Alan Dershowitz continues to befoul his foul reputation

 

Alan Dershowitz is in the Epstein files. And not just for being Epstein's attorney. And not in a benign way.

Jeffrey Epstein’s attorney Alan Dershowitz made an eyebrow-raising excuse for why he couldn’t have made defamatory social media posts about his client’s victims.

The lawyer, who also represented Donald Trump and O.J. Simpson, told a fact-checker for an unnamed outlet that he did not use a computer, according to newly uncovered documents from the Epstein files dump.

The documents suggest that Dershowitz, a Harvard professor, and Epstein were both the subject of lengthy and in-depth reporting.

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Dershowitz, now 87, was also directly asked if he had had sex with an unnamed Epstein victim immediately after the pedophile financier, which he emphatically denied.

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Dershowitz has faced his own accusations from Epstein accusers. The late Virginia Giuffre Roberts maintained that she was trafficked by Dershowitz between 2000 and 2002. Dershowitz has repeatedly denied her claim.

  Daily Beast

He's old enough he probably expects he won't ever have to go to trial for it. So, he should be one of the first to be investigated when we finally start holding people to account.

In 2006, Dershowitz was revealed to have provided prosecutors in Florida with information that was intended to discredit several women and girls who had accused Epstein of sex crimes. He took posts made by some accusers from their MySpace accounts, in which they were seen using drugs and alcohol, and attempted to use those posts to discredit them.

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Dershowitz has previously told CNN that he did not own a computer when confronted with the allegation that he used social media to discredit the victims.

I bet he has a smart phone. And an assistant who owns a computer.

Dershowitz’s use of MySpace to discredit accusers came two years before then-U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida Alexander Acosta, who later became President Trump’s Secretary of Labor in his first term, awarded Epstein what has become known as a “sweetheart deal.”

Epstein pleaded guilty to lesser state-level solicitation of underage prostitution charges to avoid federal sex trafficking charges.

And, while we're on the subject of attorneys covering for Epstein...

Before joining the Trump administration, [AG Pam] Bondi, who represented Trump during his first impeachment proceedings in 2019, served as Florida’s first female attorney general.

The Palm Beach Post asked the question: “Should Bondi have looked into Epstein's crimes between the time of his jail release in 2009 and the filing of the criminal charges in 2019, when many have alleged that he sexually assaulted hundreds more?”

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Authorities in Palm Beach started investigating Epstein in Florida in 2005. A grand jury charged him with one count of solicitation of prostitution in 2006 as accounts of sexual abuse from his island mansion began to come to light.

In 2008, despite an overwhelming amount of evidence, Epstein was given the “deal of the century” that saw him serve 13 months out of an 18-month sentence for only two prostitution-related felonies. He was released in July 2009.

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Bondi would not necessarily have had cause to initiate a new investigation unless someone had specifically brought a case to her attention.

  UK Independent

She couldn't bring it to her own attention?