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Bumbles

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Sun Jun 7, 2026, 03:31 PM Jun 7

Exclusive: The Palm Beach cop who Jeffrey Epstein couldn't stop [View all]

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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