HOUSE OVERSIGHT 018920 Mount Clipping in Space Below) Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls By LARRY KELLER Palm Beach Post Staff Writer Famed Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz met with the Palm Beach County State Attorney's Office and pro- vided damaging information about teen- age girls who say they gave his client, Palm Beach billionaire Jeffrey Epstein, sexually charged massages, according to police reports. The reports also state that another Epstein attorney agreed to a plea bargain that would have allowed Epstein to have no criminal record. His current attorney de- nies this happened. And the documents also reveal that the father of at least one girl complained that private investigators aggressively fol- lowed his car, photographed his home and chased off visitors. Police also talked to somebody who said she was offered money if she refused to cooperate with the Palm Beach Police Department probe of Ep- stein. The state attorney's office said it presented the Epstein case to a county grand jury this month rather than directly charging Epstein because of concerns about the girls' credibility. The grand jury indicted Ep- stein, 53, on a single count of felony solic- itation of prostitution, which carries a maximum penalty of five years in prison. Police believed there was probable cause to charge Epstein with the more serious crimes of unlawful sex acts with a minor and lewd and lascivious molesta- tion. Police Chief Michael Reiter was so angry that he wrote State Attorney Barry Krischer a memo in May suggesting he disqualify himself from Om case. Epstein: His former attorney agreed to a plea bargain, police say. (Indicate page, name of newspaper, city and state.) 1B, 7B / The Palm Beach Post West Palm Bech, FL Date: 7/29/2006 Edition: Title: Police say lawyer tried to discredit teenage girls. Character or Classification. 31E-MM-1 08062 Submitting Office: MM Indexing: The Case orig