hoo boy this needs a 100 foot tall flashing neon sign saying "consider the source"

Dershowitz was Epstein's lawyer in 2006 [0] when he was granted immunity from federal prosecution:

> According to the Miami Herald, the non-prosecution agreement "essentially shut down an ongoing FBI probe into whether there were more victims and other powerful people who took part in Epstein's sex crimes". At the time, this halted the investigation and sealed the indictment. The Miami Herald said: "Acosta agreed, despite a federal law to the contrary, that the deal would be kept from the victims."

Dershowitz was also accused [1] by Virginia Giuffre of being one of the people she had sex with while being trafficked by Epstein. she later retracted those allegations after a defamation lawsuit from Dershowitz.

and now, here's Dershowitz claiming that the "client list" doesn't exist, don't worry about it, there's nothing to see here.

however, if a "client list" did exist [2] it seems like there's a damn good chance Dershowitz would be on it, in some form or another, potentially corroborating Giuffre's allegations and contradicting Dershowitz's denials.

also, a potential release of Epstein-related files from the DOJ might include documents about that 2006 sweetheart deal that would paint Dershowitz in a pretty bad light.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein#Non-prosecutio...

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Dershowitz#Retracted_sexu...

2: I think there's excessive focus, but for understandable reasons, around the idea of a single "Client List.docx" document, when the reality is much more likely that there are a huge pile of documents seized under a search warrant, and not necessarily one single smoking-gun document.