said in a statement. "The Justice Department has a long history of securely detain- ing and successfully pros- ecuting terror suspects through the criminal jus- tice system, and we will bring that experience to bear in seeking justice in this case." Ghailani was indicted in New York before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, captured three years later and held in a secret CIA prison overseas before be- ing placed in Guantanamo in 2006. Four of his named co-conspirators have been tried and convicted and are serving life sentences in a super-maximum se- curity prison in Colorado. The decision to move Ghailani to the United States lays down an im- portant marker for the Obama administration. which wants to shut the military prison but has faced congressional resis- tance to the transfer of any Guantanamo inmates into the U.S. for resettle- ment, trial or further detention. It drew immediate criti- cism from Republicans. "The administration has made the decision to begin transferring these terrorists to the United States, in spite of the over- whelming opposition of the American people and serious questions from members of Congress of both parties," said House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio. A conference commit- tee, made up of Senate and House members of the defense appropriations subcommittees, has been considering language that would restrict the admin- istration's ability to move detainees out of Guanta- namo without a compre- hensive plan for where to place them. Lawmakers also want assurances that bringing detainees into the US. presents no risk to national security. Noting a bill, passed 90- 6 last month, that banned the transfer of detainees from Guantanamo to VS. prisons, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, It-Ky., said the president was ignoring the "clear desire of Congress and the American people." McConnell also ques- tioned whether Obama has the authority to move Ghailani under current law. He declined to say whether Congress would consider further action to stop the administration from bringing other de- tainees here for trial. But Senate Major- ity Whip Dick Durbin, D-III.. strongly defended Obama's decision, noting that the US. already has many accused terrorists in its prisons. In a speech last month, Obama signaled that Ghailani's transfer was imminent and that "after over a decade, it is time to finally see that justice is served." The decision to transfer him followed a review of his case by a Justice Department-led task force examining the cases of all 238 detainees who remain at Guanta- namo. Federal prosecutors allege that Ghailani ob- tained bomb materials, scouted the embassy in 4 the Tanzanian capital and escorted an Egyptian sui- cide bomber from Kenya to Dar es Salaam in ad- vance of the nearly simul- taneous blasts in Kenya and Tanzania. The bomb- ing in Taniania killed 11, all Africans, and 213 were killed in the attack on the embassy in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital. 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* BA NE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY,JUNE 10,2009 IN BRIEF State senator wins three-way Democratic primary in Va. RICHMOND, Va. — State Sen. R. Creigh Deeds won Virginia's three-way Democratic primary for governor Tuesday with shocking ease, defeating a former Clinton White House insider and a for- mer legislative colleague. The victory sets up a Deeds rematch with Re- publican Bob McDonnell, who beat him in the 2005 attorney general election by 323 votes out of nearly 2 million cast. Deeds had about half the vote with nearly all precincts reporting. His foes, former Democratic National Committee chair- man Terry McAuliffe and Brian Moran. had about a quarter of the vote each. Fla. graduation rate fifth-lowest in U.S. ,Amm— Florida's high school graduation rate is among the lowest in the nation, though progress is being made in several districts, including St. Lu- cie County, according to a study released Tuesday. The annual "Diplomas Count" report by the non- profit Editorial Projects in Education determined that 573 percent of Florida students completed high school on time with a' regular diploma in 2006, compared to 69.2 percent nationwide. That was slightly lower than the 2005 graduation rate of 60.8 percent and the fifth- lowest nationwide. St. Lucie saw an im- provement of 11 percent. Senate panel OKs drilling off Florida wAsuiNGrox — A Sen- ate committee on Tuesday approved opening the eastern Gulf of Mexico to oil and gas drilling, in- cluding an area rich with natural gas 10 miles off the Florida Panhandle. A 45-mile no-drilling buffer would be maintained off most of Florida's coast. The provision was tacked onto a broader en- ergy bill by a vote of 13-10 in the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Com- mittee. The committee was expected to advance the legislation this week. The area stretching from 125 to 300 miles off Florida's coast was singled out for protection by Con- gress in 2006 as part of a deal with Florida lawmak- ers that made available 8.3 million acres to oil and gas development. The protect- ed region is to remain off limits to energy develop- ment until 2022. Screen Actors Guild ratifies two-year deal 111 ANGELES - Mem- bers of the Screen Actors Guild have voted to ratify a two-year contract covering movies and prime-time TV shows made by the major Hollywood studios. Tuesday's vote, with 78 percent in favor, comes just less than a year after the last contract expired. N. Brinker, developer of Chill's chain, dies DAli AS - Norman Brinker, a restaurant mogul who popularized the salad bar and built a worldwide casual din- ing empire that includes Chili's Grill & Bar, died Tuesday at age 78. Mr. Brinker died at a hospital in Colorado, according to a funeral home official in Cob rado Springs. He suffered complications related to pneumonia while on vaca- tion. Before Miring in 2000, he built the Chili's chain of more than 1,000 restau- rants. The company now has 1.700 restaurants in 27 countries. — Palm Beach Post ST StrriCCS Bush NEWSMAKERS Today's highlights At 85, former president plans another skydive: Former President George fl. W. Bush plans to celebrate his 85th birthday Friday by making a parachute jump in Maine, where he has his summer home. Jim Appleby, a Bush aide, said Teresday that Bush will • make a tandem jump with a member of the US. Army Golden Knights parachute team. Their landing zone is near a church in Ken- nebunkport. Bush made his first jump as a Navy pilot when his plane- was shot down over the Pacific during Workl War II. He also made two jumps apiece on his 75th and 80th birthdays. • 'Perfect Storm' survivor fined for Illegal fishing: Fisherman and author Linda Greenlaw, who survived the .noreaster that was the basis for the book and movie The Perfect Storm, was fined $31,500 on Tuesday for fishing illegally in Canadian waters last fall. The Canadian government also seized her swordfish catch. "I've got to either catch a lot of lobsters or sell a lot of books to pay the fine," Greenlaw said lliesday from her home in Maine. Quote of the day Tin proud of my sexuality. / embrace it. It's just another part of me.' —ADAM LAMBERT. the American gaol runner-up from San Diego, in a Rolling Stone interview select ne acknowledges that he's gay, and says it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. lambert. 27. who sgned a recording deal with RCA Records on Tuesday. talk, about sex, drugs and hs Idol experiences in the March edition. He's on the cover. f Portrayed in the film by Mary Eliza- beth Mastrantonio, Greenlaw played a prominent role in the story written by Sebastian Junger She was the last per- son in contact with the Andrea Gail. a swordfish boat out of Gloucester. Mass., that sank with all hands during the 1991 storm. Greenlaw, 48. said didn't realize she had breached Canada's 200- mile fishing limit as she was attempt- ing to retrieve part of her fishing gear CBS, Letterman close to extension: David Letterman and CBS are close to a deal that would keep the late-night comic on the Late Show through at least the spring of 2012. That represents a two-year extension of Letterman's cur- rent deal, set to expire next year. CBS will also pay Letterman's production company, Worldwide Pants, a smaller licensing fee than it is getting now, con- sistent with its efforts to cut program- ming costs across the board with the downturn in television advertising. It's not immediately clear what that would mean for Letterman's paycheck, which has been reported in the range of $30 million to $35 million. His salary is set by Abrldwide Pants, not by CBS. — Palm Beach Post wire services Charity gifts in U.S. fell 2 percent in '08 The Associated !Wm NEW YORK — Charita- ble giving by Americans fell by 2 percent in 2008 as the recession took root, only the second year-to- year decline in more than a half-century, according to an authoritative annual survey released today. Particularly hard hit were social-service chari- ties, which suffered a 12.7 percent drop in dona- tions at a tithe when most of them were reporting increased demand for their services. The last previous over- all drop in giving was in 1987, the year of the record-shattering Black Monday stock market collapse. The Giving USA Foun- dation, which has con- ducted the survey since 1956. expressed relief that the 2008 decrease was not worse, given that many Americans lost more than 2 percent of their wealth during the year. However, the report underscored the daunt- ing circumstances fac- ing America's nonprofits, many of which have been forced to lay off staff and cut programs because of declining revenue. According to the re- port, total giving in 2008 was $307.65 billion down from a record $314.07 billion in 2007. Tivo- thirds of public charities experienced decreases — among the few sectors to improve were religious and international affairs organizations. "We definitely did see belt-tightening, said Del Martin. chair of the Giving USA Foundation. 'This drop in giving Donations drop In 2008, giving ih the U.S. decreased 2 percent from the previous year. It was the first decline since 1987. Source of charitable ping ... TOTAL: S307.65 billion 75% Incliveuats 13% Foundations 7% Bequests 5% Corporations and recipients, 2008 35%Religion 13% Education 11% Foundations 9%Human services —j • 8%RublIc-socieN benefit 7%Health •••• ''t • 6% Unallocated 4% Arts — 7% Others So.rce Carat i.S4104n00161 Pi( ASS:IWO PlISS meant that nonprofits have had to do more with less over the past year, but it could have been a lot worse." The report predicted tough times throughout 2009 for the social-ser- vice sector. Of 228 organizations that were surveyed, 60 percent said they were cutting expenses, includ- ing programs and staff, because of funding short- age& Among organizations serving young people. 74 percent said they were underfunded and unable to meet current demand. Major national nonprof- its such as the Salvation Army, Catholic Charities and the American Red Cross have laid off work- ers. 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By CHARLES PASSY Parra Brach Ant Staff Writer For all the financial woes local restaurants are fac- ing, food supplier Greg Bates believes there is hope. And it comes in the form Ma duck wing. 'They're taking off in sports bars," said Bates, of Keylmpact Sales, one of an estimated 400 vendors pushing their products at a restaurant trade show Tues- day at the South Florida Fair's Americraft Expo Center. The annual event, organized by Cheney Brothers Inc., a Riviera Beach-based food distributor, is all about giving restaurateurs a way to hook custom- ers. And when many are struggling to stay afloat, especially during the off-season, ifs a message they wanted to hear. Attendance soared to an estimated 5,000 restaurant owners, country club managers and other food-service professionals, a 20 percent increase over the previous year. "They're looking for new products, or innovative ways to use old products." said Kinna Denowitz, a marketing director for Cheney. The 84-year-old company, which has produced the restaurant "buyer's show" for nearly two decades, serves as the year-round local sales representative for companies and brands at Tuesday's event. But it's one thing for a chef to read about a product in a sales brochure: it's another to taste a Cuban spring roll (think a Cuban sandwich in the form of an egg roll) or a "crisseut" sweet potato fry. Nicolle Baker of ConAgra Foods Lamb Weston ("North America's premier supplier of frozen potato, appetizer and vegetable products") was hawking the fries, saying the whole sweet-potato-fries category was attracting interest. "They have that better-for-you appeal. even though they're not necessarily better for you," she said. But will any one menu item keep a restaurant in business? Ifs not so much about single item as about stay- ing on top of trends, said Kevin Walters, food and beverage vice president at The Breakers in Palm Beach. The smart restaurateurs — and the ones most likely to survive — are always looking for the next big thing. he said. "Ten years ago, it was espresso. Five years ago, it was olive oil," Walters said. Of course, there's a whole behind-the-scenes aspect to the restaurant biz. Which is why for every company hawking such would-be culinary classics as pizza "logs" and pretzel rolls, there were ones pushing such none-too-sexy staples as floor mats and dish-washing detergent. And in a center-of-the-floor showcase, Cheney Brothers reps were promoting a $15,000 dishwasher with four wash cycles. Even during tough times, restaurateurs and other food-service professionals must value clean plates. When asked how the dishwashers were doing, Cheney exec Ron Hall pointed to the floor model of the $15,000 machine "It was just sold to a country club," he said. 0 thanes_ passvIspbcost com jobs extra DR. 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• 8A THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY. JUNE 10 2009 The Palm Beach Post ALEX T/WLOR. Phalluses TIM BURKE, Executive Editor RANDY SCHULTZ. Editor of the Editorial Page Charles Krauthammer The settlements canard Bust the driver license ring Criminals use lots of tools, from assault weapons to lock picks. But one of the most sought-after tools is an official driver license. That's why law enforcement came down so hard on the operation in the Delray Beach office supplying Florida licenses to illegal immigrants. That's why the crackdown must continue until it shuts down the entire operation. As The Post reported Monday. employees at the driver license bureau were accepting bribes of $500 to S2,500 in return for issuing 'The investigation is very valid licenses to il- active and focused, so you'll legals who supplied bogus immigration see a second round in a papers and usually timely manner.' didn't even take the driving test. The li- censes can be useful for such relatively harmless scams as avoiding arrest and deportation if stopped by a police officer while driving. But South Floridians know that there are much darker reason's why criminals obtain driver licenses. Mo- hamed Atta and other 9/11 hijackers had driver licenses to help avoid dif- ficult questions and buy airplane tick- ets. Ease of travel by air and on the road also is a reason that drug mules would want driver licenses. Because of all the ways criminals can use driver licenses, law enforce- ment correctly set up a task force. It was led by the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office and included the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Of- fice, police departments in Boynton Beach and Delray Beach. the US. Drug Enforcement Agency and Im- migration and Customs Enforcement and the Florida Highway Patrol. The task force has arrested five women who worked at the Delray Beach driver license office and one Haitian immigrant who alleg- edly provided fake immigration MICHAEL NlcAULIFFE Palm Beach County state attorney Floridians know why criminals want them. documents. State Attorney Michael McAuliffe said in an interview that won't be the end of it. "The invest' lion is very active and focused." he said, "so you'll see a second round in a timely manner." Mr. McAuliffe said the probe, which started in February likely would spread to new people and new offices in Palm Beach County. Mr. McAuliffe said that he's seen too evidence of ter- rorism. He would not say whether there was evidence of drug trafficking or whether higher- ups in the scheme have yet to be arrested. But it seems safe to assume that a scam on this scale — hundreds or even thousands of licenses were is- sued fraudulently — could not have been financed by individual immi- grants seeking minimum-wage jobs. Mr. McAuliffe said his investiga- tion was centered "in this commu- nity" but that he suspected it could be going on elsewhere, a thought echoed by David Westerberry, com- munications director for the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles that runs the license offices. "As strong as we think our quality assurance is." he said. "recent arrests have given us a reason to step back and make sure the integrity of (licensing) is upheld." A few states allow illegal im- migrants to have driver licenses. Recently, though, Michigan and Maryland ended the practice. State employees in Delray and elsewhere who were issuing phony licenses weren't just misusing their jobs. They were endangering public safety. TALK BACK! Should Florida allow Illegals to legally obtain driver licenses? i‘gs.Palm8eachPert corn/ opiniontom Late move, but smart move After years of failing to properly fi- nance KidCare and making it as hard as possible for parents to enroll their children in the state's subsidized health insurance program, state leg- islators finally did something right. They passed a bill, which Gov. Crist signed last week, that stream- lines the application process for Kid- Care and expands the program so another 50.000 children can join. Kid- Care provides coverage to children whose parents work but can't afford coverage. There are nearly 800,000 uninsured children in Florida. Perhaps because the idea came front former Gov. Lawton Chiles, a Democrat, the Republican-led Leg- islature hamstrung the 11-year-old program from the start. First, leg- islators limited the coverage. Then, legislators made it hard for parents to enroll by increasing the paperwork required to prove eligibility and de- creasing the amount of time to sign up. The state also cut marketing that would inform parents about KidCare. As a result, enrollment in KidCare dropped. The state had to return to the federal government nearly $140 million in matching money. U that isn't a serious political crime, we don't know what is. Richard Robleto, executive direc- tor of Florida Healthy Kids Corp.. which administers KidCare, said the agency for years has tried to have the administrative barriers to the program eliminated. The legislation, 5K0111.1) we AiCcr.en .THIS TIo NVITATI THe ON JOIN ow:IA-nom orANARr-Ati 5TA-ces Health care for more kids of the state's working poor he said, is a move in that direction: "1 think this was a very good first step in making it easier for families to get coverage and to keep that coverage." The law requires KidCare to attempt to verify eligibility elec- tronically from external sources first before requiring families to produce documents. Parents who pay more than 5 percent of their income for group health insurance no longer must wait six months after dropping the more expensive coverage before being eligible for KidCare. That wait has been cut to two months. Mr. Robleto said the six-month waiting period was an "extreme burden" for families who did not want to be without coverage for so long Also, families that miss a premium payment will lose coverage only one month instead of two months. Mr. Robleto said the bill and the money provided for the year means that KidCare can add 45,000 to 50.000 children to the current 250,000. There also will be a study of the outreach effort. Still, as he says, more needs to be done. "I hope I will be going back to the Legislature and saying: Thank you very much. We enrolled those 50,000 and now we need more money.' " Having clone right, legisla- tors should do even better NAR)(igt MUM' WS -Me OLP rs"."1- We Daft WANT To ) Actiscro ANY cum THAT *La Ave us As A maim! 101*IREVER/Abiquenve Obama the Humble de- clares that there will be no more "dictating" to other countries. We should "forge partnerships as opposed to simply dictating solutions," he told the G-20 summit. In Middle Fast negotiations, he told al-Arabiya. America will henceforth "start by liSten- ing. because all too often the United States starts by dictating" An admirable sentiment. It applies to everyone — Iran, Russia. Cuba, Syria, even Venezuela. Except Israel. Israel is ordered to freeze all settlement activity. As Secre- tary of State Hillary Clinton imperiously explained the diktat: "a stop to settlements — not some settlements, not outposts, not natural-growth exceptions." What's the issue? No "natural growth" means strangling to death the thriv- ing towns close to the 1949 armistice line, many of them suburbs of Jerusalem. that every negotiation over the past decade has envisioned Israel retaining It means no increase in population. Which means for every child born, someone has to move out. No community can sur- vive like that. The obvious objective is to undermine and destroy these towns — even before ntgoliations. To what end? Over the past decade, the US. government has understood that any final peace treaty would involve Israel retaining some of the closciin settlements — and compensating the Palestin- ians accordingly with land from within Israel itself. This idea is not only logi- cal, not only accepted by both Dictating" no settlements not feasible. Democratic and Republican administrations for the past decade, but was agreed to in the letters of understanding exchanged between Israel and the US. in 2004 — and subsequently overwhelming- ly endorsed by a concurrent resolution of Congress. Yet the Obama State I)epartment repeatedly has refused to endorse these agreements or even say it will honor them. This from a president who piously insists that all parties to the conflict honor previous obligations. The entire "natural growth" issue is a concoction. It's farci- cal to suggest that the peace process is moribund because a teacher in the Jewish Qum- ter of Jerusalem is making an addition to her house to accommodate new grandchil- dren — when Gaza is run by Hamas terrorists dedicated to permanent war with Israel and when Mahmoud Abbas, having turned down every one of Ehud Olmert's peace offers, brazenly declares that he is in a waiting mode — waiting for Hanky; to be- come moderate and for Isaacl to cave — before hell do any- thing to advance peace. In his much-heralded "Muslim world" address in Cairo Thursday. President Obama declared that the Palestinian people's "situa- tion" is "intolerable." Indeed it is. the result of 60 years of Palestinian leadership that gave its people cor- ruption, tyranny, religious intolerance and forced mili- tarization: leadership that for three generations — Haj Amin al-Husseini in 1947, Yasser Arafat in 2000, Mr. Abbas in December 2008 — rejected every offer of independence and dignity, choosing destitution and de- spair rather than accept any settlement not accompanied by the extinction of Israel. In the 16 years since the Oslo accords turned the West Bank and Gaza over to the Palestinians, their leaders — Fatah and Hamas alike — built no schools, no roads, no courthouses, no hospitals, no institutions that would re- lieve their people's suffering Instead they poured every- thing into an infrastructure of war and terror, all the while depositing billions (from gull- ible Western donors) into their Swiss bank account& Mr. Obama says he came to Cairo to tell the truth. But he uttered not a word of that. Instead, he issued but one concrete declaration of new policy: "The United States does not accept the kgitima- cy of continued Israeli settle- ments," thus reinforcing the myth that Palestinian misery and statelessness are the fault of Israel and the settlements. Blaming Israel and pick- ing a fight over "natural growth" may curry favor with the Muslim "street." But it will only induce the Arab states to do like Mr. Ab- bas: sit and wait for America to deliver Israel on a platter. Which makes the Obama strategy not just dishonor- able but self-defeating. Charles EmuthammerS e-mail address is letters@charieskraut hammer tom I.MERS TO THE EDITOR Post now backs expediency over public process? The Post's strong editorial endorsement of the Palm Beach County supervisor of elections request for Riviera Beach ware- house space is contrary to another major Post editorial position regarding county government: integrity of public process. What did the stab, attorney's grand jury philosophically discuss and what would an inspector general say about this specific proposal: that the selection of the proposed site was not transparent, not competitive and the deal shouldn't be done. The site was identified among a number of potential prop- erties and was selected by the supervisor without any public process. The price will be negotiated with the owner knowing that he has been selected as having the favored site. Other potential competitors were not given the opportunity to bid. This is all contrary to thoughts expressed in the grand jury report. So, if there were an inspector general, what would happen in this case? Nothing? County staff expressed concerns about the ' preceding and other shortcomings with Too soon to stop harsh tactics that work? Presi(knt Obama labels the harsh interrogation tech- niques of the Bush adminis- tration "brutal" and "torture." Dick Cheney said they were lawful, safe, successful and not torture. This fundamen- tal disagreement probably never will be reconciled. But the American people can ex- amine and judge these other important issues: First, is it wise to change policy while we still are subject to terrorist attack? Next, is it time for Mr. Obama to provide the evi- dence to support his claims that harsh techniques do not work and serve as an Al- Qaeda recruiting tool? Mr. Cheney said the measures did work on three high-val- ue terrorists, averting an at- tack on Los Angeles, when milder methods did not. Finally, on the day Mr. Obama gave the nation his Guantanamo vision, his ad- ministration announced that the first of the terrorist de- tainees will be tried in New York. Sen. Charles Schumer, 1)-NY, concurred. What will Mr. Obama and Sen. Schum- the Riviera site as compared with the cur- rent county-owned site to the county com- mission, but the commission felt the same as The Post that turning down the super- visor's request was unacceptable. No one wants to be perceived as having impeded the supervisor, whom the public elected, from doing her duties as she sees fit. So, it appears The Post thinks that expe- diency — time constraint, in this case — is sufficient justification to violate tenets of good government as called out by the state attorney and grand jury. There are always expediencies, sometimes real, sometimes less so. What was done is not illegal. As we move forward to address how county government functions in the future, and what new bureaucracies, if any, are going to be formed to protect the public interest at taxpayers expense, people need to remem- ber cases like this. ROBERT WEISMAN Palm Beach County administrator West Palm Beach er do if the man is acquitted and freed to walk the streets of New York? Does this proposal, like the promise to close Gitmo, need more vet- ting before implementation? RAY ELDER!) Palm Beach Gardens Renaming party dinner a slap to true heroes In answer to a letter-writer, I don't understand how a lob- byist can say that the Palm Beach County Democratic Party made the correct deci- sion in changing the name of the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner to the Truman-Kennedy-John- son Dinner - This is a major fund-raiser and has always been called Jefferson-Jackson in honor of our third and seventh presidents. Thomas Jefferson was the principal author of the Declaration of hider pendence. Andrew Jackson helped to shaped the party and was a hero in his time. Truman used atomic bombs on Japan, killing 120,000 innocent people. Johnson escalated the war in Vietnam that ended up costing 58000 American live& He was a one-term president. Even Barack Obama said that he wanted a recovery plan that would put people back to work, "not because I believe in bigger govern- ment." I don't. Changing the name of this fund-raiser does not reflect current Demo cratic policies. Let's not casu- ally cast aside our history and those who are held in high esteem to this day. LYNN ANDERSON Lake Worth Judge's ignorance of law Is no excuse, or Is It? Let me get this straight. A Palm Beach County circuit judge claims two homestead exemptions, and it took a battle between the judge and his wife's ex- husband to bring it to the attention of the property appraiser? Something's very wrong here. First, there's incompe- tence at the appraiser's of- fice. Second, Judge Martin Colin wasn't aware that two homestead exemptions was illegal? Yeah, right. It's a travesty for all of us who fol- low the law, pay our proper- ty taxes honestly and work hard to do the right thing. 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• THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10.2009 St David Brooks Cautious at heart Sonia Sotomayor had bad timing. If she'd entered col- lege in the late-lari0s or early-1960s, she would have been surrounded by an ethos that encour- aged :quart young ethnic kids to as- similate. If she'd en- tered Princeton and Yale in the 1980s, her ethnicity and gender would have been mildly interesting traits among the many she might possess. But she happened to attend Princeton and then Yale Law School in the 1970s. These were the days when what we now call multiculturalism was just coming into its own. These were the days when the whole race, class and gender aca- demic-industrial complex seemed fresh, exciting and just. There was no way she was going to get out of that unmarred. And, in fact, in the years since she has given a series of speeches that have made her a poster child for identity politics. In these speech- es, race and gender take center stage. Ifs not only the one comment about a wise La- tina making better decisions than a white male; it's the whole litany. If you read just these specie hes you might come away with the impression that she was a racial activ- ist who is just using the judicial system as a vehicle for her social crusade. And yet her history and conversations with her colleagues suggest this is not the main story. If you kok at the whole record. you come away with the impression that Judge Sotomayor is a hardworking care- ful-though-unspectacular jurist whose primary commitment is to the law. When she left Yale, she didn't take the route designed to reinforce her ideologi- cal dispositions. She became a prosecutor with District Attorney Robert Morgenthau in Manhattan. She told The New York Times in 1983 that in making this decision, she faced "a tremendous amount of pressure from my community from the third-world community at Yale. They could not under- stand why I was taking this jab." In the years since, she has not followed the easy course. More than any current member of the Supreme Court, she worked her way up through the furnace levels of the legal system. And when she reached a position of authority, she did not turn hen self into an Al Sharpton in robes, She is quite liberal. But there's little evidence that she is motivated by racial- ist thinking or an activist attitude. Tbm Goldstein of Scotusbkig conducted a much-cited study of the 96 race-related cases that have come before her. Like almost all judges, she has rejected a vast . . majority of the claims of racial discrimination that came to her. She dissented from her colleagues in only four of those cases. And in only one did she find racial dis- crimination where they did not. Even with what she calls her "Latina soul: she saw almost every case pretty much as they did. When you read her opinions, race and gender arc invisible. I'm obviously not qualified to judge the legal quality of her opinions. But when you read the docu- ments merely as examples of persuasive writing, you find that they are almost en- tirely impersonal and deracinated. 'lb my eye, Judge Sotomayor's opinions are the products of a clear and honest if unimaginative mind. She sticks close to precedent and the details of a case. There's no personal flavor (in the boring parts one wishes there were). There's no evidence of a grand ideological style or even much intel- lectual ambition. If you had to pick a word to describe them, it would be "restraint." Looked at in her totality, Judge Soto- mayor seems to be a smart, careful, hard- working judicial professional, who along the way picked up a patina of 1970s race-. class- and gender-consciousness. It's interesting to compare Judge Sotomayor's thinking with Barack Obamak. On the grand matters of race in America they are quite different. Judge Soto mayor has given a series of speeches arguing that it is not possible or even de- sirable to transcend our racial or gender sympathies and prejudices. During the presidential campaign, then-Sen. Obama gave a speech in Philadelphia arguing for precisely that, calling on America to move beyond the old categories and argument& Judge Sotomayor sometimes draws a straight line between ethnicity, gender and behavior. President Obama emphasiz- es our multiple identities and the complex blend of influences on an individual life. Yet in practice, they do have a lot in common. In practice, Judge Sotomayor is a liberal incrementalist. Her careful opin- ions embody the sort of judicial minimal- ism that President Obama and his aide. Cass Sunstein admire most. In short, Judge So tomayork career surpasses the crude categories she some- times articulates. Despite the ideas she picked up while young she has, over many years, chosen to submit herself to the dis- cipline of the law, and she bas not abused its institutions. I hope she's confirmed. David Brooks is a columnist for The New York Times. Madoff Jewish? Big deal. By MIKA MANDELL Jewish news flash: Not everyone is as keenly aware as you are that the world's most notorious Ponzi schemer is Jewish. A professor of mine who closely followed news about Bernard Madoff had no idea about his religious back- ground. As it turned out, she was hospitalized when Madoffs Jewish affiliation. and the disproportionate number of his Jewish inves- tors made news. And after her release, it never mea- sured on her radar. Another professor expressed sur- prise to learn that Jews may be sensitive to Madoffs religious background. Neither professor is Jewish. That's the point. Cognitive psychology in- structs us that information important to us is kept in the forefront of our minds. Perhaps the professors didn't associate Madoff and Jewish because Judaism does not place their radars on high alert. As a PhD student studying Madoff, I have spent much time thinking about how people of various religious back- grounds react to Madoffs Jewish identity. People with a Jewish identity (of which I'm one) seem to have reached a consensus that Madoffs Jewish background may fuel anti-Semitism. But we also tend to assume that non-Jews will think less of us simply because Medoff shares our reli- gious customs. In Febru- ary, Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, wrote in The Post that the Madoff story prompted "an outpouring of anti-Semitic comments on mainstream and extremist Web sites." His statement leads me to * believe that anti-Jewish ex- i Tunis out it is, but only if you're Jewish. pressionwascommonplace, and perhaps increased, thanks to Medoff and the Internees anonymity. However, a survey I conducted in March as part of my research contradicts that statement. The anony- mous, online survey was completed by 178 individu- als from across the US. It was sent to Jewish e-mail lists and a Christian semi- nary in Boston, and Chris- tian e-mail lists in New York. It also was posted on the Web site of the Jewish Journal ofins Angeles Jewish respondents gen- erally agreed that "Madoff gives Jews a bad name." with the Jewish average resting at "I feel this way often." Non-Jews, however, had a different response. Whether one identified as Protestant, Catholic, Christian or having no religious affiliation, the average response was the same: It fell smack in the middle of "I feel this way rarely" and "I never feel this way." So much for non- Jewish respondents think- ing that Madoff is a dark smudge on all Jews. . Generally, Protestants, Catholics, Christians and those without religious affil- iation did not find Madoffs religion to be relevant. In- stead, his religious identity was more important to Jew- ish respondents; 59 percent have thought at some point that they would feel better if Madoff were Protestant, Muslim, Catholic or Hindu. Regardless of these dif- ferences, my survey also finds a similarity between the groups. All religious groups agreed that the media focus on Madoff's Jewish torkkground was "just right." Respondents probably recognized that Madoffs Jewish back- ground played a role in how he recruited investors. Therefore, they saw media coverage of this fact as rel- evant to the story, even if Medoff's specific religion was irrelevant to them. While I cannot gen- eralize, the findings still offer insight. Jews may be. surprised to learn that non- Jewish respondents have expressed cool-headed opinions about Madoffs religious background, not anti-Semitic ramblings. Non-Jews may be surprised to learn how sensitive Jewish respondents are to Madoffs religion, and the extent to which Jewish re- spondents worry about how non-Jews think about them. Not surprisingly, Marlon religion is a source of shame for many Jews It's impos- sible to reflect on Jewish concern over what "the Gentiles must think" with- out acknowledging a history pockmarked with extreme persecution. If the Madoff scandal took place in early 20th-century Europe, One can imagine it prompting a pogrom against Jews. But if the survey results are any indication, Jews are their toughest critics. Cognitive psychology can help explain that, too. When something is dear to you, you seek to protect its reputation. Personal is- sues such as religion are intertwined with identity. And while Madoffs house of cards toppled, identity is a much harder enterprise to collapse. Hinda Mandell, a doctoral student in mass communica- tions at the S.I. 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Jeffrey Epstein documents sealed - for now 'West Palm Beach News, South Florida Break... Page I of 3 Breaking News: WPB man has swine flu; WHO to declare pandemic Breaking News: Two former officers arrested on assault charges Share this Story Piintinis Story Jeffrey Epstein documents sealed - for now Reported by: Eric Glasser Email: [email protected] Last Update: 6/10 8:30 pm "I can't think of any other reason why it would happen in this case, but for his power, influence and wealth." Related Links • • • • • Biliknairesexeredator Another lawsuit against billionaire Jeffrey Epstein Billionaire Jeffrey Epstein soon to be Charged Is Jeffrey Epstein Making A Deal? Is billionaire sex offender getting special treatment? WEST PALM BEACH, FL -- Attorneys representing several young women suing Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein were in court today, asking a judge to unseal what they call a "sweetheart dear made between Epstein and the U.S. Attorney's Office. Federal prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges against Epstein. now 56, when the financier agreed to plead guilty to state charges last year. The Palm Beach billionaire was convicted of procuring teenagers for prostitution. "I can't think of any other reason why it would happen in this case, but for his power. influence and wealth." said the plaintiffs' attorney Brad Edwards. The sealed agreement, says Edwards. contains information relevant if not vital to their civil case. "And every day that goes by their rights are violated: said Edwards' law partner Wiliam Berger, "and why should their rights be violated any further'?" Epstein's attorney argues the deal his client made with federal prosecutors should remain sealed. "You've got to remember that it was the court that asked the record to be sealed and it was done during the course of the proceedings: said Epstein's lawyer Jack Goldenberger. Deanna Shullman. another attorney, weighed in as well. Shullman, representing the media and the public's right to see what's in those documents. says there was. as best as she can tell, no compelling legal standard applied when the judge originally sealed the documents. "The frustration is we have no idea why these records were sealed because it seems to have been sealed by a simple agreement of the parties: said Shullman. Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath seemed inclined to agree the deal should never have been sealed in the first place. but gave Epstein's lawyers until Friday to file papers and arguments persuading him otherwise. They're scheduled to meet again in court June 25th "Justice delayed is justice denied and that's where we are now," said a disappointed Edwards. "He's not getting special treatment," insisted Epstein's lawyer Jack Goldberger, "The law does not require the http://www.wptv.cominms/local/story/Epstein-documents-sealed/eCXzn4xAekWrWGFA... 6/11/2009 EFTA00259945

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Judge delays ruling on request to unseal plea deal in sex case By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff ;Warr WEST PALM BEACH — A circuit judge on Wednes- day did not unseal the deal that money manager Jeffrey Epstein of Palm Beach struck with fed- eral prosecutors to avoid charges, opting instead to give Epstein's lawyers a chance to demonstrate .why it should remain hid- den from public view. Circuit Judge Jeff Epstein Colbath ac- knowledged at a hearing that Epstein's deal was not sealed in state court in ac- cordance with the rules. don't see where any of the procedures were ever followed." he said. Colbath has given Epstein's defense attorney, Jack Goldberger, an op- portunity to argue that the document was properly sealed and asked lawyers to submit briefs to him by Friday. Colbath also set a full hearing for June 25. Attorneys for young women now suing Epstein are asking Colbath to un- seal the deal that Epstein brokered with federal prosecutors. A lawyer for. The Palm Beach Post also has joined in the request. "It's a secret agree- ment. A secret, sweetheart agreement," said former Circuit Judge Bill Berger, who now represents some of the women. "Everybody was in on this deal except the victims and the public," Berger said. "The public should be outraged it has gone as far as it has." A second attorney representing the women, Brad Edwards. has seen the sealed document. A federal judge allowed him and his clients to view it, but not to discuss its con- tents. Edwards said the women were "outraged" at what had been negotiated without their knowledge. A reporter asked Edwards if he thought Epstein re- ceived special treatment by federal prosecutors. "Are you kidding? Its transparent. Certainly no one else gels treated like that," Edwards said. 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4B THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009 Drive nets $1.3 million for charities Four organizations raised 'safety net' cash for 30 local nonprofits. By SONJA ISGER Palm Beath Post Staff Mites After being hit with the double-barrel crisis of fewer donations and more people in need of basics such as food and shelter. more than 30 local chari- ties were shown a glimmer of hope Wednesday. They will be getting a piece of $1.3 million raised in just one month. The organizers report that the payoff is bigger than the charities bottom lines. They say more than 11,300 families and 200,000 individuals will receive food; the money will pro- vide shelter to more than 14.925 families. More than 27,525 patients will get ac- cess to health care and 518 children of working poor parents, homeless chil- dren and those living with elderly caretakers began summer camp this week. The four biggest funders of nonprofits in Palm Beach and Martin counties set out to raise the money on May 1. The Community Foun- dation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. Children's Services Coun- cil of Palm Beach County. the Allegany Franciscan Ministries and Quantum Foundation called it the Safety Net Challenge. They report that private donors pitched in more than $291,000, corporate donors such as Bank of America came up with another S50,000, and foundations such as the Roy J. Zuckerberg Family Foundation and the John S. and James L Knight foundations contributed $100.000. The amount raised was then matched to bring the total to more than $583,000. And then the four funders said they would donate another $708,000 and change. The final sum: $1.29 million. 0 504$ .sterOPlxist cum FAU to accept fewer medical students By KIMBERLY MILLER Palm &mit Pori Stellhter FRKA RATON - Fewer future doctors will be ac- cepted to the fledgling medical program at Flor- ida Atlantic University as the school wrestles with overall budget cuts of $16.7 million. The program, which is part of the University of Miami's medical school, plans to drop new enroll- ment to 48 students this fall from initial hopes of admitting 64 annually. The College of Biomed- ical Science's share of the university's total budget reduction plan is $1.5 mil- lion. The budget proposal was presented to a com- mittee of FAU's board of trustees during a meeting Wednesday. About 130 students are currently enrolled in the Budget cuts will lower new enrollment to 48 instead of the goal of 64 students annually. university's medical pro- gram. The medical school opened at FAU in August 2004, enrolling an initial 16 students who took their firs: two years of classes in Boca Raton and the final two years at UM. A full-four year program at FAU opened in 2007 — a year ahead of schedule and one reason school officials arent overly con- cerned about the current reduction in enrollment. "We are not immune to what is happening state- wide and nationally," said Ken Jessell, FAlls, vice president for university finance, about the 816.7 million cut — the single largest reduction in uni- versity history. Overall. FAU proposes cutting 45 majors, 140 un- filled jobs and 30 filled po- sitions. Five of those filled positions are tenured fac- ulty in the College of En- gineering and Computer Science, which underwent a reorganization this year. Faculty members have expressed concerns about how their colleagues were laid off, stating during a meeting last week that the reorganization was a way to circumvent tenure policies that require less experienced faculty to be laid off first. FAU President Frank Brogan, in an exchange Trustee policy backs materials law Florida Atlantic aims to give some teeth to the affordability measure. By KIMBERLY MILLER Palm Beach Past Staff litter Florida's auditor general will review university text- book purchases to ensure compliance with a new law requiring schools to seek out cheaper materials for students. A Florida Atlantic Uni- versity trustee committee adopted a policy Wednes- day to comply with the law, learning that if profes- sors don't comply, they will be called out in the audit. Students had expressed concerns that there were no repercussions for non- compliance. "This has been a hot issue for students because of increased tuition and increased fees," said FAU student government Presi- dent Tiffany Weimar. "But while the implementation is great, a strong follow-up is missing: FAU Associate Vice President for Financial Affairs Dennis Crudele said lie hopes the attention from state auditors will help with enforcement. The new textbook af- fordability law was passed in 2008. It requires several ini- tiatives including: • Ensure textbook access to students who cannot afford to buy their own. • Post a list of required textbooks at least 30 days before the first day of class so students can shop around for the best deals. • Require professors to state their intent to use all items that come with a textbook such as CUs, which can increase a book's cost. • Determine the need for a new edition of a book when one is assigned. BARBARA KATZ Suite602 WAREHOUSE SALE SUNDAY JUNE 14 MONDAY JUNE 15 TUESDAY JUNE 16 10-5 10-5 10-5 GIVEAWAY PRICES IT ONLY HAPPENS ONCE A YEAR! DON'T MISS IT".. CASH ACCEPTED FOR PURCHASES IALNS /RAN $100, CREDIT CARDS ISXMLPTED FOR PURCHASES $100 ANDOVER Commons of Town Center • Formerly Glades Plant NW 10th Street & Butts Rand • Suite 601 • Boca Raton 561.391.1066 • Ban professors and employees from receiving payment from publishers for assigning their books. Professors are allowed to receive royalties on their own writing • lomby that belied his normally jovial demeanor, said the personnel decisions made during the budget cut pro- cess were not an attack on tenure. "FAU respects tenure as much as any other state university," Brogan said. As president of this university, I want that quote to be entered into the record in a way that cannot be misunderstood and shouldn't be accepted as anything but what I mean it to be. This uni- versity supports tenure. That's a fact." • kiMberty_MIllnig,POSt com Tennis tour idea losing in Delray By MARIA HERRERA Sun Sentinel DELRAY BEACH — A promoter who wants to bring an international tennis tournament to Del- ray Beach must change his proposal for the city's budget task force to rec- ommend approval. Mark Baron, whose Match Point Inc. runs the International Ten- nis Championships and the ATP World Tour, asked the city last week to co-sponsor the ATP Champions Tour and pay $375,000. plus an annual 3 percent increase for the next 20 years. "The end result is that he's supposed to revise the contract." said Todd L'Herrou, a member of the task force, after the group met with Baron on Tuesday "It would be very hard to recommend approval at this point." Baron said the ATP Champions Tour is played around the world and few tures retired players such as John McEnroe and Pete Sampra.s. Baron billed the tour as the first of its kind in the United States. Opposition to the event is mounting Renzo Raiss, a Delray Revise the contract, the city's budget task force tells a promoter. resident who worked with professional tennis players in the 1970s. said the tour has not been suc- cessful in other cities in the country. "This is normally a sponsorship of a hotel to stimulate a bit of interest in the location," he said. Raiss said he would organize his neighbors against the proposal should taxpayers be stuck with the bill. Delray is facing a 15 percent decrease in tax revenue, or about $7 mil- lion, and officials said they already have been criticized for sponsoring other tennis events. The city's budget task force said last year that such sponsorships are costing Delray about $2 million a year because of a 25-year agreement with Match Point. 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FPL estimates that a typical residential bill would actually decrease by about $5 monthly horn approximately $109 to $104 starting Jan. 1, 2010 Thai's because the base increase of $12.40 would be more than offset due to lower fuel costs. The lower fuel costs are based on Feb. 9. 2009. fuel price preecticas for 2010 as well as improvements in power wart fuel efficiency Most business customer bills would decrease as well. In 2011, FPL is requesting an additional base rate increase of $2.84 a month on a typical residential bill. Service Healing Schedule The customer service hearings scheduled in your area *VI be conducted by the Commission at the times and daces indicated below. Tuesday, June 23,2009 - 4:00 p.m. Daytona Beach City Commission Chambers City Hall 301 S. Ridgewood Avenue Daytona Beach, FL 32114 Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 9:00 a.m. Brevard County Governmental Center Commission Room, Building C, 1st floor 2725 Judge Fran Jamieson Way Melbourne, FL 32940 Wednesday, June 24, 2009 - 4:00 p.m. Palm Beach County Governmental Center Jane Thompson Memorial Chambers. 6th floor 301 N. Olive Avenue West Palm Beach, FL 33401 Thursday, June 25, 2009 — 9:90 a.m. Broward County Main Library Auditorium 100 S. Andrews Avenue Ft. Lauderdale, FL 33301 The purpose of these customer service hearings is to take testimony from the public on the quality and adequacy of FPL's service and other matters related to FPL's petition for a rate adjustment. Members of the pubic who wish to present testimony are urged to appear promptly at each scheduled hearing tme since the nearing may be adjourned early it no witnesses are present to testify. 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• THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, JUNE 11,2009 5B Water district won't raise tax rate Managers hope that property values don't fall as far as expected. By PAUL QUINLAN Palm Beach Past Staff Writer The South Florida Wa- ter Management District will not hike its property tax rate despite plans to finance the state's prici- est-ever conservation land purchase amid a historic plunge in real estate values. leaders said Wednesday. The agency expects revenues to drop about $340 million this year, in part because property val- ues across the district's 16 counties in South and Cen- tral Florida are anticipated to plunge 12.3 percent, water managers said. The district is planning a $1.5 billion budget for the 2010 spending year, which begins Oct. 1. The agency's tax rate is 62.4 cents for each $1,000 of taxable value. At that rate, the owner of a $250,000 home with a $50,000 homestead exemp- tion would pay $124.80 to the district. Wednesday's discus- sion came as the district prepares to finance Gov. Charlie Crist's monumen- tal Everglades restoration plan: a $536 million pur- chase of 73,000 acres of U.S. Sugar Corp. farmland. The concept calls for eventually building a chain of reservoirs and marshes that could re-cre- ate the historic flowing connection between Lake Okeechobee and the Ev- erglades. The land deal alone will saddle the district with $45.7 million in an- nual debt payments over the next 30 years, Budget Director Doug Bergstrom told the district's board at a meeting in Naples. Water managers main- tain that the deal with US. Sugar — downsized twice from Crist's original plan to buy out the company for $1.75 billion — would not impair the district's ability to perform its core duties of flood control and water supply management. The one silver lining to this year's dire budget season: Water manag- ers are optimistic that district-wide property values actually may drop less than 123 percent as June estimates tend to be overly conservative, Berg- strom said. The board will meet in July to review the pro- posed budget before hold- ing two public hearings in September. The district also must submit the bud- get to Crist, who has the power to veto it. WrosUiAllinianitoopost com Copter to spray west county mosquitoes By BILL DIPAOLO Palm Beach Post Staff Wein If you're an adult mos- quito, Friday night would be a good time to bug out of western Palm Beach County A Huey helicopter is scheduled to spray Di- brom. a chemical that bumps off the irritating insects by disrupting their nervous systems. Spraying will start at sundown and is planned for four hours over 215,000 acres west of Military Trail in south county, the Glades, Wellington, Jupiter Farms, Palm Beach Coun- try Estates, Caloosa, Loxa- hatchee, The Acreage and Royal Palm Beach. "The mosquitoes are really annoying people." said Gary Goode, environ- mental analyst with the Palm Beach County mos- quito control division. The spraying is neces- sary because of recent rains, Goode said. The 151 inches of precipitation • recorded in made May the second wettest month since 1890, when 16.2 inches fell at Palm Beach International Airport. This year's heavy rains followed one of the driest November-to-May dry seasons on record, according to the National Weather Service. If South Florida has steady precipitation, the rains will wash away the eggs that the insects lay on the ground. But if rains are heavy for two weeks then drop off for the next two weeks, the eggs will have time and a place to hatch, Goode said. Rubbing out nuisance mosquitoes — females can lay 200 eggs every time they bite — is the goal of Friday night's spraying. So far, the county has had no reports of disease- carrying mosquitoes, Goode said. 8eiteipavottopost Above-average depths in much of Everglades ► WATERftom IB executive director of water resources, during a board meeting in Naples. "This has been a soaking rain from the top of the system to the bottom." Water now has reached above-average depths in vast swaths of the Ever- glades that had run dry. Meanwhile, monitor wells whose drying had iriggered last month's tightening of restrictions now have filled to above- average levels, with some reaching some of the high- est levels seen in decades, said Peter Kwiatkowski, Hie district's director of resource evaluation. Watering limits These restrictions are in place for most of South Florida and the Treasure Coast, including Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie counties. Water managers may make them permanent. Odd-numbered addresses: Watering allowed Wednesdays and Saturdays. Even-numbered addresses and properties with no address: Watering allowed Thursdays and Sundays. Hours: No watering between 10 a.m. and 4 pro. Exceptions: One-day-a-week limits remairein Lake Worth. No restrictions are in effect for Highland Beach, which draws all of its water from the Floridan Aquifer. "Rainfall has recharged the aquifer levels to the point where things are in really great shape," he said. The region is not en- tirely in the clear, water managers cautioned. July usually ranks as What drought? See South Florida water rules, pick up bps. browse photos. PalmliteachPost.com/drought the driest month of the wet season. Water managers said they cannot be sure whether the wet season will bring below- or above- average rainfall, although forecasts suggest the latter. 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▪ BB THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, JUNE 11.2009 Convict admits strangling Lake Worth waitress in '83 By JASON SCHULTZ — Palm tkarli Post Staff Utile, y WEST PALM BEACH — Justice in the slaying of -a waitress was served 25 years late, but it finally came Wednesday after a 69-year-old man admitted .strangling her, according '10 the Palm Beach County :State Attorney's Office. Bruce Albert Tessier f-was already serving three elecades in prison for mur- Ct_ t.(Dispatcher honored for talking dering an Ala- chua County woman when he was sen- tenced to 37 more years on Wednesday. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the Sept. 29, 1983, death of Lynn C. Julin- The 29-year-old was found strangled in her Tessler Lake Worth apartment. "It's been a long time since Lynn has been gone," said her mother. BeverlyJu- lin. Fn. of Sebastian. "We've all mourned her, and I'm just glad it is Over," Julio said her (laugh- ter had five brothers and one sister and the news of Tessierh plea will help them all find closure. According to the state attorney's office. Tes- sier was Julin's neighbor in 1983 and on probation after being convicted of sexual battery. In April. he was charged in Julin's death after DNA evidence found on her nightgown linked him to the case. "What I feel sadly about is all the people who suf- fered from the time my daughter died, the people he was responsible for kill- ing." Beverly Julin said. referring to the woman lbssier was convicted of killing in 19W in Alachua County "That is who I feel sad for." At the time of Julin's slaying, media outlets and investigators wondered if her death was connected to the slayings of three other waitresses. Gayle McNeil, 30, of Cocoa Beach, was found dead west of Delray Beach on Oct. 21. 1983; Elizabeth Ann Hucco. 29, of Lake Worth, was found dead in September in Mel- bourne: and Carla Lowe. 21, of Pompano Beach. was found dead in Delray Beach on Nov. 13, 1983. After Tessier's arrest. sheriff's officials and Del. ray Beach police said they did not have any evidence that Tessier was involved in the other three murders. • Jason schultreptipost.com Boca dad through son's delivery By CHRISTINA (*PARDO Palm Beach POO Staff !Enter to pass out." On Wednesday, three months BOCA RATON — It was 5 a.m. afterJustin was born, Sullivan be- : and Kenn Haupert had just awak- came the first civilian to receive :ened to his wife's screams. She her department's Distinguished was in labor Service Award. Haupert picked up the phone Sullivan, who has worked for to call the doctor, but when his the city for six years, was nearing wife, Teresa. screamed again, he the end of her 12-hour shift when dropped the phone to run back she got the call from Haupert. into the bedroom. He could see She guided him through deliver- 1. the baby's head. ing the baby to tying the umbili- 11 Haupert hung up on the doe- cal cord. for and called 911. On the other "It was amazing to hear him line was Jessica Sullivan. a Boca cry on the other end." said Sul- Raton 911 dispatcher who helped livan, who lives in Port St. Lucie. Haupert deliver son Justin, who After receiving her award, Sul- ; weighed 6 pounds, 14 ounces. livan cradled Justin in her arm. "Without her I would have "lie is absolutely adorable," she been lying face-down on the said." floor," said Haupert. "I was ready AREA DEATHS Palm Beach County Albright, Edna Foster, 89, of Juno Beach, died Wednesday Edgley Cremation Services, West Palm Reach. Allen, Sylvester, 84, of Boynton Beach. (lied Friday. Shuler's Me- morial Chapel. Mangonia Park. Service Saturday. Alvarez, Javier, 64, of Atlantis. (lied May 29. Genesis Funeral Home. HollyvAxxl. Bannister, Clarence, 83, of Royal Palm Beach, died Saturday. Shuler's Memorial Chapel, Man- gonia Park. Funeral Saturday. Busse', Hands, 77, of Riviera Beach. died June 2. Shuler's Me- ' morial Chapel, Mangonia Park. i Service Saturday. Cameron, Marian E., sz of At- :lantis, died Wednesday. Scobee- ‘ Combs-Bowden Fbneral Home Crematory, Boynton Beach. "Memorial service Saturday. Chlapponl, Guy Francis, 23, of Ju- piter, died litesday. Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory Ochristina dpnarOofipbpont.corn Benacquisto gets key GOP backing By GEORGE BENNETT Paint Ifraria Post sue IlWray Republican state Rep. Sharon percent of voters live in Palm Merchant of Palm Beach Gar- Beach County and 45 percent The primary is more than dens, who has said it is "highly in Lee County, with a smatter- 14 months away, but key Re- likely" she will enter the race. ing in Glades and Charlotte publicans lined up Wednesday Along with the senators' counties. Democrats hold a 40- behind Wellington Council- endorsements, Benacquisto to-36 percent registration edge. woman Lizbeth Benacquisto on Wednesday picked up the About 60 percent of the in her bid for a state Senate support of Matt Caldwell, the district's Republican voters live district that could be a partisan Lee County Republican who in Lee County. and geographic battleground was the party's 2008 nominee In garnering Caldwell's en- in 2010. for that Senate district. dorsement Wednesday, Benac- Three key GOP senators District 27 is now repre- quisto said she would support — Senate President Jeff At- sented by Sen. Dave Arenberg, a redistricting after the 2010 water. Majority Leader Alex D-Greenacres, who last week census that creates at least one Diaz de la Tortilla and former launched a 2010 campaign for Senate district with a major- Senate President Ken Pruitt attorney general. ity of Lee County voters. The — endorsed Benacquisto to In addition to Republicans three senators who now repre- represent District 2Z which Benacquisto and Merchant, sent parts ofLeeCounty—Ar- stretches from West Palm Democratic attorney Peter onberg and Republicans Mike Beach to Fort Myers. Burkert of Fort Myers is ex- Bennett and Garrett Richter In backing Benacquisto, the pected to run. — live in other counties. senators passed over former In District 27, about s4 - •george_bennettOpbpost con Royal Palm Beach. Memorial service Saturday. Dixon, Geeslin W, 72, of West Palm Beach, died Monday. Royal Palm Memorial Gardens and Fu- neral Home, West Palm Beach. Gold, Jack, 80, of Boynton Beach, died Tuesday. Beth Is- rael Memorial Chapel, Boynton Beach. Service Monday Gregory, Joseph A., 80, of West Palm Beach. died Tuesday- Edg- ley Cremation Services, West Palm Beach. Gummere, Jerry Victor, 75, of Wellington, died Wednesday. Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory. Royal Palm Beach. Visitation Monday. Kellner-Feinstein, Diane 5-, 63, of Delray Beach. died Friday. Weiss Memorial Chapel, Boyn- ton Beach- Memorial service Sunday Paugh, Josephine Ann, 93, of West Palm Beach, (lied Tuesday. National Cremation Society, Lake Worth. Perez, Gilberto, 47, of Lake Worth, died Saturday. All Coun- ty Funeral Home and Crema- tory, Lake Worth. Pletenik, Samuel, 91, of Boyn- ton Beach, died Monday. A Cremation Service of the Palm: Beaches. Boynton Beach Prater, Martha E 91, of Lan- tana. died Saturday Tillman Fu- neral Home, West Palm Beach. Service Sunday. Rendon, Oscar, of Defray Beach, died Sunday. Genesis Funeral Home, Hollywood. Me- morial service Saturday. Rodriguez, Eugenio, 64, of West Palm Beach. died June 2. All County Funeral Home and Cre- matory. Like Worth. Rothstein, Violet, 86, of Boca Raton, died Tuesday. Levitt- Weinstein Memorial Chapel, West Palm Beach. Service Friday. Rulz,Mada 1,83, of Boca Raton, died Monday. Hudson Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach Russo, Anthony, 96, of Boca Raton, died Sunday. Neptune Society. Pompano Beach. khan., John G., 92, of Lake Worth, died Monday. All County Funeral Home and Crematory Lake Worth. Sprees Patsy L, 79. of Welling- ton. died Monday Palms West Funeral Home and Crematory, Royal Pahn Beach. Wailing, Wanda Ci.. 93, of Lake Worth, died Monday All County Funeral Home and Crematory, Lake Worth. 1Iielssel, Ira M., 9Z of West Palm Beach. died Tuesday. I. J. Morris Funeral Directors, West Palm Beach. Winston, Howard L,82, of Boyn- ton Beach, died Monday. River- side Gordon Memorial Chapel, Delray Beach. Martin County Pusleko, Jeffrey, 51, of Stuart, died May 30. Martin Funeral Home and Crematory. Stuart. Wadsworth, Irma, 88, of Stuart. died Monday. Aycock Funeral Home, Stuart. Funeral in New York. St. Lucie County Burke, Glory H.. 82, of Port St. Lucie, died Wednesday Yates Funeral Home and Crematory Port St. Lucie. Service Monday. Citst. Charles McKinley, 40, formerly of Fort Pierce. died June 4. Stone Brothers Funeral Home, Fort Pierce. Visitation Friday and Saturday; service Saturday Fuller, Emmett Jr., 83, of Fort Pierce, died Friday. Stone Broth- ers Funeral Home, Fort Pierce. the, William C. Jr., 47, of Port St. Lucie, died Sunday. Martin Funeral Home and Crematory. Stuart. McMartin, Mary Jane, 74, of Port St. Lucie, (lied Friday. Yates Fu- neral Home and Crematory Port St. Lucie. Visitation and service Friday. FUNERAL NOTICES MIIIER BOUIE, Jr. Maw Roue Jr., ego 78 of Deerfield ' Beech. FL went home to be mei the Lord on June 3 2009. He leans tp cherish e w1/4 , Mrs. kali kW* of Deerfield Beak i7 five sons and two daughters and a host of rather relators and sorroMrq friends. ▪ Funeral Service will be held Saturday --here 13, NOP at 103 PM at St. Paul MAE - Church 119 NW Stli Avenue Delray illeach FL 33444. Veitliti0n wit( be held ' Friday. June 12, 2009, 6 PM to B PM at Mielereie I Chapel, 606 West .Atlanbe Avenue, Dekey Bnc& FL. 33444. j -Professional Service entrusted to %vies Memorial Chapel Delray Beach. FL re arm adeleares were wee Mame Veit PalmBeachPost.corWelitear4. JOHN GILBERT SCHATTIE March 24,1917 - Jun* 'I, 2009 • John G. Senate. 92, • men of many unfits. pissed sway on hew S. 2009. Survivors include his dedicated ' and loving wife of 66 years, Jewel; children, John. Edwina and Glenda; grandchildren. Susie, Usa, Michael. John arid Robert; sister, Kay and brother. Thomas: numerous grandchildren, greareedetticken. races and nephews- Mho woe &wain Hatehon, PA. Upon . *lase from service in the Army, he ssapenns his otter with the goad of Winer Soapk In eget for the ON o York. In 1960 John goichiala Fes n he class from the RCA Inset/W.3nel ' arid John relocated to Lake Worth whore I they have bred for the last 38 yews There roll be a Memorial Service the Saturda), June 13 from 2:00 PM until 4:00 PM at the Del Loge Chapel, 131 . South tatted* Drive. Lake Worth All County F ;mend Hon* is in charge of the rerangements owns nenermen fad —5 • eleeeseen von Peenliminfrostrom/obitions BIR71RUM REMMING I &rheum Roentrisng. roe* 62, of Delray Beath. FL went home to with the Lord on Jane 6, 2009. Me Moves to cherish he memOry: MS Bute, lbs.Glenda Raman I. of Delny Beech; two sons rind one I doughty end a host of other relatives I end sorrowing bends. Funeral Service wee be hold Simard, ' June 13, 2009 at 1200 PM et Shsuler s Memorial Chapel, 606 West Atlantic v_ mi Avenue. 'Delray Beach FL 33444. wr -Professions' Sonia entrusted to 9wlees ?Yoram' OWN. Deny Beech. FL .7., Crittgeg.a....Ct.ye ssa MARY K. BERNACKI Age 79 of Jupiter FL. passed away snemectechy on Monday, June ft 2009 in West Mill Peach. Born in Now Navin. the had boon a resident of -higher for twent -aix years. coming from Durkee% CT. Prior to retirement, she was e Licensed Practical Nurse al Middlesex Memorial Hospital and CI Convalescent Home, both in Middletown, CT. Mrs. Ulnaehi was e long-tne parishioner with Notre Dame Catholic Church in Durham. CT. Suntan Include her loving husband. Henry S. flernacki of Jupiter; one daughter. Maureen A. Bernick; of Jupiter. two sons. Henry Bernechi of Jupiter and Peter S. Bernath d Duthrn. CT: ono granddeughter. Leah Bernscki: one geeafigrandsors Tyler Kota and one grog-granddaughter, Sadie Kobus. She was preceded in death by her laments. Jessie end Dora KIM' and her two sons. taonJ. and Mirka H. %radii A Moss of Christian Burial will be Celebrated Pee 9 Catholicy 13. 2009 at St. Church 1701 Indian Creek Parkway. Jupiter, FL. The Ismay lumens contribution to 'Go Red for Wom•r•-. c/o American Heart Ask:oaten, 72)2 Greenville Ave. Dalin. 752314596 Taylor & Medea Finest Home Feeley Owned & Operated 7444030, Jupiter. FL To ores meal... ant's* ease dererrare Melt PaimBeadiPostconstobhuarla ROBERT E. WISE Agi t0c: I hoer. Palm Beach, pawed ch, sway et he home on hardly. Jute • 2009. Me we,. tool & die maker and *signer in Elkhart. Indiana. He retired from Pratt & Whitney in 1994. Hens en Army Yemen of lAWI. Robert helped to build three churches In the area, end wet a volunteer for the Palm Beach County Schools for twenty-eight mare. He is survived by his loving wife. Carolyn- his children; stip-children; grandchildren and greet-grendchiltrees also several brothers. step-brothers and step-sisters. Memorial Services will be held on Safirday. lure 13, 2009 at II:00 AM .t the HOWA40.PRICF FUNERAL HOME. 754 US Highway One. North Peri Beach. L +4 el lowers donabom may be ma* to The Selvaton Army. 2100 Pairs Beach Latin Bhst, West Palm Beach, FL 33409. Unarms swaluee• arerse mole empire. Visit Pahntleachrostrorefoltawaries ADAM SCOTT FUSCO Adam Scott Fiasco 26, a native of Pa*. Beach Gardens. FL died in a tragic ATV modal on Msy 24. 2009 in she 6/dge, GA He is survived by many family and friends who love and will miss turn dearly A day_for Adam is June 13 2009 For info col 5611762-2592 7(56111)' ci290 Se •mreura toirdearee. roam yrs eke ParentleackPost corrOohouan I Pa ImBeachPost.com Click on Obituaries LYDIA DENISE SLOAN-SMITH ^Lit' Age 4$. of Boynton Beech, FL passed away on Monday lured. 2009. She is summed by her sow Miami b. Edwards of Boynton Beach; her loving mother, Helen -Sian of Boynton Beech and her father. Russell Sloan who L roceeded her its death. One brother. loyd Sloan (Nicole) of Port St. Luca. FL and one sister. Cheryl Sloan.Panerson of Boynton Beech end a host of loving NMI, members Viewing will be hold Friday. Jae 12. 2009 from 6 to $ PM at Boynton Beach Church of God, 135 N.C. 7th Ave.. Boynton Bath. Funeral Sanas will be held Saturday. June 13, 2009. 1200 Noon et the above mend church. Bishop Kenneth B. Jones. Pastor STRAGHN & SON TRI.CTIY FUNERAL HOW. le-Charge of Arrangements. Te rearelera val ancjeetcesS id Th wer dram SYLVESTER ALLEN Sterner Allen, N. of Boynton Bach. FL entered into eternal rest at home the lovingrare of his family on Friday, Jwoe He I to cherish his precious memories, • devoted wife of 64 years. Ruby B. Allen: children. Arnold Allen. Sr. (Mirien), Kirk Allen (Ruby), Theresa A. Weath•rspoon (Leonard) and Wesley Alen five grendchIldren. five Slotet-Wardchrldren: thirteen sisters; ex brothers. adopted mother, Trude Hands; a host coif nieces, nephews, COUSJIS and sonmeng friends. Viewing rill be held on Friday. Jen* 12, 20046:00 - 9:00 PM, St. John Miseionary Baptist Church, 900 N. Sacral Blvd, Boynton Beach. FL. Homegorng Service within held on Saturday, June 13 2009, 1 TOO AM et eon heed church. Slodoes Memorial Chapel. Manowie Perk, FL (5611$82•4255 re ran wales erne now Anne.. Wtl Pdatladtest.soni/obitaaries NICHOLAS A. TERZIS /....a iiA laws S mow last Tiursday, Jana 4. 1309 of • heart attack due to complications after surgery who at hetes Medal Center. Nick wes born on April 21, 1956 in Newburyport, MA to Altaic,. N. and Mary G. Term. He graduated from Newburyport High School in 1974 and earned his erg oaring degree from the University of Massachusetts. He wes • brilliant mar and had an illustrious with Pratt & Whitney, Florida Pneumatic and Advanced Turbine Products to name a few. He was passion eta about everything he did and loved lets. moterycles. can. anneals and children In addition to his parents he Is wined by his sister, Tula Terris of Jupiter, and his best friend end teammate, Arlie Higgins; his dog, Lathy and their cat. Safi. as well as aunts. sales and comes in Massmhusetts. His friends and famih are phoning a celebration of Peck's life this Saturday, June 13 a the Yard Home at Downtown m Pal, Bach Grans from 2- S PM le Sena getlelearee weds Nebo veers Weit PsholeadaPoetcoodcetweries PEARL FEINBERG Pearl Feinberg, 94 of Royal Palm Bach. FL and %may of Monticelo. NY passed away on June 9. 2009. Mrs. Feinberg was predeceased by her hawed in husband Dr. Nathan I Feinberg DP 2001. Na She is survived by loving day t Dee Sams and Lay Gruber (Ca en cherishedgranclehltdr•n. lys• Gruber. Day.d Sabers (Mari) and Laura Sabers-Jensen.(Etharib adored greet-grandchild. Peden lemon. Alewit be missed by may Meas. nephews and great, Pat rota end neptwn. rn Mu of flowers memoriel demotions ten be snide to Jewish Famil) & Children. - P.O BOX 220627. West Palm ServicesL 33422 Chapel services velll be held on Thursday. June II, NM at 1:00 PM at I J. Morris Funeral Directors, 5411 Okeechobee Blvd West Palm Beach, FL 33417 1561) 653-8676 Internment to follow at Refer Palm Memorei Greens ite e. 4.4 Snore r d4.80.3•• Val PWebodsPost.connobrtuane I Cum • Agorae • Dignified 'Simple • $689 Complete AVATAR CREMATION SERVICE SERVING Palm Beach, Martin & St. Lucie Counties Call us today or rant our *Sae for 561.747.9883 a m747,9883 arida:mai information www.avatarcrimatign.com • HARVIS BUSSEY A longtime resident of Riviera Beach. FL. deWed this Lfe on Jan 2, 2009. He is survived by his wife Mildred Betsey; nine children; Bernard, Evens, Charles. Dennis. Denise, Annette Arn•ttis, Honda end Paul Busier landed in death by one son, Edn.• two brothers. McArthur and Will r Busse,: three sisters, laws grime, Irene Acres end Mary Allen; a host of grandchildren. great•grandthildrian, nizcaThews. comets. other relatives Pak Wrong will be heel on Friday. Juno 12,2009,6:00 • SAO PM, Shaler s Memorial Chapel, 5301 N. Australian Avenue. Mang0nia Part FL. Hcenogoins Service will be on Saturday. June I3, 2009, 12:00 noon, New Hope Baptist Chroch. 1136 West 10th Street, Rivera BOO. FL. Shufer's Memorial Chapel. Mango...a Pert, FL Sell 882-425S 7.• ,Maoxfolersoi relier borne% 1FSi PalnAleacheort.conVotiltuaries WILLIE BURR 1/EASY Burr Viress% 69, of Fort Lauder. date, FL passed easy June 6,2009. Funeral Service Saturcloy, June 13. 2009 • 11:00 MA at Mt ban adisskinary Baptist Church. B68 W. 9th St , Loire Booth. Ft hieveig halm, SOO 4:CO PM at the church. At reng•nn ts by Roy Muell & Kunz Funeral Monte, Fort Lauderdale. FL le urea ,..delves teases Vbit PentleadtPost.conVobituaries JOSEPHINE A. PAUGH 'As a remernbrarce of my beloved mother. Josephine A Pa h, who Mesa away Juno 9. 2009. at the ego of 93. know we ',Arnett vein end you we rosy in heaven ash the rat of our family. resting in pore and glory. I love you ard amp will and a:lain dearly missed by may, as a PA is a bowel, always horning °v.v. toy 5 mars 'fro.r loving re war... reakiesesnel. auasemeesi Veit PalmileadtemconVolatiaries Find bereavement .mal4ii.i grsoliph .1(1175)%1 4 Orli Diane Jaccarino Anil 22.1951-MI*11,203e You are Loved, Cherished and Sadly Missed But Not Forgotten. Love, Billy etbirn 14 years one sou let us. It broke our hears to low too Too did not go alone. Part u4 us with \TUE the day a mil look rota home God gave us courage to fact and courage to mid the blow. Whet n meant for sat to low sou no one will e'er know %%cal must last for a little while_. Please do not gorse and shed in learn And hug tour arum to you through the seers. But start strong!) with a smile, And for my sale and in my name Lite an and Joan things the same. In Memory Of Parents. Leif & Zack: Brothers: Rends, Maurice & Vince Children: Nicole & Alfred; Grandkids; Nay & BI: I MARCH 19, 1959 • JUNE 110995 ta The Entire Strighn Famih Keith Straghn • EFTA00259951

s THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009 7B BUY NG WE PAY CASH FOR YOUR... JEWELRY, DIAMONDS, WATCHES, STERLING SILVER, COINS, COLLECTIBLES THIS WEEK ONLY STARTS TODAY! ANTIQUE AND MODERN GOLD & PLATINUM JEWELRY There Ls always a demand for old Items of jewelry, and right now the market is strong. We buy diamonds of all shapes and sizes, loose or mounted. If you have a G,LA, certificate, please bring it with you. Diamonds come in many qualities and colors, including blue, pink, yellow, green, and grey. We will buy your diamonds by themselves or mounted in almtrit any type of jewelry. Art Deco and Art Nouveau jewelry (from the 20s, Ms, and 40s) was frequently made combining diamonds with other precious stones: Emeralds, Rubies, or Sapphires. II you aren't sure if your jewelry is made of gold or platinum. bring it in and let us check it. ;het 411 i% Animal Or *-aa. Bug Pins C Arras WE MAY FIND A HIDDEN TREASURE FOR YOU!!!! We are always interested in signed or designer pieces, AND we pay a premium for these items! PI* Riga lei PSI MEN'S OLD WATCHES iLi a • , I) Iona • Oyster • President • Submariner • Date Just RstekRbillipe Some Examples Rolex up to $15,000 Cartier up to $10,000 Vacheron Constantin up to $3,500 Patek PhIllIpe up to $25,000 Pocket Watches up to 56,000 Movado up to 52,800 International up to $4,000 Le Coultre up to $2,600 Universal Geneve up to $3,800 Omega up to $2,500 we buy Rok,. Cartier, Black Naelwron Constantin, le Coultre. ItuloYa, RrHUing, ()mega. Comm. Xuderniam. ilgue. Gruen. laeger.lcCoultre, longincs Nage, litany, UniYersal Genes, Van (led & %pelt, NIOURIth Complicated %etches bring the highest prices. Platinum. !Ink or Row Gold is .en' desirable. I halms' snitches or nineties with extra dial. on the face may mean mom money for you. Extra button.. alarms or chiming watch', are ken desirable. We also buy old railroad and pocket natelws of all kinds. we buy ladies Rolex. Cartier, Park Phillipe. Me. and many narthex made of gold, platinum and diamonds. •WE BUY WATCHES IN ANY CONDITION. WORKING OR NOT • S OW iii ,oNcl Pet kit esaleNth Anlitt Wayne, Peel/ Ptellthq• %/mug• and theregeht•led Den9 the MOST • Le Count* DIAMONDS • ALL SIZES & SHAPES Sb Carat Diamond up to $1,000 I Carat Diamond up to $4,500 2 Carat Diamond up to 515,000 3 Carat Diamond up to $22,000 5 Carat Diamond up to $100,000 Vie hate a great demand right now for diamonds of all YiZts, and especial& for diamonds of five carats or more. The larger diamonds bring much more money. Re buy old mine rut or European cut stones. Due to large contracts, our buying power is stronger now than ever before! Be will buy your diamonds with or without a Girt. Certificate. lour diamonds can be mounted in gold or platinum. Be also bus old mountings that have had the stones removed. • ALL US GOLD COINS • ALL US SILVER COINS • ALL FOREIGN GOLD, SILVE INS & SETS • PROOF GOLD AND SILVER EAGLES • SINGLE COINS OR COMPLETE COLLEC • ALL PROOF AND MINT SETS • ALL CARSON CITY SILVER ANp GOLD • SILVER AND GOLD COMMEMORATIVES • FRANKLIN MINT GOLD AND SILVER SETS • ALL PCGS AND NGC CERTIFIED COINS Art Glass • Antiques Porcelain • Bronzes Fine & Decorative Art Rockwood Tiffany Roseville Weller Swarovski Russian Items Gall. Meissen Sevres Old Bronze, Daum Nancy Judith Le Wier Leverre Francois Illustration Art Paintings on Porcelain Cameos Uadro Horn owl Antique Lamps, Art Glass 4) it; benzene *able Royal Dourton kart Etchings Yktotian Jewelry Handel Lamps Lailque Masonic awns Moorcroft Loots Cartier Clocks Porcelain Boxes Fine China Sets KPM Zippo Lighters Old Oil Paintings Miniature Paintings Dunhill Lighters Old Fountain Pena Old Louis Vuitton Luggage We Buy Sing. HMIS Or An Entire Estate BUYING RARE COINS - WE WILL COME TO YOUR HOME OR BANK VAULT FOR LARGER COLLECTIONS US PAPER MONEY US Large Size Bills US Small Size Bills Gold and Silver Certificates Fractional Currency $500 Bill $1,000 Bill $5,000 Bill $10,000 Bill hien in based mormottrot sitars* STERLING SILVER Flatware Sets Up to $9,000 Serving Trays Up to $6,000 Tea Sets Up to $10,000 Candelabra Bring for Cash Otter fen Flatware Tea Sets, Baskets, Bowls, Candelabra, Picture Frames, Bring for CASH Offer We pay premium prices for all Tiffany, Tenon & Vanier Bring in for Offer. I SI I ANI SIFIMASC SILI. ER MAIN.. %0 511.511( It M It/ t•t_ US GOLD & SILVER COINS US GOLD COINS US SILVER COINS SI $100 and up Silver Dollars $10.00 and up $2.50 $130 and up Halt Dollars $3.50 and up $3.00 $550 and up Quarter Dollars $1.75 and up $5.00 $200 and up 20 Cent Pieces $10.00 and up $10.00 $425 and up Dimes 5.70 and up $20.00 case and up Hart Dimes $4.00 and up All Old & Modern Gold & Silver Coins & Sets • Buying all Certified Coins PCGS. NGC, ANACS, etc. • Entire Collections • High Grade and Rare Date Coins Bring Higher Values • All prices subject to change according to fluctuations in the precious metals market Prices are based on condition and rarity ALL TYPES • COMPLETE SETS We buy US Type Coins • Proof Sets Commemoratives • Mint Sets • Foreign Gold and Silver • All Certified Coins 900/0 Silver Coins HALVES (Pre-1965) $3.50 ad pp QUARTERS (Pre-1965) $1.75 as le DIMES (Pre-1965) 5.70 swop WAR NICKELS • BUFFALO NICKELS V NICKELS • SHIELD NICKELS l'7CENT PIECES • LARGE CENTS 2 CENT PIECES • 3 CENT PIECES COMMEMORATIVE COINS All prices subgct to change accre r.o to • .r 1 nisitet Important: Do Not Clean Coins WHY YOU SHOULD SELL NOW! it Ube are nimorlog oreedlag do Ned Ms Is yew le =writs boa= ill b barbed tidier to odd ranalsittrosel. to Mears COMM berMarate eamttaliedImIrk may imarsampeemhe.or Sets derodies weal ler Sr me k Nt ow me a fro terbal (Item, SO that ,011• Lr.,• Aro si ;Ku an el Inc 'WI' Slat t ic art ann. mar bd. 4) Sew atm astatrs wrier depilate al elide the ad =i heir Min le amid. th br Si terieb rut whorl ebb 5) Terris lo keeled by ).).1 rad sub priendras I WE BUY ALL TYPES OF GOLD. 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• 88 THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009 Fiat completes Chrysler takeover BUSINESS wivriPaImBeachPost.com/business THE MARKET REPORT ♦ DOW 8,739.02 -24.04 ♦ NASDAQ 1.853.08 -7,05 ♦ S&P 500 939.15 -3.28 ♦ RUSSELL 2000 523.71 -4.22 10-YR NOTE 3.96% +0.10 CRUDE OIL $71.33 +1.32 Oil prices hit new 2009 high HOUSTON — Oil prices surged again Wednesday to a new high for the year with investors pouring money into crude markets as a hedge against inflation. Adding to crude's advance was new government data that showed an uptick in U.S. demand for gasoline. THE MORNING LINE Local foreclosure filings spike Fon-closure filings spiked in Palm Beach County in May, research firm RealtyTrac says in a report released Thursday. According to RealtyTrac, 3,782 homes entered some stage of foreclosure, up 33 percent from April and up 42 percent from May 2008. In St. Lucie County, 1,293 homes received foreclosure fil- ings, down 9 percent from April but up 13 percent from May 2008. And in Martin County, 256 homes went into foreclosure, up 17 percent from April and up 1 percent from May 2008. Nationally, foreclosure filings were reported on 321,480 properties in May, a decrease of 6 percent from the previ- ous month but an increase of nearly 18 percent from May 2008. One in every 398 US. homes received a foreclosure filing in May. Piper Aircraft names new CEO N'ERO BEACH — Piper Aircraft Inc. is getting a new top executive. The Vero Beach-based plane maker announced Wednesday that James Bass, its presi- dent and chief executive officer since 20(ki, will resign on June 26. Kevin Gould, Piper's vice president of operations, will take over as CEO. John Becker, a 20-year Piper veteran and vice president of engineering, will become president. Bass said his goal when he took the helm at Piper was to turn around the then-struggling company and make it attractive to a buyer. The Asian invest- ment firm Imprimis bought the firm April. Regulators warn Sterling Bank LANTANA - Federal and state regula- tors have ordered Sterling Bank to improve its risk management and keep a close eye on past-due loans. In an enforcement action released by regulators Wednesday, the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta and the Florida Office of Financial Regulation said Ster- ling Bank must, among other things, he "adequately staffed by qualified and trained personnel" and create "an ac- ceptable written plan to strengthen the bank's management of commercial real estate." The 'a-year-old bank has assets of $421 million and reported a loss of $2 million in the first quarter of 2009. Sterling Bank has five offices in Palm Beach County and two in Brow•ard County. Rain to boost state orange crop (*LAND() - Rain is expected to boost Florida's orange crop to 159.6 million 90-pound boxes for the 2008-09 season, up by 2 million boxes from last month's estimate, the US. Department of Agriculture said Wednesday. The USDA said the increase this year is made up entirely of Valencias, now estimated at 75 million boxes. But not all citrus fared as well, as grapefruit is forecast to now come in at 21.8 million boxes, down 3 percent from a month ago. The entire crop totaled 26.6 million 85-pound boxes in the 2007-08 season. Starbucks: Over-charges'resolved NEW YORK — Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday it has repaid all 1 million customers the gourmet coffee chain inadvertently double-charged on Memo- rial Day weekend. A processing computer problem caused the company to bill some credit and debit card customers twice on May 22 and May 23. The error occurred at about 7,800 company-owned stores in the US. and Canada. Starbucks spokeswoman Trina Smith said all the double charges were resolved as of May 29. She added that Starbucks is not aware of any outstand- ing charges but said any customers with questions should contact the company's customer relations hot line at (800) 23-LATTE. —Pain Reach Pau size and wires 4 The new company will focus on fuel efficient vehicles. 8y TOM KRISHER and KIMBERLY S. JOHNSON The Associated hiss DETROIT — Italy's Fiat is the new owner of most of Chrysler's assets. closing a deal Wednesday that saves the troubled US. automaker from liquidation and places a that hobbled the old Chrysler LLC. Fiat CEO Sergio Mar chionne immediately was named CEO of the new new company in the hands of company, which said in a Fiat's CEO. statement that it would soon The deal creates a leaner reopen Chrysler factories company known as Chrysler that were idled during the Group LLC, which is not in bankruptcy process, costing bankruptcy protection and is the automaker $100 million free of billions in debt. 789 per day underperforming dealerships The new company will fo- and burdensome labor costs cus on :nailer vehicles, areas The 'new' Chrysle Fiat says Chrysler plants idled by bankruptcy will start up soon. in which Chrysler was weak. "Work is already under way See CHRYSLER, 98 ► TV-ing' remains popular amid recession Moto, Al SARAH GM 'The demand for RV-ing is still unbelievably strong,' Silver Palms RV Village developer Bill Harvey says. Since constructiong began last July. Harvey has sold about one-third of the completed 167 sites. RV resort builder hopes to keep business rolling in By TRACEY McMANUS Palm Reach Pod Staff Writes OKEECHOBEE— In a pocket of land north of Lake Okeechobee, past the wind- ing nature trails that fill this 5,600-person town, Bill Harvey is patiently waiting. He waits for the flock of snowbirds traveling in recreational vehicles headed for the warmth of the South. But the com- mercial real estate developer's also hoping to point those travelers to his new Silver Palms RV Village, a $15 million project built on faith that a recession could never kill Americans passion for IN travel. "The demand for RV-ing is still unbe- lievably strong." Harvey said. "and it's not something people are willing to give up now." Harvey bases that optimistic outlook on the fact that over the past five years. nearly 50 Florida campgrounds have been sold to developers and turned into condos and strip malls. That's left a gaping hole in the demand for RV sites, he said; one he aims to fill. A PKF Consulting study has shown that even with gas prices on an upswing, RV vacations can be 27 percent to 61 percent less expensive than other forms of travel for the savings on hotel, airfare and rental car costs. As families turn to vacationing in mobile homes, }Campgrounds of America, a chain of 450 RV parks in North America, report- ed a 3 percent increase in campers this Memorial Day weekend. "A lot of people are camping today in- stead of other forms of travel," said Bobby Cornwell, executive director of the Florida Association of RV Parks and Campgrounds. "It's the RV sales that are down; not be- cause of a lack of popularity, but it's ... lending and being able to get financing." In fact, new 1W sales are down 57.6 per- cent in the past year because of financing trouble, but Cornwell said current owners of mobile homes are camping now more Silver Palms RV Village Location: 4143 U.S. 441 S.. Okeechobee Owner/Developer: Bill Harvey Amenities: Fitness center; 9.000-square-loot clubhouse; pool; athletic courts; library: card room; fishing lakes; and planned. activities. Prices: Ranging from $55,900 to 480.000 per site Web site: www.silverpalmsrv.com than ever. And Harvey said those faithful to the RV lifestyle are now demanding a new generation of campsites, equipped with the activities of a recreation center and the atmosphere of a country club. When construction wraps up on Silver Palms in late July, the park will be a part of this new species of campgrounds — with a pool, hot tub. 9,000-square-foot clubhouse with a ballroom, lakes and daily activities for residents. Moreover, the IN sites sit in the landscaped. 90-acre gated community and are paved in flashy stone. Since construction began last July. Harvey has sold about one-third of the completed 167 sites. Eventually, the park will have 512 RV sites, starting at $55,900, which Harvey said people are willing to pay to be able to own their own site in a competitive market. "I felt really good at the prospect of mov- ing forward and spending millions on this," he said. "There's nothing in Okeechobee that's even close to us." Ottacey. mernanuslOpost Corn >TELL US: Is an RV resort vacation in your summer plans? PalmBoachPost.com/yourpost County won't get ethanol facility UF instead plans to build the plant closer to Gainesville. By SUSAN SALISBURY Palm Beach Post Staff lifiter Palm Beach County has been jettisoned as the site of a University of Florida ethanol plant. In the works for two years. the proposed $20 million research and dem- onstration plant was slated to be built next to Florida Crystals Corp.'s Okeelanta mill and refinery near South Bay. But University of Florida officials said Wednesday that revamped plans now call for building a smaller plant closer to Gainesville, where it will benefit from proximity to UF's faculty and staff. With Verenium Corp., BP and Lykes Brothers proceeding with plans to build a 36 million-gallon-a- year commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County that will use simi- lar technology, the idea of a demonstration plant became obsolete. "The process moved faster than the project.- Florida Crystals' spokes- man Gaston Cantens said Wednesday. "That com- bined with the fact that the $20 million was not going to be sufficient to build the project we had anticipated and no other funds were available led to this change." In 2007. the state legis- lature awarded $20 million to UF's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences to establish a research plant to commercialize UF Professor Lonnie Ingram's patented technology for producing ethanol from the woody parts of plant!, The "next-generation' biorefinery will produce ethanol and plastics from agricultural residues and woody materials. said Joe Joyce, UF executive as- sociate vice president for agriculture and natural resources. Also in 2007, a UF panel chose the southwestern Palm Beach County loca- tion from among six con- tenders. Florida Crystals had agreed to provide the land and utilities for the plant. Buckeye Florida See ETHANOL, 98 ► Bailout plan offers small businesses up to $35,000 By JEFF 0STR0WSKI Thing Beath Post Stafflifittr WELLINGTON — After spending billions to bail out banks, taxpayers are poised to offer a much smaller amount for loans to strug- gling small businesses. Starting Monday, employ- ers can apply for loans of up to $35,000 through the Small Business Administration's America's Recovery Capital program. The terms are gen- erous: No payments for the first year, and no interest for five years after that. Not everyone will qualify. 'lb land one of the emergency loans, a small business must be in trouble — but not too much trouble. Borrowers must face "im- mediate financial hardship: SBA says, meaning that their sales are falling or they can't pay employees or lenders. But borrowers also must be "viable." defined as positive cash flow for at least one of the past two years. Borrowers can't be more than 60 days behind on any loan, must have "an accept- able business credit score" and must present a convinc- ing plan for surviving the Irension. "You've got to show us what you're going to do." said Tom Miranda Gallman, an SBA manager in Fort Pierce. Gallman spoke to 25 small business own- ers Wednesday at a seminar in Wellington or- ganized by the Palms West Chamber of Commerce. Lenders said they're still waiting for details from the SBA about the program, but they predict a flood of inter- est front borrowers. "I'm assuming everybody in the room is going to at least ask the question," said Jaene Miranda, chief execu- tive of the Palms West Cham- ber of Commerce. Lenders from NVachovia. SunTrust, TI) Bank, Wash- ington Mutual and National City said theyll make loans through the SBA program. However, all said they'll offer the loans only to businesses that already have accounts with them. The SBA has S250 million for the America's Recovery Capital loans. It expects to make about 10,000 loans na- tionwide. For more information, visit http://wivw.sbagovirecovery/ arcloanprogram/index.html. •;Nf_ostrowskiepbpost.com EFTA00259953

+ 2B THE PALM BEACH POST • THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009 Lopez METRO REPORT 'II! 'fit- p!rt-r-T7 A sox offender charged last week In a quarter-century old -cold case' rape of a lyear-old girl In Boynton Beach was in Palm Beach County court Wednesday and ordered held without bail. Walter Farl Taylor, 39, was arrested June 4 in Lake City, where he now lives, Boynton Beach police said. He is charged with sexual assault on a person under 12, and was booked into the Palm Beach County Jail Tuesday night. Charges that a Buffalo Bills fullback exposed himself outside a woman's home In Port St.lucle have been dismissed be- cause the woman who reported the in- cident now says she didn't see the man exposing himself and couldn't give other details, authorities said Wednes- day Corey McIntyre, 30, who played football at South Fork High School in Stuart and lives in Indiantown, was ar- rested on a warrant charging him with indecent exposure related to a March 20 incident. A suburban West Palm Beach man sew- ally assaulted a woman Monday after she refused to work for him as a prostitute, authorities say. Pedro Martinez. 42. was charged with sexual assault, felony battery and possession of a weapon by felon. He was ordered held in lieu of $60.000 bail Wednesday. The attack oc- curred as Martinez and the 31-yearold woman were drinking and smoking marijuana in an apartment in the 5100 block of Jaczko lane, according to a Palm Beach County sheriff's report A Loxahatchee woman who authorities say drove drunk Into a head on collision with her 23-montheld son In the back seat has been charged with injury DUI and child abuse. Diann Lopez, 34, was booked Monday morning at the Palm Beach County Jail. Palm Beach County sheriff's officials reported that on April 18. she was driv- ing on Seminole Pratt Whitney Road when she crossed a double yellow line, side- swiped a Honda and slammed head-on into a pickup driven by Kelsea Frick. 17, of Loxahatchee. In Lopez' car, depu- ties found an 18-pack of beer, reports said. The child was turned over to a family member. TRArriA A 23-year-old Jupiter man who wrecked his ear on Interstate 95 nearWest Palm Beach last week has died from.his injuries. Guy E Chiapponi was southbound on the highway north of Belvedere Road about 3:20 a.m. on June 3 when he lost control of his car Florida Highway Patrol of- ficials reported. The car spun, hit a guardrail and flipped. He was taken to St. Mary's Medical Center. where he died Thesday afternoon. The FHP report indicated that the crash was alcohol-related and that Chiapponi was not wearing a seat belt. A passenger, Willie M. Booker of Riviera Beach. suf- fered minor injuries. LAKE WORTH Residents can stack large plies of tree limbs and other vegetation beginning Monday. City officials said no citations for excess vegetation will be issued through June 19 as part of Green & Clean Week, intended to encourage tree trimming for hurricane season. Residents should put vegetation on the curb on regularly scheduled pickup days. For information on permitted Weather, traffic, breaking news and special reports PalmBeachPost.com/local Chick-fil-A to feed 5,000 for free WEST PALM BEACH — Five thousand free Chick-fil-A chicken lunches will be distributed today at City Center, Mayor Lois Frankel tells a news conference Wednesday. The fast-food chain also donated 2,000 sandwiches to six homeless shelters, a spokesman said. tree-trimming methods, call city Horticulturist Martin Cybulski at (561) 586-1720 or the grounds maintenance division at (561) 586-1677. ' RIVIERA REACH The Community Redevelopment Agency meeting scheduled for Wednesday was can- celed and rescheduled for June 24. The city council, sitting as the CRAB board, was scheduled to discuss terms sub- mitted by Viking Developers LW for the redevelopment of the city marina. BRIEFLY Palm Beach County will get $2.2 million from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to help restore 192,300 cubic yards of sand that eroded from beaches last year as a result of Tropical Storm Fay and Hurricane Hanna, county environ- mental managers said Wednesday. The money represents the federal share of a $2.9 million project to rebuild shoreline damaged by the storms. TAILluscSEE — Charles E. Fetscher Jr., 62; of Wellington was appointed to the Palm Beach County Housing Authority on Wednesday by Gov. Charlie Crist. Fetscher, a processor with KAF Pro- cessing was appointed to a term that ends Jan. 20, 2013. He succeeds Sally Hamadeh Byrd. TREASIr FORT PIERCE —Two Fort Pierce residents were arrested Tuesday after deputies discovered tools used to make counterfeit money in their home on iedra Avenue, the St. Luck- County Sheriff's Office said. Brenda Hopkins, 46, was arrested on charges of counterfeiting money and possessing tools for counterfeit- ing. Ronald Jensen, 51, was arrested on charges of counterfeiting money, possessing tools for counterfeiting and tampering with evidence. Both were taken to the St. Lucie County Jail. Deputies found counterfeit $20 bills in their home, according to a sheriff's report. Nine male manatees pursued a female while trying to mate Sunday on Lauderdale-by-the-Sea. Give them privacy, manatee club says ► MANATEES from IR slapping their tails, hug- ging each other with their flippers, and occasionally piling up on sandbars or the beach. Tuesday's beaching was tame compared to the spectacle on Lauder- dale-by-the-Sea on Sunday, when a female in heat was pursued by nine males. Onlookers snapped photos of the manatees cavort- ing in the shallow surf as the fire department kept order. Katie Tripp, director of science and conservation at the Save the Manatee Club, said that with each animal weighing in at more than 1,000 pounds, a herd of amorous manatees can be quite a sight. it's really no wonder that people get fasci- nated," Tripp said, "when you get 5, 10, 15, manatees splashing around in the shallow water' The act itself is over in 15 to 30 seconds, but a female in heat may attract many eager males that pursue her for days. Ma- rine biologists don't agree on why they sometimes swim onto the beach - it might help with mating, or maybe the females just get tired. If all goes well, a calf will be born in about 12 months. It's fine to watch the manatees mate from a dis- tance, Tripp said, but give them a little privacy. "If they can not really know that you are there, that's really for the best," Tripp said. "Just stay back and allow them to focus on making new manatees." •$atfieen_chaprisan@poostcom TREASURE COAST Teacher suspended in boy's vote-out can keep contract By CARA FITZPATRICK Palm Brach Post Staff Mater FORT PIERCE — After teary pleas from support- ers, the St. Lucie County School Board voted unanimously Wednes- day to uphold a one-year unpaid sus- pension for Wendy Porti- a teacher who asked students last year to vote on whether a child could stay in class, but rejected a recommendation to terminate her continuing contract. Portillo, a 12-year veteran of Morningside Elementary, put her head down and wept after the vote When she looked up she was smiling. "I didn't think this was going to happen, and I'm just happy I'm going to go a al Portillo back to doing what I love," she said after the person- nel hearing. Portillo, who will finish her suspension in No- vember, faced a tougher punishment. Superintendent Mi- chael Lannon recom- mended that Portillo be suspended without pay for a year, returned to an annual contract and prohibited from teaching young children again in St. Lucie. He had con- sidered, but ultimately rejected firing her. Portillo appealed the punishment to the state Division of Administra- tive Hearings, but the judge ruled against her. School board members had to decide Wednesday whether to accept the judge's ruling in full or, based on the case record, to modify it. Their param- eters for doing so were narrow. The incident, in which Portillo asked her kinder- garten students to vote on whether then 5-year-old Alex Barton could remain in class, polarized the community and attracted an onslaught of attention. Students voted 14-2 for him to leave. That Alex was later di- agnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, and had been under evaluation for it at the time only added to the controversy. Melissa Barton, Alex's mother, didn't attend the hearing. She said she and her family had been threatened since the incident. She removed Alex from public school afterward. She called Wednesday's decision "disgusting" facara_liupatricklipepost.com Renter fatally shoots driver in yard The Royal Palm grad was trying to steal a trailer, deputies say. By JASON SCHULTZ Palm Beach Port Staff Writ,. A former baseball pitcher at Royal Palm Beach High School was shot and killed Thesday while trying to steal a trailer full of car-detail- ing supplies from a man's front yard, Palm Beach County sheriff's investiga- tors said. That account dots not make sense to the family of 22-year-old Jason Roden of Loxahatchee. 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The Palm Beach Bzist B THURSDAY. AMC 11.2009 PalmBeachPost.com Rules on watering won't get tougher By PAUL QUINLAN Palm Beath Prat Ste Writer You can thank the rain for preventing water man- agers from imposing even stricter, limits on your sprinklers. Had this spring's severe drought continued, one- day-a-week restrictions might have been imposed in Palm Beach and Bro- ward court- • Watering ties, leaders rules. 5B of the South • dopter Florida Water to spray Management mosquitoes District said In west Wednesday. county, 5B Instead, most of the re- gam will remain under the two-day-a-week sprinkler limits that water managers ultimately are trying to make permanent. Today the district will consider relaxing the one-day-a-week watering restrictions it had clamped last month on Miami-Dade County and the Keys. just before four weeks of near- daily rain jolted South Florida. People in those counties also will be al- lowed to water on two days a week. 'Coming off of the dri- est six months on record. we ended up with the wettest May on record," said Terrie Bates, the district's assistant deputy See WATER. 58 la LOCAL BUSINESS Still a secret: Judge denies requests to unseal court documents in Jeffrey Epstein's case. Story, 3B Kudos for a very special delivery ALEN [Yr STONE, Ste, PhotogrepPet BOCA RATON — Dispatcher Jessica Sullivan beams Wednesday as Kenn Haupert cradles son Justin, 3 months, after Sullivan received a Distinguished Service Award for talking Haupert through the delivery when he called 911. Story, GB Lake Worth pier a place for manatee passion By KATHLEEN CHAPMAN and ANDREW MARRA Palm Beath Post Srle Ifirston LAKE WORTH — Lifeguard surrounded a female manatee who had beached herself near the Lake Worth pier Tuesday morning, afraid that she was sick or injured. They closed the beach around 9 a.m., and tried to nudge her back into the surf. But after she swam away. Tim Ehmke, chief lifeguard for Lake Worth Ocean Rescue. said they realized that she hadn't been in any distress after all. It seems that she just needed a break from a libidinous male who wasn't taking a hint. Manatees mate in earnest during the warmer months, and this time of year, rescue groups get quite a few concerned calls from people who don't know what they are witnessing. The normally solitary, docile animals can gather in mating herds during the summer, See MANATEES. 28 IR 4 University of Florida says no: Palm Beach County won't be the site of an ethanol plant. Business, 8B County Otis trash fee hike The commissioners' budget proposal would affect rates in unincorporated areas. By JENNIFER S0REPff FtUE Palm Beach Post Staff Wolter Palm Beach County commis- sioners signed off Wednesday on a budgerproposal that would increase garbage-hauling rates by as much as 13 percent for residents in unincor- porated areas. 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Check your daily stocks at PalmlleachPost.com/busIness or call (800) 928-7878 to order The Palm Beach Post's Weekend Stocks. a comprehensive weekly stocks listings Government to loan company $4.7 billion ► CHRYSLER from 88 on developing new environmentally friendly. fuel-efficient, high-quality vehicles that we intend to become Chrysler's hallmark going forward," the new company said in a state- ment. The Italian automaker won't put any money into the deal but will give Chrysler billions worth of small car and engine tech- nology. "We intend to build on Chrysler's culture of innovation and Fiat's complementary tech- nology and expertise to expand Chrysler's product portfolio both in North America and overseas," Marchionne said in a statement. The sale to Fiat SpA marks a victory for the 01xuna administration, which shepherd- ed Chrysler LW into Chapter 11 protection on April 30 with the hope that the company woukl emerge in a matter of months with a new partner "This morning's closing represents a proud moment in Chrysler's storied history," said the Treasury Department in a written statement Wednesday "The Chrysler-Fiat Alliance has now exited the bankruptcy pro- cess and is poised to emerge as a competi- tive, viable automaker." The government will loan the new com- pany $4/ billion, to be repaid within eight years along with interest and $288 million in fees. The Treasury had given Chrysler LIE $3.3 billion in debtor-in-possession financ- ing to support the company throughout the bankruptcy process. Chrysler LIE remains in bankruptcy court, as it winds down opera- tions, selling plants it doesn't want, dispers- ing payments to debtholders and settling any other claims that were not transferred to the new company. Those actions could linger un- til next year, if not longer. Marchionne, 56, who won acclaim for his turnaround of Fiat, brings a different style to Chrysler. The year after taking over Fiat in 2004. Marchionne led the company to post its Local dealers end Chrysler work, will sell other lines or used cars STUART - Several Chrysler dealerships in Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie coun- ties dosed Wednesday as their franchise agreements were severed with the bank- rupt automaker. Those affected: Ed Napleton's Jupiter Dodge and Wallace Chrysler Jeep in Fort Pierce. A Mazda franchise will remain at Napleton's dealership, and several brands will continue operating at Wallace in Fort Pierce. Massey-Yardley Chrysler Dodge in Hobe Sound stopped operating as a new-car dealer but plans to continue selling used cars at the location, a sales manager said. On Tuesday in New York. US. Bank- ruptcy Judge Arthur J. Gonzalez approved Chrysler's motion to terminate 789 of its dealer franchises, or about percent of its dealer base. Chrysler has maintained that the clo- sures are a necessary part of its plan to cut costs. The dealers had argued that they cover their own costs and little would be gained by terminating their franchises. into by SARAN G202 Rusty Wallace, general manager of Wallace Chrysler Jeep, which unsuccessfully fought the decision to cancel the dealership's franchise. Chrysler attorneys said the automaker would extend until Monday its pit/giant to help the affected dealers semi any unsold vehicles to stores that will remain open. — Staff writer ELT Samples Chrysler Group will be divided into four units to speed decision making. first net profit in five years. He also stream- lined its management, burnished the brand with the award-winning update of the Fiat 500 and entered a series of strategic alliances to share costs and enter new markets. Chrysler Group will be divided into four divisions, representing the Chrysler, Jeep, INxIge, and Mopar brands. Peter Fong will become president and CEO of Chrysler brand. Michael Manley will become presi- dent and CEO of the Jeep brand and Michael Accavitti will assume the same position for Dodge. Pietro Gorlier of Fiat Group will run the Mopar division. Marchionne said the organization will be designed to give leaders broad control and increase the speed of decision making. Florida Crystals to stay involved ► ETHANOL from 813 LP, which operates a pulp mill in Perry, will be get- ting the plant instead, said Ingram, director at UF's Florida Center for Renew- able Chemicals and Fuels. Florida Crystals will remain a member of the technical advisory com- mittee helping to evaluate the commercial viability of the processes and various feedstocks used to make the alternative fuel, Can- tens said. 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4 + IBA THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY, JUNE 15. 2009 The Palm Beach Post Who would Jesus outsource? Epstein • AMC TAYLOR. Publisher TIM BURKE, Executive Editor RANDY SCHULTZ, Editor of the Editorial Page Avoid another `firestorm It's been slightly more than a year since teacher Wendy Portillo let her kindergarten students at Morning- side Elementary in Port St. Lucie "vote" 5-year-okl Alex Barton out of her classroom. We said that Ms. For- tino should not be allowed to teach again. We still think that reinstating — her is a mistake. But the district didn't fire her. And last week the St. Lucie County School Board unani- mously decided not to revoke Ms. Portillo's Portillo long-term contract and place her on a year-to- year contract that would have made it easier to dismiss her. The board, how- ever. did vote to uphold Ms. Portillo's one-year suspension without pay. The suspension is over in November. The case attracted worldwide at- tention, and school board member Kathryn Hensley summed up its effects: "This became an emotional firestorm that crucified everybody." As far as Ms. Portillo goes, the best thing is to declare the case closed. She has paid a price in humiliation and salary. She will be under scru- tiny if she returns to the classroom. With the decision about the in- dividual teacher concluded, other issues become more important. Alex's mother. Melissa Barton. has Issues go beyond one St. Lucie County teacher said that her son — who later was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome — had been making progress since the incident. She has worried, how- ever. about the message it sends if Ms. Portillo gets to teach again. She also says that people unhappy with her for pressing the case against Ms. Portillo have threatened her. Clearly. Alex will need continued help from his parents, the district, health-care professionals and possibly the police. Most important is for the district to follow through with proposed changes to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Ms. Portillo did not have sufficient training or support when faced with a very disruptive child who had been identified as needing special instruction. The district has a number of prob- lems. It faces big budget cuts even as its FLAT scores, SAC results and the percentage of students passing Advanced Placement tests all lag behind state averages. Such district- wide problems could overshadow issues with students such as Alex. If that happens, sooner or later there will be another firestorm. TALK Should Wendy Portillo be allowed back in the classroom? PalmBeachPostcom/opinionzone Unseal the Epstein deal A rich, middle-aged Palm Beacher who preyed on girls almost 40 years younger already has received too many breaks from the system. He doesn't deserve another. In July 2008, at the age of 55 and after paying the equiva- lent of a small country's gross domestic product in legal fees, Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges and pleaded guilty in state court to a pair of charges related to his luring five girls -ages 14 to 17 — to his house. The girls undressed and ' massaged him in return for $200 to $300. He's serving only 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail, and he's serving only nights. And now he wants just one more favor. When Epstein entered his state plea, the terms of his federal deal were sealed from the public. That violated normal procedures. Attor- neys for some of the victims, who have filed civil lawsuits, want that plea deal unsealed, probably because the details would help their cases. But given the nature of this case, there's also a public interest. One con- dition of the federal plea. for example. was that he take the state deal. That's why The Past also is seeking to have the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers, Palm Beach sex offender deserves no more breaks. of course, want it kept secret. Last week, a Palm Beach County judge set a hearing for June 25. Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger claims that the file should stay sealed to protect the "orderly administration of justice" and "protect a compelling government interest." Oh, and third parties might get hurt. The compel- ling interest is Epstein's, and there is no privacy issue since the victims themselves are making the request. Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein, only to see then-State Attorney Barry Krischer kick the case to a grand jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when one of Epstein's gold-plated attor- neys, Alan Dershowitz announced that some of the victims had posted MySpace comments about their alco- hol and marijuana use. Epstein's "best" defense has been that he didn't know the girls were underage. "How he verified that," Mr. Goldberger said, "I don't know." Investigators found a high school transcript in Epstein's house. He didn't know? The public should know what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the system did for hint Improving flu symptoms Six area residents may not like it, but China's new attitude toward pub- lic health will mean a safer world. In 2003, China drew justified criticism for trying to cover up an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS. Authori- ties worried that the news would hurt the country's economy. The issue showed the conflict between the information-repressing China and the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. When it came to public health, China couldn't have it both ways. As The Post has reported, some students from The Benjamin School were quarantined, with almost no notice, after being exposed to swine flu. A West Palm Beach ac- countant who has swine flu also was quarantined. But last week, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. China acted properly. What may seem like over- reaction now looks good compared with the within-action six years ago. We must not be browbeaten into surrendering our best rhetoric, actions and images. We hold NO responsibility for this death. OR. TILLER KILLING CLAY BEhhtit 'Chattanooga fats Flea the s "There cannot be two masters in the management of business," said George F Baer, who was master of the Reading Railroad at the start of the 20th century. "God in his infinite wisdom has put the control of business into the hands of Christian gentlemen." They lost control of General Mo- tors. GM now seems to be under the control of unsaved labor Tom unions that Blackburn were explic- itly excluded by Mr. Baer's theology of management. Sharing in the mastery is "government," a word that conservatives use the way a rapper repeats four-letter words — to shock fans and sell downloads A lot depends on what you mean by "government." If you are referring to the ways in which we collective- ly seek the common good, government is all of us. and GM is our problem. The Obama administra- tion got in the driver's seat hoping to avert runaway unemployment and prevent the public from being stuck with the autoworkers pen- sions and medical care. The engine was shot, as it turned out, and the car has no brakes. We are getting the unemployment, and prob- ably will end up with the pension'- and medical care, neitht. If which will be as good tor the retirees as it was when GM had it. Along the way, we ran over people who had loaned the company money, the Christ, health care no longer fit biz models. bondholders. We will pay a price for stiffing lenders. and probably sooner rather than later. That is a moan for another column. For a while after World War II, American companies could be warm cocoons. They paid enough to clothe and feed a family, and then they provided more than ban. Social rity for old age and the kind of health care governments in other countries pay for with taxes. They even backed bowling leagues for the grown-ups and ball teams for the kids. Then America went back to Mr Baer's management theology and dropped the sissy stuff. A new genera- tion of masters discovered outsourcing. We changed; GM couldn't. That's how we all ended up with it. The change is adored by people who would have only a 1-in-4 chance of inserting a time card correctly. They say health care can continue the way it has, with some tax tweaking even though the way it runs needs em- ployers to pay for insurance, and increasingly they don't. Maybe I'm reading the wrong Web sites, but I see more sympathy for the downtrodden bankers who got us into the current mess than for the folks at GM who went down with the mess. The bankers took our mon- ey, spent some of it lobbying against the common good. used their clout to clear the way back to greed with a half-baked "stress test" and now want our tears because we told them not to use our money to reward themselves the way that God in his infi- nite wisdom wants them to be rewarded. As for 'the effort to find sugar and make lemonade out of GM, you can stand around screaming at "so- cialism" or "Pelicsi, Pelosi, Pelosi" for all I care, until the rubes send money. But if you want Americans to have health care, you have to get it through either the government or companies like General Motors. And if you excoriate GM and its unions for their health care. you aren't going to get it through them for very long. You probably won't get it through them much longer anyway, whatever you do. So, what an, you going to do? While you think about it, let me recommend the article by Dr. Guy Clifton in the June 8.15 issue of America magazine. He tells the story of a friend who had to wait four months after the diagnosis of a life- threatening disease for the paperwork to go through to allow her expensive sur- gery. The "world's greatest health-care system" paid for the surgery, but too late. It lost the patient. Dr. Clifton counts her as one of 22,000 uninsured Americans who die prematurely each year in our system. To the question of what you want to do, "nothing", should not be the answer. Tom Blackburn is a former member of The Post Editorial Board Ills e-mail address is torn_blackburnejuno.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/Lifeguard layoffs Saving money not as important as saving swimmers Palm Beach County's lifeguards need a lifeline from the county commission. The recent Post story, "County's crunch: Layoffs, tax hikes," could have included more details about proposed layoffs of our ocean rescue lifeguards. The story stated that "several" ocean rescue lifeguards would be laid oft In this case, "several" means 36 of 83. These lifeguards protect hundreds of thousands of beach-goers. They warn us about sharks and rip tor- rents. They save more lives than most of us know. The story stated that "an" ocean res- cue chief would also be laid off. but there is only one ocean rescue chief. The city of Lake Worth returned to a full staff of ocean rescue lifeguards recently, after an ill-fated experiment of having none two days per week. Public outcry helped in the decision to return to full coverage. Palm Beach County has not had a drowning at a guarded county beach in at least a decade, and dozers of lives are saved by lifeguards each year. laying off one-third of our ocean rescue guards is a dangerous idea. Public safety is our first priority, and the Palm Beach County Commission must find a way to save our ocean rescue lifeguards. TOM WARNKE Lantana Editor's note: Tom IVarnke founded the Palm Beach aunty chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. What did pair do to get arrested in N. Korea? Not many'of the news items even bothered to men- tion the crime supposedly committed by Lisa Ling and Euna Lee. the two journal- ists who were au rested by North Korea. I did discover that it had something to do with an inadvertent border crossing Inadvertent? What does that mean? There was an open field between China and North Korea, and they were just walking there? No fence? I think we should hear more about what they were supposed to have done. RAY WICKS West Palm Beach Editor's note: The LOS Angeles Times reported that "it is not dear whether they ever actually entered North Korean territory before being arrested The families have emphasized that when Ms. ling and Ms Accident Just waiting to happen lifeguard Rick Moore said it all: "Life- guards do lots more than save swimmers. We warn beach-goers of rip currents, man o'svar and other dangers. We put up the flags for sea conditioas. We answer their questions. We treat injuries. Just us being there creates a feeling of security." ("4 Palm Beach County beaches lose lifeguards.") We are missing the big picture if we close more beaches and continue to cut lifeguards. Tourists flock to our beaches. The closure of four more beaches and staff cuts will signal a major accident waiting to happen. People will continue to visit the closed beaches, continue to swim and surf, and continue to meet tip with friends. Now a drowning will be the victim's own fault be- cause he swam at a closed beach? I hope the county lawyers will be prepared to answer that question when the victim's family sues. The beach is one of the few places with- out an admission charge. This poor deci- sion is not really a surprise. We voted for those confusing amendments and officials who promised not to raise taxes. Like it or not, taxes keep this country functioning. All those services we enjoyed for so long are drying up, along with many people's lives. We will miss walking the beach. JEAN AND JAMES LA SPINA Tequesta lie left the United States. they had no intention of entering North Korea."A North Korean court sentenced the mown to 12 ;ma at hard labor. Aid terrorist wannabes, then 'catch' them Let's see. There are three or four really stupid guys down at the bar talking about wanting to commit ji- had. They were not Islamist, but talking tough sounded good- So. somebody shows up, agrees with everything they arc saying, eggs them on and gets them bombs and anti-aircraft missiles they never could have gotten without this new friend, and they pull off a plan that the new friend helped them make up. Then they are ar- rested after huge amounts of personnel and money have been put into the protect, and now the New York Police Department gets to be a hero, having saved the workl from the four people that they helped train and supply. Sounds like good, efficient law enforcement to me. JOHN BODEN Delray Beach Find other way, but keep Shopper Hopper I was horrified to read that Boynton Beach may discon- tinue the Shopper Hopper (May 14). I implore the city to find a better means of cut- ting costs. The service is the lifeblood for so many riders, especially senior citizens and the handicapped. For many, alternate forms of travel to stores would be a financial burden. There are other op- tions such as raising the fare and/or cutting trips in half. one week to Publix, one week to Walmart. etc. LILLIAN BROADWICK Boynton Beach HOW TO WRITE TO SHE POST The Palm Beach Post ne'comes original *hers about Issues of interest and material that has appeared in The Post Letters ate subiect to editing and must include the writees name. address and daytime phone number. Envelopes *lomat a return address W be discarded. Preferred length is a maximum of 200 words. Send e-mail to renerseopostaxn, taxes to (561) 820-4728 and postal mail to Letters to the Editor, The Palm Beach Post. 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16A THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY.1UNE 15,2009 The Palm Beach Post Who would Jesus outsource? Epstein A rich. middle-aged Palm Beacher who preyed on girls almost 40 years younger already has received too many breaks from the system. He doesn't deserve another. In July 2008, at the age of 55 and after paying the equiva- lent of a snail country's gross domestic product in legal fees, Jeffrey Epstein escaped federal charges and pleaded guilty in state court to a pair of charges related to his luring five girls —ages 14 to 17 — to his house. The girls undressed and massaged him in return for $200 to $300. He's serving only 18 months in the Palm Beach County Jail, and he's serving only nights. And now he wants just one more favor. When Epstein entered his state plea, the terms of his federal deal were sealed from the public. That violated normal procedures. Attor- neys for some of the victims, who have filed civil lawsuits, want that plea deal unsealed, probably because the details would help their cases. But given the nature of this case. there's also a public interest. One con- dition of the federal plea, for example, was that he take the state deal. That's why The Post also is seeking to have the file unsealed. Epstein's lawyers, ALEX TAYLOR. hiblisher TIM BURKE, Executive Editor RANDY SCHULTZ. Editor of the Editorial Page Avoid another `firestorm It's been slightly more than a year since teacher Wendy Portillo let her kindergarten students at Morning- side Elementary in Port St. Lucie "vote" 5-year-old Alex Barton out of her classroom. We said that Ms. Por- 4a tillo should not be allowed to teach again. We still think that reinstating her is a mistake. But the district didn't fire her. And last week the St. Lucie County School Board unani- mously decided not to revoke Ms. Port illo's Paella long-term contract and place her on a year-to- year contract that would have made it easier to dismiss her. The board, how- ever, did vote to uphold Ms. Portillo's one-year suspension without pay. The suspension is over in November. The case attracted worldwide at- tention, and school board member Kathryn Hensley summed up its effects: "This became an emotional firestorm that crucified everybody." As far as Ms. Portillo goes, the best thing is to declare the case closed. She has paid a price in humiliation and salary She will be under scru- tiny if she returns to the classroom. With the decision about the in- dividual teacher concluded, other issues become more important. Alex's mother, Melissa Barton. has Issues go beyond one St. Lucie County teacher. said that her son — who later was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome — had been making progress since the incident. She has worried, how- ever, about the message it sends if Ms. Portilb gets to teach again. She also says that people unhappy with her for pressing the case against Ms. Portillo have threatened her. Clearly, Alex will need continued help from his parents, the district. health-care professionals and possibly the police. Most important is for the district to follow through with proposed changes to prevent this kind of thing from happening. Ms. Portillo did not have sufficient training or support when faced with a very disruptive child who had been identified as needing special instruction. The district has a number of prob- lems. It faces big budget cuts even as its FLAT scores, SAT results and the percentage of students passing Advanced Placement tests all lag behind state averages. Such district- wide problems could overshadow issues with students such as Alex. If that happens. sooner or later there will he another firestorm TALK BACK! Should Wendy Portillo be allowed back In the classroom? s.PalmBeachPost.com/opinlonzone Unseal the Epstein deal Palm Beach sex offender deserves no more breaks. of course, want it kept secret. Last week, a Palm Beach County judge set a hearing for June 25. Epstein attorney Jack Goldberger claims that the file should stay sealed to protect the "orderly administration of justice" and "protect a compelling government interest" Oh, and third parties might get hurt. The compel- ling interest is Epstein's. and there is no privacy issue since the victims themselves are making the request. Palm Beach police spent 11 months investigating Epstein, only to see then-State Attorney Barry Krischer kick the case to a grand jury. Mr. Krischer backed off when one of Epstein's gold-plated attor- neys, Alan Dershowitz, announced that some of the victims had posted MySpace comments about their alco- hol and marijuana use. Epstein's "best" defense has been that he didn't know the girls were underage. "How he verified that," Mr: Goldberger said. "I don't know." Investigators found a high school transcript in Epstein's house. He didn't know? The public should know what Jeffrey Epstein did, and what the system did for him. Improving flu symptoms Six area residents may not like it, but China's new attitude toward pub- lic health will mean a safer world. In 2003, China drew justified criticism for trying to cover up an outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, known as SARS. Authori- ties worried that the news would hurt the country's economy The issue showed the conflict between the information-repressing China and the sell-all-goods-to-the world China. When it came to public health, China couldn't have it both ways. As The Post has reported• some students from The Benjamin School were quarantined, with almost no notice, after being exposed to swine flu. A West Palm Beach ac- countant who has swine flu also was quarantined. But last week, the World Health Organization declared a swine flu pandemic. China acted properly. What may seem like over- reaction now looks good compared with the underreaction six years ago. We must not be browbeaten into surrendering our best rhetoric, actions and images. We hold NO responsibility for this death. ClAY BOINCrUcKannect, tr„„, c,„ Fyn , Tom Blackburn "There cannot be two masters in the management of business," said George F. Baer, who was master of the Reading Railroad at the start of the 20th century. "God in his infinite wisdom has put the control of business into the hands of Christian gentlemen." 'they lost control of General Mo- tors. GM now seems to be under the control of unsaved labor unions that were explic- itly excluded by Mr. Baer's theology of management. Sharing in the mastery is "government," a word that conservatives use the way a rapper repeats four-letter words — to shock fans and sell download& A. lot depends on what you mean by "government." If you are referring to the ways in which we collective- ly seek the common good, government is all of us, and GM is our problem. The Mama administra- tion got in the driver's seat hoping to avert runaway unemployment and prevent the public from being stuck with the autoworkers' pen- sions and medical care. The engine was shot, as it turned out, and the car has no brakes. We are getting the unemployment, and prob- ably will end up with the pensior • and medical care, neilix 'd which will be as good for the retirees as it was when GM had it. Along the way, we ran over people who had loaned the company money, the Christ, health care no longer fit biz models. bondholders. We will pay a price for stiffing lenders, and probably sooner rather than later. That is a moan for another column. For a while after World War II. American companies could be warm cocoons. They paid enough to clothe and feed a family. and then they provided more than bare Social Security for old age and the kind of health care governments in other countries pay for with taxes. They even backed bowling leagues for the grown-ups and ball teams for the kids. Then America went back to Mr. Baer's management theology and dropped the sissy stuff. A new genera- tion of masters discovered outsourcing We changed: GM couldn't. That's how we all ended up with it. The change is adored by people who would have only a 1-in-4 chance of inserting a time card correctly. They say health care can continue the way it has, with some tax tweaking, even though the way it runs needs em- ployers to pay for insurance, and increasingly they don't. Maybe I'm reading the wrong Web sites, but I see more sympathy for the downtrodden bankers who got us into the current mess than for the folks at GM who went down with the mess. The bankers took our mon- ey, spent some of it lobbying against the common good, used their clout to clear the way back to greed with a half-baked "stress test" and now want our tears because we told them not to use our money to reward themselves the way that God in his infi- nite wisdom wants them to be rewarded. As for 'the effort to find sugar and make lemonade out of GM, you can stand around screaming at "so- cialism" or "Pelosi. Pelosi. Pelosi" for all I care, until the rubes send money. But if you want Americans to have health care, you have to get it through either the government or companies like General Motors. And if you excoriate GM and its unions for their health care, you aren't going to get it through them for very long. You probably won't get it through them much longer anyway, whatever you do. So, what are you going to do? While you think about it, let me recommend the article by Dr Guy Clifton in the June 8-15 issue of America magazine. He tells the story of a friend who had to wait four months after the diagnosis of a life- threatening disease for the paperwork to go through to allow her expensive sur- gery. The "world's greatest health-care system" paid for the surgery, but too late. It lost the patient. Dr. Clifton counts her as one of 22,000 uninsured Americans who die prematurely each year in our system. lb the question of what you want to do, "nothing", should not be the answer. Tarn Blackburn is a former member of The Post Editorial Board. His email address is tom _blackburn4juno.com LETTERS TO THE EDITOR/Lifeguard layoffs Saving money not as important as saving swimmers Palm Beach County's lifeguards need a lifeline from the county commission. The recent Post story, "County's crunch: layoffs, tax hikes," could have included more details about proposed layoffs of our ocean rescue lifeguards. The story stated that 'several" ocean rescue lifeguards would be laid off. In this case, "several" means 36 of 83. These lifeguards protect hundreds of thousands of beach-goers. They warn us about sharks and rip cur- rents They save more lives than most of us know. The story stated that "an" ocean res- cue chief would also be laid off, but there is only one ocean rescue chief. The city of Lake Abrth returned to a full staff of ocean rescue lifeguards recently, after an ill-fated experiment of having none two days per week. Public outcry helped in the decision to return to full coverage. Palm Beach County has not had a drowning at a guarded county beach in at least a decade. and dozens of lives are saved by lifeguards each year. Laying off one-third of our ocean rescue guards is a dangerous idea. Public safety is our first priority, and the Palm Beach County Commission must find a way to save our ocean rescue lifeguards. TOM WARNKE Lantana Editor's note: Tom IVarrtke founded the Palm Beach County chapter of the Surfrider Foundation. What did pair do to get arrested in N. Korea? Not many' of the news items even bothered to men- tion the crime supposedly committed by Lisa ling and Euna Lee, the two journal- ists who were arrested by North Korea. I did discover that it had something to do with an inadvertent border crossing Inadvertent? What does that mean? There was an open field between China and North Korea, and they were just walking there? No fence? I think we should hear more about what they were supposed to have done. RAY WICKS West Palm Beach Editor's note: The Los Angela Times reported that 'it is not clear whether they ever actually entered North Korean territory before being arrested The families have emphasized that when Ms. Ling and Ms. Accident Just waiting to happen Lifeguard Rick Moore said it all: "Life- guards do lots more than save swimmers. We warn beach-goers of rip currents, man o'vrar and other dangers. We put up the flags for sea conditions. We answer their questions. We treat injuries. Just us being there creates a feeling of security." ("4 Palm Beach County beaches lose lifeguards?) We are missing the big picture if we close more beaches and continue to an lifeguard& lburists flock to our beaches. The closure of four more beaches and staff cuts will signal a major accident waiting to happen. People will continue to visit the closed beaches, continue to swim and surf, and continue to meet up with friends. Nov a drowning will be the victim's own fault be- cause he swam at a closed beach? I hope the county lawyers will be prepared to answer that question when the victim's family sues The beach is one of the few places with- out an admission charge. This poor deci- sion is not really a surprise. We voted for those confusing amendments and officials who promised not to raise taxes. Like it or not, taxes keep this country functioning All those services we enjoyed for so long are drying up, along with many people's lives. We will miss walking the beach. JEAN AND JAMES LA SPINA Tequesta Lee fell the United States, they had no intention of entering North Korea." A North Korean court sentenced the women to 12 years at hard labor AId terrorist wannabes, then 'catch' them Let's see. 'there are three or four really stupid guys down at the bar talking about wanting to commit ji- had. They were not Islamist, but talking tough sounded good. So, somebody shows up, agrees with everything they are saying, eggs them on and gets them bombs and anti-aircraft missiles they never could have gotten without this new friend, and they pull off a plan that the new friend helped them make up. Then they are ar- rested after huge amounts of personnel and money have been put into the project. and now the New York Police Department gets to be a hero, having saved the world from the four people that they helped train and supply. Sounds like good, efficient law enforcement to me. JOHN BODEN Delray Beach Find other way, but keep Shopper Hopper I was horrified to read that Boynton Beach may discon- tinue the Shopper Hopper (May 14). I implore the city to find a better means of cut- ting costs. The service is the lifeblood for so many riders, especially senior citizens and the handicapped. For many, alternate forms of travel to stores would be a financial burden. There are other op- tions, such as raising the fare and/or cutting trips in half. one week to Publix, one week to Walmart, etc. LILLIAN BROADWICK Boynton Beach HOW TO WRITE TO THE POST The Palm Beach Post welcomes odginal letters about issues of interest and material that has appeared in The Post Letters are subject to &hang and must include the wtiWs name. address and daAime phone number. Erwelopes without a return address will be discarded. Preferred length is a MaXiMUM of 200 words. Send e-mail to Ietters0PhPosLeom• taxes to (561) 820-4728 and postal mail to Letters to the Editor. 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X THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009 3A. White House warms to co-op plan as health option Serving Palm Beach, Martin and St. Lucie Counties. Authorized Dealer of PGT Windows & Doors A compromise would . 3xpard coverage but with no direct control. The Aewerated Peru WASHINGTON — With Republicans fighting the idea of a government-run health insurance plan. Obama administration officials said Sunday that they are open to a compro- mise: a cooperative pro- gram that would expand coverage with taxpayer money but without direct governmental control. Congress begins work this wet* on putting Presi- dent Obama's goal of uni- versal health coverage into law. But some lawmakers are expected to introduce specific plans that run counter to Obama's political promises. The concessions could be the smoothest way to deliver the bipartisan health-care legislation that the administration seeks by its self-imposed August deadline, officials said. "There is no one-size- fits-all idea," said Health Sibelius and Human Services Sec- retary Kathleen Sebelius. "The president has said, These are the kinds of goals I'm after: lowering costs, covering all Ameri- cans. higher-quality care.' And around those goals, there are lots of ways to get there? Some of those ways, though, run counter to the White House's earlier posi- tions and those of Obama's political base. While supporters from his left have advocated a government-run option — championed by an ailing Sen. Edward Kennedy D- Mass., and his surrogate, Sen. Chris Dodd. D-Conn. — presidential aides and congressional leaders in both parties have sought a speedy compromise. Leading that pack: the cooperative approach, similar to rural utilities that have government financial support but op- erate independently. Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., who chairs the Budget Com- mittee, has offered the co- op idea as a way to avoid a bruising and protracted political wrangle on Capi- tol Hill. "This really isn't, to me, a matter of right or wrong," Conrad said. "This is a Candidate asks that elections be voided as riots persist Ahmadinejad calls the protesters 'weeds that are making problems.' The Washingtoe Ant TEHRAN - A defiant Mir Hossein Mousavi, koding an opposi- tion movement against President Mahmoud Ah- madinejad, called on his supporters Sunday to con- tinue protests against the outcome of the election in which Ahmadinejad was proclaimed the landslide winner. Mousavi asked the influential Guardian Coun- cil to declare the elections void because of fraud and irregularities. Riots erupted for a sec- ond day, with gunshots heard in several locations in Tehran and unrest in the Caspian Sea city of Rasht and the central Iranian city of Shiraz, witnesses said in phone interviews. A large rally is planned by Mousavi sup- porters for this afternoon in Tehran. On Sunday, Ah- madinejad led a vic- tory rally near Vali-e Asr BEN amts/lie Associated Press Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad react as he speaks at a rally in Tehran on Sunday. Tens of thousands attended waving the nation's flag, the symbol of his campaign, square attended by tens of vied batons as they roamed thousands of people way- the streets in groups on ing Iranian flags, which motorcycles, many wear- his campaign adopted as ing black helmets and its symbol. At an earlier green vests. Ahmadinejad news conference he de- said the demonstrators dared the Iranian elec- were "a few weeds that lions a "true manifestation are making problems" of people's right to decide To cheers, he said there their own destiny." would be no more place for "Some ... say the vote them in Iran. is disrupted, there has In asking the Guardian been a fraud," he said at Council to nullify the elec- the rally. "Where are the lions. Mousavi wrote on his irregularities in the elec- Web site, "I believe this to tion?" be the only way to return Young members of the general trust and sup- Iran's voluntary paramili- port of the people for the tary force, the basal. car- government." The site is now blocked in Iran. The council is a 12- member commission that must validate the elections before an official winner can be declared. Council members are appointed by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, and the head of the judiciary. The council vets candi- dates and has the power to veto laws deemed inconsis- tent with Islam. It has not yet acted, although state media have already pronounced Ahmadinejad the victor. Mousavi complained to the council about interfer- ence from security forces and the use of irregular procedures in the elec- tion. "Those who with great violations have issued re- sults unbelievable for the Iranian nation. are now trying to stabilize those re- sults and start a new era in the history of our nation." Mousavls statement said. He added that the protests were not about him. "They are because of worries over the new method of po- litical life which is being forced onto our country," he wrote. matter of: Where are the votes in the United States Senate?" That political situation has guided most of the talks. While Democrats control both chambers of Congress. they have only 59 senators — one short of the number needed to end a Republican filibuster. Even if Al Franken were seated as Minnesota's sec- ond senator, Kennedy and Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., are suffering health prob- lems that could preclude them from casting votes to end the procedural delay. 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• 12A THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. JUNE 15,2009 Caring for burns: Patients' needs Pain management to endure the excruciating healing procedures. ► BUHNSfrom IA trapped in a flaming go- cart May 25 west of Jupiter and suffered major burns. he needed emergency specialized burn care. He became the latest victim evacuated from Palm Beach County to Jackson, the closest burn center 'Certified by the American College of Surgeons. There are 53 such ern- ien in North America, anduding two more in Florida at Shands hospital in Gainesville and the Uni- versity of South Florida in rramPa. • Delray Medical Center And St. Mary's Medical Center in West Palm Beach received funding after the Sept. 11 attacks (•.) treat multiple burn pa- nts in case of another terrorist attack. but the centers are not certi- fied to treat major burns. Any person suffering ierious burns in Palm Beach County should be ;taken to one of those loca- tions. If necessary, staffers there will send the patient to Jackson Memorial. Waiting to whisk burn victims off the copter is Nantias team — which *ill eventually include durse specialists, physical therapists and psycholo- gists "More than any other kind of medicine, treat- ment of burns is a teeth activity," Namias said. '"The doctor alone isn't that important." Namias said the popu- lar perception is correct: Nothing causes more pain than burns. "Pain management is one of the most important things we do," he said. At first, most burn vic- tims are heavily sedated to relieve the initial agony. For the majority, one of the first stops will be the operating room, where dead skin and tissue must be removed. For that, they are anesthetized in what otherwise would be an ex- cruciating procedure. Sometimes other se- Thirty to 35 hors of fluid a day to nourish damaged tissues. Up to 3,500 calories a day to keep up with an increased metabolism. Patients' No Membership Fees! 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Burn surgeons cannot use skin from other peo- ple for final grafts because they cannot employ the immune system suppres- sion drugs used in other transplants. Namias said. Burn victims are so sus- ceptible to infection that their immune systems cannot be interdicted. While waiting for a graft, the patient must be stabilized, which is extremely tricky. The bodies of burn victims often no longer recognize 98.6 degrees as a normal CAN'T LOSE WEIGHT? GET A SECOND OPINION. Lose 21 pounds in 4 weeks: Rite 55:, -net Mxtve eel to lose ivt4t eta, cif c phryoaa dffen: giver. Ore( tradicol extol car unionize e act based on your untrue reetebolso tiracid, MOdKOfiCIP CM Ow *WO moil less tssues. 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The psy- chology of burn patients begins with the shock and pain of the fire and pos- sible deformities. "But these incidents are also typically associated with some other tragedy," Namias said. "The house has burned down, and they have no home. "Maybe somebody else was injured or killed. And we have lots of people who worry about the cat. 'No one has seen the cat.' " Burn victims often suf- fer from post-traumatic stress syndrome, he said. I XG E - Currency Dthe. West PaP, Mach '671 sr. Nimwyn Cede. Port St Lode Meanwhile, the graft _ 335-4445 - ing goes on. "We can save people with bums over 90 percent of their bodies," Namias said. "We harvest skin from the victim. and we have machines that expand the skin as much as six times, create a mesh from it, and then it grows in." Some patients need "10 20. 30 operations" for both functional and cosmetic reasons, he said. And there is always the pain. which is managed so that as much as pos- sible patients remain alert, walking and in physical therapy. Dickford Cohn, 64, of Key West was admitted to the Burn Center on May 16 with second-degree burns over almost half 'of his body after a house fire. "I certainly expected a great deal more pain," he said. "The first thing they do • is manage the pain without doping you all up" Cohn said that has made his recovery much quicker. Originally expect- ing three months in the hospital, he believes it will be closer to a month. The Burn Center also gives courses in how to prevent burns. Children removing hot soup from microwaves is a new source of serious injury. Namias said. But the traditional causes still provide him with mast of his cases — smoking in bed, roofers pouring hot tat and espe- cially people frying food. "Homemade french fries," he said, wincing. 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THE PALM BEACH POST • MONDAY. JUNE 15.2009 11.4 NEWSMAKERS C. Albin, renowned chef at Four Seasons, dies at 61 BANKRUPTCY Today's highlights Obama women get royal treatment First lady Michelle Obama, on a visit to London last week. got permission from Queen Elizabeth II for a guided tour of Bucking- ham Palace with her daughters, Sasha and Malia. They were shown around the queen's official residence and its gardens. and the queen herself greeted them af- terward, according to a royal source who spoke on condition of anonymity because the meeting was private. Nails In the coffin: Nine Inch Nails frontman Tfent Reznor said their performance Sunday at the Bonna- roo Music Festival was their last in the country. The group performed in the early morning hours Sunday at the Manchester, Tenn., festival, shortly after Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band wrapped up. "It just dawned on me that this is our last show ever in the United States," Reznor said. "Don't be sad. I'll keep going. But I think I'm going to lose my ... mind if 1 keep doing this, and I have to stop." Moviegoers still hung over: The Warner Bros. com- edy The Hangover hauled in $33.4 million to remain the top box-office draw for a second straight weekend, according to studio estimates Sunday. Disney's latest Pixar Animation hit, the action comedy Up. came in a dose second again with $30.5 million. Debuting at No. 3 with $25 million was The Taking of Pelham 123. — Palm Reath Post war vnirn It c Obama FACING FORECLOSURE? The recent foreclosures you could You A E11141ggnaitiingq.11 MALL -1 iglyting • addition of new judges to in Palm Beach County means lose your home within months! A NO 1 0 NGE e hear that 0 ' D o 0 LM N 0 LI )KN 0 • GiAlUcli N, rz a • "1S 0 to - iif presert,.e hint: 0 the tinernan dream ,_ owner hip" I • • IiNhTI• 0 0 5611—: * : - 2t a 2 www.FLF I reel i sure 0 i ce L.L.M. 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But 10 bills never received a hear- ing. including several that would have required medi- ation between lenders and borrowers. The Center for Responsible Lending es- timates that one of every three homeowners facing foreclosure in Florida could stay in their homes with mediation. Instead, lawmakers appmved just two foreclo- sure-related bills: one to comply with new mini- mum federal regulations for lenders and another to increase court costs for foreclosure cases from 5300 to as much as $1,900. The state "should have done more." said state Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink, a Democrat running for governor. Sink pointed to the The PALM HOUSE ai ilre AL*. Readt C1 liatheada aim • • Royals • Alexanders • %yenta Roetrelenll • Areas • Coconuts • Queen Palms • Yeitchla Manors • Monklms • Mango Trees • Others Available • 1011 MIS 891).95 561-964-3709 5792 Desoto Road. 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"It is not something you can pump money out to avoid foreclosures, he said. "We don't have the re- sources to do that. There is no bailout in the state of Florida." Gov. Charlie Crist noted the rise in foreclosures in his State of the State speeches in 2008 and this year. But he has never included any specific fore- closure-related bills among his legislative priorities. "We want to do all we can to help people," Crist said when asked about the state's responsibility to ad- dress foreclosures. "It's a tough time right now? Crist pushed banks to halt foreclosures during STOP SMOKING $2290 • 1 TREATMENT • NO NEEDLES F • NO MEDICATION • 100% PAINLESS LASER THERAPY 1.866.277.7848 www.laser-therapies.com Law Offices Of RICHARD S. WEINSTEIN, P.A. 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McCollum, who created a Mortgage Fraud Task Force in 200Z said home- owners facing foreclosure need to be more proactive with their lenders. "In many cases the lender can and will work this out," he said. Several states, includ- ing Ohio and New Jersey, have implerhented aggres- sive programs to require mediation between bank- ers and lenders. In Florida, two Leon County circuit judges made a proposal in December to the state's 20 chief judges to create simi- lar mediation programs Three of the state's 20 judicial circuits have en- listed the nonprofit Collins Center for Public Policy to offer mediation. The first such program arose in the Treasure Coast's 19th Circuit, where borrowers and lenders are required to meet before their first court appear- ance. In the past month, 22 of the first 31 mediated foreclosure cases in the circuit were settled with renegotiated loans. In Palm Beach County, Chief Circuit Judge Kath- leen Kroll signed an order to require banks to con- sider revising a loan at the homeowner's request. The court receives an average of 500 new foreclosures each week. Last week, the courts in Palm Beach County began a service to make The $295.00 Jewelry Makeover! Your Old Jewelry + Our Talented Jewelers = A Wonderful Custom Piece lust For You! 7•••••••••••Lip••••••• •••••1 pma Van Dell Jewelers - Designers WELLINGTON 13873 Welling Trace • Suite B-1 • 561.793.2661 ROYAL PALM BEACI1 110::1 Southern Blvd. • Suite 120 • 561.784.5220 PALM BEACH GARDEN'. 6231 PGA Blvd. • Suite 114 . 2:414 t'ir n re re rand: Thorn attorneys and law school interns available to walk homeowners through the paperwork. On Thursday, the first day the informa- tion sessions were avail- able, 26 of 142 eligible homeowners attended. 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While this position did not diverge from Netanya- hu's previous statements, he delivered it on Sunday in the context of a speech he had billed as a major foreign policy address, one he had urged Obama to watch. It came 10 days af- ter Obama bluntly rejected "the legitimacy of contin- ued Israeli settlements" in his Cairo address to the Muslim world. The White House reac- tion was positive, if lim- ited, focusing on what it called "the important step forward' of Netanyahu's support for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Pal- estinian conflict. White House press sec- retary Robert Gibbs reiter- ated Obama's commitment to a two-state solution that 'can and must ensure both Israel's security and the fulfillment of the Palestin- ians' legitimate aspira- tions for a viable state." and he said that Obarna 'welcomes Prime Minister Netanyahu's endorsement of that goal: In moving closer to- ward the American and international consensus for a two-state solution, Netanyahu risked alienat- ing right-wing ideologues within his party and his governing coalition. Citing the biblical vi- sion of Isaiah of swords beaten into plowshares, Netanyahu said of the Palestinians, "the do not want to rule over them, to govern their lives, or to impose our flag or our culture on them. But beyond the idea of a state, he seemed to offer little room for compromise or negotiation. He referred repeatedly to the West Rank, the ter- ritory presumed to com- prise the bulk of a future Palestinian state, by its biblical name of Judea and Samaria, declaring it "the land of our forefathers." Netanyahu made no mention of existing frame- works for negotiations, like the US-backed 2003 peace plan known as the road map. He did not address the geographical area a Pales- tinian state might cover, and he said that the Pal- estinian refugee problem must be resolved outside Israel's borders, rejecting the Palestinian demand for a right of return for refugees of the 1948 Arab- Israeli War and their mil- lions of descendants. He insisted that Jeru- salem remain united as the . Israeli capital. The Palestinians demand the eastern part of the city as a future capital. "Benjamin Netanyahu spoke about negotiations, but left us with nothing to negotiate as he system- atically took nearly every permanent status issue off the table: said Saeb Erekat, the chief Palestin- ian negotiator. "Nor did he accept a Palestinian state. Instead, he announced a series of conditions and qualifications that render Aka SCI4Allifint Wound Press Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's speech Sunday at Bar Ban University. a viable, independent and sovereign Palestinian state impossible." Palestinian negotiators have long refused to rec- ognize Israel as a Jewish state, contending that it would prejudge the refu- gees' demand for a right of return and would be detrimental to the status of Israel's Arab minority. Ron Dermer, Netan- yahu's communications director, said that Palestin- ians recognition of Israel as a Jewish state was "not a precondition" for negotia- tions. But, he said, "there will not be an agreement without that recognition." Timed to coincide with the Israeli evening televi- sion news, the speech was rich in Zionist rhetoric and seemed aimed as much at the Israeli public as at the Obama administration. 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Attorney seeks to prevent billionaire Epstein from hiding assets abroad Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachPost.com Attorney seeks to prevent billionaire Epstein from hiding assets abroad By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEI. Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Monday, June 22, 2009 WEST PALM BEACH — An attorney representing one of the passel of young women now suing billionaire Jeffrey Epstein is asking a federal judge to appoint a receiver to take over Epstein's property to prevent him from hiding or transferring assets abroad. Ca PRINTTHIS Bradley Edwards also has asked that the receiver order Epstein post a $15 million bond to ensure money is available if the women prevail in their lawsuits seeking damages because of the sexual contact they say Epstein had with them as minors. Jeffrey Epstein Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been sentenced to 18 months for felony solicitation of prostitution following accusations by teen girls. Past coverage Post your comments on this story below More local news Latest hreaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories. In a request entered into the court record Friday, Edwards wrote that Epstein, a man of "phenomenal wealth," now faces more than two dozen lawsuits. The woman he represents is seeking more than $50 million in damages. "Accordingly, Epstein has currently pending against him lawsuits seeking more than $1 billion in damages. He thus faces financial ruin," Edwards wrote to U.S. District Judge Kenneth Marra. Edwards cited no direct http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Attorney+seeks+to... 6/23/2009 EFTA00259974

Attorney seeks to prevent billionaire Epstein from hiding assets abroad Page 2 of 2 City evidence that Epstein is transferring assets abroad. He argued that because On the beat behind the agenda: Post reporters cover your area in City Pulse. Epstein is a sophisticated money manager and is Share This Story allowed out of the Palm Beach County Stockade each day to work at his office, he has the skill, the means and motive to be transferring assets abroad. Epstein is serving an 18-month sentence in the stockade after pleading guilty nearly a year ago to state charges of felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. Epstein is allowed out of the stockade, though, each day from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., a spokeswoman for the sheriffs office recently said. The saga began years ago after Town of Palm Beach police investigated reports that young women were being brought to Epstein's manse on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money. Attorneys representing the women have questioned Epstein about his sexual activities with their clients as well as his finances. Epstein has responded by invoking his right to remain silent and not incriminate himself. "The silence in the face of these questions speaks far louder than words," Edwards wrote. "As Justice Brandeis recognized long ago 'Silence is often evidence of the most persuasive character.' "This is plainly one of those situations." An attomey who represented Epstein during the questioning, Robert D. Critton Jr. of West Palm Beach, did not respond to an e-mail seeking comment. On Thursday, Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath, will consider whether to unseal a deferred-prosecution agreement Epstein entered with federal prosecutors. Attorneys have said that they seek to unseal that document in part to use it in striking at Epstein's right to remain silent. Find this article at: http /fweumpalmbeachpost.corrt/searchfcontentflocal_newskpapea2009/06/22/0622epstein.html Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. http://palmbeachpost.printthis.elickability.corn/pt/ept?action=ept&title=Attomey+seeks+to... 6/23/2009 EFTA00259975

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Judge to decide whether to unseal documents in Epstein deal Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachPost.com Judge to decide whether to unseal documents in Epstein deal By SUSAN SPENCER-WENDEL Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Thursday. June 25, 2009 Ct PRINTTHIS WEST PALM BEACH — A Palm Beach Circuit Court judge will again consider today whether to unseal a deal that purported billionaire Jeffrey Epstein struck with federal prosecutors to avoid charges by them following his sex scandal with underage girls. Attorneys for women now suing the money manager, as well as the Palm Beach Post, have asked Circuit Judge Jeff Colbath to unseal Epstein's federal deferred-prosecution agreement. The hearing is set for 1:30 p.m. Jeffrey Epstein Billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein has been sentenced to 18 months for felony solicitation of prostitution following accusations by teen girls. Past coverage comments on this story below More local news Latest breaking news, photos and all of today's Post stories. Recently in court. Colbath acknowledged that Epstein's deal with the feds had not been sealed in accordance with state and local court rules. "I don't see where any of the procedures were ever followed to begin with," Colbath then said. He has since given Epstein's attorney, Jack Goldberger, an opportunity to argue that the document was properly sealed and why it should remain so. The deal promises a look at the behind-the-scenes http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.comipt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Judge+to+decide+... 6/25/2009 EFTA00259978

Judge to decide whether to unseal documents in Epstein deal Page 2 of 2 justice struck for the New York money manager who according to Vanity Fair, On the beat, behind the agenda: Post reporters cover your area in City Pulse. hobnobbed with the likes of Prince Andrew and Share This Story former President Bill Clinton. "It's a secret agreement. A secret sweetheart agreement." former Circuit Judge Bill Berger who now represents some of the women has said. "Everybody was in on this deal except the victims and the public. The public should be outraged it has gone as far as it has." A second attorney representing the women, Brad Edwards. has seen the seated deal after a federal judge allowed him and his clients to view it, but not discuss its contents. Edwards would only say that the women were "outraged" that it had been negotiated behind their backs. A reporter asked Edwards if he believed Epstein received special treatment by federal prosecutors. "Are you kidding? It's transparent. Certainly no one else gets treated like that," Edwards has said. Epstein is currently serving an 18-month sentence in the Palm Beach County Stockade after pleading guilty a year ago in state court to felony solicitation of prostitution and procuring teenagers for prostitution. Epstein is allowed out, though, each day from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., a spokeswoman for the sheriffs office has said. The saga began years ago after Town of Palm Beach police began investigating reports that young women were being brought to his manse on El Brillo Way to massage him and have sex with him in exchange for money. Displeased with the way the State Attorney's Office handled the case, Palm Beach police later forwarded information to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Epstein's own attorneys, in federal filings, have referred to Epstein's deferred prosecution agreement with federal prosecutors as "unprecedented" and "highly unusual." Goldberger has said he believes the law allows the record to continue to be sealed and is opposing it being opened. Epstein has not gotten any special treatment, according to Goldberger. Find this article at: httpINAwd.palmbeachpost.comflOcalnews/contentilocalnewstepaper/2009/06/25/epstein(1626.html Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. http://palmbeachpost.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Judge+to+decide+... 6/25/2009 EFTA00259979

Jeffrey Epstein to get out of jail early: July 22 Page 1 of 2 PalmBeachDailyN9n:c9m Jeffrey Epstein to get out of jail early: July 22 By MICHELE DARGAN Daily News Staff Writer Tuesday, June 23, 2009 &a PRINT THIS Powered by fiClicirabddy Convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein will be released from the Palm Beach County Stockade July 22, after RELATED LINKS serving less than 13 months of his 18-month sentence for procuring a minor for prostitution. Radaronline.com story Teri Barbera, spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County Sheriffs Office, confirmed his release date Tuesday. Epstein's projected date was September 24, but gain time — which includes his participation in a work-release program — brings his release date to July 22, Barbera said. Radaronline.com has reported that Epstein has "secretly been helping the feds unravel a Ponzi scheme" related to the June 2008 indictment of two former managers of Bear Stearns Mortgage Investment Fund. Epstein's rep, Howard Rubenstein, confirmed last year that Epstein is "Major Investor No. 1" in the indictment, which says he lost about $57 million. Epstein's attorney Jack Goldberger could not be reached for comment. Epstein, 56, has been in the work-release program since Oct. 10, where he is allowed out of the stockade six days a week, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. to go to his West Palm Beach office, the Florida Science Foundation, monitored by an ankle bracelet and accompanied by a deputy. The Manhattan money manager has been incarcerated since June 30, when he pleaded guilty to two felony counts: soliciting prostitution and procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. As part of the plea agreement, Epstein must serve one year of house arrest after his release and register as a lifelong sex offender. In addition to the criminal case, there are more than a dozen civil lawsuits — both state and federal — pending against Epstein. All contain similar allegations: Epstein, through his employees and assistants, brought minor girls to his Palm Beach home for erotic massages and sometimes sex. http://cox.printthis.clickability.corn/pt/cpt?action=ept&title=Jeffrey+Epstein+to+get+out+... 6/24/2009 EFTA00259980

Jeffrey Epstein to get out of jail early: July 22 Page 2 of As part of his state plea agreement, the U.S. Attorney's Office agreed not to prosecute Epstein on federal charges as long as he fulfills all requirements of his sentence and probation. The federal non-prosecution agreement is under seal in state court. Fort Lauderdale-based attorney Brad Edwards represents three Epstein victims and has asked Circuit Judge Jeffrey Colbath to unseal the non-prosecution agreement to the public. A hearing is set for Thursday. when Colbath will issue a ruling. Edwards and his clients have seen the agreement after a federal judge ruled that they are allowed to see it. But that ruling bars Edwards and anyone else who sees the document from disclosing the terms to anyone else. Edwards said he wants to use that document "in the deposition of various material witnesses" relative to his cases. Find this article at: http tiwww palmbeachdailynews comtnewstontent/news/2009/06/23/webepstein062309 html Check the box to include the list of links referenced in the article. Copyright 2008 Palm Beach Daily News. All rights reserved lutp://cox.printthis.clickability.com/pt/cpt?action=cpt&title=Jeffrey+Epstein+to+get+out+... 6/24/2009 EFTA00259981

EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein To Be Released From Prison Early Page 1 of 2 rig odor online.com Published on RadarOnline.com (http://www.radaronline.com) Forte > Br I Clinton > EXCLUSIVE jetlrey E este n To Be Released From Prison Early EXCLUSIVE: Jeffrey Epstein To Be Released From Prison Early By Jimmy Created 06/19/2009 - 2 01 pm Jeffrey Epstein, the Florida money manager who once roamed in the same social circle as Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and other high profile figures, is going to be released from prison early, a source tells RadarOnline.com. Epstein pleaded guilty last year to procuring teen girls for prostitution, ending his lifestyle with the rich and famous in a Palm Beach. Florida scandal that reverberated through high- profile society. He received an 18-month sentence and was slated to be incarcerated until the end of this year. But now, says the source, the jail door is about to swing open because Epstein has been secretly helping the feds unravel a suspected Ponzi scheme. He had inside knowledge of the scheme because he was one of its victims, losing $67 million. The source says it's all tied to the indictment of former managers of Bear Stearns Mortgage Investment Fund, and in that case Epstein is the person who is identified only as Victim # 1. Meanwhile, Epstein's life behind bars hasn't been too rough — in fact he's allowed to spend most days at his attorney's office. He was supposedly working on a charity venture but the source says he was actually busy helping the feds with the Ponzi scheme. One source says that he's been guarded by men in suits with earphones. (Photo:Patrick McMullan) Source URL (retrieved on 06/24/2009 - 9:044m): htm://www.radaronline.corn/print/ I 3910 6/24/2009 EFTA00259982

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