Epstein Secrets

On May 1, 2006, Town of Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter wrote a “personal and confidential” letter to then Palm Beach County State Attorney, Barry Krischer, stating: I must renew my prior observation to you that I continue to find your office’s treatment of [the Epstein] cases highly unusual. It is r

eason exists to require your disqualification from the prosecution of these cases. (Emphasis supplied) 14. Chief Reiter’s letter to State Attorney Krischer enclosed the Town of Palm Beach Police Department’s probable cause affidavits charging Epstein and two of his assistants with multiple counts of un

crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from the case. https://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/article/20060729/NEWS/190917573 1/4 N

ned a $50,000 campaign contribution from Epstein after his indictment, then resigned this year during his own sex scandal. And the same Palm Beach Police Department that vigorously investigated Epstein returned his $90,000 donation for the purchase of a firearms simulator. Staff writer Eliot Kleinberg and form

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, placing his fingers inside the vagina and Epstein using a vibrator on the victim's vaginal area. The available police reports from the Palm Beach. Police Department include conversations with numerous female victims who in most cases, did not know Epstein when they were victimized. Most of the females were emba

ence against Epstein to a grand jury, rather than directly charging him. Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter was furious with State Attorney Barry Krischer, saying in a May 2006 letter that the prosecu- tor should disqualify himself. "I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases highly u

ules and phone messages from Epstein's Why is Jeffrey Epstein in jail, and not prison? home that showed he knew the girls were underage. Yet Mr. Krischer was more swayed by Epstein's law- yers, who attempted to impugn the girls character by showing they had chatted on myspace.com about smoking mari

minor and sexually touched her. Epstein, 55, induced several under- age girls to give him sexual massages at his Intracoastal home, a Palm Beach Police Department investigation con- cluded. He was indicted in July 2006 on a single count of felony solicitation of prostitution. The case is pending. Jane Doe's

ave > EPSTEIN fom 1B and Donald Trump among his friends. “Highly unusual’ is how Palm Beach Police Chief Mi- chael Reiter described State Attorney Barry Krischer’s handling of the case in a bluntly critical letter to Krischer last year before Epstein was indicted. Reiter referred the mat- ‘ter to the FBI to d

usual’ is how Palm Beach Police Chief Mi- chael Reiter described State Attorney Barry Krischer’s handling of the case in a bluntly critical letter to Krischer last year before Epstein was indicted. Reiter referred the mat- ‘ter to the FBI to determine whether any federal laws had been violated. Epstein’s a

nor and sexually touched her. Epstein, 55, induced several under age girls to give him sexual massages a et at his Intracoastal home, a Palm Beach Police Department investigation con- cluded. He was indicted in July 2006 on a single count of felony solicitation of prostitution. The case is pending. Jane Does par

te’s 20 judicial circuits, headed by a State Attorney who is elected to a four-year term. Palm Beach County constitutes the 15th Judicial Circuit. Barry Krischer was the elected State Attorney for that circuit from 1992 until January 2009. During the period relevant to this Report, the Palm Beach County Sta

rney Barry Krischer explained to OPR that the Epstein case was unusual in that police brought the case to his office without having made an arrest. Krischer was unfamiliar with Epstein, and the case was assigned to the Crimes Against Children Unit. PBPD Chief Michael Reiter stated in a 2009 civil depos

sleading victims regarding the status of the federal investigation after the signing. I. OVERVIEW OF FACTUAL BACKGROUND The Palm Beach (Florida) Police Department (PBPD) began investigating Jeffrey Epstein in 2005, after the parents of a 14-year-old girl complained that Epstein had paid her for a massage. Ep

Confidential Due Diligence Report — YHS LLC Rather than flat-out decline to charge Epstein, Krischer referred the case to the grand jury to "appease" the chief, Goldberger Said. A state attorney's spokesman would say only that the office refers Cas

ncluded there was not sufficient evidence that Epstein had sex with minors, according to Goldberger. "It was just a childish performance by the .ch Police Department," Goldberger said. ii.: defense attorney said one of the alleged victims who claimed she was a minor was in fact over the age of 18. Another allege