Palm Beach police figures and former Epstein associate linked through Mar‑a‑Lago event and post‑law enforcement careers

JaMES PATTERSON The Cops Michele Pagan is now a sergeant for the Palm Beach Police Department. In early 2012, at a reception at Mar-a-Lago, Detective Joe Recarey received the first Palm Beach Police Foundation Police Officer of the Year award—one of several honors he received in the course of his twenty-three-year career in Palm Beach. Two years later, he left the department and took a job as director of loss prevention for the Gold Coast Beverage company. “ve been [at the Palm Beach Police Department] longer than my children have been alive,” he told a reporter for the Palm Beach Daily News when he left. “I’m going to miss a majority of the people I’ve worked with, and, obviously, I'm going to miss the work. This is my extended family. Like many families, you have disagreements with some family members. But you over- look that, and you work together and you're a team. I’m going to look back and miss a lot of the people I've worked with.” Palm Beach police chief Michael Reiter left the department in 2008 after twenty-eight years on the job. He now runs his own security company in Palm Beach. Jean-Luc Brunel In January of 2015, Jean-Luc Brunel sued his old friend Jeffrey Epstein, claiming that Epstein’s fall from grace had cost him mil- lions of dollars in business and caused him “severe emotional stress.” The lawsuit claimed, “Plaintiff Brunel is emotionally destroyed F . as a result of Epstein’s actic ness. He has been on medic It continues: “Defendar distress on Plaintiff Brune under-aged girls, which wa gal conduct was extreme at The suit went on to qu modeling scout had gone in sense of depression related in his modeling agency as a business.” Brunel had go Rivotril—as a result. The fashion world had fr. ship with Jeffrey Epstein had ble for him to find the “fresh Brunel acknowledged E own involvement. “Epsteir and extreme; they involved aged girls while the girls w: of the girls with a finger or « When the Daily Beast re Brunel for a comment, the v is not in town; he’s in South Brunel’s agency, MC2, is Jeffrey Epstein As of this writing, Jeffrey Ej women at his Manhattan tow HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022181