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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 — 120 victims’ rights act case that we are talking about is in the Southern District of Florida. I think the record should be clear that that is in the 11th Circuit. And so that case law says that you look at these different factors, one of the factors, that to my mind would weigh heavily in favor of drawing the adverse inference would be the degree of control that the one party has over the other. Dershowitz was the attorney for Epstein and, indeed, we heard today that he continues to be the attorney on the Tri-Tech case and I'm assuming an attorney/client privilege on other matters as well. So he would seem to have a significant control over that. The other thing that was going on in my mind when I'm drawing the adverse inference is that there might be some people that are invoking the Fifth Amendment but not getting sound legal advice. An attorney can only allow his client to assert a Fifth Amendment privilege in civil case if there's a significant risk that the answer will be incriminating. You can't just invoke it willy-nilly. And I knew that Mr. Epstein had been receiving -- you know, as a billionaire would -- you know, the best legal advice that money could buy, and the advice he was getting with regard to questions about ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021943