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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK
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CHAMBERS OF
RICHARD M. BERMAN
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE
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Bruce A. Green September 4, 2019
Louis Stein Chair
Fordham University School of Law
150 West 62" Street
Room 7-168
New York City, NY 10023
Dear Professor Green,
Thank you for your letter of August 30, 2019. I appreciate your taking the time to clarify
the record.
I learned that you had been “retained to provide opinions as an expert on legal ethics” in
Giuffre v. Dershowitz following the August 27, 2019 public hearing in US v. Epstein. I learned
of your role in the Giuffre case by reading your affidavit, dated June 7, 2019, which includes
your legal ethics opinion that David Boies should be disqualified from representing Ms. Giuffre
in that matter. As you are aware, both Mr. Boies and Ms. Giuffre were invited to testify at the
August 27, 2019 hearing.
[ remain surprised that your advocacy of Mr. Boies’ disqualification from representing
Ms. Guiffre (in a case obviously related to US v. Epstein) was not disclosed simultaneously with
your August 26, 2019 Law Journal opinion piece entitled “The Judge in Epstein’s Case Should
Not Turn the Dismissal Into a Drama for the Victims.” I am also surprised that you would find
the August 27, 2019 public hearing to be an inappropriate occasion for transparency in light of
Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 57 and the Crime Victims’ Rights Act, 18 U.S.C, § 3771.
You wrote: “This is an odd moment for transparency in a criminal case.”
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