I Want to Be Investigated by the FBI -Dershowitz (important, really)
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Four years ago, a woman in her mid-30s accused me of having sex with her when she was underage. I produced incontrovertible evidence that I never met the accuser—including a lawfully recorded admission by her lawyer, who examined my travel and phone records and said it would have been “impossible” for me to have been in four places where she claimed the sexual encounters occurred, and that she was “simply wrong” in accusing me. The evidence includes emails and a book manuscript (currently under court seal) in which the accuser acknowledges that she never had sex with me, and a recorded conversation of a friend of the accuser, who says the accuser told her of feeling “pressured by her lawyers” to accuse me in order to get a big payday.
There is also evidence that the accuser fabricated stories about Al Gore, Tipper Gore and Bill Clinton, all of whom she claims she met in locations where Secret Service records and other evidence establish they could not have been. After examining the evidence, former FBI Director Louis Freeh and a team of former law-enforcement officials retained by my lawyers concluded that “the totality of the evidence refutes the allegations” against me. The federal judge overseeing the civil lawsuit in which the accusation was filed struck it from the record and imposed sanctions on the lawyers responsible. As part of an agreement, they withdrew the filings that falsely accused me and acknowledged filing them was a “mistake.”
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It is hard to imagine #MeToo accusations with more-compelling evidence of innocence than mine. In virtually every other case, there is evidence—and often no dispute—that the accuser had a relationship of some sort with the accused. The dispute is over consent or other issues, which are often matters of degree. In my case, there is no evidence that my accusers and I were ever even in the same place at the same time, and documented evidence that we were not. Yet a journalist for the New Yorker told me she regards the evidence of my innocence as “inconclusive.” My accusers refuse to make their accusations in public, outside of court documents. That shields them from defamation suits and leaves me with no legal recourse unless prosecutors decide to bring perjury charges. But it’s rare for prosecutors even to investigate false filings in civil cases.
I’ve decided, therefore, to do something unusual: I’m asking federal prosecutors and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to open a criminal investigation of me. But not of me alone—of my accusers as well. All three of us have filed sworn affidavits in federal court. These affidavits are in irreconcilable conflict: I have sworn that I never met either of them; they have both sworn that I engaged in sexual acts with them. Either I have committed perjury or they have. Someone has committed a serious felony, a crime against America’s justice system. I’m asking law-enforcement authorities to figure out who. I will cooperate, showing them my evidence, testifying before the grand jury, invoking no privileges. I will challenge my accusers to do the same.
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/i-want-to-be-investigated-by-the-fbi-11553209347 (paid subscription)
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