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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 ook toa of concerns about the P ‘ie argain, girls’ credibility. The Price 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. a
(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.
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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 '
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