75 1 five-and-a-half years, so I had seen a lot of, you know, 2 nonprosecution types of arrangements. And one of the 3 things that was very unusual in this one is, it has what 4 I'll refer to as the blank check immunity provision. 5 There was a provision in the nonprosecution 6 agreement that said, this agreement will prevent federal 7 prosecution for international and interstate sex 8 trafficking, not only of Jeffrey Epstein, and not only 9 of the four women who were identified, but -- and this 10 is a direct quote: Any other potential co-conspirator, 11 close quote. And so that was unusual because what it -- 12 what it seemed to be doing was somehow this agreement 13 was quite out of the normal and had been designed to 14 extend immunity to other people that might have been 15 associated with Epstein. 16 And I knew that that category included the 17 people that were involved in negotiating this highly 18 unusual provision included Mr. Dershowitz who had been 19 heavily involved, not only in the drafting of the 20 agreement, but had also been involved remarkably in 21 attacking the credibility of these girls and saying 22 things like, you know, it was -- Epstein wasn't 23 targeting minor girls, which just struck -- you know, I 24 was -- I don't want to use a technical term, 25 gob-smocked, that a defense attorney with an obligation ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021898