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#PalmBeach

19 entries

People (12)

  • Alfredo Rodriguez Former house manager at Jeffrey Epstein's Palm Beach residence who withheld a copy of Epstein's contact book, offered it to an undercover FBI agent in 2009, and served eighteen months for obstruction.
  • Ann Marie Villafana Assistant U.S. Attorney in West Palm Beach who opened the 2006 federal Epstein investigation, drafted a 60-count indictment, negotiated and signed the 2007 non-prosecution agreement, and left the office in August 2019.
  • Barry Krischer Barry Krischer was the Palm Beach County State Attorney from 1993 to 2009 whose office took the 2006 Epstein case to a grand jury that returned a single solicitation count.
  • Haley Robson West Palm Beach woman whom Jeffrey Epstein recruited as a teenager and paid to bring other girls to his house, named in the 2006 police affidavit and a 2008 civil suit.
  • Jack Goldberger West Palm Beach criminal defense lawyer who handled Jeffrey Epstein's 2008 state plea, whose law office housed the Florida Science Foundation of Epstein's work release, and who defended Epstein in 2009 civil suits.
  • Johanna Sjoberg Former Palm Beach Atlantic College student recruited by Ghislaine Maxwell in 2001 to work for Jeffrey Epstein, whose Giuffre v. Maxwell deposition described Prince Andrew groping her beside a caricature puppet.
  • Joseph Recarey Joseph Recarey was the Palm Beach police detective who led the 2005 to 2006 Epstein investigation, swore the probable cause affidavit recommending five felony counts, and died in May 2018.
  • Juan Alessi Palm Beach house manager for Jeffrey Epstein from about 1990 to 2002, referred through Leslie Wexner, who testified at Ghislaine Maxwell's 2021 trial and authenticated Epstein's contact book.
  • Lanna Belohlavek Palm Beach County assistant state attorney and Crimes Against Children Unit chief who presented the 2006 Epstein case to the grand jury that returned one solicitation count, later cleared by state investigators.
  • Michael Reiter Michael Reiter was the Palm Beach police chief from 2001 to 2009 who opened the 2005 Epstein investigation, sought the State Attorney's disqualification, and referred the case to the FBI.
  • Ric Bradshaw Ric Bradshaw is the Palm Beach County sheriff since January 2005 whose office granted Jeffrey Epstein work release in 2008 and logged paid deputy details for Epstein's Florida Science Foundation.
  • Ron DeSantis Governor of Florida since 2019, formerly a congressman, who in August 2019 reassigned the state's Jeffrey Epstein matter and ordered a state police inquiry that in 2021 found differential treatment but no crime.

Organizations (3)

  • Florida Science Foundation Entity created by Jeffrey Epstein in late 2007 and housed at his lawyer's West Palm Beach office, where he spent his 2008 to 2009 work release under paid sheriff's deputies.
  • Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Largest law enforcement agency in Palm Beach County, whose jail placed Jeffrey Epstein on work release in 2008 and whose off-duty deputies were paid through his Florida Science Foundation to guard him.
  • Palm Beach Police Department Police force of the Town of Palm Beach, formed in 1922, whose 2005 to 2006 investigation of Jeffrey Epstein was referred to the FBI after the State Attorney declined its recommended felony charges.

Events (1)

  • Epstein non-prosecution agreement The September 24, 2007 agreement in which federal prosecutors in Miami dropped a drafted indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and immunized his co-conspirators in exchange for two state guilty pleas.

Places (3)

  • 358 El Brillo Way Waterfront Palm Beach mansion owned by Jeffrey Epstein where the 2005 Palm Beach Police Department investigation began after a parent reported that her teenage stepdaughter had been molested there.
  • Mar-a-Lago Palm Beach estate built for Marjorie Merriweather Post, briefly federal property, bought by Donald Trump in 1985, where Virginia Giuffre worked when recruited for Jeffrey Epstein and the FBI searched in 2022.
  • Palm Beach, Florida Barrier-island town in Palm Beach County, Florida, incorporated in 1911, home of Mar-a-Lago and of Jeffrey Epstein's house at 358 El Brillo Way, where the 2005 police investigation of Epstein began.