James PATTERSON originally, he said, “Let's go for it; this is an adult male in his fifties who’s had sexual contact with children of the ages of | the victims.” He said this is somebody who we have to stop. And whatever we need, he said, in the state attorney's office, | we have a unit that’s equipped to investigate and prosecute ! these kinds of cases. And I didn’t have too many facts early . on when I talked with him, but I knew that there were multi- ple victims and to our detectives they were believable. So E | when time went on and Mr. Epstein became aware of the 1 investigation and his lawyers contacted the state attorney's : office, they told me that. j And from that point on, and I believe it was Mr. Dershow- : : itz initially, the tone and tenor of the discussions of this case [ i Detective Recarey: May with Mr. Krischer changed completely. [At] one pointhesug- gested that we write [Epstein] a notice to appear, which 4 3 would be for a misdemeanor. He just completely changed a : ‘ hief Reiter’s letter to tl from not only our first conversation about this|—when] he 4 effect. didn't know the name Jeffrey Epstein—till when he had a q 9 Krischer did not been informed on Mr. Epstein’s reputation and his wealth, y 4 arrest warrant was issued. At and I just thought that very unusual. a tive Recarey received a telep 1 feel like I know him or knew him very well, the state 3 ney Daliah Weiss, who advis attorney, and I just felt like he could not objectively make # j the Epstein case. decisions about this case: that is why I wrote it. a q Weiss had been the perfe: 4 q member of the special victir. { _ and crimes against children, p a ; 7 ing rape, aggravated child al z 4 added another lawyer, a man E 4 Goldberger his attorney of re E q Goldberger was friendly \ { | Clate of Goldberger’s was mar 174 : 3 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010515