114 1 2010. What had happened was, S.R. was a young 2 woman who had been sexually abused by Jeffrey 3 Epstein. She was identified in the 4 nonprosecution agreement as sex abuse victim, and 5 we had a civil suit going against Mr. Epstein and 6 her case was set for trial. It was going to be 7 the first trial against Mr. Epstein. 8 You know, this -- he had abused, according to 9 the NPA, I think 35 girls, and at that point I 10 think, gosh, I think 31 of them had settled, all 11 the girls except for the three represented by 12 Mr. Edwards and I had settled. 13 So this was going to be the first person that 14 was going to bring, if you will, the light of day 15 to this. This was going to be the first time 16 where this was going to be tried in open court. 17 So this was potentially an opportunity to, you 18 know, expose exactly what Epstein has done 19 because people are going to be called as 20 witnesses including Epstein and others like him. 21 So this was, I think, a potentially explosive 22 situation for Mr. Epstein because all of the -- 23 all of the crimes that his organization had been 24 committing were going to be exposed during the 25 course of this trial. So -- but this all ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021937