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The Epstein Crimes

An Independent Investigation of the EFTA Document Releases

Derek Emsbach, Editor

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The Worst Dancer in the World

An FBI 302 documents three sexual encounters between Prince Andrew and a seventeen-year-old victim across three countries. Four redaction variants of the same interview survive in the EFTA corpus. The SDNY requested an interview. The FBI sent an MLAT request. No law enforcement agency in any country has questioned him under oath. The documentary record is complete. The accountability is zero.

The Worst Dancer in the World
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Trump

The Mar-a-Lago Connection

Fourteen phone numbers. Message pads showing calls during the abuse period. A flight on Epstein’s plane. A 15-year-old recruited from the spa. A sworn affidavit laying out seven grounds for deposition. The documented relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, told entirely through civil litigation records.

Trump

Let Me Teach You

An FBI Protect Source victim named Donald Trump as her assailant in three recorded interviews. A fourth session was dedicated solely to her account. She declined to proceed, asking “what’s the point?” The FBI then catalogued 15+ additional complainants — and concluded it lacked predicate to investigate.

Trump

The Acosta Deal

In 2017, Trump appointed the prosecutor who gave Epstein immunity — after that prosecutor told the transition team Epstein "belonged to intelligence." In 2025, the same administration weaponized the files as opposition research while the FBI's own review found no predicate to investigate anyone.

Open Questions

Did Staley ever resign as trustee? If not, did he serve while CEO of Barclays?

Why did the AUSA not write a formal assessment of the Leon Black evidence?

What do the redacted pages 74-85 of the prosecution memo say about the three redacted subjects and Leslie Groff?

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Officials Held Accountable
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Open Questions
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The Network

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The Network

The September Salon

In September 2014, the scheduling apparatus of a convicted sex offender orchestrated meetings at his Manhattan townhouse involving the Deputy Secretary of State (later CIA Director), the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, a former Israeli Prime Minister, a former White House Counsel, a former Treasury Secretary, a billionaire venture capitalist, and a filmmaker accused of child sexual abuse. The EFTA corpus preserves the emails that choreographed it all — including Epstein's request for "alone time" with America's second-highest diplomat.

Mar 17, 2026·10 min read
The Rehabilitation
The Network

The Rehabilitation

The EFTA corpus documents a four-year relationship between Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein — from January 2011 through September 2014. Gates stayed at Epstein's Paris apartment, invited Epstein to the Gates Foundation headquarters, authorized Epstein to negotiate his science advisor's severance, and participated in a coordinated PR rehabilitation strategy with pre-written talking points. A Stanford professor drafted the scripts. Gates was to be the public face.

Mar 16, 2026·11 min read
She's Here
The Network

She's Here

An FBI 302 documents a Brazilian victim sent by Jeffrey Epstein to former Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell at two luxury hotels — the Beverly Hills Hotel and the Four Seasons in Washington, D.C. Mitchell was on the phone with Epstein when she arrived. Fifteen scheduling documents show the relationship continued for years after Epstein's conviction. Mitchell was formally listed as a witness with "knowledge of sexual trafficking conduct." No law enforcement agency has interviewed him.

Mar 15, 2026·12 min read
The Washington List
The Network

The Washington List

Four men from one city, one company, one social circle — AOL's founding CEO, CEO, vice chairman, and SVP for policy — all named in the same victim's authenticated journals alongside the owner of the Washington NFL franchise. Deutsche Bank client records, Edge Foundation guest lists, and USVI property records independently place them in Epstein's orbit. None investigated. None charged.

Mar 14, 2026·10 min read

The Operation

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The Premiere Queen
The Operation

The Premiere Queen

Over fifty emails in the EFTA corpus document Peggy Siegal — New York's premier movie premiere publicist — as the professional social infrastructure of Jeffrey Epstein's post-conviction rehabilitation. She curated his dinner guest lists with network anchors, billionaire financiers, and Hollywood directors. She brokered celebrity introductions on demand. She bridged Epstein's network to Harvey Weinstein's. And she reported a $90,000 Weinstein payment to Epstein's office — not to her own.

Mar 17, 2026·10 min read
The Other Predator
The Operation

The Other Predator

EFTA documents reveal Harvey Weinstein and Jeffrey Epstein shared guest lists, social fixers, and geography for years — and Virginia Giuffre's authenticated journals place Weinstein inside the trafficking operation. No law enforcement agency ever mapped the overlap.

Mar 16, 2026·9 min read
They Use It to Find Us
The Operation

They Use It to Find Us

A teenage victim pasted AOL clippings into her journal and wrote seven words never publicly reported: "They use it to find us." Four of AOL's top five executives appear in the same journals as men she was directed to have sexual encounters with. The company's SVP for policy — the executive most responsible for child safety — is named among those who "dont care if this happens." This is the only accusation in the EFTA corpus that implicates a technology platform as an instrument of the trafficking operation.

Mar 16, 2026·10 min read
The Conveyor Belt
The Operation

The Conveyor Belt

In 1988, CBS 60 Minutes exposed Jean-Luc Brunel as a serial predator in the modeling industry. Sixteen years later, Jeffrey Epstein wired him $1 million to start MC2 Model Management — a modeling agency his own business partner confirmed to the FBI was a "transport agency of underage girls." Brunel operated for thirty-two years after the first public exposure. He was finally arrested — by French police, not American ones — in December 2020. He was found dead in his prison cell two months later.

Mar 14, 2026·11 min read
Trump

The Mar-a-Lago Connection

Fourteen phone numbers. Message pads showing calls during the abuse period. A flight on Epstein’s plane. A 15-year-old recruited from the spa. A sworn affidavit laying out seven grounds for deposition. The documented relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, told entirely through civil litigation records.

Mar 20, 2026·10 min read
Let Me Teach You
Trump

Let Me Teach You

An FBI Protect Source victim named Donald Trump as her assailant in three recorded interviews. A fourth session was dedicated solely to her account. She declined to proceed, asking “what’s the point?” The FBI then catalogued 15+ additional complainants — and concluded it lacked predicate to investigate.

Mar 20, 2026·8 min read
The Acosta Deal
Trump

The Acosta Deal

In 2017, Trump appointed the prosecutor who gave Epstein immunity — after that prosecutor told the transition team Epstein "belonged to intelligence." In 2025, the same administration weaponized the files as opposition research while the FBI's own review found no predicate to investigate anyone.

Mar 20, 2026·7 min read
Trump

Two More Interactions

On page eight of an FBI 302, after describing an assault by Donald Trump, a protected victim told agents she had two additional interactions with him — then asked to move on. Those interactions were never recorded. The agent interview notes that might have captured stray details are absent from the public corpus. The photographs are redacted. This is a story about what isn't in the file.

Mar 20, 2026·9 min read
Interactive Investigation

The Network Map: 97 People. Decades of Connections. One Operation.

Our interactive network visualization maps every documented connection across six evidence tiers — from convicted participants to the institutional gatekeepers who enabled them. Every node links to primary source documents.

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Financial Infrastructure

The White House Counsel

$158M
Total documented payments from Black to Epstein

The EFTA corpus documents a seven-year relationship between Kathryn Ruemmler — former White House Counsel to President Obama — and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. She was named successor trustee of his $577 million trust and successor executor of his will. She dined with Woody Allen and Peter Thiel at his home. She met Bill Gates through his office. She introduced Cass Sunstein to his social circle. And when Bloomberg reported her as the leading candidate for Attorney General, it was Epstein who coached her on video presentation, glasses, and body language.

Mar 17, 2026Dataset 12 Complete

The Cover-Up

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The Intelligence Question

A U.S. Attorney said he was told Epstein "belonged to intelligence." An FBI document classified SECRET//NOFORN describes him as a "construct" running "an Israeli state-sponsored technology collection and extortion operation." An Austrian passport under a false name was found in his safe. Hidden cameras lined his properties. The FBI Director refuses to confirm whether recordings exist. And the future CIA Director had "alone time" in the house where it all happened.

Mar 17, 2026
The Revolving Door
Prosecutorial Failure

The Revolving Door

On January 1, 2008, Bruce Reinhart was a federal prosecutor. On January 2, he was representing Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirators. He set up his office next door to Epstein's work-release location, was paid $84,000 from Epstein's accounts, and filed a false affidavit that the DOJ later admitted was untrue. The perjury investigation was stonewalled. He became a federal magistrate judge.

Mar 16, 2026

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CF-2026-012active

The Trump-Epstein Connection

A document-by-document examination of the relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, reconstructed entirely from civil litigation records, sworn depositions, and FBI investigative files. The record includes: 14 phone numbers in Epstein's personal directory; physical message pads showing calls to the Palm Beach mansion during the abuse period; a sworn deposition by Epstein's own brother placing Trump on the plane; Mar-a-Lago as the documented site where Virginia Giuffre was recruited at age 15; a 7-point affidavit by victims' attorney Brad Edwards laying out grounds for a deposition; the Mar-a-Lago ban sourced to Epstein sexually assaulting an underage girl at the club; and an FBI FD-302 recording a victim who was introduced to Trump by Epstein and Maxwell. The deposition Edwards sought was never taken.

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CF-2026-011active

The Intelligence & Diplomatic Network

Two investigation threads reveal Epstein operating a post-conviction political influence infrastructure that extended into active intelligence and diplomatic circles. Thread 15 documents a September 2014 convergence of 15+ political, diplomatic, and intelligence figures at his Manhattan townhouse — including the sitting Deputy Secretary of State (later CIA Director), the Secretary General of the Council of Europe, and a former Israeli Prime Minister. Thread 16 investigates the intelligence asset question directly: an FBI FD-1023 classified SECRET//NOFORN describes Epstein as a "construct" running "an Israeli state-sponsored technology collection and extortion operation," corroborated by the U.S. Attorney who gave Epstein his plea deal stating he was told Epstein "belonged to intelligence" and was "above his pay grade." Physical evidence includes an Austrian passport under the false name "Marius Robert Fortelni" with travel stamps from Saudi Arabia, and concealed cameras throughout properties whose recordings the FBI Director refuses to confirm or deny possessing.

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CF-2026-010active

The Shell Company Infrastructure

Darren Indyke and Richard D. Kahn controlled a network of 30+ shell entities organizing Epstein's $577M estate. Tree-named property corporations, financial vehicles, and aviation entities were managed by a 5-person signer pool. The 1953 Trust's Section 2.5(B) loyalty clause ensured beneficiary silence for 2 years post-death.

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The NPA Co-Conspirators — Immunity and Impunity

The September 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement granted blanket immunity to "any potential co-conspirators" — named and unnamed. A sealed 53-page indictment and 82-page prosecution memo documented per-person evidence against Sarah Kellen, Nadia Marcinkova, and Adriana Ross. The NPA converted sufficient evidence into historical record rather than charging instruments.

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Jean-Luc Brunel — The Modeling Pipeline

Jean-Luc Brunel operated MC2 Model Management as a trafficking front, capitalized with a $1M wire from Epstein. The pipeline extended back to Karin Models (1978) and was documented by CBS 60 Minutes (1988), FBI interviews, and French prosecution. Brunel died in custody in February 2022 (ruled suicide), ending criminal proceedings.

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CF-2026-007active

Deutsche Bank — Institutional Complicity

Deutsche Bank maintained 76 accounts for Epstein under the "Southern Financial Relationship" designation, processing payments to named co-conspirators including Brunel and Kellen. Compliance systems documented suspicious activity repeatedly without escalation. NYDFS imposed a $150M penalty in 2020 — the largest regulatory fine in the case.

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2005

Epstein directs destruction of computers and contact directories

During Florida criminal investigation, Epstein directed assistant to collect all contact books and computers from Palm Beach and give them to a man at the residence. Then directed shredding of Virgin Islands directories at Maxwell's NYC house. Computer-based masseuse scheduling directory never recovered by law enforcement (fn47 p49). Documented obstruction.

2006

Dershowitz sends victim MySpace profiles to prosecutors, grand jury postponed

After being retained as Epstein's defense counsel, Dershowitz contacted ASA (Assistant State Attorney) and sent a package containing a letter and MySpace.com profiles of teenage victims showing alcohol and marijuana use. The profiles were used to undermine victim credibility. The grand jury, originally scheduled for February 2006, was postponed "due to subsequent meetings with the State Attorney's Office and Defense Attorney Alan Dershowitz." The State Attorney's Office "wanted time to review the material." This intervention directly delayed prosecution. Sources: EFTA01688596 pp.19-20, 33 (Palm Beach police detective report); EFTA01682733 p.10.

2006

Dershowitz launches background checks on Palm Beach police chief and lead detective

Police Chief Michael Reiter's deposition states that he heard from local private investigators that Dershowitz had launched background checks on both the police chief and Detective Recarey — the lead investigator on the Epstein case. Dershowitz denies this. According to Reiter, both he and Recarey "also became" targets of Epstein's defense team's counter-investigation. Source: EFTA01688916 p.24.

2006

Mark Epstein testifies before grand jury in brother's case

Mark Epstein, Jeffrey Epstein's younger brother, provides testimony before the grand jury investigating Jeffrey Epstein's criminal activities. Testimony relates to property access, family business dealings, and knowledge of brother's associates.

2006

Palm Beach grand jury returns single felony count after Dershowitz victim-discrediting campaign

The grand jury indicted Epstein on a single count of felony solicitation of a prostitute — despite police identifying 34+ victims and recommending multiple felony charges. The result was widely attributed to Dershowitz's strategy of discrediting victims using their MySpace profiles and the defense team's counter-investigation of police. "Prosecutors gave greater weight to the details Mr. Dershowitz provided about the girls in an apparent effort to assail their character." Police Chief Reiter wrote to State Attorney Krischer complaining of the case's "highly unusual conduct." Sources: EFTA01682184 p.164; EFTA01682733; EFTA01689527 p.36.

2006

FBI opens Operation Leap Year investigation of Jeffrey Epstein

FBI West Palm Beach Resident Agency opens case 31E-MM-108062 (USAO No. 2006R01181), codenamed "Operation Leap Year," at the request of Palm Beach Police Department after state investigation stalls under State Attorney Barry Krischer. Lead agents: SA E. Nesbitt Kuyrkendall and SA Jason Richards, working with AUSA A. Marie Villafana (SDFL). Source: EFTA00266219, EFTA00205964, EFTA01657747.

Alan Dershowitz
Tier 1 · DIRECT
Alan Dershowitz
abuser

Harvard Law professor emeritus and prominent defense attorney. Named in victim testimony and civil litigation as a direct participant in abuse facilitated by the Epstein network. Received $100,487 in payments through Deutsche Bank accounts. Represented Epstein during the 2007 Non-Prosecution Agreement negotiations that granted blanket immunity to co-conspirators.

Bill Clinton
Tier 1 · DIRECT
Bill Clinton
abuser

Former President of the United States (1993–2001). Flight logs and EFTA documents place him on Epstein's Boeing 727 for a 2002 Africa tour alongside Kevin Spacey and Chris Tucker, with Cape Town confirmed as a stop during active victim recruitment. Deutsche Bank records show no direct payments, but scheduling documents confirm ongoing contact through Epstein's office.

Dan Snyder
Tier 1 · DIRECT
Dan Snyder
abuser

Owner of the Washington Commanders (formerly Redskins) NFL franchise. Named in victim journals on two separate pages with viscerally negative descriptions. On EFTA02731420 p.4: "Joe Gibbs is so nice but Dan Snyder is a pig! A red skin hoggett(sp?)!" On EFTA02731420 p.11: named among "flights of horror" alongside Leonsis, Case, Kimsey, and Colgan. Separately confirmed as a Deutsche Bank Wealth Management client (EFTA01413261) — the same division that handled Epstein's finances despite compliance red flags. DB internal planning documents (EFTA01472840) discuss "$25mm managed investments" and "boat loan, stadium financing" for Snyder. Attended Deutsche Bank client events alongside Jeffrey Epstein (EFTA01416472, EFTA01422368). Part of the DC/AOL cluster of Washington power figures in the victim journals.

George Mitchell
Tier 1 · DIRECT
George Mitchell
abuser

Former U.S. Senate Majority Leader (1989–1995) and Special Envoy for Middle East Peace. Named in Epstein scheduling documents and victim testimony. EFTA records show coordinated scheduling through Lesley Groff's office. Despite documented contact patterns consistent with other Tier 1 entities, no charges were ever brought.

Ghislaine Maxwell
Tier 1 · DIRECT
Ghislaine Maxwell
abuser

British socialite and daughter of media mogul Robert Maxwell. Convicted in December 2021 on five federal charges including sex trafficking of a minor, sentenced to 20 years. EFTA documents and trial testimony establish her role as Epstein's primary recruiter, logistics coordinator, and direct participant in abuse. She is the only member of the inner circle to face criminal consequences.

Glenn Dubin
Tier 1 · DIRECT
Glenn Dubin
alleged abuser

Hedge fund manager and co-founder of Highbridge Capital Management. Named in the 1266 Trust documents as a key figure in Epstein's financial architecture. His wife Eva Andersson-Dubin, a former Miss Sweden, maintained a documented relationship with Epstein spanning decades. Multiple victims identified Dubin in testimony.

Harvey Weinstein
Tier 1 · DIRECT
Harvey Weinstein
abuser

Former film producer and co-founder of Miramax and The Weinstein Company. Convicted in 2020 of rape and sexual assault in New York, with a subsequent Los Angeles conviction in 2022. EFTA documents reveal overlapping networks between Weinstein and Epstein, including shared legal representation, social connections, and operational patterns.

Tier 1 · DIRECT
Jean-Luc Brunel
abuser

French modeling agent and founder of MC2 Model Management, a Miami-based agency co-funded by Epstein. Multiple victims identified Brunel as a direct procurer who used the modeling industry as a recruitment pipeline. Found dead in his Paris prison cell on February 19, 2022, while awaiting trial on rape and sex trafficking charges. EFTA documents trace the MC2 pipeline from scouting in South America to placement in Epstein properties.

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