Epstein Secrets

ollows: 20 DIRECT EXAMINATION 09:32:47 21 BY MR. SCAROLA: 09:32:54 22 Q. Would you please state your full name, 09:32:55 23 sir? 24 A. Alan Morton Dershowitz. 09:32:57 25 Q. And where did you live? 09:32:59 EFTA00601159 7 1 A. Well, I live in three places. We have a 09:33:00 2 home in Miami B

EOGRAPHER: This is the 15th day of 09:31:40 4 October, 2015. The time is approximately 9:31 5 a.m. This is the videotaped deposition of Alan 6 M. Dershowitz in the matter of Bradley J. 7 Edwards and Paul Cassell versus Alan M. 8 Dershowitz. This deposition is being held at 9 110 Southeast 6th Street

t privilege. 20 We've conferred on a number of occasions about the 21 ethical misconduct of your clients. 22 BY MR. SCAROLA: 10:10:43 23 Q. Rana Dershowitz? 10:10:43 24 A. Rana Dershowitz is my niece and Harvard 10:10:45 25 law school graduate, former chief counsel for the EFTA00601190 38 1 U

I certainly don't regard 9 her as a lawyer in the case. But I regard her as 10 somebody who has been a part of our kind of legal 11 team. 12 Q. Ellen Dershowitz? 10:11:29 13 A. Ellen -- 10:11:32 14 Q. Elon? 10:11:33 15 A. Elon Dershowitz is my oldest son, child, 10:11:34 16 and he has served re

ho has been a part of our kind of legal 11 team. 12 Q. Ellen Dershowitz? 10:11:29 13 A. Ellen -- 10:11:32 14 Q. Elon? 10:11:33 15 A. Elon Dershowitz is my oldest son, child, 10:11:34 16 and he has served repeatedly in a paralegal capacity 17 in this case helping me to gather information and

this case helping me to gather information and 18 evidence and doing some investigative work for me. 19 Q. Nathan Dershowitz? 10:11:52 20 A. Nathan Dershowitz is my brother. He's a 10:11:52 21 distinguished attorney in New York, had his own law 22 firm. And he and I did a lot of our legal cases 23 to

priate. 9 A. Would you like to establish the foundation 11:25:46 10 for why it's not protected? 11 MR. SWEDER: Alan 11:25:50 12 MR. SCOTT: Alan, just let it alone. Let 11:25:51 13 it alone. 14 THE WITNESS: Okay. 11:25:53 15 BY MR. SCAROLA: 11:25:55 16 Q. This second conversation y

:12 EFTA00601158 6 1 behalf of the Defendant Professor Dershowitz. 2 MR. SIMPSON: Richard Simpson on behalf of 0

ecords and where my records are 2 kept and I've asked her to perform paralegal service 3 in addition to her loving service as my wife. 4 Q. Is Harvey Silverglate representing you now 10:02:04 5 with regard to this litigation? 6 A. Yes. 10:02:08 7 Q. Is Mark Fabiani representing you now with 10:02:09

e maroon volume engraved with the following words: “Chief Judge David L. Bazelon 54 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017141 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Opinions 1962-1963 Alan M. Dershowitz, Law Clerk” It is a treasured possession. A year in the life of! And what a year it was. My first case involved a man named “Daniel Jackson Oliver

, he can instantly tell whether they know me from TV or from personal interactions—whether they know what he calls “The Dersh Character” or “the real Alan.” This sharp dichotomy between my public and private personas was brought home to me quite dramatically, when a major motion picture, Reversal of Fo

ty, a burial society, the Young Israel synagogue and the Torah V’Daas Yeshiva. Their day jobs were typical for their generation of Jewish immigrants. Louis Dershowitz, my paternal grandfather, sold corrugated boxes. Naphtali Ringel, my maternal grandfather, was a jeweler. My grandmothers, Ida and Blima, took care o

could aspire to work in an advertising firm or a “funeral parlor.” My mother asked whether I could be a lawyer, to which the counselor replied, “Mrs. Dershowitz, I’m afraid you have to go to college to be a lawyer, and your boy just isn’t college material.” Many years later, following a talk I gave at a temp

fe) HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017160 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Professor Dershowitz sees his job not as teaching “the specifics of la

Association Journal 58 (Aug. 1972): 815. 4! AsT wrote in Why Terrorism Works: In my debates with two prominent civil libertarians, Floyd Abrams and Harvey Silverglate, both have acknowledged that they would want nonlethal torture to be used if it could prevent thousands of deaths, but they did not want torture to b

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Mr. DERSHOWITZ. It seems to me you have an interest but no right...I can understand how you would be offended by that. But one of the prices of living in a complex

off wrote a long front-page analysis of the Village Voice. Hentoff warned his readers of the consequences of a government victory in the Reems case. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and one of the nation’s preeminent constitutional lawyers, has never been known as an apocalyptic civil libertarian.

apocalyptic civil libertarian. Accordingly, when Professor Dershowitz speaks of the recent criminal convictions in a po

ences of a government victory in the Reems case. Alan Dershowitz, a Harvard Law School professor and on

ecently ordered the district court to consider all the new “evidence as a whole.” So the case is far from over. I continue to confer on the case with Harvey Silverglate, who was MacDonald’s classmate at Princeton and who was my co-counsel in the earlier Habeus Corpus appeal. Whatever happens, I believe that Jeffrey

y Edwards v. Epstein Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 00:21:10 +0000 Importance: Normal I intend to strongly discourage this, no upside to you, no upside to alan, will not be helpful before he was your attorney, will threaten privilege after From: jeffrey E. Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:55 PM To: Ala

lan, will not be helpful before he was your attorney, will threaten privilege after From: jeffrey E. Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:55 PM To: Alan Dershowitz Cc: Kendell Coffey (new) ; Martin G Weinberg ; Ken Sweder ; Harvey Silverglate ; Mr. Mark Fabiani Subject: Re: Bradley Edwards v. Epstein this cas

Alan Dershowitz < > Cc: Paul Cassell a. "William B. King" < "Mary E. Pirrotta" <a> Subject: Bradley Edwards v. Epstein >, Brad Edwards Dear Mr. Dershowitz: Statements attributed to you in the public media express a willingness, indeed a strong desire, to submit to questioning under oath regarding your

e after From: jeffrey E. Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:55 PM To: Alan Dershowitz Cc: Kendell Coffey (new) ; Martin G Weinberg ; Ken Sweder ; Harvey Silverglate ; Mr. Mark Fabiani Subject: Re: Bradley Edwards v. Epstein this case was dismissed on summary judgement, ??? they filed an appeal. not sure of stan

makes no sense. . On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 8:21 PM, Martin G. Weinberg < wrote: I intend to strongly discourage this, no upside to you, no upside to alan, will not be helpful before he was your attorney, will threaten privilege after From: jeffrey E. Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:55 PM To: Ala

lan, will not be helpful before he was your attorney, will threaten privilege after From: jeffrey E. Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:55 PM To: Alan Dershowitz Cc: Kendell Coffey (new) ; Martin G Weinberg ; Ken Sweder ; Harvey Silverglate • Mr. Mark Fabiani Subject: Re: Bradley Edwards v. Epstein this cas

itz Cc: Paul Cassell <[email protected]>, "William B. King" Brad Edwards "Mary E. Pirrotta" < > Subject: Bradley Edwards v. Epstein Dear Mr. Dershowitz: Statements attributed to you in the public media express a willingness, indeed a strong desire, to submit to questioning under oath regarding your

e after From: jeffrey E. Sent: Saturday, January 03, 2015 6:55 PM To: Alan Dershowitz Cc: Kendell Coffey (new) ; Martin G Weinberg ; Ken Sweder ; Harvey Silverglate • Mr. Mark Fabiani Subject: Re: Bradley Edwards v. Epstein this case was dismissed on summary judgement, ??? they filed an appeal. not sure of stan

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

filled with vague statutes. The result is that every American unwittingly commits “three felonies a day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of imprisonment whenever it suits the government’s needs. It’s this prosecutorial weaponry that makes Big Brother all-pow

nd Atoms. He is the author of AB, co-author (with Alan Gershenfeld & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld) of Design

filled with vague statutes. The result is that every American unwittingly commits “three felonies a day” (as the title of a book by civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate puts it) and is in jeopardy of imprisonment whenever it suits the government’s needs. It’s this prosecutorial weaponry that makes Big Brother all-pow