Epstein Secrets

ing their research. By then, relations' between police and prosecutors were fraying. At a key meeting with prosecutors and the defense, Detective Joseph Recarey, the lead investigator, was a no-show, according to 'pstein's attorney. "The embarrassment on the prosecutor's face was evident when the police

nt on the prosecutor's face was evident when the police officer never showed up for the meeting," attorney Jack Goldberger said. Later in April, Recarey walked into a prosecutor's office at the state attorney's office and learned the case was taking an unexpected turn. The prosecutor; Lanna Beloh

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chael Reiter wrote i letter to State Attorney Barry Krischer suggesting he disqualify himself from the case if he would not act. Two weeks later, Recarey was told that prosecutors had decided once again to lake the case to the grand jury. It is not known how many of the girls testified before the

Can I get another amen? This should sound familiar Mr. Williams draws much of his inspira- tion from the now-infamous speech delivered by comedian Bill Cosby on May 17. 2004. to a few thousand mem- bers of the black elite who gathered in Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Courtk

Washington to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Courtk Brown decision. Instead of basking in how far African-Americans have come. Mr Cosby talked about drop- out rates, out-otwedlock births, drug abuse, high rates of incarceration and other self-defeating behaviors that plague the bla

witz flew down and met privately with Krischet, Recarey said. "And the shenanigans that happened, I don

the fall of Haney Weinstein, Bill Aff1'0Y EPS,. Cosby and U.S. Olympic gymnast. doctor Larry Nassar —

sment on the prosecutor's face was evident when the police officer never showed up for the meeting," attorney Jack Goldberger said. Later in April, Recarey walked into a prosecutor's office at the state attorneys office and learned the case was taking an unexpected turn. The prosecutoMlia. told the s

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102 and 103. Long before #MeToo became the catalyst for a women’s movement about sexual assault — and a decade before the fall of Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby and U.S. Olympic gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar — there was Jeffrey Edward Epstein. Epstein, a multimillionaire hedge fund manager whose friends inc

R PRESSURE There were really just two people willing to risk their careers to go after Epstein: Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter and Detective Joseph Recarey. For Reiter, business tycoon Jeffrey Epstein wasn’t any more formidable than any of the other 8,000 or so wealthy and powerful people living on the

d throughout the day and night. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016436 --- PAGE BREAK --- In their first on-the-record media interviews about the case, Reiter and Recarey revealed new details about the investigation, and how they were, in their view, pressured by then-Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer to downgra

d her to work at Epstein’s house on El Brillo Way. In January of 2016, Roberts filed additional papers, claiming that a defamation suit filed against Bill Cosby, another alleged sexual predator, was directly relevant to her case against Maxwell. In March, Maxwell filed an answer in court denying all of Robert

ATTERSON The Cops Michele Pagan is now a sergeant for the Palm Beach Police Department. In early 2012, at a reception at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe Recarey received the first Palm Beach Police Foundation Police Officer of the Year award—one of several honors he received in the course of his twenty-three-