HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019367.jpg

FD-380 (Rev. 5-8-81) , S Mount Clipping in Space Below) Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Famed Harvard Jaw 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 tohaveno | 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- 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 i rather than directly fe '. charging Epstein because ae Ga i of concerns about the P a vargain, ' girls’ credibility. The PO#CE 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- 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. . Epstein: His former attomey SZLE-MM -\08062-9 (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and stale.) 4B, 7B/ The Palm Beach Post West Palm Bech, FL Date: 7/29/2006 Edition: Title: Police say fawyer tried fo discredit teenage girls, Character or Classification: 31E-MM-108662 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 sife 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 > wt. 0395-67 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019367