Latest / The Epstein Chronicles / Mega Edition: Ghislaine Maxwell Looks To Hit Virginia Roberts With Sanctions (8/18/26)
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- 0:00Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
- 0:03Speaker 1: this episode, we're going to start taking a look at
- 0:06Speaker 1: more documents from the Virginia Roberts and Golaan Maxwell defamation battle.
- 0:12Speaker 1: And to do that, we're taking a look at the
- 0:14Speaker 1: motion for sanctions for violation of Rule number forty five,
- 0:19Speaker 1: Case number fifteen DASH CV DASH zero seven four thirty
- 0:23Speaker 1: three Dash RWs Virginia Roberts versus Glen Maxwell defendant Glen Maxwell,
- 0:31Speaker 1: miss Maxwell files. This combined a response in opposition to
- 0:35Speaker 1: plaintiff's motion to extend deadline to complete depositions and motion
- 0:40Speaker 1: for sanctions for violation of Rule forty five and states
- 0:44Speaker 1: as follows introduction. Apparently, plaintiff seeks to take six depositions
- 0:50Speaker 1: beyond the scheduling order deadline of July first, yet has
- 0:54Speaker 1: failed to demonstrate good cause or diligence as to any
- 0:58Speaker 1: The witnesses include one redacted, a witness that plaintiff initiated
- 1:03Speaker 1: informal attempts to depose on June ninth, and two Roscu,
- 1:07Speaker 1: who plaintiff began steps to depose under the Hay Convention
- 1:12Speaker 1: in London last Friday, June seventeenth. Plaintiff also seeks to
- 1:16Speaker 1: untimely deposed three Jean Luke Brunel, a witness she had
- 1:21Speaker 1: noticed for a mid June deposition, who apparently did not
- 1:24Speaker 1: appear on that date with agreement and consent of Plaintiff's council.
- 1:29Speaker 1: The remaining three witnesses plaintiff seeks to untimely depose are
- 1:33Speaker 1: ones who reportedly have expressed their intention to take the
- 1:36Speaker 1: fifth as to all questions posed council for four Jeffrey
- 1:40Speaker 1: Epstein offered to accept service honor about April eleventh, but
- 1:44Speaker 1: plaintiff ignored that offer for more than six weeks. Plaintiff
- 1:48Speaker 1: only began on June twelfth any attempt to schedule that
- 1:52Speaker 1: deposition in the Virgin Islands. Last week, mister Epstein's council
- 1:56Speaker 1: filed a motion to quash his deposition subpoena. The final
- 2:01Speaker 1: untimely depositions sought by plaintiff are for witnesses Sarah Kellen
- 2:05Speaker 1: and Nadia Maarsenkova, about whom Plaintiff has made no public
- 2:09Speaker 1: claims and thus have no testimony relevant to this defamation
- 2:13Speaker 1: action concerning whether Plaintiff's public allegations about Maxwell are or
- 2:19Speaker 1: rather are not true. The attempted service of subpoenas on Epstein,
- 2:24Speaker 1: Kellen and Marsenkova all violated Rule forty five A four
- 2:29Speaker 1: and should be sanctioned by this Court. As to these witnesses,
- 2:33Speaker 1: Plaintiff has fallen far short of the good cause required
- 2:36Speaker 1: by Rule sixteen B four to modify the scheduling order.
- 2:40Speaker 1: In fact, for the most part, her failures to actively
- 2:43Speaker 1: pursue depositions with these witnesses qualifies as inexcusable neglect. She
- 2:49Speaker 1: frittered away seven of the eight months of the discovery
- 2:52Speaker 1: period and now has placed Miss Maxwell, this Court and
- 2:55Speaker 1: the witnesses in the untenable position of trying to accommodate
- 2:59Speaker 1: her last minute scramble in the absence of any acceptable excuses,
- 3:03Speaker 1: and for the limited evidentiary value that most of the
- 3:06Speaker 1: requested witnesses can provide, this Court should deny the request
- 3:10Speaker 1: for extra time to take these six depositions. The only
- 3:14Speaker 1: witnesses for whom depositions should be permitted following the discovery
- 3:18Speaker 1: cutoff are one Miss Sharon Churcher, Plaintiff's friend, advocate and
- 3:23Speaker 1: form a journalist with The Daily Mail, who filed a
- 3:25Speaker 1: motion to quash her subpoena on the day before her
- 3:28Speaker 1: scheduled deposition, and two plaintiff who refused to answer questions
- 3:33Speaker 1: at her deposition concerning highly relevant, non privileged information. Alternatively,
- 3:39Speaker 1: if the court is to grant additional time for plaintiff
- 3:42Speaker 1: to take depositions, Miss Maxwell will be unduly prejudiced without
- 3:46Speaker 1: sufficient additional time to a secure any witnesses to rebut
- 3:51Speaker 1: testimony glean from these witnesses, b conduct discovery of plaintiff
- 3:55Speaker 1: retained experts c submit a summary judgment motion which includes
- 3:59Speaker 1: fact learned from these late depositions, and d prepare for trial. Thus,
- 4:04Speaker 1: if the court grants Plaintiff's motion, the remaining deadlines in
- 4:07Speaker 1: the scheduling order ought to be extended accordingly. Background to
- 4:12Speaker 1: divert attention away from her own lack of diligence, Plaintiff
- 4:15Speaker 1: characteristically devotes much of her motion blaming Miss Maxwell and
- 4:19Speaker 1: her counsel for her own problems with depositions. Not only
- 4:23Speaker 1: is Plaintiff's acount factually inaccurate, none of it matters to
- 4:27Speaker 1: whether she could timely complete the six depositions at issue.
- 4:31Speaker 1: For example, the scheduling of Miss Maxwell's deposition, which depended,
- 4:35Speaker 1: among other things on an historic snowstorm, a disputed protective order,
- 4:40Speaker 1: Plaintiff's failure to timely produced documents, and Council's conflicting calendars,
- 4:44Speaker 1: all of which have been amply documented with this court,
- 4:48Speaker 1: does not inform any analysis regarding Plaintiff's lack of diligence
- 4:52Speaker 1: in pursuing depositions of these six witnesses see Rule twenty
- 4:57Speaker 1: six dy three, unless the party stipulate the court orders Otherwise,
- 5:01Speaker 1: for the parties and witnesses convenience and in the interests
- 5:05Speaker 1: of justice, A methods of discovery may be used in
- 5:08Speaker 1: any sequence, and B discovery by one party does not
- 5:12Speaker 1: require any other party to delay its discovery. Likewise, receipt
- 5:17Speaker 1: of Miss Maxwell's Rule twenty six disclosures in February also
- 5:21Speaker 1: had nothing to do with these witnesses. Notably, each of
- 5:25Speaker 1: the witnesses who Plaintiff now seeks to depose were known
- 5:28Speaker 1: to her from the outset all but redacted and redacted
- 5:32Speaker 1: were included in her initial Rule twenty six disclosures on
- 5:36Speaker 1: November eleventh, twenty fifteen, and two of the six were
- 5:39Speaker 1: specifically mentioned in Plaintiff's complaint. Finally, the fact that witness Rinaldo.
- 5:44Speaker 1: Rizzo had a deposition rescheduled from April until June, does
- 5:49Speaker 1: not have any bearing on the issue presented by this motion.
- 5:52Speaker 1: Mister Rizzo was deposed on June fourteenth, and he has
- 5:56Speaker 1: nothing to do with the remaining depositions. Mister Rizzo is,
- 5:59Speaker 1: in fact, practically gleeful to be a witness redacted redacted,
- 6:03Speaker 1: redacted redacted. Plaintiff's claims that mister Rizzo is an example
- 6:08Speaker 1: of delay that has harmed her ability to obtain all
- 6:11Speaker 1: depositions in a timely manner is fecious. Contrary to Plaintiff's assertion.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Discovery began in this case on October twenty three, twenty fifteen,
- 6:21Speaker 1: following the party's Rule twenty six F conferral cfed dot
- 6:25Speaker 1: or dot siev dot p Dot twenty six D one
- 6:29Speaker 1: at the Rule sixteen B scheduling Conference. On October twenty eighth,
- 6:33Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, This Court directed the parties to complete all
- 6:36Speaker 1: fact discovery by July one, twenty sixteen. On November thirtieth,
- 6:41Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, contemporaneous with the filing of a Rule twelve
- 6:45Speaker 1: B motion to dismiss, Miss Maxwell also requested of this
- 6:49Speaker 1: Court a stay of discovery pursue it to Rule twenty
- 6:53Speaker 1: six C Document number seventeen. That motion was denied on
- 6:57Speaker 1: January twentieth, twenty sixteen, with an additional two week period
- 7:01Speaker 1: granted to respond the plaintiff's first request for production of documents.
- 7:06Speaker 1: The discovery thus was never stayed. Plaintiff erroneously asserts that
- 7:11Speaker 1: the discovery did not commence in this matter until February eighth.
- 7:16Speaker 1: What she means is that she neglected to seek any
- 7:19Speaker 1: non witness depositions until then. Nothing in the rules of
- 7:22Speaker 1: civil procedure, this Court's orders, or the law prevented plaintiff
- 7:26Speaker 1: from doing so at any point after October twenty three,
- 7:30Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Plaintiff is at over eight months to schedule witnesses,
- 7:35Speaker 1: schedule depositions, and conduct them. Instead, she waited until the
- 7:39Speaker 1: last minute and now complains of a lack of time.
- 7:42Speaker 1: Any lack of time is a product of her own
- 7:44Speaker 1: bad faith and negligent litigation tactics, and should not be
- 7:48Speaker 1: sanctioned by this Court. The failure to timely secure the
- 7:51Speaker 1: depositions of the remaining six witnesses is through no fault
- 7:55Speaker 1: of Miss Maxwell or her council. As to these witnesses.
- 7:59Speaker 1: Miss maxwell Well and their council have played no role
- 8:02Speaker 1: in hindering Plaintiff's ability to depose the witnesses. In fact,
- 8:06Speaker 1: as the four of the six plaintiffs attempted to serve
- 8:08Speaker 1: subpoenas on the witnesses before ever providing notice to the defense,
- 8:13Speaker 1: in clear violation of Rule forty five an four. The
- 8:18Speaker 1: Legal Authority Rule sixteen B permits modification of a scheduling
- 8:23Speaker 1: order only upon a showing of good cause. To satisfy
- 8:27Speaker 1: the good cause standard, the party must show that, despite
- 8:30Speaker 1: its having exercise diligence, the applicable deadline could not have
- 8:34Speaker 1: been reasonably met. So Call Holdings Incorporated First BMD Moonai
- 8:39Speaker 1: Incorporated five CIV Dot three seven four nine KMWDF two
- 8:45Speaker 1: thousand and nine, w L two five two four six
- 8:48Speaker 1: one one at seven SDN Y August fourteenth, two thousand
- 8:52Speaker 1: and nine, citing Rent to Center Incorporated, Verse forty seven Corp.
- 8:57Speaker 1: Two fifteen, f dot R dot D D one hundred
- 9:00Speaker 1: one oh four SDNY two thousand three. J. McMahon Accord
- 9:05Speaker 1: Parker versus Columbia Pictures Industrial, two thousand and four, f
- 9:10Speaker 1: DOT three D three twenty six three forty Second Circuit
- 9:14Speaker 1: two thousand. Good cause depends on the diligence of the
- 9:17Speaker 1: moving party. Perfect Pearl Company Incorporated. Versus Majestic Pearl and
- 9:21Speaker 1: Stone Incorporated. Eight eighty nine f Dot supp Dot two
- 9:26Speaker 1: D four fifty three four fifty seven SDNY twenty twelve.
- 9:30Speaker 1: Angelmeyer j. To show good cause, a movement must demonstrate
- 9:34Speaker 1: that it has been diligent, meaning that despite its having
- 9:37Speaker 1: exercise diligence, the applicable deadline could not have been reasonably met.
- 9:43Speaker 1: Good cause depends on the diligence of the moving party
- 9:47Speaker 1: in seeking to meet the scheduling order. Gratchkowski versus Phoenix
- 9:51Speaker 1: Construction three eighteen f Dot three d eighty eighty six,
- 9:56Speaker 1: Second Circuit, two thousand and three. The Oxford Dictionary defines
- 9:59Speaker 1: diligence as careful and persistent work or effort. See diligence
- 10:04Speaker 1: at Oxford Dictionaries dot com. Good cause and diligence were
- 10:09Speaker 1: not shown when a party raised the prospect of a
- 10:12Speaker 1: deposition nine days prior to the discovery deadline. Carlson versus
- 10:16Speaker 1: Geneva City School District two seventy seven F Dot r
- 10:20Speaker 1: D ninety WDNY, twenty eleven. Compare Rees versus Virginia International
- 10:26Speaker 1: Terminals Incorporated. Two eighty six f dot r D two
- 10:31Speaker 1: eighty two e dot D Virginia, twenty twelve. Depositions noticed
- 10:36Speaker 1: very early in discovery period, and movement engaged in continuing
- 10:40Speaker 1: meet and confer dialogue with the defendants throughout the five
- 10:44Speaker 1: month discovery period. Ayanakoska versus. Benistar Administration Services Incorporated. Seven
- 10:51Speaker 1: sixty five f dot supp Dot two D seventy nine, Massachusetts,
- 10:56Speaker 1: twenty eleven. Correspondence indicated that the plaintiffs had tried on
- 11:01Speaker 1: numerous occasions to schedule the depositions and to extend the
- 11:05Speaker 1: discovery schedule, but that the defendants had either refused or
- 11:09Speaker 1: felt to respond, and good cause was found. All right,
- 11:12Speaker 1: we're going to wrap up episode one there, and in
- 11:15Speaker 1: the next episode we're going to get to the meat
- 11:17Speaker 1: and the potatoes of it and look at the argument.
- 11:20Speaker 1: All of the information that goes with this episode can
- 11:23Speaker 1: be found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and
- 11:27Speaker 1: welcome back to the Epstein Chronicles. We're going to pick
- 11:31Speaker 1: up where we left off with Golen Maxwell and her
- 11:35Speaker 1: motion for sanctions for the violation of Rule forty five.
- 11:40Speaker 1: Argument one plaintiff's lack of diligence. Plaintiff is demonstrated in
- 11:45Speaker 1: extreme lack of diligence in securing the six remaining depositions
- 11:49Speaker 1: that she seeks a redacted. Plaintiff's motion failed to mension
- 11:53Speaker 1: any desire to take the deposition of redacted and redacted.
- 11:57Speaker 1: No notice of deposition has been so and no scheduling
- 12:01Speaker 1: of his deposition has commenced. Indeed, redacted first appeared on
- 12:05Speaker 1: Plaintiff's third revised Rule twenty six disclosures two weeks ago
- 12:10Speaker 1: on June first, then last week. In her reply in
- 12:13Speaker 1: support of motion to exceed ten depositions filed on June thirteenth,
- 12:17Speaker 1: Plaintiff averred that redacted deposition is necessary because Miss Maxwell,
- 12:23Speaker 1: in her deposition on April twenty fifth, raised Miss Roberts's
- 12:27Speaker 1: comments about redacted as one of the obvious lies to
- 12:31Speaker 1: which she was referring in her public statement that formed
- 12:34Speaker 1: the basis of this suit. Reply at three, this is
- 12:37Speaker 1: utter nonsense and nothing more than a transparent ploy by
- 12:40Speaker 1: plaintiff to increase media exposure for her sensational stories through deposition.
- 12:45Speaker 1: Side show. This witness has nothing relevant to add to
- 12:49Speaker 1: this case and plaintiff has made no effort, much less
- 12:52Speaker 1: won in good faith to timely secure his testimony. Plaintiff
- 12:56Speaker 1: admits she has made not allegations of illegal actions by redacted,
- 13:01Speaker 1: but plaintiff has asserted that she spent time with redacted
- 13:04Speaker 1: on the island of Little Saint James Us Virgin Islands,
- 13:08Speaker 1: and that she flew there with the redacted in a
- 13:10Speaker 1: helicopter piloted by miss Maxwell. In one article authored by
- 13:15Speaker 1: Sharon Churcher, plaintiff related on one occasion. She adds Epstein
- 13:19Speaker 1: did invite two young brunettes to dinner, which he gave
- 13:23Speaker 1: on his Caribbean island for mister Clinton shortly after he
- 13:26Speaker 1: left office, but as far as she knows, the ex
- 13:28Speaker 1: president did not take the bait. I'd have been about
- 13:31Speaker 1: seventeen at the time, she says. I flew to the
- 13:34Speaker 1: Caribbean with Jeffrey and then Glenn Maxwell went to pick
- 13:37Speaker 1: up Bill in a huge black helicopter that Jeffrey bought her.
- 13:41Speaker 1: She always wanted to fly, and Jeffrey paid for her
- 13:43Speaker 1: to take lessons, and I remember she was very excited
- 13:47Speaker 1: because she got her license around the first year we met.
- 13:50Speaker 1: I used to get frightened flying with her, but Bill
- 13:53Speaker 1: had the Secret Service with him, and I remember him
- 13:56Speaker 1: talking about what a good job she did. I only
- 13:58Speaker 1: met Bill twice, but Jeffrey told me they were good friends.
- 14:02Speaker 1: We all dined together that night. Jeffrey was at the
- 14:05Speaker 1: head of the table. Bill was at his left. I
- 14:07Speaker 1: sat across from him. Emmy Taylor, Glaine's blonde British assistant,
- 14:11Speaker 1: sat at my right. Glaine was at Bill's left, and
- 14:14Speaker 1: at the left of Glaine. There were two olive skin
- 14:17Speaker 1: brunettes who had flown in with us from New York.
- 14:21Speaker 1: I'd never met them before. I'd say they were no
- 14:23Speaker 1: older than seventeen, very innocent looking. They weren't there for me.
- 14:27Speaker 1: They weren't there for Jeffrey or Glaine, because I was
- 14:30Speaker 1: there to have sex with Jeffrey on that trip. Maybe
- 14:33Speaker 1: Jeffrey thought he would entertain Bill, but I saw no
- 14:36Speaker 1: evidence that he was interested in them. He and Jeffrey
- 14:39Speaker 1: and Glane seemed to be having a good time, and
- 14:42Speaker 1: they had a very good relationship. Bill was very funny.
- 14:45Speaker 1: He made me laugh a few times, and he and
- 14:47Speaker 1: Jeffrey and Golaine told blokey jokes and the brunettes listened
- 14:51Speaker 1: politely and giggled. After dinner, I gave Jeffrey an erotic massage.
- 14:56Speaker 1: I don't remember seeing Bill again on the trip, but
- 14:58Speaker 1: I assume Glaine flew him back. Boy. That seems like
- 15:02Speaker 1: a problem for Bill Clinton. No, didn't his spokesperson come
- 15:06Speaker 1: out and tell us that he's never been on the island.
- 15:08Speaker 1: So either Virginia's lying or Bill Clinton's lying. I'll leave
- 15:12Speaker 1: it up to you to decide who you believe, But
- 15:15Speaker 1: me personally, I don't believe Bill Clinton about a goddamn thing.
- 15:19Speaker 1: And if Virginia saying she saw him on this island,
- 15:22Speaker 1: I'm gonna go with Virginia and say he was on
- 15:24Speaker 1: this island. See Sharon Churchier, teenage girl recruited by pedophile
- 15:29Speaker 1: Jeffrey Epstein, reveals how she twice met Bill Clinton. The
- 15:34Speaker 1: next big dinner on the island had another significant guest appearance,
- 15:37Speaker 1: being the one and only Bill Clinton. He is the
- 15:40Speaker 1: only president in the world to be dismissed from his
- 15:42Speaker 1: role as a world leader because he was caught with
- 15:45Speaker 1: his trousers down around his ankles and had the stain
- 15:48Speaker 1: to prove it publicly humiliating his wife and himself. He
- 15:52Speaker 1: retired from his title, but not from his lifestyle. This
- 15:55Speaker 1: wasn't a big party as such, only a few of
- 15:58Speaker 1: us eating at the dinner table. There was Jeffrey at
- 16:01Speaker 1: the head of the table as always. On the left
- 16:04Speaker 1: was Emmy Glayne, and I was Sitting Across the table
- 16:07Speaker 1: from us was Bill with two lovely girls who were
- 16:10Speaker 1: visiting from New York. Bill's wife, Hillary's absence from the
- 16:13Speaker 1: night made it easy for his apparent provocative, cheeky side
- 16:17Speaker 1: to come out, teasing the girls on either side of
- 16:19Speaker 1: them with playful pokes and brassy comments. There was no
- 16:23Speaker 1: modesty between any of them. We all finished our meals
- 16:26Speaker 1: and scattered in our own different directions. Menager Declaration Exhibit p.
- 16:32Speaker 1: At one ten. Each and every part of Plaintiff's claims
- 16:36Speaker 1: regarding redacted has conclusively been proven false redacted or redacted,
- 16:40Speaker 1: or redacted or redacted. Remarkably, Plaintiff now even denies telling
- 16:44Speaker 1: Churcher that she ever witnessed Miss Maxwell redacted anywhere, or
- 16:49Speaker 1: joking with redacted about what a good job she did.
- 16:52Speaker 1: Menager Declaration Exhibit D. Plaintiff's council remarkably instructed plaintiff not
- 16:57Speaker 1: to answer any additional question about the things that Shannon
- 17:01Speaker 1: Church are inaccurately reported, lending even more incredibulity to Plaintiff's story.
- 17:07Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell only received her pilot's license in mid nineteen
- 17:10Speaker 1: ninety nine, casting insurmountable doubt that redacted, redacted, redacted, and redacted.
- 17:16Speaker 1: The only purpose for seeking this deposition is for the
- 17:20Speaker 1: calculated media strategy that plaintiff and her publicity seeking attorneys
- 17:24Speaker 1: have devised. Plaintiff failed to disclose redacted as a witness
- 17:28Speaker 1: until June first, failed to notice his deposition, failed to
- 17:31Speaker 1: diligently pursue a subpoena on him, and he has no
- 17:34Speaker 1: relevant testimony. It'll offer, accordingly, plaintiff's leave to modify the
- 17:39Speaker 1: scheduling order to permit his deposition should be denied. And
- 17:42Speaker 1: this person we're talking about redacted here is none other
- 17:45Speaker 1: than Billy Boy Clinton. Isn't that nice? I wonder how
- 17:49Speaker 1: many times we're going to see this dude's name in
- 17:51Speaker 1: these documents. B ross Gal, as the court likely recalls,
- 17:57Speaker 1: ross Gal actually issued the state meant pertinent to this
- 18:01Speaker 1: defamation suit. Plaintiff is known about ross Gal and his
- 18:04Speaker 1: role in this lawsuit since the outset She referenced him
- 18:08Speaker 1: repeatedly by name in complaint filed on September twenty first,
- 18:12Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, Complaint paragraph twenty nine. As part of Maxwell's campaign,
- 18:17Speaker 1: she directed her agent, Ross Gal to attack Robert's honesty
- 18:22Speaker 1: and truthfulness and accuse Roberts of lying. Plaintiff also has
- 18:26Speaker 1: been well aware throughout that mister Go resides in London
- 18:30Speaker 1: Plaintiff's motion to compel in proper privileges at eight. After
- 18:33Speaker 1: filing that complaint in September and litigating the motion to
- 18:37Speaker 1: compel based on privileges related to mister Gow in March,
- 18:40Speaker 1: Plaintiff took exactly zero steps to depose mister Goo until
- 18:44Speaker 1: she filed this motion, now nine months after filing her complaint.
- 18:48Speaker 1: Plaintiff contends there is no sufficient time for her to
- 18:51Speaker 1: go through the Hay Convention for service on mister Gal
- 18:55Speaker 1: so as to complete this process before the June thirtieth,
- 18:58Speaker 1: twenty sixteen deadline motion at four. Indeed, Plaintiff only initiated
- 19:03Speaker 1: that process three days ago on Friday June seventeenth, two
- 19:07Speaker 1: weeks shy of the discovery cutoff. Plaintiff once again tries
- 19:12Speaker 1: to blame miss Maxwell for her own lack of diligence
- 19:14Speaker 1: by misrepresenting to this court that Miss Roberts asks that
- 19:18Speaker 1: defendant produce her agent, mister Gall for a deposition, but
- 19:22Speaker 1: defendant has refused. Despite acknowledging that defendant plans to call
- 19:26Speaker 1: mister Gal for testimony at trial in truth, plaintiff sent
- 19:30Speaker 1: a letter on May twenty third, which read, in its entirety,
- 19:34Speaker 1: this letter is to seek your agreement to produce Ross
- 19:36Speaker 1: Gal for a deposition. As the agent for your client,
- 19:40Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell, we can work with mister Gales's schedule to
- 19:43Speaker 1: minimize inconvenience. Please advise by Wednesday, May twenty fifth, twenty sixteen,
- 19:48Speaker 1: whether you will produce mister Gall or whether we will
- 19:51Speaker 1: need to seek relief from the court with respect to
- 19:53Speaker 1: his deposition Manager Declaration Exhibit E. That was the first
- 19:58Speaker 1: communication regards varding any deposition of mister Gal. Two days later,
- 20:03Speaker 1: defense counsel requested any legal authority that would allow Miss
- 20:07Speaker 1: Maxwell to produce Ross Gal for a deposition, or any
- 20:11Speaker 1: rule or case that would either enable or require her
- 20:14Speaker 1: to do so. Plaintiff never responded. She also has not
- 20:19Speaker 1: explained when or how Miss Maxwell acknowledged her plans to
- 20:22Speaker 1: call mister Gal for testimony at trial, nor why that
- 20:26Speaker 1: is relevant to whether plaintiff has demonstrated good cause for
- 20:30Speaker 1: her own failure to take steps to depose a foreign
- 20:32Speaker 1: witness deposition until June seventeenth, for a witness she was
- 20:37Speaker 1: aware before even filing the complaint. During the hearing on
- 20:40Speaker 1: March twenty fourth, this court stated that it would expect
- 20:44Speaker 1: to see good Fay's showing of efforts to comply with
- 20:47Speaker 1: the schedule and an inability because of Hay Convention problems
- 20:50Speaker 1: before it would consider changing the scheduling order. Miss Maxwell
- 20:54Speaker 1: submits that waiting until June seventeenth, two weeks before the
- 20:58Speaker 1: end of discovery to even begin the Hey Convention process,
- 21:01Speaker 1: falls far short of any such good face showing, and
- 21:05Speaker 1: the request for leave to take mister Gal's testimony beyond
- 21:08Speaker 1: July first should be denied. See Jean Luke Brunell. With
- 21:13Speaker 1: regard to Jean Luke Brunell, plaintiff simply asserts that he
- 21:17Speaker 1: was subpoenaed and set for mid June deposition, but through
- 21:20Speaker 1: Council has requested we change the dates of his deposition
- 21:24Speaker 1: motion at four. That's her entire argument. She emits key
- 21:28Speaker 1: facts that would instead demonstrate her lack of diligence in
- 21:32Speaker 1: securing mister Brunell's testimony, and also show that she has
- 21:35Speaker 1: waived any right to seek an out of time deposition.
- 21:39Speaker 1: Plaintiff first issued a notice of Rule forty five subpoena
- 21:42Speaker 1: for documents from mister Brunell on February sixteenth at an
- 21:46Speaker 1: address CEO attorney Joe Totone. No documents were ever produced
- 21:52Speaker 1: pursuant to that subpoena Menager declaration example f Then on
- 21:57Speaker 1: May twenty third, twenty sixteen, issued a new notice of
- 22:01Speaker 1: subpoena duces techem attached to, which was actually a subpoena
- 22:05Speaker 1: for deposition testimony to occur on June eighth at nine
- 22:10Speaker 1: am in New York. Again, the subpoena was addressed COEO
- 22:13Speaker 1: Attorney Robert Hatman. Then on June second, Plaintiff's council sent
- 22:18Speaker 1: an email that they had received an email yesterday from
- 22:21Speaker 1: mister Brunell's attorney saying that he needs to reschedule. I
- 22:25Speaker 1: believe he is trying to get us new dates today
- 22:27Speaker 1: or tomorrow. The scheduled date of June eighth came and
- 22:31Speaker 1: went without any indication of any new dates. Provided by
- 22:35Speaker 1: mister Brunell's council. The following week, Plaintiff's council stated in
- 22:39Speaker 1: a phone conversation that mister Brunell's council said his client
- 22:42Speaker 1: had gone to France and it was unclear when he
- 22:45Speaker 1: would be returning to the United States. Following the filing
- 22:49Speaker 1: of the instant motion, Council for Miss Maxwell requested copies
- 22:53Speaker 1: of the certificates of service for all Plaintiff's Rule forty
- 22:56Speaker 1: five subpoenas. In this case, Plaintiff's council provided certificates on
- 23:01Speaker 1: June fourteenth. Notably absent was any certificate of service for
- 23:05Speaker 1: mister Brunell. Thus, either mister Brunell was never served or
- 23:09Speaker 1: he was served in plaintiff unilatterally extended his compliance date
- 23:13Speaker 1: to an unscheduled time in the future. Either way, the
- 23:17Speaker 1: time to complain about a witness's non compliance is at
- 23:21Speaker 1: or near the time it occurs. Failure to timely complain
- 23:24Speaker 1: regarding non compliance with the subpoena constitutes a waiver in
- 23:28Speaker 1: any event, whether served or not, mister Brunell apparently promised
- 23:32Speaker 1: to provide new dates before his deposition date came and went,
- 23:36Speaker 1: did not do so. Has left the country and not
- 23:39Speaker 1: indicated a present intention to ever return. Given Plaintiff's role
- 23:43Speaker 1: in failing to compel him to attend a deposition, no
- 23:46Speaker 1: good cause has been demonstrated to take the deposition of
- 23:49Speaker 1: mister Brunell after July first. All right, folks, we're going
- 23:53Speaker 1: to wrap up this episode here and in the next
- 23:56Speaker 1: episode we'll pick up where we left off. All of
- 23:59Speaker 1: the information that goes with this episode can be found
- 24:02Speaker 1: in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome back
- 24:05Speaker 1: to the Epstein Chronicles. We're going to pick up where
- 24:09Speaker 1: we left off with Glen Maxwell's motion for sanctions for
- 24:13Speaker 1: a violation of Rule number forty five D Jeffrey Epstein.
- 24:19Speaker 1: As with the other witnesses, Plaintiff has failed to demonstrate
- 24:22Speaker 1: good cause for seeking to depose Jeffrey Epstein out of time.
- 24:26Speaker 1: Plaintiff claims that she was unable to secure service on
- 24:29Speaker 1: mister Epstein until May twenty seventh, twenty sixteen, because his
- 24:34Speaker 1: counsel refused to accept service until she filed her motion
- 24:37Speaker 1: for alternative service. The documents reflect the opposite. Mister Epstein's
- 24:42Speaker 1: attorney agreed to accept service on April eleventh, twenty sixteen.
- 24:46Speaker 1: And it was only on May twenty seventh, twenty sixteen,
- 24:49Speaker 1: that Plaintiff agreed see POE Declaration in support of motion
- 24:53Speaker 1: to quash Epstein Deposition Exhibit three, Document number two twenty
- 24:58Speaker 1: three three. Plaintiff fails to explain her strategic decision or
- 25:03Speaker 1: negligence in failing to respond for over six weeks to
- 25:07Speaker 1: mister Weinberg's email offering to accept service. Indeed, in another
- 25:11Speaker 1: failure of candor, Plaintiff's counsel also neglected to tell this
- 25:15Speaker 1: court about the email from mister Weinberg, either in the
- 25:18Speaker 1: instant motion or in her motion to serve mister Epstein
- 25:21Speaker 1: by alternative means motion at two Document number one sixty.
- 25:27Speaker 1: Plaintiff apparently now claims that she never received that email
- 25:30Speaker 1: from Martin Weinberg. All of the preceding communications, however, indicate
- 25:35Speaker 1: that mister Weinberg promptly responded to Miss McCauley's inquiries ceg
- 25:40Speaker 1: PO Declaration Example two Email of April six from Weinberg
- 25:44Speaker 1: to McCauley offering to let her know regarding acceptance of service.
- 25:48Speaker 1: On April seventh, email of McCauley in response that works fine,
- 25:53Speaker 1: thank you. Thus, if Miss McCauley received no follow up
- 25:55Speaker 1: response from mister Weinberg, as she now claims, when she
- 25:59Speaker 1: had been corresponed bonding with her previously. Therefore, she had
- 26:02Speaker 1: a duty to follow up on that inquiry. A failure
- 26:05Speaker 1: to do so is plain vanilla neglect. Even after agreeing
- 26:10Speaker 1: to the terms proposed by Epstein's Council on May twenty seventh,
- 26:14Speaker 1: that is, the location of the deposition in the US
- 26:17Speaker 1: Virgin Islands and subject to write to oppose the subpoena,
- 26:20Speaker 1: plaintiff then waited an additional three weeks until June twelfth
- 26:24Speaker 1: to even attempt to schedule Epstein's deposition Epstein Memorandum in
- 26:28Speaker 1: support of Motion to clash at two Document number two
- 26:32Speaker 1: twenty two, agreeing to take a deposition in the Virgin
- 26:35Speaker 1: Islands on May twenty seventh, then waiting until June twelfth
- 26:39Speaker 1: to try to schedule a date for that deposition when
- 26:42Speaker 1: numerous other depositions had already been scheduled in New York, Florida,
- 26:46Speaker 1: and California for the balance of June, is either neglect
- 26:50Speaker 1: or strategic posturing by plaintiff. Either way, it does not
- 26:53Speaker 1: amount to good cause for such depositions to take place
- 26:57Speaker 1: beyond July first, finally, to suggest without factual foundation, that
- 27:02Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell played some role in mister Epstein's counsel's refusal
- 27:06Speaker 1: to accept service see motion at two. Forced to personally
- 27:10Speaker 1: serve the defendant's former boyfriend, employer, and co conspirator, as
- 27:15Speaker 1: the timeline in documents now reveal. However, Plaintiff failed to
- 27:19Speaker 1: provide notice to Miss Maxwell that she was even attempting
- 27:22Speaker 1: to serve or Rule forty five subpoena on mister Epstein
- 27:25Speaker 1: for more than seven weeks. Plaintiff states that she began
- 27:28Speaker 1: her service attempts on March seventh, twenty sixteen. The very
- 27:32Speaker 1: first notice of subpoena and deposition served on Miss Maxwell, however,
- 27:37Speaker 1: is dated April twenty seventh, Manager Declaration Exhibit H. Thus,
- 27:41Speaker 1: between March seventh and April twenty seventh, Miss McCauley engaged
- 27:45Speaker 1: in repeated attempts to serve mister Epstein a Rule forty
- 27:48Speaker 1: five subpoena, including a request for documents, without providing the
- 27:53Speaker 1: proper notice to the parties. Pursuant to Rule forty five
- 27:56Speaker 1: A and four, if the subpoena commands the production of documents,
- 28:00Speaker 1: then before it is served on the person to whom
- 28:02Speaker 1: it is directed. A notice and a copy of the
- 28:05Speaker 1: subpoena must be served on each party as detailed below,
- 28:09Speaker 1: that was not an isolated incident and merit sanction. In
- 28:12Speaker 1: any event, it is difficult to imagine how it is
- 28:15Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell's fault that plaintiff cannot serve mister Epstein when
- 28:19Speaker 1: she has never put on notice of any attempt to
- 28:21Speaker 1: do so. Given that Plaintiff new as of April eleventh,
- 28:24Speaker 1: the conditions pursuant to which mister Epstein would accept service
- 28:28Speaker 1: through council, yet waited until May twenty seventh to agree
- 28:32Speaker 1: to those terms, and then waited another nearly three weeks
- 28:35Speaker 1: to attempt to schedule mister Epstein's deposition on a date
- 28:38Speaker 1: available for his counsel and Miss Maxwell's council. Plaintiff has
- 28:42Speaker 1: fallen far short of demonstrating good cause for taking mister
- 28:45Speaker 1: Epstein's deposition beyond the end of the fact discovery cutoff
- 28:51Speaker 1: e Nadia Marsenkova and Sarah Kellen. Finally, plaintiff seeks the
- 28:56Speaker 1: depositions of two other witnesses, Sarah Kellen and Naudium Arsonkova,
- 29:01Speaker 1: who she complains despite being represented by Council have refused
- 29:04Speaker 1: to accept service motion at three. Plaintiff claims that her
- 29:08Speaker 1: process servers tried for three weeks from April twenty fifth
- 29:12Speaker 1: until May eighteenth, to personally serve Miss Kellen and Miss
- 29:15Speaker 1: Marsonkova with subpoena's deuces to come. She did not explain, however,
- 29:20Speaker 1: why she waited until April to try to serve these
- 29:23Speaker 1: two witnesses, about whom her attorneys have known since two
- 29:26Speaker 1: thousand and eight. She also has not explained to this
- 29:29Speaker 1: court any illegally irrelevant or admissible evidence that either possess,
- 29:33Speaker 1: nor how she intends to introduce that evidence in a
- 29:36Speaker 1: trial of this defamation claim between Plaintiff and Miss Maxwell.
- 29:41Speaker 1: Apart from these witnesses stated intent to take the Fifth Amendment,
- 29:44Speaker 1: which renders their testimony inadmissible, as discussed more fully below,
- 29:49Speaker 1: neither witness has any relevant testimony to offer because Plaintiff
- 29:53Speaker 1: never made any public statement about either one of them.
- 29:56Speaker 1: Imagine trying to say that Marsonkova and Sarah Kellen have
- 29:59Speaker 1: nothing else offer. They were really taking some liberties here
- 30:03Speaker 1: with this response, weren't they? Plaintiff did not include either
- 30:07Speaker 1: woman in her Sharon Churchier paid interviews, nor were they mentioned,
- 30:11Speaker 1: and Plaintiff's joined her motion of December thirtieth, twenty fourteen. Thus,
- 30:16Speaker 1: neither Plaintiff's allegations about Miss Maxwell nor Miss Maxwell's denial
- 30:20Speaker 1: of the same based on her personal knowledge, are implied
- 30:23Speaker 1: by anything that Sarah Kellen or Miss marson Cova may
- 30:27Speaker 1: have done with anyone else. Their testimony cannot corroberate Plaintiff's account,
- 30:31Speaker 1: nor can it shed light on whether Miss Maxwell's denial
- 30:34Speaker 1: of that account is accurate, because Plaintiff's account did not
- 30:38Speaker 1: mention either one of them. Technicalities and loopholes the tools
- 30:43Speaker 1: of the guilty. Finally, as to these witnesses, Plaintiff once
- 30:47Speaker 1: again documented her own failure to comply with Rule forty
- 30:50Speaker 1: five in regard to attempts to serve these two witnesses.
- 30:54Speaker 1: Six of the service attempts occurred on April twenty fifth
- 30:57Speaker 1: and April twenty sixth, Yet Plaintiff only per in notice
- 31:00Speaker 1: to Miss Maxwell of her intent to serve the subpoenas
- 31:03Speaker 1: on April twenty seventh. Menager Declaration Example one, Part two
- 31:08Speaker 1: fifth Amendment by Epstein, Kellen or Marsenkova not admissible in
- 31:12Speaker 1: this case against Miss Maxwell. The depositions of Epstein, Kellen,
- 31:17Speaker 1: and Marsenkova do not constitute good cause to modify the
- 31:21Speaker 1: scheduling order in this case for the additional reason that
- 31:24Speaker 1: they all have represented to plaintiff their attention to assert
- 31:28Speaker 1: the Fifth Amendment protection as to all questions, and such
- 31:31Speaker 1: assertion will not be admissible evidence in this trial. Indeed,
- 31:35Speaker 1: counsel for mister Epstein recently filed a motion to quash
- 31:38Speaker 1: a subpoena based on the same legal principle that his
- 31:41Speaker 1: deposition is unduly burdensome in light of the fact that
- 31:45Speaker 1: it will not lead to admissible evidence Document number two
- 31:48Speaker 1: twenty one to twenty two and two twenty three. The
- 31:52Speaker 1: Court should consider this additional factor or decline a finding
- 31:55Speaker 1: of good cause for extending the discovery deadline. Plaintiff wrongfully
- 31:59Speaker 1: content that any assertion of the Fifth Amendment during the
- 32:03Speaker 1: depositions of Epstein, Kellen, and Martsenkova will be admissible in
- 32:07Speaker 1: the trial of this defamation matter where none of those
- 32:10Speaker 1: individuals or parties based on in adverse inference that can
- 32:15Speaker 1: be drawn against Miss Maxwell. See Liebett versus United States,
- 32:19Speaker 1: one oh seven f. Dot three d one ten one
- 32:22Speaker 1: twenty one Second Circuit nineteen ninety seven. In fact, none
- 32:26Speaker 1: of the le booty factors support or argument. While noting
- 32:29Speaker 1: that Miss Maxwell anticipates more extensive briefing on this issue
- 32:33Speaker 1: in support of mister Epstein's motional squash, a few facts
- 32:37Speaker 1: bear mentioning here Miss Maxwell was the employee of mister
- 32:40Speaker 1: Epstein in the nineties, not the other way around. Mister
- 32:44Speaker 1: Epstein has never worked for or been in control of,
- 32:47Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell. Miss Maxwell and mister Epstein have had no financial, professional,
- 32:52Speaker 1: or employment relationship in more than a decade, many years
- 32:56Speaker 1: before twenty fifteen, when the purportedly defamatory statement was published.
- 33:01Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell testified that she has not spoken to mister
- 33:04Speaker 1: Epstein in two years. Maxwell has not vested any control
- 33:09Speaker 1: in mister Epstein in regard to key facts and subject
- 33:11Speaker 1: matter of litigation. As the Court is well aware from
- 33:14Speaker 1: review of emails submitted in camera and later produced a plaintiff,
- 33:19Speaker 1: Mister Epstein in his council gave advice to Maxwell regarding
- 33:22Speaker 1: whether she should issue a statement after January TEWOD twenty fifteen.
- 33:27Speaker 1: In one mister Epstein even suggested what such a statement
- 33:30Speaker 1: might say. Maxwell never issued any additional statement. Maxwell had
- 33:35Speaker 1: her own counsel who operated independently of mister Epstein and
- 33:38Speaker 1: his council. Epstein is not, pragmatically a non caption party
- 33:43Speaker 1: in interest in this litigation, nor has he played controlling
- 33:46Speaker 1: role in respect to its underlying aspects. Epstein is not,
- 33:50Speaker 1: despite Plaintiff's suggestion paying Miss Maxwell's legal fees. Plaintiff sought
- 33:55Speaker 1: by waves of discovery any contracts, identification, agreements, employment agreed
- 34:00Speaker 1: between Miss Maxwell and Epstein or any entity associated with
- 34:04Speaker 1: Epstein from nineteen ninety nine to the present. Miss Maxwell
- 34:08Speaker 1: responded under oath that there are no such documents. Epstein
- 34:12Speaker 1: played no role in issuance of the January second statement,
- 34:15Speaker 1: nor has he issued any public statement regarding plaintiff. Indeed,
- 34:19Speaker 1: plaintiff in Epstein fully resolved any claims against one another
- 34:23Speaker 1: by way of a confidential settlement in two thousand and nine,
- 34:26Speaker 1: another action in which Miss Maxwell had no role. Assertion
- 34:30Speaker 1: of the privilege by Epstein does not advance any interests
- 34:33Speaker 1: of Miss Maxwell's. Quite the contrary, Epstein would be a
- 34:36Speaker 1: key witness in her support exonerating her from plaintiff's allegations
- 34:40Speaker 1: regarding sex abuse, sexual trafficking and acting as his madam
- 34:44Speaker 1: to the stars. As proof, one need look no further
- 34:47Speaker 1: than emails already reviewed by this court. In an email
- 34:51Speaker 1: sent by Epstein to Miss Maxwell on January twenty fifth,
- 34:54Speaker 1: twenty fifteen, while the media maelstrom generated by plaintiff's false
- 34:59Speaker 1: claims can continued to foment, he wrote, you have done
- 35:02Speaker 1: nothing wrong, and I would urge you to start acting
- 35:05Speaker 1: like it. Go outside head high, not as an escaping convict.
- 35:08Speaker 1: Go to parties, deal with it, Menager declaration Exhibit JAY. Likewise,
- 35:14Speaker 1: Epstein drafted a statement from Miss Maxwell to issue, though
- 35:17Speaker 1: she never did. In that statement, Epstein wrote, presumably what
- 35:21Speaker 1: his testimony would reflect should he not take the fifth
- 35:24Speaker 1: since Ju was charged in two thousand and seven for
- 35:27Speaker 1: solicitation of a prostitute, I have been the target of
- 35:30Speaker 1: outright lies, innuendo, slander, defamation, and salacious gossip and harassment,
- 35:36Speaker 1: headlines made up of quotes. I have never given statements.
- 35:39Speaker 1: I have never made trips with people to places, I
- 35:42Speaker 1: have never been holidays with people. I have never met
- 35:45Speaker 1: false allegations of impropriety and offensive behavior that I abhor,
- 35:49Speaker 1: and have never ever been party. Two witnesses to events
- 35:53Speaker 1: that I have never seen living off trust funds that
- 35:56Speaker 1: I have never had, party to stories that have changed
- 35:59Speaker 1: material both in time, place, and event depending on what
- 36:03Speaker 1: paper you read, and the list goes on. I have
- 36:05Speaker 1: never been a party to any criminal action pertaining to Jaye.
- 36:09Speaker 1: For the record, at the time of Jeffrey's plea, I
- 36:12Speaker 1: was in a long term, committed a relationship with another
- 36:15Speaker 1: man and no longer working with Jeffrey. Whilst I remained
- 36:19Speaker 1: on friendly terms with him up until his plea, I
- 36:21Speaker 1: have had limited contact since. Every story in the press,
- 36:25Speaker 1: innuendo and comment has been taken from civil depositions against Jaye,
- 36:29Speaker 1: which were settled many years ago. None of the depositions
- 36:32Speaker 1: were ever the subject to cross examination, not one any
- 36:36Speaker 1: standard of truth, and were used for those who claimed
- 36:40Speaker 1: they were victims to receive financial payment to be shared
- 36:43Speaker 1: between them and their lawyers redacted, redacted or redacted. Need
- 36:46Speaker 1: I say more. The so called new revelations stemmed from
- 36:50Speaker 1: an alleged diary from Virginia Roberts that reads like the
- 36:54Speaker 1: memoir she is purporting to be selling, also perhaps pertinent
- 36:58Speaker 1: in a previous complaint against other Her claims were rejected
- 37:01Speaker 1: by the police due to VR's lack of credibility. The
- 37:05Speaker 1: new interest in this old settled case results from lawyers
- 37:08Speaker 1: representing some of the JAE victims filed a suit against
- 37:11Speaker 1: the US government, not Je. They contend that the US
- 37:15Speaker 1: government violated their rights. The documents and deal with JE
- 37:19Speaker 1: negotiated with the government was given to the lawyers six
- 37:22Speaker 1: years ago and as a public document. I am no
- 37:25Speaker 1: part of, nor did you have anything to do with
- 37:28Speaker 1: Je's plea bargain. I have never even seen the proceedings
- 37:32Speaker 1: nor any of the depositions. I reserve my right to
- 37:35Speaker 1: file a complaint and sue for defamation and slander. These
- 37:39Speaker 1: correspondences demonstrate that miss Maxwell has no control over Epstein
- 37:44Speaker 1: in regards to the alleged defamation statement. He had no
- 37:47Speaker 1: role in issuance of the statement. He has no benefit
- 37:50Speaker 1: in the outcome of this litigation, and he played no
- 37:52Speaker 1: controlling role in its respect. Talk about a bunch of bullshit.
- 37:56Speaker 1: Imagine filing that in the court and doing it with
- 37:59Speaker 1: a straight face. Similarly, there is not any evidence at
- 38:03Speaker 1: all to support and adverse inference to be drawn from
- 38:06Speaker 1: either Sarah Kellen nor Nadia Marsenkova assertion of the fifth.
- 38:11Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell hardly knows either woman, never work with them.
- 38:14Speaker 1: They have had nothing to do with this litigation and
- 38:17Speaker 1: do not stand to benefit from it, especially as plaintiff
- 38:20Speaker 1: has never made any allegations about her involvement with either
- 38:24Speaker 1: of the two of them. They are simply irrelevant to
- 38:26Speaker 1: this defamation action. That couldn't be further from the truth,
- 38:30Speaker 1: could it. And just in these filings here that we
- 38:32Speaker 1: see Maxwell putting forward, look at all of the lies,
- 38:36Speaker 1: the actual lies that she was telling under oath, and
- 38:39Speaker 1: then you'll wonder why she was charged with perjury. All Right, folks,
- 38:42Speaker 1: we're gonna wrap this one up here and in the
- 38:44Speaker 1: next episode we'll pick up where we left off. All
- 38:48Speaker 1: of the information that goes with this episode can be
- 38:51Speaker 1: found in the description box. What's up, everyone, and welcome
- 38:55Speaker 1: back to the Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're gonna
- 38:58Speaker 1: pick right back up where we left off with Glenn
- 39:01Speaker 1: Maxwell's motion for sanctions for the violation of Rule forty five,
- 39:07Speaker 1: Part three, Plaintiff's bad faith discovery tactics should not be
- 39:11Speaker 1: rewarded with extra time one Plaintiff's Rule twenty six revolving
- 39:15Speaker 1: door Plaintiff's army of lawyers who collectively have been litigating
- 39:20Speaker 1: matters related to Jeffrey Epstein since two thousand and eight,
- 39:23Speaker 1: served their Rule twenty six initial disclosures on November eleventh,
- 39:27Speaker 1: twenty fifteen. Those disclosures listed ninety four individuals witnesses with
- 39:33Speaker 1: knowledge regarding the facts of this case, yet provided addresses
- 39:37Speaker 1: only of their council as to two Jeffrey Epstein and
- 39:41Speaker 1: Alan Dershowitz. Plaintiff then also listed categories of witnesses, such
- 39:46Speaker 1: as all other than minor girls whose identities Plaintiff will
- 39:49Speaker 1: attempt to determine, and all pilots, chauffeurs, chefs, and other
- 39:54Speaker 1: employees of Miss Maxwell or Jeffrey Epstein. Plaintiff claimed, as
- 39:58Speaker 1: to a Rule twenty six disclos that only a fraction
- 40:01Speaker 1: of those individuals will actually be witnesses in this case,
- 40:05Speaker 1: and as discovery progresses, the list will further narrow. Document
- 40:09Speaker 1: number twenty at seventeen. The opposite has happened between November
- 40:14Speaker 1: eleventh and March eleventh. Plaintiff trim to Rule twenty six
- 40:18Speaker 1: list of persons with knowledge from ninety four to sixty nine,
- 40:21Speaker 1: inexplicably removing thirty four names but adding twelve more, she removed,
- 40:26Speaker 1: for example, witnesses Andrea Mitrovitch and Dara Priest, but added
- 40:32Speaker 1: Senators George Mitchell, Bill Richardson and Les Wexner. Then, between
- 40:36Speaker 1: March eleventh and June first, a few weeks before the
- 40:39Speaker 1: discovery cutoff, plaintiff added twenty more witnesses, including redacted Palm
- 40:44Speaker 1: Beach officers Rickerry and Ryder, and purported victims of sexual abuse,
- 40:49Speaker 1: including a client of mister Edwards who he has clearly
- 40:52Speaker 1: known for years. As to several of these new As
- 40:55Speaker 1: to several of these newly added witnesses, in particular redacted
- 41:00Speaker 1: Carrie and Rioder, plaintiff promptly schedule their depositions in June,
- 41:04Speaker 1: despite having just disclosed their names. On June first, and
- 41:08Speaker 1: last Friday, on the business day just before the depositions
- 41:12Speaker 1: of redacted and Ricarry, plaintiff disclosed six hundred and twenty
- 41:16Speaker 1: three new documents, including for the first time the unredacted
- 41:20Speaker 1: police reports from Palm Beach that plaintiff clearly is at
- 41:23Speaker 1: in her possession or her council's possession for years Menager
- 41:28Speaker 1: Declaration example K. This is precisely the type of hide
- 41:32Speaker 1: and seek that Rule twenty six is designed to prevent.
- 41:35Speaker 1: While Miss Maxwell anticipates filing in the near future a
- 41:39Speaker 1: separate motion concerning plaintiffs latest Rule twenty six violations and
- 41:43Speaker 1: seeking sanctions for the same. This Court can and should
- 41:46Speaker 1: consider this behavior in determining whether a plaintiff has good
- 41:50Speaker 1: cause to extend the discovery cut off so that she
- 41:53Speaker 1: can continue her gamesmanship two plaintiff's recurrent Rule forty five violations.
- 42:00Speaker 1: As this Court is previously held, Rule forty five B
- 42:03Speaker 1: one requires a party issuing a subpoena for the production
- 42:07Speaker 1: of documents to a non party to provide prior notice
- 42:10Speaker 1: to all parties to the litigation, which has been interpreted
- 42:13Speaker 1: to require that notice be given prior to the issuance
- 42:17Speaker 1: of the subpoena, not prior to its return date Murphy
- 42:20Speaker 1: versus Board of Education, one ninety six F dot R
- 42:24Speaker 1: dot D two twenty two, twenty two WDNY two thousand.
- 42:29Speaker 1: At least one court in this circuit has held that
- 42:31Speaker 1: notice provided on the same day that the subpoenas have
- 42:35Speaker 1: been served constitute inadequate notice under Rule forty five. See
- 42:39Speaker 1: Fox Industries Incorporated versus Gurrevich Number zero three Dash cv.
- 42:46Speaker 1: Dash five to one. Sixty six, two thousand and six
- 42:49Speaker 1: WL two eight eight two five eight zero eleven E
- 42:53Speaker 1: d N Y, October six, two thousand and six. The
- 42:56Speaker 1: requirement that prior notice must be given has important underpins
- 43:00Speaker 1: of fairness and deficiency. Coots Drive LLC, First Internet Law Library, Incorporated.
- 43:06Speaker 1: Number zero one CV Dash nine eight seven seven, two
- 43:10Speaker 1: thousand and two, WL forty two forty six forty seven
- 43:15Speaker 1: two SDNY March nineteenth, two thousand and two. Plaintiff fails
- 43:19Speaker 1: to provide an adequate explanation or argument for how a
- 43:23Speaker 1: same day notification satisfies Rule forty five's requirement. CEG Council
- 43:29Speaker 1: for the offending party offered no explanation or excuse for
- 43:32Speaker 1: their failure to comply with the rule strictures. They did
- 43:35Speaker 1: not attempt to defend the timeliness of their notice. The
- 43:38Speaker 1: offending parties admitted violation cannot be countenanced. USAV Versus Lazar
- 43:44Speaker 1: thirteen Dash CV Dash eight eighteen RWs twenty fourteen, WL
- 43:50Speaker 1: forty three fifty four six ninety one at fifteen SDN Y,
- 43:54Speaker 1: September two, twenty fourteen, granting motion to quash the subpoenas
- 43:59Speaker 1: where notice given on the same day and serve beyond
- 44:02Speaker 1: one hundred mile limitation of Rule forty five. In that case,
- 44:06Speaker 1: plaintiff had provided same day notice of the issuance of
- 44:09Speaker 1: a subpoena. Here, we have repeated attempts to serve a
- 44:13Speaker 1: subpoena over the course of days before any notice was
- 44:16Speaker 1: given to Miss Maxwell. As described previously, Plaintiff has amply
- 44:21Speaker 1: documented her own violations of the rule by detailing her
- 44:25Speaker 1: attempts to serve subpoenas deuces Techem before ever providing notice
- 44:29Speaker 1: to Miss Maxwell with regards to witnesses Epstein, Kellen, and
- 44:33Speaker 1: Marson Cova. Likewise, with respect to witness Alexandra Hall, Plaintiff
- 44:39Speaker 1: served the subpoena prior to providing notice see Menager declaration
- 44:43Speaker 1: example L serve subpoenas before providing notice under Rule forty five. Accordingly,
- 44:49Speaker 1: Plaintiff moves to quash the subpoenas on Epstein, Kellen, and
- 44:53Speaker 1: Marson Cova as violations of Rule forty five's notice provision.
- 44:57Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell further request sanctions pursue it Rule thirty seven
- 45:01Speaker 1: for these documented violations. With respect to Miss Hall, who
- 45:05Speaker 1: was deposed already earlier today, Miss Maxwell believes that she
- 45:09Speaker 1: did not offer any admissible testimony at her deposition. If
- 45:13Speaker 1: plaintiff seeks to introduce her testimony, the defense reserves the
- 45:16Speaker 1: right to exclude such testimony, both on evidentiary grounds as
- 45:21Speaker 1: well as in violation of Rule forty five's notice Provision four.
- 45:26Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell's good faith efforts to conduct discovery. As already
- 45:30Speaker 1: documented in previous pleadings, Miss Maxwell's council has engaged in
- 45:34Speaker 1: significant and repeated efforts to conduct discovery in this case
- 45:39Speaker 1: in a professional civil manner, especially as it relates to
- 45:42Speaker 1: the deposition of non parties. On February twenty fifth, twenty sixteen,
- 45:47Speaker 1: Council for Miss Maxwell requested that lawyers confer by telephone
- 45:51Speaker 1: to arrange a schedule for the non party depositions to
- 45:54Speaker 1: occur in various states and countries. Plaintiff ignored that request
- 45:59Speaker 1: and request of the same milk made on at least
- 46:01Speaker 1: six different occasions in March and in April. It was
- 46:05Speaker 1: only on two and a half months later, on May fifth,
- 46:07Speaker 1: twenty sixteen, when Plaintiff's council finally responded with as is
- 46:12Speaker 1: becoming clear both sides are going to be needing to
- 46:15Speaker 1: be coordinating a number of depositions She then proposed a
- 46:19Speaker 1: calendar which scheduled thirteen additional depositions for plaintiff and only
- 46:24Speaker 1: two days actually half days for defendant to depose her
- 46:28Speaker 1: remaining witnesses. Defendant provided a calendar which allowed for both
- 46:32Speaker 1: sides to take remaining depositions, but Plaintiff ignored it and
- 46:36Speaker 1: continued to schedule depositions on dates for witnesses without consulting
- 46:40Speaker 1: Defense Council for their availability. First manager Declaration example m
- 46:46Speaker 1: Because of the breakdown in communication, Defense Council was left
- 46:50Speaker 1: with little choice but to show up at each of
- 46:52Speaker 1: Plaintiff's noticed depositions in Florida and New York and b
- 46:57Speaker 1: issu su poenis for witness depositions on other dates in June.
- 47:01Speaker 1: For example, Plaintiff issued a notice of deposition for Juan
- 47:04Speaker 1: Alessi on May thirty first, twenty sixteen, without any conferral
- 47:09Speaker 1: with Council in Florida and fully aware that the Defense
- 47:13Speaker 1: Council would be traveling from Colorado. Defense Council in fact
- 47:17Speaker 1: did have to travel on Memorial Day to Florida for
- 47:20Speaker 1: the nine am May thirty first deposition. Mister Alessi, however,
- 47:24Speaker 1: did not appear on that date, believing that his deposition
- 47:27Speaker 1: was for June first, the same day that his wife
- 47:30Speaker 1: had been subpoenaed to appear, and because he and his
- 47:32Speaker 1: wife live an hour away from Fort Lauderdale. Thus, despite
- 47:36Speaker 1: Defense councils herculean efforts, no deposition occurred on May thirty first.
- 47:42Speaker 1: On June first, mister Alessi appeared, but was insufficient time
- 47:46Speaker 1: to take his wife's deposition, who presumably made the one
- 47:49Speaker 1: hour drive for naught. Also, defense council then had to
- 47:53Speaker 1: travel to New York for June's second hearing and back
- 47:56Speaker 1: to Florida for a deposition of another witness, mister Rogers,
- 48:00Speaker 1: that had been scheduled without input from the defense council.
- 48:04Speaker 1: Counsel for plaintiff makes much of her efforts to serve
- 48:07Speaker 1: witnesses Epstein, Marsenkova, and Kellen. She fails to advise the
- 48:11Speaker 1: court that Miss Maxwell has been forced to expend great time, money,
- 48:15Speaker 1: and resources to serve Plaintiff's own mother, father, former fiancee,
- 48:20Speaker 1: and former boyfriend, as described before. The defense even rescheduled
- 48:24Speaker 1: the deposition of plaintiff's former fiance due to the last
- 48:28Speaker 1: minute on availability of plaintiff's council although all counsel were
- 48:32Speaker 1: already in Florida and had expended hundreds of dollars to
- 48:35Speaker 1: serve them, Plaintiff made no effort to help serve those
- 48:39Speaker 1: closest to her, including her own family members. Unlike plaintiff, however,
- 48:43Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell and her counsel are fully aware that such
- 48:47Speaker 1: are the difficulties of litigation. We do not ascribe the
- 48:51Speaker 1: plaintiff the blame. Having flown to Florida a total of
- 48:54Speaker 1: four separate times to attend depositions of five of Plaintiff's
- 48:58Speaker 1: notice witnesses, Defense Council has borne the brunt of Plaintiff's
- 49:03Speaker 1: mismanagement of council and witness time. Defense councils scheduled their
- 49:07Speaker 1: own Florida depositions of three witnesses to occur during two
- 49:11Speaker 1: of the four trips. Defense Council offered to and did,
- 49:16Speaker 1: schedule the two Colorado non party witnesses the same week
- 49:19Speaker 1: in May so as minimize plaintiff Council's travel obligations. Plaintiff, however,
- 49:25Speaker 1: reschedule the deposition of mister Rizzo in New York for
- 49:28Speaker 1: a week after this Court had a hearing, rather than
- 49:31Speaker 1: accommodating any attempt to have the New York deposition occur
- 49:35Speaker 1: when all council were already present in New York. To
- 49:39Speaker 1: the extent the Court wishes to consider the good faith
- 49:42Speaker 1: efforts of defense counsel in conducting depositions when deciding whether
- 49:46Speaker 1: the grand plaintiff additional time defense has more than met
- 49:50Speaker 1: their burden. Five good cause exists to take redepose plaintiff
- 49:56Speaker 1: and to depose Sharon Churchier exists in contrast to the
- 50:00Speaker 1: lack of good cause to extend discovery for a plaintiff's
- 50:03Speaker 1: six witnesses. Miss Maxwell seeks leave of the court to
- 50:07Speaker 1: take depositions beyond June thirtieth. First, Miss Maxwell properly served
- 50:12Speaker 1: a deposition subpoena and provided appropriate notice to Plaintiff's council
- 50:17Speaker 1: on Plaintiff's friend, confidant, and former Deli Mal journalist Sharon Churchier,
- 50:22Speaker 1: for a deposition to occur in New York on June sixteenth.
- 50:27Speaker 1: Manager declaration example end. On June fifteenth, the day before
- 50:31Speaker 1: her scheduled deposition, Miss Churcher's council filed a motion to quash.
- 50:35Speaker 1: That motion is to be heard by this Court on
- 50:38Speaker 1: June twenty three. Should the Court deny the motion, to
- 50:41Speaker 1: quash Miss Churcher's deposition would need to be rescheduled. Dates
- 50:45Speaker 1: in early July would be sufficient for counsel. Similarly, Miss
- 50:49Speaker 1: Maxwell is filing simultaneously with this motion a request to
- 50:54Speaker 1: reopen the deposition of plaintiff on the grounds, inter alia,
- 50:57Speaker 1: that she failed to provide numerous documents ordered to be
- 51:01Speaker 1: produced by the Court until after her deposition, and still
- 51:04Speaker 1: failed to provide others. She materially changed substantiative and significant
- 51:09Speaker 1: portions of her testimony after the fact through her orata
- 51:13Speaker 1: sheet on May thirty first, and she refused to answer
- 51:17Speaker 1: material questions at her deposition on the advice of Council,
- 51:21Speaker 1: including for example, which of Miss Churcher's many quotes attributed
- 51:25Speaker 1: to her were incorrect see manager declaration example D referenced Supra.
- 51:31Speaker 1: As with Miss Churcher's deposition, the reopened deposition of plaintiff
- 51:35Speaker 1: could occur in early July, assuming she provides the court
- 51:38Speaker 1: ordered documents timely. Six Alternatively, all other deadlines need to
- 51:44Speaker 1: be extended. Finally, Plaintiff glibly asserts that she seeks only
- 51:49Speaker 1: thirty extra days to conduct her depositions, but does not
- 51:53Speaker 1: want any other dates moved. Of course, that ensures to
- 51:57Speaker 1: her benefit and to Miss Maxwell's detriment. July already was
- 52:01Speaker 1: scheduled for expert disclosures. Plaintiff has yet to disclose her
- 52:05Speaker 1: retained expert, and thus the defense has been unable to
- 52:08Speaker 1: secure a rebuttal expert. Miss Maxwell will be unable to
- 52:13Speaker 1: secure such evidence on a timely basis. Further, summary judgment
- 52:17Speaker 1: motions are due in this case on August third. If
- 52:21Speaker 1: depositions continue throughout August, Miss Maxwell's ability to include any
- 52:26Speaker 1: late learned information in her anticipated motion will be jeopardized. Finally,
- 52:31Speaker 1: the trial is scheduled for October. Continuing fact finding until
- 52:35Speaker 1: August seriously impinges on Miss Maxwell's ability to prepare for
- 52:39Speaker 1: that trial, including preparing witnesses, exhibits, and testimony. Wherefore, Miss
- 52:47Speaker 1: Maxwell requests that the motion to extend the deadline to
- 52:51Speaker 1: complete depositions be denied. Alternatively, if the deadline is extended
- 52:56Speaker 1: for any of the listed six witnesses, Miss Maxwell requests
- 52:59Speaker 1: that the date for expert discovery, dis positive motions and
- 53:03Speaker 1: the trial date be extended as well. Further, Miss Maxwell
- 53:07Speaker 1: requests sanctions for Plaintiff's failures to comply with the notice
- 53:11Speaker 1: provisions of Rule forty five A four, respectfully submitted Laura A. Meninger,
- 53:18Speaker 1: And that concludes our look at the defendant's memorandum of
- 53:23Speaker 1: law in opposition to extending the deadline to complete depositions
- 53:27Speaker 1: and motion for sanctions for violation of Rule forty five.
- 53:33Speaker 1: In the next big, gigantic dump, we're going to dive
- 53:35Speaker 1: into we're going to start taking a look at Gallaine
- 53:38Speaker 1: Maxwell's deposition. My suggestion, have your barf bags ready. All
- 53:44Speaker 1: of the information that goes with this episode can be
- 53:47Speaker 1: found in the description box.