MOGUL DODGES JAILBAIT CHARGE - Archives: New York Post Page 1 of 1 MOGUL DODGES JAILBAIT CHARGE New York Post - New York, N.Y. Date: Jul 27, 2006 Start Page: 014 Section: Page Six Text Word Count: 395 Document Text (Copyright 2006, The New York Past Al! Rights Reserved) IT looks like New York billionaire financier Jeffrey Epstein got off easy when he was hit with a charge of soliciting a prostitute for a "happy ending" in Palm Beach. Because if Palm Beach police had their way, Epstein, 53 - who surrendered last Sunday and is out on $3,000 bail - might have been whacked with far more serious charges of paying underage girls for sex. But a state grand jury found the witnesses in the case were not credible and threw out all but the single charge of soliciting a hooker in his luxurious Palm Beach ot . Epstein's lawyers and friends now say he's the hapless victim of a vendetta by Palm Beach Police Chiefs , whom they describe as a "born-again nut case." According to the pokce investigation, a co of which was obtained b the Palm Beach Post detectives took statements from 17 witnesses and five alleged victims. 20, a student who described herself as "like a Heidi Fleiss," says she go o give Epstein a massage, ten roug i tim six girls ages 14-16 for massages and sex at his home. She said they were paid $200 per session. Cops also allege that Epstein's personal assistant, who hasn't been charged, set up the liaisons and put fresh sheets on the massage table and supplied miMolice searched through Epstein's garbage and retrieved sex toys and feminine hygiene products. Epstein's Palm Beach lawyer, Jack Goldberger, told Page Six that the Florida state attorney concluded the cops had looked at evidence from a "one-sided perspective." He added that Epstein had passed an extensive lie-detector test in which he was grilled about underage girls. Epstein's New York lawyer, Gerald Lefcourt, said, "The prosecutor didn't want to bring any charges in thi