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Allegations of sexual misconduct against Barry Krischer and tangential references to Jeffrey Epstein investigations

Date
November 11, 2025
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House Oversight
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House Oversight #010505
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The passage repeats previously reported allegations of sexual harassment against a state attorney candidate and loosely ties them to unrelated mentions of Jeffrey Epstein and a chief investigator. It Barry Krischer faced two sexual harassment lawsuits in the early 1990s, both dismissed. The lawsuits allege unwanted physical advances and subsequent retaliation (termination). Krischer was running f

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JaMES PATTERSON of, and means of obtaining, oxycodone and hydrocodone. (A few years after Limbaugh's arrest, which coincided with Chief Reit- er’s investigation into Jeffrey Epstein, the talk-show host settled with prosecutors, agreed to submit to random drug testing, and gave up his firearms permit.) Krischer himself, however, had been accused of sexual misconduct. In October of 1992, Jodi Bergeron, a legal secretary who'd worked for Krischer, filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against him in the Palm Beach County circuit court. That suit was dismissed, but a few s later, the woman took Krischer to federal court, accusing month him of making unwanted advances and demanding recompense for battery, negligence, invasion of privacy, and emotional distress. Krischer had placed his hands, violently, inside her blouse, the woman said. He’d forcibly fondled her breasts, forcibly kissed her, and rubbed her shoulders while brushing her buttocks with his hands and knees, all while accompanying the gestures with verbal advances. When she declined those advances, the woman claimed, Krischer fired her. Krischer denied the allegations. At the time, he was making his frst run for the state attorney's office. The charges were politically motivated, he said. Members of a local chapter of NOW—the National Organization for Women—had stood by the lawyer, cit- violence, among his other virtues. ing his efforts to stop domestic her for the work his office “I am here to support Barry Krisc did in my daughter's case,” one woman said during a took place in front of the courthouse. the maximum sentence, a life sentence.” The second lawsuit had also been dismissed—a 164 rally that — ; “Her murderer received fer Krischer's ~ iz i former law firm agreed sand dollars in legal fees Now Chief Reiter and De their own questions abc wanted to charge Epsteii behavior and four cour minor—felony charges behind bars in the case c Kellen would be charged This was not.the plaa for Jeffrey Epstein. In cases involving tk attorneys tend to have s But instead of granting I the police that he would asked to consider a broac Ina case such as Epste ing in and of itself. But v only required in capital cas may also be called in c involving crimes committ wasn't a public official, an cerned, the only controver that Epstein was rich an B.B. vs. Epstein, Chief Reit ; €cutor had to make sure t able doubt. And Krischer | 4 of the young women whot

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