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>Apparently Eggstein's former IT contractor was named

>Steve Scully

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/contractor-recalls-6-years-on-epstein-s-island/article_33fd07f9-f409-5b56-81e0-2d53394586dc.html

Steve Scully remembers the moment he decided he could no longer work for Jeffrey Epstein.

“I had someone ask me a question … Once the question was posed to me, I realized I couldn’t work for this man anymore,” Scully, 69, said Thursday.

The question came during a 2005 conversation between Scully, who Epstein hired to install and maintain phone and data service on his private island of Little St. James, and another contractor who had been flown in from West Palm Beach, Fla., to install an infinity pool off his master bedroom .

“He said, ‘So, what’s with the young girls?’” Scully recalled. “I said, ‘You know, man, that’s unsettling, certainly.’”

Epstein’s Florida pool contractor said he’d also seen young girls at his Palm Beach mansion, and the men discussed the strange aura surrounding Epstein.

Scully told the contractor, “I do agree with you that you kind of have to look the other way a lot. And he said, ‘Do you have any children?’ And I said ‘Yeah, I do. I have two daughters.’”

The contractor asked Scully if he’d ever allow his daughters — then aged 13 and 15 — to visit Little St. James.

“When he said that, I realized I wouldn’t let my two children anywhere close to the island, and I knew I had to leave immediately,” Scully said.

A lot of influence’ in the V.I.

Scully first started working for Epstein in 1999, maintaining the telephone and data system at Southern Trust Company in American Yacht Harbor in Red Hook.

Epstein was so pleased with the work, he asked Scully to look at his microwave dish on Little St. James, which was having trouble receiving signals from Crown Mountain and resulting in dropped calls.

Scully quickly fixed the problem and Epstein made him an offer.

“He paid me a premium on our hourly rate. At our very first interview he said, ‘What’s your billing rate?’ and he increased it significantly. He said, ‘I’ll pay you that, but I want you to do something for me: when I need you here, I want you here, I don’t need a lot of excuses,’” Scully said.

Scully warned that he wouldn’t always be able to drop everything and run out to Little St. James, especially if he were working on a problem for a major resort like The Ritz-Carlton.

“He said, ‘Fair enough,’ ” before quickly following up with, “‘So, who would that be that you would have to make me wait?’” Scully said.

Epstein’s influence was so great, that at one point he paid the V.I. Water and Power Authority to use a combination electric and fiber optic cable so he could have dedicated power and data service to his private island, Scully said.

He paid WAPA to not use the cable they’d originally planned on “but in fact reorder a very expensive hybrid cable that incorporated fiber optic.”

But getting the cable from Little St. James to Cabrita Point on St. Thomas was only a small part of the connection, as Vitelco, Viya’s forerunner, didn’t have any fiber optic cable past Cowpet Bay, Epstein had to pay for more cables to be run.