LM BEACH ea] PLE OME . : DLAWENFORCEMENTAGENCY (BOLICE | : 4, 2006 t j CHAPTER 49 wntent invest by the Palm j ¥ Se ee ee atin fing Poin BABE 4 vare that Jeffrey Epstein was indicted on ws of Florida grand jury last week and turned ee 23, 2006. White 1 do not speak for them, a in which the Paim Beach County State a es that involved the crime in which your call ‘a rcement to investi ime Gr 4 — Wer for consideration. | beleve tha the 4 _ Jeffrey Epstein: September 2007 atentiy and responsibly in carrying out this or } the state prosecution of this matter, hey - 3 State Attomey's Office 4 4 served by the indictment that bed cece ‘ ; x es ooared, isthe evant Wa n the winter of 2013, Scott Blake, a forty-seven-year-old mid- i Police Depariment will assis! ‘aa ei ; ; ‘otederatisi. a dle school principal from Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, would te i : * . 0 sould you nave any uestons me 4 be sentenced to the minimum mandatory sentence—ten i" Od a "years in prison, with ten years of probation on top—for plead- a P +t 2 a als 4 a hakS a ing guilty to one charge of soliciting sex with a minor. 1S. Reiter : ‘Peles 4 a Blake’s crime? He sent sexually charged messages to a Boyn- 3 | ton Beach police officer who was pretending to be a fifteen-year-old ” 7 E | boy. But in a sense, Blake was lucky: he could have been sen- 19. $agt) + Pha ($52) 833-070) ware peimbenct poilee cm : I | tenced to life. The case was an interesting example of the kind of : _ treatment regular Florida folks could expect just for soliciting sex 3 ' With a minor. But nothing about Jeffrey Epstein was regular — : and the plea deal he managed to strike in 2007 was simply 4 &xtraordinary. c _ Epstein had bought himself one of the best defense teams ever q assembled. His connections and contributions to Democratic 3 q 187 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010528