Maxwell responded “no” when Blance asked whether she knew Epstein to communicate with FBI agents as a source or otherwise.
Asked whether he would have been likely to tell her if he was an FBI source, Maxwell said that he would have bragged about it.
“I think if he was for real, I think he would’ve bragged about it to me as a show off, because he could be a showoff. And if he wasn’t, he might have dropped it like he was cool. And I don’t think — I don’t remember him doing either,” Maxwell said.
“Now, with, again, the caveat that in his — before I met him, finding money, I think he may have suggested that there was some people who helped him, but that’s the only context that I recall that in,” Maxwell added.
Asked what she meant by “finding money,” Maxwell recalled that Epstein had shown her “a photograph that he had with some African warlords or something,” and that was her sole memory “of something nefarious — not nefarious. I don’t even know if it was nefarious, but covert, I suppose, would be the word.”
Asked about other intelligence agencies, like the CIA or Defense Intelligence or any other law enforcement agency, Maxwell said, “Okay. I don’t think so. I think that — I don’t remember anything like that. I just don’t think he had the wherewithal,” and that it was “bull—-.”
