Court hearing transcript references Mr. Freeh and defamation case involving Ms. Maxwell and Ms. Giuffre

10 id. 12 13 14 L5 16 ne) 18 life) 20 21 22 23 24 25 Wee) H3VOGIU1 against her because they don't like her actions in that particular circumstance as opposed to the merits of the case. And by the way, we are going to strongly contest that she's a tax cheat, so your Honor is going to have, I guess, competing tax information, and jury instructions on whether personal injury returns have to be reported on your return, all of which is going to deflect the jury's time and attention, not to mention the Court's and counsel's, away from the fundamental issue of did Ms. Maxwell defame Ms. Giuffre. So that's our response to the initial overview regarding 405, and I'm going to turn the time over to my colleague now to dive into some specifics. MS. McCAWLEY: Thank you, your Honor. I'm going try to keep this very brief and just touch on some of the highlights quickly. So we were talking initially at the beginning about the issue of various pieces of different witnesses, whether their information would come in, and we hit on the issue --— they brought up the issue of Mr. Freeh, and actually gave you -- told you that he was going to be just somebody who was going to sit on the stand and validate the FOIA response. Well, very clear from the documents they've produced in this case, if I could hand them up, your Honor, this is the pages that they produced with respect to Mr. Freeh. And you'll see on the first page, he gives his conclusion and he says, SOUTHERN DISTRICT REPORTERS, P.C. (212) 805-0300 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011378