116 1 allegations coming out, Dershowitz called 2 international sex trafficker Epstein to make sure 3 their memories coincided or something like that. 4 And I was afraid if we contacted Alan 5 Dershowitz, what had happened to S.R. was going 6 to happen to Virginia Roberts, which was going to 7 be even worse because she had been hiding out in 8 Australia for a number of years to escape 9 Epstein. 10 And now this would potentially tip him off 11 that she was now back in contact and he would 12 redouble efforts to find her. So I was, frankly 13 again, just speaking for myself, I'm not speaking 14 for my co-counsel, but I was extremely afraid of 15 tipping off Mr. Dershowitz that we were going to 16 be filing this pleading because he would have 17 contacted Epstein in the same intimidation 18 tactics and, indeed, life-threatening tactics 19 that had apparently been used against other 20 witnesses might be used against her. 21 I mean, I also was thinking frankly, about 22 whether to file this pleading, because of the 23 risk that she would be in, but I thought that the 24 safest way to protect her was to file this so 25 that the information was out there. ROUGH DRAFT ONLY HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021939