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five-and-a-half years, so I had seen a lot of, you know, nonprosecution types of arrangements. And one of the things that was very unusual in this one is, it has what I'll refer to as the blank check immunity provision.
There was a provision in the nonprosecution agreement that said, this agreement will prevent federal prosecution for international and interstate sex trafficking, not only of Jeffrey Epstein, and not only of the four women who were identified, but -- and this is a direct quote: Any other potential co-conspirator, close quote. And so that was unusual because what it -- what it seemed to be doing was somehow this agreement was quite out of the normal and had been designed to extend immunity to other people that might have been associated with Epstein.
And I knew that that category included the people that were involved in negotiating this highly unusual provision included Mr. Dershowitz who had been heavily involved, not only in the drafting of the agreement, but had also been involved remarkably in attacking the credibility of these girls and saying things like, you know, it was -- Epstein wasn't targeting minor girls, which just struck -- you know, I was -- I don't want to use a technical term,
gob-smocked, that a defense attorney with an obligation
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