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121 1 So, yes, I did -- you know, Mr. Edwards, 12:28:55 2 your client, is shaking his head, but when he's 3 deposed under oath, he's not going to be able to 4 simply shake his head. He's going to have to answer 5 specific and direct questions. 6 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:29:11 7 Q. Let me try my question. 12:29:12 8 Did you charge Bradley Edwards and 12:29:16 9 Professor Paul Cassell in your mass media 10 appearances with fabricating false charges against 11 you? 12 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form. 12:29:29 13 A. My media appearances were largely in 12:29:33 14 response to media requests of me. I did not conduct 15 a media campaign. The object of my speaking to the 16 media was to respond to their questions. Their 17 questions were, number 1, did you ever have any 18 sexual contact with ? And I 19 unequivocally stated no. 20 I stated that I knew there were no videos 12:30:01 21 or photographs because the event didn't occur. 22 stated that I would submit a sworn affidavit, which 23 in effect waived the statute of limitations. I 24 stated unequivocally that I was innocent of those 25 false charges. EFTA00601274
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122 1 I was then asked by the media, well, why 12:30:29 2 would somebody who is a former federal judge and 3 professor at a law school make these false charges? 4 I responded to those questions. Why would somebody 5 like a distinguished personal injury lawyer make 6 those false charges? And I responded to those 7 questions. And everything I said was the truth as I 8 believed it to be at the time. 9 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:30:55 10 Q. Do you remember the question that was 12:30:57 11 asked of you? 12 A. Yes, I've answered it. 12:30:58 13 Q. What was the question? 12:31:00 14 A. As part of massive media campaign, did I 12:31:03 15 charge your clients with deliberately falsifying a 16 charge against me, and my answer satisfies that 17 question. 18 Q. No, I don't think it does. Can you tell 12:31:18 19 us whether that's what you did, did you charge -- 20 A. I just did. 12:31:22 21 Q. -- them with having intentionally 12:31:23 22 fabricated false charges against you? 23 A. I believe that they intentionally 12:31:28 24 fabricated false evidence against me. I believe 25 that they pressured their client into fabricating EFTA00601275
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123 1 false evidence against me. I believe that they 2 helped to draft a perjurious affidavit that was 3 filed in court, after they knew that I said I could 4 prove that I couldn't have been there four of the 5 five places that the alleged acts could have 6 occurred. 7 I believe that when they recently sought 12:31:59 8 to submit an additional claim repeating these 9 charges into the federal court, that they did it 10 knowing full well that these charges were false. 11 That's my belief, yes. 12 Q. Are you aware that your lawyers filed a 12:32:14 13 pleading on your behalf in this case with the title 14 Defendant Alan M. Dershowitz's Answer to the 15 Complaint and Counterclaim? 16 A. I'm not aware of that. 12:32:23 17 Q. Pardon me? 12:32:24 18 A. I'm not aware of the title of any legal 12:32:25 19 pleadings. 20 Q. Do you know that an answer has been filed 12:32:28 21 to the defamation action that has been brought 22 against you? 23 A. Of course. I mean, I'm sure there's been 12:32:34 24 a legal answer prepared. Of course, that's what 25 lawyers do. EFTA00601276
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124 1 Q. Are you aware that there's also a 12:32:40 2 counterclaim that has been filed on your behalf? 3 A. Yes, I authorized the counterclaim to be 12:32:43 4 filed because I believe that your clients defamed me 5 and that Mr. Cassell wrote a letter to ABC, which 6 not even plausibly is within the claim of privilege, 7 which asserts that I had -- asserts falsely and in a 8 defamatory way that I had had sexual contact with 9 yes. 10 Q. Did you read the answer to the complaint 12:33:06 11 and counterclaim -- 12 A. I'm sure I did. 12:33:10 13 Q. -- before it was filed? 12:33:11 14 A. I'm sure I did. 12:33:11 15 Q. And I assume that you approved of it, 12:33:13 16 correct? 17 A. I assume I did, yes. 12:33:17 18 Q. Okay. 12:33:18 19 MR. SCOTT: I object to anything as far as 12:33:20 20 using pleadings like this, but go ahead and do 21 it. 22 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:33:23 23 Q. As a law professor, would it be fair for 12:33:24 24 us to assume that you know the difference between 25 simple negligence and recklessness? EFTA00601277
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125 1 A. That's something that you could spend an 12:33:32 2 entire semester teaching the difference between 3 simple negligence and recklessness. That's very 4 much a matter of degree and the courts are are 5 split very much on what the meaning of 6 "recklessness" is, particularly in the context of 7 defamation. It's a very complicated subject. 8 Q. Do you personally recognize that there is 12:33:51 9 a difference between simple negligence and 10 recklessness? 11 A. At the extremes, yes, simple negligence is 12:33:58 12 failure to perform a duty and recklessness is 13 failure to perform a duty knowing that there 14 knowing or should know that there is a likelihood of 15 some harm being committed. That's just what I 16 remember from first year torts. 17 Q. And you do also recognize that there is a 12:34:17 18 distinction between simple negligence and 19 recklessness on one hand and intentional wrongdoing 20 on the other, correct? 21 A. Again, I've argued cases about this issue. 12:34:27 22 And it's a continuum. Sometimes courts say "that 23 should have known" is the equivalent of "knowing." 24 So it's a continuum. There's not an absolute 25 straight line between those two, yeah. EFTA00601278
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126 1 Q. Well, what are you charging Professor Paul 12:34:48 2 Cassell and Bradley Edwards with having done? Were 3 they negligent, reckless; or did they knowingly and 4 willfully fabricate false charges against you? 5 MR. SCOTT: Let me object to the form. 12:35:11 6 It's compound. 7 And, Professor, if you would like to 12:35:13 8 review the complaint and the counterclaim 9 before you respond to that, you have the 10 absolute right to do that. 11 THE WITNESS: I'd like to do that, yes. 12:35:21 12 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:35:23 13 Q. Okay. Let me withdraw that question and 12:35:23 14 let me ask this question. 15 MR. SCOTT: My position, just so we 12:35:26 16 understand, is -- and this is a legal 17 objection -- is that while I don't think you 18 can use pleadings to cross-examine a witness, 19 if you're going to do it, he has the right to 20 see it, have it in front of him and respond to 21 it -- 22 MR. SCAROLA: That's why I was -- 12:35:37 23 MR. SCOTT: -- as opposed to asking 12:35:38 24 questions in the vagueness. 25 MR. SCAROLA: That's why I'm withdrawing 12:35:40 EFTA00601279
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127 1 the question. 2 MR. SCOTT: Thank you. 12:35:43 3 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:35:43 4 Q. What do you contend, independent of 12:35:43 5 anything that may be in any pleadings, Bradley 6 Edwards and Paul Cassell are responsible for, 7 negligence, recklessness, or intentional and willful 8 fabrication of lies? 9 A. Let me answer that question in full. It 12:36:02 10 is my belief as I sit here today that 11 never accused me of having any sexual 12 contact with her because I never did have any sexual 13 contact with her. And that your clients, Edwards 14 and Cassell, sat with her and said to her, look, if 15 we want to get the NPA knocked out, we have to find 16 a lawyer who worked on the NPA, but who you also had 17 sexual contact with. The only lawyer who fits that 18 description is Alan Dershowitz. Think back, think 19 hard, did you ever have any sexual contact with Alan 20 Dershowitz? 21 And they pressured her into falsely 12:36:48 22 stating something that they knew or should have 23 known was an absolute and deliberate lie. They 24 could have easily found that out. They could have 25 pressed her very hard on why she hadn't previously EFTA00601280
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128 1 named me. They could have pressed her very hard on 2 dates and times and specifics of where these alleged 3 acts could have occurred. And they didn't do that. 4 So I think that it comes much closer to 12:37:18 5 the intentional side of the continuum than the 6 negligence side of the continuum. 7 Q. Well, you've described it earlier as 12:37:35 8 suborning perjury. That's absolutely intentional, 9 isn't it? 10 MR. SCOTT: Objection, argumentative, 12:37:40 11 repetitious. Go ahead, you can answer it. 12 A. I believe that when the time came to file 12:37:44 13 the affidavit in which she described six -- at least 14 six alleged incidents of sexual misconduct with me, 15 including having me standing next to Jeffrey Epstein 16 while he was receiving oral sex, that they knew that 17 that was false. And that I believe that they 18 probably drafted the affidavit. And to my mind, 19 that is subornation of perjury, yes. A criminal 20 act. 21 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:38:20 22 Q. They encouraged to make 12:38:21 23 up lies about you and provided the details of those 24 lies to her? 25 A. No, no -- 12:38:30 EFTA00601281
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129 1 MR. SCOTT: Objection, argumentative, 12:38:32 2 repetitious. 3 A. I believe they encouraged 12:38:33 4 to make up lies about me and -- and pressed her and 5 asked her to put in details. She would never on her 6 own have come up with some of the details. They're 7 absurd details. 8 I mean, it's very, very bad lawyering on 12:38:49 9 their part, by the way. Very bad lawyering for 10 having her put in details that were so clearly and 11 demonstrably false, such as, for example, meeting 12 Bill Clinton on the island. And they should have 13 known, by the way, when they put in an allegation 14 against me that she had also said that she twice met 15 Al Gore with his wife, once on an air -- once on 16 Jeffrey Epstein's airplane and once on the island. 17 And it is completely clear, and David 12:39:21 18 Boies was the lawyer for -- for Al Gore, as was 19 as was I, we worked together on that case, that a 20 simple phone call from -- from David Boies to 21 Al Gore would have established that they don't know 22 each other, that he's never been on the island, 23 never been on his airplane. 24 I made a simple phone call on day one and 12:39:46 25 established that. So your clients could have easily EFTA00601282
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130 1 determined that she just lied, lied, lied, lied. 2 She lied about Al Gore. She lied about Ehud Barak, 3 she lied about Bill Clinton. She lied about many, 4 many other people. 5 This is something that your clients could 12:40:06 6 easily have found out about, but they closed their 7 eyes. They willfully blinded themself to a long 8 history of lying by your client and willingly put in 9 an affidavit that they knew would destroy my career, 10 my 50-year career which I worked so hard to build, 11 coming from a poor background, with no college 12 education, being the first member of my family to go 13 to college, working so hard to build a career, 14 having an unblemished personal life, and then they 15 willingly put in these false allegations without 16 checking. Shame on them. 17 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:40:49 18 Q. During the period of time between 1998 and 12:40:50 19 2002, you owned a home in the Cambridge area, 20 correct? 21 A. Yes. 12:41:04 22 Q. Single-family home in a residential area? 12:41:04 23 A. Yes. 12:41:07 24 Q. Would you please describe the exterior of 12:41:07 25 that home to us? EFTA00601283
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131 1 A. Yes. It was wooden home, built by an 12:41:12 2 architect named Coolidge. Had a little basketball 3 hoop where I played basketball with my children on 4 one side. It had a swimming pool -- an indoor 5 swimming pool on the other side. The exterior was 6 gray/blue wood. 7 Q. If someone were to enter through the front 12:41:41 8 door of your home, would they see some sort of stone 9 configuration outside the house? 10 A. After a period of time, we had a 12:41:56 11 sculpture a sculptor from Martha's Vineyard make 12 a stone sculpture and a light that stood outside of 13 our house. You can probably see that on Google. 14 Q. When -- when was that stone sculpture 12:42:10 15 installed? 16 A. I would have to check. I don't know. But 12:42:16 17 anybody can see that on Google Maps. 18 MR. SCOTT: Let me object to the relevancy 12:42:20 19 of all this. 20 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:42:23 21 Q. Describe the floor plan at the entry level 12:42:24 22 of the house, please. 23 MR. SCOTT: Can you make a proffer as to 12:42:26 24 what the relevancy to this is? 25 MR. SCAROLA: Not until after I get the 12:42:29 EFTA00601284
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132 1 questions answered. 2 A. You walk into the house, and there's a 12:42:33 3 foyer that extends probably about 6-foot wide and 4 maybe 20 feet long. Yeah. Yeah. 5 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:42:58 6 Q. Is there a kitchen at the entry level? 12:42:59 7 A. There is only an entry level and so 12:43:03 8 Q. One-story home? 12:43:05 9 A. It's a one-story home. 12:43:06 10 Q. And so the kitchen is on that first floor? 12:43:07 11 A. Kitchen is on the first floor to the left, 12:43:11 12 yes. 13 Q. And is there a living room or a lounge 12:43:13 14 room adjacent to the kitchen? 15 A. Adjacent to the kitchen there is a large 12:43:22 16 room which serves part of it as a dining area and 17 part of it as a living room, yes. 18 Q. And during this period of time that we're 12:43:29 19 focusing on between 1998 and 20 A. 1998? 12:43:38 21 Q. Yes, sir. 12:43:39 22 A. Okay, okay. 12:43:40 23 Q. Between 1998 and 2002, how was the -- how 12:43:42 24 was that room furnished? 25 A. Well, it would be easy to tell because 12:43:47 EFTA00601285
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133 1 it's been the subject of many photographic essays 2 that appeared in magazines and newspapers. Our home 3 was often photographed. So anybody would know what 4 the interior of it looked like. Just a simple 5 Google search would show you what the interior of 6 the house looked like. 7 Q. Tell us what it looked like, please. 12:44:07 8 A. Well, what specifically? 12:44:08 9 Q. Well -- 12:44:11 10 A. It had a couch when you walk in. 12:44:12 11 Q. Okay. What other furniture? 12:44:14 12 A. It had chairs. It had a dining room 12:44:15 13 table, all of which have been pictured in various 14 magazines and newspapers. 15 Q. Was there a desk in that room? 12:44:27 16 A. No. 12:44:31 17 Q. Bookshelves? 12:44:33 18 A. In the living room? 12:44:34 19 Q. In the rooms adjacent to the kitchen. 12:44:37 20 A. No, not to my recollection. 12:44:41 21 Why, does claim to have 12:44:47 22 been in my home? 23 Q. What kind of floor coverings are there on 12:44:50 24 the entry level? 25 A. Floor coverings? 12:44:57 EFTA00601286
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134 1 Q. Yes. 12:44:59 2 A. In the entry level right as you walk in, 12:45:02 3 there are no floor coverings. There are -- 4 Q. Tile, wood? 12:45:09 5 A. Not a rug. Just a floor. 12:45:13 6 Q. What kind of floor? 12:45:16 7 A. I don't remember. 12:45:18 8 Q. What was its composition? 12:45:18 9 A. I don't remember. 12:45:20 10 Q. How about the living room, what was the 12:45:20 11 composition of the floor in the living room? 12 A. Cork, I think. Cork, yeah. 12:45:26 13 Q. How many times has Jeffrey Epstein been a 12:45:34 14 guest in that Cambridge, Massachusetts house? 15 A. Maybe -- 12:45:44 16 MR. SWEDER: When you say "guest," you 12:45:46 17 don't mean sleeping over? 18 A. He's never slept over. 12:45:51 19 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:45:52 20 Q. I didn't say anything about sleeping over. 12:45:52 21 MR. SWEDER: I just want to make sure the 12:45:54 22 record is clear. 23 A. He has never slept over. Maybe three 12:45:55 24 times. Maybe. Maybe three times. That would be a 25 rough estimate. Not very many. EFTA00601287
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135 1 MR. SCOTT: During the relevant timeframe. 12:46:12 2 A. During the relevant timeframe. 12:46:15 3 MR. SCOTT: 1999 to 2002. 12:46:16 4 A. 1999 to 2002. Oh, either -- maybe once. 12:46:17 5 Maybe once. Certainly not many times. 6 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:46:24 7 Q. At least once? 12:46:27 8 A. I don't -- 12:46:29 9 Q. Maybe two, maybe three? 12:46:29 10 A. No, no, I have no recollection 12:46:31 11 MR. SCOTT: Okay. 12:46:32 12 A. I have no recollection of him being there 12:46:33 13 at all during that relevant time period. But 14 remembering that he had been in my house on a couple 15 of occasions, it's certainly possible during that 16 relevant time period he had been there once or 17 twice. 18 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:46:46 19 Q. How many times -- excuse me. When he did 12:46:47 20 visit, with whom -- who accompanied him? 21 MR. SCOTT: Let me ask you a question. 12:46:55 22 Are we -- is this relevant timeframe or any 23 time? I'm just trying -- 24 MR. SCAROLA: Since we can't narrow it 12:46:59 25 down to the relevant timeframe, I want to know EFTA00601288
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136 1 any time. 2 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:47:02 3 Q. Any time that Jeffrey Epstein visited your 12:47:03 4 home, who was with him? 5 A. Normally Ghislaine Maxwell and 12:47:07 6 . And he may have had another assistant or 7 secretary or somebody. He usually traveled. 8 Usually he would fly in to Bedford 12:47:20 9 Airport, have a car take him -- usually go to his 10 office. He had an office in Harvard Square, and if 11 he came by my house, he came by my house with 12 whoever was his entourage at any given point in 13 time. 14 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:47:41 15 Q. And that usually was? 12:47:42 16 A. , Maxwell and sometimes 12:47:43 17 another one or two people. 18 Q. How old was when she was part 12:47:49 19 of Jeffrey Epstein's entourage? 20 A. If I had to estimate, I would say younger 12:47:56 21 than 30 and older than 25. Somewhere between 25 and 22 30, probably closer to 30. 23 Q. You would describe her as a young woman? 12:48:06 24 A. I would describe her as a woman between 12:48:08 25 the ages of 25 and 30. EFTA00601289
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137 1 Q. Does that in your mind fit the description 12:48:15 2 of a young woman? 3 A. I don't want to categorize a woman by her 12:48:19 4 age. It's a woman between 25 and 30. It's not a 5 teenager. It's not a middle-aged woman. It's a 6 woman between the ages of 25 and 30. 7 Q. What was role in Jeffrey 12:48:32 8 Epstein's entourage? 9 A. She would, to my knowledge, arrange 12:48:37 10 transportation, she would arrange meetings when 11 meetings were occurring. She worked, I think, at 12 the Harvard office where he would have meetings with 13 George Church, the man who developed the genome, 14 Larry Summers, the president of Harvard, Henry 15 Rosovsky, the provost, the former provost of 16 Harvard; Stephen Kosslyn, the chairman of the 17 psychology department at Harvard, a man who wrote 18 multiple intelligences, whose name is slipping my 19 mind now, but from the Ed School. 20 She would arrange some of those lunch 12:49:23 21 meetings where we would discuss serious issues, some 22 of us were asked to present. I presented on one or 23 two occasions and we were asked to critique and she 24 would take notes and arrange transportation and do 25 things of that kind. EFTA00601290
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138 1 Q. How old was Ghislaine Maxwell? 12:49:40 2 A. Ghislaine, Ghislaine Maxwell. I would 12:49:45 3 estimate -- 4 MR. SCOTT: Your French isn't real high. 12:49:48 5 A. I would estimate that she was at the time 12:49:50 6 between 35 and 40. 7 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:49:55 8 Q. And what was her role in Jeffrey Epstein's 12:49:55 9 entourage? 10 A. She was basically his major domo. She 12:49:58 11 arranged travel as well. And she would tell you 12 when you could meet with him, when to come over. 13 She would call me at my office and say, Jeffrey 14 would like to meet with you at 4:10, and then she 15 would call back and say, could you make it at 4:30? 16 I would say that Ghislaine was the senior 12:50:19 17 person organizing his kind of academic contacts and 18 was the junior person. They worked in 19 overlapping roles. 20 Q. Were there any other entourage members 12:50:34 21 that traveled with Jeffrey Epstein when he came to 22 your home? 23 A. I have no recollection of any of them ever 12:50:41 24 coming to my home. I don't remember. But if that's 25 who he traveled with. Sometimes he would travel -- EFTA00601291
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139 1 he almost always had a regular girlfriend. And I 2 remember a few of them. One of them was a student 3 at the business school who's -- I may be merging two 4 of them. 5 One of them was a student at the business 12:51:03 6 school. Another, maybe the same one, was a wealthy 7 woman whose father owned banks in Great Britain. 8 Another was a woman from either the Czech Republic 9 or Slovakia who was probably between 20 and 25, 10 probably closer to 25. And he would travel with a 11 posse, basically, an entourage of -- of people. But 12 I never met some of the people who are in the 13 entourage. They were just there. 14 Q. They were there at the same time that you 12:51:38 15 were there and Jeffrey Epstein was there? 16 A. Well, they were -- 12:51:42 17 MR. SCOTT: Wait a minute. That's vague. 12:51:43 18 I mean, there in the house, there in 19 Massachusetts? 20 MR. SCAROLA: There wherever. 12:51:47 21 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:51:47 22 Q. When you were in Jeffrey Epstein's 12:51:48 23 presence, Jeffrey Epstein usually had what you have 24 described as some regular girlfriend. 25 A. That's right. 12:51:58 EFTA00601292
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140 1 Q. And you have described a variety of 12:51:59 2 different regular girlfriends who were with him, 3 correct? 4 A. Yes. 12:52:06 5 Q. Usually in the age range, you would 12:52:06 6 estimate, between 20 and 25; is that correct? 7 A. I would say -- 12:52:13 8 MR. SCOTT: Objection. That's not it. 12:52:14 9 A. I would say between 22 and 25 would be a 12:52:15 10 closer -- closer estimate. But 23, in that range. 11 There were none that I ever believed were 12:52:25 12 in any way teenagers. And they all performed tasks. 13 They were taking notes or they were arranging, 14 serving coffee or doing various things. And that's 15 the way Jeffrey would travel when he went to 16 academic meetings. 17 And these people were seen not only by me. 12:52:45 18 They were seen by Larry Summers, they were seen by 19 Church, they were seen by Marvin Minsky, they were 20 seen by some of the most eminent academics and 21 scholars in the world. There was no hint or 22 suggestion of anything sexual or improper in the 23 presence of these people. 24 BY MR. SCAROLA: 12:53:09 25 Q. Describe the motor vehicle that Jeffrey 12:53:09 EFTA00601293