Epstein Secrets

nd First Lady, who were vacationing on Martha’s Vineyard, to join my family at the M.V. synagogue for Rosh Hashanah services. When I learned that the Clintons were living near us on the Vineyard, I had the following letter hand delivered to the President by a mutual friend: Dear Mr. President: It is my gr

rick, Frank Sinatra, David Crosby, John Lennon and several other actors, athletes and entertainers. Also included in this category would be President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Katzav, Senator Mike Gravell of Alaska, and Senator Alan Cranston of California. A sec

people. The paradigm of a famous person being tried under the Klieg lights of worldwide media coverage was, of course, the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton, in which I played several roles: witness, advocate, television commentator, book author and friend. A final category includes very famous celebriti

ernandez Rundle replaced Janet Reno in 19 _, when President Clinton appointed Reno to serve as Attorney General of th

ills.” Mia asked me to call Woody and tell him to stop doing what he was doing. She told me that Woody admired me and that he kept a copy of my book Chutzpah on his bed table. I asked Mia to have Woody call me but he apparently refused so I decided to write him a letter, which I asked his lawyer to give h

ked her who the professor was and she told me she couldn’t remember his name but that she thought it started with a “B.” A few days later, we met the Clintons at a party. I came prepared with yearbook photos of all the professors from that year whose name began with “B.” She immediately identified the culpr

d Nazi war criminal John Demjanjuk and subsequently consulted with the Israeli government about that case. Later in my career, I was a lawyer in the Bill Clinton impeachment, the Bush v. Gore election case, the efforts to free Nelson Mandela, Natan Sharansky and other political prisoners. I participated in the

vestigation of Ted Kennedy, to the impeachment of President Clinton, to the war crimes trials of accused war criminal

earlier books that touch on aspects of my public life. The Best Defense dealt with my earliest cases during the first decade of my professional life. Chutzpah covered my Jewish causes and cases. Reversal of Fortune and Reasonable Doubts each dealt with one specific case (Von Bulow and O.J. Simpson). I will

fe during my 8" decade. Until recently, I was always known as a liberal Democrat aligned politically with the likes of Senator Ted Kennedy, President Bill Clinton, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Senator Hubert Humphrey, Justices Arthur Goldberg and William Brennan, the Reverend Martin Luther King, and Judg

to the White House for lunch to continue our discussion. 365 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017452 4.2.12 WC: 191694 Getting back to my invitation to President Clinton to attend Rosh Hashanah services, this was not the first such invitation I had extended to a head of state. In 1990, I had invited Soviet President M

2.12 WC: 191694 Getting back to my invitation to President Clinton to attend Rosh Hashanah services, this was not th

t in lieu of the third movement of Tchaikovsky’s Fifth. He told me that its always good to have the recorded statement in the °8 [cite Best Defense, Chutzpah, articles] 324 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017411 4.2.12 WC: 191694 middle of the music, because Soviet authorities tend to listen to the beginning and end o

r hero—I had called Arafat’s death “untimely,” because if he had only died five years earlier, the Palestinian Authority might well have accepted the Clinton-Barak peace offer—but they also knew my views on freedom of speech. I agreed to represent them, as long as they understood that I would continue to c

ded that the only reason he wasn’t in court was because my client had murdered him. Our argument, they claimed, paralleled the classic definition of “Chutzpah”: the young man who murders his parents and then demands mercy from the court on the ground that he is an orphan. But the conclusions that Murphy had