Bush admin implicated in bombshell claim on Epstein's 'secret' plea deal: report [View all]

Source: Raw Story

June 7, 2026 2:18PM ET


The Bush administration’s Justice Department (DOJ) may have played a key role in the unprecedented and “secret” plea deal offered to Jeffrey Epstein in 2007, according to an explosive report from the Miami Herald.

The Herald’s Julie K. Brown, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose reporting helped lead to Epstein’s arrest in 2019, spoke with former Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Reiter over the course of several months, and on Saturday, had a profile on the veteran law enforcement official published in the Herald that included previously unreported details.

Reiter had initiated the first criminal probe into Epstein’s illegal conduct in the mid-2000s, later working in tandem with federal law enforcement.

However, after gathering evidence and “interviewing two dozen tearful girls and their parents” over the course of 11 months, he was then “stonewalled by state prosecutors and attacked in the media,” and later, “ostracized by federal prosecutors, who took over the case in early 2007,” the Herald’s report reads.

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