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(Rev. 01-31-2003) FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION Precedence: ROUTINE To: Miami From: Miami Squad PB-2, Contact: PRCRA SA Approved By: Drafted By: Case ID #: 31E-MM Title: JEFFREY EPSTEIN Date: 07/24/2006 Attn: SSA WSTA - CHILD PROSTITUTION Ank Synopsis: To request case be opened and assigned. € _ ALPHA ORIGIN ME DATE 2/24/06¶
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TO: Re: Miami From: miami 31E-MM, 07/24/2006 It is requested by SAL captioned case be opened and assigned. 2 b3 -1 b6-1, -3 b70-1, -3 that the above b6 -2 b7C -2 03956-18 HÖUSE_OVERSIGHT_019359¶
Cobable Cause Affidavit Palm Beach Police Department Agency ORI# FLO 500600 Police Case#: 05-368 (1) Defendant: Jeffrey Epstein Race/Sex: White Male DOB: Charges: b6 -1 b7C -1 From March 15, 2005, through February 2006, the Palm Beach Police Department conducted a sexual battery investigation involving Jeffrey Epstein, I Palm Beach. ers b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 The facts, as reported, are as follows: b3 -1 b6 -3 b7C -1, -3 b7D -1 63 - 1 66 - 1, -3 b7C -1, -3 b7D -1 The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed before me this 1s day of May, 2006 by Det I who is personally known to me. 66 -4 b7C -4 Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) State of Florida County of Palm Beach Signature/Arresting Officer Date: 05/01/2006 Page of 22 03956-19 3IE-MM-108062-06 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019360¶
obable Cause Affidavit Palm Beach Police Department Agency ORI# FLO 500600 b3 -1 66 -1, -3 _b7C -1, -3 On November 21, 2005 I interviewed stated he was b3 -1 b6 -1, -3, -5 b7C -1, -3, -5 b7D -1 On January 4, 2006 I interviewed another former houseman, Mr Alfredo Rodriguez. During a swom taped statement, Mr. Rodriguez stated he was employed by Jeffrey Epstein for approximately six months, from November 2004 through May of 2005. His responsibilities as house manager included being the butler, chauffeur, chef. houseman, run errands for Epstein and provide for Epstein’s guests. I asked Rodriguez about b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7c -1, -3 b7D -1 The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed before me this 1s day of May, 2006 by Det who is personally known to me. 66-4 b7c -4 Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) State of Florida County of Palm Beach Signature/Arresting Officer Date: 05/01/2006 Page of 22 03956-39 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019361¶
bable Cause Affidavit Palm Beach Police Department Agency ORI# FLO 500600 b3 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7c -1, -3 b7D -1 63 -1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 b7D -1 b3 - 1| b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 b7D -2 b7E -1 b6 -1 b7C -1 b7D -2 b7E -1 Therefore, as Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time of these incidents was b3 - 1 b6 -1, -3 b7C -1, -3 The foregoing instrument was sworn to or affirmed before me this 1st day of May, 2006 by Det _ _who is personally known to me. 66-4 b7c -4 Signature of Police Officer (F.S.S. 117.10) State of Florida County of Palm Beach Signature/Arresting Officer Date: 05/01/2006 Page of 22 03956-40 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019362¶
31E-MM- 108062- Mystery money man faces soliciting charge By NICOLE JANOK Palm Beach Post Staff Writer A part-time Palm Beacher who has socialized with Donald Trump, Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey was jailed early Sunday with accused drug dealers, drunken drivers and wife beaters after he was charged with soliciting a prosti- tute. Manhattan money manager Jeffrey Epstein, 53, was picked up at his home on El Brillo Way at 1:45 a.m. He was released hours later on $3,000 bond. Epstein was indicted last week by a convictions. state grand jury, according to state at- torney’s spokesman Mike Edmondson. Despite Epstein’s arrest, the indictment containing the allegations remained sealed Sunday and Edmondson provid- ed no details. Unlike most accused johns, Epstein was charged with a third-degree felony instead of a misdemeanor. Under state law, a solicitation charge usually is ele- vated to a more serious felony when the defendant has at least two solicitation checks of court records no such convictions. Epstein could not be reached. F 1- mondson said he was being represente by. West Palm_ Beach attorney Jack Goldberg, who declined comment. Epstein is the president off Epstein BaSe in Mangy man that at so try Jeffrey Epstein Indietment wealthy clientele, according to pub- related to See SOLICITING, 6B b •prostitution. FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) Mount Clipping in Space Below), ‘Mysterious billionaire’ has been on probation • SOLICITING from 1B dropped. lished Since then, Epstein’s reports. National name has turned up in New magazines have described York City’s tabloids. The New 1m as a ire sho lives a 45,000- York Post noted he flew Pres- ident Clinton and Kevin square-foot New York City mansion. Spacey to Africa on his pri- vate Boeing 727. In 2003, the He has been in trouble paper dubbed him one of the before. In 1993, he and two Big Apple’s “top studs.” other defendants were charged in federal court with In 2004, Epstein • bid three counts of postallarceny against trump for a 43,000 and theft and one count of square foot Palm Beach es property theft. Epstein plead tate once owned by health- guilty to a single charge of care magnate Abe Gosman. conspiring to steal U.S. Trump topped Epstein with a Treasury checks from resi- $41.35 million bid. dential. mailboxes and re- Staff Researcher Angelica ceived 5 years’ probation. Cortez contributed to this story. The remaining charges were @ nicole_janok@pbpost.com¶
Indexing: Character or Classification 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM Title: Mystery money man faces soliciting charge “(Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1B, 6B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL Date: 0724/2006 Edition: 03956-63 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019363¶
31E-MH-108062-5 • . 4B THE PALM BEACH POST TUESDAY, JULY 25, 2006 Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times the commission of a Waterway since 1990, according • to Palm Beach police will report today about their prostitution probe of the money manager. crime. property records. A man answering the His attorney, Jack door there Monday said that Epstein Goldberger, declined to wasn’t home. A Cadillac Escalade reg- discuss the charge. istered to him was parked in the drive- State attorney’s of way, which is flanked by two massive fice spokesman Mike gargoyles. Edmondson also had Epstein sued Property Appraiser By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Bilionaire money manager and Palm Beach part-time resident Jeffrey Epstein solicited or procured prostitutes three or more times between Aug. 1 and Oct. 31 of last year, according to an in- dictment charging him with felony so- licitation of prostitution. Epstein, 53, was booked at the Palm Beach County jail at 1:45 a.m. Sunday. He was released on $3.000 bond Epstein’s case is unusual in that suspected prostitution johns are usually charged with a misdemeanor, and. even a felony charge is typically made in a criminal information — an alternative to an indictment charging a person with little to say. Gary Nikolits in 2001, contending that “Generally speak- Epsteln the assessment of his home exceeded ing, there is a case that its fair market value. He dismissed his has a number of different aspects to it,” lawsuit in December 2002. Edmondson said of a prostitution- A profile of Epstein in Vanity Fair related charge being submitted to a magazine said he owns what are be grand jury. “We first became aware of lieved to be the largest private homes in the case months ago by Palm Beach Manhattan - 51,000 square feet — and police.” in New Mexico - a 7,500-acre ranch. Prosecutors and police worked to- Those are in addition to his 70 acre is- gether to bring the case to the grand land in the U.S. Virgin Islands and fleet jury, hes each police confirmed that of aircraft. Epstein’s friends and admirers, ac- and said the department will release a cording to the magazine, include prom- report today regarding its investigation. inent businessmen, academics and sei- Epstein has owned a five-bedroom, entists and famed Harvard law professor 7/bath, 7,234-square-foot home with a Alan Dershowitz. pool and a boat dock on the Intracoastal @ lany_keller@pbpost.com FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) Mount Clipping in Space Below) indexing: Classification: 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM Character Thile: Indictment: Billionaire solicited 3 times (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 4B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL Date: 0725/2006 Edition: 03956-64 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019364¶
FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) Mount Clipping in Space Below) (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1B, 58 / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL Date: 0726/2006 Edition: Title: After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charges Character of Classification 31E-MM-108062 submitting Office MM indexing: After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge By LARRY KELLEF Palm Beach Post Staff Writer ceived massages and sometimes sex, ac- cording to an investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department. Palm Beach police spent months sifting through Ep- stein’s trash and watching his waterfront home and Palm Beach International Airport to keep tabs on his private jet. An indictment Epstein charging Epstein, 53, was unsealed Monday, charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawiul sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry with State Attorney Barry Krischer’s han- ding of the case that he wrote a memo See EPSTEIN, 5B A 033956-65 3IE-MM-108062-6 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT _019365¶
W S C THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006 5B Police kept watch on home, airport, sifted through trash • EPSTEIN from 18 said. A county grand jury The chief’s letter 20, of Royal Palm Beach. Give a massage - maybe na- stein’s bedroom. “found the allegations wholly Robson has worked at an Ol Kellen, whose most re- See the letter Palm Beach Police suggesting the county’s top unsubstantiated and not Garden restaurant in cent known address is in prosecutor disqualify himself. credible, ” and that’s why his Chief Michael Reiter wrote to Wellington and said she was a “I must urge you to ex- client was not charged with State Attomney Bany Krischer One 14-year-old girl Rob- North Carolina, has not been journalism major at son took to meet Epstein led charged in the case. amine the unusual course that sexual activity with minors, on the Epstein case. Beach Community police to start the investiga- Palm Beach police often your office’s handling of this he said. when she was questioned by tion of him in March 2005. A matter has taken and consider Goldberger said Epstein police last October. She has relative of the girl called to say Epstein’s home, and at Palm good and sufficient reason exists to require your dis passed a lie detector test ad- A money manager for the an unlisted phone number she thought the child had re- Beach International Airport ministered by a reputable 1ltra-rich, Epstein was namec and could not be reached for cently engaged in sex with a to see if his private jet was quain of these cases? Reite polygraph examiner in which one of New Yorks most elici Palm Beach man. so they would know cution of these cases, he said he did not know the ble bachelors in 2003 by The Robson said she met Ep- then got into a fight with a when he was in town. Police wrote in a May 1 memo to girls were minors. Also, a Krischer. search warrant served New York Post. He reportedly stein when, at age 17, a friend classmate who accused her of also arranged repeatedly to hobnobs with the likes of asked her if she would like to being a prostitute, and she receive his trash from Palm While not commenting Epstein’s home found no evi former President Clinton, make money giving couldn’t explain why she had specifically on the Epstein dence to corroborate the former Harvard University massage. She said she was $300 in her purse. collecting papers with names Edmondson, girls’ allegations, Goldberger President Lawrence Sum- spokesman for the state at- said. driven to his five-bedroom, The girl gave police this. and phone numbers, sex toys mers and Donald Trump, and 7½bath home on the Intra- account of her meeting with and female hygiene products. torney, said his office pre According to police docu- has lavish homes in Manhat- coastal Waterway, Epstein: One note stated that a fe sents cases other than mur- ments: tan, New Mexico and the Vir- corted upstairs to a bedroom She accompanied Robson male could not come over at 7 ders to a grand jury when • A Palm Beach Commu- with a massage table and oils. and a second girl to Epstein’s p.m. because of soccer. An- nity College student said she He has contributed tens of house on a Sunday in Febru- other said a girl had to work gave Epstein a massage in the thousands of dollars to Dem- both naked during the mas ary 2005. Once there, a wom- “Monday after their ability to testify. nude, then brought him six ocratic Party candidates and sage, she said, but when he an she thought was Epstein’s school?” And still another By the nature of their jobs, girls, ages 14 to 16, for mas organizations, including Sen. grabbed her buttocks, she assistant told the girl to follow note contained the work police officers look at sage and sex-tinged sessions John Kerry’s presidential bid, said she didn’t want to be her upstairs to a room featur- hours of a girl, saying she colance from a “one-sided per- at his home. and the Senate campaigns of ing a mural of a naked woman, leaves school at 11:30 a.m. rective,” Edmondson said. •A 27-year-old woman Joe Lieberman, Hilary Clin- Epstein said he’d pay her several photographs of naked and would come over the next “À prosecutor has to look at it who worked as Epstein’s ton, Christopher Dodd and to bring him more girls - the women on a shelf, a hot pink day at 10:30 a.m. in a much broader fashion.” personal assistant also facili- Charles Schumer. younger the better, Robson and green sofa and a massage Only three months before weighing the veracity of wit tated the liaisons, phoning Goldberger is one of five told police. When she tried the police department probe , nesses and how they may fare the PBCC student to arrange Epstein has once to bring a 23-year-old She stripped to her bra under defense attorneys’ for girls when Epstein was since he became the woman to him, Epstein said and panties and gave him a $90,000 to the department for questioning, he said. coming to town. And she es subject of an investigation, she was too old, Robson said. the purchase of a firearms Epstein’s attorney, Jack corted the girls upstairs when Edmondson said. Among the Robson, who has not been Epstein gave the 14 year- simulator, said Jane Struder, Goldberger, said his client they arrived, putting fresh others: Alan Dershowitz, the charged in the case, said she old $300 and she and the oth- town finance director. The committed no crimes. sheets on a massage table and well-known Harvard law pro- eventually brought six girls to er girls left, she said. She said was never made. The reports and state- placing massage oils nearby. fessor and author, who is a Epstein who were paid $200 Robson told her that Epstein The money was returned to ments in question refer to • Police took sworn friend of Epstein. Dershowitz each time, Robson said. “I’m paid her $200 that day. Epstein on Monday, she said. false accusations that were statements from five alleged could not be reached for like a Heidi Fleiss,” police Other girls told Staff writers Andrew Marra not charged because the Palm victims and 17 witnesses. quoted her as saying. and Tim O Mailia and staff re- Beach County state attorney They contend that on three Police said the woman girls knew what to expect Epstein’s personal assistant at searcher Angelica Cortez con- questioned the credibility of occasions, Epstein had sex who enlisted young girls for when they were taken to Ep Sarah Kellen, now tributed to this story. the witnesses,” Goldberger with the girls. Epstein was Haley Robson,* stein’s home, Robson said. 27, escorted the girls to Ep @larry_keller@pbpost.com 03956-66. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019366¶
D-350 (Rev., 5-8-81) Mount Clipping in Space Below) Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach County State Attorney’s Office and pro vided damaging information about teen-. age girls who say they gave his chent Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged massages, according to police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney de nies this happened. And the documents also reveal that the father of at least one girl complained that investigators aggressively fol- lowed his car, photographed his home and chased off visitors. Police also talked to somebody who said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Ep The state attorney’s office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month Epstein: His rather that directly former attorney charging Epstein because agreed to a of concerns about the plea bargain, credibility. police say. grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probabl cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta Lion. 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. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 18, 7B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Bech, FL Date: 7/29/2006 Edition: Title: Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls. Character or Classification: 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM indexing: The case originally was going to be presented to the grand jury in February, but was postponed after Dershowitz pro duced information gleaned from the Web site myspace.com showing some of the alleged victims commenting on alcohol and marjuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re Haley Robson, a 20yearold Royal Palm Beach woman who told police she recruited girls for Epstein, also is profiled on myspace.com. Her page includes pho tos of her and her friends, including one See EPSTEIN, 7B * 03956-67 3IE-MM-108062-7 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019367¶
Polygraph shows he didn’t know girls’ ages, lawyer says • EPSTEIN from 1B plained of being harassed by test, “he passed on knowl- said. “It’s a way for the pros- private investigators provid- of age,” the attorney ecutor’s office to not take the the name “Pimpin’ ed license tag numbers of two full responsibility for not fil- Made EZ.” Robson, who was of the men. Police found the After the indictment ing the (charge), and not do not charged in the case, is a vehicles were registered to a against Epstein was unsealed ing what the Palm Beach Po- prosecution private eye in West Palm this week, Police Chief Reiter lice Department wanted. I Beach and another in Jupiter, referred the matter to the think something fell apart According to according to Recarey’s re FBI. “We’ve received the re- with those underage prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek ferral, and we’re reviewing offered Epstein attorneys “I have no knowledge of nesses.” it,” said FBI spokeswoman Defense attorney Robert Dershowitz and Guy Fronstin it,” defense attorney Gold- Judy Orihuela in Miami. Gershman was a prosecutor a plea deal in April. Fronstin, berger said. The chief himself has for six years. “Those girls after speaking with Epstein, The report also says a come under attack from Ep- must have been incredible or accepted the deal, in which woman connected to the Ep- stein’s lawyers and friends in untrustworthy, I don’t know,” Epstein would plead guilty to stein case was contacted by New York, where he has a one count of aggravated as somebody who was still in home. The New York Post Other attorneys said Ep- sault with intent to commit a touch with Epstein. That quoted Epstein’s prominent stein’s case raises the issue of felony, be placed on five person told her she would be York lawyer, whether wealthy, connected years’ probation and have no compensated if she didn’t Lefcourt, as saying his client defendants like Epstein — criminal record. The deal al- cooperate with police, Re- was indicted only “because of whose friends include former so called for Epstein to sub- report says. Those the craziness of the police President Clinton and mit to a psychiatric and sex- did talk “will be dealt Donald Trump - are treated ual evaluation and have no with,” the woman said she Reiter has declined to differently from others. Once unsupervised visits with mi- told. Phone record’s comment on the case. , he knew he was the subject of nors, according to Recarey’s show the woman talked with Prosecutors have a criminal report. The plea bargain was the person who allegedly in- presented a sex-related case hired a phalanx of powerfu made in connection with only timidated her around like Epstein’s to a grand jury attorneys such as Dershowitz one of the five alleged vic- time she said, Recarey re- before, said Mike Edmond- and Lefcourt, who is a past tims, the report states. son, spokesman for the state president of the National As- Fronstin — who declined Phone records also show attorney’s office. “That’s what sociation of Criminal Defense to comment on the case - that the person said to have you do with a case that falls Lawyers. • was subsequently fired and made the threat then placed a into a gray area,” he said. Miami lawyer Roy Black yeteran defense attorney call to Epstein’s personal as- The state attorney’s office¶
- who became nationally Jack Goldberger was hired sistant, who in turn called a did not recommend a partic- known when he successfully He denies there was an New York corporation affili- ular criminal charge on defended William Kennedy agreement by any of Ep- ated with Epstein, the report which to indict Epstein, Ed- Smith on a rape charge in stein’s attorneys to a plea states. mondson said. The grand ju- Palm Beach — also was in- The issue in the Epstein ry was presented with a list of volved at one point. “We absolutely did not case is not whether females charges from highest to low- defense attorney agree to a plea in this case,” est, then deliberated with the Michelle Suskauer: “I think he said. Neither Belohlavek but whether he knew their prosecutor out of the room, it’s unfortunate the public spokesmant cou attorney’s may get the perception that “He’s never denied girls “People are surprised at with power, you may be for comment. came to the house,” Gold the grand jury proceeding,” treated differently than the The parent or parents of berger said. But when Ep West Palm Beach defense average Joe.” alleged victims who com- stein was given a polygraph attorney Richard Tendler ©larry_kelter@pbpost.com 03956-68