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there were multiple -- according to the Chief of Police, there had been multiple, you know, requests to interview Mr. Epstein and Mr. Dershowitz had repeatedly said, oh, yeah, we will schedule that. And then it hadn't happened.
Now, obviously, there could have been a Situation there where an emergency had come up for Mr. Epstein and he wasn't able to make a schedule or something like that. But what I saw was a pattern of offers to meet and then withdrawals and that seems to me to be a deliberately calculated strategy to sort of stall the investigation to say, oh, we will get you Epstein, oh, we can't meet now. Oh, we will get it now -- and so forth.
And one of the things that I noted from all that was that Mr. Dershowitz, as Mr. Epstein's attorney, never ultimately produced Epstein for a meeting with the Palm Beach Police Department, having made another offers -- now, obviously, something could have happened there. I mean, I don't -- I don't know what was the communications and so forth, but as an attorney trying to get information and unable to do that, I had to make some reasonable inferences.
And so one of the inferences I began to draw
was that this was a stall tactic by Mr. Dershowitz, and
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