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conjunction with what was going on at the 
time, how hated Mr. Rothstein was at the 
time, then, yeah, people are going to 
believe that those allegations are true. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
All right. Good. 
A 
At least that's my perception as well, which 
is causes --
Q 
Can you tell me one person who came up to 
you after the lawsuit was filed and said, I believe, 
Mr. Edwards, that what Mr. Epstein's lawyers wrote in 
this complaint against you, that that's true? 
A 
What will typically happen at the courthouse 
would be lawyers would come up and say, Hey, so-and-so 
was just saying this complaint was just filed against 
you by Mr. Epstein, and that in reality there might 
have been real cases against Mr. Epstein, but you 
didn't have those, that you actually represented 
clients who had nothing to do with him. You fabricated 
cases with Rothstein, and they are speculating that you 
will be arrested with Mr. Rothstein for the fabrication 
of Epstein cases and pretending that you represented 
Epstein victims. That would happen with great 
frequency when it was hot, when it was hot in the 
press. 
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Q 
Okay. I got that. And that makes sense. 
Did you have a concern that you might be 
arrested or indicted? 
A 
No. 
Q 
None at all? 
A 
Zero. 
Q 
Did you ever hire a criminal lawyer? 
A 
No. 
Q 
Never consulted with one? 
A 
No. 
Q 
So you said -- I think I heard you say in 
December 2009 everyone who knew your reputation about 
your level of ethics and professionalism would have 
known that the allegations were untrue. Did I get 
that close? 
A 
The people that knew me very well would have 
known that it was not true, yes. 
Q 
So before December 2009, did you ever have 
any ethical issues that you had to deal with? 
MR. SCAROLA: Let me object to the form 
of the question as vague. 
THE WITNESS: Such as what? Not that I 
remember. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
Nothing that you remember. All right. 
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You graduated from law school in May or 
June 2001? 
A 
Somewhere around there, yeah. 
Q 
And you were admitted -- when did you take 
the bar exam? 
A 
In July of 2001. 
Q 
And did you pass the bar exam on your first 
try? 
A 
Yes. 
Q 
And then you were not admitted until March 
of 2002, correct? 
A 
Correct. 
Q 
Was there a holdup on your -- on your bar 
being admitted, something about your character and 
fitness evaluation? 
A 
There was -- there was a delay in the 
finalization of that. 
Q 
Based on their taking an extended look at 
your character and fitness to practice law in the 
State of Florida, right? 
A 
Right. There's two elements of it. There's 
the test and character fitness. 
Q 
Right. I understand. And the delay, which 
was almost a year from when you graduated, was the 
character and fitness part. You passed the 
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test-taking part, right? 
A 
I got my -- we got our scores back in late 
September, and then I was admitted in March. So it's 
not almost a year. 
Q 
No. I said from when you graduated. 
A 
I know, but it just makes it seem longer than 
it is. I mean, I know you chose when I graduated. I 
would not have been admitted anyway until October. 
Q 
Did you file your application to join the 
bar before you graduated or -- and before you took 
the test, or did you wait to do that until after you 
took test? 
A 
No, I filed it before I graduated school. 
Q 
You filed it before you got out of law 
school, right? It's a long process. 
MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me. One question 
at a time, please. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
So you filed the application before you got 
out of law school, right? 
A 
Yes. 
Q 
So that's close to a year since you filed 
the application before you were approved, based on 
their extended evaluation of your character and 
fitness to practice law? 
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A 
Yeah. I don't quarrel with that. 
Q 
What were the incidents they were looking 
at that delayed them? Do you remember? 
A 
No. I don't remember the incidents that they 
were looking at. It was --
Q 
You really don't have any idea what they 
were looking at? What caused them concern? 
MR. SCAROLA: Objection. Compound. 
THE WITNESS: I believe it related to 
when I was a juvenile. I think that was the 
first thing I had to answer about. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
Okay. Was there more than one? 
A 
Do you have anything that can refresh my 
recollection so I know exactly what it was that I was 
doing back in 2000 or 2001? 
Q 
I'm asking you, sir, if you remember what 
the incidents were that were in your past that the 
bar examiners were looking at in evaluating your 
character and fitness. And if you're telling me you 
don't remember, then you don't remember. 
A 
It was incidents related to an arrest. And I 
think that one of them was when I was a juvenile. 
Q 
And the other arrest? 
A 
I believe it was an underage drinking arrest. 
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Q 
That was the first arrest, right? Were 
there two arrests? 
A 
And the other one was a possession of 
prescription without a prescription. 
Q 
What was the prescription? 
A 
I don't remember the name of it right now. 
But if you showed it to me then I would know. If you 
said it, I would know. 
MR. LINK: So we have been going about 
an hour. Why don't we take a couple minute 
break if that's okay, because I need to take 
a break? 
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: The time is 
10:48 a.m. and we are going off the record. 
(A recess was had.) 
THE VIDEOGRAPHER: The time is 
10:58 a.m. We are back on the record. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
Mr. Edwards, I got a little derailed. 
There was a question that I asked about, and then I 
meandered away from it. I was saying starting in 
December 2009 when the lawsuit was filed -- and I 
think I asked about January 1 just to make it 
simpler. So January -- let's talk about January 1, 
2010 looking back to when you started practicing law 
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in 2002, compared to January 1, 2010, forward through 
today. During those two separate time frames, in 
which one have you collectively in total made more 
money in your profession as a lawyer? 
A 
Since 2010? 
Q 
So January -- is it easy -- is January a 
good way to do it? Is it easier to think about 
the --
A 
That's fine. 
Q 
So in January 2010 through today, your 
income as a lawyer has been collectively greater than 
it was from January 2010 back to 2002 when you 
started practicing. 
A 
Right. 
Q 
Would you say it has doubled during that 
time period? 
MR. SCAROLA: I am going to object to 
the question and instruct you not to answer 
on the basis of economic privacy. The 
question is not relevant, material nor 
reasonably calculated to lead to the 
discovery of relevant material information. 
MR. LINK: And I take it, Mr. Scarola, 
any question I would ask like that -- not 
asking about the specific dollars, but just 
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the parameters, you will have the same 
objection? 
MR. SCAROLA: Well, I don't know, 
because I did allow you to ask the one 
question --
MR. LINK: You did. 
MR. SCAROLA: -- that you asked that 
was answered. So you are going to need to 
ask your questions, and I will make a 
determination as to whether I will assert an 
objection and instruct Mr. Edwards not to 
answer based upon what the question is. 
MR. LINK: Fair enough. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
So, Mr. Edwards in comparing those two time 
frames, 2002 through 2010 -- which was an eight-year 
time period of practice, right? 
A 
Right. 
Q 
I saw you counting on your fingers. 
compared to 2010 through 2017, which is 
a seven-year time frame, in the seven years 
A 
We are almost up to January 2018, though, 
so --
Q 
Let's make it '18. 
A 
We're about even. 
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Q 
Fair enough. Let's make it eight to eight 
so we're comparing apples to apples. 
A 
Yeah. 
Q 
Would you say that your income as a lawyer, 
as a professional, in the second half of your career, 
the past eight years, is significantly greater than 
your income was in the first eight years of your 
practice? 
MR. SCAROLA: I'm going to object to 
the question on the basis that it's vague. 
But can you go ahead and answer that 
question. 
THE WITNESS: The answer is yes. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
Thank you for answering that. 
We were talking about some ethics issues 
and whether you had any, and I was asking you what 
you remember. Do you remember -- as we were talking 
about your reputation -- do you remember any 
incidents while you were working for the Broward 
State Attorney's office where anything that you did 
was called into question or there were any news 
reports or anything? 
MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me. I am going to 
object. The question is vague and compound. 
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THE WITNESS: What's the question? 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
When you -- you worked for the Broward 
State Attorney's office? 
A 
Basically three years. 
Q 
Three years, okay. 
During that three-year time period 
well, let me ask you this. Why did you leave? Was 
there -- why did you leave? 
A 
Just time to leave. 
Q 
What does that mean? Was there an offer on 
the table? Were you asked to leave? What was the 
reason? 
A 
I tried a bunch of case. I wanted to try 
civil cases. I wanted to try civil cases from the 
beginning. I wanted experience as a trial lawyer. I 
went to the state attorney's office. I got a lot of 
experience, and it was time to leave and do what I 
wanted to do. So that's it. 
Q 
So was there anything that happened shortly 
before you left that -- where anybody called into 
question anything you did as far as your 
representation of the State of Florida on behalf of 
the Broward State Attorney's Office? 
A 
My supervisors would have said that I was 
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probably the best prosecutor there at the time, so that 
was not -- that was never something that happened. 
Q 
I wouldn't find any reports about a 
tampered-with video being placed into evidence or 
anything like that if I searched the Internet using 
your name? Is that true? 
A 
I know that case. But that case is not me 
tampering with anything. That case was me prosecuting 
somebody for what they did in a very effective, very 
fair way, the most fair way possible; him getting 
convicted, him going to prison, him getting upset, and 
suing me, the State Attorney Mike Satz, all of the 
police officers involved in the case. So that's what 
happened. 
I know -- that's Donald Baker. I know the 
Donald Baker case well. 
Q 
So you were sued? 
A 
Yeah. 
Q 
So Mr. Epstein's suit was not the first one 
against you that called into question something that 
you are doing as a lawyer; is that true? 
A 
I didn't know about that lawsuit when I was 
first sued, because the AG's office was representing 
me. I was no longer at the state attorney's office. 
So they picked up and represented the suit. And I 
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heard it was dismissed right away. I didn't keep up 
with the case. 
Q 
I understand. But my question was so that 
you had, before Mr. Epstein sued you, been sued based 
on conduct, something that allegedly you did during 
your work as a lawyer, right? 
A 
True. 
Q 
Where was that lawsuit filed, sir? 
A 
If you can show me, I'm not going to quarrel 
with it. I just don't know that I have seen it -- in 
Florida. 
Q 
Were you served with a lawsuit? 
A 
I think I was served with a lawsuit. 
Q 
Did it cause anxiety when you were served? 
A 
No. 
Q 
Well, you were alleged to have done 
something that was unethical, correct? 
A 
He made these allegation before in court. We 
had hearings over it, over his 57 -- his 38 -- 3.850 
motion for his ineffective assistance of counsel. I 
had heard this whole thing. It was -- it was such 
nonsense that was being made by a criminal that -- sour 
grapes. He lost a trial and had to go to prison. I 
didn't even want to recommend prison in the case. 
The fact is, he had committed a murder 
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previously in his life, so he was HOQ qualified, 
which necessitated a five-year prison sentence. I 
didn't think he deserved that for that crime, nor 
did I recommend it. It was just part of the 
guidelines by the state. So I knew it was a harsh 
sentence for the crime that he committed. He was 
upset about it, and he took it out on everybody. 
Q 
So you weren't -- you didn't suffer any 
anxiety or concern at all about a lawsuit that was 
filed in 2004 that related to allegations of 
unethical conduct in a proceeding that you were the 
lead trial lawyer? 
A 
Zero. 
Q 
Did anybody ask you about the alleged 
unethical conduct that was in that lawsuit? 
A 
No. 
Q 
Did you read the press that was involved 
with the filing of the lawsuit against you based on 
your work as a prosecutor? 
A 
I don't remember there being press about the 
lawsuit that was filed. 
Q 
You don't? 
A 
No. 
Q 
Anybody ask you -- assume for a minute 
there was some press. Did anybody ask you about it? 
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MR. SCAROLA: Excuse me. Object to the 
improper question. 
MR. LINK: It was a really bad 
question, wasn't it? 
MR. SCAROLA: Yeah. Terrible. 
MR. LINK: Thank you. I object. 
MR. SCAROLA: Good. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
I don't even know how to follow up with 
that one it was so bad. 
A 
It's tough. 
Q 
You're right. 
Did anybody in your -- in the profession, 
lawyers that you dealt with from time to time or 
regularly, comment to you about the lawsuit that was 
filed against you in 2004? 
A 
No. 
Q 
Did the filing of that lawsuit have 
anything to do with your termination at the state 
attorney's office for Broward? 
MR. SCAROLA: Object. 
THE WITNESS: I wasn't terminated from 
the state attorney's office. 
BY MR. LINK: 
Q 
How about did it have anything to do with 
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your decision to resign? 
A 
Absolutely not. 
Q 
Do you remember that the lawsuit alleged a 
1983 violation? 
A 
No. 
Q 
How long was the lawsuit pending? 
A 
I have no idea. I never read the lawsuit. 
Q 
So you were served with a lawsuit, you were 
sued, and you don't even read it? Is that true? 
A 
I didn't even read it. That's true. I doubt 
Judge Gates read it. I doubt Mike Satz read it. 
Q 
You were a defendant. 
A 
So were they. We were all joined together. 
The police department. Everybody was defendants. 
Q 
No big deal? 
A 
It was a joke. 
Q 
How many associates were employed at 
Bradley Edwards & Associates? 
A 
I don't think I ever had associates. I 
had -- I had law clerks that the plan was always when 
they passed the bar that they would be associates, but 
that's just -- I didn't have the firm open long enough. 
Q 
Did you ever check with the Florida Bar to 
see if it was a violation of the bar ethics rules to 
call yourself Bradley Edwards & Associates if you had 
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no associates? 
A 
No. 
Q 
Are you familiar today with the ethical 
rule that involves your calling your law firm Bradley 
Edwards & Associates and whether that is proper under 
the bar rules? 
A 
No. Even if you plan to have associates in 
the near future? I have never read that rule, I don't 
believe. 
Q 
And when you left the state attorney's 
office, did you form Bradley Edwards & Associates 
then? 
A 
No. 
Q 
What did you do? 
A 
I worked for a law firm, Kubicki Draper. 
Q 
How long were you at Kubicki Draper? 
A 
Approximately three years. 
Q 
So three years at state attorney's office, 
right? 
A 
Just short of. 
Q 
Three years at Kubicki Draper? 
A 
Approximately, right. 
Q 
What type of firm was Kubicki Draper at the 
time? That would have been 2005-ish. 
A 
'04, '05, '06, '07. Insurance defense. 
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Q 
So you left the state attorney's office and 
did insurance defense work? 
A 
Correct. 
Q 
What type of work did you do? Tell me the 
clients that you represented generally. 
A 
I represented individuals who were 
primarily car accident cases. Those are the types of 
trials that I tried. 
Again, my objective was get as many trials 
as I could at the firm. That -- it was primarily 
auto accident cases. 
Q 
So these are folks who were insured by 
insurance companies? 
A 
Right. 
Q 
And behalf of the insurance companies they 
would retain the law firm that you worked for to 
represent their insureds. 
A 
Right. 
Q 
And so the insureds were the folks that 
were being blamed for whatever the car accident was. 
Is that true? 
A 
For the most part. 
Q 
Did you have any plaintiff's cases on 
behalf of insureds? 
A 
I don't think so. 
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Q 
So they would have all been where an 
insured was being sued by somebody claiming that 
their car caused them some injury, I take it. Is 
that right? 
A 
Right. 
Q 
Anything there other than 
A 
That's why I made that caveat before. 
Sometimes it wasn't they were being blamed for causing 
the accident. They owned the car or something like 
that. Dangerous instrumentality or something. 
Q 
I understand. So they were all defendants. 
Not plaintiffs. 
A 
Correct. 
Q 
I know you said earlier you tried a lot of 
cases at the state attorney's office. I saw 
somewhere in your file roughly 60 cases there. 
A 
At least. 
Q 
At least 60. Were any of those cases 
involving -- you mentioned a murder 
what I would 
call dangerous criminals? 
A 
Yeah, of course. 
Q 
Tell me some of the more dangerous 
criminals that you prosecuted during a trial. 
A 
Armed robbers. 
Q 
Armed robbers with guns? 
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A 
Right. 
Q 
Who else? 
A 
I mean, kidnappers. Any prosecuted cases 
where there were gang stabbings and -- plenty of 
violent criminals. 
Q 
Did any of those violent criminals, like 
the gang members and the murders and the kidnappers 
and the armed robbers, cause you to have any fear of 
physical injury to yourself? Were you afraid they 
were going to hurt you? 
A 
No. I don't believe so. It's hard to tap 
into old feelings like that and rewind time, but I 
don't think so. I never had any fear of them doing 
anything to me. 
Q 
I assume there were gang members that you 
were prosecuting and probably gang members you were 
not prosecuting within that category. 
A 
Sometimes you're prosecuting gang members and 
your best witness is also a gang member. That's the 
nature of that world. 
Q 
And you weren't afraid -- physically you 
weren't afraid of one of these gang members -- or 
prosecuting that case or being involved was going to 
come -- cause physical harm to you, were you? 
A 
No. 
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Q 
What about the physical harm to your 
family, were you worried that -- I guess I should 
have asked. Were you married? 
A 
No. Predates all of that, so --
Q 
Fair enough. 
A 
Also, that's kind of a time period pre-family 
where you just generally have less responsibilities and 
less fears as a human being. 
Q 
When were you married? 
A 
2005. 
Q 
Any of those folks ever get out of prison 
after you were married, people that you put away? 
A 
I assume. 
Q 
Were you worried that one of them was going 
to come back, since you prosecuted them, and hurt you 
or your family? You have that fear? 
A 
No. I never really put thought in my mind 
that their target was the prosecutor. I was just 
carrying out what my job was if there was evidence of a 
crime. 
Q 
You don't think they really liked you, do 
you -- the gang members and the murderers -- for you 
trying to put them in prison? 
A 
Assuming after they went to jail they didn't 
like me or the cops or the state attorney or the judge 
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