Confidential Due Diligence Report - YHS LLC Copyright 2006 The Palm Beach Newspapers, Inc. Palm Beach Post (Florida' August 10, 2006 Thursday FINAL EDITION SECTION: OPINION; Pg. 20A LENGTH: 428 words HEADLINE: MASSAGING THE SYSTEM BODY: Palm Beach police say their Li-month investigation shows that 53-year-old part-time town resident Jeffrey Epstein committed unlawful sex acts with and lewd and lascivious molestation on five underage girls. Defense attorney Jack Goldberger claims that his client, Jeffrey Epstein, had no idea that the untrained girls he hired for massages were minors. The Palm Beach Count State Attorney's Office could have let a Jury decide whom to believe. Instead, State Attorney Barry Krischer left the public to wonder whether the system tilted in favor of a wealthy, well-connected alleged perpetrator and against very young girls who are alleged victims of sex Grimes. Hr. Krischer took the unusual step of referring the case to a grand fury, which last month _ indicted Jeffrey Epstein on one felony count of solicitation of prostitution. That decision came after Harvard law Professor Alan Dershowitz met with prosecutors to undermine the credibility of the 14- to 17-year-old girls who charged that Mr. Epstein had paid them 8200 to $300 to undress and massage him in his five-bedroom, 7 1/2-bath home on the Intracoastal waterway. The girls, Mr. Dershowitz told prosecutors, had written on myspace.com about smoking marijuana and drinking alcohol. But if the girls have a credibility problem, what about Jeffrey Lipstein? Mr. Goldberger, told The Post: "Mr. Epstein absolutely insisted anybody who came to his house be over the age of 18. How he verified that, I don't know." And prosecutors took him at his word? Police collected evidence that refutes Jeffrey Epstein's defense. Police searched his home and garbage and found phone messages about the girls' school schedules and even a high school transcript, suggesting