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indicated to me, since he was being represented
by very experienced legal counsel, that there was
more than an insignificant risk of incriminating
himself if he answered that.
And so Jeffrey Epstein now had taken the
Fifth. And one of the things that I was aware of
having been involved in, you know, civil
litigation and criminal litigation in other
cases, once somebody refuses to answer a question
like, you know: Do you know Mr. Dershowitz, and
they take the Fifth on that, that you're then
entitled to draw what's called an adverse
inference. You can infer that, well, if they
answered that question --
MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me.
MS. McCAWLEY: Yeah, I want to make an
objection here --
MR. SCAROLA: Pardon me. Could you please
try to control your client who keeps jumping up
and down and distracting everybody in the room?
MS. McCAWLEY: Yeah, and there was also
profanity used earlier. I mean, we just have to
settle down on this side, take a deep breath, and
let him answer his questions.
MR. SIMPSON: Look, I mean, the same thing
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