The subject line of the email was “corroboration needed.” It came the day before Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh sat before the Senate Judiciary Committee to address allegations of sexual assault.
Andrea Caputo Rose, executive of a Washington, D.C.,-based legal recruiting firm called Rose Legal Search, was scrambling to find someone to corroborate the meaning of certain entries in Kavanaugh’s high school yearbook. Anyone who could confirm the salacious meaning, Rose wrote in an email obtained by the Washington Examiner, should contact Debra Katz, the lawyer of one of Kavanaugh’s accusers.
“Debra Katz needs to find people who are familiar with what the slang terms used by Brett Kavanaugh in his yearbook page meant – such as FFFF – Devil’s Triangle – and Renate Alumnus,” Rose wrote. “If you can speak to any of these and are willing to sign an affidavit, please contact her at [redacted] and [redacted].”
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Rose did not responded to numerous requests for comment. A spokeswoman for Katz told the Washington Examiner that “Debra Katz did not know about this email or its contents before Ms. Rose sent it, and did not ask for it to be sent.”
Ford, who was accompanied by Katz and who testified in the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, has accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault while the two were in high school. Michael Avenatti, the lawyer of a third woman accusing Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, has asserted that the yearbook entries suggest sexual misconduct untoward a Supreme Court justice.
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Brett Kavanaugh must also be asked about this entry in his yearbook: “FFFFFFFourth of July.” We believe that this stands for: Find them, French them, Feel them, Finger them, F*ck them, Forget them. As well as the term “Devil’s Triangle.” Perhaps Sen. Grassley can ask him. #Basta
— Michael Avenatti (@MichaelAvenatti) September 24, 2018
“In regard to Julie Swetnick, whose allegations of drugging and gang (“train”) rape just came out through Michael Avenatti today, please also let me or Debra Katz know if you can [corroborate] any of her allegations,” Rose wrote. “Time is criticial [sic] if you have information and do not want to see Brett Kavanaugh sit on the Supreme Court for the next 40 years.”
Corroboration, it seems, was not obtained in time. But that didn’t stop Senate Democrats from probing the adolescent mind of Kavanaugh during the confirmation hearing.
What does the yearbook entry referring to “Devil’s Triangle” mean? Does it refer to a threesome, wondered Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I.,:
Whitehouse: “Devil’s triangle?”
Kavanaugh: “Drinking game.”
Whitehouse: “How’s it played?”
Kavanaugh” “Three glasses in a triangle.”
Whitehouse: “And?”
Kavanaugh: “Have you ever played quarters?”
Whitehouse: “No.”
Kavanaugh: “OK. It’s a quarters game.”
What about the Fourth of July entry spelled with multiple letter Fs, Whitehouse wondered next. “And there are, like, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven F’s in front of the Fourth of July,” the senator noted. “What does that signify, if anything?”
“One of our friends, Squi, when he said the F word starting at a young age, had kind of a wind-up to the F word. Kind of a ‘FFFF,'” Kavanaugh explained to the greatest deliberative body on Earth.
“And then, the word would come out,” Kavanaugh continued. “And when we were 15, we thought that was funny. And it became an inside joke for the — how he would say, ‘FFFF’ — and I won’t repeat it here. For the F word.”
Those are the answers provided by Kavanaugh under oath, under threat of perjury, before the Senate. The nominee says what he wrote in his yearbook was the product of youthful indiscretion, not sexual misconduct. Meanwhile, opponents of his nomination continue to search for someone who can discover or corroborate more sinister definitions.
