THE PALM BEACH POST © _ FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2007 EPSTEIN HAS ONE LESS WORRY THESE DAYS There's news, and some bad, for a Palm Beach billionaire accused of paying underage suburban girls, one as as 14, for sex. The : Jeffrey Epstein's no longer looking at the possibility of a lengthy ceameace The FBI is off his The bad? The reclusive 54-year-old is still expected to spend up to 18 months behind bars and could be _ Epstein legally branded a sex of- fender. “This case is absolutely going to end without a trial within the next two months,” said the Wall Street pater legal eagle in WPB, Jack Seems that and Goldberger, dream team of lawyers that mines a in darling Alan Dershowitz and former Bill Clin- the pemticaly connected Epstein. September, Dershowitz commented her there were constitutional issues with the case, including the feds’ involvement. The G-men came in after a livid Palm Beach Police Chief Michael Relter — whose crew spent 11 months in 2005-06 watching Epstein’s house and sifting through sex toys in his garbage — — their help. Reiter and State Lay Barry Krischer feuded over charges for Epstein, with Reiter accusing Krischer of going easy on Mr. Moneybags. Now, said a source close to Epstein who asked to remain nameless, federal au- thorities have agreed to allow Krischer to proceed solo. “The feds were overreaching the whole time,” the source said, “I think they're now satisfied with the resolution we're about to reach in state court.” That includes, according to the source, a guilty plea to one count of felony solicita- tion of prostitution. The case has dragged on i in the court system for nearly 17 months. EFTA00214861