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Sex offender Epstein on the hot seat, again!

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| Friday 13 February 2009 8:27 am Print This Post

 

epsteinBillionaire 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 stiffing a contractor who built a larger dock for his $10.7 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.

“He 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 18.

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 every morning to work at his office. He’s supposed to return to the county jail every night, according to State Attorney spokesman Mike Edmondson.

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