So, while that's the PUP's response to the Prime Minister's assertion that Mike Espat was meeting with accused murderer William Danny Mason, Julius Espat, the Deputy of the PUP's Western Caucus says he has not done any business transactions with him.
On Friday, before he was dragged out of the House, he granted an interview outside in which we asked him if he had gone to Intelco Hill, and he said that he did not. Here's that conversation with him:
Daniel Ortiz, 7News
"Sir, did you ever had any personal meetings or discussions with William Mason when no one knew that he was involved in the type of things he is accused of?"
Hon. Julius Espat - Cayo South Representative
"I don't remember the gentleman that well. I may have had an encounter with him, but it's not somebody that I remembered. I am a businessman and I meet a lot of people and I don't recall everybody. So I can't say that I have or I haven't, but the possibility is there that we have met somewhere. I mean he was around, there were restaurants that probably you met somebody like that, there were social events that probably you met. So I am not dismissing that fact and the possibility is there that yes we could have encountered sometime. But I have never done business with him, I have never been in communication with him, I definitely not partied at his house and I definitely not been at his ranch and that's a fact and all the cameras in the world I would like them to show it, because that's the reality. But that you haven't met somebody, I think that would be a ridiculous statement for anybody in this country especially in Belmopan and Cayo South where we are live together in a close knit community."
As you heard, Espat is prepared to say that he may have been introduced to Mason in the past, but he says that if that meeting ever happened, it's too brief to be anything memorable.
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