Jeffrey Epstein, center, in custody in West Palm Beach, Fla. in 2008. Photo: Palm Beach Post, Uma Sanghvii/AP

Attorneys for Jeffrey Epstein, arguing for their client's pretrial release, on Thursday laid out at least 14 “highly restrictive conditions” to counter concerns that he may flee or present a danger to the community, if released before trial.

In a letter to U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman of the Southern District of New York, Epstein's lawyers proposed the use of surveillance cameras, GPS monitoring, as well as deregistering his private jet and other forms of transportation to ensure that Epstein would appear for trial on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges.

They also said Epstein would post a bond secured by his massive residence on East 71st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, which was valued at roughly $77 million, and said his jet could be pledged as further collateral.

“Mr. Epstein respectfully submits that his conduct over the past 14 years proves that he poses no risk of flight or threat to the safety of the community,” the filing said. “Even if the Court should have concerns to the contrary, there clearly exist a combination of conditions that would be sufficient to assure his presence as required and/or the safety of the community, including but not limited to some or all of the conditions proposed.”

Federal prosecutors had argued that the former fund manager's vast resources and history of sexual offenses made him a danger to the community and a threat to flee the country.

According to the U.S. Attorney's Office, Epstein consented to detention at the Metropolitan Correctional Center ahead of a bail hearing scheduled for July 15.

Prosecutors in Manhattan alleged in an unsealed indictment Monday that Epstein paid dozens of underage girls from 2002 to 2005 to perform nude or semi-nude massages on him at his residences in New York and Palm Beach, Florida.

According to the indictment, the encounters became “increasingly sexual” in nature, with Epstein often masturbating and molesting his victims. U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman alleged that Epstein would also pay some victims “hundreds of dollars” to recruit other young girls to the network, allowing Epstein to create “an ever-expanding web of new victims.”

At a press conference, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey S. Berman said his office was not bound by an earlier non-prosecution agreement Epstein reached with federal prosecutors in Miami just over a decade ago in a case that involved similar allegations related to minors.

As a part of that deal, Epstein pleaded guilty to two state felony prostitution charges, served 13 months in a Palm Beach County jail, and registered as a sex offender.

Epstein's attorneys on Thursday argued that the NPA was a “global settlement” that barred prosecutors in New York from pursuing new charges that stemmed from the same conduct covered under the earlier agreement. Epstein, they said, planned to fight the charges on the merits, as well as on due-process process.

The filing also claimed that Epstein had “potent legal defenses” to the government's prosecution under the federal statute driving the indictment. According to Epstein's attorneys, the law was intended to “prevent slavery, involuntary servitude, and human trafficking for commercial gain” applied to pimps of children and not to those who paid for commercial sex acts.

“Here, the principal conduct underlying the indictment is Mr. Epstein's payment of money for massages that purportedly escalated to alleged sex acts. Mr. Epstein's conduct, however, is akin to consumer or purchaser behavior and should be outside the ambit of of 18 U.S.C. § 1591,” they said.

Epstein is represented by Reid Weingarten of Steptoe & Johnson, Martin G. Weinberg and Marc Allan Fernich.

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