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sf ee 29 ange Ft manny 2 pot mr ec aaa Nat RNa GN NINO POLIO CRON Bale Fe Eo wsec Even without Ozzy, crowd finds entertainment galore af OES ab ’ Palm Beach chief nae of fi ire in Scien case Defendani’s lawyers take him on; he slams state attorney By LARRY KELLER Palin Beach Post Staff Writer In the case of Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Ep- stein, itseems, at times, as if two men are accused of wrongdoing: Epstein and Palm Beach Police Chief 07/26/17 Michael Reiter. Epstein, 53, was indict- ed last month on a charge of felony solicitation of prosti- tution solely because of Re- iter’s “craziness,” one of Epstein’s lawyers said. His ‘department disseminated “a distorted view of the case” and behaved in a “childish” manner when the grand jury didn’t indict Ep- stein on the charges it sought, another Epstein lawyer complained. To hear the Epstein 29 Morya ER lh pico eomipetee we. phate WA Mud “oP Page 43 of 151 camp tell it, Reiter, 48, is a loose cannon better suited to be the sheriff of Mayber- ry. They whisper that he’s embroiled in a mes. di- vorce. Reiter did in fact file for divorce from. his wife, Jill, last year, after 24 years of marriage. They have a son, Public Recor DOJ-OGR- 00032082 18, and a daughter, 14. The couple is scheduled to go to mediation Wednesday. © Nothing in the court file suggests their split is par- ticularly ugly. Reiter incurred the wrath of the Epstein camp as well as the state attor- See REMER, 7B &