Posted on 08/17/2006 5:19:51 PM PDT by wagglebee
The prosecutor who vigorously pursued the case against conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh has been accused of going easy on a wealthy Democrat accused of sex crimes with kids.
Billionaire Palm Beach financier Jeffrey Epstein, 53, was indicted last month on a charge of felony solicitation of prostitution.
But Palm Beach County Police Chief Michael Reiter wanted Epstein to be charged with the more serious crime of sexual activity with minors.
Florida State Attorney Barry Krischer of Palm Beach County rejected that call – even though police believe Epstein regularly brought girls as young as 14 to his mansion for sex, and they reportedly found pictures of underage girls when they raided his home.
That’s the same Barry Krischer who aggressively went after Limbaugh for allegedly obtaining prescription drugs by doctor shopping. Though the case was later found to be without merit, and even legitimate cases are typically not even prosecuted, Krischer’s office went on a witch hunt against Limbaugh that lasted several years and included an effort to obtain the popular talk show hosts private medical records.
The Palm beach prosecutor’s double standard was exposed this week by Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, who slammed Krischer for engaging in a cover-up.
In his "Talking Points” this week, O’Reilly described Krischer as having acted with "malice” against Limbaugh. O’Reilly laid the blame on Krischer’s politics, describing him as a "a committed Democrat.”
O’Reilly added that "Chief Reiter believes Krischer is in the tank for Epstein,” a businessman who has donated more than $100,000 to Democratic candidates including Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer.
In fact, Reiter was so disturbed by Krischer’s handling of the case that he fired off a letter to Krischer, calling his actions "highly unusual” and urging him to disqualify himself from the prosecution of the case, according to the Palm Beach Post.
"Reiter even referred the case to the FBI to determine whether the super-rich, super-connected defendant had violated any federal laws,” the Post reported.
Already backers of Epstein have been smearing the reputation of the police chief and even bringing up details of a "messy” divorce with his wife.
But even the liberal Palm Beach Post reported that the chief has a sterling reputation. The paper reported that colleagues "almost uniformly use one word to describe the chief: professional.”
Reiter is not a newcomer to cases involving Palm Beach’s rich and famous. He was the lead detective investigating the drug overdose death of David Kennedy in 1984, and was involved in the probe of William Kennedy Smith, who was charged in 1991, and later acquitted, with raping a woman in Palm Beach. O’Reilly concluded: "When you examine how much time and effort Krischer put into trying to ruin Rush Limbaugh as opposed to what he’s doing now in the far more serious case of Jeffrey Epstein, many, many questions come to mind and none of those questions reflect well on Barry Krischer.”
Hey, over at dU that are all over this guy, condeming what he has done!
Not!
here's a link to that saucy tart who was in on his games
http://www.dealbreaker.com/2006/07/another_jeffrey_epstein_victim.html
But democrats do not believe sexual degeneracy is wrong, didn't you get the message in the nineties? That's why they embrace the degenerate ex-president and his sleazy wife. Haven't you read about how only Republicans may be slandered over sexual degeneracy 'cause democrats embrace the behavior as normal, even healthy, except when committed by a conservative and especially a media-proclaimed 'religious conservative'.
Thanks for the pic, I guess she doesn't own any mirrors, or they won't reflect her image.
Epstein never laid claim to being a saint, or in any sense "being on loan from God." Limbaugh's the hypocrit, don't you see?
Inasmuch as you don't even have to mention politics to account for Krisher's behavior, his actions are politically cleaner than a whistle.
Add to this mix how everyone knows conservatives are typically trying to push their religious presuppositions onto others, we needn't bother asking why guys like Limbaugh deserve to go straight to jail without smoking one more, cancer-causing, second-hand-smoke-producing cigar.
Did I mention Limbaugh used to be overweight? Just like those Christian types to try to take the sliver from their neighbor's eye and ignore the railroad tie in their own eyes.
HF
P.S. /s
Is it possible that O'Reilly said something bad about El Presidente, at one time. That would be cause for the utmost scorn.
There are no depths to which brain-saturated Democrat prosecutors and/or Judges won't sink in support of their partisan and reprehensible view of American society.
I know you are just kidding but burning books (at least with the idea of making their content no longer available to others) makes you a fascist totalitarian, not a conservative.
Book burning as a method for controlling what people think is a leftist tool of controlp> Of course if you were doing it as a symbol to make a point, that is freedom of speech and something different entirely.
Alot of people here claim they can't stand him, and this I don't understand. Anybody who remembers the old days when the leftist mainstream media had a lock on the news should love the guy.
I have absolutely no idea.
Now, I think Epstein is a filthy subhuman pig who deserves to spend the remainder of his life being raped in prison.
But that's just me.
Look at this blast from the past!
Look at this story—was just doing some searches on Epstein and brought this interesting bit up, including Ghislaine Maxwell. 2006—and a crooked Florida politician was letting the pedophile off the hook to chase after Rush for pills…requesting this be in today’s news activism? Can you arrange?
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