Epstein Secrets

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 Epstein’s armada of attorneys — Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz, Jay Lefkowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Jack Goldberger, Roy Black, Guy Lewis and former Whitewater special prosecutor Kenneth Starr — reached a consensus: Epstein would never serve time in a federal or state prison. READ NEXT LOCAL | Sex abuser

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

nnected lawyers that his money could buy. At the top of his list: Kenneth Starr, a Republican icon because of his pursuit of Bill Clinton during the Whitewater investigation, which led to the impeachment (but not conviction) of the president after it was revealed he’d had sex with a young White House intern.

letter and through a spokesman for his current law firm, the Lanier Firm, but did not receive a response for this story. Palm Beach police detective Joseph Recarey, one of the most highly decorated officers on the Palm Beach Police Department, called the Epstein case the most troubling of his 23-year career. “S

ere — and still are — afraid of Epstein,” he said as part of a series of interviews with the Herald earlier this year. Privately, Michael Reiter and Recarey said they held onto hope that Epstein would be brought to trial someday, but they said that that notion had faded. “Lalways hoped that the plea woul

allegations of improper sexual behavior was in stark contrast to the path he took investigating President Bill Clinton as independent counsel forthe Whitewater probe. The Starr Report, the summary of his find ings in the Whitewater investigation, which started as a probe of a land deal gone sour and veered

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