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The Democrat Who Let Jeffrey Epstein Get Away - Greenfield
FrontPage Magazine ^ | 4/11/19 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 07/11/2019 8:30:28 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell

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The Democrat Who Let Jeffrey Epstein Get Away

Why is no one talking about Barry Krischer?

July 11, 2019

Daniel Greenfield

Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.

The Florida prosecutor who allowed Jeffrey Epstein to get away with the abuse of children is a very popular guy in Palm Beach.

The YWCA of Palm Beach County (“eliminating racism, empowering women”) offers the Barry Krischer Humanitarian Award and the Domestic Violence Council has a Barry Krischer scholarship.

Last year, the ADL honored Krischer with its Jurisprudence Award.

The Florida Bar had honored Kirscher with a lifetime achievement award and he’s still listed as a member in good standing. Even Jeb Bush had bestowed a Peace at Home award on the prosecutor.

Krischer sits on the Criminal Justice Commission and offers training to law enforcement, court personnel and child welfare providers on dealing with crimes of sexual violence. His bio states that he remains active in “child welfare issues” through his work with the Department of Children and Families.

The former Palm Beach County State Attorney had made national news three times during his career. Once when he went after Rush Limbaugh, then after Ann Coulter, two Republicans, and when, after being handed the case of Epstein, a co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative, he gave him a pass.

Barry Krischer is a Democrat. Jeffrey Epstein is a billionaire donor to Democrats.

As Chief Prosecutor, Krischer had made his reputation with a zero-tolerance policy of prosecuting juveniles as adults. But after Epstein had abused underage girls, Krischer, according to the detective on the case, ignored police efforts to charge him with four counts of unlawful sexual activity with a minor and instead the billionaire abuser was indicted only on a minor charge of solicitation of prostitution.

Interviews with over a dozen girls and witnesses were ignored.

The victims were not notified of when they needed to appear before Krischer’s Grand Jury. Calls by the police to issue warrants for the arrest of Epstein and his associates were ignored by Kirscher’s subordinates. Eventually, Kirscher’s people stopped taking phone calls from the police.  

The Palm Beach police chief claimed that information was being leaked to Epstein’s lawyers and wrote a public letter attacking Krischer and urging him to disqualify himself from the case. Instead the travesty went on. State prosecutors allowed Epstein to skip sex offender counselling, and hire a private shrink.

When the judge asked assistant state prosecutor Lanna Belohlavek if all the victims had signed off on the deal, she claimed that they had. The lawyer for the victims has said that was not the truth.

As a sex offender, Epstein should have been in state prison, but instead he received a private wing in the Palm Beach County stockade.

“There’s significant budget cuts in the county already, and sending him to the county jail and not the Dept. of Corrections is a significant cost to the taxpayer and the county,” the judge had objected.

But reporting to the stockade allowed Epstein to hire Palm Beach sheriff’s deputies as his security while he spent the day in his office on his work release program. The deputies stayed in the front room of his office, during the time that he was supposed to be in prison, while visitors went into his private office.

The deputies stopped calling Epstein an “inmate” and began referring to him as a “client”.

Palm Beach Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, a Democrat, oversaw the illegal arrangement.

Bradsaw and Krischer were political allies.

After 13 months of this, there was another year of house arrest in which Epstein was able to fly his jet around the country and around the world. Before long, he was partying with the smart set, including Charlie Rose, Katie Couric, Woody Allen and Chelsea Handler. And his case was forgotten. Until now.

The Palm Beach police chief had referred the case to the FBI, hoping to hit Epstein with federal charges. The Feds were able to assemble a 53-page indictment. And they too folded. The U.S. attorney in Miami, Alexander Acosta, is now Trump's secretary of labor. And that explains the sudden renewed interest.

But, unlike Epstein’s Democrat pals, Trump wasn’t hanging out with Epstein after the truth came out.

Epstein’s victims were originally denied justice because of his connections to Democrat politicians. They may now receive justice as part of an attack on a Trump cabinet member in the post-Clinton era.

But why did Epstein get a pass from the feds?

Acosta allegedly told Trump transition officials that he had been told to back off Epstein. “I was told Epstein ‘belonged to intelligence’ and to leave it alone,” he allegedly said.

Meanwhile Epstein had served as a key federal witness and received “valuable consideration” in the Bear Stearns case. The hedge fund managers in the Bear Stearns case however were acquitted. This is yet another mystery in the big question of how Epstein made his money and where it came from.

In a world where financial dealings are carefully tracked by the media, that is its own mystery.

Epstein was supposedly a money manager, but his clients are unknown. His firm, Financial Trust Co. is located in the Virgin Islands. As are a number of other companies with bland names like NES and Maple Inc. that he used to make his purchases. After a decade of litigation, his true net worth is still unknown.

According to one acquittance, Epstein claimed to have helped African dictators hide their stolen money.

Jeffrey Epstein spent his career moving in rarefied social, political and financial circles. It’s unknown who in the government might have given Acosta a “stand down” order in regard to prosecuting him.

And we may never know.

The actual dirty work was handled by Ann Marie Villafaña, a federal prosecutor, who wrote to Epstein's lawyer, "I would prefer not to highlight for the judge all the other crimes and all the other persons that we could charge.”

No mention has been made of her even though she had been rebuked in a previous child sex case.

Meanwhile media outlets, instead of asking Barry Krischer any hard questions, enthusiastically quote a letter by Krischer attacking Acosta.

All the facts of the Epstein case had been available a decade ago. The media chose to ignore them until after the Clintons had flamed out. The timing of the media’s interest in Epstein is its own cover-up.

Now the media wants to talk about Acosta and Trump, instead of Clinton and Krischer.

But the story begins with Krischer.

According to Palm Beach’s top cop, the prosecutor had wanted to nail Epstein. And then something changed. At some point in the case, Barry Krischer may have received his own “stand down” order.

But Krischer’s history is almost as interesting as Epstein.

Epstein was politically protected. And so was Krischer.

When Krischer was sued by a legal secretary who accused him of groping her, the National Organization of Women organized a rally in his defense. One of Krischer’s former state attorneys, Thomas H. Schnieders, would later beat his mother to death with a crowbar. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. And, instead of going to prison, has been sent to a mental health facility.

The Florida Bar lists his membership as lapsed.

But that’s not the strangest story involving Barry Krischer. In 1986, Mark Baltes was killed in a hit-and-run. The driver of the car hired Krischer, then merely a lawyer, to keep his identity anonymous and make a deal. The mystery dragged on for over two years. Investigators used Krischer’s connections to track him down and discovered that the driver was his lawyer’s tenant. When he was caught, Krischer’s client got off with probation, receiving immunity in exchange for a confession, despite showing no remorse.

These days, Krischer is one of the founders of The Children's Place at Home Safe, an organization that claims to help abused children of around the same ages as Epstein's victims.

The next Barry Krischer Humanitarian Award will be handed out in October. Unless the truth comes out.


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KEYWORDS: 2percentclub; acosta; barrykrischer; epstein; greenfield; krischer; palmbeach; pedogate
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1 posted on 07/11/2019 8:30:28 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell
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2 posted on 07/11/2019 8:31:50 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

The plot thickens.


3 posted on 07/11/2019 8:34:24 AM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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To: Louis Foxwell

“Lay off Epstein —he’s INTEL”

Of WHAT country..?


4 posted on 07/11/2019 8:35:59 AM PDT by gaijin
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To: Louis Foxwell

Most of this is also in Filthy Rich: The Billionaire’s Sex Scandal—The Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein

Worth the read...you learn a lot about Palm Beach


5 posted on 07/11/2019 8:36:23 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Louis Foxwell
The former Palm Beach County State Attorney had made national news three times during his career. Once when he went after Rush Limbaugh, then after Ann Coulter, two Republicans, and when, after being handed the case of Epstein, a co-founder of the Clinton Global Initiative, he gave him a pass. Barry Krischer is a Democrat. Jeffrey Epstein is a billionaire donor to Democrats.

Why do I get the feeling the Washington Post and New York Times will totally ignore this story...

6 posted on 07/11/2019 8:39:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (Main reason black citizens have less 'wealth' is because money burns a hole in their pockets.)
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It’s unknown who in the government might have given Acosta a “stand down” order in regard to prosecuting him. And we may never know.

Why doesn't someone ask Acosta who ordered him to "stand down?"

7 posted on 07/11/2019 8:42:44 AM PDT by Henchster (Free Republic - the BEST site on the web!)
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To: Louis Foxwell

Something tells me that Epstein has a lot of dirt on people that he is using to get them to let him off.


8 posted on 07/11/2019 8:44:15 AM PDT by Old Retired Army Guy
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To: Louis Foxwell

I hope this article receives very wide audience including talk show people like Rush and Levin, Hannity, etc

This is bombshell stuff.


9 posted on 07/11/2019 8:51:40 AM PDT by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations.)
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Seen this yet? Greenfield is incredible. A lot of digging on his part.


10 posted on 07/11/2019 8:52:34 AM PDT by little jeremiah (When we do not punish evildoers we are ripping the foundations of justice from future generations.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

When Krischer was sued by a legal secretary who accused him of groping her, the National Organization of Women organized a rally in his defense. One of Krischer’s former state attorneys, Thomas H. Schnieders, would later beat his mother to death with a crowbar. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity. And, instead of going to prison, has been sent to a mental health facility.

The Florida Bar lists his membership as lapsed.

But that’s not the strangest story involving Barry Krischer. In 1986, Mark Baltes was killed in a hit-and-run. The driver of the car hired Krischer, then merely a lawyer, to keep his identity anonymous and make a deal. The mystery dragged on for over two years. Investigators used Krischer’s connections to track him down and discovered that the driver was his lawyer’s tenant. When he was caught, Krischer’s client got off with probation, receiving immunity in exchange for a confession, despite showing no remorse.

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Krischer is the bad guy, not Acosta.


11 posted on 07/11/2019 9:01:58 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Charity comes from wealth.)
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To: Louis Foxwell

A lot of people are missing some of the most important parts of the story:

1. Katie Couric and George Stephanouplous attended a Yom Kippur buffet in honor of Epstein at his NYC home just months after he was released from his 13-month Florida “punishment”, as supervised by the guards Epstein himself HIRED.

One hundred other friends attended that meal, and amazingly, many brought their kids.

2. The newest deal his lawyers proposed the other day, read EACH word slowly, now..!

“He will name some of the people who paid for sex in exchange for not more than 5 years”.

Parse EACH word, did it get by you, it’s just ONE word that is operative here:

PAID. Paid for sex. Not “later paid incredibly much in return for silence”. No, paid for SEX.

How likely is it that many of them paid..? Not many.

Why would he omit from his deal those who did NOT pay? Because those are the most important people and because those are nearly ALL of the people.

And most importantly:

Because omitting the NON payers from being named in Epstein’s deal preserves what is most valuable to those who are behind all this and those actually rule America —the precious blackmail material Epstein went to such pains to collect, the material that will bind together the powerful people who otherwise would hate each other’s guts and not work together.

The Big Wheels, the movers and shakers, are left aside so that in the future they can still be leveraged and relied upon. So that they can be called on for their precious, timely, high-level help in future intel ops; moving money around, opening accounts, vouching for the shadowy figures who must be used to do important, little-known things.


12 posted on 07/11/2019 9:11:54 AM PDT by gaijin
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Interesting read just posted on Twitter.

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1112042376854454272.html


13 posted on 07/11/2019 9:13:02 AM PDT by LadyBuzz
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To: Louis Foxwell
Everyone who is a player in the Democrat Party is thoroughly corrupt. That's what you must do in order to run in those circles. You can be certain that whomever emerges from the Democrat primaries, he/she will be corrupt and willing to do anything to advance their communist scheme.

It will be interesting to see how the media concoct another collection of big lies to protect these scum of the Earth

14 posted on 07/11/2019 9:18:16 AM PDT by centurion316
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FTA: After 13 months of this, there was another year of house arrest in which Epstein was able to fly his jet around the country and around the world. Before long, he was partying with the smart set, including Charlie Rose, Katie Couric, Woody Allen and Chelsea Handler.

Each one is icky like Epstein and the Clintons and Huma and all the other twisted people involved.

Trump can do something. He can tell the truth in public instead of letting the charge against him fester like he did the Russia lies.


15 posted on 07/11/2019 11:08:44 AM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: centurion316

The corruption is nearly universal. I choose to believe that our president Trump is not corrupt. I believe this because of the people he has surrounding him. VP Pence is one such deeply committed Christian. There are others, not many, but others who are strong and committed to restoring our nation. Each of these heroes absolutely need our prayers, our commitment, and our service in whatever way we can provide it.
We are in a war to save our nation. Let us not be sunshine patriots but stand willing to fight through the storm that is upon us.


16 posted on 07/11/2019 11:29:07 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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Trump did not allow the Russian lies to fester. He denied the false allegations daily. He exhausted his enemies with courage and stamina and won the day.


17 posted on 07/11/2019 11:31:39 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (The denial of the authority of God is the central plank of the Progressive movement.)
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To: centurion316

“Everyone who is a player in the Democrat Party is thoroughly corrupt. ”

They are more than this. They are sociopaths (all), and even psychopaths (many).

And Republicans are not exempt either.


18 posted on 07/11/2019 11:48:02 AM PDT by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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And Republicans are not exempt either.

The difference is that while the Republican Party includes corrupt politicians, the Democrat Party itself is corrupt and corruption is a requirement for a leadership position.

19 posted on 07/11/2019 12:05:07 PM PDT by centurion316
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PING

Check out article and comments, esp # 12.

20 posted on 07/11/2019 3:22:46 PM PDT by LucyT (~ "Keep the Public in a State of CONSTANT TURMOIL." ~)
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