Alan Dershowitz, who defended Jeffrey Epstein during his 2008 plea for soliciting minors for prostitution, told NewsNation’s Chris Cuomo that no “client list” has ever existed.
After Cuomo asked specifically if the government was “hiding” the list, Dershowitz gave a lengthy response:
No, there is no client list and never has been a client list. A client list suggests that Jeffrey Epstein made a list of people to whom he trafficked women. What there is is a redacted FBI affidavit from accusers—and there are several of them—that accuse Jeffrey, that accuse various people of having improper [conduct]. And that has been redacted. The names of the people accused have been blacked out.
Now, of course, because I was a lawyer and I did all the investigations, I know all these people. I could figure out, based on everything that I saw, who Mr. X is, Mr. Y is, and Mr. Z is. I can tell you right now: none of them are public figures who are currently in office. Some of them were previously in office. Some of them are dead. But there is no client list. And the redactions could be undone if you go to court.
So, many of the things that are being suppressed are being suppressed by two judges in Manhattan, and they’re doing it largely to protect the alleged accusers, who are all, in the view of the judges, victims—even though we don’t know what their actual status is. But the judges have issued orders, which is why I can’t disclose things I’d love to disclose, saying that you can’t disclose this information.
But Pam Bondi and the Justice Department under Donald Trump are not responsible for that. I don’t know of any information that they could disclose that they haven’t disclosed. Now, maybe there are some—I’m simply not aware of it. And so I think it’s important to place the blame where the blame deserves to be placed.
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Chris Cuomo: “Is the government hiding a client list or anything that the Trump administration could release tonight?”
Alan Dershowitz: “No, there’s no client list and never has been a client list.”
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The vast majority of people who are in the files—and I know them all, I’ve seen all the names—the vast, vast majority of them have already been disclosed. They’re in articles all over the world. They’re in books that have been written.
So if we got everything—everything—you would be shocked how few names are there that haven’t already been disclosed. The media hasn’t, by the way, done a good enough job in finding the people who have been disclosed in the public record.
So that’s that list. Then there’s the videotapes. People say there must be tapes. I know the whole story there. There is a videotape—maybe several videotapes. They came under the following circumstances: before any of this happened, Epstein was robbed by one of his employees of money and of a licensed gun. And he called the Palm Beach Police, and they installed video cameras—not in the bedrooms, but in the living room. And those video cameras recorded some people. But there’s no sexual allegations there. So there’s nothing to that.
And then there’s Tucker Carlson’s absurd allegations about the Mossad. I know this from very, very personal experience. Why? I was representing Jeffrey Epstein. I asked him about everything, including whether he had any contacts with intelligence agencies. If he had, he would have been dying to tell me that, because I could have used that to go get him a better deal. If he had worked with the Mossad, or say, the CIA, it would have been golden for me. But of course, he said no.
