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anted to remove Weiss from the d way to do it. Recarey met with ASA Lanna r boss, Barry Krischer, had asked and jury. Recarey told Belohlavek st warrants for Epstein, Sarah Kel- Beach PD had finished its investi- d had been waiting since then for ed her once more to issue the war- ined, saying that the original offer Id lawyer had been resubmitted to eply came, she would call. , Recarey received several calls n that he was being followed by a -tailed so aggressively that other road. Recarey ran the plates and tered to one Zachary Bechard of

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Im Beach," says Tim Malloy, who r in South Florida at the time. ht around the time that Michael arry Krischer to recuse himself know what Epstein looked like, ures taken by the British tabloids, ew first broke. But we didn't have I have was a contact in the hangar

"I don't know how much you know about Palm Beach Inter- national Airport. It's the kind of place that has private hangars, valet parking, and waiting lounges that look as chic as anything you'll see in Manhattan. It's an airport for the rich, basically. Saudi princes, heads of state. Powerful men who value their pri- vacy. You can bring limousines onto the tarmac. And we found out Epstein was very secretive about his dealings there. He didn't want anyone to know the tail numbers on his planes.

"But our contact didn't like Epstein. And he was horrified by how young the girls around Epstein were. So thanks to him, we had the 727's tail number, and thanks to one other source- someone I won't say too much about here we had Epstein's flight plan for a certain trip he was making. We knew he was going to land at the airport. And so our producer climbed into the station's traffic helicopter and told the pilot to hover at five hundred feet a quarter mile south of the field.

"Our cameraman had a telephoto lens. The idea was to get a tight shot, on video, of Epstein deplaning. And for a moment we did get the shot: Epstein, with the collar of his cashmere coat flipped up over his neck, about to run down the steps into a cart that was waiting for him.

"Then he saw our helicopter, with the station's markings.

"I was doing a live voice-over on Epstein's arrival. It was the first video anyone had on him up to that point. But Epstein had run back onto the plane. Then, during the next commercial break, my producer told me through my headpiece: Jeffrey Epstein wants us to stop taking his picture. In fact, he wants to talk to you.'

"The cameraman kept rolling. And eventually Epstein got out, got into a car with tinted windows, and was driven over the

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