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Defendant's lawyers take him on; he slams state attorney
By LARRY KELLER
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
In the case of Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Ep- stein, itseems, attimes, as if two men are accused of wrongdoing: Epstein and Palm Beach Police Chief
Michael Reiter.
Epstein, 53, was indict- ed lastmonth ona charge of felony solicitation of prosti- tution solely because of Re- iter’s “craziness,” one of Epstein’s lawyers said. His department disseminated
“a distorted view of the case” and behaved in a “childish” manner when the grand jury didn’t indict Ep- stein on the charges it sought, another Epstein lawyer complained.
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Palm Beach chief focus of fire in Epstein case
18, and a daughter, 14. The.
camp tell it, Reiter, 48, is a loose cannon better suited. to be the sheriff of Mayber- ry. They whisper that he’s embroiled in a messy di- vorce.
Reiter did in fact file for divorce from his wife, Jill, last year, after 24 years of marriage. They have a son,
couple is scheduled to go to mediation Wednesday. Nothing in the court file suggests their split is par- ticularly ugly.
Reiter incurred the wrath of the Epstein camp as well as the state attor-
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