Testimony hints at Jeffrey Epstein invoking Fifth Amendment and referencing potential witnesses like Alessi, with vague allusion to higher‑level in...

Oo O DN OO FF WwW NY =| NO RO PO PNP NM NO | S| S| HS SF S| S| S| S| S| non BP WO NO -|- ODO OO WDN OO OT BP WO NYO — 117 And, at that point, you know, you know, if she disappeared or something, the world would know, you know, who the first person would be to look at would be, you know, Jeffrey Epstein and other people to look at would be those who were associated with him. BY MR. SIMPSON: Q. I want to go back to your testimony a bit ago about the Fifth Amendment. You testified that Mr. Epstein took the Fifth when he was asked about Professor Dershowitz? A. Yes. Q. Is that right? A. Yes. Q. Didn't he take the Fifth with respect to a whole host of people? A. With some other people, yes, but not with every person. That's why I want my memory to aid here. If you look at the Jeffrey Epstein answers to interrogatories in one of the civil cases, he provided, for example, the name of Alessi as someone who would have relevant information, but not Dershowitz. And that was consistent with I think invoking the Fifth, not on the sort of household people, but the people who were higher up in the echelon which would ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021940