For many details of the case
"Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. (1:22-cv-10904)"
see
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/66683865/government-of-the-united-states-virgin-islands-v-jpmorgan-chase-bank-na
For the original complaint of the Government of the United States Virgin Islands,
see the two PDFs in Docket Entry Number 1.
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The fundamental, and unanswered, question about Epstein:
Why was he so well-funded?
Two of his most lavish funders are known:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Black
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Wexner ,
both of whom happen to be big supporters of Israel.
But even after they supposedly stopped funding him, money continued to flow in,
resulting in his estate being valued at over half a billion dollars!
Per the court Exhibit (Document 1-1) cited above,
"12. The Petition reported the value of the real and personal property in The Estate located in the Virgin Islands at $577,672,654.00 dollars."
I find it difficult to believe that the very rich were so desirous of sex with underage women that they would fund him to the extent that he was funded.
I think the known evidence points with the greatest clarity to the conclusion that Epstein was indeed running an extremely well-funded honeytrap operation to gain control over people with political power.
Someone else claims direct knowledge of this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Ben-Menashe
Search the web for
Ari Ben-Menashe Epstein
For Ray McGovern (who definitely knows something about how intelligence organizations operate)'s opinion, watch his brief, pithy, response to a question from Andrew Napolitano:
https://youtu.be/iuhf4QMid90?t=14m45s
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A news article (out of many):
2025-09-03
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/epstein-victims-press-lawmakers-support-bill-release-hidden-files-say-americans-appalled
<Blockquote>"We filed lawsuits against Jeffrey Epstein, against his estate and against two financial institutions – JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank –
that prove that they provided, knowingly provided, the financial infrastructure for a sex trafficking operation.
Unfortunately, all of the documents and evidence that we have worked so hard to gather
hide behind protective orders, confidentiality agreements and bank secrecy laws,"
Edwards said.
...
"The documents in the possession of the CIA should be made available.
Those in the possession of the FBI going back decades should be made available.
The SEC financial records… should be made available,"
Edwards continued, as he stood alongside the victims. </Blockquote>
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2025-09-17
It is regrettable that Republicans voted against issuing subpoenas to four major banks:
"The House Judiciary Committee rejected a request from Democrats to vote on whether to subpoena the CEOs of four major banks — a bid intended to investigate the institutions’ connections to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein."
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/09/17/congress/dems-fail-to-subpoena-major-banks-in-epstein-case-00569352
"Democrats began their effort with a motion to subpoena the financial transactions of Epstein, flagged as “suspicious activity reports,” and later similar such records from the Treasury Department.
"House Judiciary Committee votes down Epstein subpoenas" https://share.google/h5GzGPR2oZK02vypb
"Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday voted down four efforts from Democrats to subpoena records related to Jeffrey Epstein.
"Democrats began their effort with a motion to subpoena the financial transactions of Epstein, flagged as “suspicious activity reports,” and later similar such records from the Treasury Department.
...
"The Oversight Committee has already subpoenaed suspicious activity reports (SARs) from the Treasury Department,
a request that would encompass all SARs reported to the Treasury Department rather than just from four banks.
The department has said it will comply."
Those congressmen voting against this cannot hide behind
the claim that they are protecting the privacy of victims of Epstein.
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2025-11-03
An article about the protection Epstein received, and a billionaire who mysteriously supported, financially, Epstein:
"The Pro-Israel Billionaire Behind Jeffrey Epstein
Any congressional inquiry into the disgraced financier should look at Les Wexner."
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/the-pro-israel-billionaire-behind-jeffrey-epstein/
"If there is a key to understanding Epstein’s protection and power—
likely from intelligence agencies and foreign governments—
it may lie with Wexner."
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2025-11-20
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/11/20/congress/senate-dems-target-jpmorgans-handling-of-epstein-accounts-00661582
"in fall 2019, after he was arrested, the bank
“filed two SARs flagging more than 5,000 suspicious wire transfers moving approximately $1.3 billion in and out of Epstein’s accounts.” "
$1.3 billion!!!
Holy crow.
That is very big money.
What did Epstein do to merit that amount of money?
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https://www.dropsitenews.com/
has extensive coverage on Epstein's financial ties, for example
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/jeffrey-epstein-ariane-de-rothschild-ehud-barak-swiss-bank-israeli-cyberweapons
To only focus on his sex crimes is to neglect coverage of the financial network that powered and enabled Epstein.
See also
"Israeli Spy Stayed for Weeks at a Time With Jeffrey Epstein in Manhattan"
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/israeli-spy-yoni-koren-stayed-jeffrey-epstein-apartment-ehud-barak
"An Israeli military intelligence officer stayed at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan apartment on at least three occasions—including once, in February 2013, while working as a senior aide to then-Israeli Minister of Defense Ehud Barak.
Yoni Koren made his intelligence career working in covert operations alongside the Mossad, and remained a lieutenant colonel in reserve duty after he officially left the intelligence directorate.
He stayed in Epstein’s apartment again for two weeks, in October 2014, and a third time for ten more days in September 2015."
...
"the [U.S.] House panel also released a new cache of documents from Epstein’s estate containing direct evidence of Epstein’s links to Israeli intelligence:
Epstein’s personal calendars reveal that a senior Israeli intelligence officer, with personal ties to former CIA Director Leon Panetta, lived at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment for multiple stretches between 2013 and 2016.
When cross-referenced with emails leaked from the inbox of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, a portrait emerges of Epstein at the nexus of high-ranking intelligence officials in both the U.S. and Israel.
This is the fourth piece in Drop Site’s ongoing series on Jeffrey Epstein’s role in brokering intelligence deals for Israel.
In the first, we exposed Epstein’s role in brokering a security agreement between Israel and Mongolia.
In the second, we identified Epstein’s effort to set up a backchannel between Israel and Russia during the Syria civil war.
In the third, we showed Epstein’s role as a key facilitator of a security agreement between Israel and the West African nation of Côte d’Ivoire.
Meanwhile, we’re left wondering why the rest of the media, which has demonstrated no lack of excitement when it comes to the saga of Jeffrey Epstein,
has all of a sudden lost its reporting capacity, in the face of reams of publicly available newsworthy documents."
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For more that is downplayed or ignored by MSM, see
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/corporate-media-ignores-the-real-epstein-story/
