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Case 1:19-cv-03377 Document1 Filed 04/16/19 Page 22 of 28 78. Wholly absent at this point was any assertion by Mr. Dershowitz that Ms. Roberts was lying, or that she made up her charge as part of an extortion claim, or that after investigating his alleged evidence Ms. Roberts’ lawyer did not believe her. On the contrary, Mr. Dershowitz expressly recognized that Ms. Roberts’ belief was an honest one. All Mr. Dershowitz was pleading for was an acknowledgement that there was a “possibility” that there “may be” a case of mistaken identification. Even that plea was rejected by Ms. Roberts and her lawyers as misleading. 79. Dershowitz’s present PR claim that Roberts’ lawyers disbelieved their client, and that Roberts intentionally committed perjury as part of an extortion scheme, is just another Dershowitz lie. His reliance on statements taken out of context, his failure to include the statements of Roberts’ lawyer after Dershowitz’s supposed evidence had been investigated, and the damning admissions of his own lawyers, reveal Dershowitz’s total lack of support for his allegation that Roberts and her lawyers concocted knowingly false allegation against him as part of a supposed extortion plot. 80. Dershowitz also lied to attempt to deflect Sarah Ransome’s revelations about him. Ms. Ransome revealed that during the time she was a victim of Epstein’s sex trafficking, Epstein’s arranged for his lawyer, Dershowitz, to also represent Ms. Ransome. Ms. Ransome also described how, during the time Dershowitz was her lawyer, Epstein lent her out to Dershowitz for sex. (Exhibit 14). 81. Dershowitz asserted that he never had sex with Ms. Ransome, that he never represented Ms. Ransome, that he did not even know Ms. Ransome, and that Ms. Ransome’s statements about him were fabricated by Ms. Roberts’ lawyer in retaliation for a bar complaint that Dershowitz had filed against that lawyer (Exhibit 16). However, as Dershowitz knew: 22 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017956