Allegations of Prosecutorial Interference in Jeffrey Epstein Child Abuse Investigation

JAMES PATTERSON originally, he said, “Let's go for it; this is an adult male in his fifties who’s had sexual contact with children of the ages of the victims.” He said this is somebody who we have to stop. And whatever we need, he said, in the state attorney’s office, we have a unit that’s equipped to investigate and prosecute these kinds of cases. And I didn’t have too many facts early on when I talked with him, but I knew that there were multi- ple victims and to our detectives they were believable. So when time went on and Mr. Epstein became aware of the investigation and his lawyers contacted the state attorney's office, they told me that. And from that point on, and I believe it was Mr. Dershow- itz initially, the tone and tenor of the discussions of this case with Mr. Krischer changed completely. [At] one point he sug- gested that we write [Epstein] a notice to appear, which would be for a misdemeanor. He just completely changed from not only our first conversation about this[ —when] he didn’t know the name Jeffrey Epstein—till when he had been informed on Mr. Epstein’s reputation and his wealth, and I just thought that very unusual. | feel like I know him or knew him very well, the state attorney, and I just felt like he could not objectively make decisions about this case: that is why I wrote it. 174 Detective Recarey: May hief Reiter’s letter to tl effect. Krischer did not arrest warrant was issued. A1 tive Recarey received a telep ney Daliah Weiss, who advis the Epstein case. Weiss had been the perfe. member of the special victir and crimes against children, p ing rape, aggravated child al added another lawyer, a man 4 Goldberger his attorney of re Goldberger was friendly 1 _ Slate of Goldberger’s was mar HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010515