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| title: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12) (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021548)" |
| source: "House Oversight: Estate Documents (Nov 12)" |
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| date: "2026-01-01" |
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| Epstem faces civil lawsuits; |
| more clients may be added |
| • EPSTEIN From 1A |
| and lewd and lascivious mo- |
| were |
| several |
| 'It's validation |
| other |
| girls |
| lestation, police concluded. |
| brought in 2004 and 2005 to |
| of what we're saying |
| The state attorney's of- |
| an upstairs room at the home |
| fice said questions |
| for similar massages and |
| in the civil cases.' |
| about |
| the girls' credibility led it to |
| sexual touching. |
| take the unprecedented step |
| The indictment charged |
| JEFFREY HERMAN |
| of presenting the evidence |
| Epstein only with felony so- |
| Attorney who represents alleged |
| against Epstein to a grand |
| licitation of prostitution. The |
| victims, commenting on the plea |
| jury, rather than |
| directly |
| state attorney's office later |
| charging him. |
| added the charge of procur- |
| Palm Beach Police Chief |
| ing underage girls for that |
| The judge was skeptical but |
| agreed to it. |
| Michael Reiter was furious |
| purpose. |
| Epstein's legal woes don't |
| with State Attorney Barry |
| Prosecutor |
| Lanna |
| lohlavek said of the plea: "I |
| Be- end with Monday's plea. |
| Krischer, saying in a May |
| took into consideration the |
| There are four pending fed- |
| 2006 letter that the prosecu- |
| tor should disqualify himself. |
| length the trial would have |
| eral civil lawsuits and one |
| "I continue to find |
| been and witnesses having |
| in state court related to his |
| your |
| office's treatment of these |
| to testify" about sometimes |
| behavior. At least one woman |
| embarrassing incidents. |
| has sued him in New York, |
| cases highly unusual," he |
| Epstein may have made |
| where he owns a 51,000- |
| wrote. He then asked for and |
| square-foot Manhattan man- |
| a serious mistake soon after |
| got a federal investigation. |
| Epstein hired a phalanx of |
| sion. |
| he was charged. He rejected |
| high-priced lawyers— includ |
| "It's validation of what |
| an offer to plead guilty to one |
| ing Harvard law professor |
| we're saying in the civi |
| count of aravated joul |
| cases," said Miami attorney |
| and author Alan Dershowitz |
| Jeffrey Herman, who repre- |
| — and public relations people |
| who questioned Reiter's com- |
| sents the alleged victims in |
| petence |
| and |
| I the federal lawsuits. West |
| the victims' |
| truthfulness. |
| Palm Beach attorney Ted |
| I'S Leopold represents one al- |
| In addition to mansions |
| in Palm Beach and Manhat- |
| leged victim in a civil suit in |
| tan, Epstein owns homes in |
| state court. He said he antici- |
| & pates amending that lawsuit |
| New Mexico and the Virgin |
| Islands. He's a frequent con- |
| s8 isa! to add "a few other clients" |
| tributor to Democratic Party |
| In the criminal case, po- |
| candidates. He also donated |
| $30 million to Harvard in |
| lice went so far as to scour |
| Epstein's trash and conduct |
| Former New York Gov. |
| unna seen surveillance at Palm Beach |
| International Airport, where |
| Eliot Spitzer returned |
| $50,000 campaign contribu- |
| they watched for his private |
| euresso cel jet so they would know when |
| tion from Epstein after his |
| indictment, then |
| euge came mine he was in town. They con |
| this year during his own sex |
| weison canne sa cluded that Epstein paid girl. |
| scandal. And the same Palm |
| Beach Police Department |
| massage sessions. |
| "I'm like a Heidi Fleiss." |
| that vigorously investigated |
| Epstein returned his $90,000 |
| Haley Robson, now 22, told donation for the purchase of |
| pue annes de police about her efforts in a firearms simulator. |
| (noodlype tea all recruiting girls for Epstein. |
| There was probable cause |
| Staff writer Eliot Kleinberg and |
| alqelen ta to charge Epstein with un- |
| staff researcher Michelle Quig- |
| lawful sex acts with a minor |
| ley contributed to this story. |
| @ larry_keller@pbpost.com |
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