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Epstein defense blames Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter for failed indictment

The passage offers a vague claim that the police chief’s actions caused the grand jury to decline to indict Epstein, but provides no concrete evidence, dates, transactions, or direct links to higher‑l Epstein’s lawyers allege that Police Chief Michael Reiter’s “craziness” influenced the grand jury’s Reiter is described as a “loose cannon” and is undergoing a divorce after 24 years of marriage. No

Date
November 11, 2025
Source
House Oversight
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House Oversight #018927
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The passage offers a vague claim that the police chief’s actions caused the grand jury to decline to indict Epstein, but provides no concrete evidence, dates, transactions, or direct links to higher‑l Epstein’s lawyers allege that Police Chief Michael Reiter’s “craziness” influenced the grand jury’s Reiter is described as a “loose cannon” and is undergoing a divorce after 24 years of marriage. No

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C)-€9 090! -WH -3IE 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. To hear the Epstein 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- See REITER, 7B > ————vetnans :3801IWO Bunywugns JO ZOO8OL-WW-SLe uoneoyisse|D WA aseo Ula}sdy Ul aiy Jo snooj jolyo yoeeg wed 9002/7 1L/8 (mojeg aoedsg ul Burddi5 yunoyy 4 ‘uoeeg wed se }80q yorog wed Sul / a2 / ab (‘eyes pue Ayo “adedsmou Jo sweu ‘aed aye0Ipul) (19-8- ‘ee _ ” = } i

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