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Leon Black, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, Les Wexner

Left to right: billionaire Thomas Pritzker, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak, Jeffrey Epstein director Woody Allen. Magician magician David Blaine stands to the left. Source: U.S. DOJ

Jeffrey Epstein’s longtime accountant Richard Kahn testified before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee yesterday, providing the names of several prominent individuals who conducted business with the late sex trafficker during a closed-door session.

Kahn named Les Wexner, the former CEO of Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch who testified last month, Leon Black, former CEO of Apollo Global Management, Steven Sinofsky, former Microsoft Windows Division president and Glenn Dubin, a prominent hedge fund investor.

The Rothschilds

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) said Khan had also implicated the Rothschilds, one of the oldest and richest banking families on the planet, who show up thousands of times in Epstein’s emails. In a press briefing after the deposition, Comer said there were at least 64 entities related to Epstein that the Committee has discovered, including LLCs and other companies.

“These were the five people that transferred significant sums of money to Epstein,” said Comer.

Ehud Barak

“When I asked about heads of state or elected officials with financial ties to Epstein, Kahn mentioned Ehud Barak,” Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA) posted on X yesterday. Barak is a former Israeli Prime Minister and Minister of Defense who appears thousands of times in the Epstein files. Subramanyam also confirmed during the briefing that Epstein’s estate had settled with one of President Donald Trump’s sexual abuse accusers, but wouldn’t name the victim.

“One of the things that I think is outrageous, that every American should be outraged about, is the fact that some of the people closest to Epstein, including Mr. Kahn, were never questioned by the FBI, law enforcement, U.S. attorneys,” said Rep. James Walkinshaw (D-VA) at the briefing. “This is the first time that Mr. Kahn has sat down under oath, outside of civil litigation. The idea that those individuals who received, who made payments to Epstein were not necessarily questioned by the FBI, Mr. Kahn not questioned by the FBI, Mr. Indyke [Epstein’s lawyer and co-executor of his estate with Kahn] not questioned by the FBI, Les Wexner not questioned by the FBI, is absolutely outrageous. They all need to be questioned and if necessary more fully investigated.”

Epstein lawyer Indyke is scheduled to testify before the Committee next week.

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Trump and Bondi at Mar-a-Lago in 2016

A letter sent to the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) today from a bipartisan group of senators requests a review of the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) handling and release of documents related to the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein. The letter outlines concerns about redactions in the millions of released files and seeks clarity about how the information was reviewed.

Sens. Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) signed the letter, which argues the DOJ failed to comply with the Epstein Files Transparency Act. The law allows victims’ identities and information to be redacted but does not allow redactions based on embarrassment, reputational harm or political sensitivity.

“Contrary to Congress’s explicit directive to protect victims, these records included email addresses and nude photos in which the names and faces of publicly-identified and non-public victims could be identified,” wrote the senators. “But when it came to information identifying powerful business and politics figures who are alleged co-conspirators or material witnesses, DOJ appears to have heavily redacted those records.”

The review request comes a week after the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi as part of its ongoing investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

“There’s over 65,000 documents missing, and we know there are more than 2,000 videos that are out there,” said Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) who introduced the resolution to subpoena Bondi. “They’re not giving Congress all the information or all the documents, and they’re obfuscating. And I’d like to ask questions about that in our deposition.”

Where Are Epstein’s Financial Records?

What’s also missing from the Epstein files are the convicted sex trafficker’s bank records. The U.S. Treasury Department holds an extensive number of financial records, which will undoubtedly provide a road map of his criminal network and activity. The records could help reveal co-conspirators, enablers and unprosecuted financial crimes.

Earlier this month, Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR), ranking member of the Finance Committee, attempted to pass the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act, which would compel the Treasury Department to turn over Epstein-related bank records to Congressional investigators. Republicans blocked the proposal.

Last year, Wyden requested the records several times but Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has repeatedly refused to turn them over, downplaying their significance.

According to a recorded Senate statement from July of 2025, the Biden administration allowed investigators to look at portions of the files in 2024 in the Treasury Building. They found that, “Treasury’s Epstein file details 4,725 wire transfers — adding up to nearly $1.1 billion flowing in and out of just one of Mr. Epstein’s bank accounts. Hundreds of millions more flowed through other accounts.” The statement added, “The file shows that Mr. Epstein used multiple Russian banks, which are now under sanctions, to process payments related to sex trafficking. A lot of the women and girls he targeted came from Russia, Belarus, Turkiye, and elsewhere.”

It’s worth it to note that the Trump administration has just announced it is easing restrictions on Russian oil exports as the war with Iran creates a global energy crisis. Scott Bessent, who has downplayed the significance of Epstein’s financial dealings, last week issued a 30-day waiver for India to buy Russian oil already at sea.

“We have sanctions on some countries, we are going to take those sanctions off until this straightens out,” said Trump when questioned about the sanctions. “And then who knows, maybe we won’t have to put them on because there will be so much peace.”

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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump hold hands

Russia is preparing to make a lot of oil and gas money as conflict in the Middle East threatens the Strait of Hormuz, one of the world’s most strategic shipping chokepoints. “We are seeing an increase in demand, a substantive increase in demand for Russian energy providers in connection with the war in Iran,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitri S. Peskov said during a Friday briefing.

The boon for the Russian economy during the country’s prolonged war with Ukraine is one of the many interesting consequences of President Donald Trump’s longstanding relationship with Russia and President Vladimir Putin. In a 45-minute speech to a largely empty chamber this week, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) outlined Trump’s and his administration’s numerous entanglements with Russia.

He began by mentioning former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s 2019 special report on Russian election interference related to Trump’s first presidential term. Attorney General Bill Barr issued a letter ahead of the report’s release which said the investigation found the Trump campaign did not collude to steal the 2016 election. Trump then referred to the entire investigation as a “Russian hoax.”

By the time Mueller’s report was released a month later, its message had been obscured. “The Mueller report actually concluded that the Trump campaign knew of and welcomed Russian interference and expected to benefit from it,” said Whitehouse. “That conclusion was later echoed and reinforced by an investigation led by then Chairman Marco Rubio’s Senate Intelligence Committee, a bipartisan report.” Rubio is now serving as U.S. Secretary of State.

Whitehouse outlined 10 ways the Trump administration has helped Russia recently, including pausing weapons shipments to Ukraine during key moments in the war with Russia. In July, during Russia’s worst bombing campaign up to that point, Trump paused already funded shipments of Patriot interceptors, designed to protect Ukrainian citizens.

“That same month, Trump’s Treasury Department stopped imposing new sanctions and closing sanctions loopholes, effectively allowing dummy corporations to send funds, ships and military equipment to Russia,” said Whitehouse.

He said leaked phone calls between U.S. real estate investor and Russian envoy Steve Witkoff and Putin envoy Kirill Dmitriev reveal they have worked closely behind the scenes on a Ukrainian peace deal that would benefit Russia. He mentioned that soon after Pam Bondi was appointed Attorney General, the U.S. Department of Justice shut down its anti-kleptocracy initiatives, which were focused on seizing assets from corrupt foreign officials and Russian oligarchs.

Finally, Whitehouse accused the Trump administration of paving the way for Russia’s return to global sports competitions, even with knowledge of the country’s state-backed systemic doping programs.

“If Trump were purposefully doing Russia’s bidding, it’s hard to see what he’d be doing differently,” said Whitehouse.

Jeffrey Epstein’s Role

Still shot from a 1992 NBC video that shows Trump, Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell partying with NFL cheerleaders at Mar-a-lago

Whitehouse discussed the impact of the Epstein files and how they reveal the breadth of Epstein’s global network, which repeatedly touched Russia. Trump has called the files a “Russian hoax.”

“Epstein’s ties to foreign intelligence may never be fully known,” said Whitehouse. “It’s a murky world. He had links to officials in the United States, Russian and Israeli governments and many others.”

Epstein began his career as a high school math teacher at the elite Dalton School in Manhattan. The outgoing headmaster at the school when he was hired was Donald Barr, a former intelligence officer and Bill Barr’s father. He eventually moved on to work with British defense contractor and arms dealer Doug Leese. It was Leese who allegedly introduced Epstein to Robert Maxwell, father of his eventual girlfriend and partner Ghislaine Maxwell. Robert Maxwell had complex, shifting ties to British, Soviet and Israeli intelligence. He was initially bankrolled by Britain’s MI6 but also accepted payments from the KGB.

In a 2021 article for Rolling Stone, journalist Vicky Ward spoke to convicted fraudster Steven Hoffenberg about his relationship with Epstein. She said Hoffenberg told her that via Maxwell and Leese, Epstein was involved in something that Hoffenberg described as “national security issues.” He told Ward that this involved blackmail, influence trading and trading information at a level that is very serious and dangerous.

“Four separate sources told me on the record that Epstein’s dealings in the arms world in the 1980s had led him to work for multiple governments, including the Israelis,” wrote Ward.

It was during the 1980s that Trump and Epstein began their friendship. “They shared everything,” said author Michael Wolff, who interviewed Epstein extensively about his relationship with Trump. “They shared their airplanes. They shared women between them. They constantly shared business and financial advice.”

As Trump now infamously said in 2002, “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

Trump and Epstein publicly fell out shortly after that. While the full story of their breakup is unknown, it was at least in part due to a 2004 bidding war for a Palm Beach mansion. Trump eventually won, purchasing the property for $41.3 million. Four years later, after modest renovations, he turned around and sold it for $95 million to billionaire Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev. At the time it was reported to be the most expensive residential property sale in U.S. history.

The oligarch never moved in.

Epstein had a well-documented history of ties to Russia, including the Russian and Eastern European models he trafficked through his global drug and sex ring. A 2017 FBI report claims Epstein was Putin’s “wealth manager.” He also claimed to have given some insight on Trump to the Russians, meeting many times with Vitaly Churkin, Russia’s UN representative from 2006 until his death in 2017.

In a 2018 email to former Norwegian prime minister Thorbjørn Jagland, who was charged with corruption last month for his ties to the disgraced pedophile, Epstein wrote, “Churkin was great. He understood Trump after our conversations. It is not complex. He must be seen to get something. It’s that simple.”

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Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein in Moscow

New DOJ documents reveal a five-year Drug Enforcement Administration investigation into Jeffrey Epstein based on allegations of money laundering, drug trafficking and the procurement of Eastern European prostitutes for high-profile clients. The investigation was conducted by a secret intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA along with a transnational crime-fighting task force.

The investigation began after an informant claimed Epstein was involved in the illicit funding and distribution of ketamine, ecstasy, methamphetamines and other “club drugs.” It includes the names of Epstein’s accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or as fashion models. None of the individuals were charged with any offenses as a result of the investigation. 

In 2011, the DEA enlisted the help of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Forces (OCDETF), a Reagan-era DOJ division, to investigate the proliferation of drug trafficking in night clubs. OCDETF then launched Operation Chain Reaction and spent the next four years targeting and prosecuting close to a dozen people in New York, including members of the Genovese crime family. Charges included racketeering, loan sharking, drug trafficking and running illegal gambling businesses. One of the informants in that case tipped off authorities about Epstein’s involvement.

The OCDETF was shut down by President Trump’s administration last September as part of their cost-cutting efforts. But the organization was able to amass a huge amount of intelligence and financial data on Epstein and his associates during its investigation, pulling information from seven federal agencies along with the FBI’s National Crime Information Center.

The heavily redacted DOJ document shows that Epstein and 12 other individuals were the subjects of 40 suspicious activity reports involving the movement of nearly $50 million. More than a dozen law enforcement agencies in the US and abroad, including the U.S. Secret Service and its White House Division, ICE and Harvard’s police department queried a national crime database 311 times between 2013 and 2015 seeking information about Epstein.

In April of 2019, a few months before Epstein’s final arrest, the OCDETF launched a separate investigation with the FBI known as Trip Knot. It centered on money laundering and human and drug trafficking tied to Russian organized crime and drew on FBI and DEA probes from 2017 and 2018. Epstein’s name turned up repeatedly in that case as well.

Operation Chain Reaction was officially closed in June of 2023 under the Biden Administration.

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2003: Jeffrey Epstein & Ghislaine Maxwell with Pope John Paul II at the Vatican

It’s not surprising that the Vatican shows up in the Epstein files since Epstein kept tabs on every powerful entity on the planet. But one email claims Epstein actually lived in the Vatican with Pope John Paul II at some point.

An email from Brandon Thompson, who appeared to be a contractor working on refinishing and lime-washing columns in one of Epstein’s homes, outlined the intricacies of the project to Richard Kahn at HBRK Associates, Epstein’s accountant.

“He wants me to finish each column different, as when he was living with Pope John Paul the Second in Vatican, he looked at variety of different columns captured in wars,” wrote Thompson. “He told me that every Pope demanded to have a column from every concurred [SIC] country, so there is a collection of different columns in Vatican.”

Of course there is no proof that Epstein lived with the Pope, although he and Ghislaine Maxwell visited with him in 2003 during a public audience. Just how intimate Epstein was with the Vatican is unknown, but in 2011 he claimed to have nearly possessed the Codex Vaticanus, one of the oldest and most important Church relics containing a majority of the Greek Old Testament and the majority of the New Testament. The Codex was famously seized by Napoleon in 1799 as a war trophy but was returned to the Vatican Library in 1815.

In an email to Boris Nikolic, who was a science advisor to the Bill Gates Foundation at the time and a close Epstein confidante, Epstein wrote, “I forgot to mention to Bill, that one of the first almost interactions with him was when I was the underbidder for the codex…The auctioneers told me that i shold drop out because if i owned them, no one would ever see them and they really should be in semi public hands.. I later had to settle for a present from the vatican of a special edition.”

One of the most revealing emails about Epstein’s alleged ties to the Vatican is a 2013 correspondence with Larry Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary under President Bill Clinton, former Harvard President and former chief economist at the World Bank. Epstein writes, “The most important change in the Vatican may not be Pope Benedict XVI sudden retirement but the change in leadership at ‘the Institute for Works of Religion,’ the Vatican’s bank. Because of the Vatican’s status as a sovereign country, it is exempt from transparency rules of not only Italy— but of the European Union. This status allows its elite clients to evade any scrutiny in their money transfers.” 

“Last May,” continued Epstein. “Vatican Bank President Ettore Gotti Tedeschi was fired after Italian authorities opened an investigation into a far flung bribery scheme in which he was allegedly involved. Then 47 dossiers, including compromising about “internal enemies” of his in the Vatican were found in a search of his home. They had instructions how they were used in case something happened to him. Tcdeschi’s intercepted calls futhcr revealed that his concern was that he would be assassinated because he knoew the Vatican’s secrets. By late 2012, he was cooperating with the ongoing Italian investigation, It was at this point that the all-powerful College of Cardinals, in one of the last acts in the Benedict papacy, appointed German lawyer Ernst von Freyberg as President of the bank. The came the extraordinary resignation of Pope Benedict.”

Freyberg had a short tenure as Vatican Bank president. He was named in June 2012 as an interim leader, then appointed president in February of 2013. Von Freyberg quickly began to open up the bank and adopted a zero-tolerance approach to suspicious activities, advocating transparency. He was dismissed in July along with the Vatican Bank’s entire senior management team as part of extensive reforms to the Catholic Church’s central government.

Jean-Baptiste Douville de Franssu has been chairman of Vatican Bank’s advisory board since July of 2014.

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Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild with Hillary Clinton

In 1975, Hillary (then Rodham) Clinton, former U.S. Secretary of State and First Lady, defended 41-year-old Thomas Alfred Taylor, who was accused by the State of Arkansas of raping a 12-year-old girl. Clinton filed a motion for a psychiatric evaluation of the victim and used that to successfully negotiate a plea deal. Taylor was sentenced to one year in a county jail and four years of probation.

“I have been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing … [and] that she has in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming they had attacked her body,” wrote Clinton in an affidavit filed in support of her motion. She also cited an expert in child psychology she had consulted, stating, “children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents with disorganized families, such as the complainant’s, are even more prone to such behavior.”

Clinton testified yesterday to the House Oversight Committee in a closed door deposition that is promised to be made public. She told reporters afterwards, “I don’t know how many times I had to say I did not know Jeffrey Epstein. I never went to his island, I never went to his home, I never went to his offices.” She said the hearing veered off course by the end, with Republicans questioning her about UFOs and the pizza gate child sex-trafficking conspiracy.

What About the Rothschilds?

It’s unlikely that the Committee questioned Clinton about a November 2013 email from Olivier Colom, an international advisor for Edmond de Rothschild, to Epstein. Colom asked Epstein, “Could you organise a discreet meeting between Sarko and Hillary Clinton in NY? If not, who should we ask?” Clinton had already resigned as Secretary of State at that point while Nicolas Sarkozy had been voted out as President of France. The email chain goes on to discuss logistics, with Colom writing, “Might come soon to NY and Wash – for contacts with US dept of Justice and Treasury.”

Colom was a close friend and networker of Epstein, acting as an adviser under Sarkozy. He was also discovered to be a consultant to far right leader Marine Le Pen. Most importantly, Colom served on the executive committee of the Edmond de Rothschild Group from 2013 to 2016. The group is owned by the Rothschild family and is a Swiss banking conglomerate, managing more than $200 billion in assets in 2024. CEO Ariane de Rothschild appears thousands of times in the Epstein Files and seemed to have a close relationship with the convicted sex trafficker.

The Rothschilds have been in the banking business since the 16th century and are among the wealthiest people on the planet. The family’s business ties to Epstein are well established and they seemingly played an integral role in his international money laundering and espionage schemes.

They are staunch supporters of the Clintons and the Clinton Foundation, with Lynn Forester de Rothschild writing an op-ed piece defending the Clintons against allegations that the Foundation accepted donations from foreign businesses and governments with business before the U.S. State Department during Hillary Clinton’s tenure as Secretary of State. Forester was one of two billionaire Rothschilds who donated to Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign. The Hillary Victory Fund raised at least $473 million and received donations from more than a dozen billionaires.

Why was Epstein asked to arrange a meeting for Hillary Clinton? According to this email from 2015 he was close to her. Or he at least knew her well, according to this email from 2012.

Clinton’s husband, President Bill Clinton, is set to appear before the House Oversight Committee today.

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From left to right: JPMorgan Chase honcho Jes Staley, former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, Jeffrey Epstein, Bill Gates and Boris Nikolic

Bill Gates has been forced to issue an apology to the staff of his Gates Foundation over his personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Gates admitted to affairs with a Russian nuclear physicist and a Russian bridge player that he said he met through “business activities.” The billionaire Microsoft co-founder said it was a “huge mistake to spend time with Epstein” and to bring Gates Foundation executives to meetings with Epstein.

One of those executives, Dr. Boris Nikolic, was named the executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s will and appears thousands of times in the files. Nikolic, a Harvard-trained immunologist turned biotech venture capitalist, served as a science advisor to Gates and the Gates Foundation from 2007 to 2013.

Nikolic was clearly close to Epstein, sharing emails like this one where they envision a barter website for trading boys and girls. In this email Epstein repeatedly asks Nikolic what “Larry’s” preferences are. “does he want girls, boys, stars, dancing, food,” asks Epstein.

If nothing else, this email exchange between Gates and Epstein from August of 2013 proves Gates was very concerned with how to categorize a $500,000 “gift” he paid to Nikolic for tax purposes and was seeking Epstein’s opinion about it. The email suggests a falling out between Gates and Nikolic, with Epstein acting as mediator.

“If Boris decides he has changed his mind about what was agreed when you visited our offices that is too bad,” wrote Gates. “When someone asks for more there is no end to it as you and I discussed. Boris can make whatever he wants public at that point and I will explain to the right people what was done to me and by whom.”

More disturbing is an email Epstein sent to himself that appears to be written on Nikolic’s behalf as a contract to terminate his relationship with Bill and Melinda Gates. The email has Nikolic suggesting what he would do if he and Gates’ roles were reversed. “In that regard I suggest I buy you the house that you so had your heart set on. and in addition to five years of severance will buy you out of the investment contract we had agree, 30 -40 percent of a hundred million dollar partnership. for 30 million dollars in today’s dollars. terms and conditions to be agreed. That’s what i would have done had I been in your shoes. what i did receive however was an unfriendly strongly worded email , telling me how employable I am and that i should not look to you for any significant financial help in the future, TO add insult to the injury you them implore me to please delete the emails regarding your std, your request that I provide you antibiotics that you can surreptitiously give to Melinda and the description of your penis.”

Gates last week canceled a keynote speech at the India A.I. Impact Summit amid fallout from his Epstein associations.

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The Manhattan apartments where Epstein and Lutnick resided for more than 2 decades

When U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick was questioned at a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee hearing earlier this month, the focus was on his personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. Lutnick walked back statements he had previously made and revealed he and his family had visited Epstein on his private island.

But the Epstein files contain much more damaging information about Lutnick, who was Epstein’s New York City next door neighbor for more than 20 years. Les Wexner, the billionaire behind Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie & Fitch, originally owned both buildings. Wexner has recently come under scrutiny for his decades-long business dealings with Epstein.

Lutnick also had a long-time business relationship with Epstein, including an investment contract signed in 2012 for a digital ad company called AdFin Solutions. Lutnick signed on behalf of an LLC controlled by investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, where he served as CEO. The deal was made five days after Lutnick and his family visited Epstein on his private island.

Perhaps the most damning allegations against Lutnick are contained in an FBI whistleblower complaint dated 04/23/2021. Titled “Alleged Money Laundering by Howard Lutnick via BGC Financial and Cantor Fitzgerald,” the complaint alleges “fraud, money laundering, Ponzi schemes and regulatory breaches by [redacted] and CF.” Lutnick was chairman and CEO of financial services company BGC, a spinoff of Cantor Fitzgerald, until he was appointed Donald Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

The FBI complaint also links Lutnick to illegal activities with JP Morgan, Russian hedge funds and other senior finance executives. Jes Staley, former CEO of JP Morgan, resigned as CEO of Barclays in 2021 after a U.K. regulatory investigation about his relationship with Epstein. He was subsequently banned from the U.K. financial sector for misrepresenting his relationship with the convicted pedophile.

“[Redacted] has documented proof showing money laundering and Ponzi schemes by Lutnick via offshore shell companies, liquid funding, and real estate brokerage firms,” states the FBI complaint. “[Redacted] believes he has supporting documents which could link Lutnick to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Maxwell and Sarah Ferguson, a royal family member, host events called La Dolce Vita Parties, where high profile celebrities and executives contribute large donations to attend. The donations are linked to causes involving children. Lutnick made ‘huge donations’ to these events.”

An earlier FBI interview with presumably the same whistleblower offers more insight about the money laundering, speculating it was from the Russian Mafia. It also alleges “Lutnick gave Sarah Ferguson office space above Cantor Fitzgerald in New York for the Children in Crisis (CIC) charity. Ghislaine Maxwell and Ferguson would attend Dolce Vita Parties which raised money for CIC and Stowe School. CIC no longer existed.”

Children in Crisis merged with another organization in 2018. Stowe School is an elite British private boarding school whose alumni include Richard Branson (a prominent figure in the Epstein files), the actor Henry Cavill, Prince Rainier III of Monaco, along with dozens of well-known British royals, politicians, entertainers, journalists and athletes.

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