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Lesley Groff And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Trip to Congress (Part 9) (7/5/26) · The Epstein Chronicles

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off with the Leslie Groff transcript from
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  her interview with Congress, and now we have mister Lynch
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  asking the questions. Okay, ms Groff, thank you for your
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  willingness to be interviewed. You said early in the Republican
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  Hour that your relationship with Jeffrey Epstein you really didn't
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  have a relationship, You wouldn't call it a relationship. And
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  you said in this hour that he basically kept you
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  on the outside and you didn't have a connection with him.
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  I want to refer to a New York Times article
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  on February fifth, two thousand and five, if Co Council
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  wants copies of that, I made some mister Wickham is
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  the word brain in there, mister Lynch, Sorry, there are
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  some others here if staff wants them. Mister adapted and sir,
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  if you will hold on, we will enter this as
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  minority Exhibit B. Mister Lynch, this is an New York
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  Times article February fifth, two thousand and five by Lendon
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  Thomas Junior, and it sounds like they interviewed both of
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  you and Jeffrey Epstein in the article. I'll just go
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  to the bottom paragraph, which is highlighted. This is an article,
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  the title of which is working for Top Bosses on
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  Wall Street has its perks. When it comes to discussing
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  Jeffrey Epstein, it says, then there's the case of Jeffrey Epstein,
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  who pays his three executive assistants more than two hundred
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  thousand a year. It goes on to say a finance
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  here who they manage his executive his three women executive team,
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  which manages his hectic life to go globe trotting and
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  hobnobbing with the likes of former President Bill Clinton. It
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  goes on to say, on the next page, he calls them,
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  meaning his you, as part of his executive team, a
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  social prosthesis, So something attached the limb of who he is,
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  with an intuitive knowledge of his manifold needs and a
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  twenty four hour presence that make them virtually indispensable to
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  his personal and business success, he said. It goes on
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  to say, again referring to you and the other two assistants,
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  they are an extension of my brain, said mister Ebstein,
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  who rarely talks publicly. Their intuition is something that I
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  don't have. It goes with more some details than it
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  goes on to say. The reporter says, when one of them,
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  Leslie Groff, who was thirty eight, became pregnant last year
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  and talked of leaving, he bought her a Mercedes Benz
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  E three twenty to make her commuting easier and agreed
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  to pay for a full time nanny so that she
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  could keep working for him. And then there's a quote
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  here by mister Epstein. There's no way I could lose
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  Leslie in a motherhood, said mister Ebstein, who is nearly
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  in his who is in his early fifties, and as
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  a bachelor. Going further to just the last page, the
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  last page, the third paragraph from the bottom. I'm sorry,
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  let's go to the last two lines here, the last
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  two paragraphs. Miss Groff said that she thought both she
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  and miss Lee, one of them the other two executive assistants,
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  were worth the price. Here's the quote. This is from you.
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  It comes down to the bond, said miss Groff, a
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  graduate of the University of Texas, who's been with mister
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  Epstein four or four years. A further quote by you
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  I know what he's thinking, and I know when I
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  need to be fast. It's a nice role that we're on. Now,
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  that's what the reporter said that you said. Have you
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  ever requested or adaction or recanted any of this that
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  was printed in the New York Times? Mis Groff, No, Lynch,
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  you haven't disputed that Graff. No, Lynch. It makes it
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  hard to believe that there's no connection when he's talking
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  about you as part of him and a prosthesis, and
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  you know, part of his operation. And how long did
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  you work for mister Epstein beginning to end Groff February
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  of two thousand and one to July of twenty nineteen.
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  Mister Lynch, So eighteen years? Is that correct, miss Groff? Yes,
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  question by mister Lynch. Yeah. It's hard to believe that
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  somebody who worked with somebody for eighteen years and then
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  they say that they don't have a relationship, especially when
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  we have earlier statements. Let me also ask, now, when
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  you went to work for mister Epstein, he was a
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  registered sex offender. Isn't that correct? Mis Groff? That was
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  after I started working for him that he became a
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  registered sex offender. Mister Lynch yeah, stuff going on, and
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  then he was his conviction became final. He did what
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  thirteen months in prison? No, thirteen months in the stockade
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  you mean Groff, correct, Lynch, and you were responsible at
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  making sure that he lived up to his restrictions as
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  a sex offender. Correct, he had reporting, travel requirements, he
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  had no contact requirements. So actually you sort of made
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  sure that he was compliant with his status as a
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  registered sex offender, Miss Groff. No, I did not. I
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  was not the one in charge of making sure. I
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  did remind him that he needed to register when it
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  was that time of year that as part of his
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  directive to remind him, But I had nothing to do
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  with she gets cut off by mister Lynch. It says
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  here that you dealt with several tasks related to his
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  status as sex offender. Those included sending reminders to update
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  his registration status and photograph, and attempting to get him
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  a Russian visa despite his status as an offender. Miss Groff.
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  All I did was remind him that it was time
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  for him to get Mister Lynch cuts her off. But
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  your earlier statement that now mister Whitcomb jumps in, sir,
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  can will you just let her finish her response, please.
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  She has tried a couple of times to respond to
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  your question and she hasn't been able to finish it.
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  Mister Lynch, okay, have had it all right, Ms Groff.
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  All I did was remind them on a schedule that
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  he was supposed to go and register if he was
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  in pom Beach. I think that was the standard, and
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  I was directed by him to include that on his schedule.
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  I did not make any appointments for him to go register.
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  He did that on his own if you went to
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  pom Beach. I believe it was once a year, and
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  I was told to remind him three months ahead of
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  the time, two months ahead of time, and then after
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  that every other week or something like that. It was,
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  But that was all I ever did, mister Lynch. You realize, however,
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  that having knowledge of that certainly is not consistent with
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  your earlier statement that there was a vague awareness on
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  your part about what mister Epstein was charged with and
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  what his status was and what he was guilty of
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  at the same time that you were scheduling massages for
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  young women with a registered sex offender, and yet you
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  maintain that you didn't see anything improper in that. And
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  you've said that multiple times, sending young women to give
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  a massage to a registered sex offender, and you yet
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  you tell the committee and you tell others that you
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  saw nothing improper with that. I just find it it
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  just hurts your credibility, mister Backner. With all due respect,
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  the record speaks for what she said. I don't believe
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  that's an accurate characterization of what she said. But go ahead,
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  mister Lynch. Okay, mister Wickham. And it's also please just
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  bear hear me out. She's here as a witness. She's
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  not an attorney like me and you, sir. She's not
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  familiar with all the legal jargon and the legal leads
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  regarding a guilty plea, So that should respectfully be born
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  in mind, mister Lynch. Well, I appreciate that. But she
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  is a witness, mister witcom sure, mister Lynch, And she's
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  at the hub of this, at the very hub of this.
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  She has contact with all the people, all the victims,
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  the high powered people. She's at the hub of all
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  of this. She's a very important witness, and we're trying
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  to get to the truth, get at the truth on
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  behalf of these victims who I think we agree we
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  feel deeply for, and so that's the mission here. I'm
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  over my time and so I have to relinquish it
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  until we do another hour. But thank you, I yield,
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  mister Garcia, just briefly. We're going to continue this questioning
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  in the next hour. But just miss Groff, it's been
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  reported by the Wall Street Journal that mar A Lavo
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  was sending spawn employees, usually young women, to Epstein's Palm
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  Beach home to provide massages. We know that Glenn Maxwell
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  was accused of recruiting and trafficking survivors as well. Do
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  you recall any of this when you were working employed
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  by mister Epstein, Miss Groff, No, mister Garcia, So did
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  you ever schedule any appointments for mar A Lago, or
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  through mar A Lago, for mar A Lago employees to
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  come to Epstein's home and provide any sort of spa services,
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  Miss Groff. Know Garcia, So, as far as your work
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  is considered through the Wall Street Journal, we've seen the
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  Wall Street Journal reporting that there was actually women being
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  brought in from mar A Lago. That's something that you
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  had no interaction with and never heard about correct, Miss Groff,
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  That is correct, mister Garcia. Is there anyone that you
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  think would have information about who was actually connecting these
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  women from mar A Lago to mister Epstein? Miss Groff,
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  I don't know, Garcia, so you wouldn't have any Could
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  you maybe think who would be a person or two
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  that would be making these connections? Do you have any idea,
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  Miss Groth? I would think Miss Maxwell was with him
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  in Palm Beach, but I don't know that for sure.
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  I don't know. Mister Garcia will have additional questions later, misredacted.
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  That's it for now and we'll go off the record.
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  Back on the record now, and it's miss Tolan asking
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  the questions. Question. I'm just going to ask a few
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  clarifying questions that focus on what we asked you during
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  our first round. So to begin with, we discuss the
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  physical phone directories with the list and the names, and
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  then you also mentioned that there was an electronic version
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  of that. Is that correct? Answer? Correct? Question? And I
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  believe I asked you already, but you don't know the
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  platform or the database that electronic one was stored on
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  the Citrix sound familiar to you? Answer? It does? Now?
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  Question yes, answer because I heard Sarah say that. Question okay.
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  And do you know does that ring a bell? Is
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  that what it was stored on? Answer? I don't. I
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  don't know. Question okay. And do you know where the
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  backup information for those directories are stored? Answer? I don't know,
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  question okay. And then in the previous hour you also mentioned,
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  I believe, but who prepared the rooms for the massages
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  at the New York residence. Answer I don't know. I
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  would think a maid would be responsible for cleaning, but
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  I don't know. I wasn't there. Question do you know
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  who set up the room in order for it to
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  be ready for a massage? Answer? No question? And I
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  believe you mentioned individuals who would let the messuses into
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  the property. Who did you say that was? Answer the
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  people that answered the doors question yes, answer that would
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  be the maid Lynn Fontania or her husband Jojo who
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  was his driver, or possibly it was really those two,
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  but possibly it could be Rich Barnett or I think
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  also Buzz somebody in like New York apartment type of thing.
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  Question And so those individuals would have to let the
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  messuses into the property? Answer correct. Question did you on
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  any occasion ever let any of them in answer, no question.
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  Did you ever buzz any of them in like you
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  just mentioned, answer, I don't know how to do that. Question.
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  Did you ever have discussions with any of these individuals
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  about the women they were seeing coming in and out
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  of the property? Answer no question. And then I believe
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  you briefly covered this as well. But did you ever
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  pay money or cash to any of the messuse's Answer?
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  I never directly paid anyone. It's possible that mister Epstein
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  may have directed me to ask or adacted in the
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  accounting department to put two hundred in an envelope to
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  have picked up and messengered over to someone who had
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  done some sort of job for mister Epstein, and that
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  was either picked up by the messenger or Jojo. Mister Timmins,
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  did you ever see a black bag of cash? Groff?
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  A black bag, Timmins, a black bag that had cash
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  in it Graff? No, Timmins, you never saw that Groff,
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  no question. And the messenger did you know who the
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  messenger was or was it he gets cut off by
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  growth it was a messenger service. I don't recall who
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  the messenger service was. That was a long time ago.
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  Question was the same messenger service always used. Answer probably,
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  I mean there might have been a couple. I don't recall.
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  Question did you ever meet anyone with the messengers? Answer
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  no question. Did you ever have a conversation with any
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  of them? Answer no question. And why was the cash
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  given to these messuses? Answer? I just figured that's the
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  way people get paid. Question and I guess more clarification,
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  why cash as opposed to checks or any other form
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  of payment? Answer I don't know. All right, folks, we're
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  going to wrap up right here, and then the next
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  episode dealing with the topic, we're going to pick up
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  where we left off. All the information that goes with
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