TrafficKing by Conchita Sarnoff

Author:Conchita Sarnoff
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: N/A
Publisher: Post Hill Press
Published: 2019-11-21T16:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER ELEVEN

“ABSENCE OF EVIDENCE IS EVIDENCE OF ABSENCE”

As New Year’s begin, the 2015 New Year’s Day began poorly for Harvard law Professor Alan M. Dershowitz. A renowned American lawyer, Harvard University law professor Emeritus, jurist and author, Dershowitz is a leading scholar on U.S. constitutional law.

In December 2014 a complaint submitted by two Victim’s Rights attorneys, Brad Edwards and former federal Judge, Paul Cassell, also a University of Utah law professor, revealed, “Epstein forced Virginia Louise Roberts to have sex with former Harvard law professor, Alan Dershowitz, ‘on numerous occasions while she was a minor, not only in Florida but on private planes, in New York, New Mexico and the U.S. Virgin Islands,” The sworn statement accused Professor Dershowitz of having sexual intercourse with Roberts-Giuffre at least six times, in various places, including Epstein’s Palm Beach residence.143

These humiliating and disgraceful accusations given Professor Dershowitz’ lifelong accomplishments made for an anticlimactic ending to an otherwise illustrious career. Outraged, Dershowitz filed a sworn affidavit in Florida refuting the allegations and challenging Edwards and Cassell to file affidavits.

Dershowitz disputed the victim, Virginia Roberts’ claims and publically dared Roberts to file a criminal complaint with the Palm Beach State Attorney and the U. S. Attorney as regards to her sexual abuse allegation. The professor also threatened Edwards and Cassell with disbarment. Shortly after the Roberts’ complaint was filed, Dershowitz organized his own defense strategy. He went numerous times on air, online and on the advise of his counselors participated in more than two-dozen television interviews and numerous online reports. At all times, Dershowitz passionately rejected Roberts’ allegations of sexual abuse.

Sometime in April 2015, Dershowitz claimed that he and David Boies, another superstar attorney who was representing Virginia Louis Roberts in a separate case, a defamation claim against Ghislaine Maxwell, in New York, held a private conversation. Dershowitz alleged that during their conversation Boies apparently, “told him he believed Dershowitz was innocent and (that) his accuser (i.e. his client Virginia Roberts) was mistaken or confused.”144

Dershowitz then filed an Affidavit claiming, “Boies told him he could not ethically continue to represent the woman if she did not withdraw her claim.”145 Dershowitz’ affidavit included notes written by him of his conversations with Boies. The notes said that, “over the course of several conversations in person, over the phone, and on Skype, Mr. Boies repeatedly stated that he did not believe the allegations that his (client) had made against me were factually true.”146

Boies, who had been Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Antitrust Subcommittee, in 1978, and served as Chief Counsel and Staff Director of the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, in 1979, denied making those comments. “I never said to him that I concluded that my client’s assertions were incorrect,” Boies told the New York Times, “I didn’t say anything like that.”147

Dershowitz was surprised and responded to Boies’ denial in a statement he gave to the American Bar Association (ABA) Journal. It went like this, “I doubt that my friend David Boies will be willing to state under oath that he did not make the statements that I quote in my affidavit.

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