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REVEALED: Police Documents Expose How Bill's Pedophile Pal Escaped Jail Time
Oct. 19 2016, Updated 12:34 p.m. ET
The sweetheart plea deal for Bill and Hillary Clinton's pedophile pal Jeffrey Epstein stunned cops who had worked the case, private police documents obtained by RadarOnline.com suggests.
Palm Beach Police conducted a comprehensive sexual battery investigation involving Epstein from March 15, 2005, through February 2006. After speaking to dozens of witnesses, and conducting meticulous searches, they ultimately found that there was probably cause for him to be slapped with five felony charges. After they offered that recommendation, however, the State Attorney gave Epstein a sweetheart plea deal requiring him to plead guilty to just one minor state charge — soliciting a minor. And according to an internal memo obtained by RadarOnline.com, the Chief of Police was blindsided and shocked by the decision.
RadarOnline.com has obtained an internal letter from Palm Beach Chief of Police Michael Reiter to State Attorney Barry Krischer, sent on May 1, 2006 — the very same day that the police filed the affidavit stating that there was probable cause to charge Epstein with five felonies.
Reiter could barely restrain his outrage as he wrote, "I know that you agree that it is our shared responsibility to seek justice and to serve the public interest by discharging our duties with fairness and accountability. I must renew my prior observation to you that I continue to find your office's treatment of these cases highly unusual."
Indeed, the letter suggests, the State Attorney may have been laying the groundwork for the plea deal — which reportedly barred prosecutors from exposing Epstein's high-powered friends, like Bill Clinton — without informing the cops who'd worked on the case.
Reiter blasted Krischer, "It is regrettable that I am forced to communicate in this manner, but my most recent telephone calls to you and those of the lead detective to your assigned attorneys have been unanswered and messages remain unreturned."
"After giving this much thought and consideration, I must urge you to examine the unusual course that your office's handling of this matter has taken, and consider if good and sufficient reason exists to require your disqualification from the prosecution of these cases," he wrote.
The probable cause affidavit filed the same day as that letter makes the position of the Palm Beach police clear.
It reads, "Therefore as Jeffrey Epstein, who at the time of these incidents was fifty one years of age, did have vaginal intercourse either with his penis or digitally with four minors there is sufficient probable cause to charge Jeffrey Epstein with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor, in violation of the Flordia State Statute 794.05(1) a second-degree felony. As Epstein, who at the time of the incident was fifty two years of age, did use a vibrator on the external vaginal area of … a fourteen year old mnior, there is sufficient probable cause to charge him with lewd and lascivious molestation, in violation of Florida state statute 800.04(5) a second degree felony."
If convicted, Epstein could have served five years in prison for those charges, and the police seemed confident that would be the end result.
Detective Joe Recarey emailed Palm Beach Police Captain James Dean the day he filed the probable cause affidavit, claiming, "The charges that are going to be filed are Unlawful Sexual Activity with minors (4) counts and Lewd and Lascivious Molestation (1) count."
However, after nearly two years of negotiations, Epstein signed a plea deal for just one minor state count, which sentenced him to just 18 months behind bars. (He only served 13.)
Even the judge on the case seemed incredulous as she signed off on the State Attorney's deal with the pedophile, according to reports at the time.
The New York Post reported that Circuit Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo blasted the state's decision to allow him to skip a sex offender treatment program, saying, "You feel his fancy-pantsy private psychiatrist is adequate in lieu of a sex offender treatment program?" Prosecutors insisted that was the case.
And she grilled them over their decision to let Epstein serve time in county jail instead of the much harsher Department of Corrections.
Said Pucillo, "There's significant budget cuts in the county already, and sending him to the county jail and not the Dept. of Corrections is a significant cost to the taxpayer and the county – are you sure that's what you want to do?" Prosecutors insisted, yes.
According to The Post, the judge "rolled her eyes as she granted the request."
Epstein and his pal Bill — who had flown many times on his orgy plane and even visited his private Caribbean sex island — were likely thrilled at the result.
Less pleased with the outcome, was at least one parent of an alleged victim. As Chief of Police Reiter shook his head at how the plea deal was unfolding, those who had cooperated with the investigation appeared to have been left in the lurch.
RadarOnline.com has obtained an email from August 1, 2006, from a concerned parent to Detective Recarey.
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"I have left you a couple of messages regarding this case and my daughter redacted," it reads. "Can you please call me as to discuss this? I would like to come see you to discuss this case."
According to the email records obtained by RadarOnline.com, he did not write back.
As RadarOnline.com has reported, two women sued the federal government in 2008 over claims that they were not appropriately notified about Epstein's plea deal. An attempt to settle that case in July 2016 was unsuccessful, and it is expected to go to trial later this year.
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