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BumRushDaShow

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Sun Jun 7, 2026, 05:13 PM Yesterday

Bush admin implicated in bombshell claim on Epstein's 'secret' plea deal: report [View all]

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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Rec Ponietz Yesterday #1
Been saying for years that BushInc was involved in the coverup. blm Yesterday #2
Donald Barr tapped Epstein. Trump tapped Bill Barr... Kid Berwyn 10 hrs ago #20
May have? Wiz Imp Yesterday #3
And Shithole made him Sec. of Labor as a reward Ponietz 22 hrs ago #13
Sec Labor charged with Missing and Exploited Children. Kid Berwyn 10 hrs ago #21
It is insane that Alex Acosta has STILL never been forced to testify about this shit, to my knowledge. Karasu 45 min ago #28
The Miami Herald report at the link is a must read. sop 23 hrs ago #4
Umm... it wasn't government 'connections' that helped him. OldBaldy1701E 23 hrs ago #5
I seem to remember the Bushes being referred to as the Bush Crime Family at DU back when Dubya generalbetrayus 23 hrs ago #6
Julie K. Brown is an important journalist. yellow dahlia 23 hrs ago #7
Michael Reiter told this story years ago, I remember reading it when Epstein was still alive FakeNoose 23 hrs ago #8
When W said... czarjak 23 hrs ago #9
Little by little the truth comes out BeneteauBum 23 hrs ago #10
This seemed very likely for a while now-- good to know there is evidence now LymphocyteLover 23 hrs ago #11
I wonder if Bush's Skull and Bones secret society is part of the Epstein network? Multichromatic 22 hrs ago #12
Masons and Satanic societies. 1WorldHope 6 hrs ago #25
Spent many hours in 2002 talking about another set of pedo scandals. OAITW r.2.0 21 hrs ago #14
I remember these. It looked like they were going to erupt, before they got tamped down and covered up. NBachers 21 hrs ago #16
It has been said that the trafficing was a to used to bribe these Washington elites. 1WorldHope 6 hrs ago #24
I doubt the cover up would have happened Delarage 21 hrs ago #15
Why am I not surprised by this report? DemocracyForever 6 hrs ago #26
The Miami Herald Report is well worth the read. Uncle Joe 16 hrs ago #17
All part of the largest multi generational international crime syndicate in history Botany 10 hrs ago #18
But we've known this for years! Scrivener7 10 hrs ago #19
The bushes? Pedos? Clouds Passing 7 hrs ago #22
First thing I thought of when I saw this! nt City Lights 7 hrs ago #23
Remember Poppy Bush and the boys WhiteTara 4 hrs ago #27
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