## JAMES PATTERSON

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recollection.

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question.

10:45 a.m.

- Q: So from the very first conversation that you had with this person, you had information indicating that this person was informing you that Bradley Edwards had engaged in unethi- cal conduct, correct?

- A: Let me just be very clear what she said to me. She said to me that she had been told directly by her friend Virginia Rob- erts, who stayed with her overnight for a period of time, that she never wanted to mention me in any of the pleadings. And that her two lawyers in the pleadings, or her lawyers who filed the pleadings, pressured her into including my name and details.

- Q: Did Rebecca ever suggest to you that the details sworn to by Virginia Roberts were false?

- A: She certainly suggested that, yes. She mentioned to me that Virginia Roberts had never, ever mentioned [me to her], among any of the people that she had had any contact with, until she until she was pressured into doing so by her law- yers, yes.

- Q: So from the very first conversation, the impression you had was that this was a witness who could provide information that Bradley Edwards and Paul Cassell had acted unethically and dishonestly, correct?

- A: I wasn't sure she could provide the information because she was very reluctant to come forward. She didn't want to be

11:08 a.m.

- Q: Was any request made b
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- A: I'm not sure the request f or the second call.... Th like to talk to your wife [I down. I'm happy to talk that they would think- her to think about it. An few days and find out wł were.

- Q: Where were you when when you made this phon

- A: I think I was in New York

- Q: Do you know whether th phone or a landline?

- A: I don't remember.

- Q: Have you attempted to gat poses of responding to dis

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