Documents Show Earlier Effort to Link Dershowitz to Epstein Scandal

[Jesus Malverde]

More than four years before underage sex claims against Alan Dershowitz turned up in a court document, a lawyer for his accuser sought to link the famed attorney to the Jeffrey Epstein sex-abuse scandal, according to court documents.

In 2010, a lawyer for alleged victims of Mr. Epstein described Mr. Dershowitz in court papers as a potential witness to sex abuses committed by Mr. Epstein, a money manager whom federal prosecutors suspected of abusing dozens of underage girls.

Mr. Dershowitz, who was friends with Mr. Epstein, had earlier helped him negotiate a controversial non-prosecution deal with federal prosecutors.

Bradley Edwards, a Florida lawyer who at the time was representing women in civil suits against Mr. Epstein, drew attention to an earlier deposition by a Miami man who worked for Mr. Epstein at the financier’s Palm Beach mansion.

That man, Alfredo Rodriguez, was employed as Mr. Epstein’s house manager in 2004 and 2005, according to court transcripts. He claimed in a 2009 deposition, taken in separate litigation, that Mr. Dershowitz visited Mr. Epstein’s Florida house “two or three” times over several months. Mr. Rodriguez said some of the same “young ladies” whom he had witnessed coming into Mr. Epstein’s mansion for purported “massages” were also at the house while Mr. Dershowitz was present, according to a transcript.

http://blogs.wsj.com/law/2015/01/09/documents-show-effort-to-link-dershowitz-to-epstein-scandal/

[JI7]

1. i think the accusations against him are BS

[Hutzpa]

2. A fan of his???

[JI7]

3. no, i find him arrogant and don't care for his position on things like torture

[Hutzpa]

5. yeahhh he is an asshole alright

to orchestrator of too many things bad for this country at present.

[Jesus Malverde]

4. Alan Dershowitz’s Curious Denials

What I do find odd is that Dershowitz proceeds to mischaracterize Jane Doe #3’s allegations and to specifically deny the mischaracterized allegations:

1. Dershowitz contends that “Jane Doe #3 has alleged that she had sex with me on Mr. Epstein’s Caribbean island,” and he avers that he was on that island only once, for a day, and was with his wife and daughter during the entire day.

But Jane Doe #3’s allegation about Dershowitz refers generally to “the U.S. Virgin Islands,” not to “Mr. Epstein’s Caribbean island.” (By contrast, an allegation that she levels against Prince Andrew refers to “Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands,” and another against Jean Luc Brunel calls the island by its name, Little St. James Island.) In other words, while it’s possible to assume that her allegation against Dershowitz relates to Epstein’s private island, her actual allegation isn’t so limited.

2. Dershowitz contends that Jane Doe #3 “has alleged that she had sex with me in Mr. Epstein’s house in New Mexico,” and he avers that he “was in that house only once while it was under construction.”

But Jane Doe #3’s allegation refers to New Mexico generally, not to Epstein’s house.

3. Dershowitz contends that Jane Doe #3 “has accused me of having sex with her on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane,” and he avers that plane manifests will show that he was never on “that plane … under circumstances where it would have been possible to have sex with Jane Doe #3.”

But Jane Doe #3’s allegation against Dershowitz refers to “private planes” generally. (She also refers elsewhere to “Epstein’s private planes”—in the plural.) So if Dershowitz is going to get into specifics, it’s not enough to refer only to Epstein’s plane.

4. Dershowitz also contends that, “[a]s to Mr. Epstein’s homes in New York City and Palm Beach,” he “never had any sexual contact with Jane Doe #3.”

But Jane Doe #3’s allegation against Dershowitz refers generally to “New York” and “Florida” and isn’t limited to Epstein’s homes in New York City and Palm Beach.

One has to wonder whether Dershowitz mischaracterizes these allegations in order to be able to deny them with such specifics. A more innocent possibility is that he wrote the draft declaration in a hurry and that he simply didn’t pay sufficient attention to Jane Doe #3’s allegations.

http://www.nationalreview.com/bench-memos/395894/alan-dershowitzs-curious-denials-ed-whelan

[elias49]

6. Uber lawyer talk.

It's all in the specifics...."I did not have sex with..."

[GeorgeGist]

7. Iow maybe he's just a bad lawyer?