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| FD-380 (Rev. 5-8-81) | PDS’ - = — Mount Clipping in Space Below) 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 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 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 refused to cooperate with ' 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 q -. charging Epstein because ssa toa of concerns about the P ‘ie argain, girls’ credibility. The Polce 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 lewd and lascivious molesta- Epstein: His former attorney 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. LL (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1B, 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: 31 E-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-year-old 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 > fT . Sa — HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018920