Key information on Jeffrey Epstein’s relationships with the rich and powerful is unlikely to be found in grand jury transcripts the White House wants to be unsealed, Alan Dershowitz, Epstein’s former lawyer, said Sunday.
Instead, Dershowitz told Shannon Bream on “Fox News Sunday” that the relevant information is in “sealed records by two or three federal judges in the New York courts.”
The White House has come under fire from some of its top MAGA supporters after it released a statement in early July that a Department of Justice and FBI investigation found no evidence of an incriminating client list maintained by Epstein. Then last Thursday, a Wall Street Journal article reported President Donald Trump had sent Epstein a letter marked with innuendo for the disgraced financier’s 50th birthday. Trump has denied the report, and POLITICO has not independently verified the letter’s existence.
Seeking to quiet the escalating anger, the president on Thursday ordered Attorney General Pam Bondi to ask a judge to unseal the grand jury testimony from Epstein’s case.
But, “the information that hasn’t been requested is going to be far more informative and far more relevant than the grand jury information,” Dershowitz told Bream. “Grand jury information is narrowly tailored by prosecutors only to provide sufficient evidence to result in an indictment.”
Instead, the longtime Harvard professor and lawyer for the likes of Epstein, Trump and O.J. Simpson on Sunday lobbied for Epstein confidant Ghislaine Maxwell, now serving a 20-year prison sentence, to be granted immunity in exchange for testifying in front of a congressional committee.
“She knows everything,” Dershowitz said. “She is the Rosetta Stone. She knows everything. She arranged every single trip with everybody. She knows everything. And if she were just given use immunity, she could be compelled to testify. I’m told that she actually would be willing to testify. And there’d be no reason for her to withhold any information.”