John de Jongh

Key Findings

• Wife Cecile on Epstein payroll since April 2000 at $110K-$185K/year, total comp up to $236K including tuition (EFTA00709105, EFTA01192347)
• Epstein paid $300K+ college tuition for 4 de Jongh children at American University, Elon, Skidmore, and Wake Forest (EFTA00750027, EFTA00735766, EFTA00902841)
• Governor signed 100% EDC tax exemptions for Epstein's Financial Trust Company and AYH while wife drew salary from those entities (EFTA00702259, EFTA00640384)
• Cecile certified Epstein as "bona fide resident" of USVI on June 30, 2009 — while Epstein was incarcerated in Florida (EFTA00640384)
• JPMorgan accused Cecile of "facilitating Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of women and girls by helping him influence local politicians" (EFTA00129013)
• FBI opened money laundering investigation into Cecile: Case 272L-SJ-3775806, "Money Laundering Facilitation" (EFTA00129040)
• Cecile arranged enrollment of Epstein's "ladies" at UVI for student visa cover — UVI "structured the class around the ladies" (EFTA00962797, EFTA00964358)
• Epstein asked Cecile to suggest changes to USVI sex offender law in 2011; she apologized when not all revisions were included (EFTA00129016)
• Cecile told Epstein "which government officials to pay off" and advised how to "buy control of the USVI political class" (EFTA00129016)
• Cecile named as Board Member of J. Epstein VI Foundation alongside Ghislaine Maxwell (EFTA00175998)
• Left $1,000,000 in Epstein's will (EFTA00099303)
• Epstein used Cecile to pressure Governor's Chief of Staff Randy Knight for Karyna Shuliak's dental license (EFTA00856068, EFTA00574073)
• Wife Cecile de Jongh was a Corporate Director/Board Member of J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation Inc. (EFTA00175998) while de Jongh was sitting USVI Governor. Cecile worked for Epstein entities, handled EDC application fees, and had 7,025 documents in the EFTA corpus.