HOUSE OVERSIGHT 018918 FD-350 (Rev. 5-8-81) • Mount Clipping in Space Below) After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charge By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein paid to have underage girls and young women brought to his home, where he re- ceived massages and sometimes sex, ac- cording to an investigation by the Palm Beach Police Department. Palm Beach police spent months sifting through Ep- stein's trash and watching his waterfront home and Palm Beach International Airport to keep tabs on his private jet. An indictment Epstein charging Epstein, 53, was unsealed Monday, charging him with one count of felony solicitation of prostitution. Palm Beach police thought there was probable cause to charge Epstein with un- lawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molestation. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry with State Attorney Barry Krischer's han- dling of the case that he wrote a memo See EPSTEIN, 5B IN. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1B, 5B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Beach, FL Date: 0726/2006 Edition: Title: After long probe, billionaire faces solicitation charges Character or Classification: 31E-MM-1 08062 Submitting Office: MM Indexing: 3, C-- tot - °Sow. ee HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018918 w s c THE PALM BEACH POST • WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 2006 5B Police kept watch on home, airport, sifted through trash EPSTEIN from 1B suggesting the county's top prosecutor disqualify himself. "I must urge you to ex- amine the unusual course that your office's handling of this 'wafter has taken and consider thiwgood and sufficient reason exists to reqiiire your dis- qualification from the prose- cution of these cases," Reiter wrote in a May 1 memo to Krischer. While not commenting specifically on the Epstein case, Mike Edmondson, spokesman for the state at- torney, said his office pre- sents cases 'other than mur- ders to a grand jury wh