Witness recounts suspicious phone call claiming FBI involvement in Jeffrey Epstein investigation

PATTERSON osed to interview a girl and bring 25 for Epstein. riginall] training in Chiang Mai. While I 1d special guy and told him hon- ‘ed to do. He told me I should get 1e people I was working for were could not walk away or disobey us punishment, including my life. | xct me. I had confidence [in] him | 1 as my opportunity to escape and ruly loved me and would protect / to Australia. 1 told him I was not coming back. : fallen in love.” Epstein basically | good life.” I could tell he was not hat he was going to do to me. I owerful friends might send some- killed. ward, out of concern for my safety stayed in Australia with my hus- om late 2002 to October 2013. To : United States during these years, visit my mother. And my absence as not voluntary—I was hiding 4 of what he would do to me if I 4 ‘es. 3 fter not hearing from anyone for © contacted by someone who identi sunding name and claimed he wise Firtuy Ricu with the FBI. It seemed very odd for someone doing an offi- cial criminal investigation to just call up on the phone like that. I hadn’t heard Epstein’s name for years. I didn’t know who this person was and what it was really about. I couldn't tell what was going on. 36. This man said he was looking into Jeffrey Epstein. The man asked if I had been involved with Epstein. My first instinct was to say nothing because I wasn’t sure he was really with the FBI or any authorities. I answered a few basic questions, telling him that I knew Jeffrey Epstein and had met him at a young age. But the conversation didn't feel right. This man never offered to come and meet with me in person. Instead, he asked me right off the bat about Epstein’s sexual practices. I thought it would be strange for a true law enforce- ment officer to behave that way, so I became increasingly uncomfortable and suspicious about who was actually call- ing me. 37. I told the man nothing more about Epstein. The con- versation probably didn’t even last three minutes, but it immediately triggered all of the fears of Epstein and his pow- erful friends that had caused me to escape in the first place. If the call accomplished anything, it only put me back in a state of fear and told me that I could be found quite easily and had nobody officially protecting me. 38. I suspected that the man who called me was working for Epstein or one of Epstein’s powerful friends. I believed that if this was really an agent who was investigating Epstein, he would have known who I was and how I fit into Epstein’s sex- ual crimes in many different places. He would have inter- viewed me in a way that would have established his credentials 247 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022054