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Oo O DN OO FF WwW NY = NO RO PRP LP PNMO NO | S| S| |S FS FS S| S| | | no Bb WO NO F- ODO OO WDNnN DO OT BP WO NYO — 72 yelling going on here, so I was trying to make sure that everybody was quiet so that the client could answer. MR. SIMPSON: All right. Let me back up. Professor Cassell, I think you were in the middle of an answer? THE WITNESS: Yeah, I was. MR. SIMPSON: Could the court reporter read me the last two lines of your answer? (Thereupon, a portion of the record was read by the reporter.) BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. Can you pick up then? A. Sure. I'll pick up the ans -- so I was beginning to draw an adverse inference when Jeffrey Epstein, who is at the heart of the sexual abuse of not only Virginia Roberts, but dozens and dozens and dozens of girls literally scattered across the globe, takes the Fifth, refuses to answer the question. Off the top of my head, I can't recall exactly, but something along lines of: Do you know Alan Dershowitz? And he says, I take the Fifth. That sort of, frankly, startled me, that this international sex trafficker was taking the Fifth now when asked about Mr. Dershowitz. ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021895