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BumRushDaShow

(172,750 posts)
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:13 PM 7 hrs ago

Bush admin implicated in bombshell claim on Epstein's 'secret' plea deal: report

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.

Read more: https://www.rawstory.com/jeffrey-epstein-2677009054/



Link to Miami Herald REPORT - Exclusive: The Palm Beach cop who Jeffrey Epstein couldn’t stop

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Wiz Imp

(10,604 posts)
3. May have?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:30 PM
7 hrs ago

Last edited Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:07 PM - Edit history (1)

It's been known from Day 1 that they did. The sweetheart deal happened while Bush was President, and the US Attorney who approved it was blatant partisan Republican Alex Acosta. Acosta's boss (US Attorney General) was Bush appointee Michael Mukasey. Of course Mukasey had to know that Acosta offerred Epstein the deal and approved it.

sop

(19,621 posts)
4. The Miami Herald report at the link is a must read.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:52 PM
7 hrs ago

Shocking stuff. It's clear Epstein's had extensive connections at the highest levels of government running interference for him. What a cesspool of corruption.

OldBaldy1701E

(11,680 posts)
5. Umm... it wasn't government 'connections' that helped him.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:04 PM
6 hrs ago

It was the Federal government.

'Cesspool' indeed.

generalbetrayus

(2,023 posts)
6. I seem to remember the Bushes being referred to as the Bush Crime Family at DU back when Dubya
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:04 PM
6 hrs ago

was President. More fuel for the fire.

FakeNoose

(42,714 posts)
8. Michael Reiter told this story years ago, I remember reading it when Epstein was still alive
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:20 PM
6 hrs ago

Someone from the DoJ came to him and told him to drop the (local) case on Epstein because he had contacts with the CIA and Mossad. Supposedly the stuff Epstein was involved in were spy network stings and the local law enforcement had to leave him alone.

So Reiter turned his evidence over to someone in DoJ and it became Alex Acosta's problem. But all Acosta did was treat the entire thing with kid gloves, and he allowed Epstein to plead to a minor charge with no trial. They shut down the discovery and no victims or potential witnesses were told until after it was litigated and closed. Epstein got a slap on the wrist, and told "Naughty boy, don't do this again."

czarjak

(13,726 posts)
9. When W said...
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:23 PM
6 hrs ago

"I'm a member of a Secret Society, a society so secret, I can't even talk about it!" Any doubt?

BeneteauBum

(886 posts)
10. Little by little the truth comes out
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 06:37 PM
6 hrs ago

Kudos to the dogged investigators who won’t let this go.

Peace I

Multichromatic

(225 posts)
12. I wonder if Bush's Skull and Bones secret society is part of the Epstein network?
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 07:15 PM
5 hrs ago

Skull and Bones always seemed like some creepy cult group for rich people. Like the Illuminati or the Masons

OAITW r.2.0

(32,839 posts)
14. Spent many hours in 2002 talking about another set of pedo scandals.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:02 PM
4 hrs ago
The "Bush and Franklin sex scandal" refers to two separate controversies linked in alternative history and conspiracy theories: the Omaha-based Franklin child prostitution ring that began in 1988, and a 1989 Washington, D.C. callboy ring. Both controversies touched the fringes of the Reagan and Bush administrations.The Franklin ScandalThe Franklin child prostitution ring allegations surfaced in 1988 in Omaha, Nebraska, centering around the failed Franklin Federal Credit Union and its president, Lawrence E. King Jr.The Allegations: Witnesses claimed the ring involved powerful Midwestern political and business figures in child trafficking, satanic ritual abuse, and money laundering.National Expansion: Theories suggested the operation expanded to Washington, D.C., allegedly implicating elite figures and elements of the CIA.Official Findings: State and federal grand juries in 1990 and 1991 concluded that the allegations of a high-level pedophile ring were a fabricated hoax.The 1989 D.C. Callboy RingIn June 1989, a Washington, D.C. male escort ring tied to prominent Republican lobbyist Craig Spence made national headlines.The Scandal: Investigations revealed that Spence ran a prostitution ring that catered to Washington's political elite, including military officers, congressional aides, and minor officials in the Reagan and Bush administrations.White House Access: Reports indicated Spence's clients took unauthorized, "midnight tours" of the White House, which prompted Secret Service investigations.Blackmail Claims: It was widely alleged that Spence secretly recorded sexual encounters in his home to build compromising "control files" on politicians.Intersection with the Bush AdministrationAlternative researchers and critics later attempted to bridge the two events, suggesting that the Washington, D.C. callboy ring and the Franklin network were part of a vast, politically protected pedophile ring operating in the highest levels of the U.S. government, including George H.W. Bush's inner circle.However, official investigations, including those by the FBI, dismissed the high-level conspiracy theories. Mainstream media, such as ⁠The Washington Post, characterized the claims regarding widespread government complicity as an unverified "bombshell".


Above is a Google recap...below is my non-AI comment.

So Epstein-Bush connection? No Shocker.



NBachers

(19,630 posts)
16. I remember these. It looked like they were going to erupt, before they got tamped down and covered up.
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:26 PM
4 hrs ago

Delarage

(2,619 posts)
15. I doubt the cover up would have happened
Sun Jun 7, 2026, 08:07 PM
4 hrs ago

In a Gore administration. Another reason Bush v. Gore was necessary (for the billionaire elites/Epstein class).

So we got:

9/11
Kissed the surplus goodbye
Environmental disaster
Epstein coverups

.....all because rightfully cast ballots were not counted 🤷‍♂️

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