Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s former attorney Alan Dershowitz was threatened with arrest after getting into a spat with a pierogi vendor on Martha’s Vineyard.
Dershowitz was at the West Tisbury Farmers Market on Wednesday when he claims Good Pierogi declined to sell to him because of his ‘politics’.
Video of the aftermath showed a police officer threatening to arrest the lawyer for trespassing unless he left the area.
‘They couldn’t say no blacks, they couldn’t say no Jews, and they can’t say… no Trump supporters, I’m not a Trump supporter, but they can’t say no Trump supporters,’ he said to the officer.
‘I’ve been going here for 53 years…to this farmer’s market. I have never been refused service,’ he added.
The two went back and forth for several minutes arguing about the law until the officer said Dershowitz was ‘causing a disturbance’.
‘I had four people come up to me and say that the gentleman with the blue shirt is causing a disturbance,’ the officer said. ‘I have multiple reports—’
‘But they’re wrong,’ Dershowitz interrupted. ‘I’m not causing a disturbance.’
Alan Dershowitz is pictured conversing with a police officer after getting into a feud with the owner of the Good Pierogi stand at a farmer’s market on Martha’s Vineyard
Dershowitz claims he was refused service for his politics and because the vendor didn’t approve of who he’s represented in court
Dershowitz then said he wanted to stay at least 20 feet away from the pierogi stand and encourage people not to patronize them.
‘If you do that on the premises you will be asked to leave because you’re disrupting the business,’ the officer said.
Dershowitz tried to insist that he knew the law better than the officer, but the interaction wound down once the officer said he would arrest Dershowitz for trespassing if he stayed at the farmer’s market.
After some more arguing, Dershowitz agreed to leave.
Krem Miskevich is the owner and operator Good Pierogi. Miskevich, who was born in Warsaw, Poland, also runs a catering business on Martha’s Vineyard.
Dershowitz told Daily Mail that Miskevich was the one who declined to sell him the six pierogi he asked for.
‘And he said “no,”‘ Dershowitz claimed. ‘I said “oh, you’ve run out of pierogi? Too bad.” [The vendor allegedly said] “no no no, we have plenty of pierogi. I just won’t sell them to you”.’
Dershowitz said he asked why and Miskevich allegedly replied, ‘I won’t sell them to you because I don’t approve of your politics. I don’t approve of who you’ve represented. I don’t approve of who you support.’
In a post on X, Dershowitz declared that he would be ‘suing’ and called the Good Pierogi a ‘bigoted vendor’.
Daily Mail approached Good Pierogi and Miskevich for comment.
Dershowitz, a longtime summer resident of Martha’s Vineyard, also thought his support for Israel might have been among the things that ticked off the pierogi vendor
Dershowitz is known for defending Jeffrey Epstein in his 2008 criminal case when he was accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls. He also defended Donald Trump during his first term when he was impeached for the first time
‘The clear implication was that he opposed me because I defended Donald Trump on the floor of the Senate,’ Dershowitz said.
Dershowitz was one of the lawyers who defended Trump in his first impeachment trial in 2020. He was also part of the ‘Dream Team’ that convinced a jury to acquit O.J. Simpson in his 1995 murder trial.
His most controversial past client though was unquestionably Epstein, whom he represented in 2008 when the financier was first formally accused of sexually abusing dozens of underage girls.
With the representation of Dershowitz and others, Epstein secured what many have called a lenient plea deal from the Miami US Attorney’s Office that led to him only serving 13 months jail.
Dershowitz didn’t mention Epstein as a reason the pierogi vendor could have turned on him, however, he did claim that the vendor looked at him funny during an earlier visit when he was wearing a T-shirt that said, ‘Proud American Zionist’.
‘It became evident to me that he opposed my being a Zionist, my support for Israel,’ he said.
Dershowitz said he informed an official with the farmer’s market that he would take ‘legal action’ against it ‘to make sure that they only have booths by people who will sell to everybody, that they don’t allow people to have booths on this quasi-public property that discriminate on the basis of race or religion or gender or politics’.
He told Daily Mail that he isn’t going to have to sue the farmer’s market because management told him ‘they’re probably going to change their bylaws’.
‘I don’t have to sue. I’ve won,’ he added.
Pictured: Dershowitz speaks during the impeachment trial of Trump on January 29, 2020
Pictured: Dershowitz is seen talking to Epstein during a 2004 Harvard event, four years before he would defend him in court
Ethan Buchanan-Valenti, the manager of the farmer’s market, previously told the Vineyard Gazette that he is in the process of reviewing the bylaws, ‘to make sure everyone at the market is always being respected and their rights protected’.
A spokesman for the West Tisbury Police Department confirmed to Daily Mail that Dershowitz showed up to Saturday’s farmer’s market.
‘He came by earlier today,’ the spokesman said. ‘There was no incident he caused. He was not disorderly.’
The spokesman added that the Good Pierogi stand was not at the market today, as it usually only makes an appearance on Wednesdays.
This is not the first highly public spat that Dershowitz has had with someone on Martha’s Vineyard.
Back in 2021, he and Larry David — whom he was friends with for 25 years — got into a screaming match at a general store, according to Dershowitz.
The comedian was reportedly furious that Dershowitz patted Trump’s former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on the back, which was first reported by PageSix.