| JAMES PaTTERSON . More than a decade had passed since Epstein’s case first | Civil Actions against EP‘ landed on the state attorney's desk. ) ments regarding same, RC “The New York Times has called me,” said Krischer. “The investors into ROTHSTEII British papers. I’m not interested in being pulled into that con- | dollars which, in turn, w versation. I know that the police chief didn’t think the case was EPSTEIN for the sole pur handled right, but that’s why he’s a cop and I’m a prosecutor.” scheme.” Krischer, who left the state attorney’s office in 2009, is still a Moreover, the suit claii member of the Criminal Justice Commission in Palm Beach sex with Epstein; worked a County. Since his retirement, he’s volunteered one morning a prostitute and call girl: h: week at the office of the state attorney and two mornings a week ! painkillers, Xanax, Ecstas at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. j Amendment during her de He still remains active in child welfare issues, working with | relevant but problem ques: the Florida Department of Children and Families. | claims about two other vic Despite his continued involvement with local law enforce- | said only good things abo ment, he hasn’t spoken to Michael Reiter in years. } FBI in 2007, while being 4 story “changed dramaticall ) the hands of EDWARDS an Bradley Edwards . | In a motion for summar 3 E Edwards denied all of thes: In December of 2009, Jeffrey Epstein filed suit, under Florida's a frivolous for two separate ' RICO act, against Scott Rothstein, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley a ; claimed, Epstein was seel Edwards, the lawyer who'd worked, briefly, in Rothstein’s law a | asserting his own Fifth An firm, RRA, and represented several of Epstein's victims; and one a | covery of relevant facts. (An of those victims, an individual referred to in the lawsuit as E : q dozens of times, when dep “TM.” ‘ 3 | On the other hand, Epstein “Upon information and belief.” the suit stated, “EDWARDS — : 4 by all of the r