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After long probe, Palm Beach billionaire faces solicitation charge¶
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Wednesday, July 26, 2006¶
Palm Beach tillonalre Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls and young women brought to his home, where ho received massages and sometimes sex, according to an investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department.¶
Palm Beach poke spent months sifting through Epstein’s trash and wattling his waterfront home and Palm Beach International Airport to keep tabs en his private jet. An indictment charging Epstein. 53. was unsealed Monday. charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution.¶
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J Of Epmein Effisthim financier Jeffrey Epstein has been indicted for felony soliotation of prostitution by a grand jury blowing accusations by teen girls. • Past twadlfles¶
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Palm Beach police taught there was probable cause to charge Epstein with unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascMous¶
Police Chief kliehael Reiter was so angry with State Attorney Barry Knscher’s handling of the case that he wrote a memo suggesting the county’s top prosecutor disqualify hrnset must urge you to exanine the unusual course that your office’s handling of this matter has taken and consider if good and sufficient reason exists to rename your disqualification from the prosecution of these cases: Reiter wrote in a May I memo to Mather.¶
While not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmendson, spokesman for the state attorney, said his office presents cases other than rounders to a grand jury when there are questions about witnesses’ credibility and their ability to testify.¶
By the nature of thee jobs. police officers look at evidence from a “one-sided perspective: Edmondson said. “A prosecutor has to look al it in a much broader fashion? weighing the veracity of witnesses and bow they may fare under defense attorneys’ questioning, he said.¶
Epstein’s attorney. Jack Goldberger. said his client committed no crimes.¶
“The reports and statements in question refer to false accusations that were not charged because the Palm Beach County state attorney questioned the credibility of the witnesses: Goldberger said. A county grand jury “found the allegations wnolly unsubstantiated and not credible,’ and that’s why his client was not charged with sexual activity volt minors, he said.¶
Goldberger said Epstein passed a lie detector test administered by a reputable polygraph examiner in which he said he did not know the girls were mhos. Also, a search warrant served on Epstein’s home found no evidence to corroborate the giris’ allegations. Goldberger said.¶
According to police documents:¶
• A Palm Beach Community College student said she gave Epstein a massage in the nude, then brought him six girls, ages 14 to 16. for massage and sex-tinged sessions at his home.¶
• A 27.yearold woman who worked as Epstelas personal assistant also facilitated the liaisons, phoning the PBCC student to arrange for girls when Epstein was caning to town. And she escorted the girls upstairs when they arrived, putting fresh sheets on a massage table and placing massage oils nearby.¶
ESERRES • Poke took sworn statements from five alleged victims and 17 witnesses. They contend that on three occasions. Epstein had sex with the • • . 05— -‘e girls.¶
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• Weather I Traffic I Obituaries Polito said the woman who enlisted young oils for Epstein was 20, of. Palm Beach. has worked at an Olive Garden restaurant in Wellington and said she was a journalism major at Palm Beach ommuney College when she was questioned by police¶
last October. She has an unlisted phone number and could not be reached for comment.¶
-aid she met Epstein when. at age 17. a friend asked her rf she would like to make money giving him a massage. She said she was driven to his five-bedroom. 7 12 • bath none on the Intracoastal Wateiway then escorted upstairs to a bedroom welt a massage table and oils. Epstein and .verio both naked dunng the massage, she said. but when he grabbed her buttocks. she said she didn’t want to be touched.¶
A money manager for the ultra-rich. Epstein was named one of New York’s most eligible bachelorsje2calgy The New York Post. He reported?), hobnobs with the likes of former President Clinton. former Harvard University President Summers and Donald Trump. and has lavish homes in Manhattan. New Mexico and the Wart Islands.¶
He has contributed tens of thousands Vjaemaje Democratic Parsand organizations. including Sen. John Kerry’s presidential bid, and the Senate campaigns of Joe Hillary Clinton, Dodd and Charles Schomer.¶
Goldberger Is one of five attorneys Epstein has retained since he became the subject of an Investigation, Edmondson said. Among the others: Alan Dershowitz. the well-known Harvard law professor and author, who is a friend of Epstein. Dershowitz could not be reached for comment.¶
Epstein sad he’d pay her to bring him more girls — the younger the better. old police. When she tried once to being a 23•yeanold woman to him, Epstein said she was too old, aid¶
who has not been charged In the case, said she eventually brought six Orb to Epstein who were paid $200 each time. said ‘I’m eke a Heidi Fleas,’ poke quoted her as saying. The gib knew what to expect when they were taken to Epstein’s home, IMMIsaid. Give a massage — gly naked — and allow some touching.¶
One le-year-old girl IMItook to moot Epstein led police to start the investigation of him in March 2005. A relafive of tho grl called to say she thought the child had recently engaged In sex with a Palm Beach man. The girt then got Into a fight with a classmate who accused her of being a prostitute. and she couldn’t explain why she had $300 In her purse.¶
She sop:meant…land a second girl to Epstein’s house on a Sunday in February 2005. Once there. a woman she “A wes Epstein’s assistant told the girl to follow her upstairs to a roomfeaturing a mural of a naked woman, several photographs of naked women on a shelf, a hot pink an sea and a massage table.¶
She stripped to her bra and panties and gave him a massage.¶
Epstein gave the 14-year-old $300 and she and the other girls left, she said. She sad Mold her that Epstein paid her 5200 that day.¶
Other girls told similar stories. In most accounts. Epstein’s personal assistant al the timenow 27. escorted the girls to Epstein’s bedroom.¶
most recent known address is in North Cardin& has not been charged in the case.¶
Palm Beach police often conducted surveillance of Epstein’s home. and at Peen Beach International Airport to see if his private jet was there. so they would know when he was in town. Polco also arranged repeatedly to wane his trash from Palm Beach sanitation workers, collecting papers with names and cohere numbers. sex toys and female hygiene products.¶
One note stated that a female could not come over at 7 p.m. because of soccer. Mother said a gel had to work Sunday — ‘Monday after school?’ And still another note contained the work hours of a girl, saying she leaves school at 11:30 am. and wadi come over the next day at 10:30 a.m.¶
Only three months before the poke department probe began. Epstein donated S90.000 to the department for the purchase of a firearms simulator, said Jane &ruder, town finance director. The purchase was never made. The money was retired to Epstein on Monday, she said.¶
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