PALM BEACH RESIDENT FACES SOLICITATION CHARGE - Sun Sentinel Page 1 of 4 PALM BEACH RESIDENT FACES SOLICITATION CHARGE By Chrystian Tejedor Staff WriterStaff Researcher Barbara Hijek contributed to this report SOUTH FLORIDA SUN-SENTINEL JULY 26, 2006 A wealthy Palm Beach resident charged with soliciting prostitution is out of jail, but police now want the FBI to investigate him. "I do not feel that justice has been sufficiently served by the indictment that has been issued," Palm Beach Police Chief wrote to the parents of one alleged victim. Police accused Jeffrey Epstein, a self-made man who works as a money manager and owns a fleet of aircraft, of fondling and -- in one cage -- having sex with underage girls whom he paid for massages. At the end of a 13-month investigation, detectives recommended that Epstein, 53, be charged with four counts of committing an unlawful sex act on a minor and one count of lewd and lascivious molestation. Epstein's attorney, however, said the grand jury acted responsibly when it set aside the department's recommendations. "Those charges refer to false accusations that were not charged because the state attorney questioned [witness testimony]," Jack Goldberger said. Goldberger also said police failed to turn up corroborating evidence and Epstein passed a lie detector test regarding the accusations. The case centers on interviews with the girls who were 14 to i6 years old at the time they came to "work" for Epstein, according to a police report. Epstein, who turned himself in at the Palm Beach County Jail Sunday, allegedly paid the girls $200 to $1,000, depending on the type of sexual activity they performed, according to police. A recruiter a girl who is now 20 years old and would find girls from her school --would earn $200 for each girl she would find. $1 FOR 4 MONTHS SAVE NOW ) Hurry, this sale ends 5/1 Exhibit 7 htto://www.sun-sentinel.cominews/fl-xum-2006-07-26-0607260021-storv.html mI t) EFTA001