Alan Dershowitz Offers to Testify in Epstein Case, Says He’s Ready to Speak Under Oath
Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz, who has faced accusations related to his former client Jeffrey Epstein, strongly stated on Newsmax on Friday that he would like the House Oversight Committee to call him in to testify publicly. He also demanded that the names of those accusing him and others be made public.
“I’m delighted that there are public hearings,” Dershowitz told “Bianca Across the Nation.” “I invite them to call me. I’m happy to testify.”
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her husband, former President Bill Clinton, have agreed to testify before the committee. Hillary Clinton has called for the hearings to be conducted in public.
Alan Dershowitz noted that the former president is listed in connection with Jeffrey Epstein, but the names of Clinton’s accusers have been redacted.
“Clinton’s name is on the list,” Dershowitz argued. “It says Bill Clinton, not a victim in Epstein’s case, claimed she was invited to an orgy with Clinton but did not attend.”
“You know, again, let’s have a public hearing, but let’s name these accusers,” he added. “These accusers have no right to accuse and then hide behind anonymity.”
Dershowitz stated that in his own case, “it says not a minor,” so that factor should not be considered when deciding whether to release the identities of the accusers.
“What right does an adult woman have to level an accusation of false, totally false accusation against me and hide behind redaction and anonymity?”
Alan Dershowitz was part of Jeffrey Epstein’s legal team in 2007, during which they negotiated a non-prosecution agreement in Florida. He later continued to represent Epstein as civil suits against him expanded.
Dershowitz was no longer serving as Epstein’s legal counsel in July 2019, when Epstein was facing charges of sex trafficking involving minors.
One month later, Epstein died in a New York correctional facility, and his death was ruled a suicide.
In an interview with Newsmax, Dershowitz stated that it is “McCarthyism” and “unconstitutional” not to release the names of the accusers.
“I’m delighted that we’re going to see public hearings,” he said. “Let them call me to the public hearings. I’ll tell them the truth about what happened.”
Dershowitz added that he won’t claim any privileges.
“I won’t claim any inability to remember,” he said. “I remember everything, and I know a great deal about it. But they won’t call me because they’re not interested in the truth. They’re interested only in gossip.”
However, the ongoing controversy about Epstein “is really not about Jeffrey Epstein anymore,” said Dershowitz.
“This is about the worst form of McCarthyism that has afflicted America since the 1950s,” he said.
Dershowitz continued that the Justice Department has released a list of “prominent names,” but “every single name of every accuser has been blacked out.”
“So, for example, let’s turn to me,” Dershowitz said. “It says blank, blank, blank, blacked out. Stated she gave him a massage on Epstein’s plane. Parenthesis. Not a minor.”
“I was never on Epstein’s plane with a young woman,” he insisted.
“So let’s understand that this is an adult, a woman who was on Epstein’s plane, she says,” said Dershowitz. “I was never on Epstein’s plane with a young woman. I never got a massage. This is total defamation, a total lie.”
But he added that he can’t disprove the claim “because they won’t give me her name.”
Dershowitz also responded to allegations suggesting that Epstein had connections with Israel’s Mossad.
“It’s an absurd theory. He was not a Mossad agent,” said Dershowitz.
Dershowitz also insisted that Epstein “was not suicidal.”
“The lawyers told me that he was told he had a good chance of getting out on bail Monday or Tuesday, following the weekend when he allegedly killed himself, so there’s a good argument that he didn’t kill himself,” said Dershowitz. “But then you have to ask yourself, who killed him?”
Chuck Schumer Makes Huge Admission About Epstein Files
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, perhaps accidentally, engaged in a moment of truth when responding to a reporter’s inquiry, saying that Americans are asking why the late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein’s files were not released during President Joe Biden’s term.
“Why wouldn’t they have been released the last four years when President Biden was in office?” a reporter asked Schumer.
“That’s the question every American is asking. Not every American, but so many Americans are asking. What the hell is [Donald Trump] hiding? Why didin’t he want them released? Schumer said, immediately pivoting to blaming President Donald Trump.
Documents released by the US Justice Department show that a friend of the sole representative of the US Virgin Islands in the U.S. Congress asked Jeffrey Epstein to help set up a meeting between the politician and Schumer.
The contact with Epstein was made on behalf of Stacey Plaskett, who is the islands’ representative in the House of Representatives. Plaskett was trying to get Schumer to help the Caribbean recover from two hurricanes in 2017, according to the documents.
“We have to help Stacey get a meeting with Schumer. Any thoughts?” Erika Kellerhals, a tax lawyer in the US Virgin Islands, wrote to Epstein in an email on January 24, 2018.
“[S]hould not be a problem need to know the reason and subject,” Epstein wrote back a few hours later.
“She has been unable to confirm a meeting with him. He is driving the disaster relief bill and has only been talking about Puerto Rico and not the [Virgin Islands]. She’s concerned we will be ignored,” Kellerhals told Epstein in response.
After his conversation with Kellerhals, Epstein emailed Kathy Ruemmler, who used to be the chief counsel for US President Barack Obama, and asked her to help him set up a meeting with Schumer.
“schumer is driving the puerto rico . virgin islands relief=bill. the VI congressional rep Stacey plaskett , h=s not been able to get a meeting. confirmed with him. ca= you help?” Epstein wrote to Ruemmler, who is now the chief lawyer to Goldman Sachs.
“I do not have any relations=ip with him, but let me see whether I can get to his COS,” Ruemmler said in response, referring to his chief of staff.
Newly released Epstein-related records also show that fundraisers working for top Democratic leaders, like Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, asked Epstein for campaign donations and to attend fundraising events years after he was convicted of sex crimes in 2008.
According to The Washington Times, records show that partner Darren Rigger of the political fundraising firm Dynamic SRG repeatedly reached out to Epstein on behalf of well-known Democratic lawmakers.
On September 18, 2012, Epstein was invited to an event called “Schumer Senate Candidate Reception” to help then-Rep. Martin Heinrich’s successful campaign for the New Mexico Senate.
Fundraisers said that the event was important for Democrats to keep their Senate majority and support Obama’s reelection.
The Times also reported that fundraisers asked Epstein to help New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (who was a House member at the time) and Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York.
Rigger invited Epstein to a fundraising dinner with President Obama in May 2013 on behalf of Jeffries.
He called the Brooklyn congressman “one of the rising stars” in the New York delegation and “Brooklyn’s Barack.”
Later that same year, more requests for information related to Jeffries came in.
Reports from outside sources have confirmed that Jeffries and Dynamic SRG did try to raise money in 2013.
Jeffries has said in public that he didn’t know about the outreach that was done in his name and that he has never met Epstein.
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According to records from the Federal Election Commission, Epstein did not give any money to Jeffries’ campaign.
As recently as July 2017, Epstein was invited to a dinner and meet-and-greet with Hakeem Jeffries in St. Thomas.
