(NewsNation) — Jeffrey Epstein’s former attorney told “CUOMO” there is no such thing as an Epstein “client list.”
Alan Dershowitz, who previously said he knows the names of clients in the Epstein files, also doesn’t believe the government is hiding information about the investigation.
“There is no client list and never has been a client list,” Dershowitz told NewsNation. “A client list suggests that Jeffrey Epstein made a list of people to whom he trafficked women. What there is is a redacted FBI affidavit from accusers.
“There are several of them from accusers that accuse Jeffrey, that accuse various people of having improper sex, and that has been redacted. The names of the people accused have been blacked out.”
Dershowitz helped secure a plea deal in 2008 for Epstein, who pleaded guilty to state charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution. Epstein avoided a possible life sentence and served 13 months in a work-release program.
As for the names in redacted files, Dershowitz says they are not world leaders like many believers of the conspiracies think.
“Because I was the lawyer and I did all the investigations, I know who all these people are. I could figure out, based on everything that I saw, who Mr. X is, Mr. Y is and Mr. Z,” he said.
“I can tell you right now, none of them are public figures who are currently in office. Some of them were previously in office. Some of them are dead, but there is no client list.”
Dershowitz said the redactions could be removed through the courts and insisted it is not the Trump administration suppressing information but two Manhattan judges who are trying to protect accusers.
“The judges have issued orders – which is why I can’t disclose things I’d love to disclose – saying that you can’t disclose this information,” he said.
“But Pam Bondi and the Justice Department and Donald Trump are not responsible for that. I don’t know of any information that they could disclose that they haven’t disclosed. Maybe there is some but I’m simply not aware of it.
“I think it’s important to place the blame where the blame deserves to be placed.”
He went on to say if all the redacted files were released, “you would be shocked how few names are there that haven’t already been disclosed.”
Dershowitz also rebuked theories of Epstein having videotapes of prominent people in illegal or compromising sexual interactions.
“There is a videotape, maybe several videotapes. … Epstein was robbed by one of his employees of money and of a licensed gun, and he called the Palm Beach police, and they installed video cameras, not in the bedrooms, but in the living room,” he said.
“And those video cameras recorded some people, but there’s no sexual allegations there, so there’s nothing to that.”
He also addressed Tucker Carlson’s claim that Epstein was a Mossad intelligence agent, calling it “absurd.”
“I asked him about everything, including whether he had any contacts with intelligence agencies,” Dershowitz said.
“If he had, he would have been dying to tell me that, because I could have used that to get him a better deal. If he had worked with the Mossad or the CIA, that would have been golden for me. … I can tell you with absolute certainty he had no connections to Mossad.”
As for the notion that Epstein was murdered and did not kill himself, Dershowitz rejected that theory but said he believes it was an assisted suicide.
“It was not a suicide that he could have committed alone. I think the jailers had something to do with his cellmate being dismissed, with the cameras being turned off,” he said.
“So there are things that can be hidden, but there’s no smoking gun here, and there’s no fault on the part of this administration, as far as I can tell.”
