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Page 582 1 question, I would object on the basis of work 2 product, attorney-client, common interests, and 3 instruct you not to answer to the extent it 4 invades any of those privileges. 5 A. What am I looking at here? 6 BY MR. EDWARDS: 7 Q. This is the Palm Beach Police Department 8 police report. 9 A. What do you want me to look at? 10 Q. Sure. It's page 40. 11 A. I have it, yes. 12 Q. We're going to go to the paragraph -- 13 second paragraph, "Detective Dawson and I met with 14 on October 11, 2005." 15 A. "Detective Dawson and I met with and 16 her friend." 17 Q. I'm going to tell you that the person 18 under that redaction is 19 A. Okay. That doesn't mean anything to me. 20 Q. Is that somebody that -- whose name that 21 you -- 22 A. Oh, that person. 23 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: Go ahead and 24 make your objection. 25 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same EFTA01137914
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Page 583 1 instruction. 2 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: Do you know this 3 person? 4 A. Only through my work with Jeffrey Epstein. 5 BY MR. EDWARDS: 6 Q. Wasn't there public documents that you 7 exchanged with the police department with respect to 8 that particular victim that pertained to her 9 allegation that the investigators, Corali (phonetic) 10 and Riley, had posed as police officers and things 11 of that nature? Do you remember that? 12 A. I do recall that, yes, yes. 13 Q. And so -- and this is also one of the 14 people whose MySpace page you pulled down? 15 A. I didn't pull anything down. 16 Q. That you produced to the State Attorney's 17 Office? 18 A. I don't know how to use a computer, so I 19 couldn't pull down anything. But I was presented 20 with these within the lawyer-client representation. 21 And I don't know how much further to go. 22 Q And didn't you take that information -- 23 MR. INDYKE: Instruct you not to answer. 24 BY MR. EDWARDS: 25 Q. Didn't you take that information, whatever EFTA01137915
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Page 584 1 information that you pulled from MySpace page 2 to the State Attorney's Office to convince the State 3 Attorney's Office that this witness was not 4 credible? 5 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: Do you have an 6 objection, or no? 7 MR. INDYKE: No. 8 A. For 50 years, I've taught my students in 9 criminal law that their job is to present evidence 10 that would raise questions about the credibility of 11 a witness against their criminal defendant. And, of 12 course, every criminal lawyer does that. And I, 13 along with my co-defendants [sic], did the very same 14 thing in this case. 15 MR. SIMPSON: I believe you misspoke. You 16 said "co-defendants." Co-counsel? 17 MR. SCAROLA: Freudian slip. 18 BY MR. EDWARDS: 19 Q. When you initially made the allegations 20 that Mr. Cassell and I had played a role in 21 fabricating the allegations -- 22 A. Right. 23 Q. -- and also improperly believed in a 24 serial liar -- 25 A. Right. EFTA01137916
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Page 585 1 Q. -- instead of just calling you, did you 2 read our response that was filed January 21, 2015 3 wherein we put forth much of our investigative 4 material that led to our -- 5 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: Guys on the 6 phone, we're hearing your discussions and, 7 frankly, it's right in the middle of a 8 question. I apologize. 9 MR. EDWARDS: Want me to start over? 10 THE WITNESS: Please. 11 BY MR. EDWARDS: 12 Q. After you made the statement that 13 Mr. Cassell and I had fabricated the allegations 14 against you and believed in the story of a 15 incredible, serial liar, and had failed to call you, 16 did you read our responsive pleading which I believe 17 was more than 150 pages long outlining some of our 18 investigation of the surrounding allegations? Just 19 did you read that response? I believe it was filed 20 January 21, 2015, in Judge Marra's courtroom. 21 A. I don't recall reading a 150-page 22 document. My lawyer Kendall Coffey would have read 23 it. It's possible I read it. But -- can you show 24 it to me? 25 Q. I don't have it here, but I assumed that EFTA01137917
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Page 586 1 you had read it. 2 A. I would be happy to look at it and see if 3 it's something I read. I know I'm familiar with 4 what -- some of the things you said you did, and 5 they didn't make me change my opinion at all. 6 Q. Did you read Detective Recarey's 7 deposition that was taken in the civil cases against 8 Mr. Epstein? 9 MR. INDYKE: Objection. 10 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: There's no 11 grounds for an objection as to whether he read 12 a deposition. 13 MR. INDYKE: Well, there is when they 14 didn't place it within a timeframe. 15 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: Okay. 16 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 17 instruction. 18 BY MR. EDWARDS: 19 Q. In production we had produced many 20 depositions not only in this case, but have been 21 filed in other cases, which is why I asked you about 22 that January 21st pleading. 23 Is one of the documents that you have read 24 regarding our investigation of the allegations 25 Detective Recarey's deposition? EFTA01137918
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Page 587 1 A. When -- when was Detective Recarey's 2 deposition? 3 Q. It was taken sometime in 2010. I don't 4 have the entire document. 5 A. I doubt that I read it. I wouldn't have 6 had any reason to read it back in 2010. 7 Q. If -- 8 MR. INDYKE: If are you talking about what 9 he did in 2010 rather than in response to 10 pleadings in this case, then I would object. 11 Same objection, same instruction. 12 BY MR. EDWARDS: 13 Q. I don't need to ask you if you've read the 14 deposition. If Detective Recarey has testified that 15 the State Attorney, very early on in the 16 investigation, was gung-ho up until the meeting with 17 Alan Dershowitz, would that be a true statement? 18 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form, totally 19 irrelevant to anything. 20 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 21 instruction. 22 A. I sure hope so. I mean, if I did a good 23 job in persuading a very distinguished State 24 Attorney about being less gung-ho about going after 25 my client, that's my job, that's what I get paid for EFTA01137919
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Page 588 1 as a criminal defense lawyer. So I'm proud to 2 have -- if it's true, have had him be less than 3 gung-ho. 4 I have tell you my negotiations with him 5 were very tough, very arm's length and very 6 difficult to the point where I was replaced at one 7 point for not getting a good enough deal. 8 BY MR. EDWARDS: 9 Q. If -- 10 MR. INDYKE: Objection. Alan, please do 11 not go into the substance of any kind of 12 interactions between you and any of on 13 Mr. Epstein's counsel in connection with your 14 representation. 15 BY MR. EDWARDS: 16 Q. At some point in time, were your services 17 terminated by Mr. Epstein? 18 A. I was replaced. 19 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 20 instruction. 21 BY MR. EDWARDS: 22 Q. At what point in time were you terminated? 23 MR. SCOTT: He didn't say that. 24 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 25 instruction. EFTA01137920
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Page 589 1 A. I wasn't terminated. A lawyer was added 2 to the team. And I think the record will show when 3 that happened, and negotiations continued with a new 4 lawyer who was seeking to get a better deal. 5 BY MR. EDWARDS: 6 Q. If Detective Recarey testified that the 7 point of your meeting with the State Attorney's 8 Office was to show that the character of the girls 9 was not to be believed, would that be a fair and 10 accurate description of that? 11 A. Well, the purpose of the meeting was 12 multiple. The purpose of the meeting, I remember we 13 brought forth every single -- 14 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 15 instruction, please. And, Professor Cassell, 16 I'm having some difficulty hearing you. 17 MR. SCOTT: He's having a hard time 18 hearing you. 19 MR. INDYKE: Yes. 20 A. The plain purpose of my meeting and the 21 work that did I together with my research assistant 22 was to gather all the cases in Palm Beach County and 23 maybe some other surrounding counties involving the 24 allegations, allegations similar to those against my 25 client, and to show that in none of the cases had EFTA01137921
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Page 590 1 prison time been given for the kinds of activities 2 that were alleged against my client. So, I 3 presented him with hundreds of -- 4 MR. INDYKE: I have to interrupt you. If 5 you are talking about what you did for 6 Mr. Epstein, which it sounds like you are, then 7 you are invading the attorney-client privilege 8 and work product. 9 A. I gave it to the prosecutor. 10 MR. INDYKE: I object, and I instruct you 11 not to answer. 12 BY MR. EDWARDS: 13 Q. My question is very narrow. 14 Do you remember attending a meeting with 15 Detective Recarey, yourself and the State Attorney 16 wherein you made presentations using the website of 17 some of the victims, including 18 A. The three people that you mentioned were 19 not the only people at that meeting. 20 Q. I'm not insinuating that they are. Do you 21 remember those people being at the meeting? 22 A. I remember others as well, including 23 Mitchell Webber, who had done some of the research 24 for me on the case. 25 Q. I'm just asking do you remember this EFTA01137922
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Page 591 1 meeting? 2 A. I do, yes. 3 Q. If Detective Recarey says that the point 4 of your presentation was to attack the credibility 5 of the witnesses, is that accurate? 6 A. No. The point of my meeting -- 7 Q. I'm only asking for yes or no. 8 A. I have to do more than yes or no. 9 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: The initial 10 answer was? 11 A. No. And now explain. The point was to 12 get a reduction in sentence and to get the best 13 possible deal I could get for my client. That 14 included giving comparative sentencing data about 15 other cases and included raising questions about the 16 credibility of the witnesses and included showing 17 documentation that some of the witnesses had 18 provided false documentation about their age. 19 It was a general presentation to a 20 prosecutor to try to mitigate the allegations 21 against my client, which is -- I've done that many, 22 many times, and so has every other criminal lawyer I 23 know. 24 BY MR. EDWARDS: 25 Q. And if Detective Recarey says it was Alan EFTA01137923
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Page 592 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 Dershowitz that was making the presentation on Mr. Epstein's behalf to discredit the victims, that would be a true statement in part? A. Alan Dershowitz made a presentation in general that included truthful statements about the witnesses, the truth of which tended to discredit some of their testimony, yes. Q. If Detective Recarey was asked, in fact, "Was he, Alan, trying to convey to the State Attorney's Office that you should not believe these girls that they were at his house at all because they have credibility problems," and he answered, "That was the impression I received, yes" A. Totally false impression. Q. This is something that Detective Recarey, if he said that, he's lying? A. No, I didn't say he's lying. You're putting words in my mouth. I said it's a false impression. He didn't say it definitely happened. He said that's the impression he had. I didn't ever say that these people were not at Jeffrey Epstein's house. That was not part of my defense. I never said that to anybody about any of the people involved in this case. The defense was very different. And Mitch Webber, who EFTA01137924
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Page 593 1 was there, and probably the State Attorney will 2 confirm that. 3 Q. Okay. Going to the police report of 4 on page 40 it begins, is she one of the victims that 5 you tried to discredit during this meeting we're 6 discussing? 7 A. My recollection is that was one of 8 the accusers, and we had -- 9 MR. INDYKE: Objection. I'm sorry, I'm 10 trying to give you some leeway, but I object on 11 the same basis that I objected previously. And 12 I believe this was also treading settlement 13 negotiations on behalf of Mr. Epstein with the 14 police department. Again, this is -- so I 15 instruct you not to answer to the extent it 16 invades privilege. 17 THE WITNESS: So I just understand, are 18 you alleging a negotiation privilege, too? 19 MR. INDYKE: Yes. I don't want you 20 talking about -- 21 THE WITNESS: Clearly, it's covered by 22 negotiation, and it would take incredible -- 23 well, I'm not going to say it. This was 24 clearly a negotiation. Are they asserting a 25 negotiation privilege? I would like to hear EFTA01137925
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Page 594 1 that. 2 MR. INDYKE: Yes. 3 MR. SCAROLA: It's being asserted by 4 Mr. Epstein's counsel. 5 THE WITNESS: Are you challenging the 6 negotiation privilege? 7 MR. SCAROLA: We're asking the question. 8 MR. EDWARDS: Are we challenging it? 9 Absolutely. 10 THE WITNESS: Good. 11 MR. SIMPSON: Just wait for a question. 12 MR. EDWARDS: It's not getting us 13 anywhere. 14 MR. INDYKE: I would instruct you not to 15 answer that question to the extent it invades 16 that privilege. 17 THE WITNESS: I think we need a ruling on 18 negotiation privilege. 19 MR. SCAROLA: I don't think we get that 20 ruling in the context of this deposition. 21 THE WITNESS: Well, you're asking me a 22 question -- 23 MR. SCOTT: There's no question pending. 24 BY MR. EDWARDS: 25 Q. Do you remember as being one of the EFTA01137926
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Page 595 1 victims that explained that she was also made to 2 have sexual relations with 3 A. No, I have no recollection. 4 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 5 instruction. 6 BY MR. EDWARDS: 7 Q. Do you remember being one of the 8 victims saying that Epstein bragged that he bought 9 from her family in to be 10 his sex slave? 11 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 12 instruction. 13 BY MR. EDWARDS: 14 4. Do you remember -- do you know how it was 15 that obtained a visa in this 16 country? 17 A. No, absolutely not. 18 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 19 instruction. 20 BY MR. EDWARDS: 21 Q. Were you a part of the negotiation with 22 the U.S. Attorney's Office to protect 23 against immigration charges. 24 A. I was not aware that there was any 25 negotiation relating to her. EFTA01137927
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Page 596 1 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 2 instruction. 3 BY MR. EDWARDS: 4 5 6 7 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 8 instruction. 9 MR. SCOTT: If that is privileged, then 10 don't answer it. 11 BY MR. EDWARDS: 12 Q. You're refusing to answer? 13 A. I'm not refusing to answer anything. I 14 have not refused to answer a single question today. 15 I'm instructed, I await the judge's ruling, and 16 whatever the judge says, I do. 17 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: There are now, I 18 count, four privilege issues that have been 19 raised separately. One deals with the 20 privilege issue directly and under the 21 representation of Mr. Epstein, the work product 22 issue that deals with the scope of the 23 representation of Mr. Epstein, the joint 24 defense agreement and common interest 25 privilege, and now as well as a negotiation EFTA01137928
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Page 597 1 privilege. 2 And for my purposes, in fairness to all 3 the parties, I do think that is something that 4 has to be subject to a set of facts on some of 5 them and fuller briefing of law, and that 6 requires -- I'm happy to hear it, but I think 7 it would be even in the purview of a separate 8 hearing from today, whether it's in front of me 9 or in front of directly Judge Lynch. 10 BY MR. EDWARDS: 11 12 13 14 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 15 instruction. 16 BY MR. EDWARDS: 17 Q. I'm going to read this into the record and 18 then we'll get the objection and then we'll -- 19 MR. INDYKE: I apologize. I'm not there, 20 so I'm not clear when you're finished. I just 21 want to make sure I make the objection before 22 Mr. Dershowitz responds. 23 BY MR. EDWARDS: 24 Q. till. then became upset over this. She 25 said her head was being held against the bed EFTA01137929
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Page 598 1 2 3 Epstein 4 apologized and subsequently paid her a thousand 5 dollars." 6 Does that refresh your recollection as to 7 8 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 9 instruction. 10 BY MR. EDWARDS: 11 Q. And if we look back at the public 12 statement that was available and attributed to you 13 from the Daily Mail in April of 2007, and 14 particularly the third statement that was 15 highlighted where it attributes to you, "He said 16 that the girl who accused Epstein of forcible sex 17 had a long record of lying, theft and blaming others 18 for her crimes." 19 Does what I just read you about help 20 to refresh your recollection that she is the victim 21 you were talking about in the public statement made 22 in April of 2007? 23 A. No. 24 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 25 instruction. EFTA01137930
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Page 599 1 BY MR. EDWARDS: 2 Q. Do you believe, then, that it was a 3 different victim that Jeffrey Epstein forcibly raped 4 and that had a long history of lying, theft and 5 blaming others for her crimes other than 6 MR. SCOTT: Object to the form. 7 MR. INDYKE: Same objection, same 8 instruction. 9 MR. SCOTT: Argumentative and relevancy. 10 This whole line. 11 A. I guess I have to answer? 12 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: No. 13 A. I just want to make one point in response, 14 though, and that is the quotes from the Mail, of the 15 three paragraphs, the first two are not in quotation 16 marks, they are not quoting me directly, they're not 17 in quotation marks, and I do not remember saying 18 those. 19 Only the third one is in quotation marks, 20 and only had a long record of lying, theft and 21 blaming others for her crimes, and I think that 22 comes from a court document. And I think if you 23 check, you would see that quotation comes from a 24 court document. So I have not been quoted by the 25 Daily Mail, and I do not think I ever spoke to EFTA01137931
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Page 600 1 Ms. Churchill. 2 BY MR. EDWARDS: 3 Q. You don't deny, though, that in reading 4 the Daily Mail article in your hand that the Daily 5 Mail has attributed each of those statements to you, 6 whether quoted or not? 7 MR. SCOTT: Objection, form, totally 8 improper examination. 9 BY MR. EDWARDS: 10 Q. You can answer. 11 SPECIAL MASTER POZZUOLI: You can answer. 12 A. Oh, sure. I have no memory of having had 13 an interview with the Daily Mail. They do attribute 14 statements to me, but not in quotes, and that's 15 always a red flag. When you see statements 16 attributed to somebody in the newspaper and there 17 are no quotes, any reasonable lawyer or reader would 18 question whether there, in fact, had been such a 19 conversation because if there had been such a 20 conversation, any good journalist would put it in 21 quotes. And many of the things article are in 22 quotes, but my statements are not in quotes other 23 than the last statement, which I think comes from a 24 legal document. 25 And at the time I made any statement about EFTA01137932
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Page 601 1 this about a woman with a long record of lying, I 2 don't think I was making it about somebody who 3 claimed to have been raped. I have no recollection 4 as I sit here now that anybody ever claimed to have 5 been raped by Jeffrey Epstein. I mean forcibly 6 raped in the way that you described it in that 7 document. That was not part of my negotiation with 8 the D.A. The D.A. never accused -- 9 MR. INDYKE: Objection. 10 BY MR. EDWARDS: 11 Q. But that document that I was reading from 12 is the public police report that is available to 13 everybody. You recognize that, right? 14 A. But the D.A. obviously didn't put much 15 credit in that because he never charged him with 16 that. So that was not one of the things that I was 17 dealing with. 18 What I was dealing with was two charges 19 MR. INDYKE: Objection. 20 A. -- of massages with underage sex. That 21 was what I was dealing with. That's what any 22 comments I may have made dealt with. There was 23 never an allegation of forcible rape made by any 24 responsible prosecutor in this case. 25 EFTA01137933