Subject: RE: Reference materials further to our call¶
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 22:37:35 +0000¶
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Dear Gary,¶
Thank you for your email of September 16, 2020. We understand that your client has declined to sit for a voluntary interview and provide oral answers in real time to our office. Because the written statement you propose to provide will not assist our investigation, we intend to move forward with our MLA request seeking a compelled interview of your client. Accordingly, we plan to inform the UKCA that the parties are not able to reach agreement on a voluntary interview and that a voluntary interview will not occur.¶
Best regards,¶
From: Gary Bloxsome¶
Sent: Wednesday, September 16, 2020 2:52 AM¶
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Subject: Re: Reference materials further to our call¶
Dear¶
I believe my response is clear. The Duke of York will provide a witness statement and will agree, following the provision of that witness statement, to a voluntary written interview wherein he will answer any and all relevant questions of him as a witness in writing about the full range of topics relevant to your ongoing investigation, including events not covered by the currently pending indictment against Ghislaine Maxwell. If you want to ask any questions in person or via video rather than in writing I am sure the Duke would be willing to receive your questions in that format before providing written answers.¶
Kind regards¶
Gary¶
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On 14 Sep 2020, at 16:56,¶
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Dear Gary,¶
Thank you for your email, and I hope you are well, too.¶
Your response does not address two outstanding questions. First, will your client participate in a voluntary interview, either in person or via video, with our office? Second, will your client answer questions – in writing or otherwise — about the full range of topics relevant to our ongoing investigation, including events not covered by the currently pending indictment against Ghislaine Maxwell?¶
Please note that we will interpret a repeat of your client’s offer to answer written questions relevant to the Maxwell indictment as an answer in the negative as to both questions.¶
Assistant United States Attorney¶
Sent: Monday, September 14, 2020 5:39 AM¶
Subject: Re: Reference materials further to our call¶
Hope you are well.¶
Thank you for your email of September 10, 2020. We cannot confirm your understanding in the summary form that you present it.¶
Our client has offered voluntarily to provide a written witness statement in relation to the criminal indictment against Ghislaine Maxwell and has also offered to answer questions in writing in relation to events relevant to that indictment even if they fall outside of the period of the indictment (1994 to 1997).¶
We look forward to hearing from you further.¶
Kind regards¶
Gary¶
Gary Bloxsome | Partner¶
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On 10 Sep 2020, at 21:00,¶
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Gary,¶
Thank you for your email of September 1,2020. We would like to confirm our understanding of that correspondence, as informed by all of our communications over the past few months, as conveying that (1) your client will not participate in a voluntary interview—either in person or via videoconference—with our office, and (2) that your client will not voluntarily answer questions, even as part of a written statement, regarding events that took place outside of the period 1994 to 1997. Please let us know if our understanding is incorrect.¶