Document alleges Jeffrey Epstein’s extensive property holdings, ties to President Trump, Bill Clinton, and high‑level legal officials including Ken...

Friday, March 1, 2019 PERVERSION OF JUSTICE The Virgin Islands Daily News 13 The home of Jeffrey Epstein has a large waterfront footprint in the Town of Palm Beach, not far from PresidentTrump's Mar-atago, PERVERSION CONTINUED FROM PAGE 12 theentire block on 7Ist Street ben,. Fifth and Maoism avenues. lie also owns a 10.000.acre ninch, named ,orro," in New Mexico. a private island called "Litde St James', the Virgin Islands, die $13 million house th Pa. Beach. a Gulfstream jet and, at one point, owned a Boeing 727. /le has never teen in die Forbes 400 list of the wealthieA American, lantely becau.se the ma, zine has never been able to determine die source or the size °fins nealth. He has been dogged by questions about his financial dealthgs. A former businths runner. Steven Hoffenbag. sued him in 2016. claim- ing that Epstein was thc manernind behind a S500 million Pormi scheme that I w. imprisoned for in 1995. Floffenberg saved 18 years for the scam, but he later thopped the lawsuit against Epstein. In August. nvo of Floffenberg, former inves- tors relandled t. lawsuit ageing Epstein, but the case was dropped in October. Epstein and h, associate. British-born socialite Ghislaine Maxnell. were also accused in a 2015 federal civil suit of organizing underage sex par- ti. on his private plane. nicknamed 'The Lolita the lawsuit that she was Epstein, -madam, Expres,- and at Epstein, vatic. homes The suit filed by victim Vizginia Roberts. was Maxwell. who h. necer been charged with settled in 2017. wrongdoing. has denied allegations made in h vas Epstein's contacts mi. poncerful and Jeff rey Epstein famous people that first propelled him into the public spotlight In 2002, he flew forrter Presi- dent Bill Clinton, wtor Kthin Space, cornethan Chris Tucker and others to Soith Africa on his prnate jet as part of a fact-finding AIDS mission in support of the Clinton Foundation. But Epstein. a Clinton doithr who contrthuted hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democratic candidates and causes, realind that h,Ctmo- aatic connections weren't going to help him in 2006. wIrn thc federal prosecutor vas Acosta, a conservative Republican appointed dating the Gm, W Buth administration. All-star attorneys tactic: hire Mc most aggressive and politically contra. lawijus that his money could buy. At t. top of his lin, Kenneth Starr, a Repub. bean icon because of h, pursuit of Bill Clinton during thc Whitcwater investigation, vthich led to the impeac.tent (but not conviction) of the pr.ident after it was reveakd he'd had sex with a >our. White House intern Lice Acosta. Starr had worked at t. presti- gious law finn Kirkland & Ellis. Epstein also tapped Jay Lefkowitz, also of IGthland, who %corked as a domestic policy adviser and later as a special envoy to North Korea during the George W. Bush presider, Epstein aho hi. Bruce Reinhart then an assistant U., attorney in Pal...leach. Reinhart. now a U.S. magistrate.. t. U.S. 11'."278,Y .11(dIttct: jivajoilic rcprcscnting Epstein, employees on Jan. 2, 2008, `ItritIg7.rtes:;C:t was named in thc Crime Vieth, Rights Act lawsuit, which ac- cused him of violating Justice Kenn. Starr Department policies by switching side, implythg that . leveraged inside intimation a.ut Ep- stein, imrstigation to ctury favor with Epstein. Reinhart, a sworn declaration attached to die Crime Victims' Rights Act case. deri. the alleption, saying he did not participate in Etanein'scrintinal case and -never leaned any confidential. non-pubbc infomution about the Epstein matter- Thc tJ.S. Attorney, Office has since disputed that saying in court papers that he d. possess confidential information about the case. Contacted for this story, Reinhart. in an email. said he never represented Epstein — only Epstein, pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, described by some victims as Epstein, sm slave. Reinhart also pointed out that a complaint filed against him by victims" lawyer Paul Cassell was dianissed by the See PERVERSION, next page