An ex-model accused of being a co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein’s was requested throughout a deposition by attorneys for one of many intercourse offender’s accusers whether or not former President Invoice Clinton’s nationwide safety advisor had tipped off Epstein a couple of federal raid, in line with newly unsealed court docket paperwork.
Through the 2010 deposition, attorneys for Virginia Giuffre, one among Epstein’s victims, questioned former mannequin Adriana Ross about Samuel Richard “Sandy” Berger, the highest nationwide safety aide beneath the Clinton administration.
Ross was requested who Berger was and whether or not he was a “shut pal” of Epstein’s, in line with the court docket paperwork.
“That is any person else that was affiliated with Invoice Clinton at one cut-off date, appropriate?” Ross was questioned.
“He known as the home inside three weeks of the search warrant being executed. Did he tip off Jeffrey Epstein?” Ross was requested, the court docket papers present. For every query, Ross replied, “I refuse to reply.”
Berger died in 2015. A consultant for former President Invoice Clinton did not instantly touch upon questioning involving Berger.
The trade occurred within the pages of unsealed court docket paperwork that adopted a coversheet introducing Ross’s 2010 deposition, although many pages of that deposition gave the impression to be excluded or out of order within the information.
Ross, who’s from Poland, has been accused of helping Epstein in his sex-trafficking operation. She has by no means been charged with against the law, however was named as an unindicted “potential co-conspirator” in Epstein’s non-prosecution settlement when he pleaded responsible to solicitation in Florida.
Within the 2010 deposition, Ross repeatedly invoked her fifth Modification proper and declined to reply questions.
The court docket paperwork have been unsealed on Friday as a part of a 2015 civil lawsuit filed by Giuffre in opposition to longtime Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell.
A US district court docket choose unsealed a whole bunch of paperwork stemming from the lawsuit this week.
