51 1 the first step in discovering the names of those girls, 2 not just for purposes of moving this prosecution along, 3 but if we could identify the names of some of these 4 other girls who had been abused we could provide help to 5 them, services to them. 6 So this was a first step in those kinds of 7 developments or what I hoped to be those kinds of 8 developments. 9 Q. So is it fair to say that as of December 10 30th, 2014, you hoped you would be able to develop 11 evidence showing that Alan Dershowitz had abused other 12 minors? 13 A. No. What I had hoped to find was the name of 14 the girl or the girl who would be willing come forward 15 and testify so that we could put them into the case. I 16 mean, let's be clear. This -- we are talking about 17 sexual abuse and it's not just a matter of knocking on 18 somebody's door and saying, hey, would you tell me how 19 you were sexually abused by this very powerful person 20 who was working with an international sex trafficking 21 ring to do this, just -- just right out of the blue or 22 call somebody up on the phone. 23 This is difficult and tricky business. The 24 Federal Government had been trying to do this for years, 25 and Mr. Edwards and I had been trying to do it too, so ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021874