Transcription of EFTA00221058

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Female: "Would you raise your right hand? Do you swear or affirm that the testimony you're about to give today will be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you god?" // Man: "I do." \\ Female: "Please have a seat. Good morning. Could you introduce yourself please?" // Man: "My name is Detective [bleep] with the Palm Beach police department." \\ Female: "Ok, what is your position there?" // Man: "I am a detective in the special investigations unit." \\ Female: "What do you investigate in special investigations?" // Man: "Long term investigations, financial crimes, white collar crimes, just about any kind of crimes." \\ Female: "Ok. Ones that are going on for a long period of time though, usually?" // Man: "Correct, long period." \\ Female: "Not a murder that happened last night." // Man: "Right." \\ Female: "Ok. Did you become involved in an investigation on case number 0500368?" // Man: "That is correct." \\ Female: "When did you become involved in that?" // Man: "In September of 2005." \\ Female: "Ok. Was there another detective investigating this before then?" // Man: "That is correct. Her name was Michelle Pagan." \\ Female: "Ok. And she at some point turned it over to you." // Man: "Correct." \\ Female: "Have you familiarized yourself either speaking with detective Pagan or going through her reports as to what was done when she was a detective on the case?" // Man: "Yes, I have." \\ Female: "Ok. How did this case come to the attention of the Palm Beach police department?" // Man: "On March 14th 2005, a phone call was received from [bleep] who felt that there was some sexual activity had occured with her daughter." \\ Female: "And Mrs. [extended bleep] and who was her daughter?" // Man: "Her stepdaughter is [bleep]." \\ Female: "And what did Mrs. [bleep] think was going on?" // Man: "What had occured was that [bleep] had gotten into a fight at [bleep] High School and subsequent, after the fight, they discovered $300 in her purse. When questioning the $300 she had told them that she had receieved it from a man in Palm Beach." \\ Female: "Ok. Did [bleep] [unintelligible] in conversation where they were talking about the fact that [bleep] may have accepted money for having sex with a man?" // Man: "Yes, that is correct. She had some kind of sexual activity with a man in Palm Beach." \\ Female: "And paid for it." // Man: "Correct." \\ Female: "Ok. Was detective [bleep] able to find out the circumstances about why the fight occured?" // Man: "It was rumored that she had slept with a man in Palm Beach at [bleep] high school." \\ Female: "She being [bleep]." // Man: "Sage, correct." \\ Female: "And she heard the rumor that she was a prostitute and that's what started the fight?" // Man: "Correct." \\ Female: "Who did she have the fight with?" // Man: "A girl by the name of [bleep]." \\ Female: "Ok. The fight occured at school?" // Man: "Yes." \\ Female: "Who actually found the money in [bleep]'s purse?" // Man: "The freshman assistant principal." \\ Female: "Ok. How much money was in the purse?" // Man: "300." \\ Female: "Was detective [bleep] able to interview [bleep]?" // Man: "Yes." \\ Female: "Where did that occur?" // Man: "That occured at the Palm Beach police department." \\ Female: "Ok. Did [bleep] was [bleep] honest with detective [bleep]?" // Man: "Originally she did not tell everything that occured, it was through a subsequent interview that the further information was developed." \\ Female: "What did [bleep] detective [bleep]?" // Man: "Initially that she had gone to the house with a girl by the name of [bleep] to pick up monies that were owed to her. When she, detective [bleep] questioned she explained that she was taken to the house to provide a massage to a wealthy man in Palm Beach." \\ Female: "Ok. She initially denied that though and said there was no act on her part between this man and herself?" // Man: "Correct." \\ Female: "Ok. But she ultimately told them that she went there for a massage." // Man: "Correct." \\ Female: "To give him a massage?" // Man: "Correct." \\ Female: "Ok. Did [bleep] discuss with detective [bleep] that what [bleep] her about going to the house? Like did you know [bleep] here to do a massage, that you were gonna get money?"

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/D ... 221058.m4a