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216 218 01 101 1 Q. In fact, I think you testified yesterday Li wit 2 about your duty with respect to Miss Roberts along those x1.47 3 lines, correct? et ins 4 A. That's right. 01,11 40 5 Q. And so with respect to Professor Dershowites 0111132 6 representation of Jeffrey Epstein, he would have been 20 ,07 7 acting unetNcally if he didn't attempt to negotiate the 01 17 00 8 best resolution for his client that he could, consistent ot 0c, 9 with the law; Is that correct? 01 1701 10 A. Right. Consistent with the law, yes. os Ins 11 Q. And so you wouldn't -- 0 009 12 A. I'm sorry. Let me just -- consistent with 01 1711 13 the law and with the ethical obligations of attorneys. oi 1714 14 Attorneys cannot make, for example, false ours 15 representations when they are negotiating those kinds of et ir le 16 things. 01 1710 17 Q. Right. The duty as a defense counsel, a rid 18 Professor Dershowitz's duty was to attempt to obtain the 01 1777 19 best resolution he could for Jeffrey Epstein consistent with the law and legal ethics, correct? A. That's correct. Q. And, in fact, If he had not done that, he would have been acting unethically, correct? A. That's correct. Q. And would you agree that it would be ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 01 101 20 41 17 14 21 01 17 34 22 1,214 23 01 17 41 24 01.1741 25 0000 1 MS. McCAWLEY: The location is fine. el wt. 2 THE WITNESS: The location, once awed 3 personally -- once here In Florida, and then in 01 1125 4 my office in -- while in Salt Lake Oty. mini 5 BY MR. SIMPSON: pin= 6 Q. And are you able to place in time when you mo 7 reviewed these portions of the police report, other than before December 30th of 2014/ al UM 9 A. Not precisely, no. Q. And do I understand correctly from your testimony yesterday that that police report ts one of the things you relied on to support making the allegations against Professor Dershowitz that are included in the joinder motion? A. That's right. Q. It's also true, is It not, that that police 01 2001 17 report includes an Interview with an adult woman who was 012001 18 retained to provide massages at Jeffrey Epstein's 01x11 19 residence for guests, among others; Isn't that correct? owl. 20 A. I believe that's coned. 01 20111 21 Q. And based on that, is It your testimony that 01 2020 22 it's fair to presume that a reference that a guest got a 012024 23 massage is a code word for abusing a minor sexually? moil 24 MR. SCAROLA: I'm sorry. Are you -- are you 01 200 25 isolating -- ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 411.]3 8 011440 10 01 1042 11 a 1047 12 01 101 13 O1 1014 14 011.1 15 01 IOU 16 01 17 411 1 01 1751 2 01 OM 3 011701 4 alum 5 01 IOW 6 ovum 7 o51401 8 01 VI 14 9 01 10 22 10 Dian 11 Dion 12 01 1131 13 01 102 14 o. Tess 15 01 10 41 16 217 inappropriate, totally inappropriate, to infer anything negative about an attorney because the attorney represented someone accused of heinous crimes? A. Just the fact of representation alone? CL Yes. A. Yeah, that's right. Sure, of course, everyone is entitled to a defense. Q. As -- before December 30th of 2014, had you reviewed the Palm Beach Police report? A. Portions of it, yes. O. Had you reviewed the entire report? A. I think I reviewed most of It, but I don't think I've gone through It page by page. Q. When did you do that? A. Well, let's see. Before December 30th, 2014, Brad and I filed the case in about July 2008, so it was Ginn 17 about a six-year period of time, and I remember I'd been 0%100 18 to Florida a couple of times on this case, once in 2010 0000 19 and I think another a year or two later. And I 01 10 07 20 remember, at least on one of those times, reviewing the ri no, 21 report here with -- I don't know If I can... • n is 22 MS. McCAWLEY: Yeah. I wouldn't go into aria 23 anything. 11111115 24 THE WITNESS: To the -- right. So we just -- 9I UM 25 we just want to know -- ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 01 200 O1 20 34 01 20 le 01 20 14 01 20 14 012011 000 10 219 1 MR. SIMPSON: I don't -- I don't want a 2 speech, Mr. Scarola. If you object to the form, 3 object to the form, and I -- If It's not a proper 4 question -- 5 MR. SCAROLA: I want a clarification of the 6 question, please. Are you isolating ordy that 7 piece - 012039 B MR. SIMPSON: I -- the question -- MR. SCAROLA: -- of information? MR. SIMPSON: I'm -- I am asking a question that's perfectly clear. If you think it's objectionable, it won't -- it will stand. MR. SCAROLA: I'm going to object on the basis that it is vague and ambiguous. It Is unclear whether you're asking for him -- MR. SIMPSON: Please don't coach the witness. MR. SCAROLA: -- to isolate -- to isolate his focus to that single piece of evidence. MR. SIMPSON: I object on the coaching of the 01 /I 01 20 witness. at nol 21 BY MR. SIMPSON: 012102 22 Q. My question Is: Is it reasonable, 41 2103 23 considering that the police report on Its face shows our it 24 evidence -- let me back this up. Ask another question MI 10 25 to you. 01 20 41 9 012042 10 012045 11 01200 12 0100 13 012050 14 00062 15 011056 16 O12000 17 D es. 18 01 100 19 ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 17 of 46 sheets Page 216 to 219 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116793
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220 012110 1 Are you aware that the police report reflects 012171 2 that the woman I referred to who was hired to give ei a 3 massages, told them that she never touched anyone e12126 4 inappropriately? arts 5 A. I think that there are — there is ei nu 6 information along those lines in the police report, yes. 012114 7 Q. Okay. And so do you acknowledge that the 01211/ 8 police report, on Its face, reflects both reports of mail 9 massages that Involved improper sexual contact -- 012145 10 contact and massages that were perfectly legitimate? 012,00 11 A. Yes, but not in the same proportion. 012154 12 Q. My question wasn't proportion. The the DI 21S1 13 report on Its face, you understood, reflected that there anal 14 were massages given at Mr. Epstein's residence that were 012200 15 perfectly legitimate? eine 16 A. Some — Novas basically a few isolated 017711 17 examples from what I could see. 1112714 18 Q. So you would characterize what was said in the police report as "a few isolated examples'? 012721 20 A. Well, given the backdrop that they had - 01222$ 21 Q. No. My Question -- it's a yes or no aims 22 Question. Is that how you would characterize it? 022771 23 MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me. The witness is not *inn 24 confined to answering yes or no, if yes or no 01071 25 would be misleading. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (854)331.4400 111 22 14 19 012211 11 012401 12 012071 13 012414 14 012401 15 ernes 16 012401 17 012401 18 017404 19 0124 „ 20 01 24 14 21 013411 22 01241. 23 0124n 24 }a 25 person? elms 012131 012140 012140 017442 012344 017341 017254 017314 222 1 A. That sounds accurate with the information I 2 have, yes, she doesn't sound like she would fit his 3 type. 4 Q. And so do you agree with me then -- 5 A. And she's over the age of 18, which is 6 another reason why wouldn't fit his type, so... 7 Q. But you acknowledge that -- that this 8 woman -- that the police report reflects a woman over -- 9 well over the age of 18, being hired to give perfectly a as? 10 legitimate massages, correct? A. yeah. That was cover for the sex trafficking that was going on. Q. Okay. So you're now -- does the police report say "it was cover" -- A. That was — Q. -- "(or the sex trafficking"? A. That was my conclusion when I reviewed the materials. Q. Okay. So your Inclusion is that a fair-minded reader of the police report would come to that conclusion? A. December 30th of 2014, knowing what we know now, yes. Do you consider yourself a very suspicious ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 221 017233 1 BY MR. SIMPSON: CH 2233 2 Q. It's a different position than was taken ai 3S 3 previously, but -- OM/ 4 A. Imam, I was just going to give one 1117234 5 sentence, and the one sentence would be, in the context 7241 6 of this whole police report where they had 24, 0,7241 7 approximately, minor girls who were -- who were being 00 2241 8 sexually abused, the references to legitimate massages I 01 2261 9 would view as Isolated. sins, 10 Q. So you're coming to the conclusion, looking 017261 11 at the police report, that they are isolated; is that 0222H 12 right? tuns, 13 A. Yes. 012301 14 Q. And do you think a fair-minded reader of the 017304 15 police report would reach that conclusion? 012303 16 A. Absolutely. 01230/ 17 Q. And were you aware that the police report, to 012312 18 give a bit more detail, reflected that a woman who was an 19 described as having tattoos was hired to give 012317 20 deep-tissue Swedish massages. Do YOU recall that being 012320 21 in the -- in the police report? 011327 22 A. Something along those lines, yes. 012321 23 Q. And she also -- that woman also told the 017324 24 police that the was not Jeffrey Epstein's type, that she tun,, 25 wasn't thin, had tattoos, didn't fit his type? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 223 o.24rs 1 A. No. *Inn 2 Q. Do you consider yourself a con ger/a -- having 011421 3 a conspiratorial view? 012431 4 A. Absolutely not. Q. Do you consider yourself a crusader? A. Well, crusader for justice, I would say, yes. Q. If -- let me put it this way: In your view, is evidence that a person, any person, any guest at Mr. Epstein's house had a massage, evidence that that person engaged in criminal sexual conduct, contact with minors, because of the fact of having a massage? 011513 12 A. You'd have to look at the context. eine 13 Q. On its own, is it any evidence -- doesn't 0125 if 14 it -- is it any evidence at all, in your view? 012501 15 A. It would be some evidence, yes. eina 16 Q. Notwithstanding that the report, on Its face, 011126 17 reflects both legitimate and illegitimate massages? oi is* 18 A. The report on its face, let's be clear, Ginn 19 reflects a lot of illegitimate sag massages and a °Inn 20 sporadic or isolated, you know, legitimate massages. So Din as 21 the fact that somebody gets a massage in that context, 01 2$42 22 I -- I think is — is — raises, you know, the concerns 012541 23 we have been talking about. es no 24 Q. Did you, before December 30th of 2014, 012403 25 yourself personally, review what I think you referred to ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 012414 5 es* 6 vio 7 022441 8 6,2454 9 012301 10 012501 11 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 220 to 223 of 335 18 of 46 sheets EFTA01116794
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224 226 coma 1 062612 2 address book of Mr. Epstein? no 3 A. Pieces of it, yes. unto 4 Q. Did you review the entire document? et 241I 5 A. No. 012621 6 Q. Did I understand yesterday that you moon 7 testified -- did I understand correctly yesterday, that 012626 8 you testified that the fact that names were circled to n33 9 Indicated that those persons likely engaged in illegal 01 70 31 10 sexual contact with minors? 012641 11 A. My — my impression is the names that were 017044 12 circled were circled by Alfredo Rodriguez when he was oroon 13 busted by the FBI for involvement, and he was asked to 017661 14 identify those who would have information about the sex ones. 15 trafficking organization. And my — based on all the crass 16 evidence I have, I believe the names that were circled orno, 17 were those who would have that kind of Information. osnre 18 Q. So is it your testimony that if the name is 017701 19 circled, it indicates that they have information, or nu 20 that they are criminals? 012702 21 A. That they would have information about the cilviz 22 sex trafficking organization, and that would probably 271$ 23 mean that they were part of the organization. It may AV IS 24 mean that they were witnesses to what the organization 0127e 25 was doing. In your testimony yesterday as the holy grail, an ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 AMA 1 Q. Would It be a reasonable Inference, or a 000 2 possible reasonable inference to draw, that 01223. 3 Mr. Rodriguez was trying to highlight people who would ed no 4 be of Interest to the Press for purposes of selling the el a as 5 book? • 0. 6 A. No, because he was not talking to the Press. in no 7 He was talking to an FBI agent who had busted him for 01 2110 8 criminal activity. And so I was assuming that what he 012664 9 was trying to do, as many criminals do when they are 012466 10 apprehended, was give information to law enforcement or nor 11 agency that would be helpful so that they can catch 0 ono 12 other "bigger fishes" Is the phrase that's sometimes 017IA) 13 used, so that the little fish would would get off or 012,0) 14 get a cooperation deal from the law enforcement agency. 012011 15 He was talking -- let's be clear. He was tan,. 16 talking to somebody he understood was an FBI agent at or 017 17 the time, and so that was the context of the 000 18 conversation. 017019 19 Q. Do you have any personal knowledge that it's Oi 2022 20 in the context of talking to the FBI that Mr. Rodriguez 012026 21 circled those names? *In ts 22 A. I have reviewed — I know I could refresh my oi 0X. 23 recollection here, but there's an FBI 302, a report of ol n33 24 interview of the circumstances surrounding el ?In 25 Mr. Rodriguez's arrest and I believe I reviewed that ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 017036 227 302. DI 10 31 2 Q. Do you know whether the FBI, at any point, 01704/ 3 contacted Professor Dershowitz to discuss any evidence 010)53 4 he might have after his name was circled on this 011946 5 document? 012,67 6 A. I don't have personal knowledge of what the 012646 7 FBI did to follow up after that. 01)001 8 Q. Okay. One of the names that's circled in the 013003 9 book is Courtney Love. Do you know who she is? taxes 10 • 3on 11 O1x10 12 611019 13 01)011 14 ones 15 011014 16 • 3027 17 O13032 18 01x30 19 ▪ )036 20 ▪ ve 21 013043 22 011040 23 1111040 24 011042 25 225 012120 1 But they would have information that the FBI, 012/24 2 among other law enforcement agencies, should be 012726 3 following up on, if they are trying to piece together *Inn 4 what the sex trafficking organization was doing. inn 5 Q. Would you agree that a fair-minded person, 012131 6 with that background that you just described, would not 000 7 go to the conclusion that the fact that a name is 012144 8 circled indicates that that person has engaged in • 2246 9 criminal conduct? 012146 10 A. They — what it would indicate is that they 21s1 11 had information relevant to criminal activity. Now, 6121 54 12 would they on the just the fact that a name was alms 13 circled, standing alone, reach that conclusion? 01n so 14 well, that's a hypothetical question because el am 15 obviously in this case, there's lots of other 01bO 16 information. 01x07 17 Q. Did you understand -- it is true, is it not, onto 18 that Mr. Rodriguez was trying to sell that book? 0.2.0. 19 A. That's true. 0124.0 20 Q. And is it not also true that the people who 012613 21 are circled are famous people? 01:26 io 22 A. I'd have to refresh my recollection as to • an 23 exactly who was circled, but I know that some famous mars 24 people were circled and some famous people were not 01x01 25 cirded. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 3314400 A. Not off the top of my head, no. Q. If I mention to you or If I represent that she's a famous actress, any reason to question that? A. No. Q. In your view, was Courtney Love involved in sex trafficking? A. I don't know. Q. In your view, was Courtney Love a witness to sex trafficking? A. If — is there a way — are you representing her name is circled? Q. Her name is circled on the book. In fact, we can show it -- A. Okay. Yeah. Q. It is circled on the book. A. Okay. Sure. Yeah, I mean, my — my ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 19 of 46 sheets Page 224 to 227 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116795
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0111044 1 01304. 2 03 30 43 3 013030 4 0110M 5 013014 6 MON 7 013102 8 013101 9 01310? 10 01:3169 11 013314 12 its, 17 13 111:3110 14 u.3•2, 15 013115 16 1113124 17 013in 18 01)130 19 013311 20 w ar 21 O13324 22 0,8,3 23 may 24 013430 25 228 understanding would be that if her — and this is -- could I ask a question about the circling or your representation? Is the circling the same type of circling that Is done for Mr. Dershowitz, for example? Is it the same, you know, handwriting, same ink, same — same appearance? You know, if It's consistent with the circling — are you representing k's consistent with the circling? Q. Mr. Cassell, we have a document produced in discovery that has various names circled. Looking at the document, I don't see any difference among the circles. Are you aware of any document -- MR. SCAROLA: Could we have a look -- could we see the document? MR. SIMPSON: Take a -- go off the record for one moment. THE WITNESS: We are going off the video record, 10:03. (Thereupon, a recess was taken.) THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are back on the video record, 10:08 a.m. MR. SIMPSON: Okay. Back on the record. I'm going to ask the reporter to mark as Cassell Exhibit 5, a multi-page document. It's a copy of ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS 1954)331 - 4400 013422 of 013424 01930 1 2 3 4 230 all. Q. Take as long as you want to look at the document. A. Super. Thank you. etas, 5 Okay. Yeah. I think I'm — I'm oriented 013154 6 now. But I haven't looked at the Love entry. 613664 7 Q. My -- my first -- «MS7 8 A. I want to look at the Love — 013111 9 Q. -- Question Is: Is this a copy of the wen 10 address book that you referred to in your testimony? A Hsu 11 A. Yes. Glues 12 O. Okay. And if you would take a look at the -- 01)1104 13 I've marked the entries for Courtney Love. Take a look oi *11 14 at that one. 013013 15 A. All right. I see it. 0,1014 16 O. Okay. And then if you look at the last 01 30a 17 entry, there's an entry for Professor Dershowitz that's O13021 18 also circled. It should be on the flag. It's 0/ 202619 two-sided. Han 20 A. Oh, yeah. 1212021 21 Q. Do you see that one? It 3030 22 A. I see It 0,3•11 23 Q. And then also the other one I marked is moon 24 Donald Trump. O1 2234: 25 A. Yes. Got it. I see those entries circled. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 229 CI 3044 1 the address book we have been speaking about, and 01 3610 2 ask that Doc -- Mr. Cassell to take a look at nnii 3 this, and I'm going to ask him about certain of 013433 4 the entries. 033703 5 (Cassell 's I.D. Exhibit No. 5 • copy of 1113/10 6 address book was marked for identification.) 013143 7 MR. SIMPSON: And I will note, I put a few 013703 8 flags on here -- 013103 9 THE WITNESS: Sure. 012/03 10 MR. SIMPSON: -- to direct your attention -- Horn 11 THE WITNESS: Correct, yeah. MR. SIMPSON: -- which we can -- I'll note 013710 13 the pages for the record Just so we have them. 01 3/ 16 14 38, 76, and 85. 013/24 15 THE WITNESS: Okay. I Just -- I Just want to *inn 16 take two minutes or so -- 4131 as 17 BY MR. SIMPSON: morn 18 O. Yeah. Take -- take a moment to look at it. 013120 19 A. Okay. I want to make a few notes, if that's oust 20 all right, just to get them in 1•- 01 3607 21 Q. You're going to mark on the -- on 22 A. No, not on the exhibit. I'm just going to (nun 23 make notes to refresh my recollection so we don't have Han 24 to take time. I'm just — I'm just making notes of the 011•13 25 context here. This will just take another minute is ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 3314400 013701 12 231 01 10 41 1 Q. So am I right I'm right, am I rot, that 013060 2 among the others circled are: Courtney Love, Donald 013261 3 Trump, and Alan Dershowitz, correct? 013056 4 A. Correct, among the others, yes. alas, 5 0.. And they are all circled in the same way; are 014001 6 they not? 014040 7 A. Yeah. It's kind of a — a box is what I 014004 8 would say. Some, yes. O14001 9 Q. Is there anything on the face of that 014001 10 document that leads you to conclude that the circling -- Hon 11 the significance of the circling is any different for 0140 is 12 one person than another? 014017 13 A. No. 0...0q 14 Q. So based on the document, do you infer that Han 15 Courtney Love was Involved in some kind of sexual abuse 0.4030 16 of minors? 014030 17 A. I would Infer that if I were running a 014034 18 criminal investigation through the FBI and I'm trying to 014037 19 find people who would have relevant Information, she 014063 20 would be one of the people I'd want to talk to. I mean, 01400 21 the names that are circled here, Glenn Maxwell, one of oi ion 22 the identified traffickers, Epstein is circled, the *moo 23 pilot -- one of the pilots is circled. So It's these 01051 24 people that all seemed to be connected are -- are all 014055 25 being marked here, and — and the number of people that ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 228 to 231 of 335 20 of 46 sheets EFTA01116796
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01 0202 014100 014101 MAIO 014111 014112 Oulu Dune Dula 232 I are circled is, I would say, you know, 5 to 10 percent 2 of the — of the names ball-parking in the dark. 3 Q. Do you know whether this address book was 4 Jeffrey Epstein's address book or Glenn Maxwell's 5 address book? 6 A. I'm not certain exactly whose book it is. 7 actually thought it was Alfredo Rodriguez maintaining a 8 copy of records in case he was worried that Epstein 9 might try to have him killed at some point, and so this • rt 10 was his insurance policy, I think he said, against that 014121 11 happening. %OM 12 MR. SIMPSON: Object to the nonresponsive 014191 13 portion of the answer. 4131 14 BY MR. SIMPSON: oirin 15 Q. Is the answer to my question: You don't know 016134 16 whether it was Jeffrey Epstein's or Glenn Maxwell's 014110 17 address book? 0141)0 18 A. I don't know. And the reason I don't know 014141 19 that is because I actually believe it is neither -- *taw 20 neither of their — that's -- is it one or the other? oloa 21 Actually, I think it's a third possibility. I think this was Alfredo Rodriguez's Insurance policy against getting knocked off by Jeffrey Epstein. Q. So that's the view you have of the 014201 25 signifkance of this document? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 011145 22 .1•151 23 rims,. 24 024317 014317 O14324 01 as 014124 014231 014312 014114 O1.334 014)M 10 014142 11 014341 12 014347 13 (won 14 014254 15 016402 16 014404 17 ot.i. 18 014410 19 01 12 20 014213 21 014415 22 O1 44 16 23 014110 24 O 4410 25 234 1 BY MR. SIMPSON: 2 Q. But based on your testimony previously, you 3 would consider all of those facts to be evidence that he 4 may have been? 5 A. They are, you know, certainly things that I 6 would want to follow up on. 7 Q. And -- 8 A. If I were running an -- we were in the 9 context, I take it, of your question, you know, if somebody is running an investigation into the organization, so... Q. Did you, in the course of your representation of Miss Roberts or any of the other Jane Doe clients you have had who have had claims against W. Epstein, make any effort to find out whether Mr. Trump had abused any of them? MR. EDWARDS: I would just object to this being work-product privilege as it relates to other cases that I'm working on with Paul that Jack is not involved in. MR. SIMPSON: Okay. MR. EDWARDS: With respect to what we did during our Investigation on behalf of other clients. MR. SIMPSON: Okay. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 014201 233 A. Yes. In part. I mean, there are other oi ow 2 reasons it's significant, as we have been talking about, 014210 3 names are drded who appear to have relevant won 4 information on Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activities. 014217 5 Q. Donald Trump was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein; mun 6 is that not correct? 014223 7 A. I really don't -- my understanding is, yes, 014226 8 but I - I don't have a lot of Information about Trump. 014221 9 Q. It's true also, is it not, that Mr. Trump was 014234 10 a frequent visitor to Mr. Epstein's residence? 00.235 11 A. I - I know that he visited frequent. I -- I 014141 12 don't have a lot of information about Trump. ww.” 13 Q. And his name is circled in this book; is it .1 427 14 not? 014743 15 A. I believe it is. maim 16 Q. Based on him -- assuming he's a frequent 01012 17 visitor to Mr. Epstein's home, and that he's a friend of MOM 18 Mr. Epstein's, and that his name is circled in this el ow 19 book, do you infer that he was engaged in criminal mum 20 sexual abuse of minors? 014,1 21 MS. McCAWLEY: I'm going to object to the oi 4113 22 extent that your answer would reveal anything 4) is 23 that my client has told you. 01010 24 THE WITNESS: No. O,41,7 25 ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 014420 014120 2 014423 3 014423 4 019224 5 01 4472 6 014430 7 014432 8 014432 9 014432 10 014421 11 014424 12 014433 13 014•21 14 014441 15 014442 16 014444 17 014443 18 01440 19 O14492 20 In 4411 21 014453 22 014421 23 014103 24 ono) 25 235 MS. McCAWLEY: Right. And I object on that to the extent that it reveals an Ithn ou did on behalf MR. would know to object to this, but because I know of another case that we work on, that's protected by our work-product privilege, who I talked to and who I did not. THE WITNESS: I'd like to -- Wt. SCAROLA: In that case, I instruct you not to answer. THE WITNESS: All right. MR. SIMPSON: An right. You're here, Mr. Edwards, as a dient, not an attorney, correct? MR. EDWARDS: Yes. That's my primary role in being here, but I'm going to protect the privilege to the extent that it's not being protected by others who don't recognize that the privilege needs to be protected on other matters. MR. SIMPSON: Okay. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. Mr. Cassell, as of December 30th of 2014, were you aware that Professor Dershowitz had visited Mr. Epstein's home and stayed as a guest for a week in ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 21 of 46 sheets Page 232 to 235 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116797
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0145 W 1 236 the company of his grandchildren, among other family or is le 2 members? olds 3 A. I'm sorry. Which residence? Which Epstein 010573 4 residence? 014523 5 Q. Palm Beach. 014525 6 A. Can you — can you restate? 0/4575 7 Q. Yes. 4. 8 A. I mean that's kind of a compound question. I 014130 9 mean... 014130 10 Q. Well, let me rephrase R. I will be dear. 014531 11 A. Yeah. men 12 Q. Were you aware as of December 30th of 2014 0146 X 13 let me back up a moment. 01041 14 A. Sure. 01037 15 Q. You indicated yesterday that part of the 014540 16 basis for your conduslon that this pleading -- It was 014544 17 appropriate to file this pleading accusing Professor 01450 18 Dershowitz of misconduct was that he was a guest at the corm 19 Palm Beach house, correct? 014656 20 A. No. It was more than that. He was a 01450 21 frequent guest, a frequent overnight guest. 014001 22 Q. My question is: As of December 30th, 2014, 014001 23 were you aware that Professor Dershowitz had spent a 014.10 24 week at the Palm Beach house with family members, 014413 25 Including his grandchildren? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 014105 1 014712 2 1114210 3 014/ 14 4 014711 5 014733 6 014741 7 4100 8 014747 9 014743 10 01015 11 01470 12 Are -- during the period that Virginia mins 13 Roberts contends she was sexually abused, which I 014002 14 understand to be middle of 1999 to middle of 2002 -- is eiwit 15 that consistent with your understanding? oral. 16 A. Approximately, yes. 014412 17 Q. -- how many times did Professor Dershowitz a au 18 visit the Palm Beach mansion during that period? 01441? 19 A. My understanding is In the neighborhood of — 014:2, 20 what was it? Three to five times a year, staying two to is a a 21 three nights at a time. 01 an 22 Q. And was that your understanding as of 014120 23 December 30th of 2014? 014032 24 A. Yes. iz 25 Q. what was the basis for your understanding, ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 3314400 238 scene of ongoing criminal abuse of minors, and who himself, has engaged in that criminal abuse, would bring his grandchildren to stay there for a week? A. It would depend on the circumstances. Q. When you say that Professor Dershowitz was a regular guest at the mansion, at the Palm Beach house, i llillse e it's correct ' ' (erring to a period aRe R for Thailand? A. Q. Are you aware of any evidence -- let me back that up. 014415 014415 114520 010123 w-a 01_u 014)5 014415 0/4637 9 010.0 10 c. es 40 11 01041 12 014042 13 01444 14 014043 15 014044 16 01400 17 01 44 18 01405/ 19 /mica 20 014054 21 0454 22 oss 23 014013 24 •147® 25 237 1 A. No. 2 Q. Okay. Do you think it's reasonable -- would 3 it be reasonable to believe that someone who is 4 committing criminal sexual abuse of minors at a home 5 where such abuse, as you understand it, is a daily 6 occurrence would bring his grandchildren to stay for a 7 week? 8 A. It would depend on the circumstances. I mean, you know, so you know, it would depend on the circumstances. MR. SCAROLA: Are you representing that Jeffrey Epstein was there at the time? MR. SIMPSON: I'm not answering questions. I'm asking questions. MR. SCAROLA: Oh, okay. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. So, in your view, you can -- let me -- let me rephrase that. You say it would depend on the circumstances -- A. Sure. Sure. Q. -- that's your answer? A. Yes. Q. Okay. So that you don't find it Incongruous that someone who knows that a particular home is the ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 014130 01041 01044 01401 010144 044414 031050 239 1 what pieces, what documents, or testimony? 2 A. Right. The Information, you know, I gave a 3 long presentation yesterday. So it was that 4 Information. 5 Q. I want to focus now specifically -- I'm not 6 looking for a full answer on your entire views -- 7 A. Yeah, right. 01053 8 Q. -- on the case. 014453 9 A. I appreciate that 01454 10 Q. I just want to say, you've testified that you 01415? 11 understood as of December 30th, 2014, that Professor 01003 12 Dershowit2 had -- was a visitor at the Palm Beach 014004 13 mansion three to five times during this relevant period o1003 14 of 1999 to -- middle of 1999 to the middle of 2002. 01414 15 What was the basis on December 30th of 2014, for just 0143/0 16 that fact? 014071 17 A. Right. I mean, I will take about a minute *ion 18 here because there are a few things I want — n 19 Q. Okay. And I want to make sure my question is 01020 20 dear. 014171 21 A. Sure. wow 22 Q. I'm not asking you about any of your *34 23 inferences about anything else. Just, what's the basis 014144 24 for your belief that he visited three to five times ei s 25 during that two-year period? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 236 to 239 of 335 22 of 46 sheets EFTA01116798
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240 et an 1 MR. SCAROLA: Could I ask for a 014040 2 clarification? Are you looking only for direct Heti, 3 evidence and you want to exclude the 0101144 4 circumstantial evidence? Is that the way you otitis 5 want to •' 0100•I 6 MR. SIMPSON: I'm asking. You can object to 011•30 7 the form. 011046 8 BY MR. SIMPSON: o14en 9 Q. My question Is: What was -- what were you -- 0. oil 10 what did you have in mind as supporting your conclusion 014037 11 or tenet that he -- that Professor Dershowltz visited 014002 12 three to five times during that relevant penod? 013004 13 MS. McCAWLEY: And I'm sum/. Can I just math 14 place an objection on the record. I'm going to 01,10/ 15 object to the extent that -- so that you do not reveal attorney/client privileged communication, 014012 17 unless it's something that's already public that mai, 18 she's revealed. 013013 19 THE WITNESS: Okay. Right. So I'm going to 011017 20 just exclude -- I take it your question isn't Huns 21 asking about any communications. max 22 BY MR. SIMPSON: 011022 23 Q. My question is asking about that, but I 01024 24 understand you're going to refuse to provide it. in an 25 MS. McCAWLEY: Unless it's already public. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 pl.., la 16 242 015123 1 context, in other words, information that was 013123 2 going to be disclosed, not for advice, but was 30 3 factual information that she intended to its, a 4 disclose, that's no -- that's not privileged. oi stu 5 But if it's something that she communicated to Hite 6 you in confidence with respect to getting legal 4,.a 7 advice, then that would be privileged. 01301 8 THE WITNESS: Right. Okay. So Juan Alessi ' s 0131.43 9 deposition, Alfredo Rodriguez's deposition, and Hilo 10 then considerable circumstantial evidence which we don't have to rehash here involving the dose 0131 9.11 12 personal association between Epstein and 01330313 Dershowltz. 01 SICO 14 I mean, again, we can rehash all of that, but 013103 15 those were -- those are -- that's kind of a 016201 16 quick -- because I know you want to get to a lot earn 17 of questions -- that's a quick sort of highlight met. 18 film, if you will. 013200 19 BY MR. SIMPSON: owl, 20 Q. Mr. Cassell, isn't it true that Mr. Rodriguez al ft.. 21 was not hired until several years after the Summer 011219 22 A. 2004. 011220 23 Q. Let me ask it again. 011221 24 -- until well after 2002? et um 25 A. Yeah, about 2004. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 013132 11 013020 013010 4 241 1 THE WITNESS: Okay. So as Of December 30th, 015014 2 ' communications from 013033 3 pt to extent that they have 013031 5 already been made public. That is, if she has Haze 6 given express permission to make disclosures, 01000 7 these were not confidential communications, but 8 communications intended to be communicated to third parties, tit " dude information fro response to the ad. THE WITNESS: Okay. BY MR. SIMPSON: $006 41110a 9 el as: 10 tun. 11 a.m. 12 01 SI CO 13 013%30 14 013101 15 • 6,03 16 ones 17 013106 18 01.3106 19 • si co 20 0141.0 21 Q. A. Q. A. Q. A. Q. As of December -- Right -- 30th, 2014 -- Right. -- correct? So -- Yeah, that's right. any public statements by her after December 30th, 2014 would not be included in the answer. • 22 A. Okay. as SI 14 23 MS. McCAWLEY: But let me be dear. Let me etsin 24 be clear about my objection. To the extent that el sill 25 she revealed something to you in a nonprivileged ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 013223 1 01$72. 2 0147311 3 013134 4 013730 5 013233 6 015701 7 01603 8 015245 9 0132-41 10 *Intl 11 016214 12 0152 SI 13 II SIM 14 016300 15 *I sis 16 mow 17 243 Q. And Mr. Rodriguez would have no personal knowledge of how often Professor Dershowitz visited during a period two years or three years before he was hired; isn't that true? A. So, look, this is — this is why I was trying to speed up the answer to the question. We have a sex trafficking organization that is running a common scheme and plan that is continuing on until it was interrupted by law enforcement about 2005 and 2006. So what the -- the criminal organization is doing in 2004, unless I have some significant evidence that it's different than what was going on in 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, I think It's reasonable to conclude that the same sort of criminal activities are going on later. So if — if you want — if you want me to get into the — the full scope of the criminal organization, 013101 18 we can get into it. But the fact that somebody in 2004 el fa 13 19 sees this going on, leads me to conclude that It's 0153* 20 probably the same thing going on in the absence of other 015319 21 information in 2001. Q. So from Mr. Rodriguez's testimony about what was going on, so to speak -- and my question related, what was going on the number of times that Professor Dershowitz visited. That's the topic. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 015121 22 015310 23 01v32 24 015331 25 23 0146 sheets Page 240 to 243 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116799
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244 asset 1 A. Right. Ou53 3? 2 Q. That because he visited, according to 01 1340 3 Mr. Rodriguez, several times a year in 2004, 2005, he 011341 4 must have visited several times a year in 2000 -- 19- '- MOM 5 middle of 1999 to the middle of 2002. et 0316 6 A. I didn't say must have. I said that that's te nu 7 going to be evidence of the common scheme and plan, and el On 8 then, in the absence of, you know, some falling out O15402 9 between people or somebody becoming, you know, more Hues 10 associated or Less associated with a criminal 044407 11 organization. I mean, if you want to get into the Hum 12 circumstantial evidence, in 2003, there's an ankle on oi 5415 13 which, you know, Dershowitz identifies himself — testis 14 Q. Let me interrupt you because I'm asking -- Hens 15 A. Okay. oleos 16 Q. — about my only question is evidence of OISMS 17 how -- not anything, whether engaged In conduct or ei s4 n 18 didn't engage in conduct, Just how many times he came el Si 26 19 during this period. tin 20 A. Right. elan 21 MR. SCAROIA: Excuse me, counsel. That's the el an 22 reason why I asked you to clarify whether you MS4 30 23 want to limit this to direct evidence or whether es use 24 you want all of the evidence including 11,54 35 25 circumstantial evidence, because as we both know, ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 246 Hesse 1 MR. SIMPSON: Really, objecting to the form 011123 2 of the question preserves all of any problems re 6120 3 there may be with the question. 011627 4 MR. SCAROIA: No, sir. 015617 5 MR. SIMPSON: We don't need a speech. 01 5627 6 MR. SCAROLA: It doesn't. It doesn't. 011637 7 BY MR. SIMPSON: 015533 8 Q. Mr. Cassel, is it your testimony that, from 01 56 3/ 9 Mr. Rodriguez's testimony about how often he says men 10 Professor Dershowitz visited in a 2004/2005 time frame, mess 11 it's fair to draw an inference about how often he • sses 12 visited in an earlier -- three-year earlier time frame? oissse 13 A. In the circumstances of this case, ei este 14 absolutely. *ISSN 15 Q. And would it be fair to infer from the number el wee 16 ci times that Donald Trump visited three years later, how often he visited at an earlier period? 01540218 A. I did not Investigate the circumstances 04 le 12 19 involving Trump. He wasn't somebody that was coming up. Q. Were you aware on December 30th of 2014 that 0156 21 21 Donald Trump was quoted In Vanity Fair as saying: "I've 012630 22 known Jeff" -- referring to Epstein -- oh, I'm sorry. 01 S6 34 23 it was a New Yorker Magazine, not Vanity Fair. That he Glue 24 was quoted as saying: "I've known Jeff- -- referring to 0.565 25 Epstein -- "for 15 years. Terrific guy. And he's a lot ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 3314400 016164 17 0156 n 20 015420 1 011442 2 011445 3 011441 4 O11441 5 O154,4 6 0154 7 015413 8 011414 9 0154$2 10 Os MSS 11 re mar 12 01$462 13 on's/ 14 015414 15 O 14 64 16 slam 17 056502 18 tosser 19 011102 20 mssor 21 woe 22 O1x13 23 Ois is 24 0.4519 25 245 circumstantial evidence is good evidence. A well-connected chain of circumstance can be -- MR. SIMPSON: We really don't need a speech. MR. SCAROLA: -- a well-connected -- MR. SIMPSON: We really don't -- MR. SCAROLA: -- chain of circumstance may be as compelling proof as direct evidence of a given fact. That's the law. If you don't want -- MR. SIMPSON: Really, sir. MR. SCAROLA: -- the circumstantial evidence -- MR. SIMPSON: Mr. Scarola -- MR. SCAROLA: -- tell us that. MR. SIMPSON: -- please don't make speeches, and please don't coach the witness. MR. SCAROLA: lust tell us that. I'm not coaching the witness. I'm asking you -- you're asking ambiguous questions. MR. SIMPSON: There's nothing ambiguous -- MR. SCAROLA: If you want only direct evidence, we will give you only direct evidence. If you want a full and complete answer, it's got to include circumstantial evidence, so don't cut him off when he's giving you that. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 Sinn 1 of fun to be with." It even said that: lie likes es Ho 2 beautiful women as much as I do, and many el them are on M.353 3 the younger side. No doubt about it, Jeffrey enjoys the 015056 4 social -- social life"? Were you aware of that on men 5 December 30th, 2014? M3014 6 A. Possibly. I mean that sounds vaguely el S7 01 7 familiar. Trump has just not been somebody that — that eines 8 I've paid much attention to In this case. ei de? 9 Q. Based on that statement, and the facts we rims 10 discussed earlier about Mr. Trump visiting and being a 011711 11 friend, and the other circumstances we discussed, are you suspicious about whether he engaged in sexual 011721 13 misconduct with minors? noon 14 MS. McCAWLEY: I'm going to object to the en? 30 15 extent that you can't reveal anything that my of szei 16 client has informed you of. 011733 17 THE WITNESS: Right. If we set aside that mum 18 information, I'm not -- I'm not suspicious, no, Hun 19 not given the information I have. Hos 20 BY MR. SIMPSON: • s? 0 21 Q. Okay. So notwithstanding that his name is • sin 22 circled in the address book, he was a good friend, he 01 17 4/ 23 visited often, and he was quoted as saying that Jeff was co 54 24 a terrific guy who liked young women almost as much as ei sin 25 Trump did, you're not even suspicious? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 247 011114 12 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 244 to 247 of 335 24 of 46 sheets EFTA01116800
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248 el Hei 1 A. Not you know, let's break that down in a .us 2 couple pieces. 414100 3 The fact that his name is circled, if I were 01 UN 4 running an FBI investigation, I'd go send somebody to a u io 5 see what he knew about it, but no, it would take a lot OIL If 6 more for me to become suspicious that somebody is el fit 7 involved in — in sexual activity like that. MP IS 8 O. Okay. So you would agree with me then, that 01162. 9 the fact that a person often visited the mansion, the in saw 10 person -- the fact that a person was a friend of • sari 11 Mr. Epstein for 15 years, the fact that the person had ol is 3? 12 stated publicly that: 'Mr. Epstein liked young women 0114 Nf 13 almost as much as I do myself,' and the fact that the 1111.40 14 name is circled in the address book is not sufficient to • pin 15 raise a suspicion that that person engaged in sexual nue 16 misconduct? 01340 17 A. So... Hues 18 O. Yes or no. It's a yes or no question. • swi 19 A. It requires — ems: 20 MR. SCAROLA: You're not required to answer 01 Sig 21 yes or no, if a yes or no response alone would be m son 22 misleading. es sate 23 THE WITNESS: The problem is the word m can 24 -suspicion' I'm not particularly suspicious on *ism 25 those facts, but it -- you know, what do you mean ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 250 nun I and energy In that, right. 020112 2 Q. And you referred to your pro bono case. What 020216 3 is your best estimate of how much money you have made 021021 4 representing victims of Jeffrey Epstein? noon 5 A. In which case are we talking about now? 0202 24 6 a My -- any case representing a victim of ewe 20 7 Jeffrey Epstein. WON 8 A. I need to confer with 010U 9 MS. McCAWLEY: Yeah. I'm going to object. (awn 10 BY MR. SIMPSON: 4/0034 11 Q. And that -- that's a fact -- that's not a moon 12 privileged question. That's a factual question. 021037 13 A. Factual. Well, there are — there are — num 14 Q. lust how much money? You don't have to tell OM 4i 15 me who the clients are. Just how much money? 02C044 16 A. okay I need to 020044 17 MR. SIMPSON: There's a question pending. I moon 18 object to a break. There's no possible 02004.19 privilege. wows 20 MR. SCAROIA: He has a privilege -- he has a taw so 21 privilege question. He wants to consuk with 020311 22 counsel. nom 23 MR. SIMPSON: Well, really? My question is 020263 24 how much money, and that's privileged? moon 25 MR. SCAROIA: It may be. I don't know. We ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 249 *Ism 1 by 'suspicion"? If I -- if I were running an FBI Cri Wag 2 investigation and somebody circled a name as -- num 3 as saying, look, this fellow may have some 0164C41 4 information, I'd go follow up on that. • Hu, 5 If you say that's suspicion, then the answer tin la 6 would be, yes. But I -- you know, based on that 015111 7 information alone, no. I mean that -- that 01w,. 8 wouldn't -- wouldn't be enough for me to, you 05422 9 know, invest time and energy into that particular 011026 10 possibility. O11424 11 BY MR. SIMPSON: 016/21 12 Q. Okay. So none of those facts are sufficient 9•31 13 even to justify spending time and energy, correct? 01 >4 14 A. Unless -- if I'm running — this is — again, m ow 15 what do you mean by "suspicion"? Time and energy in the 014442 16 context of somebody who is running a pro bono case with 015444 17 limited resources to try to figure out what the sex 01 44.2 18 trafficking ring's going to do, I'm not going to chase ewe, 19 after that rabbit. It seems farfetched. wows 20 I'm going to focus my efforts on the people awe 21 who appear to be more directly involved. in wig 22 Q. Okay. So based on the facts that I gave you taws 23 a moment ago, you think ifs farfetched that Donald 020001 24 Trump was engaged in abusing minors? wow 25 A. If that's all I had, I would not invest time ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 020)14 010)51 1 2 noon 3 • m 4 no. 02 5 010103 6 • os 7 am co 8 was 9 • 0) 10 coo. la 11 020111 12 020111 13 020111 14 020113 15 020113 16 COSI 1. 17 020,1 18 020120 19 n 20 020114 21 020,a 22 0201n 23 arm zo 24 020112 25 251 need to talk. THE WITNESS: That's why I need to -- MR. SCOTT: There's no federal law or state law that supports that financial information and fees is privileged. MS. McCAWLEY: We can argue about that because that's in my motion, so we can argue about that. MR. SIMPSON: well, can - can -- MR. SCOTT: That one, I know all about. MR. SCAROLA: You're objecting to our taking a break -- MR. SIMPSON: I am objecting -- MR. SCAROIA: -- while this question is pending? MR. SIMPSON: That's correct. MR. SCAROIA: It is ow position that the witness has a legal question about privilege. We are going to take a break. We are going to talk about it. It may turn out that it's not a problem at all. I don't know. THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are going off the video record, 10:38. MR. SIMPSON: With my note, we are taking a break over my objection. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 25 of 46 sheets Page 248 to 251 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116801
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252 254 an 1. 1 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: 10:38. sans, 1 counsel of record in three cases and you were involved ran u 2 (Thereupon, a recess was taken.) nun 2 in another case -- at least one other case in which you nu to 3 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are back on the video nuns 3 did not appear -- cis 42 4 record, 10:49 a.m. nun 4 A. That's right. 02100 5 BY MR. SIMPSON: it,.,. 5 Q. -- as counsel of record; is that correct? w,... 6 an a 7 Q. Back on the record. My question, Mr. Cassell, was: What is your best estimate of how 021900 6 *risco 7 A. That's — that's my recollection right now, yeah. wine 8 much money you have made representing victims of Jeffrey 021003 8 Q. All right. How many of those cases have been 023131 9 Epstein? num 9 resolved at this point? omen 10 A. In which case are we talking about? silos 10 A. All. All — of the four, I recall all four 02/66. 11 Q. In -- in any case. Combined total. nun 11 have been resolved. 02'1101 12 A. Okay. With regard to the CVRA case, that's 021101 12 Q. Okay. Without telling me the amount, did you 02170. 13 pro bono, no money there. With regard to the other 02 /t 12 13 receive -- all four were settled; Is that right? st OW 14 cases, I'd like to answer your question, but due to sits 14 A. Correct. 02 7710 15 confidentiality obligations that have been imposed upon em's 15 Q. Without telling me the amount, Is It correct 021713 16 me by Jeffrey Epstein, in the course of negotiating 021031 16 that in all four of those cases, you received a legal to out 17 those cases, I'm not permitted to answer that question. 021227 17 fee? s,,.,, 18 MR. SCAROLA: We are certainly willing to 4202s 18 A. I think that starts to call for a question I et on 19 respond appropriately to a court order in that 020331 19 need to consult with my attorney about. non 20 regard, but it requires a court order to release 021030 20 Q. Simply the question of whether in each of 0217 20 21 us from the contractual confidentiality aun 21 them you received a fee? 021733 22 obligations that we are under. 0111100 22 A. I just want to... 027713 23 BY MR. SIMPSON: nu* 23 THE WITNESS: Is -- is there any problem -- 02023 24 Q. Is it your testimony, Mr. Cassell, that there tuna 24 MR. SCAROLA: You can respond to that. You 0217m 25 are confidentiality agreements with Mr. Epstein that al is u 25 can answer yes or no to that question. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4100 (951) 3314400 253 255 ma. I preclude you from giving the total amount paid without 02711M 1 THE WITNESS: Yes, I received something. 021751 2 breaking it down Into particular cases? isitsn 2 BY MR. SIMPSON: 021233 3 A. I'm sorry. I didn't understand. 031041 3 Q. Okay. Was the fee -- and if it's different WO 30 4 Q. Oh, maybe that wasn't dear. Let me do it 021050 4 for the -- the cases, tell me, but was it a contingent 02 17 54 5 this way so we avoid -- win. 5 fee or some kind of hourly fee? nun 6 A. Yeah. 02,.50 6 MR. SCAROLA: That -- that does get into mum 7 Q. -- the confidentiality Issues. 02 1161 7 attorney/client privileged matters. The terms -- stun 8 In how many cases have you been counsel for a 022002 8 MR. SIMPSON: You're instructing him not to mum 9 person suing Mr. Epstein alleging that she was a victim? 027001 9 answer? C0 III 12 10 A. Counsel of record? ones 10 MR. SCAROLA: -- the terms of the an,. 11 Q. Put it this way. How -- well, start with 022004 11 representation are attorney/client privilege. I ic 417 12 that, counsel of record. R22003 12 instruct him not to answer. Nun 13 A. I believe three. 072001 13 MR. SIMPSON: All right. a wit 14 Q. Okay. And in addition to those three, have mom 14 BY MR. SIMPSON: 020120 15 you assisted other counsel in sonic way without becoming 022010 15 Q. In addition to these four cases that have 02 31 20 16 counsel of record In cases by women suing Mr. Epstein 02201) 16 been resolved, are you representing any other clients 0211.30 17 alleging that they had been abused? 02201. 17 who are alleging, in a case seeking monetary damages, 0214M 18 A. I believe there's one other case in addition 022023 18 that they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein? a... 19 to the counsel of record case. 02202. 19 A. I — a.° 20 Q. And without telling me -- onsis 20 MS. McCAWLEY: I'm going to object to the a,... 21 A. I'd -- I'd have to go double-check my record. anon 21 any Information related to a,.. 22 This is an approximate best recollection. 022031 22 could be deemed privileged 02... 23 Q. All right. 0230$ 23 or con en a . nun 24 A. It's about four. ones 24 THE WITNESS: So what's the... wits 25 Q. To the best of your recollection, you were Os 25 ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 3314400 (954) 3314400 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 252 to 255 d 335 26 of 46 sheets EFTA01116802
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022035 1 256 BY MR. SIMPSON: 022030 2 Q. I'm -- I'm trying to close a loop here. 022040 3 A. Yeah. =2040 4 Q. I'm asking whether you were involved in any 02204 5 other cases in which claims have been made against 022047 6 Jeffrey Epstein for damages that are still active; they 122032 7 have not been resolved? 022013 8 A. So we are talking civil cases, unresolved 02010 9 civil cases against Jeffrey Epstein right now? erne 10 02102 11 ten= 12 02,53 13 mice 14 022104 15 V12101 16 0202 22 17 0211 4 18 mills 19 0221 4 20 02 >In 21 OW 20 22 =:1 21 23 021121 24 072121 25 Q. Unresolved cases seeking money from Jeffrey Epstein. MR. SCAROLA: And to the extent that that question calls for matters that are of public record, then, obviously, you can respond. THE WITNESS: Right. Yeah. None. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. Are there -- and I'm not asking for the name. Are there any not of public record that -- A. What would be a "not"? Q. Well, if you had made a claim that's riot In suit, for example. A. Oh, against Jeffrey Epstein? Q. Yes. A. Yeah. No, I don't -- I don't think there's anything. Yeah, no — no claims against Epstein, right ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 3314400 rano 1 022244 2 022140 3 *onto 4 02 2213 5 cm.. 6 012301 7 022301 8 ante 9 258 A. Yeah. That hasn't been something that I have focused on, no. I mean... Q. It is it is correct, is it not, that you anticipate that if you are successful in setting aside the nonprosecution agreement that the names of additional victims will become known; didn't you testify to that yesterday? A. i - I'm not — I must be confused here. don't remember. tenor 10 O. Well, wait -- I don't want to -- you know, 012301 11 let me ask the question -- ants 12 A. Yeah. con* 13 Q. -- rather than my recollection. New 14 A. Yeah, yeah. That's what I'm not... own 15 Q. My question is: Do you anticipate that if rants 16 you're successful in setting aside the nonprosecution cams 17 agreement, that the names of additional victims will 022323 18 become known? °inn 19 A. Additional Epstein victims at this point? 022121 20 Q. Yes. 072124 21 A. Again, it's pretty speculative. The — 023330 22 the Issue — you know, the case, you know, the events Num 23 were roughly a decade ago. I mean, we are always hoping 0233 SO 24 that there might be somebody additional that would come canto 25 forward, but that hasn't been the focus of the ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 022133 02123 0221 33 02111 022145 02147 022150 03151 022153 257 1 Q. And •• and It's true, is it not, that if 2 you're successful in the CVRA case, In setting aside the 3 nonprosecution agreement, you expect to get other 4 clients who will have claims against Jeffrey Epstein? 5 A. If we — in civil daims? 6 Q. Claims for damages, claims for money from 7 Jeffrey Epstein. 8 A. That -- I mean, that starts to — if the 9 nonprosecution agreement Is set aside? 02214 10 Q. Yes, if you're successful. 022119 11 A. I haven't really — that sounds pretty ono, 12 speculative. I haven't really thought about the oznot 13 dvIl — the focus of the CVRA case is criminal. I one 14 haven't thought about, you know, whether, civil claims ti 15 could somehow arise out of that. I mean, we are talking en,. 16 about, you know, events that took place long ago. There canto 17 would be statute of limitations issues, you know. 012220 18 Whether they are viable civil claims at this point has 022124 19 not been something that I have, you know, given much o2n2s 20 thought to. arms 21 Q. So is it your testimony then that you have an 7. 22 not thought about the question of whether success in the ov 2333 23 CVRA case may or result In you obtaining additional owe 24 clients with claims for money damages against Jeffrey can., 25 Epstein? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 259 022343 1 litigation. 012343 2 Q. Whether -- OW 0 3 A. And you always hope that there are — yeah, I 022340 4 mean, any time you file a case, ah, I hope some more, 022310 5 you know, witnesses will come forward to support that 022352 6 case, but that hasn't been the focus, trying to secure onus 7 additional -- additional witnesses. That Is a 072351 8 possibility, though. I mean, I think in fairness to 022400 9 your question, that is a possibility that, you know, 022402 10 if — if the case attracts attention and — and 022406 11 somebody, you know, says, you know, gosh, now that I — essa 12 I -- I -- you know, I moved away to escape Epstein and 022410 13 now it's safe for me to come back, or or now I 027413 14 realize I have a daim, that's always a possibility. 022415 15 I certainly wouldn't want to suggest that, 0224 I/ 16 you know, we are ruling that possibility out 02144 17 Q. And for the same reason that additional witnesses might become available -- known, additional 022427 19 clients might become known, correct? rasa 20 A. That is a theoretical possibility, yes. mix 21 Q. In these four cases that you mentioned, the 022434 22 three that were, which you were counsel of record and rain 23 one in which you were not, did you meet at any time In 0224 44 24 person with the clients? And if It's different as to 0224 to 25 some than others, tell me that, but -- ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 021423 18 27 of 46 sheets Page 2S6 to 259 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116803
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C8 75 SO 1 02240 2 022852 3 eau 4 nag 5 623416 6 max 7 07708 8 022303 9 012505 10 nave 11 ten, 12 07810 13 ors .4 14 0285 0 15 nen 16 cenn 17 022521 18 Roo 19 022525 20 12260 21 022634 22 s7tn 3/ 23 02 24 52 24 012644 25 A. Q. A. Q. 260 Yes. In all four, you met with the clients? In three of the four. And were those three the three in which you were counsel of record? A. Yes. Q. As of December -- A. I believe I was counsel of record on all three of those. I would have to double-check. I know I was counsel of record in the federal case. The two of them are state casts, I believe, that it was pro hac in the state cases. Q. Okay. I won't ask you the names, but In the four cases, what are the Initials of your clients? A. Okay. So the — the -- Q. Put It this way: How are they identified in the caption that you filed? A. Well, also the three that were filed, one was — one was the initials S.R. I referred to Miss S.R. yesterday. That was the Jane Doe case in Federal Court in front of Judge Marra. There were two state claims. I'll -- identify the clients as E.W. and L.M. Q. And then the fourth one? A. The fourth one, I believe the initial M. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 262 oar. 1 firing on December 30th d 2014, was the first time that earn 2 you had ever, yes, ever on behalf oar it 3 any other client, accused Professor r z or 017725 4 Prince Andrew of sexual abuse in a public filing? ears 5 A. If you're talking about direct allegation, si 6 that's correct. • 31 7 Q. Had you ever pudic -- well, at no other time 0227 26 8 that -- you expected when you filed the pleating on ono 9 December 30th, 2014, that it would be -- be something of an* 10 public record that would generate publicity, correct? orna 11 A. Public record, the focus was not generating tenni 12 publicity. Of course, when you file an allegation like W2714 13 that, there certainly would have been — we would mass 14 anticipate there would have been publidty, absolutely. 02 27 SO 15 Q. And before December 30th of 2014, to the best • n 01 16 of your knowledge, neither you, nor anyone else, had 022100 17 told Professor Dershowitz that there were allegations 012112 18 that he personally had engaged in sexual misconduct? rano 19 A. Urn... 02210 20 MS. McCAWLEY: I'm going to object to that 022620 21 date if that reveals anything that would be fano 22 privileged between something that would have been maa 23 communicated by the client. wan 24 MR. SIMPSON: No. These are communications 022627 25 to Professor Dershowitz. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 263 titan 1 MR. SCAROLA: Yes. And that could very well men 2 include attorney/diem privileged 021033 3 communications. ten 4 MR. SIMPSON: let me -- ask my question. man 5 By MR. SIMPSON: 121136 6 Q. My question is: Did you ever advise rata 7 Professor Dershowitz that there were allegations that he 022850 8 had engaged, himself, in sexual misconduct with minors? anise 9 A. Not me personally, no. 02 26S? 10 Q. Are you aware of any e-mail, letter, other 1122104 11 communication from anybody that went to Professor Dershowitz that told Professor Dershowitz that he had awn 13 been accused of engaging in misconduct himself? man 14 A. Well, there-- I mean, I'm aware that there 0200 15 was a deposition request In 2009. There was a 02»n 16 deposition request in 2011. That was accompanied by an • n 17 exchange of correspondence that said, for example, 07019 18 numerous witnesses have placed you in the presence of 07011 19 Jeffrey Epstein and underaged girls. It didn't then go ten 20 on to say, and you were committing sexual abuse of them, ea re 21 but it said numerous witnesses had — had done that. o2no 22 And I think a reasonable inference would be 022113 23 that, you know, you're verily sure that a witness and co NO 24 then that also raises the possibility of — well, I 022141 25 mean, I think Professor Dershowitz mentioned yesterday, ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 261 612565 1 and I believe the last Initial was B., but I may be 022514 2 wrong about the B. First initial M. wino 3 Q. At the -- okay. At the time that you filed 022104 4 the Joinder motion -- 02x05 5 A. Yes. 022605 6 Q. -- In the federal case, so December 30th of mew 7 022115 8 terse 9 terse 10 rams 11 cams 12 012612 13 0224 14 ern 15 012641 16 072646 17 nano 18 012614 19 07260 20 anis 21 022700 22 022702 23 612705 24 022107 25 2014, you knew that naming Prince Andrew would generate substantial publicity, correct? A. I knew it would attract a lot of attention. Yeah, I mean, "substantial" we could debate, but, sure, I knew that that was going to -- you know, once you start exposing the extent of this criminal activity, obviously, there were going to be a lot of people interested, yes. Q. And you also knew that naming Professor DershowItz would attract publicity? A. Well, when you say "naming," one of the things you've got to understand is the names were already In the case, both Prince Andrew and Alan Dershowitz. We had pending discovery requests for information about both of them. So when you say "naming them," you know, they were already named in the case. Now, would the additional allegations have attracted additional attention? Sure. Q. Mr. Cassell, it's true, is it not, that the ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 01»m 12 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 260 to 263 of 335 28 of 46 sheets EFTA01116804
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02161 1 2914 2 02 39 67 3 0230021 4 021002 023004 6 awe? 7 awls 8 02 3039 9 01102$ 10 axis 11 023022 12 0032 13 snow 14 31300 15 02300 16 023043 17 03041 16 moo 19 03 3030 20 •230,1 21 caw 03 22 023.04 23 02 3107 24 02 3„2 25 264 that if you're in the presence of a convicted sex offender, or a sex offender and sex abuse is going on, you would have obligations, for example, at a minimum to report that, and it raises the possibility of other criminal activity as well. Q. Is it your testimony, Mr. Cassell, that telling a person that multiple people have identified you as a witness to some activity is fair notice that you, yourself, are acoised of engaging in criminal misconduct? A. So -- so you, I think, recharacterized the letter that went to Mr. Dershowitz in 2011. The letter, as I recall, doesn't say he is a witness. It says, if I recall -- we can double-check the language — but I believe the language says: Numerous witnesses have placed you In the presence of Jeffrey Epstein, underaged girls, and Epstein. Then, you know, so at that point, given what we know in this case, given that at that point in 2011, there had been an ongoing set of allegations against Mr. Epstein, I - I think your question doesn't — doesn't take into account this surrounding context. Not to mention the fact there had been a 2009 deposition request and a 2013 document request. Q. Okay. I think you accurately characterized ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 02 3203 1 ova 2 02310 3 021204 4 ax„ 5 023112 6 *13113 7 Cs'. 8 O13O 9 021223 10 Drum 11 266 MR. SIMPSON: I'm sorry. You were right, yes. MR. SCAROLA: Can you Just Mow it to him? MR. SIMPSON: read it, and then if he wants to look at it, that will be fine. MR. SCAROLA: Thank you. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. This is a letter from Mr. Scarola to Mr. Dershowltz dated August 23rd, 2011. The second sentence says -- well, I'm going to read the whole thing. 023224 12 MR. SCAROLA: Yeah, thank you. 13 BY MR. SIMPSON: 14 Q. 'We do nor -- 15 MR. SCAROLA: It's short, so it would be 16 helpful if you just read the whole thing. 17 BY MR. SIMPSON: 18 Q. Yeah. 02 3231 19 we do not intend to inquire about any renii 20 privileged communications or attorney work con 21 product. We do, however, have reason to believe 023337 22 that you have personally observed Jeffrey Epstein 013241 23 in the presence of underaged females, and we an4 4 24 would like the opportunity to question you under 011247 25 oath about those observations. Thank you for ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 265 cew 1 the communication about the deposition request that 023.39 2 multiple persons have placed you in the presence -- 023,23 3 A. Right. are 33 4 Q. -- of minors 07.1173 5 A. Right 022124 6 Q. -- correct? 023127 7 A. I believe that's my recollection. Numerous ems 39 8 witnesses have placed you in the presence of sex 0211 u 9 offend — at that point, convicted sex offender Jeffrey an Is 10 Epstein, who was convicted of sexually abusing underaged 021131 11 girls, and underaged girls, and those are the subjects on, a 12 we would like to question you about. cano 13 And rather than getting a response that says, 013146 14 well, let me dear that all up, the response that's 0131.• 15 received was, something along the lines of, give me more ens, 16 information and — and, quote: I'll decide whether I 0231 si 17 want to cooperate, close quote, or something along those 0231sT 18 lines. 02 31 sr 19 Q. Mr. Cassell, let me -- Pm going to read to 03.31 51 20 02 MI 21 A. Good. 0231 Se 22 Q. -- from the letter Itself -- rev se 23 A. Okay. Rum 24 Q. -- and tell me if It's consistent with your 02/203 25 recollection. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 267 02)231 1 your anticipated cooperation. Signed, Jack num 2 Scarola.- ORM 3 If you would like to -- 0202M 4 A. Sure. one 5 Q. -- take a look at the letter to refresh ass? 6 yourself, you're welcome to. www 7 A. Great. Thanks. Okay. <QUM 8 Q. Now, first, you're aware, are you not, that cent. 9 Professor DershovAtz answered that letter and said the nun 10 assertion that he had observed Mr. Epstein in the 0233-11 11 presence of underage -- cent: 12 MR, SCAROLA: Females. 0233.02 13 BY MR. SIMPSON: 02 33» 14 0213 24 15 021124 16 wsits 17 02 3)11 18 be great. caw u 19 Q. And "I have never -- this is a letter from 023302 20 Mr. Dershowitz to Mr. Scarola, August 29th, 2011. 02 3334 21 "Dear Mr. Scarola, I have never personally 079 41 22 observed Jeffrey Epstein in the presence of 40 33 43 23 underaged females. I do not believe you have any awes 24 reasonable basis for believing that t have. If 0213 43 25 you have -- if you claim to have reason to ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 Q. A. Q. A. -- females was not true? Something along those lines, yeah. Yeah. And I will read it from that letter -- Okay. That would be good. Yeah, that would 29 of 46 sheets Page 264 to 267 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116805
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cams 1 mass 2 num 3 021311 4 MA 01 5 013401 6 mum 7 02 34 04 8 013400 9 *02 03 10 268 believe, please provide me with any such reason. I am certain I can demonstrate to you that it Is false.' Is that consistent with your recollection of the response? A. That sounds about right, yeah. Q. So Mr. Dershowitz did not ignore the letter; he responded to it, correct? A. I think that's right Q. And go back to the first letter. 023410 11 A. But, now, if we are — If we're talking 0234 11 12 about — yeah, there's that one letter and now there's a coin 13 response letter, right. tax 14 14 Q. My question to you Is: Does the statement to 02 14 /I 15 a person that "we have reason tO believe that you have on. 70 16 personally observed another person In the presence of mm m 17 underage females and we would like to ask you about your nu 36 18 observations," put the recipient on notice that you, an 41 19 yourself, are accused of criminal conduct in abusing Lem is 20 minors? 023446 21 A. Well, it puts you on notice that you're a 0234 49 22 potential, obviously, witness to this and then therefore 0234» 23 you could have potential Involvement. ri ms 24 Let me give you a ample illustration. It'll 0134n 25 take about 20 seconds. If somebody says — ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 *3636 man, 023611 cesso ensin 013142 07350 023151 012354 10 3357 10 02 33711 011310 12 623402 13 caw. 14 costo 15 comer 16 on. iz 17 onsu 18 02x%19 inn la 20 omen 21 011621 22 nsi 23 013133 24 011633 25 270 1 In the context of this case, to say, you have 2 been observed in the -- in -- by numerous 3 witnesses in the presence of a convicted sex 4 offender and underage girls, and we would like to 5 talk to you about those observations, I think 6 that puts you on notice that you're in -- In -- 7 in jeopardy of -- of criminal activity, 8 particularly when you combine that with the fact 9 that there Is a duty to report child abuse In many states in this country, including the State of Florida. And so that if those observations were such that they would give rise to a reasonable Inference that sex abuse was -- of children was going on and you'd be obligated to report it, as I think Mr. DershovAtz conceded yesterday, yes, yOu -- I think that puts you on notice that -- that those kinds of things are being alleged. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. So, first, the letter Itself, the letter from Mr. Scarola simply says, you were -- you were personally -- you personally observed Jeffrey Epstein in the presence of underaged females, correct? A. Correct. Q. It does not say, you witnessed abuse of any ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 023416 013451 02)461 023600 011301 021661 023609 0236* 9 niem 10 023000 11 awn 12 (emu. 13 atm 14 ens 15 nu 16 ens% 17 02x37 18 on 19 011023 20 023214 21 *011 22 ann. 23 013521 24 02x02 25 269 1 Q. Welt, let me back up. My first Question, 2 though, if you can answer the Question. 3 MR. SCAROLA: No. I'm sorry. The witness is 4 entitled to complete his response. If you 5 don't -- if you believe it to be unresponsive, 6 you can move to strike it, but he's entitled to 7 complete it. 8 MR. SIMPSON: He -- HR. SCAROLA: So go ahead and complete your response. MR. SIMPSON: Can we have a -- you can give an explanation, but a yes or no with an explanation. MR. SCAROLA: You already got that. Could we now have the completion of the response? THE WITNESS: Here's the simple illustration I think makes it pretty clear: If somebody says, we have observed you in the presence of a kilo of cocaine, we would like to question you about the presence -- about your observations of this, that doesn't directly state that you are a drug user or a drug dealer, but it certainly puts you on notice that you're associated with that criminal activity and somebody is going to Question you about it. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 271 032637 1 minor; we have reason to believe you observed abuse of 02 3631 2 minors? 023630 3 A. If those words do not appear there, but come nun 4 on, we — we know -- we know in the context of this 02 n.. 5 case, when somebody is asking to take a deposition about no 6 your observation of young girls, they weren't talking 02 x30 7 about preparations for birthday parties. They were 02037 8 talking about sexual abuse of children. 02306 9 And that was what Mr. Dershowltx was going to mew 10 be asked about. And he did not -- he did not take that 02 x02 11 opportunity to try to clear the record; Instead, we are, 013305 12 you know, here today, because among other reasons, he — he -- he wasn't deposed then. Q. I want I want to comment. I'm Just a little bit non -- nonplussed, so I want to come back to this again. 0131 21 17 A. Well, I'm -- I have to tell you, I'm a little 023:23 18 bit nonplussed that somebody would say that letter 02 37 24 19 doesn't put you on notice that you're potentially 02 37, 20 involved In criminal activity. I mean, come on. 023/30 21 Q. I -- my question wasn't potentially involved ken= 22 in criminal activity. We disagree about whether it does onyx 23 that. 013117 24 A. Okay. I think It does. 0217 n 25 Q. I suspect you -- that's how you read it? 02 37 03 13 023112 14 0132+I 15 023221 16 ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 268 to 271 of 335 30 of 46 sheets EFTA01116806
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272 CZ 37 40 1 A. I think it puts you on notice in the context ea 370 2 of a country which has required people to report the C2 n4, 3 sexual abuse of children, and somebody wants to talk to 07370 4 you about your observations of a convicted sex offender OW C2 5 with underage girls, that that's going to be one of the subjects that's going to be discussed, yes. Q. My question was -- my Initial question was: Does -- do the statements in this letter put the reader on notice that you, personally, are accused of abusing oraii. 10 minors yourself, not that you have In some knowledge or 0224 0 11 evidence that someone else did it, but that you, 022 12 yourself, did it; Is that a way to give fair notice? °nem 13 A. Well, in fair notice in what context? You Gin 14 know, is he on notice that a lawsuit is going to be 02,1 3' 15 filed the next day? 023832 16 Simply from that piece of -- that letter :emu 17 alone, they are on notice, you know I mean, I think CO MP 18 that puts you on notice that there are serious ea a 4! 19 allegations afoot and it would be in your best interest 02 MO 20 if you hadn't done anything, to show up, attend a CC Ma, 21 deposition, let all the facts come out so that everybody 02 3.0 22 can know them. COM./ 23 Q. Would you agree that accusing someone of 02 ao 5. 24 themselves abusing a minor is different than accusing CC CO 0) 25 someone of having knowledge that somebody else did it? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331-4400 OW Ca 6 Ol 31 It 7 3.01 8 07,40; 9 274 024003 1 his criminal associates were doing. And he thought that 024005 2 Mr. Dershowitz would have information and was trying to 02401 3 collect that. 4 Now, whether the — the -- the tentades of 024010 5 the organization would extend so that they wrapped 04043 6 around Mr. Dershowitz himself, I guess was the subject Orate 7 that — that Mr. Scarola, I am assuming, was hoping to NNW 8 explore. But Mr. Dershowitz prevented that opportunity. 024022 9 Q. And Mr. Dershowitz, you knew, had been woe 10 non 11 Own 12 bum 13 sraus 14 wen 15 nee 16 MOO 17 02047 18 an 19 nue 20 ariou 21 cuss 22 noel 23 ewes 24 0241% 25 Mr. Epstein's attorney, correct? A. Correct. Q. And you knew, just as we have seen here today with multiple assertions of privilege, that he could not testify about anything he learned as an attorney' A. He could testify, and the letter itself says, we are not going to ask you about any communications; we are going to ask you about observations of sex abuse by a convicted sex offender, and your personal knowledge of that. That would not have erased in the — and Mr. Scoreless a very good attorney, and I'm sure all of his questions that we saw the last couple of days would have been very narrowly focused on observations about what this criminal organization was doing. Q. And so to the bottom line Is that your view, your sworn testimony, this letter of August 23rd, 2011, ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 02 34 03 1 02 43% 2 web 3 Neu 4 N MI? 5 wets 6 co *It 7 02.30 8 02242. 9 02 MN 10 (UM 11 man 12 NM] 13 ow.= 14 con 15 ern 16 ewe 17 ce*ii 18 mine 19 ten 20 ten 21 ream 22 muss 23 masa 24 02001 25 273 A. Yes. Q. And to accuse someone of abusing a minor Is a serious, serious accusation of criminal conduct, personal criminal conduct, not just failing to report somebody else, but you, yourself, are abusing people? A. Oh, yeah. MR. SCAROLA: Are you suggesting that that's not criminal conduct? MR. SIMPSON: I'm -- I'm my question stands. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. What is the answer to that? A. It Is a very serious charge, I agree. That's why we are all here today. O. Okay. And -- and if you wanted to put someone on fair notice that they are accused themselves of being a sex offender, a criminal who has abused children, wouldn't you tell them that? A. That's a speculative question because that letter was designed to try to collect information about an international sex trafficking organization. And so as to -- you know, I'm not going to speculate as to why Mr. Scarola wrote it that way. But my sense, based on the public record Is, that he was trying to get as much information as he could about what Jeffrey Epstein and ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 275 ants 1 put Mr. Dershowitz, Professor Dershowitz, on fair notice 024121 2 that he was being accused of being a sex offender amiss 3 himself? 054320 4 A. We — we have gone over this. I think it put now 5 him on fair notice that there were serious questions 024431 6 being raised about what he knew about this criminal 0241421 7 organization, what the potential criminal responsibility NON 8 he had for failure to report sexual abuse of a child, as fen 9 well as other possibilities. OMEN 10 MR. SIMPSON: I'm going to move to stoke as 02410311 nonresponsive. aura 12 BY MR. SIMPSON: 024124 13 Q. My question Is a very narrow one, whether sure 14 this letter, in your opinion, under oath, fairly put non 15 Mr. -- Professor Dershowitz on notice that he himself 024112 16 was accused of abusing minors. ono 17 A. Again, that's a vague question. I've tried moo 18 to give the best answer I can. That was certainly a wool 19 potential area of questioning. I think that puts him on woe 20 notice that it would have been in his best interest to nag 21 appear to answer those questions. 021214 22 MR. SIMPSON: I'm going to object to the 024214 23 answer again as nonresponsive. 024216 24 or MR. SIMPSON: nu,. 25 0. It's a really simple question. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 31 of 46 sheets Page 272 to 275 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116807
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024220 1 02 4223 2 024226 3 nen 4 oxen 5 014132 6 024236 7 02463? 8 276 Does that letter put Mr. Dershowitz on fair notice that he's accused of being a sex offender himself? MR. SCAROLA: Objection. Repetitious. To the extent that you can improve upon the answer, you can improve upon the answer. If you can't, all you need to do Is say that. THE WITNESS: I -- and I'll try to -- 02e» 9 obviously, I want to be responsive -- ten 10 BY MR. SIMPSON: 0261.34 11 O. Let -- let me ask -- moo 12 A. -- to your question. taun 13 Q. I'll ask you a different question. itt2 .1 14 A. I don't think that's a yes or no question nun 15 because of -- of you're including vague terms like fair 024245 16 notice and and those sorts of things. So -- but go rear, 17 ahead and ask your questions and I'll — I mean, go 02420 18 ahead. 024201 19 Q. You're a former federal Judge? 024255 20 A. Right. man 21 Q. A former Supreme Court law -- law clerk? ray Si 22 A. Yes. cross 23 Q. Professor at a law school? ono 24 A. Yes. 024201 25 Q. Reading as -- reading the language of this ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 024417 1 can 2 024454 3 424452 4 024444 5 04446 6 014504 7 014504 8 ozesil 9 onso 10 04512 11 oats 12 02 4525 13 024124 14 0246» 15 024524 16 ma= 17 0245 0 18 0245» 19 4,.s 1. 20 C26530 21 024532 22 ens» 23 024542 24 045 45 25 278 having abused minors? Can you answer that: Yes or no? A. No. I think a yes-or-no answer would be misleading, given the context of this case. Q. You referred in your earlier testimony to -- strike that for a moment. You referred in your earlier testimony to an article that appeared today regarding Professor Dershowitz's deposition testimony, correct? A. I don't think so. O. Okay. Are you aware that -- well, perhaps It was Miss McCawley who referred to it. Do you recall there being a reference this morning to an article being published about Professor Dershowitz's testimony? MS. McCAWLEY: Oh, I'm sorry. It was me. I objected to the extent -- only to the extent it revealed something public that had been stated In public. BY MR. SIMPSON: O. Okay. And I -- you recall that? A. Yeah, I recall the objection. I think there's an article that came out yesterday or a communication. I -- I — you know, I can't remember the -- exactly where I -- I know that I received a communication, either through publication or in some ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 279 other way from the -- from the -- you know, I became aware that there was a statement that the -- what's the name of the outfit? It's the Business Investor — MR. SCAROLA: Daily Business Review. THE WITNESS: Daily Business Review that was stating that David Boles was saying that the representations made by Mr. Dershowitz were false. MR. SCAROLA: I did just coach the witness. I apologize. THE WITNESS: Yeah. And, I'm sorry, just for the name of that, so... BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. And you -- In your earlier testimony, you referred to it -- you didn't recall the name, but you referred to it as a reputable -- A. That's right. Q. -- publication? A. That's right. That's the one we are talking about, right. Q. Right. And in that article it states: "McCawley," referring to our colleague, "later issued a statement on Boles's behalf saying, because the discussions that Mr. Boles had with Mr. Dershowitz were expressly privileged ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 CO 4) DI 277 1 letter, in your opinion, does the language itself put 024114 2 the recipient on notice that the recipient is accused of 104273 3 abusing minors himself? 074121 4 A. It puts him on notice that that is going to MO 24 5 be a potential subject of inquiry at the -- at the -- won 6 the deposition. 02 411. 7 Q. So your answer then is, yes, it puts the - 02 4222 8 the -- the person on notice; that's your reading? 02040 9 A. You're — I think you're putting words in my 024142 10 mouth. You're you're trying to ask, you know, a 02404 11 question that on the one hand, you're suggesting is couit 12 narrow, and on the other hand is broad. It -- I mean, 4,o.» 13 this is probably the simplest way to answer that 02010 14 question. eon 15 If I had gotten that letter, I would have 024352 16 said, schedule the deposition in the next 24 hours, and 024166 17 come on down here now, and I will be available for a 0543 50 18 week. That's what I would have said if I had gotten 024401 19 that letter. 02440 20 MR. SIMPSON: Move to strike as 024403 21 nonresponsive. 024402 22 BY MR. SIMPSON: inns 23 Q. Is it your testimony you can't answer yes or owe 24 no whether that letter, on its face, puts the recipient 0244 12 25 on notice that the recipient is accused himself of ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 02454? 1 4424$51 2 044» 3 024167 4 5 024001 6 024404 7 024601 8 024608 9 ox woo 10 024610 11 02 4112 12 024612 13 424413 14 024614 15 no 16 02 44 le 17 fnasio 18 024611 19 016621 20 tomn 21 in KO. 22 re.. s2 23 ton 24 war 25 024,44 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 276 to 279 of 335 32 of 46 sheets EFTA01116808
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02.4 40 024443 074646 01450 026654 DDSS 024010 02 46 64 ozstm 9 024702 10 024703 11 *zoo 12 COD 13 0247:03 14 01007 15 02 47 • 16 02x42 17 024,14 18 024720 19 024723 20 02 47 24 21 0247.7. 22 0247 30 23 CI:t 47 37 24 024730 25 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 280 settlement discussions, Mr. Boles will not, at least at this time, describe what was actually said. However, Mr. Boles does state that Mr. Dershowitz's description of what was said Is not true." A. Q. A. That's the one. You read that? Yeah. I -- I learned of it -- yeah, I don't remember whether I read or how I got it, but yeah, that's the one. Q. In light of that statement by Mr. Boles, would you agree that any privilege has been waived? A. I would not. Q. A. That's -- that's a newspaper article. Q. It's a pub -- it's a quote. Let me clarity. That's a statement -- quoting a statement issued by Ms. McCawley and quoting Mr. Boles as saying, Mr. Dershowitz's description of what was said is not true, so that's a public statement by Mr. Boles saying that Mr. Dershowitz's testimony is not true; is that a waiver in your view? A. No. And that would require — I'm with -- I'm just putting you on notice, talking about notice, if you want me to, I could give you the law professor ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 282 02413 1 MR. SCAROLA: Why don't you start over again? At om 2 MR. SIMPSON: No. I Just want -- 02 40 3 MS. McCAWLEY: We disagree with wale 4 your characterization of that as a waiver. It 074410 5 was a statement that was issued in order to stop 424612 6 the waivers that Mr. Dershowitz was trying to 074:1 7 engage in, and we -- we don't agree that's a 61026 8 waiver and we will not allow any testimony 014617 9 regarding those communications. 014424 10 MR. SIMPSON: Okay. I disagree with the ervi3, 11 position and the characterization, but I just 02.443) 12 wanted to clarify on the record, I didn't have to nun 13 ask those questions again. ream 14 MR. SCAROLA: Sure. 024434 15 MS. McCAWLEY: I understand. 02402 16 MR. SIMPSON: And, obviously, our position is 0244D 17 that if it hadn't already been -- if it hadn't already been waived -- either it wasn't 02400 19 privileged or hadn't been waived, it's now 024447 20 waived. 02444? 21 THE WITNESS: And my -- Just -- 0241 22 MR. SIMPSON: I don't have a question. ram Li 23 THE WITNESS: I know, but I -- but I think roue 24 now in light of, since the record has these 02463 25 characters, I just want to put one sentence into ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 Ca 44 41 18 Stain 024741 02 47 43 074,44 024144 024IM 0247 0 0 717 40 07.475) 9 014251 10 011744 11 span 12 0247% 13 024266 14 281 1 answer as to why that's not a waiver. Off the top of my 2 head, I can start talking about that. 3 O. No. I don't -- I don't need that. 4 A. Right. That's why I just wanted to let you 5 know, so... 6 Q. But I really wanted to clarify -- and what I 7 wanted to clarify was -- 8 A. I do not -- let me just be clear, so the record is clear: I absolutely do not believe that's a waiver and I could give you an extended answer, but I know time is drawing short -- Q. All right. Q. But you -- what I want to clarify is that, 024100 15 notwithstanding that statement, you will continue to 014602 16 answer all my questions about the substance of *zoo 17 discussions with Mr. Boles; you're continuing not to on... 18 answer, you're continuing •- 014410 19 MS. McCAWLEY: Yes 20 MR. SCAROLA: You Just said you -- 0240 21 MS. McCAWLEY: -. I believe -- 024 II 22 MR. SCAROLA: -- continue to answer. man 23 MS. McCAWLEY: I'm sorry. 41244111 24 MR. SIMPSON: I'm sorry. man 25 MS. McCAWLEY: Continue not to answer. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 024417 074» 12•101 OOP 024006 024.105 0244 024010 0249 17 024,4 10 07 40 If 11 404. If 12 onto 13 026021 14 024926 15 020020 16 DO 17 eta 18 01037 19 Atom 20 0240» 21 283 1 the record, which Is: It doesn't seem to me that 2 an attorney can inject into a deposition 3 confidential settlement proceedings, have 4 somebody deny that, and then say, aha, they're no 5 longer confidential settlement proceedings, so 6 that's -- 7 MR. SIMPSON: There's no question pending. I 8 move to strike the comments. 9 THE WITNESS: Right. I just didn't want your comments to -- to reflect back on my earlier answer. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. I want to go back, Mr. Cassell, get back to yesterday's exhibits. I'm going to hand you what was marked yesterday as Cassell Exhibit Number 2, which is the joinder motion, and when you have that in front of you -- A. Got it. Q. Do you have that in front of you? A. I do. Q. All right. Would you -- find my copy of 02490 22 it -- if you would turn to page -- bottom of page 3, 02400 23 part of -- top of page 4; do you have that? 024062 24 A. Got it. 014663 25 Q. All right. I'm going to read it. Tell me If ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 33 of 46 sheets Page 280 to 283 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:1S PM EFTA01116809
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wan 1 wan 2 024016 3 0244.10 4 01500 5 025002 6 W IOU 7 CMOS 8 moor 9 nu 10 025020 11 075024 12 co son 13 coin 14 025031 15 a2103. 16 025035 17 meow 18 05041 19 021045 20 02 50 21 rireeo 22 025091 23 025044 24 snow 25 284 I've read it correctly. A. Okay. Q. -Epstein also sexually trafficked the then-minor Jane Doe" -- and that' correct? A. Yes. Q. -- "making her available for sex to politically-connected and financially-powerful people. Epstein's purposes in lending Jane Doe, along with other young girls, to such powerful people were to ingratiate himself with them for business, personal, political, and financial gain, as well as to obtain potential blackmail information." Did I read that correctly? You did. What did you mean by 'obtain potential A. Q. blackmail information'? A. Okay. Let me just double-check. Once the criminal organization had put the bait out, so to speak, to various people, and they took the bait that -- you know, I'm -- I'm speaking colloquially here. These are these are young girls who are being sexually abused. Once the criminal organization had gotten people to sexually abuse these these young girls, at that point, they had ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 285 information that they could use to blackmail those people and -- and then get favors in exchange. And that's Epstein at the head of the organization would be the one who would benefit most directly from the black -- the blackmail information. Q. And by "blackmail information," do you mean that Mr. Epstein then had information that he could threaten to disclose if the other person didn't do what Epstein asked them to do? A. Precisely. Q. As of December 30th, 2014, if Miss Roberts had access to publicity, she had exactly the same ability to blackmail people; Isn't that Due? A. Absolutely not. A billionaire has far more resources than a victim of child sex abuse, particularly one that has been forced into hiding in Australia to escape the criminal organization. So for you to suggest tha had the same ability to blackmail s Epstein Is, I think, preposterous. Q. As of -- Miss -- Miss Roberts had the same ability as Jeffrey Epstein to reveal publicly the names of the people who she says sexually abused her, as did Mr. Epstein; isn't that true? A. You're talking about physical ability to ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 025121 1 011324 2 401275 3 072231 4 02'1225 5 026220 6 OR 02 7 0124) 8 075240 9 ran 10 Interview or not? 02 $251 11 A. I wasn't sure. That's right. an 12 Q. And after December 30th, 2014, the references cent. 13 to Prince Andrew and Professor Dershowitz generated ten 14 international publicity; isn't that true? 02 SW 15 A. Okay. Which -- yes, I mean, In a general co 51 11 16 sense, I could ask which allegations, but these null 17 allegations did generate publicity, certainly. coos 18 Q. Yes. The allegations in your Joinder motion 025314 19 and Professor Dershowitz had abused 02 25. 20 en known as Jane Doe Number 3, cone 21 genera e a res orm of publicity; did it not? earn 22 A. It generated a lot of publicity, yes. COM 12 23 Q. And within days of that, you were -- you were 020 35 24 participating in attempting to arrange an interview with come 25 ABC News; isn't that true? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954)331.4400 286 speak words. They both have the same physical ability to speak the English language, yes. Q. And, in fact, before, at least three years before December 30th, 2014, she had the ability to be quoted in an article, more than one article, in the Daily Mail in London about her experiences, correct? A. That's correct. Q. And am I correct that as of December 30th, 2014, you didn't know whether she was paid for that 0510, 1 05,0 2 coma 3 023100 4 025111 5 02 3112 6 027117 7 rile 8 C01124 9 073124 10 025124 11 02 11 it 12 13 0251m 14 cosi.> 15 (es's, 16 eon 17 0251 51 18 025152 19 cesi)0 20 025202 21 wpm 22 075212 23 0712 11 24 cent> 25 0203)0 1 021345 2 021311 3 0140 a 4 0200 5 021304 6 071250 7 025110 8 025001 9 075405 10 025400 11 025404 12 0254t. 13 02 54 75 14 025472 15 02547/ 16 025431 17 0154 32 18 02 54 24 19 max 20 02,436 21 0254 )8 22 men 23 029147 24 ozuso 25 287 A. That — within days of — the chronology is important here: The allegations were filed in this pleading on December 30th. Several days after that, Mr. Dershowitz then took to the airwaves to denounce, not only Brad and me, but -- but particularly of concern to me wa s victim of sex traffickin And, at that point, as one of — as one of her attorneys, I was looking for a way to respond to that media assault on her by Mr. Dershowitz. MR. SIMPSON: Move to strike as nonresponsive. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. Did -- within 24 hours of this pleading being filed, there was publicity about the allegations against Prince Andrew and Mr. Dershowitz -- Professor Dershowitz; isn't that correct? A. I don't know the exact time frame, but that — you know, roughly that time frame sounds about right. 0. If Mr. -- if Professor Dershowitz had never said anything, wouldn't you expect that these allegations as to Prince Andrew, in particular, and Professor Dershowitz would get substantial publicity? A. There was — there was -- ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331.4400 1W20/2015 01:08:15 PM Page 284 to 287 of 335 34 of 46 sheet EFTA01116810
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288 290 023461 1 MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me. To the extent the 321613 1 Prince Andrew had sexually abused ow o 2 question calls for speculation, I object. MK 11 2 correct? muss 3 oust 4 MR. SIMPSON: No. I'm asking for his state of mind when he filed this document. 02x,3 3 026421 4 A. That was one of the allegations in here, sure. 0254M 5 THE WITNESS: There's no doubt that -- 023331 5 Q. And the allegations that Professor Dershowltz sass w 6 MR. SCAROLA: So the question is: At the men 6 had sexually abuse? 025501 7 time of the filing -- 0234 31 7 A. That's right. It was in a — what we were — germ 8 MR. SIMPSON: Please -- please don't coach one n 8 what we were starting to document and allege here was gesso 9 the witness. 4266n 9 that terrible things that Epstein's criminal asses 10 MR. SCAROLA: No, I'm not coaching him. I 033630 10 organization had done. armor 11 just want to understand the question. You're 026630 11 Q. Let me refer you to page 6 — nom 12 asking what his state of mind was at the time of 02610 12 A. Okay. now 13 filing? 0224 47 13 Q. -- of your filing. It's the first full osit. 14 MR. SIMPSON: Did he -- did he anticipate -- or son 14 paragraph. osso 15 MR. SCAROLA: Because the other question was: 071644 15 A. Yep. QM 11 16 What do you -- what's your position today. roma 16 Q. I'm going to read it. "Epstein also ens" 17 MR. SIMPSON: Mr. Scarola, really. 0236Si 17 trafficked Jane Doe Number 3 for sexual purposes to many nn,. 18 MR. SCAROLA: That's -- that's a different 02 SG S6 18 other powerful men." awls 19 question. So I just want to know which one ivory 19 A. Okay. ens" 20 you're asking. or Hp 20 Q. "Including numerous prominent American au.. 21 aim, 22 Do you want to know his state of mind then, or his state of mind today? 023700 21 02 tie 22 politicians, powerful business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known prime minister, and other world woo 23 MR. SIMPSON: I will take that as an cv sr I* 23 leaders. lane -- Epstein required lane Doe Number 3 to nine 24 objection to the form of the question. 02 4/.,s 24 describe the events that she had with these men so that now 25 a u w 25 he could potentially blackmail them? ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 (954) 331.4400 289 291 425525 1 BY MR. SIMPSON: non. I Did I read that correctly? 421427 2 Q. As of -- win' 2 A. You dld. 025527 3 MR. SCAROLA: It's a request for a ram 3 O. With respect to blackmail, the ability to arra 4 clarification of an ambiguous question. non 4 blackmail, is that the same potential we talked about a ossn 5 MR. SIMPSON: It's coaching the witness. arum 5 moment ago in your testimony? awn 6 BY MR. SIMPSON: 021722 6 A. Sure. nom 7 Q. As of -- 423732 7 Q. And you're referring there to -- nom 8 A. Yeah, I don't need any coaching. I mean... 021734 8 A. Roughly, yeah. I mean, if there's something as ism 9 Q. Let me ask the question. wow 9 that you want darified, go ahead and darify it. auss 10 our 11 As of December 30th -- that's true -- as of — 425737 10 on 11 Q. I just -- I just wanted to make sure I understand corr ctl that when ou refer that -- to 02.64» 12 A. Right -- woo 12 Epstein requirl scribe these nun 13 Q. -- we agree that's coaching. 42574/ 13 events so that he could potentially blackmail them, what atm» 14 A. -- but that wasn't coaching. That wasn't no 14 you had in mind was, Epstein wanted to know what 0314 41 15 coaching, so the suggestion that it's coaching is — is OW 12 15 these men so that he had the *MO 16 not fair. 314736 16 a y o rea en o istlose It If they didn't do 023343 17 Q. Okay. We disagree. woo 17 what he wanted them to do? wow 18 As of December 30th, 2014, did you anticipate woo 18 A. That was — that was part of It, yes. 471612 19 that naming Prince Andrew in a public filing as having ono 19 Q. And isn't it true you could have one a 20 abuse otid generate substantial 423104 20 accomplished -- in terms of furthering 023402 21 publicity? 02560? 21 gal interests, you could have accomplished new 22 A. "Substantial" is a debatable word, but 02 SS 10 22 same thing by saying Epstein also Note 23 certainly, it's going to generate publicity, yes. 023414 23 trafficked -- trafficked Jane Doe Number 3 for sexual nal° 24 Publicity about the allegations. nun 24 purposes to other well-known men, period? emu 25 Q. YeS. And -- and the allegations are that cosia 25 A. No, I don't think so. ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 (954) 331.4400 35 of 46 sheets Page 288 to 291 of 335 10/20/2015 01:08:15 PM EFTA01116811
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292 794 023816 1 Q. Okay. You felt that it furthered her legal MN 30 2 interests to specify American politicians, powerful nu xi 3 business executives, foreign presidents, a well-known m%a 4 prime minister and other world leaders; that was your -- ersi 0 5 you — you believe that furthered her legal Interest? 026841 6 A. Yes. duo 7 Q. Old you also anticipate that that would town 8 titillate the PreSS, so to speak, that there would be a eau 9 lot of speculation on who these people are? 023852 10 A. That wasn't the — that wasn't the focus sus. 11 of the — those comments, no. nu 12 O. You said it wasn't the focus. Did you 07%37 13 realize it would happen? sun 14 A. Sure. I mean, this was a case that had mum 15 been already — this litigation had been going on at ova: 16 that point for seven years and lots of people were resew 17 following IL This is — this case is one of the most woo 18 egregious examples of a violation of Crime Victims' tossu 19 Rights in the history of this country. 4050%3 20 And so against that context, yes, there were COW% 21 going to be people interested in every word that was 0760111 22 going Into this pleading. Whether we had gone more 025410 23 broadly or more narrowly than what we did, people were 0750/3 24 going to be interested in this. one n 25 Q. And as of December 30th of 2014, Miss Roberts ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 010431 1 010432 2 wain 3 03031 4 03%37 5 030437 6 030633 7 CO C633 8 03.1601 9 010111 10 ores 11 mesa 12 wens 13 mesa 14 no. 15 mesa 16 woo 17 won.? 18 Gin 19 COOS MI 20 030103 21 030302 22 roses 23 woos 24 030308 25 break. I appreciate that. Q. Okay. MR. SCAROLA: Could you just read back the last question for me? I just want to orient myself as to where we are. Thank you. (Thereupon, a portion of the record vas read by the reporter.) MR. SCAROLA: Yeah, I didn't I think the answer was -- THE WITNESS: I guess I was mid-sentence, so think I will just stick with the same word, preposterous. And one •- one thing that occurred to me during the break, in the context of this case, is that there had been allegations that Epstein was part of the -• the sex trafficking organization, had video cameras mounted throughout many of his -- his mansions. And so, whereas a young woman could say, or a young gal could say, look, I was a victim of sex abuse, people would attack her; people wouldn't believe her, that unless she had, you know, corroborating evidence, people would say, well, look, it didn't happen. And so Epstein had managed to collect apparently a lot of videotapes and other kinds of ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 07%31 07-14 02513.8 1 had the same ability to disclose who these individuals 2 were publidy, as did Jeffrey Epstein, correct, because 3 she had personal knowledge of who they were? 4 A. She had the ability to speak the words, but, 0 26t.17 5 again, I think it's preposterous to say that a victim of costa 6 sex trafficking has the same power as the sex trafficker on 7 to disdose information. roses. 8 For exampleauld be ream 9 attacked, and I think as we were talking about 073054 10 yesterday, we have seen evidence of the kind of attack cases? 11 that powerful people can mount against the victims of wow 12 sex trafficking. So to say that the young women in sex 030004 13 trafficking schemes have the same power as their 0)0007 14 traffickers to do this — I'm sorry. I'm going to have moil 15 to take a break. w es u 16 THE VIDEODRAPHER: We are going off the video 0)0314 17 record, 11:32 a.m. 0101 I4 18 (Thereupon, a recess was taken.) 03 04 •4 19 THE VIDEOGRAPHER: We are back on the video n enc. 20 record, 11:36 a.m. m%2. 21 BY MR. SIMPSON: man 22 010421 23 030420 24 CON 30 25 293 Q. Had you finished your answer, Mr. Cassell? A. I think I had. Q. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for letting me take a ESQUIRE DEPOSITION SOLUTIONS (954) 331-4400 030311 030114 0330 15 030318 030318 030.20 030177 030177 295 1 information that would have been -- given him the 2 ability to make the blackmail kinds of charges 3 that the girls that he was trafficking would -- 4 would not have had the ability to do. 5 BY MR. SIMPSON: 6 O. Mr. Cassell, didn't you testify yesterday 7 that any videotapes from Mr. Epstein's house had been 8 destroyed? 030120 9 A. I — when I used the word "destroyed," I town 10 probably should have been more precise. They had been own 11 concealed from law enforcement, is what! meant That town 12 when Palm Beach Police Department went up to the Epstein 030137 13 mansion, they found surveillance cameras and other 030541 14 cameras. I can't remember exactly where the cameras 030534 15 were, but they found surveillance cameras, and when they tour 16 looked for the tapes associated with those cameras, I 030060 17 used the word "destroyed"; and as I say, I probably 030160 18 should have said they were missing. And so they were ono 19 never able to locate those -- those missing videotapes. wens 20 Q. So as of December 30th of 2014, to your 01.701 21 knowledge, there were no videotapes available? noun 22 A. There were no videotapes available to law 030203 23 enforcement or to Brad and his pro bono crime victim 030103 24 attorneys to help document our case. 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