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Ted Waitt And The Transcript From His Epstein Related Trip To Congress (Part 6) (7/30/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're getting right back to
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  Speaker 1: the Ted Waite testimony that he gave to Congress. Misters
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  Speaker 1: Squaw Danny, you lived in California at that point, right
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  Speaker 1: answer yeah, question by redacted. I've got some detailed questions
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  Speaker 1: about his incarceration. I'll just run through them. Were you
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  Speaker 1: aware of the Florida Science Foundation? Answer? No, question Were
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  Speaker 1: you aware? And if so, what was your knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: mister Epstein's work release agreement? Answer? I was told by
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  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell that he was allowed to go to his
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  Speaker 1: office during the day and then report it back to
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  Speaker 1: a facility where he spent the night. Did Miss Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: ever characterize that, like, you know, Jeffrey can't believe he
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  Speaker 1: got this amazing deal, anything of that nature. Answer. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was that way. It was more like, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: he had a good deal. I wouldn't say, you know,
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  Speaker 1: it was more like he did it. Then he got
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  Speaker 1: an amazing deal, like he had arranged it. I think
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  Speaker 1: that's the way she put it, than he got an
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  Speaker 1: amazing deal from someone else. Question Jeffrey successfully arranged this
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  Speaker 1: great deal for himself? Answer it was a deal. I
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't say it was a great deal. It was a deal. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it seemed a little unusual to me. But again, I
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  Speaker 1: wish I would have done more research on it at
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  Speaker 1: the time, But I didn't question. Was there any tension
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  Speaker 1: Let's just say, at the time for now, between if
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  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell was presenting Epstein's charges and his situation as
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  Speaker 1: sort of downplaying it it's not that serious, but also
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  Speaker 1: being pretty happy Jeffrey being pretty happy with the day,
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  Speaker 1: with the way the deal worked out. Was there any
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  Speaker 1: tension in those Did you ever say to yourself, wait
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  Speaker 1: a second, you know, is this a serious thing or
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  Speaker 1: is it not? Answer? Well, I clearly didn't want her
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  Speaker 1: affiliating with him, and I didn't want to affiliate with him,
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  Speaker 1: and I had no affiliation with him myself, so I
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  Speaker 1: think I probably would have pushed more in that direction.
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  Speaker 1: Question to your knowledge, did miss Maxwell ever visit Epstein
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  Speaker 1: while he was incarcerated or on work release? Answer not,
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  Speaker 1: to my knowledge? Question did you ever visit Epstein in
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  Speaker 1: his office while he was on work release? Answer no. Question.
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  Speaker 1: We have another member who joined, if they could just
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  Speaker 1: identify themselves. Congresswoman Nancy Mace South Carolina. Question, did miss
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell ever mention? Virginia Roberts answer not that I can recall. Question,
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell. We've touched on the sort of separation of
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell from mister Epstein over the course of your
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  Speaker 1: relationship with her. We've also touched on your breakup with
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell. Miss Maxwell told the DOJ last year that
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  Speaker 1: the reason for your breakup was that, in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine, a lawyer named Scott Rothstein tried to blackmail
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  Speaker 1: you by asking for ten million in exchange from dropping
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell from a series of civil suits. From your recollection,
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  Speaker 1: did that happen? Answer? No, question is there a version
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  Speaker 1: of that that happened to the best of your recollection?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, did you have any interaction with mister Rothstein? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: Mister Rothstein presented a financial proposal to a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine at the time named aj Descala. He presented that
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  Speaker 1: proposal to an associate of mine, somebody who worked for me.
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  Speaker 1: I saw the details of that proposal and thought it
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  Speaker 1: was a total scam and just didn't think it was
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  Speaker 1: very a worthwhile investment. Question what was the proposal in
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  Speaker 1: summary that you recall? Question? In summary, as I recall,
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  Speaker 1: it had to do with something to do with sexual
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  Speaker 1: arrassment lawsuits, not sexual assault or sex trafficking or sexual arrassment.
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  Speaker 1: And they were doing something with lawsuits to pay off
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  Speaker 1: people early and were going to more money later, and
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  Speaker 1: they wanted money to do it. In the beginning, it
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  Speaker 1: just seemed like a terrible idea to me. So, question
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  Speaker 1: and was the approach to your associate? Was it related
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  Speaker 1: to you in any way, in other words, as Rostein
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  Speaker 1: asking middleman to ask you or was it just between
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  Speaker 1: Rothstein and the associate? Answer? Well, yeah, they were asking
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  Speaker 1: me for money because I have money. Neither one of
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  Speaker 1: them had money, and they both are in jail now. Oh.
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  Speaker 1: Question did the proposal have any connection to Miss Maxwell? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall it being specific to Miss Maxwell as well.
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  Speaker 1: Question so, do you have any recollection of mister Ralstein
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  Speaker 1: communicating anything at all specifically related to Miss Maxwell, either
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  Speaker 1: to you or indirectly to your associate? Answer? Yeah, I
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  Speaker 1: do believe her name came up, but I don't think
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  Speaker 1: it was in the context of any of those sexual lawsuits.
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  Speaker 1: It was never tied to that to Epstein's crimes or
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  Speaker 1: a lawsuit involving Epstein's crimes. I believe Epstein was a
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  Speaker 1: pom Beach lawyer, so I thought it was more to
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  Speaker 1: do with Palm Beach. But I don't believe Epstein's name
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  Speaker 1: ever came up. Question, But with respect to miss Maxwell,
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  Speaker 1: what's your recollection of the context in which her name
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  Speaker 1: came in? I don't recall specifically. Frankly, I reviewed that
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  Speaker 1: document in preparation for this that I mentioned that her
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  Speaker 1: name came up, But I don't remember in what context
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  Speaker 1: it came up. But it wasn't in relation to the lawsuits,
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  Speaker 1: at least as I recall. So I don't remember how
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  Speaker 1: it came up. Question, just trying to envision it for us.
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  Speaker 1: Would there be some other context in which a name
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  Speaker 1: would come up from mister Rothstein other than in relation
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  Speaker 1: to the financial proposal that he was making. Answer? He
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  Speaker 1: might have known her, I don't know. He was a
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  Speaker 1: fairly prominent figure. I think for a time in Palm Beach.
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  Speaker 1: Question it may have been something as simple as hey,
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  Speaker 1: I saw Lane at the supermarket last week. Answer, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know. Question, But sitting here today,
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  Speaker 1: is it right that you have no specific recollection of
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  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell's name having any connection to mister Rolstein's financial proposal.
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  Speaker 1: Answer am I supposed to answer that? Yes? Or no? Question?
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  Speaker 1: Do you cut some off? Answer? I do not recall
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  Speaker 1: her name having anything to do with specific financial proposals
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  Speaker 1: that they gave me. Question thank you, and it's right
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  Speaker 1: that you rejected the proposal. Answer yes, question, to the
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  Speaker 1: best of your recollection, did the proposal have any connection
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  Speaker 1: at all to your breakup with Miss Maxwell? Answer no. Question.
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  Speaker 1: Do you happen to know whether Rothstein ever ended up
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  Speaker 1: filing whatever suits he said he was going to file?
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  Speaker 1: Answer I don't know. Question. Our understanding is that you
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  Speaker 1: made a series of payments to Miss Maxwell over the years,
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  Speaker 1: and we would like to have a better understanding of
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  Speaker 1: those payments. So I'm going to introduce minority exhibit A. Question.
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  Speaker 1: The only entry that has any relevance to you is
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  Speaker 1: maybe two thirds of the way down. So this is
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  Speaker 1: an account statement. It looks like from the upper left
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  Speaker 1: hand corner for one sixteen East sixty fifth Street, LLC,
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  Speaker 1: which was Maxwell's home address at the time. The monthly
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  Speaker 1: statement is for May two thousand and eight, and part
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  Speaker 1: way down the page, the statement appears to show a
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  Speaker 1: thirty thousand dollars transfer from you to this account. There
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  Speaker 1: are similar thirty thousand dollars payments on a monthly basis
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  Speaker 1: through at least April of twenty ten, so we estimate
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  Speaker 1: it might be around seven hundred and twenty thousand dollars
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  Speaker 1: in total. Just to start, do you recall what these
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  Speaker 1: payments were for? Answer? These were monthly payments I made
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  Speaker 1: for what I felt was my share of her and
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  Speaker 1: to help with her expenses of her staff and house.
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  Speaker 1: I had maintained an office in the residence at East
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  Speaker 1: sixty fifth Street. I had closed there, I spent time there,
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  Speaker 1: and I was just providing financial support because I was
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  Speaker 1: using it, so I felt it was the right thing
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  Speaker 1: to do. Question how did that idea first come about?
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  Speaker 1: Did you spontaneously suggest it to her or was it
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  Speaker 1: her idea? Answer? I don't recall specifically how it came about.
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  Speaker 1: Question and was the support meant to be specifically linked
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  Speaker 1: to expenses related to the residence? Answer? Yeah, mostly staff.
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  Speaker 1: Question how much staff did she have? Answer? There were
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  Speaker 1: two full time staff, a driver and a housekeeper. I
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  Speaker 1: think at one point they were going to leave or
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  Speaker 1: something I can't remember, but that was mostly what it was,
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  Speaker 1: and I used the driver myself and I wanted to contribute.
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  Speaker 1: Question was it your understanding that Miss Maxwell probably was
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  Speaker 1: not able to cover the totality of those expenses on
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  Speaker 1: her own. Answer? I was never privy to Miss Maxwell's
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  Speaker 1: financial affairs, but I think she appreciated the assistance. Question
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  Speaker 1: it sounds like you have maybe some memory that the
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  Speaker 1: two staffers were threatening to leave at some point. Is
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  Speaker 1: that right? Answer? Yeah, I don't recall those specifics around it, though.
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  Speaker 1: Question do you recall some connection between them threatening to
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  Speaker 1: leave and the beginning of this arrangement? Answer? I vaguely
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  Speaker 1: recall that. Again, I might be mixing things up, but
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  Speaker 1: I think there was something around the staff. I wanted
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  Speaker 1: to pay my share, and I think that continued until
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  Speaker 1: that thirty thousand, continued until we broke up. Question do
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  Speaker 1: you recall why these payments were made to the LLC
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  Speaker 1: and not just to her personally? Answer? I assumed. I'm speculating,
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  Speaker 1: but I assume this is where she wanted them to go,
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  Speaker 1: and I assume this went into property and paid expenses
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  Speaker 1: for the house. It's not an atypical for somebody who
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  Speaker 1: owns a property to have a title in an LLC
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  Speaker 1: and run the expenses through that. Question our understanding is
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  Speaker 1: this LLC was controlled by Darren Endyke, who was mister
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  Speaker 1: Epstein's lawyer. Do you recall being aware of that at
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  Speaker 1: the time? Answer no. Question do you recall knowing who
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  Speaker 1: mister Endyke was or having any interactions with him? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: I don't recall having interactions with them. Answer I remember
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  Speaker 1: hearing the name Darren quite frequently as someone miss Maxwell
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  Speaker 1: interfaced with. Question what would be the context of why
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  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell would be interfacing with Darren as she described it?
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  Speaker 1: Answer again, I don't recall, mostly just business transactions. Question
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  Speaker 1: would that have been at the period of time when
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  Speaker 1: miss Maxwell was really substantially working for Epstein and not
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  Speaker 1: after she started to tape her off? Because this is
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  Speaker 1: two thousand and eight. I think we had said that
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  Speaker 1: at this point Maxwell wasn't really working for Epstein? Is
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  Speaker 1: that right? Answer? I don't believe so, but I think
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  Speaker 1: that she still had a relationship and use maybe some
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  Speaker 1: of the legal services of his office. Can you elaborate
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  Speaker 1: on that a little bit. What was your understanding to
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  Speaker 1: which Miss Maxwell continued to have interactions or business with
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  Speaker 1: mister Epstein's staff after she stopped working for him, Miss Callen,
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  Speaker 1: So I think several times Today's testified as understanding was
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  Speaker 1: that she was minimizing her work from mister Abstein overtime.
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  Speaker 1: But he doesn't know the specifics question, no problem, But
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  Speaker 1: the specific idea that miss Maxwell may have been utilizing,
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  Speaker 1: let's say, mister Epstein's legal services. I think that's a
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  Speaker 1: little bit beyond what I think I at least previously understood.
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  Speaker 1: So could you just elaborate on what you remember about that? Answer? Again,
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  Speaker 1: I wasn't privy to the specific details of her working
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  Speaker 1: relationship with mister Ebstein or any of his entities. All
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  Speaker 1: I do know I remember hearing the name Darren and
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  Speaker 1: her talking to him on frequent occasions. I think throughout
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  Speaker 1: the relationship. I don't know if they were like friends
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  Speaker 1: or you know, if they work together and she was
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  Speaker 1: asking his advice. There was a lot of interaction. You
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  Speaker 1: want the details of that interaction, I don't really know. Oh. Question,
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  Speaker 1: and do you recall that interaction sort of staying constant
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  Speaker 1: even as miss maxwell other works started to wind down
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  Speaker 1: for mister Epstein. Answer. I can't recall the frequency of
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  Speaker 1: how it was, but I recall it being somewhat consistent.
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  Speaker 1: Question do you recall any other folks on mister Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: staff whose name you sort of heard with maybe a
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  Speaker 1: similar degree of frequency, whether that's the accountant as opposed
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  Speaker 1: to the lawyer, or anybody else from the Epstein team
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  Speaker 1: that miss Maxwell seemed to interact with a fair amount.
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  Speaker 1: Answer the person I remember she was a pilot and
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  Speaker 1: she interacted I think quite a bit with his pilot.
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  Speaker 1: But I just assumed that was like pilots talking to pilots,
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  Speaker 1: that type of thing. Question. Miss Maxwell wasn't a pilot though, right? Answer?
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  Speaker 1: Miss Maxwell was a pilot, a helicopter pilot. Answer, I
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  Speaker 1: did not know that, okay, and I understand the natural
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  Speaker 1: assumption of hey, pilot the pilot. But what, if anything,
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  Speaker 1: is your recollection of either the extent to which miss
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  Speaker 1: Maxwell communicated with mister Epstein's pilot, and if so, what
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  Speaker 1: they communicated about. Answer? I don't know. I wasn't privy
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  Speaker 1: to those conversations. Question mister Epstein had a pretty substantially
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  Speaker 1: sized staff. Was there anybody else from his world that
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  Speaker 1: you could recall Miss Maxwell having a consistent communication with
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  Speaker 1: Answer nobody that I can think of. Question And as
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  Speaker 1: far as you know. Did these thirty thousand dollars payments
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  Speaker 1: have any connection to mister Epstein or mister Epstein's legal
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  Speaker 1: trouble around the time? Answer, no question. I think that's
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  Speaker 1: a fine time to transition to maybe some members that
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  Speaker 1: may have some questions that they would like to ask.
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  Speaker 1: All right, folks, we're going to wrap up right here,
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  Speaker 1: and in the next episode dealing with the topic, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna pick up where we left off. All the information
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  Speaker 1: that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  Speaker 1: description box.