Reid Weingarten

INTELLIGENCE SUMMARY

Reid Weingarten is a prominent white-collar criminal defense attorney at Steptoe & Johnson LLP who represented Jeffrey Epstein in criminal proceedings. In this role, he expressed public skepticism about Epstein's death being a suicide, stating at an August 2019 hearing that he had "significant doubts" about the official conclusion and noting that when attorneys met with Epstein shortly before his death, they "did not see a despairing, despondent, suicidal person." Weingarten's involvement in the Epstein case is limited to his professional legal representation as defense counsel, not as a subject of criminal accountability, and he does not appear to have faced charges or legal consequences related to the case.