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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 
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Plaintiff, 
New York, N.Y. 
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v. 
15 Civ. 7433(RWS) 
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GHISLAINE MAXWELL, 
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Defendant. 
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March 17, 2016 
2:18 p.m. 
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Before: 
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HON. ROBERT W. SWEET, 
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District Judge 
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APPEARANCES 
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BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP 
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Attorneys for Plaintiff 
BY: SIGRID S. McCAWLEY 
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HADDON MORGAN AND FOREMAN, P.C. 
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Attorneys for Defendant 
BY: JEFFREY PAGLIUCA 
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LAURA A. MENNINGER 
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THE COURT: Thank you all very much. I'm sorry for 
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the inconvenience that I have imposed upon you. I'm sorry 
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about the inconvenience that you have imposed upon me. 
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But having said all of that, this really is the first 
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time that we've had an opportunity, I think, to get together on 
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this case. And let me just say, I think -- I mean, I'm not 
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sure but I think I understand the difficulties of this case. 
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There is an emotional element, obviously, throughout the case 
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on both sides, and I understand that. Fortunately, we're 
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blessed by excellent counsel and it would be nice if they can 
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avoid adopting the emotional flavor of their clients, and I 
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presume that they will be able to do that, it certainly will 
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help, because these issues are going to be difficult and I'm 
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well aware of it. 
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Now, at the outset, there is some discussion in these 
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papers about meet and confer. Let me make clear what I would 
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like from this day forward. On any discovery issues, I would 
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like to have a meet and confer. Now, I understand that defense 
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counsel are living in God's country and they're not cursed with 
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the metropolitan residence. I salute their good judgment in 
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that. And so I will say that I will not require you to meet in 
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person, but I will require you to meet. 
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And I would say this. If you have a meet and confer, 
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I would like to have correspondence between the parties as to 
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what the subject is so that there is an agreed agenda that's 
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written and we know that both sides know what it is, and that 
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will help me if, ultimately, the problem gets back to me. So I 
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would say exchange writing as to what it's going to be and have 
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a meeting. It doesn't have to be in person, but it certainly 
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has to be a significant meeting; it can't be just one 
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ten-minute telephone call. 
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So that's how I feel about the meet and confer. 
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Now, I'm not going to get into whether that's relevant 
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or not to the problems which we face today. That's just going 
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forward. As I say, I do hope that you all can -- it won't be 
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easy, but if you deal with these problems as the excellent 
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professionals that you are without the emotional implications, 
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having said that. 
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Now, how to go forward today? My thought is the 
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following. I have read your papers, and to say that I 
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understand the problems would be, I guess, a lie, but I'm 
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trying and you'll help me. I have a list of what I think our 
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issues are and I would like to go through this with you, and 
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then when I'm finished, if we have missed something, I'm sure 
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you will correct me. And I'd be pleased to hear if I determine 
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something, if you think that I'm wrong, that's fine, too. I 
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mean, you can tell me why you think I'm wrong. 
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Now, the first problem is the document -- the issue 
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about improper privilege claims. As I understand that issue, 
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it is the presence of Gow, Cohen and maybe somebody else as 
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defeating the privilege, on the one hand. On the other hand, 
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the assertion by the defense that their participation as 
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whatever they are, managers, public relations people, whatever, 
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is necessary for the rendering of legal advice. 
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Parenthetically, there is a subtext there about whose 
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law applies. Let me say, I think we are going to apply New 
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York law in this case. British law may become relevant in some 
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way or other down the road, but for this privilege purpose, I 
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think that's where we are. 
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I think what I would like is I would like any 
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materials that -- the obligation to establish this privilege is 
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obviously Ms. Maxwell's, and I would like any materials that 
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she wants to present to me about these meetings to establish 
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that it was necessary for the rendering of legal advice, I'll 
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review those materials in camera and try to reach a decision. 
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I may need something further after I have looked at them, but I 
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think that's the way I ought to deal with that particular 
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privilege issue. 
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There is a list of documents as to which objections 
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have been made on a variety of bases. I will say probably a 
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catalog of every objection known to the mind of excellent 
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attorneys, and I think we will try to deal with those this 
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afternoon and maybe we'll fail, but let's put those aside just 
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for the moment. 
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The question about a protective order, of course there 
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should be a protective order in this case. You are good 
lawyers and you have been around this track more times than I 
have and so you can prepare consensually a better protective 
order than I can, and I urge you to do that. And, in fact, I 
will give you two weeks to do that. Should you fail, you can 
present whatever materials you wish to me and I will decide 
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what the protective order is going to be. That's not a good 
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idea because you know the case better than I do, obviously, and 
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so I urge you to resolve it by your litigation skills and not 
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leave it up to the ignorant district court judge who doesn't 
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really get into this kind of thing very often. So you run a 
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risk if you leave it to me. 
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Now, I would say two weeks, and then if you can't get 
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an agreement, maybe three weeks from now we wrestle with that. 
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Hopefully we won't. I have to do that. 
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The deposition -- the defendant of course will be 
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deposed, and we can work out right now when. Obviously, you 
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don't want that deposition until the protective order is 
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completed. So what do we do about that? Do you want to deal 
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with that today, the actual date of the deposition, or should 
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we pass that until we accomplish the protective order? What do 
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you all think about that? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Can I be heard on that, your Honor? 
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This is Sigrid McCawley. I am counsel for Ms. 
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With respect to the deposition date, the 25th was the 
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date that my opposing counsel proposed as possibly being 
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available. So we set it for that date, which is next Friday. 
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We also offered to hold that deposition transcript confidential 
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until such time as the protective order could be issued so that 
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there is no barrier to us being able to take this deposition. 
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THE COURT: How about that? Is that OK? 
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MR. PAGLIUCA: Frankly, it is not, your Honor, and the 
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reason is we, clearly from the papers submitted so far and the 
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exchange of counsel, we have a significant disagreement at this 
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point as to what the word "confidential" actually means, and we 
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have proposed to the plaintiff a protective order that we 
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believe is appropriate and neutral --
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THE COURT: Well, maybe I can -- can we get over -- if 
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that's the primary issue on the protective order, can we deal 
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with that now? 
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MR. PAGLIUCA: I think there is a secondary -- well, 
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it may not even be secondary. There is another issue that is 
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directly related to that, your Honor, and that is the lack of 
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production of documents from the plaintiff. The Court has not 
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seen these papers yet, but there are in my view significant 
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deficiencies with the Rule 26 disclosures. There have been 
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failure to produce documents. And it is unfair at this point 
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to push these depositions forward without the required exchange 
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of discovery. 
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THE COURT: Let me ask the plaintiff. You really --
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MS. McCAWLEY: Could I be heard on that? Thank you, 
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your Honor. I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you. 
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THE COURT: What do you think? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Right. The issue is so I issued my 
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deposition notice before they even served discovery requests. 
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THE COURT: OK. All right. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I've done 3,000 pages. They've done 
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two emails. 
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THE COURT: Look, doesn't it make sense to resolve any 
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document discovery issues perhaps before the deposition? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I don't think so, your Honor. I want 
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the testimony of this defendant in order to move this case 
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forward. Our discovery closes in July. I issued my discovery 
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requests in October. I have not gotten the deposition of the 
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defendant yet. This is a date she is available. She is not 
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leaving the country. She is not going anywhere. I have her in 
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town next Friday. 
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I'll even agree to their protective order if it means 
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I can get her deposition, your Honor. I just need to get this 
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case moving forward. I need one deposition, the deposition of 
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the defendant in this case, who has called my client a liar. 
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We are entitled to depose her and see if she is going to answer 
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the questions about why she was --
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THE COURT: All right. OK. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I am entitled to answers. 
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THE COURT: Well --
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MR. PAGLIUCA: Your Honor, I think this is a good 
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meeting and it is a meeting that should have happened a long 
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time ago. Let me say to the Court that we proposed to meet 
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with plaintiff's counsel early on in this case to put together 
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a discovery schedule that made sense. We proposed that orally 
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and in writing. That proposal was ignored and rebuffed. And 
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counsel for the plaintiff then unilaterally scheduled a bunch 
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of depositions without conferring on dates. Unilaterally, 
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here's the dates, here are the depositions. We then tried to 
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work through that issue, at the same time trying to work 
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through the protective order issue and the document issue, and 
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we get no response. And I think the agenda here is to gain a 
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tactical advantage by not responding to these requests. 
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THE COURT: Well, I can't believe that lawyers would 
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seek a tactical advantage. I can't believe such a thing. 
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MR. PAGLIUCA: I am shocked. 
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THE COURT: OK. Tell you what we're going to do. 
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We'll -- three weeks, let's see. Her deposition -- this 
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question about document production, that hasn't been teed up, 
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so I don't know --
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MS. McCAWLEY: And can I be heard on that really 
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quickly? I mean, If that were the standard, that they could 
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wait to --
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THE COURT: No. It hasn't been teed up, I agree. 
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OK. Then I think what we should do is I'm assuming we 
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will resolve the protective order problem -- we've sort of slug 
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over the -- can we resolve what's confidential? Is that 
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possible? Could we do that this afternoon, or is that too 
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complicated? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Your Honor, I can have the deposition 
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of the defendant in this case and move this case forward. I 
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will agree to their protective order. I just want that 
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deposition. 
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THE COURT: Yes. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: It is that important to me. 
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THE COURT: I get your point. I understand that. But 
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at the same time, I think, given the nature of all that lies in 
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this, I think it is fair to say no side would like to have this 
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aired, and so we've got to have a protective order that 
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everybody feels comfortable with. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Your Honor, you can today enter the 
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protective order that they submit. I will disregard my 
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objections if I get the deposition. 
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THE COURT: Will you agree now to the protective 
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order? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Yes. If it means I can get her 
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deposition, yes, I will do that. 
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THE COURT: Oh, OK. Good. Well, that solved that. 
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agreed 
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Now, why can't we have her deposition upon, whatever 
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it is, a week from Friday? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Friday, the 25th, this coming Friday, a 
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week from tomorrow. 
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THE COURT: Oh, a week from tomorrow, yes. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Yes. 
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, we served discovery 
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requests on plaintiff on February 12th. 
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THE COURT: Well, look, that's nice. That's good. 
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But I don't have that, and I think she's right that there is no 
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rule that says you have to get your discovery requests 
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satisfied before the deposition, so --
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, the responses were due 
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last night yesterday, so that is prior to Ms. Maxwell for the 
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25th. However, as a part of producing that discovery response, 
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they have said they're going to take a month to roll out their 
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production, not just --
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THE COURT: Look. I'll tell you what let's do. I 
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don't have that, but let's -- we'll hold the deposition date. 
MR. PAGLIUCA: It is not as simple as that, your 
Honor, because this quid pro quo, I'll agree to their 
protective order if I can have the deposition on the 25th, 
doesn't solve the problem. 
THE COURT: At least we've separated it. She has 
to the protective order. OK? So that's done. OK? 
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When we get through with the rest of this stuff, we'll find out 
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if there is something in particular that you want prior to next 
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Friday and see what that is and see if we can get it. How is 
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that? 
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OK. Who pays for what and counsel, all of that? 
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Those are interesting problems and who knows how they all come 
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out. I think all of that is best served by reserving them 
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until the conclusion of the case, which is what I shall do. 
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The plaintiff wants to produce on a rolling basis and 
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to amend or add to the privilege log as the production goes 
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forward. I don't see any problem with that. 
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, that's actually the issue 
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I was just alluding to. I understand -- and I have said I 
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don't have a problem with plaintiff producing her documents 
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over the course of the month because she has said that it is a 
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hardship for her to produce them all last night, which is when 
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they were due. However, she's trying to take our client's 
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deposition in the middle of her rolling production, in other 
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words, show up at the deposition with the documents she happens 
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to get --
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THE COURT: That's what I'm saying. Maybe what we'll 
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do is to deal with the document production issue separately. 
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MS. MENNINGER: OK. 
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THE COURT: And if there are some documents that 
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really seem to be important and they cannot be produced, then 
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maybe we'll put over the -- we'll see how that works. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Your Honor, I may be able to short 
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circuit this. 
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THE COURT: Pardon me? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I may be able to short circuit this a 
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little bit. We produced 3,000 pages last night. We are 
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continuing that production. We are moving as fast as we can. 
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We produced a privilege log with over 134 entries on it. We 
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are continuing to move that forward as quickly as we can. 
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With respect to her deposition, your Honor, I'm happy 
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to provide them in advance every document I will be using at 
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her deposition. In other words, if that is their issue, if it 
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means I can get her deposition next Friday, I will share with 
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them any document I intend to use at that deposition. 
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THE COURT: That seems to solve the problem, don't you 
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think? 
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, I have to disagree. I got 
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this responsive objection last night at 9:30 p.m., while I was 
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here in New York. I've taken a look at it, and I can give your 
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Honor a sense of the types of objections that plaintiff has 
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lodged to our document request. For example, their client sold 
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her diary to Radar Online. It was published on Radar Online. 
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This diary contains plaintiff's allegations against my client. 
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So I asked for the diary that was sold to Radar Online. 
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THE COURT: You get it. 
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MS. MENNINGER: It is copyright and proprietary 
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protected. We're not going to produce it. So that's the kind 
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of example --
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THE COURT: No. You get it. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: She doesn't have a diary. She might be 
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referring to something else. I mean, my client doesn't have a 
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diary to produce. She doesn't have one. Those were 
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handwritten notes that she gave a reporter. She doesn't have 
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one. 
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THE COURT: So you are saying --
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MS. McCAWLEY: That request is broader. I mean 
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THE COURT: No. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I didn't know we were going to be 
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addressing my requests today --
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THE COURT: -- as to the diary, you say it doesn't 
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exist. There is no diary, there are no notes, and whatever 
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there is has been the subject of the printed material? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Yes. 
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MS. MENNINGER: Excerpts -- excerpts, your Honor, with 
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my client's name on them in plaintiff's handwriting were sold 
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to Radar Online, not the entire document. And when I asked for 
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the entire document, I was told that it is proprietary and 
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copyright protected. 
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THE COURT: What is "proprietary"? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I think she's referring to a broader 
request. My client doesn't have a diary, which is what she's 
addressing right now. I don't have my requests in front of me, 
your Honor. We were here on their requests. But if you want 
to read the whole request, I can try and remember what 
THE COURT: What are we talking --
MS. McCAWLEY: Did they say I was withholding 
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documents? I don't think I said I was withholding documents on 
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that request. But, again, I don't have it in front of me and I 
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apologize. 
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MS. MENNINGER: The request number 16 reads: "Any 
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diary, journal, or calendar concerning your activity between 
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'96 and '02." 
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objects to this request to the 
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extent it seeks proprietary- and copyright-protected material. 
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objects in that it seeks information protected by 
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the attorney-client privilege, the attorney work product 
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privilege, the joint defense, interest privilege, the agency 
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privilege, the investigative privilege, the spousal privilege, 
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the accountant/client privilege, and any other applicable 
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privilege." 
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THE COURT: Hot dog. I tell you, that's great. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: But did I say I didn't have --
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THE COURT: Shall we use that as the standard 
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objection to every document request and then let's forget about 
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it? OK, let's do this. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Your Honor, may I be heard on just one 
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point on this issue? 
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If the standard were that someone could wait in a case 
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to request documents and then push off depositions by 
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continuing to file new requests, it's apparently --
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THE COURT: Yes. I hear you. I understand that 
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point. Look, obviously if there are documents that are covered 
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by the privilege, they have to be identified and logged. So 
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that's the privilege. 
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I don't know, what is this proprietary thing? What is 
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that all about? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: To the extent she has commercially 
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valuable material that she has written, that's covered by --
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it's covered by the protective order basically, that it would 
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be produced in a confidential format with a copyright-protected 
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format. So it is a general objection --
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THE COURT: So she will produce that, she will produce 
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everything --
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MS. McCAWLEY: If she has something like that, yes. 
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Like I said, we produced 3,000 pages yesterday. 
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THE COURT: And calendars and all of the rest of them? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: To the extent she has any of that, we 
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will produce it, your Honor. 
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THE COURT: All right. In other words, you are going 
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to produce everything except anything that you have that you 
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claim privilege as to which you will log? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Yes. We have been logging --
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THE COURT: Well --
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, on this particular one, 
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she says her client does not have any nonprivileged documents 
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created during the time period responsive to this request, and 
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then there are no privileged documents related to this log on 
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the privilege log. So I don't have any way to read this 
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request in a privilege log and figure out whether there are 
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noncopyright materials that weren't withheld or there are 
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privileged because all of these privileges were raised --
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THE COURT: I take it that what's being said is that 
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she has no privileged documents that would be covered by that 
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request? 
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MS. MENNINGER: That's not what the objection says. 
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And, your Honor, since she sold her handwritten notes about my 
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client to Radar Online, I know they exist because they were 
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excerpted on the Internet. 
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THE COURT: Yes, but she said she doesn't have them. 
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She said -- I mean, correct me if I am wrong. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: No, she doesn't have them. But, your 
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Honor, I am happy to have -- first of all, she hasn't conferred 
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on these issues that we are talking about here today. I am 
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happy to address them fully. I feel very comfortable with our 
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discovery production in this case. We will continue to roll it 
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out; we have done it timely. Unlike like the defendants, who I 
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served their discovery requests October 27th, your Honor. We 
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are now in March. I received two emails, two emails in 
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response. I produced 3,000 pages 
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, she is 
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(Unintelligible crosstalk) 
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THE COURT: Ladies, we're not going to get anywhere if 
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we "who struck John." 
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MS. McCAWLEY: I understand, your Honor. 
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I think I proposed something very fair by saying that 
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I would share with her any document I intend to use at that 
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deposition. I just need the deposition. 
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THE COURT: I understand. I got you. OK. 
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Now, you will identify any document -- I mean, you 
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tell them -- give them any documents that you are going to use 
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in the deposition. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Yes. 
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THE COURT: OK. Now, is there -- the business of this 
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production on -- you are going to have to -- well, wait a 
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minute. Let me put it this way. The objections to this 16 are 
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overruled except for the privilege. OK? 
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, I've proposed dates for my 
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client to be available in two or three weeks, once we have 
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received a complete document production, which was due last 
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night, and I have been told we're not going to talk about dates 
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in two or three weeks. We haven't asked to set them out into 
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May or June. We've just asked for the documents that were due 
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last night to be produced to us before our client's deposition. 
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This isn't some kind of game. It's just she's been litigating 
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this case for seven years 
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THE COURT: OK. Well, we've dealt with the first 
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objection. Now, is there another one? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Right. So we're here on my motion to 
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compel production of documents. I am just getting a little 
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confused because I don't -- we are here -- my motion to compel 
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production of documents from her based on my request that --
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THE COURT: Let's not worry about the --
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MS. McCAWLEY: OK. I just wanted to be clear. I 
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don't have in front of me the request that she is referring to. 
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THE COURT: OK. Anything else that you think you need 
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besides the documents she is going to use, the response to 16? 
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Anything else --
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor --
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THE COURT: -- that is critical for the deposition? 
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MS. MENNINGER: Your Honor, these were filed last 
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night at 9:30 p.m., the 3,000 pages were produced to my office, 
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which is in Colorado. I haven't looked at the 3,000 pages that 
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were produced last night. I will have to ask leave of the 
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Court to go back, look at the documents that were produced and 
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see what I am missing. 
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THE COURT: All right. If you want to, you can come 
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back on Thursday next week and we can argue about whether or 
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not the deposition should go forward on Friday. 
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MS. MENNINGER: OK. 
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THE COURT: That is all right with me. 
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MS. MENNINGER: That is acceptable, your Honor. 
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THE COURT: OK. So maybe we've solved that problem. 
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OK. Maybe. 
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Now, on the improper objections by the defendants. I 
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suppose I can assume that the defendants' objections are just 
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exactly the same as the plaintiff's objections. 
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MR. PAGLIUCA: No, your Honor. They are not. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Oh, I'm sorry. This is my motion to 
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compel. Can I just address it initially so that I can lay out 
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for the Court what the issues are that we are raising on the 
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motion to compel? 
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THE COURT: I'm sorry. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: This is my motion to compel now. Can I 
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address -- am I able to address that? 
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THE COURT: Yes. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: So with respect to our motion to compel 
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the documents from the defendant, as you know, your Honor, 
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there are two main objections that I think have to be overcome 
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in order for us to get that production properly. The first 
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main objection is the fact that they are objecting to the time 
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period. So we have sought requests from 1999, which is in 
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around the time when my client contends she was involved with 
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these individuals, to the present. They objected that that 
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time period is overly broad. They only agreed to produce for 
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the period of 1999 to 2002 and for one month, from December 31, 
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2014 to January 31, 2015. So they cut out all the years in 
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between and anything post January 31, 2015. 
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Now, with respect to your Honor maybe saying why would 
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that time period be relevant, the entire time period is 
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relevant for a number of reasons. First, in 1999, that's when 
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my client first recalls being --
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THE COURT: We can agree -- I think we can agree at 
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the outset that '99 to what is it? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: 2002. 
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THE COURT: 2002 is relevant. 
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MS. McCAWLEY: Right. 
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THE COURT: So what we're talking about is the -- what 
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happened in 2002? 
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MS. McCAWLEY: My client was sent to Thailand by 
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Mr. Epstein and Ms. Maxwell for a training and to pick up 
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another --
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THE COURT: So she is no longer --
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MS. McCAWLEY: And she left. She fled to 
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THE COURT: OK. 
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