Media suppression, document destruction, and institutional failures.
NY Giants co-owner Steve Tisch (825+ documents) had an extensive relationship with Epstein from April 2013 through at least August 2017. Emails show Epstein systematically procured 6–9 distinct women for Tisch in just three months, including a distressed Ukrainian woman who was crying.
In emails titled “Ukrainian Girl” (EFTA00959489), Epstein reports to Tisch: “report just in, you did very well, she wants to go to the play—she is a little freaked by the age difference but go slow and wait, I will try to convince her not to return to ukraine, having her crying worked.”
Tisch responds (EFTA00959493): “Nice report. Funny comment on crying!!!”
In the same thread, Tisch asks about another woman: “pro or civilian?” (asking whether she is a prostitute). Epstein responds with a crude physical description. Epstein also tells Tisch: “send me a number to call I dont like records of these conversations.”
CRITICAL: The “Russian Katya” and the “acting student” passed to Tisch are the same person — Ekaterina (Katya) Gusarova, a Russian national on a student visa in NYC.
EFTA00873949 (June 17, 2013): Epstein emails Tisch simply “polina emily katya, I will be in ny 24-27, are you there?” — three women listed by first name as available inventory. Epstein checked on Polina at least 4 times over 3 weeks (EFTA00960611: “anything happen with polina?”).
EFTA00985636 (March 16, 2014): A woman emails Epstein: “Gonna meet Steve Tisch next week for a dinner. He said that he gonna work on 3 movies starting June. So I’ll ask if I can read scripts and maybe audition for some part.”
EFTA00986371 (March 20, 2014): Same woman: “Ok — I’m going to have a lunch right now with Steve Tisch :) lol. I’ll say hi from you? :) ahaha. Kisses my dear Jeffrey :) Miss you :(” Epstein invites her to ranch: “Maybe you should come to ranch on mon-wed, Jenn will be there.”
This confirms the procurement pipeline continued nearly a year after the initial introduction, with the woman maintaining contact with both Epstein and Tisch.
EFTA02521524: April 24, 2013 dinner plans include Steve Tisch, Jean-Luc Brunel, Boris, Blaine, Katya, and Todd Meister — Tisch dining with a convicted sex trafficker at Epstein’s arrangement. EFTA02705521: Inner circle reminder lists “Mort, Leon, Steve Tisch, Hanson, Todd, Jessica, Suzana” — Tisch alongside Leon Black and Mort Zuckerman.
The NFL announced an investigation into Tisch’s Epstein connections in February 2026. Tisch claimed his association was “brief” and about “adult women,” but the emails span April 2013 to August 2017 (EFTA01037911: Todd Meister and Tisch “talking very fondly about you”) with 825+ documents and a systematic pattern of procurement.
An internal FBI email classified SECRET//NOFORN reveals that a "complete scrub" of files located documents associated with Epstein that were not included in the case file because they were "NOT of evidentiary value" (EFTA02730468).
The most significant item is:
"FD-71 from 1996 which predates our record keeping system. (Unclass)"
An FD-71 is an FBI Electronic Communication form — a basic investigative document used to record information received or actions taken. Its existence from 1996 means the FBI had some form of record on Epstein three years before any known formal investigation.
This timing is critical: Maria Farmer filed her complaint with NYPD and the FBI in 1996 — the first known report against Epstein. This FD-71 may be the intake record from that complaint, which the FBI apparently took no action on for nearly a decade.
The other attached files were:
The pattern is damning: the FBI had records on Epstein in 1996, another sexual exploitation file in 2016, yet Epstein was not arrested until July 2019. Each delay of years represents potential additional victims.
A sworn statement by FBI Special Agent Aaron E. Spivack (NYFO Squad C-20, Violent Crimes Against Children / Human Trafficking) reveals that the FBI's forensic computer lab was hacked on Super Bowl Sunday 2023 (February 12, 2023). Log analysis showed the intruder(s) were "combing through certain files pertaining to the Epstein investigation" stored on the squad's NAS servers.
The intrusion destroyed approximately 500 terabytes of evidence data across multiple NAS devices. Spivack discovered the breach the next morning when a ransomware-style text file appeared stating "your network has been compromised." By the time the breach was confirmed at 5pm, NAS1, NAS2, and the main Synology server were all compromised with data folders missing.
The aftermath was devastating: the squad suffered a 95.52% reduction in productivity. With 281 electronic evidence items requiring processing, the average completion time ballooned from same-day to 30.5 days per device. In one case, a foreign child exploitation offender fled the United States because CART processing was too slow without the squad's lab.
Spivack's statement reveals years of systemic neglect: requests for hard drives were denied, requests for network security assistance went unanswered since 2017, a request for an electronic door lock was denied due to "no funding," and the office had no designated Information System Security Officer until weeks before the breach. Spivack was told to "Google how to recover the data" — no technical help was sent. OCIO Section Chief Matt Smith called it "part of systemic failures."
The statement was given under oath to FBI Internal Affairs (Inspection Division) over two sessions in January and August 2024.
Victim statement identifies Igor Zinoviev, Epstein's bodyguard and former UFC middleweight champion, as a direct witness to sexual abuse: "Igor was always there when I was on the island. He regularly saw me in distress. On one occasion, after being raped three times that day and being bullied, belittled, and starved, I tried to swim off the island to escape my worst nightmare."
The victim recounts that Zinoviev stopped the escape attempt and returned her. In a meeting with attorney Brad Edwards, Zinoviev confirmed he witnessed the event but minimized it: her "attempt showed no greater level of distress than he'd seen in other girls" — implying he routinely witnessed distressed victims on the island.
A separate victim letter (EFTA00145723) corroborates: "I tried to swim OFF the island after being raped repeatedly AND STARVED by Epstein. IGOR ZINOVIEV IS MY WITNESS WHO INCEDIENTLY WAS TRAINED AT CIA HEADQUARTERS."
Zinoviev was hired 11/17/2005 at $120,000/year salary, rising to become Epstein's 6th highest-paid employee at $211,120 total cost in 2010 (EFTA00709105). He controlled property access — security orders for 358 El Brillo Way state: "no one is to be admitted without direct consent of mr. Epstein or Mr Zinoviev" (EFTA00728864). He was deposed in civil litigation (EFTA00806751) and asked about in depositions where defendants invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked "Do you know Igor Zinoviev?" (EFTA00188608).
JPMorgan Chase maintained its banking relationship with Jeffrey Epstein from ~1998 to 2013, during which time it processed over $1 billion in suspicious wire transactions and $800,000+/year in cash withdrawals. Despite internal compliance officers flagging the account as high-risk and calling for termination as early as 2010, JPMorgan filed zero Suspicious Activity Reports during the entire relationship.
The bank's SAR covering $1,081,819,653 was filed retroactively only after Epstein's death in August 2019. Per the USVI v. JPMorgan complaint (EFTA00145666, ¶90-91): 'it was only after Epstein's death that JP Morgan belatedly complied with federal banking regulations.'
This 16-year failure to file SARs violated the Bank Secrecy Act and enabled Epstein's trafficking operation by keeping his financial infrastructure invisible to law enforcement. During this period:
JPMorgan ultimately settled for $365 million ($290M to victims + $75M to USVI) — one of the largest banking settlements in history. The USVI complaint states JPMorgan's failures were 'even more egregious than Deutsche Bank's' (¶82).
Email chains from May-June 2013 show Cecile de Jongh coordinating the enrollment of Epstein's associates at the University of the Virgin Islands to provide student visa cover for their presence in the territory.
Cecile contacted UVI's VP for Institutional Advancement about TOEFL prep and ESL classes for two women, "Julia and Renata." When told I-20 visa forms were only for degree students, Cecile asked: "Perhaps they can enroll and take at least 12 credits towards a degree?"
In a follow-up email, Cecile wrote to Epstein: "Did the ladies enroll? It is not too late for the fall semester? As we discussed, they need to go down and enroll and show the ability to pay. I can draft a letter for them to present. Think about whether you should sign it or one of us." UVI reportedly "structured the class around the ladies" at Cecile's request.
By February 2015, Cecile was sending Epstein the UVI application for undergraduate admission with International Students requirements including the I-20 visa form.
Court filings by JPMorgan Chase (recorded in FBI Electronic Communications from a May 2023 Virgin Islands Daily News article) accused former First Lady Cecile de Jongh of "facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of women and girls by helping him influence local politicians" while her husband served as USVI Governor (2007-2015).
JPMorgan's filing described Cecile as "Epstein's primary conduit for spreading money and influence throughout the USVI government" who "worked as Epstein's local fixer for two decades." Specific allegations include:
JPMorgan argued that the USVI government profited from Epstein twice: once directly, and again through its civil suit.
EFTA00090314 is an FBI FD-1023 Confidential Human Source (CHS) reporting document from October 2020. It contains explosive intelligence claims:
The report’s synopsis references "Foreign influence on U.S. officials by Israel, Russia, and UAE."
Additional intelligence connections in the corpus:
The DOJ Office of Inspector General report (EFTA00035824, June 22, 2023) found systemic failures at MCC New York on the night of Epstein's death:
The FBI seized 18 hard drives from the MCC Nice Vision DVR2 Surveillance System on August 10, 2019 at 4:30 PM EDT. BOP subsequently implemented a monthly security camera reporting process at all institutions (EFTA00035907) — a direct consequence of the Epstein failures.
EFTA documents reconstruct the final hours of Jeffrey Epstein's life at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in unprecedented detail.
EFTA00034346: After Epstein was found with a bed sheet around his neck on July 23, he was placed on suicide watch. After just one week, the MCC Chief Psychologist removed him, ordering he be housed with a cellmate. Epstein had told psychologists: "I'm a coward. I don't like pain" (EFTA00032162) and requested to stay where it was "safe."
EFTA00038617 (FBI CID Summary): FBI and SDNY "met with Epstein's attorneys" who "discussed the possibility of a resolution of the case, and the possibility of the defendant's cooperation." This meeting—where naming co-conspirators was discussed—occurred 12 days before his death.
Grand jury testimony (EFTA02731812) and the BOP suicide timeline (EFTA00034367) establish:
Guards Noel and Thomas missed all five institutional counts (4 PM, 10 PM, 12 AM, 3 AM, 5 AM), signed false count slips for each, and made approximately 75 false 30-minute round entries. The FBI testified this was unprecedented—"more than one count [was] never missed in a row" before August 9.
Per FBI forensic examination of their computers: Noel browsed furniture sales and benefits websites. Thomas browsed motorcycle sales and sports news. FBI found no evidence of bribery in their bank accounts.
Cellmate Efrain Reyes departed for court at 8:00 AM on August 9 and did not return. No replacement was assigned, directly violating the psychology department's explicit cellmate requirement. Epstein spent his last night alone.
Multiple SHU cameras were not recording due to a pre-existing DVR failure. Only one camera angle was available. A new system had arrived in Oct 2018 but was not installed until after Epstein's death (EFTA00036859: 23 of 161 cameras not recording).
EFTA00024352: Prosecutors were furious at BOP’s communication failures: "It is frankly unbelievable to me that BOP is issuing public press releases on this before telling us basic information."
OCME ruled suicide by hanging (EFTA00031006). Noel and Thomas were indicted for falsifying records (EFTA02731812).
A June 11, 2020 email from an Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) in the Eastern District of New York (EFTA00023753) inadvertently discloses two remarkable facts about the official investigation into Epstein's death.
The AUSA was working on an unrelated case — the death of an inmate at the Brooklyn Metropolitan Detention Center (MDC) — and contacted the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) to request a template confidentiality agreement. In doing so, the AUSA wrote:
"The OCME told me that it signed a confidentiality agreement in connection with the investigation into the murder of Jeffrey Epstein."
Two details stand out:
The medical examiner's office — which conducted the autopsy and officially ruled Epstein's death a suicide by hanging — had signed a formal confidentiality agreement specifically tied to the Epstein investigation. It is not publicly known who the agreement was with (DOJ, FBI, BOP, or a private party), nor what it prohibits OCME from disclosing.
This is internal DOJ correspondence, not a press release or public filing. The AUSA's casual use of "murder" — rather than "death" or "suicide" — in a routine email to OCME suggests that this characterization was in common use among federal prosecutors familiar with the case, at least informally.
OCME's chief medical examiner Dr. Barbara Sampson ruled the death "suicide by hanging" in August 2019. Independent forensic pathologist Dr. Michael Baden, hired by Epstein's brother, concluded the injuries were "consistent with homicidal strangulation." The existence of a confidentiality agreement may explain why OCME has not publicly responded to Baden's competing analysis.
Two emails from the days surrounding the September 24, 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement reveal federal prosecutors and Epstein defense counsel actively coordinating to conceal the deal from victims.
EFTA00215004: On the same day the NPA was signed, Epstein attorney Jay Lefkowitz (Kirkland & Ellis) emailed prosecutors:
"Please do whatever you can to keep this from becoming public. thanks — Jay"
A defense lawyer explicitly instructing government prosecutors to suppress a plea agreement from public disclosure — and from the 34 identified minor victims entitled to notification under federal law.
EFTA00214992: Two days later, an Assistant U.S. Attorney emailed Lefkowitz:
"I am meeting with the agents and want to give them their marching orders regarding what they can tell the girls."
A federal prosecutor asking the defendant's own attorney for instructions on what FBI agents may tell crime victims. This inverts the fundamental relationship between prosecutors and victims under the Crime Victims' Rights Act (18 U.S.C. § 3771).
Letters sent to victims after the NPA described the investigation as "ongoing" — a deliberate deception. Victims were not told the case had been resolved until years later. In February 2019, Judge Kenneth Marra ruled (EFTA00027666) that prosecutors violated the CVRA, finding the government "purposefully withheld this information from the victims" while giving Epstein's defense team notice throughout.
Courtney Wild (Jane Doe 1) had filed her CVRA petition on July 7, 2008 — it took 11 years of litigation to obtain this ruling.
On July 1, 2010 — just five days after Magistrate Judge Palermo ordered the parties "not to communicate, speak or harass one another in any way" — a victim (Jane Doe) was subjected to brazen surveillance and intimidation.
From the emergency contempt motion (EFTA00728793, filed July 2, 2010):
"Jane Doe left her house to go to the store and noticed a car (Infiniti SUV, license tag T-KNOLZ) following her everywhere she went. Feeling frightened, she pulled into a driveway in a nearby neighborhood at one point to allow the car to proceed past her, but the car pulled into the neighborhood and stopped nearby. It was clear the person in the car was following her and was intentionally making his presence known."
When police confronted the driver, he identified himself as a "private investigator" hired to "watch" Jane Doe, but refused to identify who hired him. That evening:
"The investigator was observed intermittently flashing his high beam lights into Jane Doe's home and intermittently attempting to videotape anyone inside the home."
When a retired police officer tried to extract Jane Doe from her home at ~10:30 PM, the PI attempted to follow them despite being warned not to — the officer had to take evasive action to lose the pursuer. Jane Doe "felt like a prisoner in her own home and believed her physical safety was threatened."
In the 48 hours before this incident, "two ex-boyfriends [called] that investigators were at their homes, knocking on their doors and trying to talk to them about Jane Doe."
Beyond the already-documented "marching orders" and "keep this from becoming public" emails, additional correspondence from the September 2007 NPA negotiations reveals deeper prosecutorial collusion with Epstein's defense team.
AUSA Marie Villafana emailed defense counsel Jay Lefkowitz (EFTA00235326):
"I have been spending some quality time with Title 18 looking for misdemeanors."
A federal prosecutor actively searching for the lightest possible federal charge for a serial child sex trafficker — at the defense's request.
Villafana to Lefkowitz (EFTA00191148):
"Maybe we can set a time to meet. If you want to meet 'off campus' somewhere, that is fine. I will make sure that I have all the necessary decision makers present or 'on call.'"
A prosecutor proposing to meet a sex offender's defense counsel away from the U.S. Attorney's Office — to avoid creating a record of the meeting.
AUSA Andrew Laurie recommended (EFTA00191148):
"Some of the timing issues be addressed only in the state agreement, so that it isn't obvious to the judge that we are trying to create federal jurisdiction for prison purposes."
Followed by: "I would prefer not to highlight for the judge all of the other crimes and all of the other persons that we could charge."
Prosecutors deliberately concealing their strategy from the sentencing judge — manipulating jurisdiction so Epstein could serve time in county jail instead of federal prison.
Villafana discussed filing charges in Miami-Dade instead of Palm Beach (EFTA00235326):
"If he was in Miami-Dade County at the time, then I can file the charge in the District Court in Miami, which will hopefully cut the press coverage significantly."
The victims' summary judgment motion characterized this as prosecutors discussing "how they could contrive to establish jurisdiction away from the location where the crimes actually occurred — and away from where the victims actually lived — so as to avoid the public finding out."
State prosecutor Barry Krischer emailed Villafana three days before the NPA was signed (EFTA00215139):
"Glad we could get this worked out for reasons I won't put in writing. After this is resolved I would love to buy you a cup at Starbucks and have a conversation."
An internal DOJ email forwards correspondence from New York Times reporter Matthew Goldstein (matthew.goldstein@nytimes.com) investigating Epstein's finances. Goldstein writes:
"The biggest question remains the $200 million that Epstein's Southern Trust took in as revenue and made in profits -- in the years after his Florida conviction. We remain committed to getting to the bottom of this puzzling influx of cash."
The reporter also states: "We also have been told by an eyewitness that two weeks before Epstein's arrest, there were several large garbage bags with shredded documents seen outside the office door to Southern Trust." And confirms: "the offices of Southern Trust were searched on Aug. 12 -- the same day authorities searched Epstein's island residence."
The $200M in post-conviction revenue is unexplained. Epstein was supposedly managing money only for himself, yet Southern Trust generated hundreds of millions in revenue from an unknown source. The pre-arrest document shredding suggests consciousness of guilt and destruction of evidence.
An internal Deutsche Bank email explicitly identifies the beneficial owners behind shell company accounts connected to Epstein's network.
EFTA01368849 (Feb 14, 2018) — Deutsche Bank Director Stewart Oldfield emails colleagues:
"All major accounts. Southern Financial we all know well. Elysium is Leon Black. Willett is Michael Bloomberg and Third Lake is the Wanek family (Ashley furniture). Would be interested to see if we've traded in the last three. Even if we haven't, lots of opportunity to pursue."
This document is explosive because it maps four shell company accounts to their beneficial owners:
The casual tone ("we all know well") confirms institutional familiarity with Epstein's financial network. The bank was actively seeking to expand business with these accounts ("lots of opportunity to pursue") — not flagging them for AML review. Leon Black's $158M+ in payments to Epstein flowed through Elysium Management at 445 Park Avenue, Suite 1401, where Heather Gray (who managed Epstein's art collection, including a Giacometti sculpture and Braque painting) was based.
Bloomberg's connection via a Willett entity is a previously undocumented financial link. The Wanek family (Ron and Joyce Wanek, Ashley Furniture founders, net worth ~$12B) is entirely new to this investigation.
BV70 LLC was a New York LLC nominally holding Leon Black's yacht. VP: Leon D. Black. Manager: Debra R. Black. Address: c/o Elysium Management LLC, 445 Park Avenue, Suite 1401, NYC.
$40.5M+ flowed through BV70 to Epstein entities:
Jeffrey Epstein personally guaranteed the BV70 loans: “This is to confirm and constitute the agreement of the undersigned, JEFFREY EPSTEIN...with BV70 LLC...(‘Lender’)”
Brad Wechsler (IMAX chairman) brokered the deals: “Rich — I spoke to Leon; all is fine. Today I will be moving the $8mm into BV70 and then, subject to getting clean paperwork, to Plan D.”
Deutsche Bank KYC crisis: When DB compliance asked about BV70, Richard Kahn stated: “The purpose of the wire was to pay a fee as Mr. Black is a client of Mr. Epstein.” DB auditors caught a devastating discrepancy: the account purpose said “costs for Epstein's airplane” but BV70 owned Black's yacht — “How do these correlate?”
Rather than allow Deutsche Bank to complete KYC, Kahn preferred closing the account: “DB is pushing for decision on whether or not they can KYC BV70 or if not then we will have to close account.”
Internal JPMorgan Know-Your-Customer (KYC) compliance documents reveal the exact chain of command that kept Epstein as a client after his 2008 felony conviction:
'Jeffrey Epstein was convicted of a felony charge in 2008. Jes Staley conferred with Stephen Cutler and the decision was made to keep Mr. Epstein as a PB client.' — EFTA01480623
The document states Epstein was 'well known to several JPM PB employees and senior management including Jes Staley' and assigned a 'High' risk rating due to 'Reputational — Convicted Felon.'
A separate KYC review written while Epstein was still in prison (EFTA01480542) confirms: 'Mr. Epstein was convicted of a felony charge in 2008 and is currently serving an 18-month prison sentence. Jes Staley conferred with Stephen Cutler and the decision was made to keep Mr. Epstein as a PB client.' The bank restricted services to 'banking and custody only' but continued the relationship.
Stephen Cutler was JPMorgan's General Counsel and former SEC Enforcement Director — the top legal officer who should have enforced compliance. Instead, he personally authorized retaining a convicted sex offender. The later KYC (EFTA01480690) confirms Epstein was 'Known to Mary Erdoes, John Duffy, and others in senior management' with a relationship of '~$200MM.'
Internal JPMorgan documents reveal a multi-year battle between compliance officers who wanted to terminate Epstein's accounts and senior executives who overruled them:
2010: Internal email: 'new allegations of child trafficking — are you still comfortable with this client' (¶45). Compliance officials decided Epstein 'should go' (¶98).
January 2011: AML compliance director requests re-approval of the Epstein relationship. Response: 'I thought we did that in approving a $50 million new line of credit last month?' (¶46). Instead of terminating, JPMorgan had just extended Epstein $50M in credit.
2011: Senior compliance official's notes: 'Lots of smoke. Lots of questions.' Flags: trafficking allegations, Staley personal associate, AML wants to exit, MC2 loan (¶98).
August 2011: Ghislaine Maxwell tries to open JPM account for 'personal recruitment consulting business.' AML Director: 'What does she mean by personal recruitment??' (¶49).
March 2011: JPMorgan Global Corporate Security: 'Numerous articles detail various law enforcement agencies investigating Jeffrey Epstein for allegedly participating in child trafficking' (¶48).
An SDNY email (EFTA00019065) later confirmed: NYT reporting 'suggests executives at JPMC overruled compliance efforts to kick him out back in 2008-09.' Epstein was not terminated until July 2013 — months after Staley departed JPMorgan.
In an October 18, 2019 interview with the DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility, former U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta — who by then had served as Trump’s Labor Secretary — was questioned about the controversial 2007 non-prosecution agreement (EFTA00009229).
The interview revealed that Acosta’s acting First Assistant was "afraid of political pressure that might be brought to bear against the U.S. Attorney’s Office in this case."
A separate OPR interview (EFTA00009116) contains a devastating DOJ reviewer’s assessment of the deal Epstein received:
"Epstein is getting a much better deal than the average defendant, with the exception of defendants who have done physical harm to their victims or abused very young children, we haven’t seen more egregious conduct, because of its serial nature."
The same interview references the broader scope that was known but not pursued: "there are references to Prince Andrew, and Alex Dershowitz and Governor Richardson and Bill Clinton, and things happening in London, and the so called Lolita Express where things may have happened on airplanes."
After leaving the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Acosta joined Kirkland & Ellis — the same law firm where Epstein’s defense attorneys Ken Starr and Jay Lefkowitz worked. The defense team also included Alan Dershowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, and Roy Black.
A third OPR interview (EFTA00009016) captures the internal regret: "we were focused on getting this done, and real concern that he would not go to jail. And a question that I think is a valid one in my mind is, did the focus on, let’s just get this done and get a jail term, mean that we didn’t take a step back and say, let’s evaluate how this train is moving?"
Kenneth Starr, who became famous for prosecuting President Clinton's sexual relationship with a 22-year-old intern, served as lead defense attorney for Epstein at Kirkland & Ellis, securing the 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA) that shielded Epstein and unnamed co-conspirators from federal prosecution.
After Epstein’s release, the attorney-client relationship became a deep personal friendship:
Starr was fired from Baylor in 2016 over the university’s sexual assault scandal — itself a case about institutional failure to protect young women. Epstein sympathized: "Ken Starr has now seen the other side. he’s a good guy" (EFTA00822856). Starr died September 13, 2022.
Multiple documents reveal a direct quid pro quo between Epstein and the de Jongh administration involving millions in tax benefits.
Governor de Jongh signed 5-year extensions of 100% EDC (Economic Development Commission) tax exemptions for Financial Trust Company (solely owned by Epstein) and AYH (American Yacht Harbor, 50% Epstein-owned) — while his wife Cecile was on Epstein's payroll. Investigative journalist Wayne Barrett (Newsweek, 2011) sent devastating questions to the Governor noting that: "The EDC extension directly relates to your wife's salary, health benefits, IRA and even a life insurance" — asking why the Governor would not recuse himself.
When journalist Matthew Boyle sent similar questions in 2012, Epstein instructed Cecile: "i would simply state that you are an office manager." Cecile confirmed: "That's what John went with."
Barrett also documented that Cecile certified a stockholder affidavit saying Epstein was a "bona fide resident" of the USVI — signed June 30, 2009, when Epstein was incarcerated in Florida and "did not spend one day in the VI in 2009." Epstein's associates made "tens of thousands of dollars in contributions" to de Jongh campaigns.
FBI FD-302 (Oct 2, 2023): Former USVI Attorney General Denise George filed a formal complaint with the FBI detailing Governor Bryan's systematic obstruction of the Epstein investigation.
Firing timeline: On approximately December 27, 2022, George filed action against JPMorgan Chase. On December 31, 2022 — three days later — George was terminated. The stated reason: "no attorney general was going to file anything without notifying the Governor."
Prior obstruction: Bryan's tone shifted from "He's dead go for it" to "End it quickly" as the Motley Rice investigation uncovered the scope of Epstein's criminal enterprise. Bryan messaged George asking why she was interviewing certain people and filing certain items, telling her: "originally when I said go ahead I didn't think it was going to go this far. I can't get you to let this go?"
Bryan told George he was "sick of her not doing what she was told to do" and sent Carlton Dowe to pressure her. Dowe told George "it would be political suicide to fire her at least before the election." After that meeting, Dowe stopped talking to George.
Post-firing intimidation: After George spoke to press, she received a cease-and-desist letter and an unknown man arrived at her home. George interpreted this as a message that "we can reach you at your home."
In 2008 — year of Epstein's FL guilty plea — FTC and C.O.U.Q. Foundation donated $46M+ to Wexner's YLK Charitable Fund: $33M Apple stock + $5.4M Bear Stearns from FTC. C.O.U.Q. gave $14M in 2007. This was 'the only contribution the Wexners received that year' (EFTA00026723).
In 2010, YLK transferred all assets to Wexner Family Charitable Fund ($208M by 2017). Apple stock appreciated enormously ($25/share in 2008 vs $200+ by 2019).
The townhouse: Wexner bought for $13.2M but prosecutors found no recorded deed transfer 1989-2012. Epstein later signed as both grantor and grantee transferring to Maple Inc (USVI).
Total: $77M townhouse + $46M YLK + $14M C.O.U.Q. = $137M in Wexner-Epstein flows.
FBI/SDNY Deed Investigation (EFTA00037757): Squad C-40 FAST team investigated the townhouse. The AUSA found the mansion was bought in 1989 by "Nine East 71st Street Corporation" (ostensibly for Wexner), featured in Architectural Digest in 1995 as Wexner's, but by 1996 Epstein claimed it as his own. No record of property changing ownership between 1989 and 2012. The AUSA asked: "So did he own it that entire time, rather than Wexner, as had been advertised?? Or did Wexner own it through a corporation for which Epstein was the president?" The last deed (12/23/2011) shows both Grantor and Grantee lines signed by Jeffrey Epstein.
An FBI victim statement summary (EFTA01648951) reveals two separate sources placing William Barr at Epstein events:
The FBI ASAC's task list (EFTA01648955) characterizes this as: "William Barr, for being present when a girl was raped."
Critical context: William Barr served as U.S. Attorney General (2019-2020), overseeing the DOJ response to Epstein's death at MCC. He declined to recuse despite his former law firm (Kirkland & Ellis) having represented Epstein in the 2007 plea deal. An email (EFTA01014138) from December 2018 shows Epstein asking Bannon: "do you know bill barr. CIA" — on the day Barr's AG nomination was reported.
Note: The model event victim statement and the NTOC tip are separate sources. The model event account does not explicitly describe sexual assault by Barr — only his presence and expressed interest. Both require further corroboration.
Beyond the well-known expired Austrian passport in the name "Marius Fortelni," Epstein actively maintained a second valid US passport for at least 14 years, with his lawyer Darren Indyke handling the paperwork:
While US citizens can legally obtain a second passport, the pattern of active 14-year maintenance — alongside a fake Austrian passport in another name with Saudi residence — demonstrates sophisticated travel document management consistent with someone planning for evasion scenarios.
Two documents from Epstein's 2008-09 Palm Beach County jail incarceration (Jacket #0338617, Dorm T Special) reveal who stayed loyal:
Prison Visitor List (EFTA00315076) — approved visitors:
Prison Mail List (EFTA00306074) — people who were sent Epstein's jail address with detailed mailing instructions ("You MUST write his Jacket # on the envelope... No Fed Ex... No Packages... Nothing on glossy paper"):
The overlap between these two lists reveals the core that never abandoned Epstein — not after arrest, not after conviction, not after registration as a sex offender. Several of these individuals (Krauss, Minsky, Summers) continued close association for another decade until Epstein's 2019 arrest.
EFTA00095751 is a 63-page evidence manifest from United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell, 20 Cr. 330 (AJN), titled "Non-Testifying Witness Material", dated November 6, 2021. It catalogues all evidence produced to the Maxwell defense just before trial — covering 546 witnesses (numbered 3501.000 through 3501.546).
The document was removed from the DOJ website — the EFTA corpus extraction script received an HTTP 404 error for the Dataset 9 URL. The document was recovered from alternate sources.
Key contents:
Largest witness files (most evidence produced):
Notable: Witness 3501.199 contains 7 emails to/from David Copperfield (May–August 2007) plus an FBI memo about attempted contact. Witness 3501.219 has a 1997 Santa Monica Police Crime Report — predating the Palm Beach investigation by nearly a decade. Witness 3501.411 filed a name change petition in 2008, suggesting a victim changed their identity.
The document is marked "SUBJECT TO PROTECTIVE ORDER PARAGRAPHS 7, 8, 9, 10, 15, and 17" on every page. Its removal from the DOJ website raises questions about whether the EFTA release process properly handled protective-order materials, or whether its removal was for other reasons.
An FBI internal email dated May 6, 2020 reveals the scale of unprocessed digital evidence: "For the Epstein case, we seized approximately 35-40 computers, 11 phones/iPads, 21 hard drives, 4 recorders, and 100s of DVD/CDROMs. There are approximately 20 computers that still need to be processed."
A detailed FBI device inventory (EFTA00037551, August 2020) catalogues every seized item with forensic tool used (BlackLight for Macs, FTK for PCs, Greykey for phones). Notable unprocessed or dismissed items include:
The inventory also reveals forensic extractions from Karyna Shuliak's iMac (NYC024329) containing 19,830 contacts in the Mac AddressBook, and Epstein's Skype username was "jeevacation."
An executive assistant’s proffer to federal investigators reveals the inner workings of Epstein’s office operations (EFTA00025091):
The assistant was told by colleagues that "massages were a part of JE’s [schedule] — just part of his normal day. Akin to someone going daily to the gym." Massage appointments "were to be handled like any other appointments." After Epstein’s 2008 plea, "the word ‘massage’ was not used again."
From 2001-2009, "cash was always kept in the office in the accounting department." Money was "messengered from the office in envelopes prior to Epstein’s plea." The assistant noted much less cash movement after Epstein went to jail.
After moving to 575 Lexington Ave, "old storage boxes with folders arrived from storage and were shredded" by an office helper. The assistant "does not know what was in the folders and was told it was time to get rid of very old files."
Epstein had one conversation with the assistant about the case: "JE said that someone was trying to blackmail him and apologized for the disruption it was causing to the office. JE also said that it was embarrassing." This framing — casting himself as the blackmail victim — is consistent with his pattern of minimizing criminal conduct.
The FBI case summary evidence inventory (EFTA02730486) reveals that investigators recovered shredded documents related to something called "Matchmaker" — and forensically reconstructed them:
The name "Matchmaker" is highly suggestive in the context of Epstein's trafficking operation — it implies a system, database, or service used for arranging introductions between victims and perpetrators. The fact that these specific documents were shredded demonstrates consciousness of guilt and deliberate evidence destruction. The FBI's decision to invest resources in forensic shred reconstruction indicates they considered this material significant.
This corroborates the FBI co-conspirator memo's finding that Sarah Kellen "instructed staff to remove massage-related phone books from the USVI home and shred them" during the active 2005-2006 investigation — establishing a pattern of systematic document destruction targeting evidence of the trafficking operation.
A 66-page document containing a former staff member's interview (September 30, 2021) and the complete Household Manual for 358 El Brillo Way, dated February 14, 2005 (EFTA00159394).
The witness returned voluntarily to correct her prior testimony. She "wanted to apologize to us because she felt that she may have minimized during our last meeting that she knew the girls were underage. Wanted to be clear that she knew at the time that the girls were underage." She stated: "I am telling the truth, I do not feel any pressure from you to say anything. It has been a process for me to come to accept responsibility."
From her modeling background, seeing underage girls "didn't raise a red flag" initially, but she acknowledged she "didn't have the courage to step up and say something at the time."
The witness observed 10–15 masseuses in person, estimating a total of 15–20 people came for appointments during her time in Palm Beach. She noted there was a "larger group of masseuses than the recurring group" — confirming a rotating pipeline of victims.
Shown a photo array (described as the "sexbook"), the witness identified Jeffrey Epstein (#7) and Ghislaine Maxwell (#16). She recognized one other person (#13) from the media. She confirmed the existence of two copies of Ghislaine’s contact book — "it was common knowledge that there were two books."
The witness stated: "JE had a gun in his bedroom, it made her afraid." This is corroborated by the household manual itself, which lists "Gun placed in beside table drawer" as a routine item on the Master Bedroom pre-arrival checklist — alongside tissues, water glasses, and eye masks.
The household manual’s Grooming & Guest Relations section instructs staff:
"Remember that you see nothing, hear nothing, say nothing, except to answer a question directed at you. Respect their privacy."
Staff were further told: "Unless otherwise instructed, NEVER disclose Mr Epstein or Ms Maxwell’s activities or whereabouts to anyone. If the caller is insistent, you simply ask to take a message... Do not be bullied."
All security concerns were to be reported to Maxwell: "Advise Ms Maxwell of any strange telephone calls or enquiries" and "any unusual behavior, such as strangers lurking around the vicinity of the property."
The manual reveals Maxwell’s central role in the household. She had her own dedicated bathroom and toiletries checklist. Staff duties were structured around "Mr Epstein, Ms Maxwell and their guests" — this phrase appears dozens of times throughout the manual. Maxwell had her own desk where correspondence was placed. She was the operational security point of contact. This was not a girlfriend living in her partner’s home — it was a co-managed operation.
The witness described a "wall of photos in an area, like trophies" at the Palm Beach property. She was "not sure if famous people in photos in PB" and "not sure if there were photos in PB bathroom" — a reference to the well-documented photo displays found at Epstein’s other properties.
FBI prep memo (EFTA00016590, Nov 30, 2021) documents house manager Juan Alessi's recollections of the manual. Alessi (employed ~1990–2002) confirmed receiving it as a booklet from Maxwell and a “duchess from England” — a woman “supposed to be royalty” hired by Epstein and Maxwell to teach staff household management.
Alessi pushed back: “I've been working for this for years, I'm not going to do this.” Maxwell insisted. He refused to fill out the checklists; “GM was pissed.” He fought with Epstein once when a guest lacked a toothbrush and Epstein's nightstand had no pen — both required by the manual.
The manual was phone-answered as “Mr Epstein residence,” never “Ms Maxwell residence” — despite Maxwell being co-head of household. Alessi recognized pages 1–6 and 8–10 but not page 9, and disputed portions of page 7 and page 31 (re: alcoholic beverages). Food had to be thrown out each time Epstein left, even if it hadn't spoiled.
Two additional copies of the manual exist as standalone 59-page PDFs: EFTA00066372 and EFTA00075882 (both Dataset 9, Bates-stamped MM02-RECORDS-000005 onward). These are separate scans of the same physical document — text differences are exclusively OCR artifacts (bullet character misreads, spacing). Both were DOJ-modified (size_delta: −2 bytes each, detected 2026-03-14).
On August 17, 2019 — one week after Epstein's death — the FBI opened case 90C-NY-3154599 into "contraband being brought into Metropolitan Correctional Center." The FBI's own summary states that "Epstein was referenced in this case" (EFTA00163964). An internal FBI email described it as "Possible - MCC corruption case" (EFTA01649103).
The investigation centered on Robert Adams, a corrections officer at MCC. Cross-dataset redaction analysis of six copies of Adams's FBI FD-302 interview (conducted August 16, 2019) reveals that Adams was working an overnight shift in the 10 South Unit — the single-celled secure unit adjacent to the SHU where Epstein was housed — on the night Epstein died. Adams corresponds to "Correctional Officer 3" in the DOJ OIG report (EFTA00172546): Noel conducted the 3:00 AM and 5:00 AM counts with him in 10 South, and Thomas relieved him at approximately 5:30 AM.
During the August 16 interview, investigators showed Adams a photograph of an unidentified person. Adams immediately requested a lawyer. Investigators discontinued questioning, but Adams then stated unprompted: "I want to be clear, I never brought stuff into the jail or allowed stuff in. I never did that" (EFTA00040794). The FBI seized his cell phone (Motorola G6/XT1921-5) pursuant to a pre-existing SDNY search warrant; Adams refused to provide the passcode.
Investigators requested MCC CCTV footage for seven specific dates: May 31, June 14, June 21, July 5, July 26, August 7, and August 14 (EFTA00109000, EFTA00109041). Physical evidence inventories include an ELSUR (electronic surveillance) envelope (EFTA00008479).
Adams's name was identified through an OCR redaction leak in EFTA00075281, where OCR captured "ADAMS said" through an improperly applied redaction. Six copies of the same FD-302 exist with varying redaction levels across the corpus.
On September 28, 2020, Adams was indicted on one count of bribery and one count of blackmail. On July 5, 2019 — the day before Epstein's arrest — Adams caught a female visitor smuggling contraband into MCC and demanded she engage in sexual acts in exchange for not prosecuting her. He subsequently allowed continued smuggling. Case closed October 2023.
Under use immunity in July 2025, Maxwell gave ~7 hours of proffer testimony to DAG Todd Blanche and FBI ASAC Spencer Horn. 136 findings in the EFTA corpus directly contradict her claims across 10 categories:
Internal contradictions: Claims to be "general manager" but missed abuse occurring "three times a day." Admits recruiting masseuses and "never checking their age" but insists she thought all were adults. Calls Andrew photo "fake" but recognizes her own outfit in it from that weekend. Claims 50K salary while FBI documents show 1M in transfers.
On December 19, 2019, U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman received an 86-page "Investigation into Potential Co-Conspirators of Jeffrey Epstein" prosecution memorandum containing statements from 24 women abused as minors, analyzing the criminal liability of Epstein's associates.
Section IV ("Analysis") evaluates whether to charge five individuals. Sections D (Leslie Groff) and E (Ghislaine Maxwell) are identified by name. Sections A, B, and C are entirely redacted — approximately 10 pages of blacked-out legal analysis (pages 76–85). Only sub-headers survive: "Evidence That [redacted] Conspired to Sex Traffic Minors," "Knowledge of Sex Acts," "Knowledge of Age."
However, the memo's own interview sections (II.D) contain unredacted biographical details that uniquely identify all three subjects through cross-referencing with the 2008 Non-Prosecution Agreement:
Under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (P.L. 119-38, §2(b)), redactions are permitted only for victim identification and active investigation protection. These three are analyzed as potential defendants, not victims, and their names are already public record through the 2008 NPA. The redacted Analysis sections contain the DOJ's legal reasoning for declining prosecution — deliberative process privilege, not a permissible EFTA redaction category.
Berman had authorized the July 6, 2019 arrest of Epstein at Teterboro Airport and signed the sex trafficking indictment (19-cr-00490). In June 2020, AG William Barr announced that Berman had "stepped down" — when he had not resigned. Berman refused to leave until his deputy Audrey Strauss was confirmed as successor. The circumstances of Berman's removal are compounded by Barr's own exposure: two separate FBI sources placed Barr at Epstein events — a victim encountered him at a "model event" (EFTA01648951), and an FBI ASAC task list characterized his entry as "present when a girl was raped" (EFTA01648955). Barr had already declined to recuse from the Epstein prosecution despite his former law firm Kirkland & Ellis having represented Epstein in the 2007 plea deal.
Landon Thomas Jr., a New York Times financial reporter for 17 years, maintained an intimate friendship with Epstein that compromised his journalism. His 2002 New York Magazine profile "Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery" helped establish Epstein's public image as a legitimate financier (EFTA00013640).
After Epstein's 2008 conviction, Thomas continued corresponding as if nothing had changed. In October 2009, he forwarded Bloomberg financial analysis about RBS toxic assets directly to Epstein's personal Gmail, signed with his NYT title (EFTA02438707). In July 2010, Thomas sent Epstein a Turkey article and joked: "And the best part about Turkey for you? When you ask for a massage you get a fat, hairy man with a mustache." Epstein replied by offering to introduce Thomas's Turkish contact to Bill Gates (EFTA02410524) — a casual massage joke with a convicted sex offender whose abuse was disguised as massage sessions.
In September 2009, Epstein invited Thomas to "spend a day at the ranch" (Zorro Ranch, NM). Thomas replied: "would love to — need to see if this trip happens or not" (EFTA02436343). He addressed Epstein as "Hey boy" — indicating a deeply familiar personal relationship.
Thomas also tipped Epstein off about investigative journalist John Connolly's research, solicited a $30,000 donation from Epstein, and fed Epstein information about Trump. He was fired from the NYT in early 2019 for ethics violations.
Howard Rubenstein, one of New York's most powerful PR executives, was named in a victim interrogatory as having "Knowledge of finances and defendant's sexual desire for minor girls" (EFTA00725932). He appears on the same list as Alfredo Rodriguez (Epstein's house manager), David Rogers (pilot), Jojo Fontanilla, and other close associates.
Prosecutors flagged a critical conflict of interest: "Epstein's publicist, Howard Rubenstein, is also the publicist for The New York Post where the article quoting Lefcourt's letter appeared" (EFTA00013882, June 2008). This meant Rubenstein was simultaneously managing Epstein's public image AND controlling access to a major newspaper that published stories favorable to Epstein's defense.
Rubenstein confirmed Epstein's plea deal to the Palm Beach Daily News as his authorized PR representative (EFTA00013698). He had extensive scheduling records for meetings at Epstein's properties, indicating a deep professional and personal relationship that went well beyond standard PR services.
The dual publicist role — representing both a sex offender and the newspaper covering him — represents one of the clearest documented conflicts of interest in the Epstein cover-up apparatus.
An internal Epstein staff email confirms that attorney Darren K. Indyke — Epstein's longtime lawyer and trustee of multiple Epstein trusts — personally ordered the destruction of digital evidence:
"The only remnants of computers that far back were the old hard drives Darren had me review & erase over a year ago (none of them had any of your info). I could reach out to Murph and see if he thinks your old data would be backed up anywhere but that's the longest of long shots."
This email reveals:
As an attorney, Indyke had a legal duty to preserve evidence relevant to potential litigation. His direct involvement in erasing hard drives while Epstein faced ongoing civil lawsuits and potential criminal investigations raises serious questions about obstruction of justice and spoliation of evidence.
A victim filed a formal FBI complaint alleging abuse at Frogmore Cottage (a Royal estate near Windsor Castle) between 1994 and 1996:
"I was also taken to another house that I later recognised as Frogmore Cottage when its refurbishment was in the news in 2018. There, I was restrained on a table and tortured with electrical shocks by Ghislaine Maxwell and surrounded by watching men. I remember seeing Prince Andrew's face."
The victim also described:
Note: This is a single unverified victim statement. However, the specific details — GPS coordinates, recognition of Frogmore Cottage from 2018 news coverage of Harry and Meghan's refurbishment, the cover-up method for the broken nose — suggest an actual recollection rather than fabrication. The complaint was formally documented by the FBI as part of case 50D-NY-3027571.
"BLACK FRAMED PHOTO OF NUDE GIRL" — displayed in the residence
The inventory also includes a Florida statute reference "PIMP 05.972(1)" associated with collected micro cassettes — Florida's pimping/pandering statute applied to audio evidence. This corroborates the FBI finding that the Palm Beach investigation had active sex trafficking charges.
Virginia Giuffre's sworn statement: "I was very afraid of what he was going to do to me. I thought Epstein or one of his powerful friends might send someone to have me killed." She fled to Australia and did not return to the US for over 10 years (2002-2013), hiding from Epstein.
In a January 18, 2015 email to attorney Martin Weinberg (EFTA00866258), Epstein discussed his legal strategy against Virginia Roberts Giuffre, revealing his awareness of her prior trafficking history:
"now that vr is claiming I need 7 girls a day some as old as 12. it should get easier for alan to show nuts. she worked as an escort for ron eppinger in 97. two women busted with him for trafficking hes dead, lived in a drug home, claimed sex assaults. arrested for stealing."
Epstein then stated: "we know nothing of this."
This email is significant because it shows Epstein knew about Giuffre's prior trafficking by Ron Eppinger (a convicted sex trafficker) — and planned to use her prior victimization to discredit her. The claim "we know nothing of this" was a transparent lie: Epstein's own 2011 emails show him researching Eppinger's criminal record four years earlier.
He also referenced "tony figueroa the boyfriend, could either support or destroy her story" — referring to Figueroa, who was himself a recruiter of girls for Epstein.
A January 2015 email from Next Model Management to Jeffrey Epstein is marked "for your eyes only, you never saw this". The email describes a woman who "attended Chanel show earlier today and is close to them" and suggests exploring a relationship with Karl [Lagerfeld] and his team, even with Fendi.
The agency writes: "We really liked her, she is beautiful, chic and curious, enthusiastic and a very interesting profile to represent at Next." The secretive phrasing and direct reporting to Epstein demonstrates his involvement in the model recruitment pipeline.
Oct 2015: Staley forwarded to Epstein a Daily Mail article: "Andrew's billionaire paedophile friend...secretly backed new Barclays boss for job." Barclays PR: "A good result." Separately, Times reported Epstein leaked emails to Parliament to blackmail it into accepting Staley as Barclays CEO.
Rodriguez describes systematic evidence destruction. On Maxwell's office computer — the one containing images of minors from Brazil and Colombia — he says it was "irradiated with water" (destroyed). Separately, he states: "before the FBI came to the house, they took his hard drive" — indicating someone removed Epstein's hard drive before the FBI search.
He names Tim Newcomb as the Citrix systems programmer who maintained all computers, and suggests subpoenaing him: "even if you erase them... there's somewhere in the memory you can retrieve."
A BOP Facilities Manager memo dated August 13, 2019 states: "On Saturday August 10, 2019 I was informed that there was no recording of the closed circuit cameras (CCTV) from recorder 2." August 10, 2019 was the date of Epstein's death. The FBI came to retrieve video but found two bad hard drives being replaced. They seized all eighteen (18) hard drives — the two bad ones and sixteen from the RAID array. Critically, "when the FBI took the sixteen (16) hard drives out of the RAID without it finishing the rebuild it might have corrupted any data on the drives." The FBI's own actions may have destroyed the remaining video evidence.
FBI systematically reviewed 10 devices seized from Epstein for images and videos (devices numbered NYC024323 through NYC027910). The documented results: "Both are done. They are both negative on images and videos" — referring to only two Windows devices. The fate of evidence from the remaining 8 devices is unclear from available documents. Combined with the MCC camera failure, the soundproof door construction, the Citrix system destruction order, and Rodriguez's testimony about hidden cameras, this represents a significant gap in the evidentiary record.
The FBI FD-192 evidence log from the August 28, 2006 Palm Beach raid lists items seized including: "TWO VHS TAPES - POOL AREA" (Item 13) and "THREE VIDEO TAPES - MASTER BEDROOM" (Item 29). Also seized: "BLACK FRAMED PHOTO OF NUDE GIRL" (Item 8), "TWO VIBRATORS - 'TWIN TORPEDO'" (Item 24), and "ONE HIGH SCHOOL TRANSCRIPT" (Item 27). The contents of these VHS tapes are never described in the available EFTA corpus. Combined with Rodriguez's testimony about hidden cameras in the bedroom alarm clock, the tapes from the master bedroom are of particular investigative significance.
From a deposition in EFTA00023557:
"And we laughed about it. Q. Was the film ever shown to anyone else? A. No. The tape was destroyed."
This testimony confirms that a recording of sexual activity involving Epstein was made, discussed ("we laughed about it"), and then deliberately destroyed. The casual reference to laughing about the tape and then destroying it suggests this was part of a pattern of creating and controlling compromising recordings — consistent with the broader blackmail/surveillance evidence.
Five to six days after Epstein's death, on August 15-16, 2019:
"Inmate brought down bales of shredded paper on Thursday and Friday of last week (August 15 and 16), and reported that he had been asked to shred documents by the BOP after-action team... and that 'they are shredding everything'"
The FBI investigated: "Interviewed inmate Steven Lopez at MCC at 1100 regarding possible shredding of Epstein documents" (EFTA00037228). A correctional officer corroborated: "After Action Team was shredding documents after observing inmate Steven Lopez carrying three bags of shredded documents instead of his normal two bags" (EFTA00165518).
Despite these reports, the FBI concluded the shredding "did not support federal criminal activity, specifically obstruction of justice" (EFTA00146839). The shredded paper was sent to the FBI Lab for analysis (EFTA00026890).
A February 2013 email marked "for your eyes only" shows Jes Staley's subservient relationship to Epstein. Staley writes: "Thanks boss. sorry I couldn't make the dinner with Gates." Staley then adds: "I would love to be there when he realizes that you know more about finance than Nathan, Larson and Summers combined. It will be a priceless moment."
This email was forwarded by Epstein to Boris Nikolic (Bill Gates' science advisor), demonstrating the interconnected nature of this network. The "boss" terminology and Staley's deferential tone contradicts any claim of a casual acquaintanceship.
Epstein accessed JPMorgan GC Stephen Cutler (ex-SEC Enforcement Director) via Staley. Sep 2010: "still nothing from steve cutler?" Cutler: "JES is not my boss." Oct 2011: "Spent 45 minutes with cutler." Nov 2011: Epstein met Cutler at JPMorgan HQ (270 Park Ave) and at breakfast at his house. JPMorgan kept Epstein until Staley left in 2013.
Dec 2019 DOJ email: "doing a follow up call with the FCA...looking at Jes Staley and his potential relationship with Epstein...request from us that they not go overt anytime soon." DOJ asked FCA to delay going public. FT confirmed DOJ passed information to UK regulators.
In July 2017, Masha Drokova proposed a systematic reputation-laundering campaign for Epstein, who had been convicted of sex trafficking in 2008. She emailed Epstein (EFTA01041085):
"I think your story is worth doing a movie about you. I know a director who might do a good job making a film about you... He is bright and will do a good job to show the side of you that hasn't been seen."
She offered the director of "Putin's Kiss" — the documentary about her own Nashi involvement — saying: "She's done film about me and Putin. Her main value that she's got of awards for that and I can manage her."
She also proposed an "Epstein Prize": "If you make it bigger than Nobel Prize and support with the ceremony where you'll invite celebrities..."
In a separate exchange (EFTA01039805), Epstein coached her on image strategy, explicitly telling her to remove "photos with pretty women" from his public presence — acknowledging the very pattern he needed to conceal. When she asked for social media advice, he responded: "sweat pants = out. photos with pretty women out. not sure if it should be photos with older women, scientists. cats? plants. places. food."
This was not one-time advice. Drokova arranged at least three journalist interviews — Dylan Love, Forbes writer Jesse Damiani (EFTA00464618), and Futurism editor Alex Klokus — and physically attended media meetings to coach the narrative (EFTA00458715: "1:30pm Interview w/Futurism Editor, Alex Klokus. Masha to join the interview"). Dylan Love confirmed after meeting Epstein: "Masha has made it clear that she wants me to write something about you" (EFTA00459459).
Mike Sitrick replied to Epstein's PR strategy email (March 9, 2011): "Harvey Levin, who runs TMZ, is a good friend. They haven't reported on this at all, but I might be able to get him to do something on the Duchess and her backpedaling."
This reveals that Epstein's crisis PR manager had a direct personal relationship with the founder of TMZ and was offering to use that relationship to plant stories attacking anyone who spoke out about Epstein. Sitrick was offering media suppression and weaponization on behalf of a convicted sex offender.
Epstein’s crisis PR manager Mike Sitrick and UK defamation lawyer Paul Tweed drafted a retraction statement for an unnamed woman to recant her allegations against Epstein (March 2011).
Sitrick sent Epstein two draft versions. One opened with:
"I regret to say that the information I received about Jeffrey Epstein was incorrect. Although he was convicted of soliciting a person under 18 for prostitution for an action more than five years ago, he is not a pedophile by any definition of that word."
The other version ended with a religious appeal:
"As a Christian we are taught to forgive. Mr. Epstein has admitted the errors of his ways and paid for those mistakes. He is focusing his life on helping others. We should all do the same."
The draft included pre-written brackets with optional language for the woman to choose from: "[According to public records, he was convicted of procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution]" and "[It is my understanding that this involved a woman just a few months short of her 18th birthday.]"
Sitrick also edited materials to minimize: "I think it is important to point out that this young woman was 17, not 13, 14 or whatever"
Epstein personally directed the drafts, instructing Sitrick to name specific people to blame: "I would prefer to name Michael Fisten... and Brad Edwards PARTNER of the attorney in jail" — attempting to discredit victim attorneys.
The email chain reveals the woman’s likely identity: Epstein wrote "fergei called ghislaine, to offer an apology, said that she thought she was being helpful, by distancing herself." "Fergei" is almost certainly Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York — who had documented financial dependence on Epstein and whose visits during his work release are confirmed in other EFTA documents. Epstein dictated what she should say: "Jeffrey was a friend of the family for a decade or more... I was duped into believing stories that were offered up by fake fbi agents."
The retraction praised Epstein’s support for charities including the Starlight Children’s Foundation (which aids critically ill children) and the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund — weaponizing children’s charities to rehabilitate a convicted child sex offender’s image.
Sitrick later sued Epstein for non-payment through AAA arbitration (Sitrick and Company v. Jeffrey Epstein, case 72 147 00218 12), suggesting Epstein stiffed even his own PR fixers.
March 2018 email to Epstein reporting on scouting activities:
"I found at least 3 very good young poor but we was so tired. I will cover up this week."
Explicit targeting of young, poor women who are vulnerable to exploitation.
In March 2011, Amanda Thirsk (Prince Andrew's Deputy Private Secretary) drafted a formal denial of Virginia Giuffre's allegations against Andrew. Thirsk sent the draft to Andrew, who then forwarded it directly to Jeffrey Epstein for editing.
From EFTA01990860, Thirsk's draft states:
"The allegations that are made by [name] in paragraph 6 in relation to The Duke of York are completely untrue and without foundation... They did not have sex... Nor did they have sex. There was no orgy in Little St James."
Andrew forwarded this to Epstein with the instruction: "This is what is suggested. Make any changes that suit you both that make it relevant to your particular case."
This is extraordinary: a Buckingham Palace official's legal denial was sent to the accused sex offender to review and edit before submission. It demonstrates:
Separately, Andrew described Thirsk to Epstein as "my eyes and ears" (EFTA01809668) and instructed her to communicate directly with Epstein on the Ferguson debt settlement: "Can you go direct with Jeffrey from here keeping me cc." (EFTA00632493)
Email to contractor Steve Bastone detailing Epstein's priorities:
"Jeffrey would like you to focus first on the 4th floor bedrooms and the sound proof door for the elevator on 6th floor"
This request, made in April 2019 - just three months before Epstein's July 2019 arrest - shows him prioritizing soundproofing of bedroom floors in his Manhattan townhouse. The specific focus on "4th floor bedrooms" and soundproofing raises questions about why sound isolation was a priority given the documented abuse occurring in these spaces.
Scott Denett (Epstein staff) to Richard Kahn and Lesley Groff:
"Per JE CITRIX IS DEAD. ANY ISSUES LET ME KNOW."
Epstein personally ordered the destruction of the Citrix system that had served as the primary internal communication platform connecting his properties in New York, Palm Beach, Little Saint James, and New Albany.
Lesley Groff to all staff, February 2011:
"Bill and Scott will be at the house over the weekend moving Citrix from 71st to HBRK"
Two months before ordering the system destroyed, Epstein had the physical servers moved out of his 71st Street mansion. The infrastructure proposal (EFTA00775324) from William Murphy, Systems Administrator at HBRK Associates, shows the Citrix system was centrally important — connecting 71st Street, 301 E 66th Street, and remote locations including the USVI for QuickBooks financial records.
From an FBI interview with a former Epstein employee (Larry Visoski deposition, EFTA00159380):
"Phone numbers were kept in a system they used called Citrix. People's numbers were also kept in books. MAXWELL had books with a black cover throughout the house and EPSTEIN had books with a colorful cover throughout the house."
A separate FBI interview (EFTA00159321) confirms: "stated they used a citrix based system. LESLIE GROFF put messages in the system." The system was used for internal messaging between properties. Combined with Epstein's order to destroy it and the separate testimony about a Citrix technician from New Albany, Ohio erasing hard drives (Rodriguez recording, EFTA00179446), this documents a systematic pattern of evidence destruction.
Between 2013 and 2017, James P. McGee of Newgrange Consulting Group (Boston) pitched Epstein on building a covert media empire in the US Virgin Islands — designed not for profit but for political control.
In an "Extremely Confidential" memo dated December 28, 2013 (EFTA00582807), McGee proposed Epstein finance three acquisitions through a vehicle called "Westland Media Group" (subsidiary of the existing Westland Strategies PR firm):
Total proposed investment: $17-19 million to control the USVI's newspaper, radio, and internet/TV.
By February 2017, the plan had narrowed to the radio station at a fire-sale price of $250,000 for WVWI 1000 AM (EFTA01053946, EFTA00705527). McGee explicitly stated the purpose as political influence:
"What this is all initially really about is the ability to be directly involved in developing, reporting, and shaping the News in the Virgin Islands (A full year ahead of when it will matter the most)."
"A full year ahead" targets the 2018 USVI election cycle. McGee detailed the strategy: "a direct effect on the Virgin Islands Electorate (Particularly the 'Older and More Reliable Good Voters' who still listen to radio and who Vote consistently)."
McGee emphasized operating through front people:
"like me, you prefer to do things behind the scenes and not in the public eye at all. While this will be a Newgrange Venture, I fully intend to have others out in front"
He referenced "the last ten (10) years" of operating covertly in the USVI — dating the relationship to approximately 2007, during Epstein's original prosecution. Epstein responded with interest: "thanks jim. as i said i only want numbers. cost to rebuild number of employees, i need the current financials and those for the past 5 years."
The entities Newgrange Consulting Group LLC (Boston) and Westland Strategies / Westland Media Group (USVI) appear to be Epstein's covert political infrastructure in the territory. A formal contract between a USVI entity and Newgrange is documented (EFTA00586992).
EFTA00854332 (June 2015): Epstein to Barry Josephson: 'if i wanted to make a film, a fictionalized account of what happens to people falsely accused... cosby girls duke, U va.. few willing to stand up and say that these girls are liars. simple'
Josephson replied: 'I could do it where nobody knew it was you.' Epstein followed up: 'fake detectives, hidden videos of girls scheming to get rich / the blair bitch project'
Josephson owed Epstein $60,000 at the time (EFTA01802355), creating financial leverage. This is evidence of an organized campaign to discredit victims while civil cases were active.
In April 2019, five months after the Miami Herald series exposed how prosecutors had ignored evidence of Epstein's crimes, Steve Bannon texted Epstein a three-step rehabilitation plan:
"We need to work around your 38 — first we need to push back on the lies; then crush the pedo/trafficking narrative; then rebuild your image as philanthropist"
Epstein responded: "in any bar where drinking age is 18 i guess that 10 percent of patrons are under 18. . they sneak in" — minimizing the trafficking allegations.
This was sent the same week Bannon scheduled "media training" at Epstein's townhouse: "Friday afternoon media training @ your place — 2 camera shoot; my crew so totally confidential" (April 2, 2019). Bannon also discussed bringing Alex Spiro (his own lawyer) to represent Epstein: "Spiro 4 pm on Thursday" — though the firm ultimately blocked it.
Bannon coached Epstein on narrative control (April-May 2019):
"Yes yes yes of course — but we must counter 'rapist who traffics in female children to be raped by worlds most powerful, richest men' — that can't be redeemed — that why we let them blow up the argument while showing the 12 you redeemed"
Then reassured Epstein: "Can't redeem unredeemable — you are a lot of things — which we will show — but you are NOT that"
This is not the language of a documentary filmmaker seeking truth. It is a political operative coaching a client on how to evade accountability for sex trafficking charges — charges that would be filed just two months later.
After Epstein's lawyers published a letter in the New York Times (March 2019) contending allegations were exaggerated, Bannon pushed for more aggressive crisis management:
"Did u hire the crisis comms guy so we can drive the narrative off that great times piece"
Earlier, when news broke in February 2019 that federal prosecutors were reviewing the handling of Epstein's 2008 case, Bannon told Epstein not to respond publicly:
"Have you lost your mind [expletive]. The moment you say ANYTHING this is global story #1!!!!!"
Bannon was not merely documenting Epstein — he was actively managing his legal and media crisis strategy, recommending lawyers, PR professionals, and controlling the public narrative.
A chain of emails between Mary Erdoes (JPMorgan Asset Management CEO), Jes Staley, and Jeffrey Epstein reveals a proposed $100 billion Donor-Advised Fund scheme involving Bill Gates, with Epstein acting as intermediary.
August 10, 2011 (EFTA00649282): Epstein emails from Dubai proposing a $100 million minimum donation DAF with Leon Black on the advisory board: 'done right its 100 billion dollars in 2 years.'
August 26, 2011 (EFTA00918571): Epstein to Staley and Erdoes: 'I am more than happy to meet with anyone you think moves this along.. cutler. jamie.. etc. As mary said it need to be PROPER.' Lists four target areas: 'Gates and his entourage (facebook, spotify (parker)). Middle East. Africa. China.'
August 28, 2011 (EFTA00918242): Erdoes to Epstein: 'I will be speaking with cutler and jes this week to discuss how to properly deal with you arranging this.'
This email chain shows three JPMorgan senior executives (Erdoes, Staley, and General Counsel Cutler — with a reference to CEO 'jamie' Dimon) actively collaborating with a convicted sex offender on a scheme to capture Bill Gates's charitable assets — three years after Epstein's conviction.
Court records reveal Ghislaine Maxwell held 8 separate JPMorgan accounts and had Durable Power of Attorney over Epstein's JPMorgan accounts.
EFTA00021994 lists Maxwell's JPMorgan accounts:
Maxwell's checking account (EFTA00020584, Gov. Exhibit 502) had $7.6 million in deposits and an average balance of $937,555. The Power of Attorney document (EFTA00020596, Gov. Exhibit 508) gave Maxwell control over Epstein's JPMorgan accounts.
Despite this, JPMorgan told SDNY in November 2019 there were 'only five JPMC accounts — two for Epstein and three for Maxwell' (EFTA00030702). The USVI complaint alleges approximately fifty-five Epstein-related accounts (¶41) — suggesting JPMorgan dramatically underreported the scope of the relationship to federal prosecutors.
An internal DOJ communication (EFTA00019878) confirms:
"My colleagues remind me that this is inaccurate, defense counsel returned and/or destroyed discovery materials, pursuant to the protective order, following Epstein's suicide."
While technically compliant with the protective order, this means that evidence shared during discovery — which could have included witness statements, financial records, and other materials relevant to ongoing investigations — was destroyed by Epstein's defense team after his death. The protective order that required destruction was itself part of the pre-trial process, and the timing (immediately after suicide) raises questions about whether all discoverable material was preserved for potential co-conspirator prosecutions.
In 2015, Hollywood producer Barry Josephson (Wild Wild West, Enchanted) discussed making a film with Epstein designed to discredit trafficking victims. Epstein proposed (EFTA00854325):
"if i wanted to make a film, a fictionalized account of what happens to people falsely accused...few willing to stand up and say that these girls are liars. simple"
Josephson responded: "I could do it where nobody knew it was you." Epstein then elaborated on the concept (EFTA00854332):
"fake detectives, hidden videos of girls schen-ming to get rich / the blair bitch project"
This shows Epstein actively conspiring with a major Hollywood producer to create propaganda discrediting his victims as liars and scammers. Josephson received a $200,000 wire from Epstein via Deutsche Bank (EFTA00027019, DB-SDNY-0002992). He also attended dinners with Woody Allen, Soon Yi, and Leon Black at Epstein's residence (EFTA00447287). On the prison mail list (EFTA00306074) during Epstein's 2008-09 incarceration.
In February 2010 — just months after Epstein's release from his Palm Beach sentence — physicist Lawrence Krauss sent an extraordinarily fawning email proposing to rehabilitate Epstein through academia (EFTA00763822):
Leon Black subsequently signed a $2,000,000 irrevocable pledge to Krauss's Origins Project (EFTA00584059, Jan 2015), legally binding on his estate and heirs.
When 'female skeptics' planned a walkout at his TAM lecture over defending Epstein (EFTA00656503), Krauss dismissed it to Epstein: 'I have decoupled from worrying about it...will die down once they found something else to be upset about, Charlie Sheen mouthing off or whatever.'
By September 2016 (post-conviction), Krauss was still socializing at Epstein dinners alongside Ehud Barak and Martin Nowak (EFTA00318013).
On March 25, 2019 — less than four months before his arrest — Epstein emailed his assistant from his jeevacation@gmail.com account with explicit instructions to conceal his identity when reaching out to a senior Facebook executive (EFTA00492635):
"dont use my name. set a call today with Lori Goler. [phone number] she is at facebook. tell her you would like a time for rich kahn to call her :)"
When the assistant asked "if she asks what the call is regarding or who is Rich Kahn, what shall I say?" — Epstein replied: "kathy ruemmlers trustee"
Lori Goler was Facebook’s VP of People (head of HR), one of the most senior executives at the company. Richard Kahn was Epstein’s financial manager at HBRK Associates. Kathryn Ruemmler was a trustee of Epstein’s 2018 Trust and former White House Counsel under Obama.
This email reveals Epstein was actively building new institutional connections through intermediaries while deliberately hiding his name — suggesting awareness that his identity would cause the approach to be rejected. The scheduling calendar (EFTA00285783) confirms: "1:30pm PHONE DATE w/Lori Goler (RICH KAHN)" was scheduled for the following day, March 26, 2019.
A June 2015 email thread reveals Peter Attia's explicit awareness of Epstein's illicit lifestyle. Attia initiated the exchange with an email to Epstein with subject line "Got a fresh shipment." and an attached photo (IMG_1040.JPG) (EFTA01198246).
Epstein responded. Attia replied:
"Please tell you found that picture on line...bastard."
Epstein confirmed it was real: "fraid not" (EFTA01745447). Attia then wrote:
"You the biggest problem with becoming friends with you? The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can't tell a soul..."
This is an explicit admission that Attia: (1) was aware Epstein's lifestyle was "outrageous," (2) had made a conscious decision to keep Epstein's secrets ("can't tell a soul"), and (3) continued serving as his personal physician despite this awareness. The same month, Epstein linked Attia to his broader longevity network: "as you may know I fund longevity work with George Church at Harvard" (EFTA00703009).
Ronald Lauder (Estee Lauder heir, 415 documents) had a deep, ongoing relationship with Epstein through at least January 2018 — 18 months before arrest.
Art tax fraud directive: In July 2014, Epstein emailed his assistant Ada Clapp and Leon Black's assistant Melanie Spinella with the subject "avoid sales tax on purchase of interest": "we need to create a lie for leon and ronald lauder to own the painting" (EFTA01915851). Clapp replied: "Funny you should say that — Herrick suggested the same thing." This documents Epstein directing fabricated ownership claims to evade sales tax — potentially prosecutable tax fraud involving both Leon Black and Ronald Lauder.
Financial leverage pattern: In August 2017, Epstein instructed staff to request Lauder's past 2 years of tax returns and his will: "id like to speak with ronald lauder, or ask him if its ok to speak with his accountant. to give him the best guidance Id like to see copy of his past two year tax returns. and his will." (EFTA00457596). This mirrors Epstein's documented approach with Leon Black — positioning as financial advisor to gain access to intimate financial records.
34+ documented meetings at Epstein's 9 E 71st St townhouse (2017-2018), often alongside Leon Black, Woody Allen, Tom Pritzker, and Larry Summers. Karyna Shuliak (Epstein's Butterfly Trust beneficiary) hosted Lauder lunches: "Please make it nice. They are important guests."
Inner circle placement: Lauder was on the same invitation lists as Sultan bin Sulayem, Larry Summers, Kathryn Ruemmler, and Woody Allen for a Terje Rod-Larsen event (EFTA00449104). His personal VCF contact card was shared with Bebe Avdiu, one of Epstein's associates.
Farkas family bond: Andrew Farkas — Epstein's will executor and trust trustee — was essentially raised by the Lauder family after his mother died. Evelyn Lauder was his surrogate mother; William Lauder is his "oldest and closest" friend. Farkas told Epstein this casually with "as you know" — Epstein was well aware (EFTA01740917). Ghislaine Maxwell attended a Lauder family memorial service (EFTA01846048).
Kevin Warsh / Jane Lauder: Lauder's daughter Jane Lauder and her husband Kevin Warsh (former Federal Reserve Governor, reportedly next in line for Fed Chair) appeared on a St. Barths Christmas 2010 guest list sent to Epstein and Harvey Weinstein — alongside Ghislaine Maxwell ("Staying on Billy Kotick's boat"), David Geffen, and Roman Abramovich (EFTA00900412).
John Brockman (Edge Foundation) explicitly managed press coverage to protect Epstein's network of tech billionaires from exposure:
Planning an Edge Master Class seminar, Brockman emailed Epstein:
"I could see the founders of the big companies unhappy if they got the Prince Andrew treatment by the press in terms of photos and reportage."
Brockman reassured Epstein that reporters covering the event were "friends who should be able to cover the event without mentioning you" and that "only one person to date has a blog" (EFTA00853250).
The CONFIDENTIAL guest list for this seminar included:
Brockman also noted that DNI General James Clapper might attend via IARPA funding — the Director of National Intelligence potentially at an Epstein-funded event.
Three years after Epstein's 2008 sex offender conviction, Brockman sent the Edge Annual Question 2012 invitation to a who's who of tech:
"To: Paul Allen, Jeff Bezos, Sergey Brin, Hubert Burda, Steve Case, John Doerr, Jeffrey Epstein, Tony Fadell, Bill Gates, Danny Hillis, Maja Hoffman, Bill Joy, Salar Kamangar, Dean Kamen, Vinod Khosla, Marissa Mayer, Kary Mullis, Elon Musk, Nathan Myhrvold, Pierre Omidyar, Larry Page, Sean Parker, Jean Pigozzi, Nick Pritzker, Miuccia Prada, Eric Schmidt, Jacqui Safra, Ricardo Salinas Pliego, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Skoll, Craig Venter, Jimmy Wales, Evan Williams, Mark Zuckerberg"
Epstein — a registered sex offender — was on the same invitation list as Bezos, Gates, Brin, Page, Musk, Schmidt, Zuckerberg, Omidyar, and virtually every major tech founder. Brockman was the bridge connecting all of them to Epstein (EFTA02364089).
A Deutsche Bank Americas client/prospect spreadsheet reveals that Eric Schmidt's family office Hillspire LLC and Epstein's financial vehicle Southern Financial shared the same Deutsche Bank relationship manager — Stewart Oldfield (EFTA01436428). The spreadsheet lists:
Both were managed or invited by Stewart Oldfield at Deutsche Bank. This places Schmidt's personal finances and Epstein's convicted sex trafficking operation under the same banker at the same institution. Deutsche Bank was later fined $150 million for compliance failures related to the Epstein relationship.
Additionally, the SDNY Ghislaine Maxwell grand jury materials contain Hillspire LLC contact details (EFTA01379915), marked "CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e)" — confirming Schmidt's family office was subpoenaed as part of the federal sex trafficking investigation.
Schmidt actively engaged with Epstein post-conviction. On March 25, 2013, when invited to a dinner with Peter Mandelson and Ehud Barak, Schmidt personally replied: "Thanks I will check ! Eric" (EFTA02143396). On April 1, 2013, Epstein used Woody Allen as bait to lure Schmidt to another dinner — instructing staff to "tell eric, if he decides to change his mind" after adding "woody and soon yi" to the guest list (EFTA00392999).
Intermediary Todd Meister coordinated Schmidt's relationship, telling Epstein: "He told me you were 'fantastic and interesting' after you had breakfast... Have a plan on Eric Schmidt to fix the misperception" (EFTA00958075). Epstein suggested: "you can ask eric if he would like to meet ehud with you." The phrase "fix the misperception" suggests Schmidt was being managed to overcome reluctance about associating with a convicted sex offender.
Ghislaine Maxwell explicitly called Schmidt a "big supporter of ours" and managed the Google founders' social calendar with Epstein (EFTA02335254): "Eric may come too... Fred Fekkai, Tom Pritzker."
Four Deutsche Bank professionals formed the dedicated team that managed Epstein's trading accounts before and after his 2008 sex offender conviction, until DB terminated the relationship in 2018:
The team scheduled regular conference calls and in-person meetings with Epstein alongside his accountant Harry Beller and financial manager Richard Kahn. They continued servicing Epstein's accounts for nearly a decade after his conviction. Deutsche Bank was fined $150 million by NYDFS in July 2020 for compliance failures related to the Epstein relationship, including failure to properly monitor suspicious transactions.
Prominent Miami criminal defense attorney Roy Black was a key member of Epstein's defense team during the 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement negotiations, alongside Ken Starr, Jay Lefkowitz, Gerald Lefcourt, Alan Dershowitz, and Lilly Ann Sanchez.
Palm Beach Police Department noted that private investigators under the direction of Attorney Roy Black were deployed during the 2006 investigation — suggesting efforts to intimidate or surveil victims and witnesses.
Black was present at meetings with prosecutors Lefcourt, Sanchez, and Dershowitz during NPA negotiations. He called prosecutors to confirm the deal: "before you hang up — it's all over with Epstein... I just need to update things."
The resulting secret NPA — which was not disclosed to victims as required by the CVRA — allowed Epstein to plead to minimal state charges. Bradley Edwards' landmark CVRA petition later exposed the agreement, and a federal judge ruled in 2019 that prosecutors violated victims' rights.
David Gergen, who served as advisor to four presidents (Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Clinton) and directed the Center for Public Leadership at Harvard Kennedy School, maintained a deep personal relationship with Epstein spanning at least 2009-2017.
Most remarkably, Gergen visited Epstein in jail after his 2008 conviction. Les Wexner testified under oath: "David Gergen told me he did. After he did." When asked why, Gergen explained: "Sometimes people that you're acquainted with get into trouble and you should be kind or nice to them." Wexner described the relationship with dismay: "university presidents, Gergen, my friend, I mean, it's just crazy. He was beyond perfect or good doing all the shit that he did."
In 2015-2016, Gergen's assistant Veronica Martinez emailed Lesley Groff trying to recall a dinner at Epstein's home with Sergey Brin and Larry Page, "sometime after 9/11, possibly near the World Economic Forum." Groff confirmed: "when Sergey and Larry were coming around" and suggested Benoit Mandelbrot and Nathan Myhrvold may also have attended (EFTA00332539, EFTA00333263).
Gergen was listed on Epstein's 2015 birthday essay project — asked to write about "Sharing A Meal in Jeffrey's Dining Room" alongside Leon Black, Woody Allen, Ehud Barak, and Noam Chomsky (EFTA00285041). He was invited to private dinners with Ehud Barak at Epstein's home alongside Steve Schwarzman, Larry Summers, Charlie Rose, Lloyd Blankfein, and Mayor Bloomberg (EFTA00298515). He appears in Epstein's Mac laptop sticky note alongside Ghislaine Maxwell: "calls gergen, sarah, brice, faith ghisaline" (EFTA01068342).
Gergen proactively rescheduled meetings with Epstein at Harvard — "DAVID IS REQUESTING A 5pm APPT!" after returning from Davos (EFTA00301520) — showing Gergen was the one pursuing contact, not the other way around.
Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation and co-founder of Singularity University, publicly claimed in 2026 that he first met Epstein in 2013. The EFTA corpus directly contradicts this.
On April 28, 2009 — while Epstein was still on work release following his 2008 conviction — Diamandis emailed: "Hi Jeffrey — It's been a while since we've chatted. I'd love to connect and catch-up, give you an update on X PRIZE" (EFTA01780987). The phrasing "it's been a while since we've chatted" proves the relationship predated 2009, likely by years.
By June 2014, Diamandis was visiting Epstein's 71st Street townhouse (EFTA00368198), and his assistant Connie Fox was inviting Epstein to Singularity University's Exponential Finance conference at CNBC "as his guest" (EFTA00368493). Epstein told an associate he knew Diamandis "well" (EFTA00689154).
Diamandis's calendar entries show him meeting Epstein at 2pm the same day Epstein had dinner with Peter Thiel and Ehud Barak at 7:30pm (EFTA00991049) — placing Diamandis in the inner rotation of Epstein's daily power meetings. He appeared on Epstein's personal device notes alongside "singularty finance" and other tech contacts (EFTA01068342).
Email chains document a meeting between gubernatorial candidate Albert Bryan, his campaign manager John Engerman, and Jeffrey Epstein at Southern Trust Company offices on September 21, 2018 — weeks before the November election.
Epstein's USVI attorney Erika Kellerhals arranged the introduction, emailing Epstein's assistant Lesley Groff:
"Lesley- I have copied Albert Bryan and his campaign manager, John Engerman, on this email. [...] Leslie will reach out on Friday to reconfirm your meeting at 1:30pm at the offices on the 3rd floor of American Yacht Harbour at the Southern Trust Company offices."
Epstein's assistant reconfirmed: "Good morning Albert and John. Reconfirming you will go see Jeffrey today at 1:30pm at Southern Trust Company." Engerman replied: "Confirmed. See you there."
Epstein's personal calendar for September 2018 (EFTA00285597) confirms: "1:30pm Appt w/Albert Bryan at STC (Erika Kellerhals organized)". The same calendar page shows meetings with Leon Black, Steve Bannon, Ehud Barak, Stacey Plaskett, and Thorbjorn Jagland in the same period.
FBI FD-302 (Oct 2, 2023): Within the first two weeks of Denise George becoming Attorney General in January 2019, Governor Bryan informed her that Epstein wanted a waiver for the 21-day sex offender reporting requirement.
Erika Kellerhals submitted a request letter providing examples of other waivers granted to truck drivers and others with short-notice travel requirements. A previous AG, Vincent Frazer, had granted Epstein the waiver but it was later rescinded by acting AG Carol Thomas-Jacobs after Epstein was detained in the Dominican Republic.
Bryan texted George: "you need to make a decision on the Epstein matter."
George refused to grant the waiver. She informed Kellerhals by letter and Bryan by email. Bryan responded: "Thank you for your work on this."
George believed the previous governor, John de Jongh, had pressured AG Frazer to grant the original waiver.
FBI FD-302 (Oct 2, 2023): Governor Bryan instructed AG Denise George to settle with the Epstein estate for $80 million dollars and to pursue mediation with Henry Smock as the mediator.
Bryan told George that "the Epstein estate just wanted to clear people."
George refused to comply. The Epstein estate and USVI ultimately settled for $105 million — $25M more than Bryan's imposed cap. The settlement included the sale of Little St. James and Great St. James islands.
At the November 15, 2012 EDC public hearing, Epstein and Erika Kellerhals described Southern Trust Company as providing "cutting edge consulting services" in the area of "biomedical and financial informatics."
The EDC granted a 10-year package (Feb 2013 - Jan 2023): 90% income tax exemption, 100% exemptions from gross receipts, excise, and withholding taxes. STC generated aggregate income of $656 million between 2013-2017, yet employed only 13 individuals (11 in admin/support roles).
Tax exemptions for the period 2013-2017 totaled $73.6 million. Epstein's personal income tax exemption alone was $71.3 million (S-corp pass-through).
The USVI First Amended Complaint alleges STC "did not perform the 'informatics' business represented to the EDC" and "existed to secure tax benefits for Epstein."
FBI FD-302 (Oct 2, 2023): Former AG Denise George stated that all Epstein employees had nondisclosure agreements and were "informed if questioned by law enforcement to say nothing and alert Kellerhals."
This instruction — directing employees to refuse cooperation with law enforcement and instead contact Epstein's attorney — is consistent with the pattern of obstruction documented throughout the investigation, including the shredding of documents at Southern Trust Company and the destruction of the Citrix server system.
EFTA01767129 (Oct 16, 2012): Lesley Groff coordinated Yoni Koren's medical appointments at Memorial Sloan Kettering, with explicit instructions to conceal the Epstein connection:
Groff: "Per [contact] in Leon Black's office, we are to say Yoni was referred by [contact's] office."
The email arranges Koren to see Dr. Howard Scher (a leading MSK oncologist) with the cover story routed through Leon Black's office — creating a false paper trail to hide that Epstein was funding and arranging the treatment.
Financial records confirm Epstein's payments:
The Leon Black connection is significant — Black paid Epstein $158M+ in "advisory fees" and his office was actively facilitating Epstein's charitable cover operations.
FBI investigation documents reveal Ghislaine Maxwell secretly married Scott Borgerson and used the name "Ghislaine Borgerson" for financial transactions. An FBI agent investigating Maxwell's location tracked purchases under this name (EFTA00016941): "The credit card she was using for purchases is under the name Ghislaine Borgerson."
Cell phone surveillance confirmed contact between Maxwell and Borgerson (EFTA00016349): "Target Cellphone-1 has also been in contact with a phone subscribed to in the name of 'Scott Borgerson,' which I know from my review of bank records and other evidence to be Maxwell's husband."
Marriage records searches found no Maxwell-Borgerson marriage license — only Borgerson's 2001 marriage to Rebecca Piorunneck (EFTA00016394). The marriage appears to have been conducted in secret, consistent with Maxwell's broader pattern of concealment during her fugitive period.
Borgerson is the CEO of CargoMetrics, a maritime analytics company. Maxwell lived at his oceanfront property in Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts, where she was ultimately arrested on July 2, 2020.
Lesley Groff emails Rich Kahn and Bella Klein (January 18, 2017): "Jeffrey has asked that James wipe clean [redacted]'s old computer and then we sent to [redacted] in Barcelona" (EFTA00501483, EFTA00501484). "James" is from Personal Genius (personalgenius.us), Epstein's IT service, who confirms: "Great, I'll see you at 5PM."
The pattern — wipe a computer clean, then ship it overseas — is consistent with evidence destruction. This occurred in January 2017, after Epstein's 2008 conviction and well before the July 2019 SDNY arrest. Combined with Rodriguez's testimony about the New Albany IT technician erasing hard drives, this shows a systematic pattern of digital evidence destruction spanning years.
Rodriguez describes a hidden camera in Epstein's bedroom: "This is his bed. And he used to have an alarm clock... And in there was a camera." He adds there was also "one in the garage." This corroborates the Palm Beach police finding of cameras hidden in clocks and directly contradicts the FBI CID summary's claim that "searches did not reveal any cameras in any of the bedrooms."
Eyewitnesses reported "several large garbage bags with shredded documents" outside the Southern Trust office approximately two weeks before Epstein's July 2019 arrest.
Additional shredding evidence: At MCC after Epstein's death, a guard reported an inmate brought "bays of shredded papers" to a dumpster (EFTA00031633). The FBI/OIG investigated possible shredding of Epstein documents at MCC (EFTA00037228).
Staff also testified that Maxwell "asked to shred books" — contact books at a residence (EFTA00156204), and that staff were told to "shred printouts of contact numbers" after Epstein said "something was stolen or compromised" (EFTA00159380).
Documents reveal the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) used the NiceVision surveillance system — 22 H.264 encoders supporting 16 cameras each (352 cameras total). Around Epstein's death in August 2019, there were significant technical and communication failures:
This adds technical detail to the known surveillance failures around Epstein's death — a system with 352 cameras experienced database errors and multi-party communication breakdowns at the critical moment.
A witness stated that "EPSTEIN's counsel DARREN INDYKE called her into his office and told her not to talk to law enforcement."
Additional witnesses corroborate the pattern: Epstein routinely told victims "to call DARREN INDYKE if contacted by law enforcement and not to speak with law enforcement" (EFTA00086868). Victims were told "not to worry and that she would be taken care of... if she did not say anything then she would be taken care of" (EFTA00105454).
This constitutes obstruction of justice and witness tampering by Epstein's attorney — not privileged legal advice but active obstruction of a federal investigation.
A separate email from Epstein shows the pattern of device wiping extended beyond the Citrix shutdown:
"you can take one of the macs from karens beach office, brice said that one has to be wiped clean, wipe both, put one in captains office and one at five palms"
This email orders the wiping of computers before redeployment to other locations — a pattern consistent with ensuring no digital evidence remained on any device that changed hands within the network of properties.
In March 2011, Jonathan Farkas emailed an acquaintance named "Catherine" (possibly connected to media) to defend Epstein after his conviction (EFTA00628928):
"I am writing you because many years ago I was in an emotional meltdown and there was one person who helped me more than anyone. I could say he probably saved my life. It was Jeffrey Epstein yes the same man who was in the mess with the young woman in Florida. I dont know that part of him as we were friends for 30 years and I was always married except for 5 of those years."
He then offered to arrange a meeting: "If at anytime your husband would like to get the other side of this man... I would be more than happy to talk to him. My wife and I Somers would be more than thrilled to see you both in NY."
Jonathan continued visiting Epstein's townhouse regularly, introduced investors, provided political intelligence, and maintained contact through December 2018 — six months before the second arrest. In December 2018, he pitched Epstein on PR rehabilitation: "I think that people don't know all the good you have done...I have a brilliant idea for you" (EFTA01014184).
In a recorded conversation (EFTA00432804), Epstein describes a dinner at his home attended by Katie Couric and Prince Andrew: "Katie Couric was here and we were talking about... I think we should, I want to start cloning things, me. And with certain people, Prince Andrew got upset because he was all, 'If it had a conscience, could you kill it for spare parts.' And I said, 'I'll make it without a head, would that make you feel better?' And Katie Couric, I thought, was going to start to vomit."
Multiple articles in the corpus confirm Couric attended Epstein's post-conviction dinner celebrating his release from jail (EFTA01102188, EFTA00436099): "he held a house warming dinner to celebrate his release from jail and reportedly invited television reporters Katie Couric, Charlie Rose, George Stephanopoulus and his close friend, HRH Prince Andrew."
RSVP records (EFTA00298379) show Couric was formally invited to Epstein's dinner parties alongside Danny Kahneman, Vera Wang, and Nathan Myhrvold. Couric was also listed in Epstein's personal address book (EFTA00506709). An article (EFTA00316182) notes she was among those who helped Epstein re-enter "the ranks of a social elite" after his conviction.
EFTA00285041: Lesley Groff organized a birthday gift for Epstein's January 20th birthday — a booklet of essays from his closest friends on "Sharing A Meal in Jeffrey's Dining Room". The tracking list reveals who Epstein considered his inner circle and their responses:
This is 7 years after Epstein's 2008 conviction. Every person on this list was actively celebrating and writing tributes for a convicted sex offender in late 2015.
FBI FD-302 (Oct 2, 2023): AG Denise George described a USVI political network she called "Generation Now" that overlapped with Epstein's attorney Erika Kellerhals's firm.
Members included:
When Motley Rice started interviewing Epstein estate employees, Bornn called George and said he was "getting calls from Kellerhals" asking what George was investigating. George told him it was none of Kellerhals's business.
Bryan later erupted at George at 7:30am: "I am hearing you are going after people who are members of our team." Bryan continued: "first it was Joseph, then Epstein, and you are going after Southland Gaming."
FBI FD-302 (Oct 2, 2023): Erika Kellerhals filed a probate petition in USVI Superior Court approximately days after Epstein's death in August 2019. The case went before Judge Carolyn P. Hermon-Percell.
FBI Agent Note in the FD-302 records: "Percell was appointed by Bryan on March 23, 2022 to a five year term as the Commissioner to Casino Control."
Governor Bryan thus gave a subsequent appointment to the judge who handled the probate of Epstein's estate — the same estate Bryan was pressuring AG George to settle quickly for $80M.
EFTA00449912 (April 24, 2017): Author Michael Wolff — then researching what would become Fire and Fury — connected PR strategist Matthew Hiltzik to Epstein's office:
Wolff: "Matthew, [name] in Jeffrey's office will coordinate a call. Over to you!"
The forwarded message shows Epstein's assistant eagerly facilitating: "Please DO put me in touch with Hiltzig... I will be happy to coordinate a time for Jeffrey and him to speak today."
By May 2017, Hiltzik was visiting Epstein in person, bringing associate Ben Sosenko (EFTA00450187, EFTA00450189, EFTA00450191). Hiltzik is described in Epstein's contact card as "Michael Wolff's friend" (EFTA00306981), and scheduling documents list "PHONE DATE w Matthew Hiltzik, friend of Michael Wolff" (EFTA00285309).
Hiltzik is known as a crisis PR specialist who has represented Harvey Weinstein, Ivanka Trump, and other high-profile clients. His introduction to Epstein in 2017 — less than two years before Epstein's arrest — raises questions about whether Epstein was seeking reputation management.
Dr. Michael S. Buchholtz, chief of oncology at the Northwell Health Cancer Institute at Huntington, maintained direct personal correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein from at least 2012 through 2016. Their emails used Epstein's personal jeevacation@gmail.com address (EFTA00646732, EFTA00636037).
Buchholtz was part of Epstein's tight inner circle alongside Mark Epstein (Jeffrey's brother), Terry Kafka, Philip Kafka, Arty Podnos, and Gerri Koelman. The group coordinated Warren Eisenstein's birthday party at a private Houston Street location (EFTA00394057, March 2013). When Warren Eisenstein died in February 2014, Buchholtz notified the group including Jeffrey Epstein: "Linda called at 2:43 AM. Warren had just died. It was calm and peaceful." (EFTA00633722).
The relationship was close enough that Buchholtz asked Epstein for employment help for his daughter in June 2016, and Epstein immediately forwarded the request to Eva Dubin (EFTA00636037). Buchholtz was also CC'd on an introduction to Safi Bahcall, connecting Epstein's personal circle to his science network (EFTA00649723). Buchholtz described selling his medical practice to Northwell Health, suggesting financial discussions with Epstein.
David Ross, then Chair of SVA's MFA Art Practice program and former director of the Whitney Museum, actively collaborated with Jeffrey Epstein on an art exhibit concept called "Statutory" — about girls and boys aged 14-25 where "some people go to prison because they can't tell true age" (EFTA00740146, EFTA00740149). Ross's response: "You are incredible. This would be a very powerful and freaky book" — and referenced Richard Prince's notorious nude photograph of 10-year-old Brooke Shields. He proposed expanding it into a web-based global exhibition: "totally global, and totally open as a 2.0 platform" (EFTA02438219).
On the day of Epstein's release from prison for sex crimes against minors (July 22, 2009), Ross wrote calling the sentence "an undeserved punishment foisted upon you by jealous creeps" (EFTA00772881). He visited Epstein's property in August 2009, shortly after release (EFTA01816741).
Ross maintained the friendship through 2019: "I'm still proud to call you a friend" (EFTA00653590, Jan 2015) and "I miss you" (EFTA02491568, Aug 2015). He appears in former butler John Alessi's contact recognition document alongside Dershowitz, Trump, Wexner, and Staley (EFTA00157634). FedEx records show packages from "J Epstein & Co Inc" to Ross dating to 1999-2000 (EFTA00219139). Ross resigned from SVA in February 2026 after the emails became public.
Dr. Letty Moss-Salentijn, Vice Dean at Columbia University's College of Dental Medicine, actively facilitated the irregular admission of Karyna Shuliak — Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend — to the dental program. She intervened directly with the Registrar: "I just met with the Registrar and she promised to..." (EFTA00535421) and "I will ask the Registrar to remove the fo..." (EFTA00539168), and checked admissions status: "Let me check with the admissions office to see where things stand" (EFTA00540166).
Moss-Salentijn arranged special TA tutoring support for Shuliak — TA Jessica Zilo wrote: "Dr. Salentijn asked me to reach out to you for some extra help" (EFTA00529914). Shuliak forwarded Moss-Salentijn's correspondence directly to Epstein, seeking his advice: "Jeffrey, I'd like to ask for your advice regarding Dr. Salentijn's summer vacation email... LOOOOVE YOU!!!" (EFTA00529219), revealing that Epstein was directing Shuliak's academic career.
Moss-Salentijn was listed in Shuliak's personal address book (EFTA00511309). Columbia stripped her of administrative duties in February 2026 after the EFTA documents were released, though she retains her tenured faculty position.
Barry Zelin, an executive at Axiom Capital Management (780 Third Avenue, NYC), was one of only four people on both Epstein's prison visitor list (EFTA00315076) and prison mail correspondence list (EFTA00306074) during Epstein's 2008-09 Palm Beach incarceration — indicating an inner-circle relationship that survived criminal conviction.
Post-release correspondence reveals the depth of the relationship. Zelin wrote on July 22, 2009 — Epstein's release day — inviting him to Coney Island with his son (EFTA00773169). He later offered: "I am going to be in Israel for 3 days next week, is there anything you would like me to do for there?" Epstein replied: "pray." (EFTA00768367, Nov 2009). Another email: "The idea has always been to stay out of the news... Saying Kaddish every day has brought me back" (EFTA00770362).
Zelin coordinated Epstein visits through Sarah Kellen: "You might want to tell Jeff I will be in Palm Beach from Jan 19 to Feb 3" (EFTA00764841, Jan 2010). Epstein directly invited him: "come see me in new york on the 14th" (EFTA00879614). Zelin also appears in Karyna Shuliak's email contacts (EFTA00512483), connecting him to Epstein's inner domestic sphere.
Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist at Canada's Perimeter Institute, was on both Epstein's prison visitor list (EFTA00315076) and prison mail correspondence list (EFTA00306074) during his 2008-09 incarceration — one of very few people with dual access.
The Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation officially listed Smolin among "well known and established scientists" it supported, alongside Kip Thorne, Marvin Minsky, Gerald Edelman, and Murray Gell-Mann (EFTA00587235). Smolin invited Epstein to a Perimeter Institute conference on "The Economic Crisis and Implications for Science" in April 2009 — during Epstein's work-release period — writing: "you will be missed" (EFTA00774428).
The relationship demonstrates how Epstein used research funding to build loyalty that survived criminal conviction. Smolin maintained contact through the prison period and continued the relationship post-release, attending Epstein's science events and corresponding about physics research.
Liz Murdoch, daughter of Rupert Murdoch and a British-Australian media businesswoman, was explicitly identified by Jeffrey Epstein as a recruitment target in June 2009, shortly after his release from prison. Epstein wrote: "Or I could go and see Liz Murdoch this week and ask her for help. Once I get the five women, then what?" (EFTA00775732).
The context was advice that Epstein needed "five powerful women who will not get jealous of your success" — ostensibly for reputation rehabilitation. However, given Epstein's documented pattern of using prominent women as social cover for his activities, the request takes on additional significance. Murdoch was seen as someone with sufficient social status to provide the desired cover.
Only two direct documents reference Murdoch in the EFTA corpus, but the June 2009 email is significant as it reveals Epstein's immediate post-release strategy of leveraging powerful women's names and social networks.
Les Wexner's February 18, 2026 deposition before the House Oversight Committee contains at least 14 statements that are directly contradicted by documentary evidence in the EFTA corpus. Lying to Congress is a federal crime under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 (up to 5 years imprisonment).
Wexner testified he never had "not even a clue" about Epstein's behavior. But within the same five-hour deposition, he acknowledged receiving three separate reports: (~1993) an executive told him Epstein was posing as a Victoria's Secret talent scout; (pre-2006) chief of staff Bruce Saul relayed a woman accused Epstein of being "aggressive"; (1997) he was informed about Alicia Arden's allegation that Epstein assaulted her while posing as a VS scout. In each case, Wexner says he called Epstein, who denied it. Three reports about a financial advisor impersonating your company and being aggressive with women are, by definition, clues.
When asked if he had contact with Epstein after 2008, Wexner replied: "What happened in 2008 again?" — feigning ignorance about the most publicized criminal case of his 20-year financial advisor. His own June 2008 email to Epstein proves contemporaneous awareness.
The word "Interlochen" appears zero times in 5 hours of testimony. The Wexner Foundation donated $185,000 (92.5% of total cost) to build the "Jeffrey E. Epstein Scholarship Lodge" at Interlochen Center for the Arts — a summer camp for children as young as 8. The donation came on July 25, 1994, weeks before Epstein traveled there. SDNY prosecutors categorized "Interlochen" under "Potential Victims" in device search warrants. FBI 302 of VP Ambrose confirms Maxwell was "gatekeeper," the cabin was "segregated away from main campus," and Maxwell said "she, EPSTEIN, and their personal masseuse was coming." 247 documents reference Interlochen in the corpus.
Wexner claims total ignorance of Brunel, Epstein's primary modeling industry procurer. 40 documents in the corpus mention both Brunel and Victoria's Secret. Brunel's MC2 Model Management was one of the most prominent agencies in fashion. FBI victim interviews (EFTA01699136) describe Brunel bringing girls with "poor English language skills" to Epstein who "appeared foreign."
Wexner claims total ignorance of $2.3 million transferred from the Wexner Foundation to former Israeli PM Ehud Barak between 2004–2006. FBI documented this in EFTA01249848, noting "Epstein signed personally on few of the transfers' forms."
Wexner claims he never knew about ~$1.3B in stock moved through trusts bearing his name, including the Wexner Children's Trust II where Epstein signed as trustee (EFTA00067272). His own lawyers told DOJ that Epstein's theft accounted for "virtually all of Epstein's wealth." ABC News reported on these trusts publicly in January 2020. The trusts bore his name and held his company's stock.
Wexner denies knowledge of Maria Farmer staying at the property adjacent to his New Albany estate in 1996, where she was sexually assaulted by Epstein and Maxwell. Washington Post reported a member of Wexner's security staff confirmed guarding that property. Franklin County Sheriff confirmed a contractual relationship with Wexner's security detail.
Claims he sold the townhouse for ~$20M at fair market value but cannot explain the payment mechanism: "whether it was a check, money order, or bag of money, I have no idea." FBI profiling (EFTA00139235) states Epstein was "misappropriating more than $46M" from Wexner. The house was worth ~$77M by 2011.
Three weeks after Epstein's plea deal, Wexner emailed: "All I can say is I feel sorry. You violated your own number one rule. Always be careful." Epstein replied: "No excuse." Wexner's explanation: "Hopefully, I was giving him the finger." The tone is that of two people with a longstanding understanding, not a victim confronting a perpetrator who stole hundreds of millions and trafficked minors.
Full transcript with all contradictions: Wexner Deposition Transcript
An internal FBI email chain (June 2019 – October 2020) documents the scanning of 22 boxes of physical evidence from case files 31E-MM-108062 and 72-MM-113327 by the FBI Document Laboratory (DocLab).
Key findings:
A Comprehensive Sentinel File Review prepared by FBI New York agents on March 19–22, 2025 — days before the public release — catalogs specific discrepancies across both Epstein case files.
50D-NY-3027571 (SDNY case):
31E-MM-108062 (Palm Beach case):
After whistleblower Garret O'Boyle alleged FBI personnel were 'working night and day to destroy files on these servers' (EFTA00173333), NARA demanded answers within 30 days.
The FBI's Agency Records Officer reported back: 'I have come to a dead end' (EFTA00172146). INSD refused to investigate without specific allegations.
The critical admission from IMD: 'We are not in a position to determine whether records outside of Sentinel have or have not been destroyed, nor are we in a position to conduct an investigation of such an allegation' (EFTA00173330).
This means the FBI formally cannot tell us whether any records stored outside its electronic case management system — physical evidence envelopes, CART forensic copies, local hard drives, DocLab server files — have been destroyed.
On or around February 24, 2020, approximately 400 terabytes of FBI CART (Computer Analysis Response Team) forensic working data were deleted during a 'mandated network replacement.'
The CART NY Coordinator wrote: 'They are tearing out our old network and giving us a new one, they mandated we delete old stuff (about 400 TB worth)' (EFTA00026979).
At the time, CART was processing 62 seized electronic devices from the Epstein case. The USAO had forensic extractions from none of the 33 New York devices and none of the 27 USVI devices. The data is permanently lost. No recovery or audit documents exist in the corpus.
Item #16 on the FD-597 property receipt delivered to ODAG on March 25, 2025 is titled 'List of Absent Items' (EFTA00161465). This is the FBI's official internal accounting of everything identified as missing from the Epstein case files during their inventory reconciliation of all six case files.
The receipt was signed by Acting AAD Darren Cox and received by Coreen Mao at ODAG. Other items transferred included classified material, Samsung drives marked 'contains possible CSAM,' 1D evidence CDs, and a memorandum for the Attorney General.
The companion overview document (EFTA00172473) confirms the FBI was tasked with 'confirming completeness of the file inventory at the onset of the project, identifying any potentially missing serials or documents.' The List of Absent Items itself has never been publicly released.
On March 20, 2025, AUSA Maurene Comey told FBI Director Patel and Deputy Director Bongino: 'No videos of any sexual abuse identified at any point in the investigation' (EFTA00164742).
This statement is contradicted by multiple independent corpus sources:
Senator Durbin's July 2025 letter revealed that MCC surveillance footage described by the DOJ as 'full raw' was in fact 'likely modified, according to the metadata embedded in the video' (EFTA00173350).
This adds to two prior failures:
Three separate mechanisms — system crash, wrong camera, and metadata modification — independently degraded the video record of Epstein's death.
The period when the most consequential decisions were made — the NPA negotiation — has the thinnest evidentiary record:
128,175 email attachments were extracted as empty or blank files from Epstein's seized devices. An internal USAO email chain (Oct 2020) states:
'Because of the platform Epstein was using to check some of his emails, the FBI's technology was not able to extract the full emails and attachments. So what we see on Relativity is what the FBI has as well.' (EFTA00089649)
An additional 109,853 EMLX file attachments are also empty. No re-extraction was attempted. No technical resolution was found. Nearly a quarter million attachments are permanently inaccessible.
The government disclosed the existence of a separate FBI case file investigating a former employee of Jeffrey Epstein for obstruction of justice, maintained under a different FBI case number from the Maxwell investigation. The August 21, 2020 production letter states:
'The Government wishes to inform you, as a courtesy, that it is in possession of a copy of the FBI's case file regarding the investigation of a former employee of Jeffrey Epstein's named [REDACTED] for obstruction of justice (the "[REDACTED] File"). The [REDACTED] File has no relation to your client and no bearing on the charges in this case. Accordingly, the Government does not intend to produce the [REDACTED] File because it is not discoverable in this case.' (EFTA00030992)
The employee's name is redacted. No public record exists of this obstruction investigation's outcome. The file was never produced to Maxwell's defense.
Maxwell's defense was told approximately 2,100 highly confidential images existed, then shown ~5,500 HC images on two hard drives at 500 Pearl Street. But an FBI report (SDNY_GM_02742399) documented 33,747 HC images and 895 HC videos — a discrepancy of approximately 35,000 files.
Defense attorney Laura Menninger confronted the AUSA: 'The difference is approximately 35,000 images and videos. Your sentence is inaccurate, given that the number indicated in the 302 is not at all close to the number of images made available for review at 500 Pearl.' (EFTA00075665)
The AUSA admitted: 'Somehow that number was relayed incorrectly to me from the FBI during my verbal conversations with them.' The FBI later confirmed the drives sent to Colorado defense contained 26,947 HC images and videos, with ~7,721 de-designated and produced separately. The original verbal miscount was never formally explained.
Menninger separately reported the HC images were viewable only on a government laptop at an FBI office and are not in the public EFTA corpus (EFTA00068446).
An FBI Special Agent from the Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force confirmed on May 24, 2021 that the metadata overlay's MD5 hash values were wrong:
'I've looked at our files and we do not have for the files listed in the "overlay", we have no matching MD5s. The MD5s from the non-nude index are correct, but not the overlay ones.' (EFTA00090656)
The overlay file ("SDNY PROD011 - Overlay.zip") was supposed to match 40,567 images from CDs seized during 2019 searches of Epstein's residences to their production metadata. Defense analysis found: 24,757 entries with non-matching hashes, 65 production numbers with hash-only mismatches, and 17 entries with no hash values at all (EFTA00089743).
The government's e-discovery vendor claimed no issues, directly contradicting the FBI agent and the defense IT team. As of the last available correspondence (May 2021), the hash mismatch was never conclusively resolved.
In the October 20, 2020 discovery letter, the government disclosed that Epstein's estate asserted privilege over data extracted from devices seized at his New York and USVI properties:
'The data from those devices has been subject to a privilege review, based on privileges asserted by Jeffrey Epstein's estate. Because the estate has not waived any of those privileges, the Prosecution Team in this case will not have access to any materials from those devices identified as privileged by the taint review team.' (EFTA00091391)
The letter further states the prosecution team was 'not legally permitted to provide you with the full set of non-privileged materials' from the devices, limiting production to only warrant-responsive items.
Epstein's estate was controlled by co-executors Darren Indyke (attorney) and Richard Kahn (accountant) — both subjects of investigation who refused to comply with grand jury subpoenas. Their privilege assertions effectively shielded potentially incriminating device data from both the prosecution and the defense.
The cover letter for the November 9, 2020 production (Production 6, ~180,688 pages from SDNY_GM_00356149 to SDNY_GM_00536836) was never ingested into the EFTA corpus. The transmittal email exists (EFTA00020832) with attachment filename 2020.11.09_Maxwell_Discovery_Letter.pdf, but the PDF itself was not separately processed.
This letter is significant because, unlike the November 18 letter, it correlated Bates numbers to specific seized devices — the only document mapping ~208K pages to their source devices. The defense explicitly referenced its absence: 'Unlike the November 9, 2020 discovery cover letter, the November 18, 2020 discovery cover letter does not correlate the Bates numbers to the particular Subject Device from which the documents were recovered.' (EFTA00080618)
The AUSA quoted directly from page 4 of this letter in later correspondence, confirming it existed and contained disclosures about HC images (EFTA00098000). The AUSA also stated: 'We do not have a more detailed index of the November 9 and November 18 productions beyond what we have provided to you.' (EFTA00023026)
Internal drafts of the letter survive as Word documents (EFTA00024819), but the final PDF version remains absent from the public EFTA library.
An FBI CEHTTF (Child Exploitation Human Trafficking Task Force) briefing from August 2019 (EFTA00147020) states: "Southern Trust, a business on St. Thomas, was identified as being associated with Epstein and his Property Manager, Daphne Wallace. Efforts to interview two property managers met with negative results as attorney Dan Horowitz (NY, NY) advised they would not be available for interviews."
Days earlier, Wallace had hired security for Little St. James Island. An FBI FD-302 (EFTA00090600) records security guard Michael Turnball stating he was "hired by DAPHNE WALLACE" on July 31, 2019 — eight days after Epstein's first suicide attempt. Turnball was told to watch for "paparazzi" and was not allowed inside any structures on the island. He was required to sign a non-disclosure agreement.
The complete 205-page federal prosecution memorandum for Operation Leap Year, addressed to U.S. Attorney R. Alexander Acosta and First Assistant Jeff Sloman, seeking approval for a 60-count federal indictment of Jeffrey Epstein. This indictment was never filed due to the Non-Prosecution Agreement (NPA). Key contents:
This document demonstrates the strength of the evidence the government possessed and the scope of the case that was abandoned in favor of the NPA.
The same email from Peggy Siegal to Jeffrey Epstein (December 26, 2009) was released twice: EFTA00744113 (unredacted, 128KB) and EFTA00766532 (redacted, 99KB). The redacted version systematically removes:
The email thanks Epstein for funding a Kenya safari trip — 5 months after his July 2009 release from jail. It name-drops Ralph Lauren, Donna Karan, and Calvin Klein at the same lodges. The redaction pattern selectively protects Siegal's identity while leaving celebrity names intact, raising questions about the criteria used for redactions in the EFTA corpus.
A 4-page FBI FD-302 interview (EFTA02857845, Aug 24, 2020) records the testimony of a victim's mother, documenting a recruitment timeline from 1995-1996:
On March 16, 2026 between 22:20-22:22 GMT, the DOJ server modified at least 272 files across Datasets 8 and 10 in a single batch operation. Of these, 101 were first-time modifications — files never previously changed since the original release.
The modifications resulted in a net reduction of ~123 KB, with 79% of files shrinking and 21% growing — consistent with PDF re-processing, metadata stripping, or additional redaction.
Content breakdown of modified files:
Among the modified documents are emails containing explicit recruitment language, references to bringing women to Little St. James island, scheduling "appointments" with young women, and financial control patterns. The batch also includes Amex Centurion travel bookings and student visa (I-20) paperwork.
The simultaneous modification of both evidentiary emails and FBI tip records in a single 2-minute window raises questions about the purpose and scope of this batch operation.
EFTA02730274 is a 194-page FBI evidence inventory listing the complete contents of the seized Epstein evidence collection ("THE BIG E") stored on FBI servers at \\wds-fs-prod\prod\DCU\THE BIG E\3-TIFs. The document catalogues 8 digitization waves processed on March 12-13, 2025, encompassing physical evidence items 1B001-1B142 and multiple FBI case file imports via the Sentinel case management system.
Cross-referencing the inventory against the released EFTA corpus reveals four FBI case files that are referenced in the inventory but almost entirely absent from the 1.38 million released documents:
| Case File | Classification | Scale | Released |
|---|---|---|---|
| 090C-NY-3154599 | Sexual Exploitation of Children (SDNY) | 4,860 TIF pages across 21 sections | 0 documents |
| 050D-NY-3027571 | Public Corruption (NYFO) | 700+ serials across Waves 001-004 | 1 document |
| 72-MM-1133217 | Bribery (Miami) | 568 TIF pages, 64 serials | 0 documents |
| 009A-NY-3144791 | National Security (NYFO) | Unknown | 2 admin emails only |
The inventory also catalogues significant unreleased physical evidence: hard drives (1B073, 1B074), iPads (1B083, 1B084), flash drives (1B038-1B051), SIM cards, voice recorders, VHS and micro tapes (~137 recordings), CDs/DVDs, a "PAPER WITH PASSWORDS" document (1B110), and a disc labeled "NUDES 00-24". Victim-related materials include individual binders for Jane Does 1-19, folders labeled "GIRLS INVOLVED", three "VICTIM BINDER" volumes, and a "VICTIM NAME LIST".
Named individual evidence folders include: Alan Dershowitz, David Rodgers, Ghislaine Maxwell, Alfredo Rodriguez, Larry Visoski, Gerald Lefcourt, and Bradley Edwards.
The 090C sexual exploitation case file — at 4,860 pages the largest single gap — would contain FD-302 interview reports, evidence analysis, and investigative memos from the SDNY investigation. The public corruption file (050D) and bribery file (72-MM) suggest investigations into official misconduct related to the Epstein case that have never been disclosed.
In April 2011, Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, wrote an emotional email to Epstein apologizing for failing to reach out during a British tabloid firestorm: "As you know I did absolutely not say the P. Word about you. But understand it was reported that I did."
Ferguson described being "paralysed" by fear, pressured by "The Palace system" not to contact Epstein, and terrified of further damaging Prince Andrew. She was "instructed" to make a public statement distancing herself and says she "should have taken advice from you too, before speaking to Geordie" (likely Geordie Greig, then editor of the Evening Standard).
Epstein immediately forwarded Ferguson's private email to his crisis PR team. Mike Sitrick responded: "Unless we get something in writing that we can use, a statement, letter or something, that she will continue to be 'tricked' or 'misquoted' ... Perhaps she can write something in the way of an apology letter to you ... stating that she never called you a pedophile, she was misquoted."
UK defamation lawyer Paul Tweed (Johnsons Solicitors, Belfast/Dublin/London) concurred: "I wouldn't disagree with your assessment." Defense attorney Martin Weinberg was CC'd on the entire chain.
This reveals Epstein's reputation management apparatus in action: a private, vulnerable apology from a member of the British royal family was immediately weaponized into raw material for a media counter-strategy.
Epstein's criminal defense attorney Martin G. Weinberg prepared a confidential memo titled "Jeffrey Epstein Case History" addressed TO Kathy Ruemmler, former Obama White House Counsel (2011–2014).
The memo presents a sanitized, defense-favorable narrative that:
This document shows Epstein's defense team was actively briefing a former White House Counsel with a PR-ready, victim-blaming version of events. Given Ruemmler's subsequent role as named successor executor of Epstein's will and trustee of the 2018 Epstein Trust, this memo may represent an early stage of her recruitment into Epstein's inner circle.
On August 11, 2025, Judge Paul A. Engelmayer (SDNY) denied the Government's July 18, 2025 motion to unseal grand jury transcripts and exhibits from United States v. Maxwell (20 Cr. 330). Key findings from the 31-page opinion:
The ruling also noted that the Southern District of Florida separately denied a similar motion on July 23, 2025, because the 11th Circuit does not recognize the "special circumstances" doctrine.
On July 6, 2025, the DOJ and FBI issued a memorandum describing an "exhaustive review" of investigative holdings relating to Jeffrey Epstein. Per the Engelmayer ruling (Doc 809):
Victim attorney Sigrid McCawley called the Government's position "a cowardly abdication of its duties to protect and serve," noting that only two individuals (Epstein and Maxwell) were ever arrested despite "over one thousand victims."
The complete DOJ Office of Professional Responsibility report investigating the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida's resolution of the 2006-2008 Epstein case is now available in the disclosure corpus as two duplicate filings:
Note: Key findings from this report were already documented in earlier findings extracted from other corpus sources.