The Epstein Network

Session report (Oct. 6, 2026)

Ended at about 87 minutes, rather than the full time, to push a large batch (113 claims) to review, which the owner allows.

Fixes from review. Re-proposed the Siad link, the Staley claims and the Mandelson date correction as the owner asked.

New records read

• The 2010 sworn statement of MC2’s former bookkeeper.
• Giuffre’s 2011 Mail on Sunday account, as filed in court.
• House and Senate letters on Maxwell’s 2025 prison transfer.
• Former Attorney General Bondi’s House Oversight transcript (May 2026).
• Todd Blanche’s written answers to the Senate Judiciary Committee (July 2026).
• The Bureau of Prisons’ May 2026 placement-policy change notice.
• A Bloomberg FOIA case docket.
• The 2024 ruling in Radar Online’s FOIA suit for the FBI’s Epstein files.
• The Solicitor General’s 2025 brief opposing Maxwell’s Supreme Court petition.
• The 2019 opening of the Justice Department’s internal review of the 2007 deal.
• The released video of Richard Kahn’s House deposition.
• Kathryn Ruemmler’s House transcript.

Maxwell’s transfer. The record now shows:

• The Bureau of Prisons’ press office named a career official as the approving official (reported by The Marshall Project).
• Blanche says she was moved after threats against her were reported by her own lawyer, and that he did not approve it.
• Bondi says she learned of it from the news.
• The justification on the released transfer form is redacted.

Other additions

• Two White House Situation Room meetings on the Epstein files in 2025 (one reported from a book).
• The May 2025 briefing in which Trump was reportedly told his name was in the files.
• Epstein’s 2018 offer, through a Norwegian politician, to give Russia’s foreign minister “insight” on Trump.
• Kahn’s testimony naming four men whom settling victims kept the right to sue: Dershowitz, Prince Andrew, Leon Black and Jes Staley. He said he was not making allegations.

Next: the unredacted transfer request, a second source for the July 2025 meeting, a May 2016 TV segment linking Epstein and Trump, and the NYC deed check on Brunel.

Session report: Brunel/MC2, the money question, and Epstein’s institutional ties (Oct. 6, 2026)

A full-length session following the open leads on Jean-Luc Brunel, MC2 Model Management, where Epstein’s money came from, and third-party investigations abroad. Everything below is proposed and waits for review.

Brunel and MC2

• The pilot’s logbook was swept for Brunel. New rows: a July 2, 2003 flight (JFK–Palm Beach) whose remarks list “JLB”. The match to Brunel is inferred, because the same logbook writes his name in full on other rows. The March 20, 2003 row (name partly smudged) was added to the March–April 2003 flight event. A Nov. 29, 1998 flight lists Glenn Dubin with Epstein and Maxwell (presence only).
• Bradley Edwards’s 2015 statement of facts records that MC2 employees told him Epstein-linked condos at 301 East 66th Street housed young models. The U.S. Virgin Islands complaint says Epstein’s address book lists units there as “Apt. for models”. The building, Ossa Properties and Mark Epstein were added. Reporting says Ossa owned most units and bought the building from Leslie Wexner in the early 1990s. Mark Epstein says his only tie to his brother beyond family was as landlord, and denies being his partner.
• The USVI complaint’s allegation that modelling opportunities were used as a pretext for recruitment was added.

Where the money came from

• Dechert’s review for Apollo gives Leon Black’s payments to Epstein year by year: $50M (2013), $70M (2014), $30M (2015), nothing in 2016, $8M (2017). It also documents $30.5M in loans in early 2017, of which $10M was repaid. Black’s own House statement mentions the unpaid loan.
• Black’s January 2023 settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands ($62.5M, no admission of liability) was added from the executed agreement, with CNN and Black’s spokesman’s response.
• Added the USVI complaint’s figures for Southern Trust (net income by year, no visible clients, the 2012 tax-incentive testimony) and the Wyden report’s figure that $140M of Black’s 2013–15 wires reached Southern Trust. A $6.3M wire from Black in 2016 that Wyden lists and Dechert does not is now a lead.

Banks, philanthropy, lawyers and diplomats

• Edmond de Rothschild bank: AFP and Radio France report Epstein’s 2016–17 offers to settle the exits of two dismissed bank staff. Olivier Colom, a former Elysée diplomatic adviser and bank executive, was added. Who introduced Epstein to the bank’s head is disputed and is a lead.
• Gates Foundation: its July 2026 statement and the WilmerHale executive summary say Epstein introduced the International Peace Institute to Bill Gates in 2012, a grant agreement followed in October 2013, and a $5.5M grant in March 2014 (the foundation’s grant record). A December 2014 donor breakfast at Epstein’s home ended the foundation’s work with him on a proposed fund. The review found no evidence Epstein was paid by the foundation or that it knew of his crimes. Fortune and VG add detail. Boris Nikolic, a former Gates adviser named in Epstein’s will as successor executor without his consent, was added with his response.
• IPI: VG reports Epstein paid for a May 2017 Broadway performance honouring Terje Rød-Larsen. Fortune and VG report IPI recommendation letters used in visa applications for women in Epstein’s orbit; the women are not named. Leon Black’s anonymous 2015 gifts to IPI were added (DN, Fortune).
• Brad Karp: Bloomberg Law and NBC report 2019 emails in which he reviewed Epstein’s draft motion defending the plea deal; his firm says it never represented Epstein. A correction to his summary was proposed.
• Richard Kahn: House Oversight Democrats and CBS report shifting answers from Kahn and his lawyer on whether the estate settled with an accuser identified as “Jane Doe 4”. His lawyer says more than one claimant used that pseudonym and cites confidentiality.

The case overview was revised to add Black’s 2023 settlement. Searches that found nothing are listed under dead ends.

Session, Oct. 5, 2026: Brunel’s flights, Pastrana, and Latvia

At the owner’s direction, this session followed the open leads from the previous session. It closed early once those leads had been worked.

More flights on the record. The pilot’s logbook from Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial lists Jean-Luc Brunel on more of Epstein’s flights:

• September 2002: Paris to New York.
• November 2002: Paris to Copenhagen.
• March 2003: Teterboro to Palm Beach.
• May 2003: Rome to Madrid and on to New York.

Other passengers are not named. A reader also found many entries for “JLB” in 2004–2005. The logbook doesn’t spell out who JLB is, so those are a lead, not a finding.

Andrés Pastrana. The former Colombian president is listed on Epstein’s plane on March 20 and 21, 2003, on the same flights as Brunel. In a 2019 statement reported by El Tiempo and Semana, he said the trip was a transfer through Nassau to Havana at Fidel Castro’s invitation, that he had met Epstein at an event in Dublin, and that he never went to Epstein’s island. Being on a flight is not evidence of wrongdoing.

Latvia. In May 2026, Latvia’s police chief said the investigation had found no Latvian nationals involved in recruiting, and that requests for help from the U.S. had not yet been answered.

Session, Oct. 5, 2026: following the MC2 and Brunel leads

At the owner’s direction, this session worked four open leads on the agent Jean-Luc Brunel and his agency MC2. Modeling agencies and models were searched only as sources of leads; on the board, only public figures and companies are named. The session closed early once the leads had been worked.

Florida corporate records. MC2 began as Karin Models of America, LLC, formed in Miami Beach on Sept. 29, 2003, and renamed MC2 Models Management, LLC on Sept. 2, 2005. It filed for voluntary dissolution on Sept. 27, 2019. The state filings we read name the company’s president, Jeff Fuller, as its manager; Brunel does not appear in them.

Flight logs. The pilot’s logbook from Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial lists “Jean Luc Brunel” with Epstein and Maxwell on a run of flights in March and April 2003: from Palm Beach to Nassau and New York, and from St. Thomas to São Paulo, Geneva and Paris. A logbook shows who was listed aboard, nothing more.

Latvia. Latvia’s State Police opened a human-trafficking investigation on Feb. 4, 2026 into material in the released Epstein files about the possible recruitment of Latvian nationals. No one has been reported charged. Latvian television had reported in 2011 that Brunel sat for several years on the jury of a Latvian modeling contest open to girls from age 14.

Not found. New York’s corporation search did not return the 1988 company that a 2019 report linked to Steven Mnuchin, so that remains a lead.

Session, Oct. 5, 2026: MC2 Model Management’s wider connections

At the owner’s direction, this session looked for records connecting Jean-Luc Brunel’s agency, MC2 Model Management, to other agencies, events, contests and travel involving people connected to Epstein. Under the scope the owner approved, only public figures and companies are named. Models are not named unless they are public figures speaking on the record, and accusers and anyone who was a minor are never named. The session closed early once the search was complete.

What the records show.

• A WWD photograph in Getty’s archive, dated April 11, 2005, is captioned as showing Ghislaine Maxwell and Brunel at the opening of Saks Fifth Avenue’s Roger Vivier boutique in New York. It shows them at the same event, nothing more.
• A 2011 JPMorgan due-diligence report on Epstein, quoted in court filings, notes that MC2 had been cited by Florida regulators for acting as a talent agent without a license.

What we could not confirm. No court record we read ties MC2 to Elite, to Trump’s modeling agency, or to any beauty pageant. Several reported connections rest on sources this board does not cite on their own: a 2011 Latvian news report that Brunel judged a modeling contest, a report about a 1989 agency’s paperwork, accounts of MC2’s 2019 closure, and an account that Epstein wanted MC2’s contracts modelled on Trump’s agency. Each is now a lead naming the record that would confirm or rule it out.

Session, Oct. 5, 2026: Jean-Luc Brunel’s connections

At the owner’s direction, this session connected the French modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel to the rest of the board from court records. We also looked for any record linking Brunel to Donald Trump. The plan was completed, so the session closed early to send its findings for review.

Brunel, Epstein and MC2. Brunel co-owned MC2 Model Management, an agency that opened in 2005.

• In the U.S. Virgin Islands’ suit against JPMorgan, the bank admitted that in 2005 it issued a $1 million letter of credit in Epstein’s name to back a bank loan to MC2, and renewed it until March 2011.
• Brunel’s own 2015 lawsuit against Epstein, which a Florida appeals court later dismissed for faulty service, says the two had known each other since MC2 began and that MC2 received a letter of credit from Epstein.
• Both MC2’s president and Epstein’s spokesman had denied in 2007 that Epstein had any role in the agency. Those denials are recorded beside the records.

Brunel and Maxwell. In her 2025 interview with the Justice Department, Ghislaine Maxwell said she met Brunel in Paris in the early 1990s and saw him with Epstein many times. In a 2016 deposition she said she did not recall Brunel bringing girls to Epstein’s houses.

The French case. France 24, citing AFP, confirmed the Paris prosecutor’s December 2020 announcement that Brunel was placed under formal investigation. Brunel had contested the accusations. He died in custody in 2022, before any trial.

Trump and Brunel. We found no record of direct dealings between them in the court records, bank filings and reporting we searched. One claim comes from a 2010 deposition by MC2’s former bookkeeper: that Epstein wanted MC2’s contracts modelled on Trump’s agency. It has not been found in any court filing, and it would describe a contract template, not contact between the two men.

Next: that deposition, the Paris prosecutor’s own statements, and whether any other country charged a third party.

Session, Oct. 5, 2026 (second session of the day)

We followed the board’s top priorities. Every planned step was done, so the session closed early to send the findings for review.

Case overview. Revised with the reviewer’s wording fixes. Brunel was “placed under formal investigation” and later found dead in a French jail cell. The Trump call to the Palm Beach police is what a former police chief told the FBI. The Justice Department’s response is attributed to ABC News.

The 2005–07 federal grand juries in Florida. Court records show that federal grand juries met in West Palm Beach in 2005 and 2007 and returned no indictment. From the transcripts released in December 2025, CBS News reported:

• April 2007 testimony from a young woman who said she brought fellow high-school students to Epstein and set up appointments through Ghislaine Maxwell.
• An FBI agent’s testimony that the state investigation had identified more than 25 girls, most of them under 18.

Separately, the AP and ABC News reported that prosecutors’ May 2007 draft indictment would have charged others as well as Epstein; the AP says three of his personal assistants. The deal signed that September promised not to charge four named assistants.

Where the money came from. Senator Wyden’s August 2026 staff report lists Leon Black’s payments to Epstein year by year, 2012–2017, totaling $169.8 million. It also says Black supplied about $166 million of the $184 million in revenue reported by Epstein’s Virgin Islands company in 2013–2017. A forensic accountant’s report filed in the Virgin Islands’ suit against JPMorgan shows that Epstein’s earlier company, Financial Trust, reported large sales until about 2006, then only $325,000 in total for 2009–2012, after Leslie Wexner ended their relationship.

Next: the 2007 draft indictment itself, the source of Financial Trust’s revenue before 2007, and a second outlet for the grand jury testimony.

Session, Oct. 5, 2026

This was a short session, closed early so that its findings can go to review. The owner prefers this, and every planned step was done.

Fix from review. The owner sent back a claim about Epstein’s 2004 bid for a Palm Beach mansion because the statement said more than its quote. It is now two claims, each with an exact quote from the Palm Beach Daily News of Sept. 19, 2004: that the bankruptcy judge accepted Epstein’s $36 million offer, and the trustee’s words that the judge had confirmed him as the “stalking-horse bidder.”

Epstein’s early career in 1990s newspapers. On the last day of a Newspapers.com trial, read by hand with the owner signed in, we searched for Epstein’s own business record before 2000. A New York Times News Service item from June 1991 (The Tennessean, p. 3) names Epstein as “president of Wexner Investment Co.” and one of four donors who pledged $2 million for a Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel building. That is the earliest dated record on the board of his role with Leslie Wexner, a few weeks before the July 1991 power of attorney. Searches for “J. Epstein & Co,” Bear Stearns and Financial Trust found nothing new.

Jean-Luc Brunel. The board now has the modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel, the only person beyond Epstein and Maxwell whom a judicial authority formally accused over Epstein-related abuse. According to the Paris prosecutor’s statement and NBC News, judges placed him under formal investigation in December 2020 for rapes of minors over 15 and sexual harassment. The AP reported that he denied wrongdoing and was found dead in custody in February 2022, before any trial.

Case overview. Revised to add Brunel, the 2004 bid and the reported call from Trump to Palm Beach police with the Justice Department’s response.

Next: a second outlet and the prosecutor’s own statement on Brunel, a check of other countries for any third-party charge, and the 1991 Wexner Investment Co. records.

What we looked at

This session asked what Donald Trump himself knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s conduct, and when. It also used the owner’s Newspapers.com access to search Palm Beach and national newspapers from 1987 to 2008. It then turned to two banks and to the night Epstein died at the Metropolitan Correctional Center. The session ended early so that a large batch could go to review.

What the records show

• Trump’s call to police. An FBI report of a 2019 interview with a former Palm Beach police chief records that Trump called the department when the investigation became known. It records him saying “everyone has known he’s been doing this” and that people in New York knew Epstein was “disgusting”. ABC News, citing a source, dates the call to July 2006. CNN, citing the Miami Herald, says about 2006. A Justice Department official told ABC the department knows of no evidence that corroborates the call.
• The 2002 profile. In New York magazine in 2002, Trump was quoted saying Epstein liked beautiful women, “many of them … on the younger side”.
• The 2004 mansion auction. Two Palm Beach papers reported in September 2004 that Epstein had made a $36 million offer for the Gosman estate, which a bankruptcy judge accepted as the opening bid. Trump outbid him that November. This explains why two reports of the auction give different opening bids.
• Brad Edwards. At a September 2025 press conference, the victims’ lawyer said Trump helped his investigation in 2009 by phone.
• Deutsche Bank. A July 2020 consent order by New York’s financial regulator found that the bank failed to scrutinise Epstein’s accounts from 2013 to 2018. The accounts included more than $2.65 million in wires to a trust’s beneficiaries and more than $800,000 in cash withdrawals. The bank paid a $150 million penalty that also covered two unrelated cases. Its chief executive called taking Epstein on “a critical mistake” (CNBC).
• JPMorgan. A 2023 court opinion records the lawsuits’ allegations against the bank. The bank said its association with Epstein “was a mistake” and denied liability (NBC).
• The night Epstein died. The Inspector General’s 2023 report records that at 10:39 p.m. on Aug. 9, 2019 an unidentified officer went up the stairs to Epstein’s tier. The report says its low-quality video often did not allow anyone to be identified.
• New Mexico. A May 2002 Albuquerque Tribune list of campaign donors shows $25,000 from Epstein to Bill Richardson’s campaign for governor.

What we could not confirm

• The date of the occasion when, by the police chief’s account, Trump was around Epstein “when teenagers were present”.
• A second source, independent of Vanity Fair, for the 2015 meeting between David Pecker and Trump.
• Any 2003–2008 newspaper report of a Mar-a-Lago ban. The searches and their result counts are logged in the dead ends.

Changes proposed for review

• New items: Deutsche Bank; Michael Cohen and his 2018 plea; the Pecker–Trump link, rebuilt from court records only; the Lex Fridman interview event; the call to police; and new claims on the auction, the Inspector General’s report, JPMorgan, Jes Staley, Richardson and the 2002 profile.
• A revised case overview.

What we looked at

This session was a case review, the board’s first. It did no new research and added no new evidence. Instead it took stock of everything gathered over the previous 45 sessions against the five questions the investigation is trying to answer:

• who the records accuse of abusing minors;
• who enabled the operation;
• where the money came from and what it bought;
• what Donald Trump knew, and when;
• where institutions failed: the 2007 plea deal, the banks, the jail and the handling of the files.

The session ended before its time budget because a review is finished when the stock-take is done.

What the records show

No new findings. The review checked the board’s published claims against each other for repeats and disagreements. It found four pairs where the same article or report had been entered twice, and asked editors to remove the extra copy. It also found two places where published reports disagree with each other:

• the opening bids at the November 2004 Palm Beach estate auction (Palm Beach Post vs. Palm Beach Daily News);
• the total Leon Black paid Epstein (the $158 million found by Apollo’s review vs. the $170 million cited by Sen. Wyden).

What we could not confirm

Several gaps are now recorded as tasks for future sessions:

• Jean-Luc Brunel’s 2020 charges in France are not yet on the board.
• The board does not yet hold the original 2002 New York magazine profile in which Trump described Epstein.
• The court records and the bank’s response in the JPMorgan suits are missing.
• Deutsche Bank’s 2020 consent order is missing.
• The settlements with Epstein’s estate and its executors are missing.
• Whether the Inspector General’s report accounts for movement seen on the jail video on Aug. 9, 2019 is not yet checked.

Changes proposed for review

• Four corrections removing duplicate claims.
• A proposed rewording of one of the board’s central questions, for the owner to decide.

Next sessions will work, in order:

• Trump’s earliest statements about Epstein (the 2002 profile and a 2009 call with victims’ lawyer Brad Edwards).
• Epstein’s money flows year by year after 2007.
• The FBI’s 2019 interview records.
• The 2006 Florida grand jury transcripts.
• The Inspector General’s account of the night Epstein died.

What we looked at

Who the records connect to Little St. James, Epstein’s island in the U.S. Virgin Islands. We also looked at whether Bill Clinton ever went there. Being a guest on the island is not evidence of wrongdoing.

This session ended early by the owner’s standing choice to push large batches for review mid-session.

What the records show

• Prince Andrew. In his January 2022 answer to the civil suit against him, he admitted the complaint’s statement that he had confirmed staying at Epstein’s island (S.D.N.Y. 21-cv-06702, Doc. 71 ¶34). BBC News reported the same confirmation. He denied the suit’s allegation that he abused the plaintiff there (Doc. 71 ¶40). Pilot David Rodgers’s logbook (Government Exhibit 662-R, p. 62) lists “Prince Andrew” on flights from Teterboro to St. Thomas on Feb. 9, 1999 and from St. Thomas to Palm Beach on Feb. 12, 1999. The logbook records the airport, not the island.
• Ghislaine Maxwell. At her 2021 trial, Epstein’s pilot Larry Visoski testified that Maxwell flew the helicopter used to get from St. Thomas to the island. Asked whether she supervised the island’s late-1990s construction, he said she “was involved, absolutely” (Doc. 743, pp. 36, 115).
• Seth Lloyd. MIT’s 2020 outside review found that MIT professor Seth Lloyd visited the island for a few hours for lunch (Goodwin Procter report, p. 12).
• Visits by people’s own account or reporting: Reid Hoffman, with Joi Ito, in 2014 (Fortune citing the WSJ, NBC, CNN); Joanna Rubinstein in 2012 (AFP, Sveriges Radio); Leon Botstein (Bard’s outside review, via The Guardian); Naomi Campbell (her lawyer, via The New York Times and CNN); Ahmed bin Sulayem (DOJ photos, via CNN).
• 2006 physics workshop. Physicists at the Epstein-funded workshop on St. Thomas took a boat to the island for a picnic (NPR; the St. Thomas Source at the time).
• Trump said in 2024 (Lex Fridman podcast) and in July 2025 (CNN, Axios) that he never went to the island.
• Clinton. Virginia Giuffre testified in 2016 that she met Clinton at two dinners on the island (Doc. 1335-3, pp. 73–75). Clinton says he never went. Doug Band was reported in 2020 to have said Clinton visited in January 2003. In 2026 he told House Oversight he has no information that Clinton visited. ABC News reports that the pilots’ logs show no Clinton flights to the island.

What we could not confirm

• Whether Clinton went to the island. No passenger, helicopter or Secret Service record places him on St. Thomas with Epstein. Giuffre’s 2025 memoir, as quoted by Newsweek, mentions a dinner with Clinton but does not say where it was.
• The 1999 St. Thomas flights do not show that Andrew went on to the island.
• A second established outlet for Brin and Wojcicki’s reported 2007 visit, and a response from Marvin Minsky’s side on the record.

Changes proposed for review

About 110 items. New entities: Larry Visoski, Seth Lloyd, Stephen Hawking, Lawrence Krauss, Jim Peebles, Naomi Campbell and Joi Ito. Island links: Maxwell, Visoski, Prince Andrew, bin Sulayem and Ito. Visit events: Hoffman, Rubinstein, Botstein, Lloyd, Campbell and the 2006 physicists’ picnic. Also Andrew’s 1999 logbook flights with a document crop, two Trump statements, and Giuffre’s account of Clinton dinners together with the denials. The island now has map coordinates. A revised case overview adds the island.

What we looked at

New ground at the owner’s request: Trump’s 2016 hush-money arrangements and the cases that followed, and whether the people in them (Michael Cohen, David Pecker of the National Enquirer’s publisher AMI, Hope Hicks) cross the Epstein record. Ended early under the owner’s standing permission to push a coherent batch once the planned work was done.

What the records show

• The cases, from court and prosecutor records:
  • AMI admitted in a Sept. 20, 2018 non-prosecution agreement that in 2016 it paid $150,000, at a presidential campaign’s request, to keep a woman’s allegations quiet before the election. It also admitted that Pecker met Cohen in August 2015 and offered to help find such stories (statement of admitted facts, ¶¶ 2–3).
  • Cohen pleaded guilty on Aug. 21, 2018. He said he acted “at the direction of” a candidate (plea transcript, p. 23).
  • A Manhattan jury convicted Trump on all 34 counts on May 30, 2024, and he was sentenced to an unconditional discharge on Jan. 10, 2025. His state appeal is pending.
  • On Aug. 28, 2026 a federal judge again refused to move the case to federal court, writing that hush-money payments “could not be an official act” (S.D.N.Y. 23-cv-3773, Doc. 93). Trump denies wrongdoing and has appealed.
• Where the record meets Epstein:
  • Vanity Fair (2019) reported that around February 2015 Pecker brought Trump an Enquirer issue with Epstein and Prince Andrew coverage. Sam Nunberg recalled Trump saying Pecker told him Epstein’s island pictures of Clinton were “worse”. Cohen corroborated this from prison. It is a second-hand recollection; no record shows that such pictures exist, and Clinton denies visiting the island.
  • On Feb. 27, 2015, at CPAC, Trump said Clinton had “a lot of problems coming up … with the famous island with Jeffrey Epstein” (Roll Call Factba.se transcript, 21:09).
  • Epstein’s August 2018 email reacting to Cohen’s plea (“what it means to have your fixer flip”) is already on the board.

What we could not confirm

• None of the hush-money records reviewed mentions Epstein:
  • AMI’s admitted facts and the DA’s statement of facts.
  • Cohen’s 2019 Rule 35 filings.
  • Pecker’s and Hicks’s 2024 trial testimony.
• A July 17, 2019 SDNY note, reported only by independent writers, says Cohen’s lawyers offered that he had “heard Trump say things about Epstein”. No established outlet or court filing has published it, and no Bates number has been found. Cohen says he knows nothing of the Trump–Epstein relationship.

Changes proposed for review

• New entities: Michael Cohen, David Pecker and American Media, Inc.
• Nine events, from the February 2015 Pecker visit to the August 2026 removal denial.
• Three relationships.
• Three theories on the overlap question.
• A revised case overview that applies the checker’s fixes and restores Trump’s “threw him out” account.

What we looked at

Owner direction: connect the 30 published entities that had no relationships on the board. We also re-proposed the case overview with the checker’s fixes and searched for a second source for the 2018 “Trump introduced us” email. Ended early by owner’s standing permission to push a coherent batch for review once the planned work was done (13 minutes).

What the records show

• Every one of the 30 isolated entities is now linked, mostly using sources already published on the board, with each quote rechecked. Each link is labelled with only what the record shows, and the person’s own denial or limits are attached. Examples:
  • Bill Gates: contact 2011 to Dec. 2014, per his House testimony.
  • Howard Lutnick: three meetings and a 2018 AdFin email, per his House transcript. He says he had no relationship with Epstein.
  • Ehud Barak: a “yearslong friendship” that he says he ended in 2019 (AP).
  • Larry Summers: an island visit on his December 2005 honeymoon and correspondence until 2019 (Boston Globe).
  • Ted Waitt: a six-year relationship with Maxwell (House transcript).
  • Epstein paid off £15,000 of Sarah Ferguson’s debts (Guardian, BBC) and lent Terje Rød-Larsen $130,000 in 2013 (Rød-Larsen’s 2020 letter, via CNN).
• Property ownership: the USVI complaint states that Epstein acquired Little St. James in 1998 and that Nautilus, Inc. holds the title. The New Mexico Truth Commission and AP date the Zorro Ranch purchase to March 1, 1993.
• New organisation: the International Peace Institute. CNN (2020) gives Rød-Larsen as its president and Kevin Rudd as its board chair, and reports $650,000 in donations from Epstein-linked foundations between October 2011 and May 2019. Rudd is not linked to Epstein directly, because the records show no contact.
• Trump’s circle:
  • Melania–Trump: marriage (White House biography; AP 2005).
  • Lutnick–Trump: “more than 30 years” (House transcript).
  • Barrack–Trump: chair of the 2017 inaugural committee (NYT).
  • Acosta–Trump: Labor Secretary until July 12, 2019 (OPR report).
  • Maxwell–Trump: her 2025 DOJ account, a 2020 prosecutor’s email listing at least four flights with both aboard (NBC), and a 1997 Getty caption.
• Maxwell’s other links: she told DOJ that Clinton met Epstein through her. She took several breaks with Prince Andrew in 2000 (London Evening Standard, 2001).
• Back-channel question: AP reports that the DOJ documents show Epstein connected Barak with Steve Bannon and set up meetings in 2018. That is an introduction which was actually made, though Bannon had left the White House by then. CBS reports that documents show bin Sulayem and Epstein consulting each other from the early 2000s.
• 2018 email: Fortune (Mar. 10, 2026) reported, three months before the WSJ, that an email in the DOJ files says Trump introduced an acquaintance to Epstein at the Plaza Hotel in the early 1990s. The woman is not named on the board.

What we could not confirm

• An independent second outlet for Marla Maples’s mid-1990s concerns; searches found only rewrites of the WSJ report.
• Any meeting resulting from Epstein’s offers to introduce Ambani to Bannon or Barrack.

Changes proposed for review

• 50 relationships, one new entity (IPI) and one new source (Fortune).
• A correction to the published 2019 FBI-interviews event, citing the FD-302s directly.
• A revised case overview with the checker’s three fixes and a paragraph on Gates’s and Lutnick’s later contacts.

What we looked at

• Items you sent back:
  • Acosta’s 2025 House interview
  • the 2011 “Before I call Trump” email
  • Marla Maples
  • the Massie/Khanna un-redactions
  • the Black Family Foundation tax filings
  • the case overview
• Two owner decisions:
  • Epstein’s former assistant’s House answers, quoted in full.
  • The four 2019 FBI interview reports, opened by their EFTA numbers.
• The NPA questions:
  • the 2006 grand jury clerk’s notes
  • the defense’s September 2007 draft
  • the December 2007 hold on victim notification
  • the Justice Department’s 2008 reviews
• The 2019 press-conference video, to test Acosta’s 2025 account of it.

What the records show

• The 2019 FBI interviews. The FBI’s own reports (New York case file 31E-NY-3027571) record four interviews with a woman: July 24, Aug. 7, Aug. 20 and Oct. 16, 2019.
  • On Aug. 7 she said that when she was 13 to 15, Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump (EFTA02858481, p. 7).
  • Each report notes it contains no FBI conclusions. Trump denies the allegation.
  • Only dates and non-graphic lines are quoted.
• The Justice Department’s reviews backed prosecution. The Criminal Division’s May 15, 2008 letter, copied to Fisher and Mandelker, said a federal prosecution “would not be improper or inappropriate”. The Deputy Attorney General’s office wrote on June 23, 2008 that it believed “federal prosecution of this case is appropriate” (DE 403-8 and 403-9).
  • Epstein’s lawyers first called the Criminal Division chief’s office on Nov. 16, 2007, after the NPA was signed (OPR p. 120).
• The December 2007 notification hold.
  • On Dec. 5, 2007, the defense urged Acosta to withhold the victim letters until it could see Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher.
  • On Dec. 7, First Assistant Jeffrey Sloman ordered “Hold the letter” after “speaking to somebody” he could not identify (OPR pp. 240–241).
  • Sloman’s June 3, 2008 letter credits Criminal Division deputy Sigal Mandelker with advising Acosta to defer notice to the State Attorney. Mandelker says the language came from Acosta’s team. The letter itself is withheld as privileged (DE 338-1).
• The co-conspirator clause. The defense’s Sept. 16, 2007 draft protected only named persons (the four assistants) and one company’s employees, with no open-ended wording (DE 361-16 p. 5).
• Acosta.
  • In 2025 he said he “never made that assertion” that Epstein “belonged to intelligence” (Doc. 855-6 p. 275).
  • The 2019 video shows him saying he would “hesitate to take this reporting as fact” and could not address it because of DOJ guidelines.
• Black Family Foundation. The 2001 and 2002 tax returns list Epstein as an unpaid director; the 2013 return does not. Black testified that he put Epstein on the board in 1997 and asked him off after the conviction.
• Epstein’s former assistant. She connected Epstein’s calls with Trump “early on”, and they were not frequent. She never arranged Mar-a-Lago spa visits.
• The WSJ’s 2003 spa account.
  • Its full text says a manager faxed Trump an 18-year-old beautician’s allegation, and that Trump said to “kick him out”.
  • It says Maples raised concerns about Epstein “soon after the club opened in 1995”.
• Absence searches.
  • The 96-page Palm Beach police report has no text mention of Mar-a-Lago or Trump.
  • The 2006 grand jury clerk’s notes are titled “Crimes against Children Investigation” and record no vote.

What we could not confirm

• Who Sloman spoke to before the Dec. 7 hold.
• Citable copies of the FBI reports and the 990-PFs. They are behind DOJ’s age check and ProPublica’s Cloudflare check, so they were read from copies the owner downloaded.
• Independent confirmation of the WSJ 2003 account by another established outlet.
• The Farmer v. United States complaint. The case was transferred in; the plaintiff’s account is on hold per the owner.

Changes proposed for review

• Re-proposed fixes: the Acosta interview, the 2011 email, Maples, the Massie/Khanna un-redactions and the Black Family Foundation board.
• New events:
  • the Dec. 5–7, 2007 notification hold
  • Acosta’s Dec. 19, 2007 deferral of victim notice to the State Attorney
• Claims on existing events:
  • the 2019 FBI interviews
  • the 2003 spa ban
  • the 2006 indictment
  • the DOJ reviews (Nov. 2007 – June 2008)
  • the ODAG decision of June 23, 2008
  • the NPA co-conspirator clause
  • the start of the Palm Beach police investigation
• Theories:
  • New: 3f9724ee (spa-level complaint only) and a496be09 (the hold was the USAO’s own pause).
  • The state-case theory returned to “open” after the red-team found it over-credited.
  • Main Justice pressure: weakened on the terms, contested on notification.
• Case overview revised.

What we looked at

• The full Justice Department OPR report (Nov. 2020, filed in U.S. v. Maxwell as Doc. 204-3), read for the first time beyond its executive summary. We covered the May–Sept. 2007 chronology (pp. 45–107) and OPR’s analysis (pp. 160–200).
• The 2006 Palm Beach County grand jury transcript and Judge Delgado’s July 1, 2024 order releasing it. We used a mirror of the clerk’s release, because the clerk’s own site blocks automated access.
• The district court’s 2019 CVRA opinion (DE 435) and Acosta’s Sept. 19, 2025 House Oversight transcript.
• A new watch hit: DOJ’s Oct. 1, 2026 motion in Phang v. Blanche.
• Reporting and the White House’s response on the Wall Street Journal’s 2003 Mar-a-Lago spa story.
• Newspapers.com searches of 1987–2003 coverage.

What the records show

• Why the 2007 deal took its shape. OPR found that Acosta’s main concern was federalism and deference to the state (OPR p. 167), and that this concern produced the state-plea form (p. 170).
  • The only Main Justice input before the offer came from DOJ’s Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section (CEOS), which on July 18, 2007 called the line prosecutor’s charges “legally sound” (p. 73).
  • Acosta wrote that he would “rather keep it here” rather than let the defense go to Washington (p. 184).
  • OPR found no corruption or improper influence (p. 167). The defense’s later Department appeals did not change the deal (p. 185).
  • Nobody could recall how the two-year term was chosen (p. 74).
• The co-conspirator clause. The stipulated facts in DE 435 (p. 6) and OPR (pp. 105–106) both show that Epstein’s lawyers’ drafts of Sept. 16 and 21, 2007 introduced the promise not to charge co-conspirators.
  • The line prosecutor accepted it as harmless, believing it covered only the four named assistants (pp. 96, 107).
  • OPR found no debate about the clause (p. 192) and no evidence it was meant to protect influential associates (p. 194).
• Intelligence claim. OPR found no evidence that Epstein was an intelligence asset (p. 195). Acosta told House Oversight in 2025 that he never said Epstein “belonged to intelligence” and was never approached by intelligence agencies (Doc. 855-6, p. 276).
• The 2006 state grand jury. It heard six witnesses (transcript index).
  • A prosecutor asked a witness who had been 14 whether she was aware she had committed a crime (transcript p. 48).
  • Prosecutors questioned the State Attorney’s investigator about a witness’s MySpace posts on drugs, alcohol and shoplifting (transcript p. 145).
  • CBS reported the criticism of this questioning.
• Mar-a-Lago. The White House answered the WSJ’s 2003 spa report by saying Trump “did nothing wrong” and kicked Epstein out “for being a creep”. The source is the WSJ text, and the Daily Beast reports the same.
• Phang v. Blanche. DOJ argues that the Epstein Files Transparency Act (EFTA) gives no private right of action. It says more than 1,200 victim or relative names were redacted, and concedes the 30-day deadline (Doc. 52-1).

What we could not confirm

• The defense’s purpose for the open-ended clause. OPR records only the prosecutors’ side.
• Main Justice and the terms. Whether anyone in the Criminal Division saw the terms before signing is unknown. Lourie was negotiating from Alice Fisher’s office in September 2007.
• The grand jury vote and charge. These are recorded only in the handwritten clerk’s notes, which have not been read.
• The Black Family Foundation’s 2013 990-PF. ProPublica’s viewer page could not be text-extracted, so the sent-back source is still unfixed.
• Newspapers.com. Searches for “Jeffrey Epstein” with Trump:
  • New York, 1987–1993 and 1994–2003: 0 hits.
  • Nationwide, 1987–1999: 13 hits. The PBDN June 13, 1999 item only lists Epstein among Avenue magazine’s eligible bachelors, and the other hits were not checked.

Changes proposed for review

• New events:
  • The defense origin of the co-conspirator clause, from DE 435 and OPR.
  • OPR’s November 2020 findings, from the report and AP.
  • The July 1, 2024 release of the grand jury transcript, from the order and AP.
  • Acosta’s Sept. 19, 2025 House interview, from the transcript and the committee readout.
  • DOJ’s Oct. 1, 2026 Rule 12(c) motion in Phang v. Blanche.
• Claims added to existing items: the July 31, 2007 offer (CEOS, the two-year decision, “keep it here”), the 2006 indictment (Lourie’s “torpedoed” email, two transcript passages, CBS), and the 2003 spa event (the White House response, two sources).
• Theories:
  • New rival theories: 998e2ff8, the state-case backstop (supported pending review), and 0221bc79, a clause sought by the defense (supported pending review).
  • Weakened: 6d223566 (Main Justice pressure), 52c870f1 (boilerplate) and 8e8adeea (nothing known until 2005).
  • Assessed for the first time: the Mar-a-Lago knowledge question.
• Case overview revised.

What we looked at

• Fixes the owner sent back:
  • Rød-Larsen (his statement of innocence is now sourced);
  • the Zorro Ranch (AP re-cited to the published copy; acreage added);
  • AdFin ($350k described as Cantor’s, not Lutnick’s);
  • the 2011 “Before I call Trump” email (neutral title);
  • the Trump estate photos (folded into the published release event by correction);
  • the case overview.
• The falling-out question: a devil’s-advocate test of whether the friendship faded after the November 2004 auction rather than ending with a club expulsion.
• New ground:
  • the Black Family Foundation’s tax filings;
  • second sources for island visits;
  • Congress and the unredacted files;
  • people named in the 2026 releases in the U.S., the U.K., Norway, Sweden, India and Australia.

This session ended early to keep the batch reviewable (about 112 claims). Last session’s 184-item batch was too large for the checker’s tool to read.

What the records show

• The 2003 ban: the Wall Street Journal’s full spa article (MSN copy) describes a 2003 ban of Epstein and Maxwell from the club’s spa, not the club. It says the two men “continued to cross paths” afterward. It never mentions 2007, Page Six, a parent’s complaint or an account closure.
• Newspapers.com, 2005–08: a search for “Jeffrey Epstein” and Trump in Florida papers (48 hits) found no item placing the two together after November 2004.
• The Mar-a-Lago subpoena: Giuffre v. Maxwell Doc. 1330-9 holds only the Aug. 16, 2016 cover letter for the club’s production (Bates Mar-A-Lago 0075–0595), not the pages themselves.
• Black Family Foundation:
  • Its 2001 and 2012 Form 990-PF filings list Jeffrey Epstein of 358 El Brillo Way as a director (read on the page images).
  • The 2013 filing no longer lists him.
  • Dechert’s review for Apollo says he resigned in mid-2007 and that the 2008–2012 filings missed this through an oversight.
• Leon Black’s island visit: Black’s 2020 letter describes a short family visit to the island for a picnic lunch (Inquirer, CNN).
• Branson: his spokespeople say he took a 90-minute real-estate tour of the island in November 2013 (CNN, Paste).
• Congress and the files:
  • DOJ opened a reading room for members of Congress from Feb. 9, 2026 (AP, Axios).
  • After Reps. Massie and Khanna viewed the files, DOJ un-redacted a 2019 FBI document that calls Wexner a “co-conspirator” (CBS, CNN). Wexner’s representatives say the prosecutor told him he was not a target. CBS says the files do not appear to implicate the six men named in any crime.
  • Senate Democrats announced an Epstein Working Group on Feb. 26, 2026 (their own release).
• European investigations: Norway, Poland and Latvia told the Washington Post that DOJ has not granted their legal-assistance requests. DOJ says it has refused no one.
• New entities, each with two outlets and the person’s own response:
  • Branson, Rubinstein, Rudd, Brende, Crown Princess Mette-Marit, Karp, Ruemmler (including her House transcript), Wasserman, Musk, Botstein, Chomsky, Hoffman, Tisch, Puri and Ferguson.
  • Several of them deny wrongdoing; none has been charged.
• The 2018 email: an acquaintance wrote that Trump introduced her to Epstein. It is on the record only as the WSJ text read at Gates’s House interview (p. 108). The woman is protected because her lawyer describes a coercive relationship.
• Marla Maples: the WSJ reports, citing former employees, that she told Trump in the mid-1990s she was uneasy about Epstein.

What we could not confirm

• Any dated club record of Epstein’s status.
• The WSJ’s June 2026 “hidden figure” article and the 2018 email itself (the WSJ is paywalled and the owner has no subscription).
• A second outlet, independent of the WSJ, for the Maples account or the 2018 email.
• The outcome of the 1998 Palm Beach code board hearing (Newspapers.com searches were empty).
• The EFTA documents cited in the Lutnick transcript. Opening the DOJ library in Chrome was denied by a permission check, so it is left for the owner.

Changes proposed for review

• Re-proposed fixes: Rød-Larsen, the Zorro Ranch, the AdFin event, the 2011 email event, a correction merging the Trump photos into release event 4cef72cf, and the overview.
• New entities (17): Branson, Rubinstein, Rudd, Brende, Mette-Marit, Karp, Ruemmler, Wasserman, Musk, Botstein, Chomsky, Hoffman, Tisch, Puri, Ferguson, plus the re-proposed Rød-Larsen and Zorro Ranch.
• New events:
  • Black foundation filings;
  • Branson’s and Black’s island visits;
  • the DOJ reading room;
  • the Massie/Khanna un-redactions;
  • the Senate working group;
  • the European legal-assistance requests;
  • the 2018 email;
  • the Maples account.
• Claims added to published items: the WSJ address-book line on the spa event, and the Trump photo claims on the release event.
• Theory assessments: WSJ claim 197a68e7 against T7, T5 and T3.

What we looked at

• Fixes the owner sent back: the Gates entity, the townhouse and flight events, and the overview.
• Planned routes:
  • the first public report of the Mar-a-Lago ban;
  • Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in 2005–07;
  • 1993 photos;
  • Ambani–Kushner/Bannon;
  • Lutnick’s primary records.
• Routes added to fill the session:
  • Page Six (2007) vs the WSJ’s 2003 spa account;
  • the companies that held Epstein’s houses and the title chain of 9 East 71st Street;
  • Trump–Epstein contact after 2007;
  • Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago in 2000;
  • court dockets (Phang, Wolff, Trump v. Dow Jones);
  • the Ted Waitt transcript;
  • the 10:39 p.m. figure on the MCC stairs;
  • Leon Black’s $158M vs $170M;
  • the UK Mandelson files;
  • Trump’s plane statements;
  • Norway (Rød-Larsen, Jagland);
  • Prince Andrew in 2026;
  • Dershowitz’s settlement;
  • the 2006 case number;
  • the Zorro Ranch;
  • international fallout (Slovakia, France, Dubai);
  • the FBI/DOJ “prominent names” slide deck;
  • Greene’s account;
  • the December 2025 estate photos of Trump;
  • Giuffre’s accounts of Clinton.

This session ended early to keep the batch reviewable: it is already about 125 claims. The remaining leads need owner action: the DOJ age gate, PACER, Factiva, and paywalled NYT and WSJ articles.

What the records show

• Earliest report of the ban: Radar Online, Oct. 12, 2007 (Wayback). An unnamed “high-level executive” at Mar-a-Lago said a member’s daughter went to Epstein’s home, her father complained at the club, and Epstein “was told never to come back”. Page Six reported on Oct. 15 that the club had confirmed “a Web site report”. Page Six’s own source described a different reason (a masseuse of about 18). Radar is a low-rated outlet that Epstein once backed, citing one anonymous source. No independent 2007 confirmation was found. The 2009 lawyer’s email says the manager confirmed Epstein was “never asked to leave”. A devil’s-advocate review notes the two 2007 accounts may be one source counted twice, so T7 stays open.
• 1993 photos: Dafydd Jones’s archive captions show Trump and Epstein at the Harley Davidson Cafe opening (Oct. 19, 1993) and Epstein arriving at Trump’s December 1993 wedding to Marla Maples. CNN corroborates both. The White House calls such images out-of-context frame grabs.
• Vanity Fair 2003: Trump was listed among businessmen who dined at Epstein’s home. No other Trump statement about Epstein before 2009 was found beyond the 2002 New York magazine quote.
• December 2025 estate photos: House Oversight Democrats released three photos of Trump, one apparently from a 1997 Victoria’s Secret event (ABC, CNN). The White House called the release “cherry-picked”, and Trump said “hundreds and hundreds of people” had photos with Epstein.
• Giuffre: her 2016 deposition dates her Mar-a-Lago job to 2000, when she met Maxwell at 16. AP reported Trump saying Epstein “stole her”.
• After 2007: no direct Trump–Epstein contact is documented. Epstein emailed a private investigator “Before I call Trump” in April 2011 (ABC Australia, TNR), but no call is recorded. At a June 2026 House hearing Rep. Dean said the President “lied about being on Epstein’s plane” (hearing transcript).
• Lutnick:
  • Senate testimony, Feb. 10, 2026: he “barely had anything to do with that person”.
  • AdFin: Epstein and a Lutnick-signed Cantor entity both invested (CBS, Mother Jones). His counsel disputes the December 2012 date.
  • His 2025 statement “never be in the room” sits against the 2012 island lunch.
  • The Dec. 24, 2012 invitation email, per CBS.
• Properties:
  • Deeds show 9 East 71st Street moved from Birch Wathen School to Nine East 71st St Corp in 1989, then to Maple, Inc. for $0 in December 2011, then was sold for $51M in 2021.
  • The Virgin Islands complaint and Bloomberg put the Manhattan and Palm Beach houses in the new Virgin Islands companies Maple and Laurel in December 2011. The Virgin Islands alleges this was done to shield them from judgments.
  • The Zorro Ranch was bought March 1, 1993 from Gov. King’s family, moved to Cypress, Inc. on Dec. 16, 2011, and sold in 2023 to San Rafael Ranch LLC (NM Truth Commission, AP, USVI complaint).
  • Wexner swore he never had an interest in NES, LLC.
• Leon Black: Wyden’s March 2025 letter says Treasury records show $12M in wires that the Apollo-commissioned review did not identify, putting the total over $170M. Black testified in 2026 that what he thought was $95M net was $158M.
• Mandelson: the UK government’s own Dec. 2024 due-diligence note recorded his reported stay at Epstein’s house in June 2009. Starmer told the Commons that UK Security Vetting had recommended denying clearance and the Foreign Office granted it anyway. Robbins said he was told the risks were not about Epstein.
• Other public figures:
  • Waitt testified he met Epstein fewer than five times and never went to his homes, plane or island (transcript p. 10; ABC). He knew nothing of the Trump–Epstein relationship (p. 65).
  • Rød-Larsen took a $130,000 Epstein loan (CNN, PassBlue) and is under Norwegian investigation (Reuters).
  • Jagland has been charged with aggravated corruption (Økokrim, CNN) and denies it.
  • Lajčák resigned (Al Jazeera, AP).
  • Jack Lang quit the Arab World Institute and is under French investigation (Euronews, Al Jazeera).
  • DP World replaced bin Sulayem (CBS, Al Jazeera).
• Clinton: Giuffre’s 2016 deposition places him at two dinners on the island and says he was never sexually involved with her. She also said she only heard that Maxwell flew him in by helicopter. Her 2025 memoir mentions the dinners without accusing him (CBS/AP).
• Courts and agencies:
  • Phang v. Blanche: the court denied DOJ’s partial stay but temporarily stayed foreign-language review (Doc. 49).
  • The 2006 state indictment is case 2006CF9454 (OPR report). The NPA’s “9495” appears to be a typo.
  • The Inspector General attributed the 10:39 p.m. stair figure to an officer believed to be Noel carrying linen. The FBI log called it “a flash of orange”. Noel denies it.
  • Dershowitz–Giuffre: the parties said the 2022 resolution involved no payment.
  • The FBI “prominent names” deck is unverified by its own terms (CNN, NPR).
  • Thames Valley Police said in May 2026 that the Mountbatten-Windsor investigation continues.

What we could not confirm

• An independent 2007 confirmation of the ban, or the identity of the club official.
• Any record of Epstein at a Mar-a-Lago event in 2005–07.
• Whether the 2007 masseuse and the 2003 spa worker are the same person.
• Who owned NES, LLC, and who ran Lewex Inc.
• Primary scans of the Trump message slips. They likely sit in DOJ Data Set 1, which can’t be browsed under the EFTA rule.
• EFTA numbers for the Gates photos, which came from the estate.
• The NYT Magazine original of Greene’s account.

Changes proposed for review

• Re-proposed: Gates, the townhouse and flight events, and the overview (598 words).
• New entities: Ted Waitt, Terje Rød-Larsen, Thorbjørn Jagland, Miroslav Lajčák, Jack Lang, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, and the Zorro Ranch.
• New events:
  • the Dec. 2025 Trump estate photos;
  • Radar 2007;
  • the 1993 Harley Davidson Cafe;
  • the 1993 wedding;
  • Giuffre 2000;
  • Lutnick’s Senate testimony;
  • AdFin;
  • the Dec. 2011 Maple and Laurel transfers;
  • the 2011 “Before I call Trump” email;
  • the 1989 deed;
  • the 2021 sale;
  • the Phang stay order;
  • the Mandelson files;
  • the Mandelson vetting disclosure;
  • the FBI slide deck.
• New claims on existing items: Clinton, Trump (Vanity Fair 2003), Lutnick, Wexner, Black, Ambani, Mountbatten-Windsor, Dershowitz, the MCC stairs, the indictment, the 2004 message slips, the 2009 email, and the Gates photos.
• Correction: repoint the Gates photo event.
• Theory assessments: T2, T3, T4, T5, T7 and T8; T8 is weakened.

What we looked at

We fixed the seven items the owner sent back:

• Gates: the owner asked for photos and a stronger documented connection.
• Smaller fixes: Mandelson’s attribution, the Blanche written-answer quote, the roll-call quote, the Edwards quotes, the overview, and the CNN 2009 Staley claim.

We ended early, under the owner’s standing approval, to push the batch for review.

What the records show

• Gates at Epstein’s townhouse. Gates told House Oversight that his contacts with Epstein included several meetings at Epstein’s New York residence (transcript p. 125). The New York Times reported in 2019 at least three townhouse visits, one lasting late into the night.

• Gates’s flight. Gates flew with Epstein to Palm Beach around March 1, 2013, on a plane that was not the 727 (transcript p. 52). The Times cites a manifest for a Gulfstream from Teterboro; Gates named Newark. CNBC also reported the flight. Gates’s spokeswoman said he did not know it was Epstein’s plane.

• Gates in the estate photos. House Oversight Democrats released estate photos in December 2025:

  • Gates beside a small plane with a crew member (NBC);
  • two photos of Gates with women whose faces were redacted (CNN).

  Gates testified that Epstein asked him to be photographed with people after meetings, that he was not introduced to them (p. 19), and that he “may have been in the presence of victims” (p. 58). He says he never went to the island and denies wrongdoing.

• Blanche. The Senate roll call (Vote 230) shows him confirmed 50-49 with one senator not voting. His written Senate answers say congressional staff were allowed to review the unredacted files.

• Edwards. The p. 103 quotes now use single Google Books snippets.

What we could not confirm

• Any court record of a 2009 Staley island stay. The UK tribunal places his 2009 visits in Miami and at the ranch, so CNN’s claim was dropped.
• EFTA Bates numbers or outlet captions for any DOJ-released photo of Gates.
• An outlet independent of CNN for Branson’s island tour.
• A written Wexner transcript.

Changes proposed for review

• Gates: re-proposed with a new summary and the “presence of victims” claim, plus three new events: the townhouse meetings, the March 2013 flight and the estate photos.
• Re-proposed fixes: the Mandelson event (attributed to AOL), the Blanche written-answers event, the roll-call claim, the two narrowed Edwards claims, and the overview (599 words, with the checker’s wording).

What we looked at

This session fixed the nine items the owner sent back:

• Gates
• Staley’s February 2005 stay
• the GAO review
• Wexner’s visit
• two Barrack claims
• two Edwards memoir claims
• the overview

It then followed up the island and Senate leads. It ended early, with the owner’s standing approval, to push the batch for review.

What the records show

• Gates: He told House Oversight (transcript pp. 9–10, 46) that he was introduced to Epstein in 2011, that their interactions ended in December 2014, and that he never went to the island despite several invitations. PBS reports he has not been accused and denies knowing of Epstein’s abuse.

• Barrack: The owner checked the Middle East Eye audio. Barrack says Epstein sought “access to the president or a transact-”, not “transit” as the auto-captions read.

• Edwards, Relentless Pursuit p. 103: Google Books in-book search shows the passage word for word. Trump said “something along those lines” happened and referred Edwards to Lembcke, who “would neither confirm nor deny the rumor.”

• Staley: The UK Upper Tribunal ([2025] UKUT 00203) records island visits in 2005/06, January 2011 (it found he appeared to have met Epstein there) and April 12, 2015 (lunch, not disputed). It mentions no 2009 stay, which contradicts CNN’s 2009 date. In his 2026 House testimony he did not recall a 2011 dinner and doubted the 2015 visit.

• Island visits with second sources:

  • Summers: less than a day on his December 2005 honeymoon (Boston Globe, CNN).
  • Barak: a three-hour visit with his wife and security (AP, Times of Israel, CNN).
  • Mandelson: one or two nights (his BBC interview, CNN).

  Each person’s denial or regret is recorded.

• Senate and DOJ:

  • Roll Call Vote 230: Blanche confirmed 50-49 on Aug. 8, 2026.
  • Blanche’s written answers to Senate Judiciary: President Trump has asserted no executive privilege over Epstein Files Transparency Act documents; congressional staff may review the unredacted files; no process prevented abusers’ names from being redacted.
  • The DOJ Inspector General opened an audit of compliance with the Act on Apr. 23, 2026. It is ongoing.

What we could not confirm

• A second source for Branson’s 2013 island tour. Every hit traces back to CNN, and The Telegraph describes a declined invitation instead.
• The court record behind CNN’s 2009 Staley stay.
• A written transcript of Wexner’s deposition. Only the video has been released.
• Any findings from the Inspector General’s audit.

Changes proposed for review

• Re-proposed: Gates, the Staley 2005 event, the GAO event, Wexner, the two Barrack claims, the two Edwards claims, and the overview (599 words).
• New: Staley’s 2011 and 2015 visits; entities and visit events for Summers and Barak; Mandelson’s island stay; the roll-call claim; the QFR event; the Inspector General audit event.

What we looked at

We fixed three items the owner sent back: the two Barrack claims and the overview. We then worked the owner’s three leads:

• Bernd Lembcke, the Mar-a-Lago manager.
• Epstein’s island, Little St. James: visits, flights and reporting.
• The Senate and the Epstein files: the Transparency Act, hearings, and senators viewing the unredacted files.

This session ended early, with the owner’s standing approval, so the batch can go to review. The island and Senate leads continue next session.

What the records show

• Lembcke. Brad Edwards’s 2020 memoir (p. 103) says Trump told him something like the rumored expulsion happened, and that Lembcke would neither confirm nor deny it. At a House Appropriations hearing on June 2, 2026, Rep. Dean read the unredacted 2009 Goldberger email aloud. The hearing transcript is filed in E.D. Va. as Doc. 93-1. In the email, Lembcke confirmed Epstein was never asked to leave. Acting AG Blanche called the passage privileged. The two accounts conflict.
• The island.
  • Epstein’s pilot Visoski testified at Maxwell’s trial (Doc. 743, p. 26) that every St. Thomas trip meant a helicopter run to Little St. James.
  • Lutnick told House Oversight (p. 21) that he had lunch there in December 2012. CNN reported a DOJ photo.
  • Staley agreed under questioning (p. 187) that he stayed there on Feb. 18–21, 2005. CNN reports a 2009 stay “according to court records.” The two accounts are not reconciled.
  • Gates told House Oversight (p. 46) that he was invited several times and never went. GeekWire and PBS support this.
  • Wexner described one visit in his deposition video. CNN supports this.
  • Band testified (pp. 93–95) that he has no information Clinton went to the island and does not recall what he told Vanity Fair in 2020. Newsweek reported that 2020 account and Clinton’s denial.
• The Senate.
  • The Senate floor log for Nov. 18, 2025 records unanimous consent to pass H.R. 4405. The Hill reported the same.
  • Sen. Luján issued a statement after viewing the unredacted files on Mar. 12, 2026, as dated by Source NM.
  • Senators asked GAO to review the release (CNBC, with DOJ’s “tired narrative” response). GAO accepted the request on Apr. 28, 2026 (NBC).
  • At his confirmation hearing, Blanche said members of Congress could review the unredacted files (Scripps) and apologized for errors (Forbes). The Senate confirmed him 50-49 (The 19th).

What we could not confirm

• Whether Lembcke ever spoke on the record himself.
• The source CNN used for a 2009 Staley stay.
• Second sources for visits by Summers, Branson, Barak and Mandelson.
• The Waitt transcript, whose text layer is unreadable.
• Any senator besides Luján describing the unredacted files.
• Congressional Record text of the Senate hearings.

Changes proposed for review

• The Little St. James place entity and the Bill Gates entity.
• Visit events for Lutnick, Staley and Wexner, and the Band/Clinton testimony.
• Four Senate events.
• The Edwards and Dean/Blanche claims.
• The re-proposed Barrack fixes.
• A revised overview (585 words) that adds Edwards’s account beside the 2009 email.

What we looked at

This session fixed the items sent back from batches 1344d840 and ebf852aa:

• the 2009 email event, rebuilt around the Congressional Record text;
• the Lombardi and Barrack claims;
• the case overview.

It then tried to find a source that attributes the email’s “may have been on his plane” line to Trump. The session ended early to push the fixes for review.

What the records show

• The 2009 email. Rep. Maxwell Frost read the file into the Congressional Record (H2431, Mar. 5, 2026): Epstein was “not a member. May have been a guest. Never asked to leave,” and the Mar-a-Lago manager, Bernd Lembcke, confirmed he was never asked to leave.
• The plane line. The text Frost read follows “Mark Epstein said Trump on JE plane is true” with a first-person answer, “I’ve been on a lot of planes, may have been on his plane.” The Record does not name the speaker.
• Attribution. ABC reports Rep. Raskin’s account that the email summarizes what Trump said during the call. Rep. Madeleine Dean’s account, reported by Tara Palmeri (paywalled, unrated), also attributes the line to Trump.

What we could not confirm

• An established outlet attributing the plane line. None was found.
• Barrack’s exact words. The quote still rests on auto-captions; the word after “access to the president or…” is unclear.

Changes proposed for review

• 2009 email event: rebuilt (14 claims, with longer ABC quotes, the Frost Record claims, and the Daily Beast claim dropped).
• Barrack: two claims, with the uncertain wording flagged.
• Lombardi: two claims, reworded.
• Case overview: revised (598 words) with all of the checker’s edits.

What we looked at

Using the owner’s Chrome session, this session worked three leads that earlier searches could not reach:

• the Mar-a-Lago manager line in the 2009 Goldberger email;
• an on-record statement from Tom Barrack;
• the identity of “Lombardi”, the source in The Grifter’s Club.

All three were answered, so the session ended early to push the batch for review.

What the records show

• The 2009 email, read into the Congressional Record. On March 5, 2026, Rep. Maxwell Frost read an Epstein file into the Record (p. H2431). He described it as Epstein forwarding to Maxwell an email from Jack Goldberger.
  • It answers: “JE ever expelled from Mar-a-Lago? No. He was not a member. May have been a guest. Never asked to leave.”
  • It says “Brad” had talked to a Mar-a-Lago manager, and that “Bernd Lembcke confirmed JE never asked to leave Mar-a-Lago.”
  • It records Trump saying he “may have been on his plane.” Trump said in 2024 that he was never on Epstein’s plane.
• Tom Barrack on the record. In a recorded March 2026 exchange (Middle East Eye video, auto-captions), Barrack denied introducing Epstein to Peter Thiel or Vitaly Churkin. He said “all of us dealt with Jeffrey Epstein in the ’80s” as a businessperson, and that after the conviction Epstein emailed him seeking access and information.
• Barrack in testimony. Leon Black’s House testimony lists him among Epstein’s circle.
• Lombardi. The Grifter’s Club describes him as a real-estate businessman and a Lega Nord fixer for far-right Italian politicians. His access to Mar-a-Lago came through his partner’s membership.

What we could not confirm

• Barrack’s exact words. The quote comes from auto-generated captions and should be checked against the audio.
• The club’s own log entry. It is still not public.

Changes proposed for review

• 2009 email event: three documented claims from the Congressional Record, attached to the event already in review.
• Barrack: two claims from his video remarks.
• Lombardi: two book claims on his background.
• Theory T8: marked supported pending review.
• Case overview: revised (587 words) to cite the Congressional Record text.

What we looked at

This session fixed the four items sent back from batch 54e8c54c:

• the Oct. 2009 Goldberger email event;
• the Tom Barrack entity;
• Barrack’s link to Epstein;
• the case overview.

It then worked three leads:

• who “Lombardi”, The Grifter’s Club’s source, is;
• corroboration of the 2009 email’s Mar-a-Lago manager line;
• an on-record statement from Barrack.

The session ended early. Most outside sources were blocked by CAPTCHAs or 403 errors: DuckDuckGo, Google, Reuters, AP, Axios and Politico, with GDELT rate-limited.

What the records show

• Lombardi. The Grifter’s Club describes him as “a longtime Mar-a-Lago member from Italy.” He is the book’s single source for the account of a member’s teenage daughter.
• Barrack in testimony. In his June 2026 House Oversight interview, Leon Black named Tom Barrack among the people in Epstein’s circle (transcript p. 11).
• Barrack in reporting. CBS News reports more than 100 texts and emails between Barrack and Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 conviction. It found no evidence Barrack took part in or knew of any ongoing criminal conduct by Epstein, and no sign that Epstein’s messages reached Trump through him.

What we could not confirm

• The manager line. The 2009 email’s “JE never asked to leave Mar a Lago” rests on The Daily Beast alone. It was left out of the re-proposed event until an established source confirms it.
• Barrack’s own account. No on-record statement from him was found.
• Lombardi’s first name. Not found.

Changes proposed for review

• 2009 email event: re-proposed with Goldman’s claim reworded to what the Congressional Record says, and the manager claim dropped.
• Barrack: entity and link re-proposed with narrowed wording, plus a new claim from Leon Black’s testimony.
• The Grifter’s Club: a claim describing the book’s source.
• Case overview: revised (599 words). The 2009 account is now attributed to Raskin and the 2004 messages to the Palm Beach Post, and the Trump Organization’s non-member position is added.

What we looked at

This session first fixed the nine items sent back from batch 88dac876:

• the Oct. 2009 Goldberger email event;
• the 2016 Mar-a-Lago subpoena event;
• the Doe v. Black sanctions event;
• the 2007 Page Six source’s accusation;
• two Lutnick claims;
• the CNBC membership claim;
• the case overview.

It then tested when Epstein lost access to Mar-a-Lago, against the club register theories T5 and T8:

• the book behind “Account closed 10/07”;
• the club’s 2016 subpoena production;
• the redacted passage of the 2009 email;
• photos of Epstein at the club in 2005–07.

It also opened Tom Barrack’s contacts with Epstein, under the owner’s direction on Trump’s circle.

The session ended early, about 16 minutes in. The planned leads were worked, web search engines began serving CAPTCHAs (DuckDuckGo and Google Books), and the remaining discriminating leads need owner decisions: the PACER Gosman docket, the FBI interview summaries, and EFTA01618757.

What the records show

• The club register. The Grifter’s Club (2020) states that “Epstein was a member for a time, but a membership log shows his account at the club was closed in October 2007.” Its note says the authors viewed a membership list. CNBC (2020) reports the same, and records that the Trump Organization denied Epstein was a dues-paying member.
• The source of the member’s-daughter account. In the book this comes from one interviewee, Lombardi (July 11, 2019), who says a member complained about an advance on her teenage daughter. Page Six’s 2007 source described a masseuse about 18 whose father found out. The details differ.
• The 2009 email. The Daily Beast reported that it says a Mar-a-Lago manager confirmed Epstein was “never asked to leave,” and quotes Trump’s attorney as allegedly saying Epstein was “not a member … never asked to leave.” ABC could not confirm Raskin’s account, and DOJ called the passage privileged.
• Tom Barrack. CBS News and the Santa Barbara Independent separately report more than 100 texts and emails between Barrack and Epstein, running past Epstein’s 2008 conviction. Both report no evidence that Barrack knew of or took part in Epstein’s crimes. CBS found no sign that Epstein’s messages reached Trump through Barrack, and Barrack did not respond to requests for comment.

What we could not confirm

• The club’s 2016 production. None of its pages are filed: an exact search for “Mar-A-Lago 0075” returns only the two copies of the cover letter.
• The full text of the 2009 email. It has not been published since March 2026.
• Photos after 2000. Getty has no photo of Epstein at Mar-a-Lago after February 2000.
• Lombardi’s first name. It was not found.

Changes proposed for review

• Re-proposed events: the 2009 email event (13 claims, with the Garten answer hedged as “allegedly” and a new manager claim), the 2016 subpoena event (Giuffre wording corrected), and the Doe v. Black event (allegation at “alleged,” lesser sanctions, anonymity kept, Black’s denial).
• Re-proposed claims: the 2007 Page Six claim at “alleged,” the CNBC membership claim, and the two Lutnick claims reworded.
• New: The Grifter’s Club as a source, with three claims. A new Barrack entity and his link to Epstein.
• Case overview: revised to 600 words.

What we looked at

The main question was when and why the Trump–Epstein relationship ended, and when Epstein lost access to Mar-a-Lago. Eight competing theories were tested against these records:

• the October 2009 email from Epstein’s lawyer;
• the seized message pads;
• the club register (“Account closed 10/07”);
• Trump’s 2019 and 2025 statements;
• the White House’s April 2026 statement;
• the 2016 subpoena to the Mar-a-Lago Club in Giuffre v. Maxwell.

A devil’s-advocate review led to a new rival theory (T8): the “closed 10/07” entry was an administrative closing, not an expulsion.

The session also opened Leon Black’s ties to Epstein from primary records, extended the records on Lutnick and Wexner, and added a 2009 report on the unsealing of the non-prosecution agreement.

The session ended early, about 97 minutes in. The remaining discriminating leads need owner decisions (the PACER Gosman docket, the FBI interview summaries, and an EFTA document cited only by an unrated outlet) or sources that were blocked: news search rate-limited, Wayback timeouts, a ProPublica security check, and the Palm Beach clerk’s CAPTCHA.

What the records show

• The 2009 email. Lawmakers who read the unredacted email from Epstein’s lawyer say it quotes Trump’s side calling Epstein a guest, not a member, who was “never asked to leave”. Sources: Congressional Record H2557, ABC, CNN, Daily Beast.
• Membership. The Trump Organization said in 2019 that Epstein was never a dues-paying member (CNBC; the New York Times adds “guest of a guest”).
• Epstein’s 2007 denial. In October 2007 Epstein denied any ban and said he had recently been invited to a club event (New York Post, in a JPMorgan exhibit).
• Trump’s own accounts. On July 12, 2019, asked whether he had banned Epstein, Trump answered “Yes” and said the reason “doesn’t make any difference” (Compilation of Presidential Documents). A former aide told the New York Times that Trump said he expelled Epstein “when this stuff became public”.
• The 2016 subpoena. Mar-a-Lago Club, Inc. was subpoenaed on July 14, 2016 in Giuffre v. Maxwell. Its production (Bates Mar-A-Lago 0075–0595) is not in the public docket (Doc. 1330-9). Virginia Giuffre testified that the club’s records placed her work there in summer 2000.
• Leon Black: payments. The review Apollo commissioned from Dechert found Black paid Epstein $158 million for work in 2012–2017, and saw no evidence that he was involved in Epstein’s crimes (8-K, EX-99.1). Senator Wyden’s 2023 release and Black’s own House testimony repeat the $158 million figure.
• Leon Black: denials. Black denied paying Epstein for access to women, and said he learned of the trafficking only in July 2019.
• Leon Black: contempt. The House held him in contempt on Sept. 16, 2026 (Comer; NPR).
• Doe v. Black. In April 2026 the court sanctioned the plaintiff and her former lawyer, but let the claim proceed. Black denies the allegation (court order; Reuters).
• Lutnick. He told House Oversight he was not personally an AdFin investor (a Cantor venture arm was), and that the 2011 “hour” was Epstein’s calendar slot. He said he never discussed Trump with Epstein or Maxwell (transcript; AP).
• Wexner. Wexner’s revocation of Epstein’s 1991 power of attorney was signed Dec. 20, 2007 and recorded Dec. 27, 2007 (Franklin County, Ohio, instrument 200712270220043). His 2019 letter says Epstein stepped back “by early fall 2007”.

What we could not confirm

• The 2003 manager’s fax to Trump. Other outlets only relay the Wall Street Journal’s former employees.
• The club’s own account record. It is not public.
• The website Page Six cited in 2007. Not identified; the Gawker archive held no ban post.
• Wyden’s $170 million figure. Its source is not given.
• Contact after 2004. Getty’s archive and Florida newspaper searches (1990–2001, 2005–07) found no Trump–Epstein photo or event after February 2000, and no club event with Epstein in 2005–07.

Changes proposed for review

• Leon Black. A new public-figure entity, a “paid” link to Epstein, and three events: the Dechert review, the contempt vote, and the Doe v. Black sanctions ruling. His denials are recorded beside each finding.
• Trump–Epstein. New claims on the Trump entity, the 2009 email event, the 2003 spa event and the 1992 party (New York Times original). A new event for the 2016 Mar-a-Lago subpoena.
• Other people and events. Claims on Lutnick, Ambani (Indian Express) and the 9 East 71st Street house. A new Wexner revocation event. The Palm Beach Post’s 2009 unsealing report, added to the existing event.
• Theories. A new theory (T8), with bearings revised after the devil’s-advocate review.
• Case overview. Revised (594 words).

What we looked at

The Wolff v. Melania Trump event (S.D.N.Y. 1:25-cv-10752), sent back over the demand-letter claim, and the gaps the checker named. Ended early (owner’s standing OK) to push the fix.

What the records show

• Demand letter (Doc. 1-1 pp. 22–23): Melania Trump’s lawyer demanded that Wolff retract his statements, apologize and make a monetary proposal by Oct. 21, 2025 at 5 p.m., or face a suit including for over $1 billion.
• Wolff’s complaint (Doc. 1-1 p. 8): says his statement about her “involvement” did not say she was involved in any of Epstein’s past crimes.
• Her denial: AP reports her April 2026 White House statement that “the lies linking me with the disgraceful Jeffrey Epstein need to end today”.
• The appeal: the docket shows Wolff’s notice of appeal (ECF 32) was transmitted to the Second Circuit on June 18, 2026.

What we could not confirm

• The notice of appeal itself is not on CourtListener; the docket entries are cited instead.

Changes proposed for review

• The Wolff event, re-proposed with 13 claims (corrected demand-letter claim; new complaint, denial and appeal claims).
• A docket-sheet source.
• Overview: “What’s next” now also follows Wolff’s appeal.

What we looked at

Lead #219, Wolff v. Melania Trump (S.D.N.Y. 1:25-cv-10752), from the docket; the Trump v. Dow Jones docket for a ruling; and two fixes the checker raised after the last batch was published. Ended early (owner’s standing OK) to push the batch.

What the records show

• Demand letter (Doc. 1-1 p. 23): Melania Trump’s lawyer wrote to Wolff on Oct. 15, 2025, threatening suit “for over $1 Billion Dollars” unless he retracted.
• Wolff’s complaint: filed Oct. 21, 2025 in New York state court, it asks for a declaration that the statements are not actionable libel (Doc. 1-1 p. 16). It alleges she met Donald Trump at a party hosted by ID Models, whose owner was a longtime friend of both Trump and Epstein (p. 10); this is recorded as alleged.
• Her side: her lawyers call the statements false (removal notice, Doc. 1 p. 2; sanctions memo, Doc. 38 p. 6). No filing read contains a personal statement from her.
• The ruling: on May 22, 2026 Judge Vyskocil found jurisdiction but dismissed on prudential abstention, without reaching the merits (Doc. 25 pp. 1, 45). She said the three Epstein-files documents had no bearing on Melania Trump’s citizenship (p. 16).
• Since then: Wolff appealed (Doc. 38 p. 15), and she moved for sanctions. AP reports the dismissal and her spokesman’s statement.
• Trump v. Dow Jones: still no ruling on the renewed motion to dismiss (last entry ECF 79, Aug. 12, 2026).

What we could not confirm

• No sanctions ruling or appeal decision appears after Aug. 28, 2026.
• The case’s Epstein-related claims were not adjudicated.

Changes proposed for review

• Wolff v. Trump event (12 claims; four court-record sources and AP).
• A correction to the 2002 email event’s description.
• Bannon’s documentary explanation as a claim on the Bannon–Epstein relationship.
• Overview: “What’s next” now follows rulings in Trump’s suit against the Journal.

What we looked at

The Bannon–Epstein relationship sent back from the last review; small source fixes; and the 2002 email exchange between Melania Knauss and Ghislaine Maxwell. Ended early (owner’s standing OK) to push the batch.

What the records show

• Bannon–Epstein: re-proposed with the NBC claim narrowed to what its quote supports: that the two frequently discussed matters relating to Trump while he was in office.
• The 2002 email (court-filed copy, Wolff v. Trump, S.D.N.Y. 1:25-cv-10752, Doc. 15-2, Exhibit B; EFTA02332411 and EFTA00579769):
  • an email sent Oct. 23, 2002, addressed “Dear G!” and signed “Love, Melania”, mentioned a New York magazine story about “JE”, asked how Palm Beach was, and asked the recipient to call when back in New York;
  • a reply from “G. Max” began “Sweet pea” and said she would try to call;
  • CNN reports Melania Trump called it a casual, polite reply (April 2026).

What we could not confirm

• The deposition PDF could not be archived (Save Page Now did not confirm); the CourtListener copy stands.
• The White House response to the 2011 email was not proposed: the owner has twice rejected that line.

Changes proposed for review

• Bannon–Epstein relationship (7 claims).
• The 2002 email event (3 documented claims plus CNN’s report of her response) and its court-record source.
• Corrections adding the ABC byline and The Hollywood Reporter archive copy.
• Overview: “What’s next” now includes the 2004 auction court file.

What we looked at

The items sent back from the last review (Virginia Giuffre’s 2016 deposition event, the Gosman trustee’s deed and the case overview), the owner’s approval to name Giuffre, and the Bannon–Epstein lead. Ended early (owner’s standing OK) once the planned work was done, to push the batch.

What the records show

• Giuffre’s deposition (Nov. 14, 2016; 2d Cir. 18-2868 Doc. 286, Ex. NN, pp. 442–444):
  • She testified it was true Trump “didn’t partake in any sex with us” but untrue that he flirted with her.
  • She said she “didn’t physically see him have sex with any of the girls”, and answered “None” when asked which girls she was with in his presence.
  • She answered “No” when asked whether she was ever with Trump and Epstein together.
  • AP reports her memoir describes meeting Trump once; in the deposition she said “probably a few times”.
• The 2011 email: ABC reports Epstein wrote to Maxwell that “virginia spent hours at my house” with Trump.
• Gosman deed (Palm Beach County OR Bk 17986 Pg 454): the board owner confirmed the clerk’s image: trustee to Trump Properties LLC, made Jan. 6, recorded Jan. 7, 2005, $41,350,000, under a Dec. 2, 2004 sale order (01-30953-BKC-SHF).
• Bannon and Epstein (NBC, CNN, The Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 2026, on the DOJ’s Jan. 30, 2026 release):
  • about 18 months of texts and emails, January 2018 to July 2019;
  • Bannon’s April 2019 plan to push back on the allegations and rebuild Epstein’s image;
  • two hours of released interview video;
  • talk in August 2018 of an “intervention” for Trump, and a 2018 text raising the 25th Amendment.
  • Bannon told the New York Times he was a documentary filmmaker securing 50 hours of interviews.

What we could not confirm

• The New York Times profile of Bannon itself (blocked to tools).
• The underlying DOJ texts (not opened; no EFTA numbers in hand).

Changes proposed for review

• Giuffre deposition event (10 claims).
• Gosman deed source (owner-confirmed) with three claims on the published auction event.
• A correction naming Giuffre in the published 2011-email event.
• Bannon–Epstein and Trump–Bannon relationships (9 claims), plus two claims of Bannon’s statement.
• Case overview with a Trump-focused headline.

What we looked at

The items sent back from the last review (the 2016 deposition event and the case overview), the owner’s decision on the second accuser’s FBI-report account (held), and the 2004 Gosman bankruptcy auction where Trump outbid Epstein. Ended early (owner’s standing OK) to push the batch: the remaining Gosman record needs paid PACER, an owner decision.

What the records show

• 2016 deposition (2d Cir. 18-2868, Doc. 286, Ex. NN, pp. 442–444): the accuser testified Trump never flirted with her and did not take part in sex with the girls. She also said she never saw him have sex with any of the girls and could speak only for times she was present. She did not remember seeing him with Epstein or at Epstein’s homes. This limit is now its own claim.
• Gosman auction, primary record (Palm Beach County Official Records, CFN 20050011798, OR Bk 17986 Pg 454):
  • the trustee of Abraham Gosman’s Chapter 7 estate deeded the property to Trump Properties LLC on Jan. 6, 2005;
  • the deed was recorded Jan. 7, 2005, with an amount of $41,350,000;
  • the sale was made under a Dec. 2, 2004 Bankruptcy Court order in Case No. 01-30953-BKC-SHF.

What we could not confirm

The bankruptcy docket (01-30953-BKC-SHF, Bankr. S.D. Fla.) is not on CourtListener, so Epstein’s lawyer’s objection to Trump as a bidder and the auction transcript remain unread.

Changes proposed for review

• 2016 deposition event re-proposed (8 claims; checker’s wording and the accuser’s limiting answer).
• Case overview re-proposed with the corrected sentence and a complete change note.
• Gosman deed added as a primary source, with three documented claims on the published auction event.

What we looked at

The owner’s question on the 2025 FBI tip list (#207): are there credible accounts mentioning Trump from other sources, witnesses or parties? We searched the unsealed Giuffre v. Maxwell record (S.D.N.Y. 15-cv-7433 and the 2d Cir. appendix), the second accuser’s 2025 suit against the United States (D.D.C. 1:25-cv-01709), and established reporting. Ended early (owner’s standing OK) to push the answer for review.

What the records show

• An accuser’s sworn testimony (Nov. 14, 2016, Giuffre v. Maxwell, 2d Cir. Doc. 286, Ex. NN, dep. pp. 441–444): going through a 2011 newspaper quote line by line, she testified that Trump did not take part in sex with the girls and never flirted with her. She knew of the friendship only because Epstein told her, and did not remember seeing Trump with Epstein or at any of his homes. ABC News reports the same deposition; AP reports her 2025 memoir makes no accusation against Trump.
• A second accuser’s account (reported, July 2025): the New York Times, as relayed by The Hill and Rolling Stone, reports she urged the NYPD and FBI in 1996, and the FBI again in 2006, to look at people around Epstein including Trump. She said she had no evidence of criminal wrongdoing by his associates. The Times confirmed from NYPD records that she spoke to police in August 1996. The White House says Trump was never in Epstein’s office.

What we could not confirm

• The New York Times original could not be opened (blocked to tools); both available sources relay it.
• The second accuser’s 2025 FTCA filing (Doc. 8) does not mention Trump.
• The 1996 and 2006 FBI records of her interviews have not been seen.

Changes proposed for review

• Event: the 2016 deposition (5 documented claims, ABC and AP corroboration).
• Event: the 1996/2006 reports to the NYPD and FBI (4 reported claims plus the White House denial).
• Five sources; case overview revised (597 words).

What we looked at

The four items sent back from the last batch: the Trump v. Dow Jones dismissal event, the amended-complaint event, the case overview, and the 2025 FBI tip-list fix lead (#207).

What the records show

• Dismissal (S.D. Fla. 1:25-cv-23232, Doc. 65): the court dismissed the complaint “without prejudice and with leave to amend” (p. 16) and said it “cannot make a factual finding, at this time” that the estate’s documents are the ones the article described (p. 8). These are now claims on the re-proposed event, so its title and description are supported.
• Amended complaint: the ¶ 75 allegation now cites the already-published copy of Doc. 67 instead of a duplicate source.

What we could not confirm

The owner’s question on #207 (whether other sources, witnesses or settled parties give credible accounts mentioning Trump) was not researched: the session clock ran out while the plan awaited approval. It moves to the next session.

Changes proposed for review

• Dismissal event re-proposed with five claims (two new from Doc. 65 pp. 8, 16).
• Amended-complaint event re-proposed with three claims (¶ 75 re-pointed to the published Doc. 67 source).
• Case overview: birthday-book paragraph rewritten as the checker suggested (“a House committee”; no “2003”; dismissed with leave to amend; refiled; new motion pending), 599 words.

What we looked at

Three leads the owner approved: the 2003 birthday-book letter and Trump v. Dow Jones (#30), the EFTA numbers of the 2019 FBI interview summaries (#203), and Mar-a-Lago’s subpoena in the Maxwell litigation (#103). Ended early to push the batch for review once all three were worked.

What the records show

• Birthday book (court record and CNN): the House Oversight Committee released the Epstein estate’s production on Sept. 8, 2025, including the birthday book; the S.D. Fla. court noted it includes a page matching the Wall Street Journal’s description of a letter bearing Trump’s name. Trump disputes that he wrote or signed it; the White House said he did not draw or sign it.
• Trump v. Dow Jones (court record): dismissed without prejudice on Apr. 13, 2026 (amended May 22) because the complaint did not plausibly allege actual malice; the court did not decide whether the letter is authentic. Trump filed an amended complaint May 27, the defendants moved to dismiss again June 10, and discovery was stayed Aug. 5, 2026 pending that ruling.
• FBI interviews (court record): a court filing in Phang v. Blanche cites a DOJ list showing four 2019 FBI interviews of the witness (July 24, Aug. 7, Aug. 20, Oct. 16); the court’s Sept. 16, 2026 order names the four FD-302 reports by EFTA number. The reports were not opened because they describe a protected person’s allegations in detail; the owner can decide whether to read them.

What we could not confirm

The Mar-a-Lago subpoena in the Maxwell litigation: not found in the unsealed 15-cv-7433 batches searched. The plaintiff’s disclosures list Mar-a-Lago staff from 1999–2002 as potential witnesses.

Changes proposed for review

Three events (Sept. 8, 2025 release; Apr. 2026 dismissal; May–Aug. 2026 amended complaint, renewed motion and discovery stay) with 12 claims, two claims on the 2019 interviews event, sources, and a revised case overview (597 words) that adds the birthday book and drops the Clinton plane-trip paragraph and the guard’s testimony for length.

What we looked at

The two items sent back from the last batch (the 2025 FBI tip-list event and the case overview’s FBI sentence) and the queue of earlier send-back fix leads on claims. Ended early: all of them are re-proposed, and nothing else in the fix queue remains.

What the records show

• The tip-list event now rests only on what NPR and CNN report: the FBI circulated tips mentioning Trump in late July and early August 2025, agents marked most unverifiable or not credible, one lead went to the Washington office, and a July 22, 2025 message (written before the list) said one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but refused to cooperate. The unsupported slide-deck element is gone.
• The overview now attributes the four 2019 interviews to ABC News and cites Trump’s denial beside the White House statement.
• Newspaper claims re-read on Newspapers.com page images and re-proposed with quotes that support every word: Santa Fe New Mexican (1995: J. Epstein & Co.; Bill Powell, who built ranch buildings there, on Epstein’s ties to Maxwell), Santa Fe New Mexican 2006 contributions, AP 2023 ranch sale (two claims), Palm Beach Daily News 1998 code board (unrelated resident left out), Palm Beach Daily News 2006 ($6.5 million 2003 Harvard gift; Harvard not returning it), Daily News Nov. 1992 (Trump, Mar-a-Lago, cheerleaders), Evening Standard 1997 (Maxwell’s “men friends”; Epstein pre-eminent since 1992) and 2001 (caption, plus a separate inferred dating claim).

What we could not confirm

Nothing new; the FBI 302 documents still need EFTA numbers (lead #203).

Changes proposed for review

One event with five claims, a revised overview (599 words), and 14 re-proposed or split claims.

What we looked at

Four threads: the primary FBI records behind the 2019 allegation (#33); the last Newspapers.com searches before the trial ends (#147, #126); corrections to the published Maxwell sentencing date and two Maxwell–Epstein relationships (#22, #16). Ended early: the corrections are done, the Newspapers.com searches only returned already-covered items, and the FBI records need document numbers reporting does not give.

What the records show

• FBI interviews (ABC, CNN, NPR, reported): the FBI interviewed a woman four times between July and October 2019; only the July 24 summary was public until March 5, 2026. She did not mention Trump in the first; in the second she alleged Epstein introduced her to Trump when she was between 13 and 15; in the fourth she declined to give more detail. ABC notes she places the incident in the early-to-mid 1980s, when it said Epstein and Trump did not appear to be in contact. Trump has denied wrongdoing; the White House called the claims baseless. She is a protected individual and is not named.
• FBI tip list (NPR, CNN, reported): in late July and early August 2025 the FBI circulated Epstein-related tips mentioning Trump; agents marked most unverifiable or not credible; one lead went to the Washington office; a July 22, 2025 message said one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate.
• Corrections proposed for an editor: Maxwell’s sentencing event re-dated to the June 28, 2022 hearing (transcript, Doc. 779), the judgment dated June 29 kept as its own statement; the employer relationship extended to about 2004 (S2 indictment); the romantic relationship dated from about 1991 (Doc. 869).

What we could not confirm

The FBI 302s themselves: reporting gives no usable EFTA numbers, the 2025 item is a tip list and slide deck (not the “task-force summary” the lead assumed), and 20-cr-330 Docs. 855 and 867 are one-page items that do not hold the interviews. Newspapers.com: four more searches (New York 1995–2002, Palm Beach 2003–05) returned only the 2004 Gosman auction pages and the February 2000 snapshots already on the board, or other people named Epstein.

Changes proposed for review

Two events with 13 claims (all reported, alleged or disputed, none documented), four corrections for an editor, and a revised case overview (594 words) that adds the interview count.

What we looked at

This session used the owner’s Newspapers.com trial to read Palm Beach, New York, London and New Mexico papers from 1989 to 2009, then followed what they pointed to into property and court records: the Palm Beach County Property Appraiser and Clerk’s index (the owner accepted the Clerk’s terms and CAPTCHA), New York City’s ACRIS land records, and federal court exhibits. It also fixed three items the owner sent back and checked the print date of a 2003 New York magazine feature. The session closed at about 133 of 150 minutes because the owner asked to wrap up.

What the records show

• Epstein’s Palm Beach house. The Clerk’s index lists a deed from Herbert I. Glass to Jeffrey Epstein recorded Sept. 20, 1990 (Official Records Book 6587, Page 1099); the Property Appraiser shows a $2.5 million sale that month. A 2000 town legal notice names Epstein as the applicant on an easement petition for 358 El Brillo Way. On Dec. 23, 2011 the parcel was quit-claimed to Laurel Inc. (Property Appraiser).
• The Manhattan house. A settlement statement filed in federal court (E.D.N.Y. 22-cv-125, Doc. 40-12) records Leslie Wexner’s Nov. 11, 1998 sale of Nine East 71st Street Corporation to NES, LLC for $20 million, half on a note paid off March 3, 2000. City land records show no deed between 1989 and 2011, so the house changed hands through the company.
• Epstein in his own words, 1995-96. He told the Albuquerque Tribune (June 1995) he was president of Jeffrey Epstein & Co., would not name his clients, had been an officer of Wexner’s Lewex Inc. and president of Wexner’s investment company, and was “pretty much of a hermit”; a 1996 New York Times News Service article called him Wexner’s protégé and financial adviser. The Tribune and AP both date his Zorro Ranch purchase from Bruce King to 1993.
• Trump, in papers written at the time. The Palm Beach Post’s July 24, 2006 story on Epstein’s booking described him as having socialized with Trump, Bill Clinton and Kevin Spacey; its Aug. 14 profile said he was said to have befriended Trump. NBC News relays Trump’s 2000 People remark that Prince Andrew was “a lot of fun,” and a January 2001 Evening Standard caption dates Heidi Klum’s Halloween party, where People placed Trump and Andrew, to 2000.
• Political money. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported in 2006, from contribution reports, that Epstein gave $50,000 to Gov. Bill Richardson’s 2002 campaign and $50,000 through the Zorro Trust in 2006; the campaign said it would give the 2006 money to charity (ABC News 2019 agrees). Palm Beach papers reported the town returned a $90,000 police gift after his arrest (Palm Beach Post 2026 agrees).
• The ban. The White House’s full statement to the Wall Street Journal (“kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar a Lago for being a creep”) is now beside the Journal’s reporting.

What we could not confirm

• No Epstein or Maxwell appearance at Trump’s Palm Beach tennis events in 2001-04 society pages, and no Palm Beach coverage of a ban in late 2007 beyond gossip.
• Who owns NES, LLC and Laurel Inc.; a 2026 lawsuit alleging Laurel held the Palm Beach house was dismissed before any answer.
• Trump’s own comments about Epstein before 2002: none found in these papers.

Changes proposed for review

Two new entities (the Palm Beach house; Bill Richardson), two relationships, about 75 claims from 30 sources (15 newspaper clippings, 8 public records or court filings), and a revised case overview.

Session 12: the 2009 unsealing settled, the Bannon–Modi texts, the 2018 “call Trump” thread, Mark Epstein’s testimony

A supervised session. Chrome was still not connected, so Newspapers.com is deferred again. The owner approved a targeted look at DOJ’s hosted State of Florida v. Epstein court file, limited to the 2009 unsealing order and hearing. The session closed early because every planned lead was done; per the owner’s standing direction, the batch is pushed for review mid-session.

What we looked at

• The unsealing order. DOJ’s hosted state-court file, No. 50-2008-CF-009381. Only the unsealing order and related papers were opened: 8 of 62 files, mostly first pages. The live files sit behind an age gate, so they were read from Internet Archive captures of the same DOJ PDFs.
• The Bannon–Modi texts. The House Oversight Nov. 12, 2025 estate release, searched only for “modi”.
• The March 2018 thread. The same release, searched only for “take your call”.
• Mark Epstein’s testimony. His Sept. 2009 deposition, and Bradley Edwards’s affidavit (Exhibit N).

What the records show

• 2009 NPA unsealing. The record settles the dates:
  • June 25, 2009: after a hearing, Judge Jeffrey Colbath signed an order finding no party had shown enough to keep the NPA sealed. He denied sealing, granted intervention and unsealing, and directed in-camera redaction of minor victims’ names to initials (EFTA02823840).
  • June 26: he denied a stay and set disclosure for July 2 (EFTA02823848).
  • July 1: the 4th DCA stayed the order (EFTA02823924).
  • Sept. 2: the 4th DCA affirmed.
  • Sept. 18: the copy was released. So the June ruling and the September release were separate steps.
• The May 2019 Modi texts (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027735–027738). An iMessage export shows the account e:jeeitunes@gmail.com sending, to a redacted recipient:
  • “I can set” and “you should meet with modi.” on May 23, 2019
  • “modi inauguration on sunday .” on May 24
  • “modi on board” on May 24 A redacted sender opens the chat: “I’m doing a one hour show for India on Modi”. Two phrases that press reports attribute to these texts are not in this release.
• The March 24, 2018 thread (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032736, 026475).
  • Landon Thomas Jr. urged Epstein to “jump in” and asked “why wouldn’t he take your call?”
  • Epstein replied that Trump “feels alone. and is nuts”.
  • No call or other contact with Trump is recorded. CNN reported the reply.
• Mark Epstein, under oath (Sept. 21, 2009; S.D. Fla. 08-80893, transcript pp. 48–50).
  • He met Trump once, flying up from Florida on his brother’s plane “probably more like late ‘90’s”.
  • He understood Trump “wanted a ride back to New York”.
  • Asked about Trump’s relationship with his brother, he said: “They were friends.”
• Bradley Edwards’s affidavit (Sept. 21, 2010; Exhibit N in Epstein v. Edwards). As his reasons for noticing Trump’s deposition, Edwards stated:
  • The seized message pads show Trump called Epstein’s house several times.
  • Epstein’s phone directory has 14 numbers for Trump.
  • Mark Epstein testified Trump flew on the plane.
  • A source told him Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago over an assault on an underage girl. That is the affiant’s hearsay, recorded as alleged.

What we could not confirm

• Any Epstein–Trump contact in 2018.
• Two Modi phrases reported by the press. They may come from a different document cache.

For the owner and checker

• Archive captures. The DOJ state-court files were read from Internet Archive captures because the live files are behind an age gate. Please confirm this is acceptable.
• Uncited sources. Four sources were opened only to identify documents and no claim cites them: f8aaa4c1, d8b3809e, 0102a3a5, 58dc2d52. Reject them. The hearing transcript source bbe97086 is also uncited.
• Privacy. On EFTA02823962 p. 1 (caption), the respondents’ initials appear only partly redacted. Nothing was quoted from it.
• Statements beyond their quotes:
  • a309f437: drop the parenthetical “(the email urging him to “jump in”)”.
  • a8d1586b: drop “the affidavit does not identify the source”.
• Affidavit source. b42e1101 is law-firm hosted, with an Exhibit N slip-sheet but no clerk stamp; re-kind it to ‘other’ if you prefer.
• Missing archive URL. Source 4c55d7ac has no archiveUrl; a capture exists at 20260930032240.

Session 11b (continuation): overview fixes, Epstein’s depositions on Trump, Clinton’s full logbook count

This session continues session 11 and closed early at the owner’s request: the owner was running low on usage limit, and the next session starts at reset. Two helpers were stopped mid-task (the May 2019 Bannon–Modi texts, and Mark Epstein’s deposition). Both are carried as leads. Batch c017da11 was approved at 00:32 UTC while the independent checker was still running; its late findings are in #117.

What we looked at

• The case overview, against the checker’s fixes.
• The late checker reports on the now-published batch.
• The rest of the pilot’s logbook (pp. 97–118).
• Bates numbers for the Ambani–Epstein messages.
• The 2009 NPA unsealing.
• Epstein’s 2009 and 2010 depositions.
• Independent corroboration of the WSJ’s 2003 Mar-a-Lago spa account.

What the records show

• Epstein on Trump, under oath (March 17, 2010). The deposition excerpts are filed as S.D. Fla. 9:08-cv-80736 DE 291-23, p. 89. Asked whether he had socialized with Trump, Epstein answered “Yes, sir.” Asked whether he had done so “in the presence of females under the age of 18”, he invoked his Fifth, Sixth and 14th Amendment rights. An invocation is not an answer either way; he responded the same way about other prominent men.
• Epstein on Mar-a-Lago (Oct. 8, 2009 deposition). He said he knew Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate and had been there. Asked who with, he invoked his rights.
• Clinton’s flights. The pilot’s logbook records Clinton on six trips on Epstein’s Boeing 727 in 2002–2003 (12 named legs). This session added Nov. 4–9, 2003, Brussels to Beijing. His spokesman’s 2019 statement described four trips.
• Tail number. The May 15, 1994 Trump flights were on N988JE (a Hawker), not N908JE.
• The WSJ spa account in full. Former employees say a manager faxed Trump the 2003 complaint, and Trump said to kick Epstein out. The spa banned both Epstein and Maxwell in 2003. The White House called the report “fallacies and innuendo”.
• 2009 unsealing. OPR records the state-court release of the NPA on Sept. 18, 2009. The June and Sept. dates appear to be separate steps: the ruling, the appeal, then the release.
• Ambani. Bloomberg independently reports the May 2019 meeting. Ambani’s representative declined to comment.

What we could not confirm

• No outlet other than the WSJ has its own confirmation of the 2003 spa account.
• No EFTA Bates numbers for the Ambani messages appear in established reporting.
• Colbath’s unsealing order itself: it is likely in DOJ’s state-court file, which needs the owner’s permission to open.

Changes proposed for review

• A revised case overview (73efc204) with all the checker’s fixes.
• Three deposition claims on Trump.
• A Nov. 2003 Clinton flight event, plus an inferred claim giving the trip count.
• Four WSJ claims on the spa event.
• One OPR claim on the unsealing event.
• Two Ambani claims from Bloomberg.

For the owner

• #117 lists the post-publication corrections: about 30 fixes and 3 rejects (4c6600e8, b6715221, 5c8af941). They need hand edits, which is blocked on tooling #70.
• Published event e1c6a18b gives the tail number as N908JE; the logbook shows N988JE.
• Platform gap: publicBoard() shows source URLs unscrubbed, so URL slugs that name protected people reach the public page.

Session 11: send-back fixes, flight logs, the 2003 spa ban, and new threads (Ambani, Mandelson, Wexner, Staley)

Supervised session. The owner asked to push the batch for review mid-session, so this batch closes early and a continuation session follows.

What we looked at

• Every sent-back item from session 10. Each was re-opened and fixed as the checker suggested:
  • Melania Trump and Steve Bannon entities.
  • Four events: Oval Office 2019, Houraney 1992, the Jan. 2020 SDNY email, and the 2009 Mar-a-Lago complaint.
  • About 22 single claims.
• House Oversight 2026 transcripts (#95): all released transcripts are now checked for Trump.
• Greene’s “my friends will get hurt” account (#96) and the Gates p. 108 email (#102).
• The pilot’s logbook (U.S. v. Maxwell GX-662-R, DOJ Phase 1 release, Feb. 27, 2025), read on the page images.
• Epstein’s contact book in the same release.
• The Wall Street Journal’s Dec. 31, 2025 Mar-a-Lago spa investigation.
• The 2016 suit’s two witness declarations.
• Maxwell’s day-2 DOJ interview (#49).
• JPMorgan’s court-filed compliance files.
• Owner-approved international threads: Ambani (#93) and Mandelson (#94).
• Other public figures: Wexner (#98), Staley and JPMorgan (#100), and Prince Andrew’s 2026 arrest (#99).
• Legal timeline: the Herald’s 2018 report and the 2009 NPA unsealing.

What the records show

• Flights. Epstein’s pilot’s logbook lists “DONALD TRUMP” among passengers on eight legs between Apr. 1993 and Jan. 1997. “JE” appears on most and “GM” on four. Trump said in 2024 he was never on the plane (CNN), and ABC reports the same eight listings. Being listed on a flight is not evidence of wrongdoing.
• Clinton flights. The same logbook records every 2002 Clinton flight the pilot testified to (Feb. 9 Miami–White Plains, London, Asia, Morocco–Azores, Africa), plus Bangkok and Brunei legs. That is five trips in 2002; his spokesman said four.
• Dinners. The house manager’s 2009 deposition (15-cv-7433 Doc. 1328-42) says Trump “would come, have dinner… eat with me in the kitchen”, and never stayed.
• Epstein’s 2019 email. His Feb. 1, 2019 email to himself (House Oversight estate release, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023054) says Trump “came to my house many times during that period” and “never got a massage”. It is Epstein’s unverified account and gives no dates. The Washington Post, NBC and the Miami Herald report it.
• Contact book. It has a “Trump, Donald” entry, with the details redacted by DOJ.
• When the friendship ended.
  • The WSJ (via its archived text, and Forbes) reports that Mar-a-Lago’s spa sent staff to Epstein’s house for years, and that this stopped in 2003 after an 18-year-old worker complained and a manager faxed Trump. The White House said Trump “kicked Jeffrey Epstein out… for being a creep”.
  • JPMorgan’s court-filed files hold the Oct. 15, 2007 New York Post item saying the club “confirmed” Epstein was banned. Epstein denied it. This is the earliest dated record of the ban on the board.
  • The accounts conflict: 2003 (WSJ), the Oct. 2007 registry closure, and Trump’s 2025 account.
• Greene. She said in a NYT Magazine profile that Trump told her his “friends will get hurt” if abusers were named (relayed by Mother Jones, MS NOW, The Hill). The White House attacked Greene without addressing the remark. Bondi told House Oversight she knew nothing of it.
• 2016 suit. Its declarations (Docs. 4-2, 4-3) allege the plaintiff was abused at 1994 parties at 9 E. 71st St. The allegations are untested; the suit was dropped and Trump’s lawyer called it frivolous.
• Mar-a-Lago employment date. The accuser’s interrogatory answers (Doc. 1331-3) say case records date her Mar-a-Lago job to 2000. The accuser is unnamed.
• Wexner. The 1991 power of attorney itself (E.D.N.Y. 22-cv-125 Dkt. 49-2), his Aug. 8, 2019 letter, and his Feb. 2026 deposition, where he said he did not think Trump and Epstein were friends.
• Staley and JPMorgan. The $290M class settlement approved Nov. 13, 2023, with no admission of liability; the USVI dismissal ($75M per AP); the FCA ban, upheld by the Upper Tribunal in 2025.
• Prince Andrew. Arrested Feb. 19, 2026 on suspicion of misconduct in public office (Thames Valley Police; identified by NBC and CBS) and released under investigation. He denies wrongdoing.
• Mandelson. Removed as ambassador Sept. 2025 (Hansard), and later arrested and bailed (Met, CNN, NBC). Reported payments and emails are in the files; he expressed regret. Trump said “I don’t know him, actually” (White House transcript).
• Ambani. In Mar. 2017 he asked Epstein for help meeting “jared and bannon”. Epstein demurred and pointed him to Tom Barrack. This is reported only (NYT and others).
• Legal timeline.
  • Herald report of Nov. 28, 2018: from OPR, the article and CNN. OPR’s record contradicts the Herald’s account of the breakfast meeting.
  • NPA unsealing: the 4th DCA affirmed on Sept. 2, 2009.

What we could not confirm

• No confirmed Trump–Epstein contact after 2004. The Miami Herald found no direct communication in the estate files.
• No Mar-a-Lago subpoena or records production in 15-cv-7433.
• No original NYT pieces (Houraney 1992, Greene 2025): nytimes.com and its Wayback captures are blocked to scripts.
• No EFTA Bates numbers in established reporting for the Ambani or Mandelson emails.
• Newspapers.com could not be used: Chrome tools were not connected. #104 and three Melania Trump clipping claims are deferred.
• Getty has no Capehart images of Trump with Epstein.

Changes proposed for review

• Re-proposals of every session-10 send-back.
• New events: logbook flights (8 legs), the 2003 spa ban, the 2007 ban item, Greene’s account, Prince Andrew’s arrest, Ambani (2), Mandelson (several), Wexner (3), JPMorgan and Staley (4), the Herald’s 2018 report, and the 2009 unsealing.
• New entities: Ambani, Mandelson, Wexner, JPMorgan, Staley.
• A revised case overview.

For the checker and owner

• Quotes with ”[… omitted]” markers that keep private names and minors’ names out: logbook claims 85c7e3e5, e1af04f7, 13c0d4e5, and some Clinton logbook claims. They are not contiguous verbatim spans; trim or accept.
• Statements that may say more than their quotes:
  • 42a57075
  • c9e3a435
  • 254b0ba9
  • 145efaa9
  • 4573edf0
  • a9994cf9, 4b12791f and b6715221
  • efd7eb01 and 9fa4ea64
  • 0ee89267 (drop the second clause)
  • a8d806fb
  • 1b8a23c8
  • fa721e2d
• Please reject 4c6600e8 (Mandelson): befc95fc replaces it.
• Wexner deposition quotes come from YouTube auto-captions; check them against the audio.
• Event dates the logbook refines: f3c7bacf (London return Mar. 21), c2d94ff5 (July 13, 2002), 420b2022 (JFK departure Sept. 21).
• Contradictions logged:
  • Maxwell says Clinton never went to the island; an accuser’s account puts him there.
  • Clinton trip counts: spokesman four, Maxwell “one plus twice, maybe”, logbook five in 2002.
  • Maxwell’s day-1 “no massage” vs Clinton’s “neck rub” testimony.
  • 2009 unsealing date: June vs Sept.

Session 10: period newspapers, photo archives and House Oversight transcripts

The owner was signed in to Newspapers.com. Pages were read at a person’s pace; each clipping was made public and screenshotted (most are also archived); the paper itself is cited as the source, with Newspapers.com as the location.

Fix leads cleared

• 00dff5b4 (Feb. 2000 event): rebuilt as ebd68b7a. Sources:
  • The Palm Beach Post’s Feb. 20, 2000 society column.
  • Three Davidoff/Getty captions dated Feb. 12, 2000 at Mar-a-Lago.
  • The London Evening Standard (Jan. 2001).
  • The Washington Post.
• fd307b9b (Melania Trump): re-proposed as 98c00d02 with the quote extensions and bylines, plus records from 2000, 2002 and 2005.
• 60e82d14, 897a9b0a, a5cd6d46 (Epstein emails): reworded; corroborated by ABC News and CNBC.
• ecbc36da: the July 9, 2019 remark from video (event 2ba49acb).
• The case overview was revised and proposed (2416ffeb, 545 words).

New ground

The 2004 auction:

• The Palm Beach Post reports that Epstein’s lawyer objected that Trump was not a qualified bidder.
• The two local papers disagree on the opening bids.
• Trump’s own words in 2004 and 2005; the sale closed Jan. 7, 2005.

Dated photos (Getty captions, provenance only):

• Mar-a-Lago, Mar. 19, 1995.
• Feb. 22, 1997, and Apr. 9 and 28, 1997.
• Trump with Maxwell on Oct. 29, 1997 (the Daily News printed it).
• Trump, Knauss and Maxwell on Sept. 18, 2000 and Nov. 11, 2002.
• Getty’s Epstein photos from 2001–2007 include no Trump.

Flights:

• A Jan. 2020 SDNY email lists Trump on at least eight flights in 1993–96 (NBC, CNBC; event e102e917).
• Trump’s 2024 denial is recorded as disputed.

House Oversight 2026 transcripts (primary):

• Epstein’s former assistant connected occasional Epstein–Trump calls “early on”, until “there just were no more phone calls”.
• Lutnick; Ruemmler; Band (shown New York magazine’s Apr. 2003 townhouse guest list naming Trump).

Court records:

• Acosta’s House transcript, filed in 20-cr-330 Doc. 855-6.
• Epstein’s 2016 deposition: took the Fifth on Mar-a-Lago membership in 2000.
• The 2009 Jane Doe No. 102 complaint, and a 2016 Giuffre v. Maxwell filing correcting the recruitment date to 2000. The accuser is unnamed.

House manager: the Palm Beach Daily News (2017) reported his sworn testimony that Trump dined at Epstein’s Palm Beach home and ate in the kitchen.

Also recorded:

• Houraney’s 1992 party account.
• The 2010 deposition clip.
• Clinton’s Sept. 2002 Africa trip.
• The July 2008 plea story.
• A new Steve Bannon entity.

Search log (Newspapers.com, hit counts)

Hits used:

• "Jeffrey Epstein" Trump 1990–2004: 27.
• Epstein Gosman Nov. 15–17, 2004: 2.
• Epstein Gosman Nov. 2004 – June 2005: 5.
• Epstein Trump Knauss Jan. 15 – Feb. 15, 2005: 6.
• "Mar-a-Lago" "Tony Bennett" Mar. 15 – Apr. 10, 1995: 8.
• "Ghislaine Maxwell" Trump 1993–2004: 46.
• "Jeffrey Epstein" Clinton 2002–2004: 31.
• "Jeffrey Epstein" "Donald Trump" 2008–2011: 48.
• Alessi Epstein Trump 2008–2019: 30.

Searches that yielded nothing usable:

• Epstein "Mar-a-Lago" 1990–2010: 252.
• Epstein Trump "Mar-a-Lago" 2007–2008: 13.
• Epstein Trump banned 2007–2009: 35.
• Epstein "terrific guy" 2002–2012: 60. "Jeffrey Epstein" "terrific guy" 2002–2012: 0.
• Epstein Trump Maples wedding 1993–1994: 14.
• Trump Knauss married Jan. 2005: 458.
• Epstein Trump "Victoria's Secret" 1993–1999: 9.
• "Jeffrey Epstein" Feb.–June 1997: 31.
• Epstein "Mar-a-Lago" 2005–2007: 31.
• Epstein "Mar-a-Lago" Mar. 2000 – Nov. 2004: 45.
• "Jeffrey Epstein" Trump 1987–1993: 7.
• Houraney Trump 1991–1999: 30.
• Epstein Trump tennis "Mar-a-Lago" 2001–2004: 10.
• Maxwell Trump "Mar-a-Lago" 2001–2004: 24.

Lines of questioning

• When did the Epstein–Trump calls stop?
• What is in the Gosman bankruptcy docket?
• What did the Mar-a-Lago subpoena and records production contain?
• The 2018 “Trump introduced us” email (WSJ).
• The WSJ-reported “my friends will get hurt”.
• The NYT original of Houraney’s account.
• The house manager’s deposition.

Content types

• Checked: newspapers, photo-agency captions, congressional transcripts, court records, news video.
• Not checked: the bankruptcy docket, deeds, the DOJ EFTA library (awaiting the owner’s scope decision).

For the owner and checker

• Statements with a follow-up claim. Some statements say slightly more than their quote; each has a follow-up claim covering the extra fact: 9ec50f46 (+af895517), fd23e52b (+f0033016), c19ee6e2 (+859c4545), f01e0a99 (+8ed4111d), 9c6871d0 (+d3293987), b7d12fd4 (+05751ce7).
• Statements that still say more than their quotes.
  • ef631c50: “from Feb. 2001” is on p. 143.
  • eb9ed36a: “brought by Scarola’s side” is inference.
• Scores lowered by scan artifacts. These were confirmed on the page images: page breaks or line numbers in the text layer (Lutnick p. 92, Ruemmler pp. 116–117, Epstein deposition p. 31) and OCR errors (Acosta p. 193).
• Other quote checks.
  • The MSNBC quote on 2ba49acb is from the captions (01:34–01:56); check it with get_transcript.
  • 64d1e63d is OCR lowercase.
• Naming decisions for the owner. The former assistant is an NPA-listed individual (lead 8885ba98). She is referred to by role, but quote 00d9a5f1 and the source URL contain her name. The Mar-a-Lago accuser is kept unnamed (lead 706d7e67).
• Melania Trump summary. “Girlfriend from 1998” is inferred.

What we looked at

First session under the owner’s new direction (three new initiatives):

• CNN and CBS on Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s February 2026 Senate testimony.
• CNN and NBC on Melania Trump’s April 2026 statement and her lawyers’ retraction campaign.
• The Washington Post (2019) and CNN (2025) on the Trump–Epstein social record and on Epstein’s estate emails.
• The 2016 Jane Doe v. Trump & Epstein complaint.

What the records show

• Lutnick:
  • He testified that he and his family had lunch on Epstein’s island in 2012 (CNN, CBS).
  • He said he had no relationship with Epstein (CNN).
  • CBS reports he and Epstein signed a business contract on Dec. 28, 2012.
• Melania Trump:
  • She said in April 2026 that she was never friends with Epstein and never on his plane or island (CNN).
  • A friendly 2002 email exchange with Maxwell was released (CNN).
  • Her book says she met Trump in 1998 through someone other than Epstein. The Daily Beast retracted a story suggesting otherwise, and Trump denies it (NBC).
• The friendship:
  • Trump, Melania Knauss, Epstein, Maxwell and Prince Andrew were at a Mar-a-Lago tennis event in February 2000 (WaPo; CNN).
  • Trump’s lawyer said in 2016 that the two “did not socialize together”. Epstein said “Yes, sir” when asked in a 2010 deposition if he had socialized with Trump (WaPo).
  • Epstein denied the reported 2007 Mar-a-Lago ban at the time (WaPo).
• Epstein’s emails (CNN):
  • Maxwell’s 2011 reply “I have been thinking about that”.
  • A 2018 line: “i know how dirty Donald is”.
  • Two unverified claims by Epstein: the bikini photos, and a mid-1990s claim about his girlfriend.
  • The White House says the emails prove nothing, and CNN found no “smoking guns”.

What we could not confirm

• The primary records behind Lutnick’s contract, Melania’s 2002 email and Epstein’s 2010 deposition.
• The 2016 complaint’s declarations. CourtListener timed out all session.

Changes proposed for review

• New entities for Lutnick and Melania Trump.
• The February 2000 event.
• About 25 claims.
• A case overview (22214772) with the fix lead applied.
• Six new leads across the three new initiatives.

Early end: CourtListener is down.

Lines of questioning opened

• Any contact after 2007?
• Epstein’s 2010 deposition in full.
• The Tiffany Doe declaration.
• Lutnick’s hearing video and the Adfin contract.
• Bannon’s contacts with Epstein.

What we looked at

• Video of Trump’s July 29, 2025 Air Force One remarks: a CBS News clip with human captions.
• PolitiFact (via PBS), CNN and The Daily Beast on the Herald/WSJ account of Epstein’s removal from Mar-a-Lago.
• CourtListener, for a 2009 court filing on the ban. It timed out all session.

What the records show

• Trump on video, July 29, 2025: “People were taken out of the spa, hired by him” (CBS News video, 0:18).
• The Herald/WSJ book account: PolitiFact and CNN report the 2020 book by Miami Herald and Wall Street Journal reporters, which says Trump barred Epstein after he behaved inappropriately toward a Mar-a-Lago member’s teenage daughter. Both relay the same book, so they don’t count as independent corroboration.

What we could not confirm

• The membership list itself. The Daily Beast (rated use with care) says the book’s authors viewed it and that it shows “Account closed 10/07”.
• The 2009 Bradley Edwards court filing The Daily Beast describes.

Changes proposed for review

• One documented video claim and two reported claims on the July 2025 event.
• A case overview (8af6a857) applying the fix lead: restores the house-manager and Secret Service sentences, and completes the change note.

Early end: CourtListener timeouts blocked the court-record leads.

Lines of questioning opened

• Which 2009 filing says Trump banned Epstein, and on what basis?
• Did the book’s authors cite the membership list’s date and wording exactly?

What we looked at

• The four send-back fix leads from the owner’s review.
• The April 2015 order in Doe v. United States (DE 324), re-registered under the new review rules.
• The 2022 Dershowitz dismissal (Doc 506) and AP and NBC reporting on it.
• July 2025 reporting on Trump’s account of his break with Epstein (CNN; PolitiFact via PBS).

What the records show

• Doe v. United States (April 2015):
  • Judge Marra denied two women’s bid to join the case. He called the details of their allegations about non-parties immaterial and impertinent, and struck them (DE 324).
  • NBC/Reuters reported the allegations against Prince Andrew and Dershowitz were struck “for now”. Both men denied them (CNN; NBC/Reuters).
• Dershowitz: the 2019 S.D.N.Y. suit against him and his counterclaim were dismissed with prejudice by stipulation on Nov. 9, 2022 (Doc 506).
• Trump:
  • In July 2025 Trump said he threw Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago for repeatedly hiring away spa employees, whom he acknowledged were young women (CNN; PolitiFact).
  • The White House said Epstein was kicked out “for being a creep” (CNN).
  • The Miami Herald reported the club registry showed Epstein’s account closed around October 2007 (PolitiFact).
• Maxwell: said she does not believe Epstein died by suicide; now recorded without the medical examiner’s ruling, which is on the board separately.
• Clinton: his spokesman’s “four trips” (one to Europe, one to Asia, two to Africa) now sits on his entity rather than on a specific flight.

What we could not confirm

• The Mar-a-Lago registry itself, and the 2020 book’s account.
• The news-search tool was rate-limited this session.

Changes proposed for review

• The corrected 2015 strike event: three documented claims from the order plus five reported ones.
• The re-proposed Maxwell and Clinton claims.
• The Dershowitz dismissal and the 2022 statements, with their sources re-registered.
• A new event for Trump’s July 2025 statements (five claims).
• A case overview (d0c798d4) applying all five fixes from the fix lead.

Early end: all fix leads are cleared; the remaining leads need scans, PACER, archives or audio.

Lines of questioning opened

• When did the Mar-a-Lago registry close Epstein’s account, and who saw it?
• Do Nunberg’s pre-2005 ban and the October 2007 closure conflict?
• Does any club or house staff testimony describe the ban?

What we looked at

• Maxwell’s day-1 DOJ transcript on a “list”, blackmail and Epstein’s death (owner-approved topics); day 2 has no hits on them.
• Credible reporting to support rejected items: Courthouse News (2016), CNN (2015, 2022, Jan. 2026), NBC/Reuters (2015), CBS (2026).
• The Palm Beach police incident report 1-05-000368, in the 2d Cir. appendix, for the message books.
• The House Oversight Clinton deposition video, for the Feb. 9, 2002 flight.

What the records show

• Maxwell (DOJ transcript):
  • She said there is no list and she knew of no blackmail.
  • She said she does not believe Epstein died by suicide but has no view of who killed him. The medical examiner ruled it a suicide.
• Trump:
  • Trump Organization counsel called the 2016 lawsuit’s allegations frivolous (Courthouse News).
  • The Justice Department called some claims about Trump submitted to the FBI before the 2020 election unfounded and false (DOJ release filed in Doe v. Black; CNN).
• Clinton:
  • In his 2026 opening statement he said he saw nothing and did nothing wrong (CBS).
  • His lawyers asked for the dates of a diary entry that the questioner did not have (CNN).
• Dershowitz:
  • In April 2015 a federal judge struck the allegations against him and Prince Andrew as unnecessary, without ruling on their truth (CNN; NBC/Reuters).
  • In 2022 the accuser said she may have been mistaken (CNN).
• Message books: police seized a phone message book from Epstein’s kitchen on Oct. 20, 2005. The books kept carbon copies (Palm Beach police report).

What we could not confirm

• The State Attorney scans of the two Trump message slips; the police report doesn’t mention Trump.
• Clinton’s answer about the Feb. 9, 2002 flight: the committee raised it (video 1:35:35), but only auto-captions exist.
• The 1990s photo archives (not reached).

Changes proposed for review

• About 20 claims, 1 event (the 2015 strike order) and 9 sources.
• A case overview (99bdaf88) applying all seven checker fixes. It restores two citations, attributes reported points, names Rodgers and Visoski, and adds Trump’s denials, the Dershowitz record and Maxwell’s view of Epstein’s death.
• Error: claim 1b9c6e01 cites the Rodgers source record by mistake. c034de85 is the corrected duplicate; please reject 1b9c6e01.

Early end: the remaining leads need scans that aren’t online, PACER, archive access or audio verification.

Lines of questioning opened

• Was the Feb. 9, 2002 flight a fifth Clinton trip?
• What did Clinton answer when asked about it?
• Do the State Attorney scans date the Trump slips?

What we looked at

• Pilot David Rodgers’s June 3, 2016 deposition, inside the 2d Cir. unsealed summary-judgment appendix. The owner approved citing it from page images, since the file exceeds the tools’ size limit.
• Maxwell’s day-2 DOJ interview transcript (July 25, 2025).
• NBC’s 1992 Mar-a-Lago footage report and CNN’s 2025 KFile on archival photos and video.
• CBS12 and Palm Beach Post reporting on Epstein’s seized phone-message pads.
• CNN’s account of the diary-entry questioning in Clinton’s deposition.
• The Clinton spokesman’s 2019 statement (CNN).
• Dershowitz’s 2016 declaration and the 2016 settlement statement, used to re-propose his entity.

What the records show

• Clinton:
  • Rodgers testified to flights with Clinton aboard Epstein’s Boeing: Miami to White Plains on Feb. 9, 2002 (his first time meeting Clinton), New York to London and back overnight on Mar. 19–20, 2002, and a May 2002 Asia trip to Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Singapore, where he believed Clinton gave speeches (Rodgers dep., 2d Cir. 18-2868 Doc. 283).
  • Clinton’s spokesman said in 2019 that Clinton took four trips on the plane in 2002–03 (CNN).
  • Shown a diary entry attributed to an accuser, Clinton said it was not true, and his lawyers asked for its dates (CNN).
• Trump:
  • NBC’s November 1992 tape shows Trump with Epstein at a Mar-a-Lago party (NBC; WaPo). The White House calls such images out-of-context frame grabs of widely attended events (CNN).
  • Two undated message slips from a “Donald Trump” sit among Epstein’s message-pad pages dated Nov. 11–20, 2004. Their purpose is unknown (CBS12; Palm Beach Post).
• Maxwell: on day 2 she qualified her earlier denial, saying it was “not impossible” she had asked someone from Mar-a-Lago (DOJ transcript).
• Dershowitz: re-proposed with his sworn denials and alibi, and with the 2016 joint statement: the accuser’s lawyers withdrew the accusations, and that case was about due diligence, not whether the misconduct occurred.

What we could not confirm

• The original message-pad scans, the 1993 and 1999 photo archives, and the 2004 auction transcript.
• A two-source corroboration for the Feb. 2002 domestic flight.
• Two day-2 transcript searches and one claim (the spokesman statement on the July 2002 Morocco flight) were blocked by the tool-permission classifier and are left for the owner.

Changes proposed for review

• New Dershowitz entity (6b2b970f).
• Five flight and social events: four Clinton flights and the 1992 party.
• The c. November 2004 message-pad event.
• Fixes for 34c8a68c and 75ffdb2d.
• A revised case overview (64aa4311) that adds Epstein’s death and a public-figures section, citing only published claims or claims in this batch.

Early end: the planned work is done; the remaining leads need PACER, the EFTA decision, rejected sources or the fetch-size code change (flagged as a separate task).

Lines of questioning opened

• Do the message-pad scans show other Trump calls, before or after November 2004?
• What do the original 1993 and 1999 photo captions say about who is pictured?
• Does the auction transcript show any contact between the bidders?
• Can the domestic Feb. 2002 flight be corroborated?
• Which Maxwell day-2 statements conflict with the trial record?

What we looked at

• Dershowitz’s sworn 2016 reply declaration (unsealed Jan. 2024) and the April 2016 Edwards/Cassell settlement statement.
• November 2022 reporting (AP via CBS, NBC) on the end of the S.D.N.Y. case.
• For Clinton:
  • The Secret Service FOIA response filed in Giuffre v. Maxwell.
  • February 2026 deposition reporting (CNN, CBS).
• Maxwell’s July 2025 DOJ interview transcript (day 1, condensed).
• House Oversight’s June 2026 transcripts of former AG Pam Bondi and former MCC officer Tova Noel.
• Reporting on the November 2004 Palm Beach bankruptcy auction (Washington Post 2019, PolitiFact/PBS 2025).
• An OCR sweep of the 883-page 2d Cir. unsealed summary-judgment appendix 9 (18-2868 Doc. 283), looking for flight logs.

What the records show

• Dershowitz swore in 2016 that he did not sexually abuse his accuser and was never at Epstein’s properties or on his plane during the relevant years (15-cv-7433 Doc. 1330-4).
  • In 2016 the accuser’s lawyers acknowledged it was a mistake to have filed the accusations and withdrew them, while maintaining they had acted in good faith (Doc. 165-13).
  • In 2022 the accuser said she may have made a mistake in identifying him (AP/CBS, NBC).
  • Maxwell told DOJ she never saw him act inappropriately, and recalled him with his wife at the island once (DOJ transcript).
• Clinton:
  • The Secret Service found no records of his detail travelling to Little St. James in 2001–2003 (USSS FOIA reply, Doc. 229-3).
  • He testified he had never been to the island (CNN, CBS).
  • Maxwell told DOJ he never received a massage. CNN reports he testified to a neck rub on a trip, which contradicts that.
• Trump:
  • Maxwell told DOJ she never saw him in any inappropriate setting (DOJ transcript).
  • Bondi told House Oversight that, to her knowledge, all Trump-related Epstein files were released, and that she is not certain of his prior knowledge. She declined to discuss conversations with him (Bondi transcript).
  • He outbid Epstein for a Palm Beach estate on Nov. 15, 2004 (WaPo, PolitiFact).
• Epstein’s death: Noel testified that the 10:39 p.m. figure on the L Tier stairs was not her and that she saw no one go up (Noel transcript).

What we could not confirm

• The accuser’s own account of Clinton on the island from a primary record. Only Dershowitz’s description of a 2011 press interview was found.
• The 2004 auction transcript, which is not on CourtListener.
• Flight logs: not in appendix 9. That appendix does contain pilot David Rodgers’s June 3, 2016 deposition on 2002 flights carrying Clinton, but the file (195 MB) is too large for the verification tools.

Changes proposed for review

• 12 sources, 1 event (the 2004 auction) and about 39 claims on Dershowitz, Clinton, Trump, Noel and the Maxwell interview event.
• No case-overview revision, because the previous overview proposal (batch 11262d3c) is still awaiting review.
• Ended early: every remaining workable lead is blocked on file size, PACER, the EFTA scope decision or the rejected sources.

Session 3: fixes, Trump denials, overview, Dershowitz

Goal: re-propose the items rejected from the last two batches with the checker’s fixes, add a documented Trump denial, correct the case overview, and then open lead #40 (Dershowitz) with any time left.

Done

• 2016 suit against Trump and Epstein (16-cv-7673). Re-proposed as event 01177ba1 with the alleged ¶7 claim, the 9 E. 71st St. claim, and Trump’s denial as quoted in the complaint (disputed). Statements now stay strictly within their quotes.
• Trump denials from primary records.
  • The Palm Beach house manager testified that Trump never stayed at the house and never had massages there (line numbers corrected from the page image).
  • Barr, House deposition p. 54.
  • The Atlantic City quote, extended to 78:13–19.
  • DOJ’s Jan. 30, 2026 statement calling the claims “unfounded and false”, cited from the copy filed in Doe v. Black (23-cv-6418 Doc 461) and recorded as disputed.
• Others re-proposed.
  • Prince Andrew: the massages testimony, with corrected line numbers.
  • Clinton: two statements (paras. 3–4).
  • Event a0e4e56c: the Leavitt and GOP-memo claims.
  • Phang v. Blanche: the preliminary injunction, rebuilt from Doc 43 because Doc 16 had been rejected.
  • The EFTA event: DOJ’s caveat that the release may include fake material.
• Case overview re-proposed (458 words, grade 10) with every checker fix applied.
• Dershowitz (new entity, public figure).
  • S.D. Fla. 08-cv-80736 DE 324 (Apr. 7, 2015): the court struck the challenged details as impertinent to the CVRA case and denied his motion to intervene as moot. It did not rule on whether the allegations were true, and it let the accuser reassert the details with proper proof.
  • S.D.N.Y. 19-cv-3377 Doc 506 (Nov. 9, 2022): the case and counterclaim were dismissed with prejudice by stipulation, and appeal rights were waived.
  • The accuser is not named in any claim.

Not done / blocked

• These rejected sources can’t be reused, so the owner would need to restore them:
  • Doc 767 (the defense counterpoint to FD-302 claim 9193162d).
  • The March 2026 NBC and CBS/AP reports.
  • Phang Doc 16.
• Skipped Clinton’s caption-only claim 6fd55a0d and its duplicate 285b3aa2.
• Dershowitz’s sworn denial (15-cv-7433 Doc 1330-4) was not read.

Early end: the planned work was complete, and the ~35 minutes left weren’t enough to read and quote the Doc 1330-4 declarations carefully.

What we looked at

The owner approved citing Epstein-files (EFTA) records when a court has a filed copy (GitHub #35). We searched Maxwell’s § 2255 exhibit volumes, the MCC guards’ docket (19-cr-830), Phang v. Blanche (D.D.C. 26-cv-1417, a suit over DOJ’s compliance with the Epstein Files Transparency Act), Barr’s full House Oversight deposition, the committee’s video of Clinton’s deposition, and depositions unsealed in January 2024 in Giuffre v. Maxwell (S.D.N.Y. 15-cv-7433).

This session closed at about 45 of 150 minutes. The planned leads could go no further in court records, the batch reached its target size while last session’s batch still awaits review, and the remaining leads need owner decisions or would bring in heavy protected-witness material.

What the records show

• A 2019 FBI interview report, filed in Phang v. Blanche (Doc. 33 Ex. C). It records a protected individual’s account that Epstein took her to Mar-a-Lago to meet Trump and told him, “This is a good one, huh.” It is her account, not a finding. At Maxwell’s trial the defense argued her timeline conflicted with the pilot’s testimony about Epstein’s car (20-cr-330 Doc. 767 p. 113).
• Barr under oath (House Oversight deposition, Aug. 18, 2025).
  • He was never told there was evidence supporting claims about Trump (p. 60).
  • He could not recall Trump expressing views on the investigation (p. 54).
  • Trump told him he had “pushed him out of or somehow got him out of Mar-a-Largo” (p. 117, as printed).
• Clinton’s deposition video (Feb. 27, 2026). Clinton recounted Trump saying he and Epstein “fell out all because of a real estate deal.” Clinton said he was “never on the island.” Both quotes come from auto-captions.
• Unsealed depositions in Giuffre v. Maxwell.
  • Epstein’s Palm Beach house manager (2009): Trump never stayed at the house and never had massages there; Prince Andrew had daily massages when staying; he met Clinton on Epstein’s plane.
  • A 2016 deponent answered “No” when Trump was named in questions about whether guests asked her for sexual contact.
  • Maxwell (2016): she flew on Epstein’s planes with Clinton, and says he was never on the island.
  • Epstein (2016): he invoked the Fifth when asked about Clinton. An invocation is not an answer either way.
• DOJ’s Feb. 14, 2026 report to Congress. It lists “Trump, Donald” and “Clinton, Bill” among persons named anywhere in the released files. The same list includes celebrities such as Beyoncé, so being on it shows presence only.
• Phang v. Blanche rulings. On June 25, 2026 the court granted a preliminary injunction, writing that the Attorney General had conceded violating the Act. On Sept. 16, 2026 it rejected DOJ’s “duplicative” reason for withholding FBI handwritten interview notes and ordered them submitted for in camera review.

What we could not confirm

• The FBI records of the 2019 allegation against Trump, the flight-log exhibits, and the MCC video logs are not in any court filing we found.
• The Acosta interview transcript is posted only on Google Drive, which the tools cannot fetch.

Changes proposed for review

• 11 sources, 2 events and about 30 claims.
• A revised case overview. It applies last session’s checker fixes except those that cite claims still awaiting review.

Known issues for the checker:

• 3f297982’s statement adds the Atlantic City landing context, which is not in its quote.
• dd2e2382’s line locator should read tr. 2947:10–13.
• The overview sentence about the 2016 suit cites only the dismissal claim.

What we looked at

The DOJ Inspector General’s June 2023 report on Epstein’s custody at MCC New York (Report 23-085); the court file in United States v. Noel and Thomas (S.D.N.Y. 19-cr-830); and Acosta’s late-2007 letter to Kenneth Starr (S.D. Fla. DE 362-16). At the owner’s direction we opened a new line of inquiry into what records show about Donald Trump and other public figures. For it we read:

• the 2016 Doe v. Trump and Epstein filings (S.D.N.Y. 16-cv-4642 and 16-cv-7673);
• Trump v. Dow Jones (S.D. Fla. 25-cv-23232);
• 11 days of Maxwell trial transcripts and her 2026 § 2255 exhibits;
• a House Oversight staff memo;
• the civil suit against Prince Andrew (S.D.N.Y. 21-cv-6702).

We also added the first map pins and document crops. This session closed at about 75 of 150 minutes, at the owner’s direction in chat: the batch was already large, and most remaining leads wait on owner decisions.

What the records show

• Epstein’s death. The OIG report states Epstein was found hanged in his cell on Aug. 10, 2019, and that the city medical examiner ruled the death a suicide. OIG found no evidence contradicting the FBI’s finding of no criminality. It also found no rounds after about 10:40 p.m. and falsified count slips. The day before, his cellmate had been transferred and not replaced (OIG pp. 2–5; CBS News, June 27, 2023).
• The two officers. Tova Noel and Michael Thomas were indicted on Nov. 19, 2019. In their May 2021 deferred-prosecution agreements, each admitted “willfully and knowingly” completing false count and round slips. The charges were dropped in Dec. 2021 (19-cr-830 Docs. 56, 59, 64; NBC/Reuters). In Jan. 2026 the court allowed the grand-jury records to be released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Doc. 73).
• The Acosta letter. The copy of Acosta’s letter to Starr in the court record has no date line. It answers Starr’s Nov. 28 letter and sets a “this Friday at 5 p.m.” deadline (DE 362-16). That explains why the two filings on the board date it differently.
• Trump, documented contacts. Epstein’s pilot testified that Trump flew on Epstein’s plane “more than once” (20-cr-330 Doc. 743, tr. 233). A trial witness said Epstein introduced her to Trump at Mar-a-Lago (Doc. 745); NBC reports she did not allege any improper conduct by him. Presence on a flight or at a club is not evidence of wrongdoing.
• Trump, the FBI report. A 2019 FBI interview report with a former Palm Beach police chief, filed in court, records that Trump called the police to say “thank goodness you’ re stopping him” (spelling as printed). The same chief said no victim the police spoke with reported sexual contact with men other than Epstein (Doc. 862-2 pp. 55–56).
• Trump, the 2016 suits. The suits alleged Trump and Epstein assaulted a 13-year-old in 1994. Both were voluntarily dismissed in 2016 without any ruling, and the complaint itself quotes Trump’s denial.
• Trump, the birthday letter. The court has not decided who wrote the 2003 birthday-book letter (S.D. Fla. Doc. 65 p. 12). Trump denies writing it, and a motion to dismiss his amended complaint is pending. Maxwell told DOJ she did not remember whether Trump submitted a letter (Doc. 68-8).
• Barr and Acosta. Excerpts in a House Oversight memo record Barr saying S.D.N.Y. never told him of evidence supporting claims against Trump. Acosta said he had no knowledge of Trump being associated with the investigation.
• Prince Andrew. A 2021 civil suit by a protected individual alleged he abused her at 17. He denied it (Doc. 71), and the case settled and was dismissed with prejudice (Doc. 83).

What we could not confirm

• FBI video log. CBS reports that a newly released FBI video log calls a figure on the stairs at 10:39 p.m. “possibly an inmate”, while OIG describes an unidentified officer. The log itself sits in the EFTA corpus.
• 2026 FBI notes. The March 2026 DOJ release of FBI notes recording an uncorroborated allegation against Trump rests on NBC and CBS/AP reporting; the White House called the allegation baseless. We found no DOJ primary record we could reach.
• November 2025 emails. The House Oversight emails in which Epstein wrote that Trump “knew about the girls” are reported, not verified.
• Two accounts of the falling-out. Trump says Epstein took Mar-a-Lago staff; Clinton says Trump told him it was over a real-estate deal. Neither is resolved.

Changes proposed for review

• 35 sources, 6 entities (MCC New York, Noel, Thomas, Donald J. Trump, Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew), 14 events, 5 relationships and about 100 claims.
• 3 images and 2 map locations.
• A revised case overview.

Several statements add detail beyond their quote (noted for the checker).

What we looked at

Supervised session. It ended early at about 10 minutes, at the owner’s choice.

• The trial exhibits need the owner’s scope decision on the DOJ Epstein Files release.
• The Palm Beach clerk’s site requires a CAPTCHA.
• The new visuals tools need an evidence-board server restart.

We read the SDNY U.S. Attorney’s case page for U.S. v. Maxwell (in the browser), the Second Circuit appendix volumes, and the full DOJ OPR report (20-cr-330 Doc. 204-3). We also re-checked the sentencing transcript (Doc. 779) and judgment (Doc. 696).

What the records show

• Sentencing dates: the transcript records Maxwell’s hearing on June 28, 2022 (Doc. 779, p. 1). SDNY’s case page had announced sentencing for 11 a.m. that day. The written judgment carries the date June 29, 2022 (Doc. 696, p. 1).
• Maxwell’s plea: SDNY’s case page records that at the July 14, 2020 arraignment Maxwell “entered a plea of not guilty”.
• DOJ review: OPR records that on Nov. 28, 2007, defense counsel Kenneth Starr wrote requesting a meeting with Fisher, as the defense sought DOJ review of the NPA (OPR full report, p. 121).
• Acosta’s letters: OPR describes two letters. One was a Nov. 30, 2007 reply to Lefkowitz (p. 239). The other, sent Dec. 4, 2007, went to Starr and set the Dec. 7 deadline (p. 122). Judge Marra’s opinion dates the deadline letter to about Nov. 30.

What we could not confirm

• Trial exhibits: the SDNY case page lists no exhibits, and the Second Circuit supplemental appendix holds the OPR report and transcript excerpts rather than flight exhibits.
• The 2006 state case number (2006CF9454 or 2006CF9495): the Palm Beach clerk’s eCaseView requires reCAPTCHA, which agents may not complete.
• The Acosta letter date: why DE 435 says Nov. 30 is still open.

Changes proposed for review

• Scale: about 10 claims, 1 event and 1 source (SDNY case page).
• Sentencing: the transcript claim limited to the transcript, a separate judgment-date claim, and SDNY’s scheduling notice.
• Plea: Maxwell’s plea from SDNY’s case page.
• DOJ review: the event re-proposed with the Nov. 28, 2007 start.
• Deadline letter: OPR’s two-letter account added to the event.
• Case overview: a revision adding the hearing date, Maxwell’s counts and sentencing statement, and corrected wording on the Supreme Court and the 2025 law.
• Edit to my own draft before review: I edited one of my unreviewed claims (ae8db9b2) to keep its statement within its quote.

What we looked at

A short session at the owner’s request, ending early by design, to propose a case overview revision with the checker’s fixes to draft fd5bf143. No new sources were opened.

What the records show

Nothing new. The overview restates findings already published on the board and cites only published claims.

What we could not confirm

Maxwell’s sentencing date is still unresolved on the published record. The published claim bbb095c8 and event a383fc7e give June 29, 2022, while the sentencing transcript gives June 28. The overview no longer states a date, and the correction is waiting on the owner (lead 4b0b3f04).

Changes proposed for review

One case overview revision. Changes from fd5bf143:

• The 2025 law line now says only what its claim supports.
• The uncited sentencing-date sentence is removed.
• Maxwell is introduced with her counts of conviction and her own sentencing statement.
• The unsupported years are dropped.
• It says “declined to hear her appeal”.
• The dek is reworded so it doesn’t imply the deal spared Epstein his 2019 indictment.
• The change note no longer refers to a rejected draft.

What we looked at

A short session at the owner’s request, ending early by design, to replace the case overview draft rejected in the last review. No new sources were opened.

What the records show

Nothing new. The revised overview restates findings already published on the board. It cites only published claims, so it can go live as soon as it’s approved.

What we could not confirm

Maxwell’s sentencing date is still unresolved on the published record. The published sentencing claim and event give June 29, 2022, while the transcript gives June 28. The overview lists this under “What remains unproven” and doesn’t state a date.

Changes proposed for review

One case overview revision. Changes from the rejected draft:

• It no longer cites the rejected sentencing-transcript claim.
• It says “sex-trafficking count” instead of “sex trafficking of minors”.
• It adds a citation for “upheld on appeal” (the Second Circuit affirmance).
• It says “prosecutors in the Southern District of Florida” instead of “in Miami”.
• It states the co-conspirator promise with its condition (“if Epstein kept its terms”).
• It introduces Maxwell by her role in the case.

What we looked at

Supervised session. It ended early at about 24 minutes, at the owner’s choice. The planned work was done; the remaining leads were blocked (ACRIS rate limits, a Wayback bot check, SDNY trial exhibits off RECAP) or awaited owner decisions.

The owner had rejected last batch’s ‘disputed’ claims that rested only on news reports. So this session re-sourced denials and stated positions from primary records. We read:

• the Epstein arraignment minute entry (19-cr-490 Doc. 5);
• Maxwell’s detention-opposition memorandum (20-cr-330 Doc. 18);
• her sentencing transcript (Doc. 779) and judgment (Doc. 696);
• Judge Marra’s CVRA opinion (S.D. Fla. DE 435);
• the full DOJ OPR report (filed as 20-cr-330 Doc. 204-3) and its executive summary;
• NYC ACRIS deed records for 9 East 71st Street (1989 and 2021).

What the records show

• Pleas and denials: Epstein pleaded not guilty on July 8, 2019 (minute entry, Doc. 5). Maxwell’s lawyers told the court she “vigorously denies the charges” (Doc. 18). At sentencing she said she acknowledged she had been convicted of helping Epstein (Doc. 779, p. 85).
• Sentencing date: the transcript records the hearing on June 28, 2022; the judgment is dated June 29 (Doc. 779; Doc. 696).
• Government positions: Judge Marra’s opinion records the government’s contention that there is no right to conferral about an NPA, and its assertion that it used best efforts (DE 435, p. 23). OPR records Acosta’s July 10, 2019 defence of the deal (OPR summary, p. iv).
• NPA-era events, each in both DE 435 and OPR:
  • May 2007: a draft federal indictment (53 pages per DE 435; 60 counts per OPR).
  • July 31, 2007: the office’s first offer (OPR; USAO letter of Aug. 3, 2007).
  • October 2007: Acosta’s breakfast meeting with defense counsel. OPR found no evidence it led to the NPA.
  • Late 2007: Acosta’s letter holding victim notices and setting a Dec. 7 deadline.
  • Dec. 7, 2007: Epstein’s re-affirmation of the NPA and its Oct. 30, 2007 Addendum (OPR full report, p. 124).
  • Jan. 10, 2008: FBI letters telling victims the case was “currently under investigation.” OPR found no evidence the U.S. Attorney or the two prosecutors it names knew their content.
  • Early 2008: the defense sought DOJ review.
• NPA sentence terms: quoted exactly this time: 12 plus 6 months in county jail, then 12 months of community control (DE 361-62, p. 4).
• Title chain:
  • 1989: Birch Wathen School conveyed 9 East 71st Street to Nine East 71st Street Corporation, with a Columbus, Ohio address (ACRIS FT_1690000317169).
  • March 8, 2021: Maple, Inc. conveyed the house, reciting that it had acquired it by the Dec. 23, 2011 deed (ACRIS 2021031500304001).

What we could not confirm

• Acosta’s deadline letter: dated about Nov. 30, 2007 (DE 435) or Dec. 4, 2007 (OPR)? Both dates are recorded on the event, and a lead is logged.
• The 2006 state case number: OPR cites 2006cf9454; the NPA says 2006-cf-009495.
• Maxwell trial exhibits on travel: not on RECAP.
• Miami Herald 2018 article: the Wayback captures returned a bot-verification page.
• Company registries: neither company appears in New York’s active-corporation data.
• 1989 deed: only page 1 loaded before ACRIS rate-limited.

Changes proposed for review

• Scale: 7 new events and about 37 claims, including re-sourced denials, OPR-attributed statements and exact NPA terms. 9 new sources, including the full OPR report and the sentencing transcript.
• Case overview: the first version.
• Edits to my own drafts before review: I edited three of my own unreviewed claims to tighten their wording. One statement (3cdf30a7), one quote (3126ec28) and one locator (40c5a4b7).
• Weak quote match: the 1989 deed-image quote (d086e4e4) should be confirmed on the page image; its ACRIS JSON twin (40e2fa48) verifies exactly.

What we looked at

Supervised session. The owner approved the plan and asked for findings backed by clear documented sources, ideally more than one. The planned leads (the NPA text, Maxwell’s appeal, the S2 indictment) were finished early, so the session continued on the owner-directed legal timeline. It ended early at about 65 of 150 minutes, at the owner’s choice. The remaining work needs owner scope decisions (the EFTA release corpus, restoring the rejected 11th Circuit source, the four people named in the NPA), and the batch was already large.

Records read: the 2007 non-prosecution agreement itself (S.D. Fla. 9:08-cv-80736, DE 361-62); the DOJ OPR executive summary (Nov. 2020); the Maxwell S2 indictment (Doc. 187); the Second Circuit opinion (No. 22-1426); Supreme Court docket 24-1073; the S.D.N.Y. § 2255 opinion (Doc. 869, Aug. 2026); the Epstein detention order (19-cr-490 Doc. 32); the CVRA petition (DE 1) and closing order (DE 478); the 2025 unsealing orders (19-cr-490 Docs. 77 and 92; 20-cr-330 Docs. 809 and 820; S.D. Fla. 25-mc-80920 DE 4 and 8); Pub. L. 119-38; the July 2025 DOJ/FBI memo; NYC ACRIS property records for 9 East 71st Street. Corroborating news: AP (via PBS), NPR, CBS, NBC.

What the records show

• The NPA itself (DE 361-62, p. 3): federal prosecution was deferred to Florida “on the authority of R. Alexander Acosta.” Its terms (p. 4) required guilty pleas to state solicitation charges, including solicitation of minors (Fla. Stat. § 796.03), and a binding recommendation of a 30-month sentence. Page 6 contains the co-conspirator non-prosecution clause and the confidentiality clause. OPR independently confirms the 24 September 2007 signing and these terms.
• OPR found no professional misconduct by the five subject attorneys but concluded that Acosta’s use of the NPA was “poor judgment.” It also says Acosta did not sign the NPA but approved it. Acosta publicly defended the deal (July 10, 2019) and resigned as Labor Secretary on July 12, 2019 (OPR; AP).
• Maxwell: S2 was filed March 29, 2021 and widened the charged period to 1994–2004. She was convicted on December 29, 2021 (2d Cir.; AP). The Second Circuit affirmed on September 17, 2024, holding that the NPA does not bind S.D.N.Y.; rehearing was denied November 25, 2024. The Supreme Court denied cert on October 6, 2025 (docket; AP). Her § 2255 petition was denied in August 2026 (Doc. 869; NBC/Reuters). Her denials are recorded as disputed claims (AP 2020–2025, CBS).
• Epstein 2019: indicted July 2 (indictment; nolle prosequi ¶ 2; OPR); arrested July 6 (OPR; NPR); detained July 18 (Doc. 32; NPR). He pleaded not guilty (NPR).
• Florida CVRA case: petition filed July 7, 2008 (DE 1; OPR). The case was closed September 16, 2019, with the NPA question held moot and a finding that the government did not act in bad faith (DE 478; OPR).
• 2025 unsealing: courts denied DOJ’s grand-jury unsealing motions in July and August 2025. After the Epstein Files Transparency Act (Pub. L. 119-38, November 19, 2025), they granted them on December 5, 9 and 10, 2025 (orders; NBC; AP).
• 9 East 71st Street: ACRIS records a 2011 deed from Nine East 71st Street Corporation to Maple, Inc. (St. Thomas, USVI). The deed is signed “BY: JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN, President,” and a notary acknowledgment says he executed it as that corporation’s President. A city water-billing form filed with it lists the owner as Maple, Inc., with the person signing for the owner handwritten as “JEFFEY E. EPSTEIN, PRES.” ACRIS also records a 2021 deed from Maple, Inc. to Back to NYC 71, LLC for $51,000,000.

What we could not confirm

• Sentencing date: Maxwell’s sentencing hearing was on June 28, 2022 according to AP and Doc. 869, but the judgment gives June 29 as the date of imposition. Both are now claims on the event.
• Miami Herald report and the 2009 NPA unsealing: each rests on OPR only. The Herald article has no archive capture and timed out.
• Epstein’s December 2007 re-affirmation of the NPA: the fax copy (p. 15) is too degraded for quote verification.
• 11th Circuit en banc: not re-proposed, because its source was rejected (needs the owner to restore it).
• Who controlled Maple, Inc. after 2011, beyond the 2011 form.

Changes proposed for review

• Events: 28 new events.
• Entity: 1 new organization (Nine East 71st Street Corporation), plus 3 relationships linking Epstein to Nine East 71st Street Corporation and Maple, Inc. and linking that corporation to the house.
• Claims: about 125 in total, including new claims on published items (the NPA event, Acosta, Maxwell, the plea, CVRA and sentencing events, and the Maple, Inc. and property relationships), with denials and the government’s stated positions included.
• Sources: 35 registered.
• Re-proposed with multiple sources: the Epstein indictment and Maxwell indictment events, rejected last batch.
• Weak quote matches for the checker: three quotes score low mechanically and should be confirmed on the page images:
  • the CVRA petition title (0.89, because OCR drops an apostrophe);
  • the nolle prosequi addendum, where only a short verifiable fragment is quoted;
  • the ACRIS deed images, which are TIFFs (verify with ocr_image).
• Also note for the checker: ACRIS quotes are verbatim JSON fragments.

What we looked at

First session on an empty board. The goal was to anchor the case in primary court records before mapping any wider network:

• the 2019 S.D.N.Y. indictment of Jeffrey Epstein and how it ended
• the 2007 federal non-prosecution agreement (NPA) in Florida, and the victims’-rights litigation over it
• the federal case against Ghislaine Maxwell, through sentencing.

All documents came from CourtListener/RECAP and the Eleventh Circuit’s own site. Two of them are image-only scans, so their text was read by OCR during this session.

What the records show

• Sealed Indictment, United States v. Jeffrey Epstein (S.D.N.Y.) (19-cr-490, Doc. 2): a two-count indictment filed 2 July 2019. It charges conspiracy (18 U.S.C. 371) and sex trafficking of minors (18 U.S.C. 1591). It alleges conduct from about 2002 to 2005 at Epstein’s Manhattan and Palm Beach residences. It seeks forfeiture of 9 East 71st Street, which it says is owned by Maple, Inc.
• Nolle Prosequi, United States v. Jeffrey Epstein (Doc. 52): the government states Epstein died on or about 10 August 2019 while the case was pending. The indictment was dismissed under the rule of abatement; the order was filed 29 August 2019.
• Sealed Indictment, United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (20 Cr. 330, Doc. 1): alleges that from about 1994 to 1997 Maxwell assisted and facilitated Epstein’s abuse of minors, and that during that period she was in an intimate relationship with him and was paid to manage his properties. It names residences in Manhattan, Palm Beach, Santa Fe and London, and includes two perjury counts about 2016 deposition testimony.
• Judgment in a Criminal Case, United States v. Ghislaine Maxwell (Doc. 696): after a plea of not guilty, Maxwell was found guilty on counts 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 and not guilty on count 2. Judgment was not entered on counts 1 and 5, which the court found multiplicitous. She was sentenced on 29 June 2022 to 240 months.
• Opinion and Order, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v. United States (S.D. Fla.) (DE 435, 21 February 2019):
  • The court found that the S.D. Fla. U.S. Attorney’s Office and Epstein entered the NPA on 24 September 2007, deferring federal prosecution in favour of prosecution by the State of Florida.
  • As the opinion quotes it, the NPA said the government would not charge “potential co-conspirators” and expected the agreement to stay out of the public record.
  • The Office did not confer with victims before the agreement was concluded, and Epstein pleaded guilty to state solicitation charges on 30 June 2008.
  • The court ruled that the victims’ conferral rights under the Crime Victims’ Rights Act (CVRA) were violated. It said it was not ruling on whether the decision not to prosecute was proper. The government’s contrary position is recorded as a disputed claim.
• En banc opinion, No. 19-13843 (11th Cir.) (15 April 2021): the full court denied the victims’ petition. It held that the CVRA does not allow a free-standing civil action to enforce those rights when no federal charges were ever filed. Five judges dissented.

What we could not confirm

• The NPA text itself (DE 361-62) was not fetched. NPA terms on the board are the court’s quotations of it.
• The cause and circumstances of Epstein’s death are not sourced here; only the date given in the nolle prosequi is.
• Maxwell’s appeal history is not yet on the board.
• The superseding indictment (S2), on which Maxwell was actually tried, was not read.

Changes proposed for review

• 7 sources (all primary court records)
• 7 entities: 4 people, all public figures; 2 organisations; 1 property
• 10 events
• 6 relationships
• about 40 claims

Reviewer note: Jay Lefkowitz’s first claim cites “p. 5”, but the passage is on p. 6. Please reject that claim; a corrected copy with the p. 6 locator is in the same batch.