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Case 1:20-cr-00330-PAE Document 767 _ Filed 08/10/22 Page 139 of 257 LCKVMAX6 Summation - Ms. Menninger 1 it was. 2 Secondly, the government makes a big show of these big 3 dollar transfers. And they claim it's the finances; that 4 Ghislaine Maxwell was basically being purchased to facilitate 5 sexual abuse because she got big dollar transfers of money that 6 you can see from bank statements. 7 That is some thin testimony. 8 What they are asking you to do is to speculate. And 9 speculation is not evidence. Putting up a bank statement that 10 shows transfers tells you nothing about what was going on and, 11 in fact, it's not even clear that Ghislaine Maxwell knew that 12 these transfers were being made in her name. 13 You saw evidence that Epstein bought a helicopter, and 14 he owned it through a company called Air Ghislaine. Dave 15 Rodgers told you that's totally common for wealthy people to 16 own their private planes through companies, because it limits 17 their liability. And that's exactly what the $7.4 million 18 would have corresponded with, because the bank records show it 19 was Air Ghislaine. It's not like Epstein put all his assets in 20 Ghislaine's name. Larry Visoski told you that he put 2l several -- that Epstein put several of the cars in Palm Beach 22 under Larry Visoski's name. 23 You also heard that Epstein was generous with a number 24 of people. He donated to numerous charities. He was a sponsor 25 of the arts and individual artists. He gave money to builda SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 2973 DOJ-OGR-00017160