99 1 there were multiple -- according to the Chief of Police, 2 there had been multiple, you know, requests to interview 3 Mr. Epstein and Mr. Dershowitz had repeatedly said, oh, 4 yeah, we will schedule that. And then it hadn't 5 happened. 6 Now, obviously, there could have been a 7 situation there where an emergency had come up for 8 Mr. Epstein and he wasn't able to make a schedule or 9 something like that. But what I saw was a pattern of 10 offers to meet and then withdrawals and that seems to me 11 to be a deliberately calculated strategy to sort of 12 stall the investigation to say, oh, we will get you 13 Epstein, oh, we can't meet now. Oh, we will get it 14 now -- and so forth. 15 And one of the things that I noted from all 16 that was that Mr. Dershowitz, as Mr. Epstein's attorney, 17 never ultimately produced Epstein for a meeting with the 18 Palm Beach Police Department, having made another 19 offers -- now, obviously, something could have happened 20 there. I mean, I don't -- I don't know what was the 21 communications and so forth, but as an attorney trying 22 to get information and unable to do that, I had to make 23 some reasonable inferences. 24 And so one of the inferences I began to draw 25 was that this was a stall tactic by Mr. Dershowitz, and ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021922