Lazy journalists labeled Epstein as a “financier,” a “man of mystery,” a “philanthropist,” etc. This was one of the most sought-after stories of recent times, yet the corporate media dropped the ball through self-censorship and ineptitude. The evidence indicates that Epstein was involved in the intelligence community. It defies logic to think otherwise considering that he was so deeply tied to one of the largest Ponzi schemes of its time, involved in international arms dealing, owned a fake passport, operated a blackmail scheme that masqueraded as a sex trafficking ring, influenced key business/political leaders, held hundreds of millions of dollars of nebulous wealth, among other reasons.

Here's a timeline of events that will help to clear up many of the questions surrounding his life.

Timeline

1974 June – Epstein finished studying at Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University without receiving a degree.

1974-1976 Epstein was a teacher at Dalton School in Manhattan, an elite private school.  

1976 – Epstein was dismissed from Dalton School. Six of his former students spoke to a reporter at The New York Times. They said that he didn’t touch them, but he crossed lines of appropriate behavior, particularly when he attended high school parties.

1976 – Epstein joined Bear Stearns and started as a junior assistant to a floor trader. He gained this opportunity because he impressed then Bear Stearns CEO, Alan “Ace” Greenberg, during a parent-teacher conference. Epstein reportedly tutored the son of Greenberg and was friendly with Greenberg’s daughter.

1980 – Epstein had a rapid rise through the company and became a limited partner in Bear Stearns.

1980 Oct - Epstein featured as Cosmo magazine's “Bachelor of the Month.”

1981 March 12 - Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns. This was after the firm fined him $2,500 for breaking a regulatory rule by letting a friend/client borrow money to buy stock. He also received a 60-day suspension.

1981 April 1 – Epstein testified to SEC officials about his time at Bear Stearns. The SEC questioned him about the suspicious timing of his resignation. It came days before an insider trading scandal. The Seagram Company attempted a takeover of St. Joe’s Mineral Corp. Traders at Bear Stearns were suspected of using offshore accounts to trade based on that nonpublic information. Epstein maintained that his resignation had nothing to do with that investigation and never faced charges. This is the beginning of a pattern of Epstein’s connections to financial scandals without facing time behind bars.

1981 August – Epstein formed his financial advisory firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc, which he ran out of his apartment in New York City.

1981 – Epstein was a natural charmer/networker/manipulator/con artist. However, when he met Douglas Leese at a Texas oil tycoon’s party, that was seemingly when he became a player in the intelligence community. Douglas Leese’s name is kind of a footnote in most contemporary Epstein reporting, but Leese was a prominent British arms trafficker. That’s an industry that often is a nexus between intelligence agencies, corrupt politicians, and savvy money launderers; the latter being where Epstein’s help was likely welcomed.

Douglas Leese was one of the facilitators of Britain’s largest arms/corruption scandal in history. According to the British Parliament, he helped to arrange some of the bribes, possibly using the offshore bank, the Bank of NT Butterfield in Bermuda, for the Al Yamamah oil-for-arms deal between Saudi Arabia and the British defense contractor worth £43 billion in revenue between 1985 and 2007.  

Douglas became a mentor to Epstein, according to Douglas Leese’s son, Julian Leese. Douglas Leese was also linked with the Saudi arms trafficker, Adnan Khashoggi. He was one of the key brokers in the Iran-Contra affair. 

Adnan Khashoggi - Wikimedia Commons

Khashoggi lived an ostentatious lifestyle and even at one point claimed to be the richest man in the world, but, more importantly, he was a high-profile intermediary between the intelligence communities of Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, Israel, and Britain. Years after Khashoggi’s prominence, Epstein claimed that he had a business relationship with Khashoggi.

1986 – A wealthy insurance executive, Robert Meister, introduced Epstein to Leslie Wexner who was the head of Limited Brands. That company expanded into Bath & Body Works, Victoria's Secret, Abercrombie & Fitch, and Express.

1987 – The British arms dealer, Douglas Leese, introduced Epstein to Steven Jude Hoffenberg who was the founder/chairman of Towers Financial Corporation. That company would later be exposed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes of its time. Epstein claimed that he was introduced to Steven Jude Hoffenberg by John Mitchell, the former attorney general, who was an advisor for the company.

The Douglas Leese link between Epstein and Hoffenberg seems much more likely as his son, Julian Leese, worked for Towers Financial as well. Regardless of who made the introduction, Epstein and Hoffenberg hit it off immediately and began a close friendship and business relationship. Epstein began receiving $25,000 per month for his “consulting.” Hoffenberg later acknowledges that Epstein was essentially his business partner.

1989 – Leslie Wexner asks his financial advisor, Harold Levin, to meet with Epstein to vet out Epstein’s potential investment ideas. Levin immediately recognized that Epstein was a fraud. He said, “There were no visible signs of a trading operation; just Epstein sitting behind a desk that didn’t even have a computer.”

Levin warned Wexner, but this backfired as Epstein convinced Wexner to fire Levine. Epstein slandered him by spreading rumors that Levin was an embezzler. Epstein even strong-armed Levin into surrendering his equity in a real estate project, likely costing Levin millions, he said.

Numerous events that follow suggest that Epstein’s grip over Wexner went well beyond manipulation. Epstein begins to take on a role that is far greater than the conventional financial advisor relationship. It’s natural to speculate that Epstein blackmailed Wexner.

1990 – Epstein received property in New Albany, OH from Leslie Wexner as a gift (7558 King George Dr, New Albany, OH 43054)

1990 – Epstein starts to become a large political donor.

1991 – Leslie Wexner cofounded a secretive organization known as the “Mega Group” composed of American/Canadian Zionist billionaires. The other cofounder was Charles Bronfman. Much of his family fortune dates back to the bootlegger days, along with another Mega Group member, Max Fisher. Another member, Laurence Tisch was part of the prohibition era “Purple Gang.”

1991 July – Epstein gains power of attorney for Leslie Wexner, which essentially meant that he full control of Wexner’s money/assets.

1991 Nov – The British media mogul, Robert Maxwell, dies at sea under mysterious circumstances. His dead naked body was discovered by the Spanish Coast Guard floating near his yacht, which was named after his daughter, “Lady Ghislaine.” It’s not clear whether he committed suicide, if it was an accident, or if he was murdered.

There’s strong evidence that Robert Maxwell was an asset of Israel’s intelligence agency, the Mossad. At the time of his death, a few scandals were coming to the surface exposing his connections to intelligence and his usefulness was diminishing. Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist, Seymour Hersh, published The Samson Option, which asserted that Maxwell’s newspaper, The Daily Mirror, handed over a whistleblower to the Mossad and acted as a facilitator for Israeli arms trafficking.

Mordechai Vanunu revealed Israel’s secret nuclear to the media, but he was led into a “honey trap.” After contacting the press, he was lured by a woman to leave London to travel to Rome where he was captured, drugged, and renditioned to Israel. He was convicted of treason and sentenced to 18 years.



Mordichai Vanunu - Wikimedia Commons

Hersh published The Samson Option a month before Maxwell’s death. Maxwell sued Hersh for libel and he countersued. Hersh eventually, after Maxwell’s death, was awarded substantial damages from Maxwell’s news publishing group which apologized "unreservedly" in court.

Just weeks after Maxwell’s death, reporters revealed that Maxwell had looted roughly £526 million from The Daily Mirror’s pension fund. Authors Gordon Thomas and Martin Dillon of Robert Maxwell, Israel's Superspy: The Life and Murder of a Media Mogul theorized that Maxwell may have stolen funds intended for the Mossad to help offset his company’s losses and that led to his death. Nonetheless, this type of financial criminality was Maxwell’s specialty. After his death, reports surfaced that Maxwell helped the Bulgarian dictator Todor Zhivkov embezzle $2 billion of public funds and launder the money.

Maxwell appears to have been a burned intelligence asset, but he was given the highest possible honors in death. Born in Czechoslovakia, he was a survivor of the Holocaust and a war hero. Maxwell was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem, one of the highest honors. The Israeli President, Prime Minister, and six former leaders of the Mossad attended his funeral.

This is not well-sourced, but some Epstein staffers say that Epstein had a relationship with Robert Maxwell.

What is clear is that in 1991 Epstein met Robert Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine. They quickly developed their lifelong relationship/sex trafficking racket.

Robert Maxwell - Wikimedia Commons

1992 – Ghislaine Maxwell began managing Epstein’s Palm Beach property.

1992 Feb – Epstein begins leasing a Manhattan mansion (34 East 69th Street) for $15,000 per month. The building had been a diplomatic home for Iranian officials, but it was confiscated by the US State Department after the two countries severed relations in 1980.

1992 Nov - Video of Epstein partying with Donald Trump at Mar a Lago later published by NBC.

1992 Nov – Epstein purchases a New Albany, Ohio property (5025 East Dublin Granville Road) for $3.5 million from JW & CPK & Co, a Wexner company.

1992 Nov – The London newspaper, Mail on Sunday, published a report, “The mystery of Ghislaine Maxwell's secret love; REVEALED: THE UNLIKELY ROMANCE BETWEEN A BUSINESS SPY AND THE CROOKED FINANCIER'S FAVOURITE DAUGHTER.”

It points out that Ghislaine’s relationship with her former sugar daddy, Count Gianfranco Cicogna, ended in 1990. Yet, she maintained her aristocratic lifestyle, which would run out of funds quickly based on the $80,000 left to her in a trust fund. The implication was that she was living off of the criminal proceeds of her father or another sugar daddy, i.e. “Jeffrey Epstein, a shadowy, almost maverick New York ‘property developer.’”

More important, the newspaper dips its toes into revealing the truth about Epstein. It does so in a tepid manner that avoids a libel lawsuit from a powerful individual. It said, “One outrageous story links him to the CIA and Mossad.”

Golly gee, what an outrageous story.

1993 – Epstein begins a state lease agreement for grazing cattle on public lands near his New Mexico ranch, which was once owned by former governor, Bruce King.

49 Zorro Ranch Road

Stanley, New Mexico 87056

He later built a 33,339 square-foot mansion and there’s a private airstrip and hangar and helipad.

1994 - According to federal prosecutors, this is when Ghislaine Maxwell first starts finding girls for Epstein.

1994 - Epstein arranged for Southern Air Transport (SAT) to move from Miami to Rickenbacker Air Force Base in Columbus, OH, according to Bob Fitrakis of the Columbus Free Press. The airline, formerly Air America, was an infamous CIA front company involved in arms and drug trafficking. Not coincidentally, SAT filed for bankruptcy on October 1, 1998, which was the same month the CIA Inspector General issued a declassified report linking the CIA with drug trafficking by Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1995 April – Steven Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to running a Ponzi scheme through his company, Towers Financial Corp, which also involved Epstein.

1995 – A young artist, Maria Farmer, met Epstein and Maxwell when they attended a graduation show at the New York Academy of Art. They were donors (Epstein a former board member) and pressured the director to get Farmer to sell her painting for $6,000, which was half of a previous offer. They wanted her painting, a semi-naked man observing a sleeping girl, inspired by Edgar Degas’s The Rape. Months later, Epstein hired Maria Farmer to manage his art collection and be the door person at his Manhattan mansion. She testified in 2019 that she witnessed underaged females entering Epstein’s home and didn’t believe they were interviewing for model jobs as she was told.

1996 – Epstein moves into Leslie Wexner’s mansion in Manhattan, 9 East 71st Street.

1996 Spring – Unbeknownst to Maria Farmer at the time, her younger sister, Annie Farmer (16-year-old), was molested by Maxwell and Epstein at their New Mexico ranch. She was lured to the property based upon the lie that he would help her to get admitted into UCLA. Annie didn’t tell her older sister about the abuse until later.

1996 Summer - Maria Farmer (then 25) came to Wexner’s home (later Epstein’s home) in New Albany because she was promised to be able to work on an art project for the film “As Good as It Gets.” According to Farmer, Epstein and Maxwell raped her there. Epstein’s security team wouldn’t let her leave immediately. They forced her to wait 12 hours for her father to drive from his home in Kentucky. When Maria returned to New York, she contacted the police, but they told her to report the crime to the FBI. According to Maria, the FBI never followed up on her complaint. She also told Eileen Guggenheim of the New York Academy of Art who connected them. According to Farmer, Guggenheim “blamed me and mocked me.”

1998 – Epstein bought Wexner’s Manhattan property for $20 million.

1998 – Wexner bought the 5025 East Dublin Granville Road, New Albany, OH property back from Epstein for $8 million.

This is part of a pattern in which they’re switching properties over a short period of time. It is reminiscent of day traders doing wash trades.

1998 April – Epstein purchased an island in the US Virgin Islands, “Little St. James” He used the company called L.S.J. LLC in which he was the sole member.

Little St James Island (Flickr Navin75)

2000 – Then JPMorgan CEO, Sandy Warner, introduced JPMorgan executive, Jes Staley, to Epstein. Warner told Staley: “You should meet Epstein. He’s one of the most connected people I know of in New York.”

2000 March – The New York Post puts the spy secret into the public sphere in a similar way to the Mail on Sunday did in 1992. It stated, “EPSTEIN is an enigmatic figure. Rumors abound — including wild ones about a career in the Mossad and, contrarily, the CIA.”

2000 March – The magazine, Maximum Golf, does a profile of Donald Trump on his plane with Epstein and Maxwell for a flight from New York to Palm Beach. The reporter, Michael Corcoran withheld mentioning that Epstein and Maxwell “did board with a young woman of indeterminate age. I wouldn’t be able to tell if she was 15 or 20.” He even cleaned up a quote by Trump in which he said, “There is nothing in the world like first-rate pussy.”

(2000-2002) During this period, then Virginia Roberts (now Virginia Giuffre) was trafficked by Epstein. Ghislaine Maxwell first approached when she was 17 years old working as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago. Maxwell proposed that she and Epstein would help Roberts get licensed as a massage therapist.

However, the sexual abuse started on the first arrival to Epstein’s home and Maxwell made it clear to Roberts that they knew powerful people and she should never turn against them. Virginia was already a survivor of sex trafficking. She ran away from home at age 11 due to being molested by a family friend. While living on the streets, she was coerced by a sex trafficker, Ronald Eppinger, who generally victimized women from the Czech Republic.

According to Virginia Giuffre, Epstein/Maxwell had sex with underage girls practically every day in her presence. Within months of meeting Epstein, she was living in an apartment paid for by him and traveling to be sex trafficked for numerous high-profile business & government leaders in a blackmail operation. In a 2016 civil lawsuit, she named former New Mexico Governor (and presidential candidate) Bill Richardson, former U.S. Senator George Mitchell, Prince Andrew, hedge fund manager Glenn Dubin, MIT professor Marvin Minsky (Artificial Intelligence founder), Thomas Pritzker (Hyatt Hotel family fortune), among others.

Some refused to comment on the allegations, but Prince Andrew gave one of the more dubious denials. He claimed that he was incapable of sweating as Virginia Giuffre mentioned that he sweat all over her on the dancefloor.

2001 - Epstein bought a Paris apartment at 22 Avenue Foch for $3.5 million. The property was recommended by his friend/sex trafficking accomplice, Jean Luc Brunel.

2001 Jan – The London Newspaper, Evening Standard, publishes, “Prince Andrew's fixer: she's the daughter of Robert Maxwell and she’s manipulating his jetset lifestyle”

The title says it all.

2002 Sep –Bill Clinton, Chris Tucker, and Kevin Spacey travel to AIDS treatment sites in Africa on Epstein’s private jet.

2002 Sep – The New York Post’s Page Six reports on the Africa trip. This prompts media attention and he becomes more of a known public figure outside of the New York/Palm Beach social scene.

2002 Oct – New York Magazine publishes, “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.”

This is the article where a popular meme originated. Donald Trump said, “I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side. No doubt about it — Jeffrey enjoys his social life.”

A spokesman for Bill Clinton said, “Jeffrey is both a highly successful financier and a committed philanthropist with a keen sense of global markets and an in-depth knowledge of twenty-first-century science.”

Fortunately, this article marks the beginning of some true investigative journalism that begins to chip away at Epstein’s cover story and starts questioning the origin of his wealth. “My belief is that Jeff maintains some sort of money-management firm, though you won’t get a straight answer from him,” says one well-known investor. “He once told me he had 300 people working for him, and I’ve also heard that he manages Rockefeller money. But one never knows. It’s like looking at the Wizard of Oz – there may be less there than meets the eye.”

2003 - The Wexner Family Charitable Fund gave $10 million to the COUQ Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization run by Epstein.

2003 – Just months after the unflattering article in New York Magazine, Epstein is part of a group that tried to purchase New York Magazine, including Harvey Weinstein.

2003 March – Vicky Ward for Vanity Fair writes, “The Talented Mr. Epstein,” which builds upon the New York Magazine article. With all of the available information today, this would seem look like a puff piece, but at the time, this was the strongest attempt at accountability for Epstein. Unfortunately, the article didn’t publish the accusations from Maria and Annie Farmer who went on the record.

This article accused him of being a part of the Ponzi scheme Towers Financial and insider trading at Bear Stearns.

Again, financial leaders questioned his background, but they didn’t want to go on the record. “The trading desks don’t seem to know him. It’s unusual for animals that big not to leave any footprints in the snow,” says a high-level investment manager.

More notably, the article mentioned that Epstein was a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. If you’re unfamiliar, these are the types of groups that are synonymous with the elite such as Davos, the Bilderberg Group, etc, i.e. secretive groups that have far too much influence on public and business policies.

2003 Dec - Page Six published the article “SINGLING OUT APPLE’S TOP STUDS,” which mentioned Epstein as a potential bachelor.

2004 – Epstein introduced Google co-founder, Sergey Brin, to JPMorgan investment bankers and he becomes a major client, with over $4 billion invested.

2004 – The Wexner Foundation, when Epstein was among the foundation’s trustees, gives $2.3 million to Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister. The Wexner Foundation claims that Barak was paid to conduct two lengthy studies, one on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the other on leadership. Barak only completed one of the studies. Barak said that he was introduced to Epstein by former Israel Prime Minister, Shimon Peres.

This corrupt practice is reminiscent of the legal, but ethically bankrupt practice in the U.S. in which politicians become obscenely well-paid lobbyists after leaving office as long as they abided by the special interests while in office. Also, it’s similar to six-figure “speaking fees” that many former political leaders receive after leaving office.

2004 Nov – Trump and Epstein get into a bidding war over a bankruptcy auction of a Palm Beach mansion. Trump won the bid for $41.35 million. This seems to be when Trump’s friendship with Epstein ended.

2005 March – A woman called the Palm Beach Police Department after finding out that Epstein sexually assaulted her 14-year-old stepdaughter.

The teen was later interviewed by police. She explained that another student at her high school, Haley Robson, recruited her to give Epstein a massage. Epstein sexually molested her during the massage. Afterward, the victim was paid $300 and Robson received a $200 finder’s fee.

2005 April – Palm Beach Police began going through Epstein’s trash to gain evidence for the investigation.

2005 Oct – Epstein’s assistant, Adriana Ross, came to Epstein’s Palm Beach mansion to take away three of Epstein’s computers, according to Epstein’s butler, Janusz Banasiak.

2005 Oct 3 – The Palm Beach Police question Haley Robson. She explained that she had been recruited by another girl from her high school. She performed a massage for Epstein and refused his sexual advances. That’s when Robson became a recruiter for Epstein. He told her the younger, the better. Robson brought a 23-year-old to his home and she was turned away. The appointments were arranged through Epstein’s assistant, Sarah Kellen. Robson gave the police the names/contact info for the girls she recruited. They interviewed several girls.

2005 Oct 20 – Epstein’s home (358 El Brillo Way in Palm Beach) was searched by the Palm Beach Police Department. They found pictures of naked teenage girls. They found records of phone numbers and matching names of the accusers and even one girl’s high school transcript.

No computers were found. The lead detective, Joseph Recarey, publicly stated later that he believed that Epstein was tipped off. Five years later, Adriana Ross, the Epstein assistant who allegedly removed his computers from the home a month before the search warrant, was questioned under oath.

Adriana Ross was asked if Samuel Richard "Sandy" Berger, the National Security Advisor for Bill Clinton, tipped off Epstein about the search warrant. She pled the fifth. She was also asked if she was aware that Sandy Berger called Epstein’s home three weeks before the search warrant was executed. Again, she pleaded the fifth.

The attorney didn’t ask about Berger’s flight on Epstein’s jet one month prior to the search. If Berger did warn Epstein about the warrant, it doesn’t sound out of the realm of possibility. Berger was a fervent defender of Israeli policy, even receiving an honorary degree from Tel Aviv University, and he was willing to cross legal lines as he pled guilty in 2005 for removing classified documents from the National Security Archive.

Sandy Berger - Wikimedia Commons

2006 March 7 – The scheduled testimony by all of Epstein's accusers for a grand jury was canceled because the prosecutors wanted more time to examine the accusers’ MySpace pages that Epstein’s attorney, Alan Dershowitz, had provided. Remarkably, Dershowitz attacked the character of the victims by providing examples in which these teens referenced using drugs and alcohol. More remarkable, this ploy was considered a valid defense by the prosecutors.

At various points, Epstein was defended by numerous high-profile attorneys besides Dershowitz, such as Roy Black, Jack Goldberger, Gerald Lefcourt, Guy Lewis (former AUSA), Lily Sanchez (former AUSA), Kenneth Starr, Martin Weinberg, and Joe D Whitley.

2006 March 14 – Epstein organizes a science convention in St Thomas with famous physicists, including Steven Hawking.

2006 April - Palm Beach Police Detective Joe Recarey indirectly accused Epstein of obstruction of justice. He said that the Epstein victims were told "(t)hose who help him will be compensated, and those who hurt him will be dealt with."

2006 April - Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek told Palm Beach Police Detective, Joe Recarey, that the state attorney's office had offered Epstein a plea deal that would not require him to serve jail time or receive a felony conviction. This incensed Recarey. Fortunately, that deal subsequently fell apart.

2006 May 1 – The Palm Beach Police files its probable cause affidavit. It pushes for stronger charges, “unlawful sex acts with a minor” and “lewd and lascivious molestation.”

Numerous details of the investigation were revealed, including an infamous, oft-repeated detail in the media; one victim said that Epstein had an “egg-shaped” penis. Police interviewed Epstein’s butler, Alfredo Rodriguez, who said that he found sex toys in the room after massages. Rodriguez was once told to deliver flowers to one of the girl’s high school theatre performances.

2006 May 1 – In a courageous move, Palm Beach Police Department Chief, Michael Reiter, wrote a letter to State Attorney Barry Krischer. Reiter was upset with the leniency that Krischer was offering to Epstein and he urged Krischer to leave the case due to his “highly unusual” behavior.

2006 May – PBPD lead Detective Joe Recarey met with Assistant United States Attorney (AUSA) Ann Marie Villafaña and the FBI because he felt that the state attorney was doing a terrible job.

2006 July 19 – The Palm Beach grand jury indicts Epstein on only one charge. It’s a lesser charge, felony solicitation of prostitution.

2006 July 24 – The FBI formally begins its investigation and subsequently finds over 40 victims.

2006 July 29 – Palm Beach Post report - Richard Tendler, local defense attorney, said he was surprised that the State Attorney didn’t charge Epstein with the stronger charges proposed by the Palm Beach Police Department. Instead, the State Attorney chose the grand jury option and left that choice up to the discretion of the jury. Tendler said, “It’s a way for the prosecutor’s office to not take full responsibility for not filing (the charge) and not doing what the Palm Beach Police Department wanted.”

Years later, State Attorney Barry Kirschner told the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) that his office prosecuted minors at that time as young as 14 for prostitution and that he would have been forced to charge the victims, which was something he didn’t want to do.

2006 Aug – Palm Beach Post report “The man who had everything: Jeffrey Epstein craved big homes, elite friends and, investigators say, underage girls”

The report noted that “(h)idden cameras were found in the garage area and inside a clock on Epstein's desk, alongside a girl's high school transcript.”

2007 May - Marie Villafaña, Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA), provided a 53-page draft of a 60-count indictment against Epstein for her supervisors.

2007 May - Marie Villafaña, Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA), confirmed that Epstein did arrange to have the computers removed from his Palm Beach mansion before the search warrant was issued. She contacted Epstein’s attorneys requiring them to hand it over. However, her attorneys delayed and never had to do so due to the eventual non-prosecution agreement.

2007 July 6- Epstein’s lawyers, Gerald Lefcourt and Alan Dershowitz, wrote a 23-page letter that mentioned that "Mr. Epstein was part of the original group that conceived the Clinton Global Initiative…” He also donated to the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Unfortunately, having high-powered political connections can be seen as a defense strategy.

2007 Sep 19 – Marie Villafaña, Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA), built a strong case against Epstein, but over time, his attorneys helped to redirect the government’s priorities. Villafaña wrote an email to Epstein’s attorney, Jay Lefkowitz, saying this, "I will include our standard language regarding resolving all criminal liability and I will mention 'co-conspirators,' but I would prefer not to highlight for the judge all of the other crimes and all of the other persons that we could charge ... maybe we can set a time to meet, if you want to meet 'off campus' somewhere, that is fine…”

2007 Sep 21 – State Attorney, Barry Krishner, wrote an email to Marie Villafaña, Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) about Epstein’s case. It said, “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."

2007 Sep 24 - Epstein signs a non-prosecution agreement with federal authorities in exchange for pleading guilty to two state court prostitution-related charges.

Years later, then US Attorney Alex Acosta told the Trump transition team that he was ordered to give Epstein a sweetheart deal. “I was told Epstein belonged to intelligence and to leave it alone.”

2007 Sep 24 - An email from Epstein’s attorney, Jay Lefkowitz, asked AUSA Villafaña to “do whatever you can to prevent (the non-prosecution agreement) from becoming public.”

2007 Dec – New York Magazine publishes a puff piece that literally acknowledged in the first sentence that it was arranged by his PR consultant.

2007 Dec – Epstein gave his Ohio property (7558 King George Dr, New Albany, OH 43054) to Wexner with no money exchanged.

Was he trying to hide assets?

2007 Dec – A letter between Marie Villafaña, Assistant U.S. Attorney (AUSA) and Epstein’s attorney, Jay Lefkowitz, shows that the federal government sent notification letters to three of the victims about the non-prosecution agreement, which is a requirement under Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

However, Epstein’s attorneys pressured the prosecutors to stop sending the letters and they complied; none of the other victims were informed.

2008 Jan 10 – The remainder of Epstein’s victims were deceived by the government. There’s no other way to state it. The FBI sent a letter to some of the victims urging patience while they “conduct a thorough investigation” and reinforced their right “to be reasonably heard at any public proceeding in the district court involving (a)…plea.”

It did not say that the federal investigation was already over and that a non-prosecution agreement was signed.

The victims’ lawyers argued that the settlement was illegal because it was executed without telling Epstein’s victims, a violation of the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

2008 Jan 31 – The FBI and AUSA met with Jane Doe 1. She provided details for the investigation, yet these government officials didn’t notify her that a non-prosecution agreement was already signed.

2008 April 28 – Epstein returned to Florida after a visit to Israel. He considered moving there permanently to avoid jail time.

2008 June 28 – A high-profile Kazakhstan-Russian model, Ruslana Korshunova, fell from the 9^th floor of her Manhattan apartment and died in an apparent suicide. She had flown on Epstein’s plane to his island just two weeks before his 2006 indictment.

2008 June 30 - Epstein pled guilty in state court to two felonies — solicitation of prostitution and solicitation of a minor for prostitution. These were less severe charges than what the Palm Beach Police Department wanted.

The fix was in. The state prosecutors chose to only have one witness testify for the grand jury even though they interviewed 13 underaged victims. (The FBI identified 40 victims.)

More stunning, this plea deal applied to only one of his victims and it was not the 14-year-old girl who first spoke with the police. It was one of his 16-year-old victims. This was essentially kept secret from the public/victims as the girl’s age wasn’t mentioned in the court documents; that specific girl didn’t even know. This was a crucial detail because it allowed Epstein to avoid registering as a sex offender in New Mexico and permitted him to be considered a low-risk offender in the Virgin Islands.

Most of the details were withheld from Palm Beach Circuit Court Judge Deborah Dale Pucillo at his sentencing. She asked Assistant State Attorney Lanna Belohlavek if there was more than one victim. She acknowledged that there were several. However, Belohlavek did not tell the truth when she told the judge that all of the victims agreed with the plea deal.

The victims and attorneys were misled by the FBI and federal prosecutors. They were told that the federal investigation was still open; hence, they didn’t know that the sweetheart plea deal in state court would be the end of Epstein’s legal troubles.

Epstein was sentenced to only 18 months. He managed to avoid federal prison where would have been forced to serve 85% of his time. Nor did he have to serve time in state prison where sex offenders are often assaulted, extorted, raped, and murdered. Instead, he served his time at the Palm Beach County Stockade.

2008 July 7 - A victim, “Jane Doe,” filed an emergency petition in federal court in the Southern District of Florida alleging that the government violated the Crime Victims’ Rights Act.

2008 Sep – An internal FBI memo confirms that Epstein provided information to the Florida State Attorney and FBI as part of his plea deal.

2008 Oct - Epstein received even more leniency. His request for work release was almost instantly approved even though the sheriff had a policy banning sex offenders from receiving work release.

Epstein began spending 12 hours a day “working” at his seemingly bogus non-profit organization, “Florida Science Foundation.” Epstein allegedly paid for sex with multiple young women at that organization.

2009 Feb – Epstein’s cell changed to an area of the jail with no inmates. Epstein’s organization, Florida Science Foundation, paid the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Office $128,136 during his incarceration to provide him security.

2009 July 22 – Epstein was released from jail. He began house arrest, ironically, where the crimes were committed.

2009 Aug – Epstein violated his probation, yet he was excused by his probation officer.

2009 Nov – Epstein signed an undisclosed settlement agreement with Virginia Giuffre. The agreement was later unsealed and it showed that he paid $500,000.

2010 July – Ghislaine Maxwell attended Chelsea Clinton’s wedding. She was supposed to have a deposition in the Virginia Giuffre civil trial, but she lied saying that she had a family issue that she needed to attend to in the UK.

2011 - Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Gaffney (under Cyrus Vance Jr) asked a judge to register Epstein as the lowest-level sex offender so he wouldn’t be required to check in with authorities every 90 days. The judge declined saying that she had “never seen a prosecutor’s office do anything like this.”

2011 Feb – Epstein was quoted by the New York Post saying, “I’m not a sexual predator, I’m an ‘offender,’…It’s the difference between a murderer and a person who steals a bagel.”

2012 – Epstein purchased the infamous painting of Bill Clinton in a blue dress from a New York student.

2014 – The current CIA director, William Burns, met with Epstein three times, including one instance at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion. This was revealed by a report last year by The Wall Street Journal.

Burns is a career-long diplomat and, at the time, he was the Deputy Secretary of State. The State Department and the CIA are closely intermingled. In fact, several CIA officials gain positions in the State Department to cover their clandestine activity. Burns hasn’t publicly commented on the report, but a CIA spokesperson gave a preposterous response. The CIA claimed that Burns didn’t know about Epstein’s background and that he was meeting with Epstein for career advice.

Either William Burns was the least-informed leader of an intelligence agency or Epstein was a useful intelligence asset.

William Burns - Wikimedia Commons

2015 Jan – Gawker published the flight logs of Epstein’s pilot which included numerous powerful people, such as former heads of state, foreign policy officials, business leaders, etc. His private jet was dubbed “Lolita Express” by the media. Initial reports showed that Bill Clinton flew on his jet eleven times. Fox News later revealed that Clinton flew on Epstein’s jet 26 times.

2015 Jan – Gawker published Epstein’s “little black book” that has over 2,000 phone numbers. It includes high-profile celebrities, scientists, business people, and politicians.

2015 Sep – Virginia Giuffre filed a defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell. This led to a massive public-records release this year that many have incorrectly labeled as the “Epstein List.”

2016 April – Ghislaine Maxwell denied all allegations during her deposition.

2016 May 3^rd - Virginia Giuffre deposition (detailed earlier 2000-2002)

2016 Sep – Epstein pled the 5^th Amendment roughly 600 times during his deposition.

2017 Oct – Palm Beach Post report – Court documents reveal that Epstein paid a combined $5.5 million in settlements for three of his victims.

2018 Nov – The Miami Herald published a series of articles, particularly “Perversion of Justice,” that illustrated the white-glove treatment that Epstein received from prosecutors. Epstein reportedly gave information about two Bear Stearns executives. That information didn’t even lead to a conviction.

This series of articles sparked a national audience and elicited a palpable outrage that seemingly led to criminal charges.

2018 Dec 3 – Former Senator (R-NE) Ben Sasse wrote a letter to the Inspector General of the Department of Justice. He cited the Miami Herald to pressure the DOJ to investigate the circumstances of his non-prosecution agreement. Two months later, the DOJ responded affirmatively saying that it had opened an investigation.

2019 July 2 – A federal grand jury in the Southern District of New York charged Epstein with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy of sex trafficking of minors.

2019 July 6 – Epstein was arrested at an airport in New Jersey after flying from Paris. He was charged in the Southern District of New York for crimes in Florida, New York, New Mexico, and the Virgin Islands. There were over 40 victims. These charges did not violate Epstein’s constitutional protection against double jeopardy because Epstein’s guilty plea involved only state crimes. This case involved federal law.

2019 July 10 – Secretary of Labor, Alex Acosta, held a press conference to do demand control regarding the non-prosecution deal that he arranged in 2008 as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida. Acosta blamed the Florida State Attorney’s Office which he claimed “was ready to allow Epstein to walk free with no jail time, nothing.”

2019 July 11 – A report by New York Magazine questions Epstein’s financial bona fides. “Not one institutional trading desk, primary or secondary, had ever traded with Epstein’s firm.”

2019 July 11 – Israeli news report from Haaretz – Epstein invested $1 million in 2015 in former Prime Minister Ehud Barak’s tech start-up.

2019 July 12 – Alex Acosta’s PR attempt didn’t work. He resigned as Secretary of Labor.

2019 July 15 – Information in reports about the raid indicates that Epstein was tied to intelligence. Authorities found a fake Austrian passport with a fake name and Epstein’s picture. There were stamps, dating back to the 1980s, for multiple countries, including

France, Spain, the UK and Saudi Arabia.

2019 July 17 – A report in Barron's, “Despite His Wizardly Reputation, Jeffrey Epstein’s Investing Trailed the Market” shows that Epstein’s fund traded at below-market rates. Clearly, he didn’t make his fortune as a “financier.”

2019 July 23 – As an inmate in the Metropolitan Correctional Center in Manhattan, Epstein is placed on suicide watch after he was found on the floor unconscious with bruises on his neck. He had an orange cloth around his neck. His cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione (a convicted murderer of four people), said that Epstein tried to kill himself.

31 hours later – He was taken off suicide watch. Epstein told the jail psychologist that he had a “wonderful life” and “would be crazy” to end it. Epstein initially told the staff that Tartaglione tried to kill him but he slightly recanted by saying that he didn’t remember what happened and asked to be housed with the same cellmate.

Nicholas Tartaglione - Facebook

2019 July 30 - Efrain “Stone” Reyes is assigned as Epstein’s new cellmate.

2019 August 1 – Epstein met with his attorney, David Schoen, for five hours. "I had mapped out a kind of a four-prong defense approach that I thought we should take, and he was very excited about it, very upbeat," said Schoen.

2019 August 8^th – Epstein signed his will, which lists his attorney, Darren Indyke, and his accountant, Richard Kahn, as the executor. Boris Nikolic, a former Bill Gates advisor, is listed as a “successor executor” if Indyke and Kahn can’t perform the role. Nikolic said he was “shocked” when the news became public.

Did Epstein have more assets hidden in offshore accounts?

Epstein’s estate, which is known as “The 1953 Trust,” is worth $577 million. It includes:

$56.5 million in cash

$127 million in equities

$18.6 million in aviation assets, automobiles and boats

$195 million in hedge funds and private equity investments.

$56 million for his Manhattan mansion

$72 million for his New Mexico ranch

$8 million for apartment in Paris

$12.4 million for his Palm Beach house

$86.4 million for two private islands (Great St James and Little Saint James) in the U.S. Virgin Islands.

2019 Aug 9 (8 AM) – Epstein’s cellmate, Efrain “Stone” Reyes left the cell and was transferred to another facility. Epstein was left alone not long after being placed on suicide watch.

2019 Aug 9 6:58 – Epstein makes an unmonitored 19-minute phone call (a violation of prison policy).

According to the DOJ’s Inspector General:

“Although Epstein said he was calling his mother, in actuality he called someone with whom he allegedly had a personal relationship.”

The report didn’t identify who he called.

2019 Aug 10 (6:33 AM) - Epstein is discovered by prison staff found dead by presumably hanging himself with bedsheets. The prison guards on watch, Tova Noel and Michael Thomas, were later charged with falsifying records because they didn’t check on him throughout the night. At times, they seemed to be asleep. Even though Epstein was suspected of attempting suicide by hanging himself with clothing a month earlier, the staff left Epstein with excess blankets, linen, and clothing.

Jeffrey Epstein's prison cell after his death on August 10, 2019 - Department of Justice.

As far as the cameras, the official story is that there is no video footage of Epstein’s death. Multiple cameras malfunctioned. There was one camera working in the area near his cell. According to the DOJ’s Inspector General:

“…anyone entering or attempting to enter Epstein’s (cell) from the SHU common area would have been picked up by that video camera. Epstein’s cell door, however, was not in the camera’s field of view. The OIG reviewed the video and found that, between approximately 10:40 p.m. on August 9 and about 6:30 a.m. on August 10, no one was seen entering Epstein’s cell tier from the SHU common area.”

2019 Aug 12 – The NYPD and FBI raided Epstein’s Virgin Islands mansion.

Keep in mind, this raid took place two days after his death. CNBC published drone footage of the raid that was posted by the Youtube channel, Rusty Shackleford. That channel was later taken down. Three computers were seized by authorities. Some of those officers noticed the drone and then began covering the windows to block the view of the camera. This evidence has never been released publicly.



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Footage of FBI and NYPD raiding Epstein's island two days after his death - Youtube Rusty Shackleford

2019 Aug 13 – Yahoo News report – This article suggests that two of Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers, Darren Indyke and Jeffrey Schantz, were deeply involved in his business dealings for decades. The investigation couldn’t find a single client for those two attorneys, other than Epstein.

2019 Aug 16 - New York City’s chief medical examiner, Dr. Barbara Sampson, ruled Epstein’s death a suicide.

2019 Aug 27 – Twenty-three of Epstein’s victims gave statements in court to put Epstein’s actions on the record. The judge allowed those statements even though the case was dropped due to Epstein’s death.

2019 Oct - Dr. Michael Baden (former New York City chief medical examiner) said on Fox and Friends that Epstein’s injuries, including fractures to his larynx and hyoid bone, were “extremely unusual in suicidal hangings” and more consistent with “homicidal strangulation.” Epstein’s brother, Mark, independently hired Dr. Michael Baden.

2020 Jan – The video footage of Epstein’s first suicide attempt in July 2019 was accidentally deleted by prison officials, according to federal prosecutors.

2020 Jan - Dr. Michael Baden appears on the Dr Oz show. He says that the evidence from Epstein’s autopsy suggests that Epstein was murdered, instead of committing suicide. Baden highlighted how Epstein’s burst capillaries and lower extremities were pale and not purple or bluish. Epstein’s hyoid was broken in three places, which is unheard of in suicide, according to Baden.

2020 Feb – New York Times report – Epstein’s estate transferred $12 million to a banking company in the Virgin Islands, Southern Country International, which Epstein established years earlier and had been dormant since its inception.

2020 July – After a year of avoiding charges, FBI agents captured Ghislaine Maxwell. She was hiding at a 156-acre property in New Hampshire that she acquired in an all-cash transaction via an anonymous shell corporation.

2020 July – A report in the New York Daily News said that Ghislaine Maxwell had an entire floor of the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn to herself.

2020 Nov – A report by the Justice Department Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) notes that one of Epstein’s attorneys, Lilly Ann Sanchez, had a romantic relationship with Matthew Menchel, one of the prosecutors who worked on the plea deal. They dated for a few weeks in 2003.

2021 Feb – The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands charges Epstein’s attorney and accountant (Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn) as part of a sex trafficking conspiracy. The charges allege they were not an attorney/accountant; instead they were active participants in Epstein’s trafficking operation, including the organization of three arranged marriages to help transport victims to the island.

2021 Dec 6 – FBI Special Agent Kelly Maguire gives bombshell testimony in the Ghislaine Maxwell trial. She said that they found binders on the fifth floor with several CDs with names on them. You have to conclude that there was intelligence/blackmail contained in some of those files.

Also, on the third floor, they discovered the safe that contained his fake passport, cash, jewelry, and diamonds. This was publicly disclosed by the DOJ. However, there were more CDs and hard drives in the safe. The CDs and hard drives had not been disclosed publicly by the DOJ.

Evidence seized from Epstein's safe - DOJ

Agent Kelly Maguire testified that they did not seize this evidence because they only had a warrant to search the premises, not to remove evidence. Instead, they photographed the items and marked them with evidence tape. However, the FBI did not station anyone at his home and left. It’s unbelievable that the FBI didn’t have enough resources in place to prevent this from happening.

When the authorities returned four days later with a broader warrant, voilà, that evidence was missing from the house. Agent Maguire reached out to Epstein’s attorney, Richard Kahn, to have it returned and he did. Remarkably, Kahn never faced obstruction charges. Maguire testified that she believed that all of the evidence was returned.

We will never know if some of that evidence was withheld and/or tampered with by Epstein’s handlers. What’s even more maddening is that one first day of the search, the FBI discovered a plastic bin on the first floor filled with hard drives. These hard drives were already wrapped in police evidence tape before the FBI arrived. How in the world did he manage to retrieve his own incriminating evidence from law enforcement?

Maguire testified, “We found them with evidence tape. We did not place that there.” The prosecutor asked, “As you sit here today, do you have personal knowledge of why there was evidence tape on these boxes?” She replied, “No, I don't.”

The FBI discovered this plastic bin in Epstein's home wrapped in evidence tape. - DOJ

2021 Dec 29– Ghislaine Maxwell is convicted on federal sex trafficking charges in New York.

2021 Dec – New York Post report - Jeffrey Epstein visited the White House at least 17 times in the early years of President Bill Clinton’s administration.

2022 Feb - Jeffrey Epstein’s French business partner/accomplice, Jean Luc Brunel, committed suicide in a Paris prison.

2022 Feb - Prince Andrew reached an undisclosed settlement with Virginia Giuffre.

2022 July – The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands accused the executors of Epstein’s will (Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn) of embezzling $13 million of the estate for their personal gain.

2022 Nov - The U.S. Virgin Islands and Jeffrey Epstein’s estate agreed to a financial settlement for sex trafficking charges. They agree to $105 million in cash and half of the sale value of one of his islands.

2022 Dec – The Attorney General of the Virgin Islands, Denise George, filed suit against JPMorgan for its links with Epstein. Just days later, Denise George was fired by the governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Albert Bryan Jr., and no reason was given.

2023 Jan - Apollo Global Management is one of the largest investment firms in the world with over $500 billion in assets. Its co-founder, Leon Black, paid the U.S. Virgin Islands a $62.5 million settlement to avoid further charges related to Epstein. The government subpoenaed his communications with Epstein. Black was accused of raping a 16-year old autistic girl with Down syndrome at Epstein's island in 2002.

2023 Feb – Court records released in the lawsuit against JPMorgan filed by the U.S. Virgin Islands in New York federal court. It showed that JPMorgan knowingly facilitated Epstein’s trafficking organization. Prosecutors alleged complicity at the highest level by the CEO, Jamie Dimon. It cited an email from one month after Epstein’s guilty plea in which the bank would likely be forced to dismiss Epstein as a client. It read, “I would count Epstein’s assets as a probable outflow for ’08 ($120mm or so?) as I can’t imagine it will stay (pending Dimon review).” Epstein remained as a client.

Over a 15-year period, JPMorgan serviced over 55 Epstein-related accounts totaling hundreds of millions of dollars. JPMorgan also processed Epstein’s payments of nearly $1.5 million to known recruiters/victims of his sex-trafficking organization, including the MC2 modeling agency (Jean Luc Brunel). Another recipient was a woman whom JPMorgan’s due diligence reports that Epstein purchased her at the age of 14. He also paid over $150,000 to private investigators, another hallmark of an elaborate blackmail operation.

Even worse, it appears that the senior executive of JPMorgan who handled Epstein’s account, Jes Staley, may have paid for his sex trafficking services. The timing coincides with Epstein’s “work release” program. Epstein wired $2,000 and $3,000 to an Eastern European woman after arranging visits with Staley. In a creepy fashion, Staley emailed Epstein with a message, “That was fun. Say hi to Snow White…” Epstein responded “(W)hat character would you like next?” Staley replied, “Beauty and the Beast.”

2023 July – Apollo Global Management’s board of directors commissioned the law firm Dechert LLP to examine Leon Black’s payments to Epstein. The Dechert report found that Black paid Epstein, who was neither a licensed tax attorney nor a certified public accountant, a total of $158 million in several installments over a five-year period.

There is no reasonable explanation, other than blackmail, for such exorbitant payments from Black. He can access just about any financial expert in the world and he chose Epstein.

Extortion is clearly one of the main sources of Epstein’s “unexplained wealth.”

2023 May – JPMorgan asserted that the former first lady the U.S. Virgin Islands, Cecile de Jongh, “actively facilitated” Epstein’s deviance. Cecile de Jongh received a $100,000 salary and $50,000 tuition reimbursement for her as the office manager of his company, Southern Trust. JPMorgan contended that there was a quid pro quo relationship. His company allegedly received $300 million in tax incentives and he had his sex offender restrictions waived. The bank even proclaimed that she helped one of Epstein’s victims obtain a visa.

2023 Nov – JPMorgan agreed to a $290 million settlement with Epstein victims.

Former First Lady of the US Virgin Islands, Cecile de Jongh - Facebook

Conclusion

It should be patently obvious that Epstein was involved in the intelligence community. After all, the former US Attorney, Alex Acosta, even admitted as much in a moment of high pressure. The more difficult question is defining his role in the intelligence community. I believe that he was an asset of the Mossad. The Mossad and the CIA often share intelligence and their objectives frequently overlap.

There is a stark difference between an agent and an asset. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies (particularly FBI, DEA, and CIA) often use criminals as informants because they have leverage over them. Criminals provide plausible deniability and operational skill for covert operations. Even better, as in the case with Epstein, once an asset is burned publicly and loses their utility, it’s easy to flush them down the toilet.

The media focused heavily on his sexual depravity, as it should have, but his elaborate blackmail operation, which had at least $150,000 benchmarked for private investigators, and government protection represented only a tiny fraction of his press coverage. On a similar note, his trafficking ring can help to explain some of his wealth, but it’s only a small portion of his known half-billion dollar net worth. The JPMorgan proceedings showed him exchanging thousands of dollars for sexual transactions. Whereas, Leon Black, alone, paid him $158 million in an apparent blackmail scheme. There’s exponentially more money in extortion.

The more difficult question is whether Epstein committed suicide, if he was coerced to commit suicide, or if he was murdered. The fact is that determining the truth behind Epstein’s death is a legitimate question and this fact is an indictment of our system.

The argument that he committed suicide of his own volition isn’t outlandish. He was no longer a useful intelligence. He was facing potentially the rest of his life in prison with no more “Get Out of Jail Free” cards. That’s what happened to Ghislaine Maxwell. Also, prison is the most dangerous place for a pedophile and it’s not unusual for prison guards/officials to be woefully negligent.

Whereas, it’s difficult to argue against the theory that he was murdered. Why would a man who has comprise material on so many of the world’s rich/powerful people would need to commit suicide? Epstein’s attorney David Schoen was skeptical that he committed suicide. He said, "It doesn't seem logical to me that someone would actually hire me in a case nine days earlier and be excited up until the day of his death about fighting it, based on the strategy we had come up with, setting up meetings for me with the other lawyers."

Personally, I don’t have a strong opinion about how he died. However, we can all agree that the government isn’t giving us the full story. The circumstances around his death read like something in a Hollywood script. He placed an unmonitored call twelve hours before his death. The evidence from his first suicide or murder attempt is missing. The video of his actual death isn’t available. The FBI allowed evidence to be removed from his home and then allowed his handlers to return the evidence to the authorities. And just like a mob clean-up crew, the FBI swooped into his Virgin Islands property two days later and snatched up all of the evidence on the property.