James Patterson testimony references alleged [REDACTED - Survivor] abuse and mentions Les Wexner and Jeffrey Epstein

JAMES PATTERSON 11:35 a.m. Q: Who are the people that Rebecca says Virginia had previ- ously told her that Virginia was abused by? A: never asked her that question. Q: Did you ask her was Les Wexner one of the people that abused Virginia? A: I told you I never asked her the question. Q: Are you aware that years before December of 2014, when the CVRA pleading was filed, that your name had come up repeatedly in connection with Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse of minors, correct? A: lam aware that never before 2014, end of December, was it ever, ever alleged that I had acted in any way inappropriately with regard to Virginia Roberts, that I ever touched her, that 1 ever met her, that I had ever been with her. I was completely aware of that. There had never been any allegation. She claims under oath that she told you that secretly in 2011, but you have produced no notes of any such conversation. You, of course, are a witness to this allegation and will be deposed as a witness to this allegation. | believe it is an entirely false 7 allegation that she told you in 2011 that she had had any sex- 4 ual contact with me. I think she’s lying through her teeth q when she says that. And I doubt that your notes will reveal 4 any such information. But if she did tell you that, she would ~ be absolutely, categorically lying. So I am completely aware that never—until the lies were put in a legal pleading at the | end of December 2014, it was never alleged that I had any 1a 264 4 sexual contact with Vi alleged that I was a witn and that was false. I w; Epstein’s sexual abuse. that you have falsely dei record is clear that I ha witness to any abuse, th anybody. And—and th talk to Jeffrey Epstein w Virginia Roberts, which geous, SO preposterous, lawyer associated with t erts] said he couldn't belli 12:24 p.m. Q: You engaged in a mass: world that Bradley Edwai unethical lawyers who h you, correct? : No, that’s not correct. I r¢ ing the truth. My goal w ginia Roberts's allegation These two stories appeare newspaper in the world ai of their plot and the plan absurdly mentioned Prin absurd way—that they ing to lobby prosecutors t HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022161