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@PeterAttiaMD Gross

The following email is what I sent my team last night. I sent a similar version to my patients, also. *** You’ve put your trust, your credibility, and your hard work into what we have built together, and I take that responsibility seriously. You deserve a complete and honest account of what did and did not happen. I apologize that I did not get this out sooner, but I want to be thorough. The purpose of the DOJ releasing these documents is clear: to identify individuals who participated in criminal activity, enabled it, or witnessed it. I am not in any of those categories, and there is no evidence to the contrary. To be clear: 1. I was not involved in any criminal activity. 2. My interactions with Epstein had nothing to do with his sexual abuse or exploitation of anyone. 3. I was never on his plane, never on his island, and never present at any sex parties. That said, I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public, and that is on me. I accept that reality and the humiliation that comes with it. *** I want to start by directly addressing the email thread that I’ve been asked about the most. In June 2015, I sent Epstein an email with the subject line “Got a fresh shipment.” The email contained a photograph of bottles of metformin, a medication I had just received from the pharmacy for my own use. The subject line referred to the picture of the bottles of medication. He replied with the words “me too” and attached a photograph of an adult woman. I responded with crude, tasteless banter. Reading that exchange now is very embarrassing, and I will not defend it. I’m ashamed of myself for everything about this. At the time, I understood this exchange as juvenile, not a reference to anything dark or harmful. At that point in my career, I had little exposure to prominent people, and that level of access was novel to me. Everything about him seemed excessive and exclusive, including the fact that he lived in the largest home in all of Manhattan, owned a Boeing 727, and hosted parties with the most powerful and prominent leaders in business and politics. I treated that access as something to be quiet about rather than discussed freely with others. One line in that exchange, about his life being outrageous and me not being able to tell anyone, is being interpreted as awareness of wrongdoing. That is not how I meant it at all. What I was referring to, poorly and flippantly, was the discretion commanded by those social and professional circles–the idea that you don’t talk about who you meet, the dinners you attend and the power and influence of the people in those settings. What I wrote in that email reads terribly, and I own that. *** I met Epstein in 2014 through a prominent female healthcare leader while I was raising funds for scientific research. At that time, he was widely known in academic and philanthropic circles as a funder of science and moved openly among credible institutions and public figures. Between summer 2014 and spring 2019, I met with him on approximately seven or eight occasions at his New York City home, regarding research studies and to meet others he introduced me to. I never visited his island or ranch, and I never flew on any of his planes. When I was at his home, it was either meeting with him directly, meeting with small groups of scientists, doctors, or business leaders, and once at a dinner in 2015 with a number of guests including prominent heads of state. In retrospect, the presence and credibility of such venerable people in different orbits led me to make assumptions about him that clouded my judgment in ways it shouldn’t have. I was not his doctor, though several times I answered general medical questions and recommended other providers to him. Shortly after we met, I asked him directly about his 2008 conviction. He characterized it as prostitution-related charges. In 2018, I came to learn this was grossly minimized (more on this below). I was incredibly naïve to believe him. I mistook his social acceptance in the eyes of the credible people I saw him with for acceptability, and that was a serious error in my judgment. To be clear, I never witnessed illegal behavior and never saw anyone who appeared underage in his presence. *** In November 2018 I read the Miami Herald investigative article. I was repulsed by what I learned. Nauseated. It marked a clear and irreversible line between what I knew before and what I understood afterward. At that point, I told him directly he needed to accept responsibility for what he did. Hoping to provide the victims from the Herald piece with support, I contacted a residential trauma facility to understand what funding comprehensive care for many victims would require. (Those communications were between me and the facility and were therefore not part of the document release.) I spoke with him and shared that information and insisted that he fund their care, beginning with residential treatment and followed by lifelong therapy. In hindsight, even attempting to facilitate accountability was a mistake and once again reflected just how naïve I was at the time. Once the full scope of his actions was clear, disengagement should have been the only appropriate response. My intent does not change that, and I regret not drawing that boundary immediately. *** Nothing in this letter is meant to minimize the harm suffered by the young women Epstein abused. Their trauma is permanent. I am not asking for a pass from you. I am not asking anyone to ignore the emails or pretend they aren’t ugly. They simply are. The man I am today, roughly ten years later, would not write them and would not associate with Epstein at all. Whatever growth I’ve had over the past decade does not erase the emails I wrote then. I recognize that my actions and words have consequences for the people I care deeply about, including all of you. I regret the cost this has placed on you, and I take responsibility for it. I won’t ask anyone to defend me or explain this on my behalf. If you have questions or concerns, I’ll address them directly with you, my team.

@BCFerries Swartz Bay - SGI (route 5) Salish Raven

Closed vehicle decks are on vessels servicing the following routes: 👉 Tsawwassen – Swartz Bay 👉 Tsawwassen – Duke Point 👉 Horseshoe Bay – Departure Bay 👉 Powell River – Comox 👉 Tsawwassen – Southern Gulf Islands 👉 Port Hardy - Prince Rupert 👉 Prince Rupert - Haida Gwaii

@BCFerries You missed Swartz Bay - SGI on the Raven 😉

Closed vehicle decks are on vessels servicing the following routes: 👉 Tsawwassen – Swartz Bay 👉 Tsawwassen – Duke Point 👉 Horseshoe Bay – Departure Bay 👉 Powell River – Comox 👉 Tsawwassen – Southern Gulf Islands 👉 Port Hardy - Prince Rupert 👉 Prince Rupert - Haida Gwaii

#BCFHeadsUp Transport Canada regulations prohibit passengers from staying in their vehicles on closed lower decks during their sailing. Minutes matter in an emergency. Evacuation from closed lower decks puts passenger and crew lives at risk. @Transport_GC (1/3) 👇

@SteveSaretsky @RRRabitts A lack of regulations surrounding safety, labour, environment, etc allowed them to reach economies of scale.

@RRRabitts Worth asking why. Particularly, how did the Chinese get costs so low

Freeland rips David Eby for BC Ferries debacle. Elbows down eh!

@RyanGarcia @joerogan true?

What’s even crazier is Joe Rogan won’t have me on

@FishOceansCAN What a boss this guy is

#CCG David Horbas fabricates custom gaskets aboard CCGS Laurier #MissionErebusTerror

Hey @Canucks can you tell me the details of your goal horn? The CEO of @BCFerries said it came from them and I’m curious if this is true and exactly what type of ships whistle it is? Thanks!!!

@sd61schools good morning! Do you have any suggestions for before/after school care for a child attending Lake Hill Elementary? Kids Klub is full! Thanks so much!!

@SteveSaretsky Can concur. Lots of multiple offer situations at the entry level detached in the nice parts of Victoria/Saanich. 1.2 - 1.5 range. Source: we keep getting outbid!

Housing market update. Things are humming along just fine. Mortgage rates seem frozen in the low 5’s. Buyers are mostly adjusting and stepping up to the plate. Inventory remains crappy so anything good sells, sometimes in multiple offers. In summary things are just OK. Boring.

Hey @VancouverSun when are you going to post the B.C. Public Sector Salaries over 75k again?? Thanks!!

@ronstavamar @BCFerries Where are the coal and diesel power plants in bc? Energy comes from hydro, bro.

@BCFerries I guess it will be ok as long as you have a large enough coal or diesel generator to keep the batteries charged.

#BCFNews Following today's major capital expenditure approval by the #BCFerries Commissioner, we’re able to take the next steps towards the purchase of four new hybrid electric #IslandClass vessels that will increase capacity for passengers across the ferry system. (1/5)

The prevalence of anti-science sentiment in public discourse is sad. Humanity wins when we celebrate great scientific & engineering innovation. Not blindly, of course. Scientists, like all humans, can be corrupted by money, power, fame. But most are amazing humans.

@CTVVancouver No ship needs dry docking within a year of being put into service unless there was severe damage to a system. So they damaged both vessels in less than 6 months. Before winter even starts lol

'Extremely inopportune timing': Hullo forced to cancel all sailings this weekend. Click on the image below to read more ↓ bc.ctvnews.ca/extremely-inop…

@hulloferries great move restricting comments on your posts. Customers love that!

remember when the bc government milked years of good publicity hinting that they might make daylight savings time permanent only to pass a law that said “WE’RE DOING IT but only if america does it first, a thing that will never actually happen” that still makes me laugh

@TranBC Countless studies show how dangerous this is for drivers. And any parent of young children just gets screwed, not “an extra hour of sleep”

⏰ Daylight Savings Reminder ⏰ Don't forget to adjust your clocks back one hour as we "fall back". Enjoy that extra hour of sleep!

@Dave_Eby @bcndp I am pleading with you to end daylight savings and stop the suffering of countless parents of young children. The research is in. We can’t wait for the US or it will never happen

@BCFerries It’s senior officers that they’re short. They never cancel a sailing due to a missing catering attendant…they need to pay the engineers more and get them a better schedule to recruit anyone

#ServiceNotice As BC Ferries has been unsuccessful in securing the required number of crew on the #CoastalInspiration, the following sailings have been cancelled. 7:00 am departing #SwartzBay 9:00 am departing #Tsawwassen More info here: ow.ly/T1Sl50PY9Aa ^bt

@iamkennethchan And already cancelling due to weather in September….

Hullo Ferries has seen 23,000+ passengers since launch a month ago. They're expanding their regular daily schedule in October, and adding 10 late-night special event sailings from #Vancouver to #Nanaimo for concerts & #Canucks games. #bcpoli #vanpoli dailyhive.com/vancouver/hull…

@VancouverPD Look at that duster!

After 38 years, Sergeant Mark Andrews is heading into his well deserved retirement. Thank you for all you have done for our organization and the city of Vancouver!