719 1 Mr. Rodriguez, and one of the names that's -- that -- 2 that has been circled is Alan Dershowitz. And so that, 3 to me, was suggesting that Mr. Rodriguez had identified 4 Alan Dershowitz as somebody who had information about 5 this international sex trafficking ring. 6 Just as a side note, but an important note, 7 the thing that was circled on the Alan Dershowitz page 8 was not a single phone number indicating somebody 9 Epstein had bumped -- you know, Epstein had bumped into 10 at one point. 11 I believe there were 10 or 11 phone numbers 12 that were associated with Mr. Dershowitz that had all 13 been circled and an e-mail address as well. So that 14 started to corroborate my sense that Mr. Dershowitz was, 15 indeed, a very close friend of Jeffrey Epstein. 16 Now, I had then continued to do -- there's 17 been reference today to using Google to do research and 18 so forth, so I Googled Jeffrey Epstein and one of the 19 things that pops up rather rapidly is an article in 20 Vanity Fair and what you see in that article is, you 21 know, discussion about Mr. Epstein, but when you're 22 trying to do a profile of someone, you try to figure out 23 who that person's closest friends are. 24 And so the Vanity Fair author had gone to 25 Alan Dershowitz, you know, our Mr. Dershowitz here, and ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021902