The Florida judge who signed off on the search warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald Trump’s resort had ties to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Obama donor Judge Bruce Reinhart signed off on the warrant that allowed FBI agents to raid Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in West Palm Beach, Fla., on Monday, sources told the New York Post. His name appears on the docket of a sealed warrant that is reportedly associated with the FBI raid on Mar-a-Lago.
Judge Reinhart has a shady history. Following 10 years in private practice, Reinhart was promoted to a magistrate judge in March 2018, according to the Post.
In November 2018, Reinhart had represented a number of Epstein’s employees, including his pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia Marcinkova, whom the disgraced financier reportedly once described as his “Yugoslavian sex slave.”
A controversial deal with federal prosecutors in 2007 granted Kellen and Marcinkova immunity and allowed Epstein to plead guilty to state, instead of federal, charges. He served 13 months in county jail before being granted work release, according to the Post
It’s perfectly unsuspicious that the lawyer who defended Jeffrey Epstein is the judge who signed the sealed warrant for the FBI raid on Trump’s home. pic.twitter.com/7cEa2AMyAW
— U.S. Ministry of Truth (@USMiniTru) August 9, 2022
Judge Reinhart’s close association with the underbelly of the Democrat party is coming into the light, as reports of Reinhart’s past and his political donations leak out.
Bruce Reinhart is the judge’s name… pic.twitter.com/06VZdEfEed
— Ben Owen (@hrkbenowen) August 9, 2022
According to a report from the National Pulse, Reinhart was accused of leveraging “inside information about Epstein’s investigation to curry favor with Epstein,” in 2011, he was named as a prosecutor who allegedly violated the rights of an underage girl whom Epstein solicited sex from in the Crime Victims’ Rights Act lawsuit.
“On Oct 23, 2007, as federal prosecutors in South Florida were in the midst of tense negotiations to finalize a plea deal with accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, a senior prosecutor in their office was quietly laying out plans to leave the U.S. attorney’s office after 11 years. “On that date, as emails were flying between Epstein’s lawyers and federal prosecutors, Bruce E. Reinhart, now a federal magistrate, opened a limited liability company in Florida that established what would become his new criminal defense practice.” Miami Herald reported.
Bruce E. Reinhart, the judge who signed the Mar-A-Lago search warrant, was one of Jeffrey Epstein’s defense attorneys. Coincidence? https://t.co/sV39SRzIJL
— Scottie Kiltman (@KiltmanScottie) August 9, 2022
100 Percent Fedup commented that “Reinhart attempted to put distance between himself and these claims by saying he never represented Epstein himself, only his employees, which included his pilots, scheduler, and women who allegedly were Epstein’s sex slaves.”
While he was working in private practice, Reinhart donated $1,000 to Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign and another $1,000 to the Obama Victory Fund, the campaign’s fundraising arm. He also donated $500 to Bush’s 2016 presidential campaign.
Sources: 100percentfedup, National Pulse, New York Post