[Peace-discuss] #MeToo Dirty Dershowitz at UIUC April 26: "You Are Rape Culture"

[Boyle, Francis A]

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Alan Dershowitz Retires From Harvard Law School
By Francis Boyle
21 December, 2013
Countercurrents.org
Alan Dershowitz, a prominent advocate for Israel, is retiring from Harvard Law School. Dershowitz Accused of War Crimes - On one issue-the Jewish settlements in the occupied lands-Israel has {already} been found, by an international court, to be in violation of international law. This has caused a firestorm of reaction from Israel, and its apologists, like Harvard's Alan Dershowitz. But, Francis Boyle and a number of other American human rights advocates have taken on Dershowitz on, and are ready to do it again.
The settlements are "clearly illegal and criminal," said Boyle. "All the settlements, as the World Court ruled in the advisory opinion on the [Separation] Wall, all these settlements violate the Fourth Geneva Convention, and a violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention is a war crime. All these so-called settlers are committing war crimes, except the children, who are obviously not old enough to formulate a criminal intent.
"Indeed, Alan Dershowitz began attacking the World Court for this ruling and attacking their credibility, and this, that, and the other.
"Well, Dershowitz is not a trained international lawyer; he's not a trained human rights lawyer. I debated him once, and he sort of gratuitously conceded that I was the expert on these subjects. "But in any event, what Dershowitz was not aware of, was that in the advisory committee proceedings, the American judge, Thomas Buergenthal, {who is a
Holocaust survivor, himself}, joined the ruling-he dissented against a lot of other things by the World Court [International Court of Justice]-but Judge Buergenthal ruled that the settlements violate the Fourth Geneva Convention. And to Judge Buergenthal's credit-I've known him for many years; I have a lot of respect and admiration for him-he made this ruling.
"So, in other words, Dershowitz was attacking the integrity of a Holocaust survivor. But of course, that doesn't surprise me: He attacked [Prof.] Norman Finkelstein's mother; he also attacked Prof. Israel Shahak, one of the leaders of the peace movement in Israel, himself a Holocaust survivor, unfortunately, no longer with us, but a great man.
"I've dealt with [Shahak], I have great respect, and indeed, he was going to have a lecture tour here in the United States, in, I guess, the Fall of 1990, and he was coming to speak in Champaign, [Ill.], and the organizers of his lecture tour asked me if I would put him up in my home as my guest, in order to conserve on expenses, and I agreed. And I was greatly looking forward again to meeting Professor Shahak.... But as you know, with the Gulf crisis, Professor Shahak decided to cancel his lecture tour and stay home with his own people, which was certainly understandable.
"Dershowitz couldn't care less. Whatever kind of outright character assassination he has to apply to anyone, even Holocaust survivors like Judge Buergenthal, Professor Shahak, Norman Finkelstein's mother, it doesn't bother Dershowitz. Indeed, my understanding is, he's trying to run to become President of Israel, to take Peres's place. Well, fine, it would be great to get him out of Harvard Law School-my dis-alma mater!-and ship him over to Israel with all the other war criminals over there. "In fact, I say that, because Dershowitz admitted, publicly, that he is part of a Mossad committee that authorized the assassination of Palestinians.
"You can find that article on counterpunch.org, by Prof. [Liquat Ali] Khan. Well, the Palestinians are all protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention, and for Dershowitz to authorize their murder is a war crime. So, Dershowitz is a {prima facie} war criminal, who should be prosecuted himself.
"And there he is, teaching at the Harvard Law School, and advocating torture, crimes against humanity, war crimes against the Palestinians. As you know, he said, `Well, we should just be obliterating their villages. You know, if they do this, there's a terror bombing here, we [should] destroy one of their villages.'
"And, of course, Dershowitz also advocates torture here, in America. The guy's shameless.
"I remember, [when] I started [at Harvard], Dershowitz started as an assistant professor, and his first big case was defending a pornographic film star in `Deep Throat.' Dershowitz likes to present himself as some great defender of the First Amendment.... Well, as Catherine McKinnon has, I think, taught us all, pornography is a form of violence against women: It's a human rights matter. So, it doesn't surprise me that Dershowitz started his career defending pornographers and pornography, and was and still is greatly proud of it-and now he moves on to defending war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and in addition, over the years, became a war criminal himself.
"But the sum of it is, he's still teaching there at Harvard Law School. So, I hope he goes back to Israel and becomes President, sure! Be great to see him go: Bon voyage."
Professor Francis A. Boyle is an international law expert and served as Legal Advisor to the Palestine Liberation Organization and Yasser Arafat on the 1988 Palestinian Declaration of Independence, as well as to the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle East Peace Negotiations from 1991 to 1993, where he drafted the Palestinian counter-offer to the now defunct Oslo Agreement. His books include “ Palestine, Palestinians and International Law” (2003), and “ The Palestinian Right of Return under International Law” (2010).

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The article below goes back to 2015 and a decade ago. Yes, he is a dirtbag, these people whose goal is greed and power, usually are, anyone who thinks otherwise must be nine or ten.

Our focus now, should be on Dershowitz warmongering, given he was on FOX news, just this past Sunday night, urging a military strike on Syria. Military strikes are responsible for many rapes and deaths of women and children, generally in the thousands, not to mention the total destruction of infrastructure leading to famine and disease.
There is also, the potential for war with Russia, as a result.

Our Pentagon is gearing up for further action in Syria because they have no intention of leaving, ever. Perpetual war is the goal.
This is our focus in protesting this person with his support for destruction of the Palestinian people.


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To put Dirty Dersh into perspective: Epstein’s Lolita-Express-Orgy-Island constituted Sexual Trafficking in Underage Girls and Women that verged upon Sexual Slavery, which is a Crime Against Humanity. Fb.

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Alan Dershowitz on the Defense (His Own)
By BARRY MEIERDEC. 12, 2015
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Last month, demonstrators at Johns Hopkins University interrupted Alan M. Dershowitz<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/alan_m_dershowitz/index.html?inline=nyt-per> as he was giving a fiery speech defending Israel. The disruption normally would not have fazed Mr. Dershowitz, a former Harvard Law School professor who thrives on controversy and relishes taking on opponents in and out of the courtroom.
The protesters, however, were not challenging his Middle East politics. Instead, they held up a sign reading, “You Are Rape Culture.”
Mr. Dershowitz knew what it meant. A decade ago, he had defended a friend, a money manager named Jeffrey E. Epstein, after authorities in Palm Beach, Fla., found evidence indicating that he was paying underage girls to give him sexual massages. The lawyer led a scorched-earth attack on the girls and, with a team of high-priced lawyers, cut a plea deal for Mr. Epstein that the local police said was too lenient.
Over a five-decade career, Mr. Dershowitz has represented some of America’s most prominent criminal defendants, including O. J. Simpson, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson and Claus von Bulow. Now, he finds himself on the other side, in a legal battle to clear his own name. At 77, he is struggling to absorb a bitter lesson — that choosing the wrong client can exact its own cost.
Last December, as part of a filing in an ongoing lawsuit, a woman charged that Mr. Dershowitz had sex with her when she was underage. Mr. Dershowitz called the claim an “outrageous lie” and over the last year has faced fallout from the accusation.
“This is very serious,” Mr. Dershowitz said last month at his apartment in Manhattan. “It involves my life, my legacy, my career, my history, my reputation.”
As he has defended that legacy, there has been a lawsuit, a counterclaim and even an accusation of an extortion plot against the billionaire Leslie H. Wexner, the chairman of L Brands, the retail empire that includes Victoria’s Secret and Henri Bendel. It also has pitted Mr. Dershowitz against another of the nation’s most famous lawyers, David Boies<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/david_boies/index.html?inline=nyt-per>, who represents his accuser.
The two lawyers are in an increasingly virulent war. In October, Mr. Dershowitz testified in a deposition that Mr. Boies had privately assured Mr. Dershowitz that he did not believe the claims of his client, Virginia Roberts Giuffre. “He said that he would not have taken this case if they had known she was going to accuse me,” Mr. Dershowitz said recently.
Mr. Boies responded that he never made such a statement. “The only explanation I have is that he is so emotional about this that he starts saying things without being careful,” Mr. Boies said in an interview. “He has been someone whose approach in litigation is to attack the other side.”
In recent weeks, efforts to resolve the thicket of legal actions have begun, but Mr. Dershowitz insists that any settlement must clear him of sexual wrongdoing. The woman accusing Mr. Dershowitz has not filed a complaint with the authorities or a lawsuit against him. Instead, her allegation first emerged in a lawsuit that challenged Mr. Epstein’s plea agreement.
Mr. Dershowitz long taught his students that everyone, even those charged with the most heinous crimes, deserves a defense. But he now says he hesitated when Mr. Epstein called him in 2006 to ask for help because he was being investigated in connection with sex crimes.
“I said, ‘Look, you know Jeffrey, we’re acquaintances, maybe that’s not such a great idea,” Mr. Dershowitz said. “He said, ‘No, no, no, I really need you to do this.’”
The case, Mr. Dershowitz realized, “was right in my wheelhouse.”
In December 2005, a few months before he got that phone call, Mr. Dershowitz, his wife, children and grandchildren were vacationing at Mr. Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion.
The friendship between the men started in the mid-1990s on Martha’s Vineyard. Not long after they met, Mr. Epstein invited Mr. Dershowitz to a birthday party for Mr. Wexner. Instead of accepting presents, the retail magnate had a tradition of asking friends to bring the most interesting person they had met over the last year.
“He said, ‘I’d like to bring you,’” Mr. Dershowitz said.
By any measure, Mr. Dershowitz had led an interesting life. At 28, after clerking for a Supreme Court justice, Mr. Dershowitz became the youngest professor ever hired by Harvard Law School. It was outside the classroom, however, where his fame grew. He handled celebrated cases, appeared as television commentator and wrote many books, fiction and nonfiction. His account of the von Bulow case, “Reversal of Fortune,” was made into a film in 1990 in which the actor Ron Silver donned a bushy mustache and aviator glasses to play Mr. Dershowitz.
Along with enjoying celebrity, Mr. Dershowitz has also relished excoriating those he considers foes. He has taken on journalists, chided universities for coddling students and has been relentless in his defense of Israel, for example, accusing the writer Alice Walker of bigotry for refusing to allow an Israeli publisher to translate her novel “The Color Purple.”
Soon after meeting Mr. Epstein, Mr. Dershowitz became drawn into his rarefied world. Mr. Epstein was an enigmatic figure living in an Upper East Side mansion once owned by Mr. Wexner, who had reportedly been his mentor. A college dropout who once worked for Bear Stearns, Mr. Epstein said he handled investments for billionaires, though other than Mr. Wexner, he declined to identify them.
Along with prominent businessmen, Mr. Epstein’s friends included scientists, socialites and celebrities. He donated $30 million to finance scientific research at Harvard. President Bill Clinton and the actor Kevin Spacey flew aboard his private jet to Africa to discuss AIDS policy.
Mr. Dershowitz also traveled on Mr. Epstein’s plane and was invited to join his chats with Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister. The men grew so close that Mr. Dershowitz solicited Mr. Epstein’s feedback as he was writing books.
In the interview in his Manhattan apartment, Mr. Dershowitz said Mr. Epstein was often surrounded by young women, but none struck him as underage. “I never got involved in his social life,” he said.
However, in late 2005, around the time when Mr. Dershowitz and his family were vacationing at Mr. Epstein’s home, Palm Beach detectives were sifting through the trash outside. Acting on a tip, the authorities were investigating whether women working as assistants to Mr. Epstein were finding teenage girls to give him sexual massages. As the inquiry unfolded, detectives spoke with girls, some of whom were 15 or younger.
After taking the case, Mr. Dershowitz responded, as was his way, with hardball tactics. He gathered information from the girls’ postings on social media accounts, which he claimed showed they were drug users or had lied to Mr. Epstein about their age. He also helped put together a defense team that included Roy Black, the prominent trial lawyer, and Kenneth W. Starr, who led the investigation into President Bill Clinton’s involvement with Monica Lewinsky.
A local prosecutor, after meetings with Mr. Epstein’s defense team, recommended that he be charged only with a misdemeanor. The chief of the Palm Beach police department was so outraged by the proposal that he wrote a letter to the Justice Department asking it to get involved in the case.
Over time, authorities found evidence suggesting that Mr. Epstein had paid dozens of girls for sexual services. However, Mr. Dershowitz and other lawyers struck a deal in which Mr. Epstein agreed to plead guilty in a Florida court to one count of soliciting prostitution and another of procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. At the same time, federal officials agreed not to bring charges against Mr. Epstein or any of his potential co-conspirators.
A Florida judge sentenced Mr. Epstein to 18 months in jail, though he was allowed to spend days working on the outside. He was released in 2009 after serving 13 months — a shortened sentence for good behavior — and had to register as a sex offender.
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For a criminal lawyer, the residue of a case can remain long after it ends.
Twenty years ago, Mr. Dershowitz received death threats after he helped secure Mr. Simpson’s acquittal on murder charges. And as a writer, he has imagined even worse plots. In one of his legal thrillers, “The Advocate’s Devil,” a lawyer discovers that a man for whom he had won an acquittal on rape charges is stalking his daughter.
But Mr. Epstein’s case has come back to haunt him in ways he never expected. “I have been criticized for the cases I’ve taken,” he said, “but no one has ever criticized my personal life.”
The events that pulled him back into Mr. Epstein’s orbit began unfolding in 2008. That year, two lawyers, Bradley J. Edwards and Paul G. Cassell, filed a lawsuit accusing the Justice Department of violating the rights of two women involved in Mr. Epstein’s case by not allowing them to challenge his plea deal.
Then, in 2011, a British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, published an article about Virginia Roberts Giuffre, another of Mr. Epstein’s accusers, who was then living in Australia. Ms. Giuffre, now a 32-year-old mother of three, told the newspaper that Mr. Epstein first started paying her for sexual services when she was 15. She also described traveling around the world on Mr. Epstein’s jet.
“Basically, I was training to be a prostitute for him and his friends who shared his interest in young girls,” Ms. Giuffre told the newspaper.
Soon afterward, the lawyers suing the Justice Department interviewed Ms. Giuffre and asked her if any of Mr. Epstein’s friends might have information about his exploitation of girls. When they mentioned Mr. Dershowitz, she replied, “Yes,” according to a transcript of the 2011 call.
But last December, Mr. Dershowitz was drawn into the Justice Department lawsuit in an entirely different way. In a motion filed that month, Ms. Giuffre claimed that she and Mr. Dershowitz had sex when she was a minor aboard Mr. Epstein’s plane and at the money manager’s homes in New York, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. She also asserted that Mr. Epstein had “sexually trafficked” her to other powerful friends, including Prince Andrew, the Duke of York. Buckingham Palace rejected the claims against the prince.
The judge later struck Ms. Giuffre’s motion from the court filing, but by then, the accusations were being widely reported and broadcast. Mr. Dershowitz’s phone was ringing with calls from reporters seeking comment. At every opportunity, he called Ms. Giuffre’s claims “outrageous falsehoods” and called the lawyers who had made the filing, Mr. Edwards and Mr. Cassell, “villains” who helped fabricate the claims against him.
Mr. Dershowitz said he would seek to have them disbarred, adding he had diary records and other information to show he was not at locations where Ms. Giuffre claimed they had met. “They’re prepared to lie, cheat and steal,” Mr. Dershowitz said in an interview on CNN in January.
The two lawyers, who declined to be interviewed for this article, filed a defamation lawsuit against Mr. Dershowitz, who responded with his own counterclaim.
Mr. Boies’s firm soon entered the fray. In late 2014, a lawyer at the firm, Boies, Schiller and Flexner, agreed to represent Ms. Giuffre in legal matters not directly related to the Justice Department lawsuit. When Mr. Dershowitz’s name surfaced in that lawsuit, another lawyer at the firm agreed to represent him before realizing that Ms. Giuffre was already a client. After the lawyer withdrew, Mr. Dershowitz expressed anger, saying that he had already told the firm his legal strategy before he was made aware of the conflict.
Mr. Boies called the claim frivolous. “This idea of going to the press and asserting there is a conflict when you are not willing to make that claim in court is irresponsible,” said the lawyer, who is perhaps best known for representing the Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore against George W. Bush in his challenge to the 2000 election results.
That incident, however, was only the start of an escalating battle in which each man has accused the other of twisting words and spewing falsehoods. In October, during a deposition in the defamation case against him, Mr. Dershowitz testified that he had received a confidential phone call from a female friend of Ms. Giuffre, who provided him with troubling information.
According to Mr. Dershowitz’s testimony, the woman said that Ms. Giuffre had told her that she had been pressured to level sexual charges at Mr. Dershowitz. She also described a plan to accuse Mr. Wexner of having sex with Ms. Giuffre when she was underage.
“Virginia and her lawyers hoped to get $1 billion, B-I-L-L-I-O-N, $1 billion or half of his net worth,” Mr. Dershowitz testified he was told, calling the plan an “extortion” attempt.
A lawyer for Mr. Wexner, John W. Zeiger, did not respond to telephone calls. But a person briefed on the matter but who was not authorized to speak publicly about it said that Mr. Wexner had never met Ms. Giuffre and no extortion attempt was made.
Mr. Dershowitz says he wants nothing more than for Ms. Giuffre to publicly retract her claims. He insists that Mr. Boies privately told him that he believed Mr. Dershowitz was innocent and that Ms. Giuffre, while believing the allegations, was mistaken or confused.
Mr. Boies says Mr. Dershowitz’s claims are ludicrous. “I never said to him that I concluded that my clients’ assertions were incorrect,” he said. “I didn’t say that. I didn’t say anything like that.”
On Friday, Mr. Dershowitz filed an affidavit in a Florida state court, containing notes of his conversations with Mr. Boies that he says support his account. In it, he described Mr. Boies as telling him that if his client refused to withdraw her claim, “he could not ethically continue to represent her.”
Hours later, Mr. Boies’s firm asked the Florida judge to seal Mr. Dershowitz’s affidavit, and in a related filing, Mr. Boies described some of Mr. Dershowitz’s assertions as “misleading” or “flatly untrue.”
In this intensifying game of legal chicken, it is not clear who will flinch first. Ms. Giuffre seems unwilling to yield and used a recent court filing to fire back at Mr. Dershowitz.
“He is lying by denying that he had sex with me,” said Ms. Giuffre, who declined to be interviewed for this article.
Mr. Dershowitz says he is no longer friendly with Mr. Epstein, who lives once again in his lavish Upper East side mansion. Still, like it or not, the lawyer remains tethered to him. Having defended Mr. Epstein, he said that he could not express his feelings about him.
Several well-known criminal defense lawyers said that personal attacks were an occupational hazard. “Alan has never shied away from a fight in his life,” said Abbe D. Lowell, a lawyer in Washington whose clients have included the lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was convicted of corruption in 2006. “He has been that kind of lightning rod.”
For a man who has never lacked for self-confidence, Mr. Dershowitz now finds himself saddled with regret. Two clients, he said, have backed away from him because of his accuser’s claims, and he worries whether universities like Johns Hopkins will invite him to give speeches or present him with awards.
He now says he thinks that he should have said no when Mr. Epstein called.
“I think I do regret having taken the case in light of everything that has happened since,” he said. “If I could give back the money I made in this case and have this episode of my life erased, I’d do it.”
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Dershowitz and Boies spar in 'an increasingly virulent war' over rape accusation
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Updated: Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz says he initially hesitated a decade ago when a friend sought his help fighting allegations that he paid underage girls to give him sexual massages.
Dershowitz took the case anyway and arranged a plea deal for his client, wealthy money manager Jeffrey Epstein. Now Dershowitz is defending his own reputation after a lawsuit challenging the plea deal brought an accusation that he had sex with a woman when she was a minor, the New York Times<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nyti.ms_1Z5bPTf&d=DwMFAg&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=yYwZJ47Nv_cWJpXjzmEUbBDKAUoXgMrmOckznRGW00w&m=IFYNeQ4hkSh-5CdUPCVIuzQOjklT8j-2i5JdG4MgwH0&s=9QVewvKr8VMKIIbcS78M1zkBR9suWM1oIWC8BculNok&e=> reports.
The accuser, represented by lawyer David Boies, never filed a complaint with police or a suit against Dershowitz. She testified in a suit claiming the Justice Department violated the rights of two women in Epstein’s case by not allowing them to challenge the plea deal.
The accusation led to “an increasingly virulent war” between Boies and Dershowitz, according to the New York Times. The woman’s claims, Dershowitz has said, are “outrageous falsehoods,” and two other lawyers who made the sex claim in a court filing are “villains.” Those two lawyers, Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell, alleged defamation in a suit against Dershowitz, who filed a counterclaim.
“Over a five-decade career,” the Times story says, “Dershowitz has represented some of America’s most prominent criminal defendants, including O. J. Simpson, Leona Helmsley, Mike Tyson and Claus von Bulow. Now, he finds himself on the other side, in a legal battle to clear his own name. At 77, he is struggling to absorb a bitter lesson—that choosing the wrong client can exact its own cost.”
Boies’ firm, Boies, Schiller and Flexner, is representing the accuser pro bono in the defamation case as part of a program to assist victims of abuse, according to prior coverage<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.reuters.com_article_us-2Ddershowitz-2Dlawsuit-2Dboies-2DidUSKBN0NE02920150423&d=DwMFAg&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=yYwZJ47Nv_cWJpXjzmEUbBDKAUoXgMrmOckznRGW00w&m=IFYNeQ4hkSh-5CdUPCVIuzQOjklT8j-2i5JdG4MgwH0&s=UvgroQSr_MVYcqAmpxKj8mmMXw_KWRo2IRr2KmjVgkk&e=> by Reuters. The firm also discussed representing Dershowitz before the conflict was discovered, according to Dershowitz. He claims he wasn’t made aware of the conflict until after he revealed his legal strategy to the firm.
(Even if there was no attorney-client relationship formed, the firm could be disqualified if Dershowitz made confidential statements to the firm in contemplation of possible litigation, according to this post<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.thefacultylounge.org_2015_04_an-2Dethics-2Dlesson-2Dfrom-2Dthe-2Dbig-2Dboys.html&d=DwMFAg&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=yYwZJ47Nv_cWJpXjzmEUbBDKAUoXgMrmOckznRGW00w&m=IFYNeQ4hkSh-5CdUPCVIuzQOjklT8j-2i5JdG4MgwH0&s=0J73OWvYCb84xhFTtvgC6QkWiaAsu-JA2ADSe2QDvT0&e=> by the Faculty Lounge.)
Boies responded that Dershowitz was “irresponsible” for making a conflict claim in the press without being willing to assert it in court. According to the New York Times story, the incident “was only the start of an escalating battle in which each man has accused the other of twisting words and spewing falsehoods.”
Dershowitz claimed in a deposition in the defamation case that he received a phone call from a friend of the accuser, who said she was pressured to make the claim against Dershowitz and another friend of Epstein’s in hopes of recovering $1 billion.
Dershowitz also claims Boies privately told him he believed Dershowitz is innocent and his accuser is mistaken or confused. Dershowitz filed a court affidavit<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.abajournal.com_files_DershowitzAffidavit.pdf&d=DwMFAg&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=yYwZJ47Nv_cWJpXjzmEUbBDKAUoXgMrmOckznRGW00w&m=IFYNeQ4hkSh-5CdUPCVIuzQOjklT8j-2i5JdG4MgwH0&s=FkHqyoWagD4k1LJxDvbA102SBhtgG9rYQJhnI39ouoQ&e=>(PDF) claiming Boies told him he could not ethically continue to represent the woman if she did not withdraw her claim.
The affidavit includes Dershowitz’s contemporaneous notes of his conversations with Boies supporting his claims about Boies’ statements. It also says that a mutual friend attended the meetings in which Boies made his comments.
“Over the course of several conversations in person, over the phone, and on Skype,” Dershowitz’s affidavit says, “Mr. Boies repeatedly stated that he did not believe the allegations that [his client] had made against me were factually true.”
Boies denies making such a comment. “I never said to him that I concluded that my clients’ assertions were incorrect,” Boies told the Times. “I didn’t say that. I didn’t say anything like that.”
Dershowitz responded to Boies’ denial in a statement to the ABA Journal. “I doubt that my friend David Boies will be willing to state under oath that he did not make the statements that I quote in my affidavit,” Dershowitz said. “It’s one thing to deny making them to the media. It’s quite another thing to deny them under pains and penalties of perjury.”
Typo and missing period corrected at 9 a.m. Additional information about Dershowitz’s affidavit and statement from Dershowitz added on Dec. 17.


Francis A. Boyle
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From: Boyle, Francis A
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Subject: #MeToo Dirty Dershowitz at UIUC April 26

https://goo.gl/images/r7CFYE<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__goo.gl_images_r7CFYE&d=DwMFAg&c=OCIEmEwdEq_aNlsP4fF3gFqSN-E3mlr2t9JcDdfOZag&r=yYwZJ47Nv_cWJpXjzmEUbBDKAUoXgMrmOckznRGW00w&m=IFYNeQ4hkSh-5CdUPCVIuzQOjklT8j-2i5JdG4MgwH0&s=G5wbwA0B0ELC_RzBFRo3GttjZYGTid4zdQELEE8KdcI&e=> This visit is sponsored by Gies College of Business; The Program in Constitutional Theory, History, and Law at the College of Law {i.e., Fired and Disgraced Dean Hurricane Heidi Hurd and her Consort CIA/Mossad Torturer-mongerer  Mikey Moore}; and the Chabad Center for Jewish {Sic!} Life at University of Illinois.
I really like this picture of Orgy Epstein, Dirty Dershowitz and Harvard. Just shows you that the sub silentio Motto of Harvard is: Cupiditas! As for #MeToo Dirty Dersh his Motto while travelling on Epstein’s Lolita Express to and from Epstein’s Orgy Island in order to cavort with underage girls, prostitutes and their  Male Sexual Predators and Abusers with one of the girls alleging that #MeToo Dirty Dersh had abused her (last time I read being represented by David Boies and his law firm) is: Semper Ubi Sub Ubi! Be sure to wear your Tighty Whities for his events on April 26—on your head! Fab.
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