# LM BEACH
ARTMENT

D LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY

4, 2006

Comb
POLICE

ferred for prosecution to the Palm Beach which has been investigated by the Palm ware that Jeffrey Epstein was indicted on of Florida grand jury last week and turned 23, 2006. While I do not speak for them, in which the Paim Beach County State es that involved the crime in which your

of law enforcement to investigate crime Jtor for consideration. I believe that the etently and responsibly in carrying out this the state prosecution of this matter, they State Attorney's Office.

served by the indictment that has been. has been referred to the Federal Bureau eral law have occurred. In the event that Palm Beach Police Department will assist of federal law.

0 should you have any questions.

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38-5460 Fax (561) 835-4700 www.pelmbeachpolice.com

# CHAPTER 49

Jeffrey Epstein: September 2007

"n the winter of 2013, Scott Blake, a forty-seven-year-old mid- I dle school principal from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, would be sentenced to the minimum mandatory sentence-ten years in prison, with ten years of probation on top-for plead- ing guilty to one charge of soliciting sex with a minor.

Blake's crime? He sent sexually charged messages to a Boyn- ton Beach police officer who was pretending to be a fifteen-year-old boy. But in a sense, Blake was lucky: he could have been sen- tenced to life. The case was an interesting example of the kind of treatment regular Florida folks could expect just for soliciting sex with a minor. But nothing about Jeffrey Epstein was regular- and the plea deal he managed to strike in 2007 was simply extraordinary.

Epstein had bought himself one of the best defense teams ever assembled. His connections and contributions to Democratic

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