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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 — 116 allegations coming out, Dershowitz called international sex trafficker Epstein to make sure their memories coincided or something like that. And I was afraid if we contacted Alan Dershowitz, what had happened to S.R. was going to happen to Virginia Roberts, which was going to be even worse because she had been hiding out in Australia for a number of years to escape Epstein. And now this would potentially tip him off that she was now back in contact and he would redouble efforts to find her. So I was, frankly again, just speaking for myself, I'm not speaking for my co-counsel, but I was extremely afraid of tipping off Mr. Dershowitz that we were going to be filing this pleading because he would have contacted Epstein in the same intimidation tactics and, indeed, life-threatening tactics that had apparently been used against other witnesses might be used against her. I mean, I also was thinking frankly, about whether to file this pleading, because of the risk that she would be in, but I thought that the safest way to protect her was to file this so that the information was out there. ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021939