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Case 1:19-cr-00490-RMB Document 56 Filed 09/04/19 Page 1 of 2 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT 
SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK 
UNITED STATES COURTHOUSE 
500 PEARL STREET 
NEW YORK, NEW YORK 10007 
(212)1308-0715 
CHAMBERS OF 
RICHARD M. BERMAN 
UNITED STATES DISTRICT JUDGE 
Bruce A. Green 
Louis Stein Chair 
Fordharn University School of Law 
150 West 62"d Street 
Room 7-168 
New York City, NY 10023 
Dear Professor Green, 
USDC SDNY 
DOCUMENT 
ELECTRONICALLY FILED 
DOC It: 
DATE FILED: I 
September 4, 2019 
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 
v. Dershowitz following the August 27, 2019 public hearing in US v. Epstein. I learned 
of your role in theaase 
by reading your affidavit, dated June 7, 2019, which includes 
your legal ethics opinion that David Boies should be disqualified from representing Ms. 
in that matter. As you are aware, both Mr. Boles and Ms. 
were invited to testify at the 
August 27, 2019 hearing. 
I remain surprised that your advocacy of Mr. Boles' 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 Tum 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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Finally, it is unfortunate that your opinion piece may have been construed as an effort to 
chill Ms. a 
and Mr. Boies' right to be heard under 18 U.S.C. § 3771 at the August 27, 
2019 public hear…
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