Former Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer has considered fierce disputes related to his “client list” – and his relationship with President Donald Trump.
Alan Dershowitz, a high -ranking defense lawyer, logged in Wall Street Journal That Epstein “never created a” client list “.
But there were more in history.
“The FBI interviewed the alleged victims who called several ‘clients’. These names were edited, “he wrote.” They should be revealed, but the courts ordered them to be sealed. I know who they are. They do not include any current office owners. We do not know if the charges are correct. “
Dershowitz, who represented large names like OL Simpson, Mike Tyson and himself, was sought to distract the president from an ashamed financier during his first impeachment trial.
Alan Dershowitz was part of President Donald Trump’s legal team for his first impeachment test in 2020. / The part of the Getty Images
“Open records show that many years ago, there is an acquaintance of Epstein and Mr. Trump,” he said, adding that the relationship ended when short, according to Ma-Lago, banned Epstein. “I haven’t seen anything that offered something inappropriate or even questionable Mr Trump.”
However, short and epestein described their relationship as not only a familiar.
Last year, only the band Epstein, who was purchased by The Daily Beast, said, “I was Donald’s closest friend for 10 years.” 2002 Trump said similarly New York magazine: “I know Jeff for 15 years. A terrible guy. He’s a lot of fun to be. Even says he also likes beautiful women like me, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Dershowitz also stated that “evidence that Epstein committed suicide was” clear. ” The convicted sex offender was found in his cell in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York in 2019. August 10
“It is unclear whether he was helped by prison staff,” Dershowitz said. “It is likely to me to be evidence of allegedly broken cameras, the transmission of his mobile friend and the absence of guards during the relevant periods.”
Last week, the Department of Justice released almost 11 hours of video surveillance videos from prison Epstein on the day of death. Analysis Wired However, by quoting video forensic experts, it is concluded that the footage was probably changed, further stimulating conspiracy theories he was killed.
Dershowitz denied another theory developed by the conservative host Tucker Carlson that Epstein had contacts with the Israeli government.
“I have no doubt that Epstein never worked at any intelligence agency,” he said, quoting confirmation from his sources in Israel. “If he had been, he would have told me and his other lawyers who would have used the information to be better.”
“There is nothing more annoying gossip than when stubborn facts (or the absence of facts) obstruct the juicy theory,” concluded Dershowitz. “I’m sorry I was disappointed, but there’s really no much to see here, and what was already revealed.”
Magaworld erupted ahead after the Justice Department and the FBI announced earlier this month in the Bombshell Memorandum that there is no client list, and Epstein actually died of suicide, allowing you to drop a brief loyalty that hung the Attorney General’s Pam Bondi comments in February.
Earlier on Tuesday, Trump said Bondi informed him of Epstein’s cases, but when asked if he was named there.
“No, no, she only provided us with a very quick briefing and the reliability of the different things they saw,” he told reporters. “But she is very good at behaving and everything she thinks is reliable, she is going to spend it.”
2008 Dershowitz helped Epstein secure a lover’s lawsuit agreement, which allowed him to serve only 13 months in prison during the day.
Although Dershowitz has repeatedly denied close relationships with his famous customer, he publicly talked about receiving a massage from a middle -aged woman at Epstein’s home.
“I kept my underwear during the massage. I especially dislike massages,” he said in 2019. Interview in Florida Wlg. “Did you have young women in the other part of the house where I wasn’t near? I didn’t even imagine it.”
Dershowitz 2018 Axios said Epstein called him several times about legal questions: “But I had no social or other connection … You never stop being a personal lawyer.”
2019 In July, Epstein’s arrest month, the lawyer said NPR that they no longer had any types of relationship.
“I haven’t seen his years and I didn’t talk to him for a few months,” he said. “Sometimes his lawyers – current lawyers – will call me questions about the basis of a claim. But I do not have the current legal relationship with him or his personal relationship.”