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Bumbles

(547 posts) Sun Jun 7, 2026, 03:31 PM Yesterday

Exclusive: The Palm Beach cop who Jeffrey Epstein couldn't stop

A long and fascinating read from Pulitzer Prize winner Julie K. Brown who, with her groundbreaking reporting, led to the arrests of Epstein and Maxwell.

https://jkbjournalist.substack.com/

"Michael Reiter is one of the most important figures in the Jeffrey Epstein case who you’ve probably never heard of. Yet if Reiter had never been born, or had never become a cop, Jeffrey Epstein would probably still be living his best life, behind the walls of his waterfront Palm Beach mansion, where the laws that protect children were inconveniences that could easily be fixed with a promise, a payoff or an army of lawyers."

“He was just a police chief of a small town up against a powerful man. Had the system listened to him, Epstein would have been cut off a long time earlier.”

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article315967185.html#storylink=cpy

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Exclusive: The Palm Beach cop who Jeffrey Epstein couldn't stop (Original Post) Bumbles Yesterday OP

Thanks for sharing. Julie K Brown's journalism has been unrelenting. yellow dahlia Yesterday #1

"maintain the privacy and the pipeline at all costs," writer Hunter S. Thompson once wrote erronis Yesterday #2

yellow dahlia

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1. Thanks for sharing. Julie K Brown's journalism has been unrelenting.

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Sun Jun 7, 2026, 03:44 PM

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erronis

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2. "maintain the privacy and the pipeline at all costs," writer Hunter S. Thompson once wrote

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Sun Jun 7, 2026, 03:46 PM

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Great read in the Miami Herald.

Reiter, however, broke that code a long time ago. Of all the law enforcement agencies involved in the case, Reiter and his lead detective, the late Joe Recarey, stood alone in the battle to put Epstein behind bars for good. In some ways, he has paid the price ever since.

Even today, high-profile members of Congress continue to spread misinformation about the Palm Beach Police Department's role in the case, implying at times that police were part of the cover-up, which is not true.

In fact, Reiter risked his career to go after Jeffrey Epstein.

But to truly understand how Epstein's crimes began, one must start at the beginning, in the Town of Palm Beach, Florida.

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