Former Palm Beach prosecutor and child‑welfare official linked to Jeffrey Epstein RICO suit and alleged connections to Scott Rothstein and Bradley Edwards

JaMEs PaTTERSON More than a decade had passed since Epstein’s case first landed on the state attorney’s desk. “The New York Times has called me,” said Krischer. “The British papers. I’m not interested in being pulled into that con- yersation. I know that the police chief didn’t think the case was handled right, but that’s why he’s a cop and I’m a prosecutor.” Krischer, who left the state attorney's office in 2009, is still a member of the Criminal Justice Commission in Palm Beach County. Since his retirement, he’s volunteered one morning a week at the office of the state attorney and two mornings a week at the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office. He still remains active in child welfare issues, working with the Florida Department of Children and Families. Despite his continued involvement with local law enforce- ment, he hasn’t spoken to Michael Reiter in years. Bradley Edwards In December of 2009, Jeffrey Epstein filed suit, under Florida’s RICO act, against Scott Rothstein, the jailed Ponzi king; Bradley Edwards, the lawyer who'd worked, briefly, in Rothstein’s law firm, RRA, and represented several of Epstein's victims; and one of those victims, an individual referred to in the lawsuit as “TM.” “Upon information and belief,” the suit stated, “EDWARDS a knew or should have known that ROTHSTEIN was utilizing a RRA as a front for the massive Ponzi scheme and/or were selling ~ an alleged interest or investment in the Civil Actions (and other q claims) involving Epstein.” The suit also claimed that, “By using = Civil Actions against EP‘ ments regarding same, RC investors into ROTHSTEII dollars which, in turn, w EPSTEIN for the sole pur scheme.” Moreover, the suit claii sex with Epstein; worked a prostitute and call girl: h: painkillers, Xanax, Ecstas Amendment during her de relevant but problem ques’ claims about two other vic said only good things abo FBI in 2007, while being story “changed dramaticall the hands of EDWARDS an In a motion for summar Edwards denied all of thes: frivolous for two separate ' claimed, Epstein was seel asserting his own Fifth An covery of relevant facts. (An dozens of times, when dep On the other hand, Epstein by all of the record evidence “The truth in the record Support Epstein’s claims an toborative of Edwards's swor Stated. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022175