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| FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) a: Mount Clipping in Space Below) _ refused to cooperate with - charging Epstein because Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer 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 client, 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 haveno * criminal record. His current attorney de- nies this happened. : And the documents also reveal that the father of at least one girl complained that private investigators aggressively fol- Jowed his car, photographed his home and chased off visitors. Police also talked to. somebody who said she was offered money if she the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Ep- stein The state attorney’s office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month rather than directly Epstein: His former attomey agreed to a of concerns about the Plea bargain, ' girls’ credibility. The 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 probable cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and jewd and lascivious molesta- tion. 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 hewspaper, city and state.) 4B, 7B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Bech, FL Date: 7/29/2006 Edition: Title: Police say fawyer tried to discredit teenage girls. Character or Classification: 31E-MM-108062 Submitting Office: MM 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 marijuana use, according to the police report prepared by Detective Joseph Re- carey. Haley Robson, a 20-yearold 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 > we. 0395867 ZlE-MM-\080G2-y