Wealth
Epstein Bids for ‘Gilded Cage’ That Housed Madoff, Strauss-Kahn
- U.S. says financier is flight risk, should remain in jail
- Judge could issue ruling quickly; cell or massive mansion?
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It certainly isn’t unheard of for the well-heeled and criminally accused to await trial in their luxurious New York residences instead of cells with concrete beds. Just remember Bernard Madoff or Dominique Strauss-Kahn.
Jeffrey Epstein, who is scheduled to learn Thursday whether he will have to remain in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, has asked U.S. District Judge Richard Berman to allow him to go home to his limestone-fronted mansion across the street from the Frick Collection museum. The financier has been at the notorious MCC since his arrest on July 6 on charges of sex-trafficking minors.