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29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. The police soon began investigating Mr. Epstein for sexually abusing underage girls. The case against Mr. Epstein would involve the testimony of dozens of young girls. Press coverage included a list of famous men who travelled on Mr. Epstein’s plane, the so- called Lolita Express, to Little St. James, an island that Mr. Epstein owned in the Caribbean. When Mr. Epstein learned about the investigation, in the fall of 2005, he immediately called Mr. Dershowitz, who established himself in the lead of a team of prominent attorneys from New York, Boston, Washington, D.C., and Miami. Mr. Epstein once likened his offense to that of “a person who steals a bagel.” [Much of the following seven queries involve actions that Mr. Dershowitz performed while representing Mr. Epstein. Can you confirm that they are accurate?] Mr. Dershowitz prepared a dossier featuring entries from Web sites like MySpace, in which Mr. Epstein’s alleged victims recounted experiences with alcohol or marijuana and wrote about sex. Florida State Attorney Barry Krischer helped Mr. Dershowitz arrange a meeting with Joseph Recarey, the lead investigator in the case. Mr. Dershowitz presented the dossier as evidence that the girls were not of high moral quality. Mr. Dershowitz also raised questions about the police. He made a public-records request to the police department for any paper bearing the name of Michael Reiter, the Palm Beach police chief name, and began had private investigators perform background investigations on Mr. Reiter. For months, Mr. Reiter and Mr. Recarey were under constant surveillance, in which cars followed them, their trash was searched, and investigators contacted Mr. Reiter’s ex-wife. Mr. Epstein has denied his involvement in this. In 2010, when Mr. Reiter testified about the surveillance, in 2010, Mr. Epstein turned to his lawyer and said, ““That wasn’t us!” At one point, Mr. Recarey told Mr. Dershowitz that at least one of the investigators had tried to misrepresent himself to one of the alleged victims as a police officer. Mr. Dershowitz surmised that the woman was someone identified asin depositions. had alleged that he Mr. Epstein had forcibly penetrated her when she was a minor. e told detectives that in 2003, when she was sixteen, a friend introduced her to Mr. Epstein. The friend told her that in exchange for a massage she could earn enough money for a camping trip in Maine that she wanted to go on said that she returned to Mr. Epstein’s house hundreds of times, becoming his Mr. Epstein’s favorite. She said that she sometimes had non-penetrative sex with Mr. Epstein and one of his “semi-permanent” girls, whom Mr. Epstein was said to have bought from her parents in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022240