76 1 to tell the truth was making a factual representation 2 that Jeffrey Epstein was not targeting minor girls, when 3 the Palm Beach Police Department had collected, you 4 know, 23 of them that had all given essentially 5 interlocking stories about how they had all gone over 6 this house, you know, the mansion, to give a massage and 7 when they had gotten, there they had been sexually 8 abused. 9 So the kingpin wouldn't talk. The next 10 echelon of the trafficking organization wouldn't talk. 11 So the next step was to say, okay, let's see if we can 12 find somebody, you know, lower level in there, you know, 13 a household employee or something like that, maybe they 14 will have some information about, you Know, what this 15 criminal organization is doing. 16 Now, let's understand, you know, given the 17 pervasiveness of the criminal activity, I wasn't 18 convinced that they were going to be able to get in 19 there and start saying exactly what was going on because 20 they might well be exposing themselves to criminal, you 21 know, criminal culpability. 22 But I was able to read a sworn deposition 23 from Juan Alessi and Juan Alessi, I don't know, maybe 24 just to speed things up today, I won't go through all 25 the things that are said there, but Alessi puts ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021899