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   > Democrat Bruce Reinhart is a child molester and the FBI knows it.   
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   The Florida federal magistrate judge who signed off on a search   
   warrant authorizing the FBI raid of former President Donald   
   Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort left the local US Attorney’s office   
   more than a decade ago to rep employees of convicted pedophile   
   Jeffrey Epstein who had received immunity in the long-running   
   sex-trafficking investigation of the financier.   
      
   Sources tell The Post that Judge Bruce Reinhart approved the   
   warrant that enabled federal agents to converge on the palatial   
   South Florida estate on Monday in what Trump called an   
   “unannounced raid on my home.”   
      
   Reinhart was elevated to magistrate judge in March 2018 after 10   
   years in private practice. That November, the Miami Herald   
   reported that he had represented several of Epstein’s employees   
   — including, by Reinhart’s own admission to the outlet,   
   Epstein’s pilots; his scheduler, Sarah Kellen; and Nadia   
   Marcinkova, who Epstein once reportedly described as his   
   “Yugoslavian sex slave.”   
      
   Kellen and Marcinkova were among Epstein’s lieutenants who were   
   granted immunity as part of a controversial 2007 deal with   
   federal prosecutors that allowed the pervert to plead guilty to   
   state charges rather than federal crimes. Epstein wound up   
   serving just 13 months in county jail and was granted work   
   release.   
      
   According to the outlet, Reinhart resigned from the South   
   Florida US Attorney’s Office effective on New Year’s Day 2008   
   and went to work for Epstein’s cohorts the following day.   
   Epstein, who was found dead in August 2019 of an apparent   
   suicide in the Manhattan Correctional Center while awaiting   
   trial on federal sex-trafficking charges, had hired a stable of   
   high-powered lawyers, including former independent counsel   
   Kenneth Starr.   
      
   Reinhart was later named in a civil lawsuit that accused him of   
   violating Justice Department policies by switching sides in the   
   middle of the Epstein investigation, suggesting he had used   
   inside information about the probe to build favor with the   
   notorious defendant, the Herald reported in 2018.   
      
   In a 2011 affidavit, Reinhart denied he had done anything   
   improper and insisted that since he was not involved in the   
   federal investigation of Epstein, he was not privy to inside   
   information about the case.   
      
   However, in a 2013 court filing, Reinhart’s former colleagues   
   contradicted him, saying that he had “learned confidential, non-   
   public information about the Epstein matter.” Reinhart noted to   
   the Herald in response that a complaint filed against him by a   
   lawyer for Epstein’s victims had been dismissed by the Justice   
   Department.   
      
   In his 12 years as a federal prosecutor, according to his   
   official biography, Reinhart “managed a docket that covered the   
   full spectrum of federal crimes, including narcotics, violent   
   crimes, public corruption, financial frauds, child pornography   
   and immigration.”   
      
   Reinhart is one of three federal magistrate judges in the West   
   Palm Beach offices of the US District Court for the Southern   
   District Court of Florida, along with William Matthewman and   
   Ryon McCabe.   
      
   Two recent warrant applications were assigned to Reinhart and   
   entered into the court system on Monday, the Miami Herald   
   reported, but those warrants and information about who they   
   targeted remain sealed. Records show another warrant was issued   
   by Reinhart on Friday, but its contents were also sealed.   
      
   Trump confirmed media reports of a raid at his Florida resort on   
   Monday evening, saying Mar-a-Lago was “under siege, raided, and   
   occupied by a large group of FBI agents.”   
      
   The agents were reportedly searching the seaside property for   
   boxes of classified documents Trump allegedly brought to the   
   ritzy resort after he left the White House in January 2021,   
   which would be a violation of federal record-keeping laws.   
      
   The National Archives and Records Administration said in   
   February that it found classified documents in 15 boxes at Mar-a-   
   Lago and alerted the FBI.   
      
      
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