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.

"I'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

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## Jeffrey Epstein

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