vault backup: 2026-09-25 23:52:56
This commit is contained in:
parent
39c4e2e672
commit
cd969ea228
7 changed files with 142 additions and 39 deletions
|
|
@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ The FAA's registration files, as summarized in 2021 by a special agent of the ag
|
|||
| February 9, 2012 | Freedom Air International (Indyke) sells N162AD to Greenwich Aerogroup Inc. and Brazil Leasing Inc. of Middletown, Delaware; deregistered April 10, 2013 for export to [[Brazil]] |
|
||||
| April 30, 2012 | Freedom Air International (Indyke) sells N491GM to [[Eagle Copters]] Ltd. of [[Calgary]]; deregistered May 7, 2012 for export to [[Canada]] |
|
||||
|
||||
For both fractional shares the bills of sale were signed by Flight Options executives as attorneys-in-fact for the company, and the agent wrote: "To identify the persons behind Air Ghislaine Inc., contact Flight Options LLC in Ohio."[^1] N722JE was bought back from ASI Wings on June 13, 2019 by [[Hyperion Air]] LLC of [[St. Thomas]], with Visoski signing as manager, and was sold again on May 13, 2021.[^1]
|
||||
For both fractional shares the bills of sale were signed by Flight Options executives as attorneys-in-fact for the company, and the agent wrote: "To identify the persons behind Air Ghislaine Inc., contact Flight Options LLC in Ohio."[^1] N722JE was bought back from ASI Wings on June 13, 2019 by [[Hyperion Air]] LLC of [[St. Thomas]], with Visoski signing as manager, and was sold again on May 13, 2021, to Industrial Integrity Solutions Inc. of Ontario, California, whose chief financial officer signed for the buyer; that officer's name is redacted in one production of the FAA correspondence and legible in another.[^1][^4]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Maxwell Wire
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ A third helicopter does not appear in the FAA agent's search. The forensic accou
|
|||
|
||||
The report identified the aircraft as a Sikorsky S76C and added: "According to the Aviation Database, as of June 27, 2007, the helicopter with tail number N908GM was registered to Air Ghislaine, Inc."
|
||||
|
||||
The wire was made during the federal investigation of Epstein in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], three months before the September 2007 [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]].[^4]
|
||||
The wire was made during the federal investigation of Epstein in [[Palm Beach, Florida|Palm Beach]], three months before the September 2007 [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]].[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
### The JPMorgan Account
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -111,9 +111,13 @@ The wire was made during the federal investigation of Epstein in [[Palm Beach, F
|
|||
|
||||
On August 18, 2021 an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]], preparing the trial of Maxwell, gave the FAA agent a list of search terms: "Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, Air Ghislaine, Thomas World Air LLC, Hyperion Air LLC, Freedom Air Petroleum LLC, NES LLC, Maple, Inc., Nautilus Inc." The agent reported "No other aircraft registered to or indexed to" Hyperion, Plan D, Ossa Properties Inc., Epstein, Maxwell, Thomas World Air, Freedom Air Petroleum, NES, Maple or Nautilus. On September 29, 2021 the prosecutor wrote back that "we'd like to learn more about one aircraft in particular," pasted the agent's notes on the Air Ghislaine Sikorsky N750A, later N722JE, and asked for contacts at the title companies that had handled it; the agent, who was retiring the next day, recommended contacting the title company for its file, adding: "They accept summons and subpoenas."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
On September 10, 2021 a paralegal of the Southern District of New York wrote to the FAA that "external mail size constraints" prevented the return of the password-protected registration files the agency had supplied, and listed those the office needed "to be able to print/edit as soon as possible": "188TH-Airworthiness," "188TH-Registration," "550GP-Registration," "N550GP was N212JE was N415LM registration" and "N722JE registration." On September 29, 2021 the paralegal reported that the office had "produced all FAA records," most of the locked files being "duplicates of the certified files," and that the rest had been printed, scanned and stamped for inclusion "with that production."[^6] N550GP was the Gulfstream G550 that Epstein's Plan D LLC had sold in December 2020.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00021675 to EFTA00021684, DataSet 8, email chain "RE: FAA Question" between a Special Agent, Federal Aviation Administration, Law Enforcement Assistance Program, Atlanta, and an Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District of New York, August 17 to September 29, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00021675.pdf
|
||||
[^2]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), Expert Report of Jorge Amador, ECF No. 238-31 (filed July 25, 2023), pp. 9 and n. 19, 18-19 and nn. 71-74, 20 and nn. 126-127 (citing MP-00003267, JPM-SDNYLIT-00037023, JPM-SDNYLIT-00037065). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653.238.31.pdf
|
||||
[^3]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, No. ST-20-CV-14 (V.I. Super. Ct.), Second Amended Complaint, paragraphs 137 to 139, filed as Exhibit 1 to Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), ECF No. 1-1 (December 27, 2022). https://web.archive.org/web/20260117011558/https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank,%20N.A.,%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20(S.D.N.Y.%202022)/001-01.pdf
|
||||
[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), pp. 1, 4-6, 11. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
|
||||
[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00087596, DataSet 9, email chain "RE: FAA Question" between a Special Agent, Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, August to September 2021 (second production). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00087596.pdf
|
||||
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), pp. 1, 4-6, 11. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
|
||||
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00023437, DataSet 8, email chain "RE: FAA Question," U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, September 10 to 29, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00023437.pdf
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -27,6 +27,29 @@ relations:
|
|||
role: "1,000,000 dollars, a gift introduced by Epstein"
|
||||
start: 2015-10-30
|
||||
fn: 4
|
||||
- type: director_of
|
||||
with: "[[Jeffrey Epstein]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "director and member of the executive committee; resignation confirmed in an indemnification letter after 2013"
|
||||
start: 1997
|
||||
end: 2007-07
|
||||
fn: 5
|
||||
- type: head_of
|
||||
with: "[[Leon Black]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "president"
|
||||
fn: 5
|
||||
- type: head_of
|
||||
with: "[[Debra Black]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "secretary"
|
||||
start: 2007
|
||||
fn: 5
|
||||
- type: funded
|
||||
with: "[[Origins Project]]"
|
||||
role: "donations with an unused balance of about 607,000 dollars in January 2019"
|
||||
end: 2019-01-18
|
||||
fn: 7
|
||||
created: 2026-09-25
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-25
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
@ -41,7 +64,9 @@ According to the report that the law firm [[Dechert]] prepared in January 2021 f
|
|||
|
||||
The reference is to [[David Rockefeller]] and [[Rockefeller University]]. Epstein was one of the foundation's seven original trustees. Black's representative told the investigators reviewing Epstein's ties to [[Harvard University]] that Epstein resigned in July 2007 "at the family's request."[^4] The Dechert report put the resignation in "mid-2007" and stated: "However, due to an oversight, the IRS Form 990s filed for the Black Family Foundation during the period 2008-2012 failed to reflect his resignation. Following discovery of the error in or around 2013, the Black Family Foundation issued a confirmation of his earlier resignation." Epstein pleaded guilty in [[Florida]] in 2008 to procuring a person under 18 for prostitution. Dechert found that Black did not engage Epstein for any services until 2012.[^2] In a July 2019 email to Apollo staff reported by *[[Forbes]]*, Black attributed the listing to a "recording error" and said he had stepped down in 2007.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
A 108-page "Assignment and Assumption Agreement" dated June 7, 2007, in the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]'s Epstein releases, transferred limited-partner, member and stockholder interests to a separate Black entity, [[Black Family Partners]], L.P., with signature blocks for "Debra Black, Trustee" and "[[Barry Cohen]], Trustee."[^5]
|
||||
The confirmation, headed "Leon Black Family Foundation, Inc. / Confirmation of Resignation of Jeffrey Epstein as a Director and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation," describes the foundation as "a Delaware not-for-profit corporation." It states: "The Foundation has been unable to locate either the signed original or a signed copy of the Resignation in its records, but hereby confirms that the Resignation was signed by Jeffrey Epstein and submitted to the Foundation in July 2007, and was also acknowledged to have been received by Debra Black, as Secretary of the Foundation, who signed the acknowledgement in July 2007." It attributes the listing of Epstein as a director on the foundation's Forms 990PF "for each of the years ending 2007 through and including 2012" to "an oversight by the Foundation's tax accountants which was not noticed until 2013," and continues: "The Foundation hereby agrees to indemnify Mr. Epstein for any and all claims that may be asserted against Mr. Epstein arising out of the incorrect disclosure in such Forms 990PF of Mr. Epstein as a Director of the Foundation." The document carries a signature block for the foundation by Leon Black as president and a confirmation by Epstein that "he signed the Resignation and submitted it to the Foundation in July 2007" and "has not acted on behalf of the Foundation in any capacity" since. The attached copy of the resignation, in which Epstein resigned "as director of the Leon Black Family Foundation, Inc., a Delaware corporation," has its date line blank, and the line "Received on ___ 2007: DEBRA R. BLACK, Secretary" is also blank.[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
A 108-page "Assignment and Assumption Agreement" dated June 7, 2007, in the [[Department of Justice|Justice Department]]'s Epstein releases, transferred limited-partner, member and stockholder interests to a separate Black entity, [[Black Family Partners]], L.P., with signature blocks for "Debra Black, Trustee" and "[[Barry Cohen]], Trustee."[^6]
|
||||
|
||||
### Grants
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -51,10 +76,18 @@ On October 30, 2015 the foundation gave 1,000,000 dollars to [[Martin Nowak]]'s
|
|||
|
||||
Dechert found that Black made donations at Epstein's request to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], Harvard, the [[Arizona State University]] Origins Project and the [[Peace Initiative Foundation]], and a 10 million dollar donation in October 2015 to Epstein's [[Gratitude America]]; Epstein, at Black's request, made "significant donations" on at least two occasions to the [[Melanoma Research Alliance]], "a charitable foundation established by Black and his wife." A 2015 IRS filing showed the 10 million dollar gift to Gratitude America coming from a company called [[BV70]] at the address of Black's family investment firm.[^2][^3]
|
||||
|
||||
On January 18, 2019 Epstein's accountant [[Richard Kahn]] of [[HBRK Associates]] wrote to [[Brad Wechsler]] under the subject "The Origins Project Donations from Leon Black and Leon Black Family Foundation": "It appears that all of the funds donated by Leon and the Leon Black Family Foundation to The Origins Project were not used. I believe the balance that remains is approximately 607,000. Jeffrey also had unused funds for his donations and sent his balance to the MIT Media Lab. I have drafted a letter if you would like to do the same. If so Leon will need to sign." The Origins Project was the program of the physicist [[Lawrence Krauss]] at Arizona State; the reference to Epstein's balance is to the [[MIT Media Lab]]. Wechsler replied on January 22 that the proposal "seems to make sense to me" and that he would deal with it when he saw Black that Thursday, and Kahn forwarded the exchange to Epstein with the words "please advise on response."[^7] Epstein was arrested in July 2019.
|
||||
|
||||
Requests to the foundation also reached Epstein's office. In May 2015 a representative of Sunrise Israel, an Israeli charity for children with cancer, asked Epstein's assistant [[Lesley Groff]] to forward to Epstein "our request for support from the Leon Black family foundation"; in June 2016 the same charity wrote again to Groff under the subject "Sunrise Israel- request for support from the Leon Black Family Foundation," and Groff forwarded the message to Epstein.[^8][^9]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
[^1]: ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer, "Debra And Leon Black Family Foundation," EIN 13-3947890 (IRS Business Master File and Form 990-PF extracts, ruling date August 1, 1998, foundation code 4), accessed September 25, 2026. https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/api/v2/organizations/133947890.json
|
||||
[^2]: Dechert LLP, Memorandum to the Apollo Conflicts Committee, "Investigation of Epstein/Black Relationship and Any Relationship Between Epstein and Apollo Global Management, Inc.," January 22, 2021, filed as Exhibit 99.1 to Apollo Global Management, Inc. Form 8-K, January 25, 2021, pp. 5-6, 18-19. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1411494/000119312521016405/d118102dex991.htm
|
||||
[^3]: Aldhous, Peter. "Jeffrey Epstein's Links To Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought," *BuzzFeed News,* August 27, 2019. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-science-donations-apologies-statements
|
||||
[^4]: Lopez, Diane E., Ara B. Gershengorn, and Martin F. Murphy. *Report Concerning Jeffrey E. Epstein's Connections to Harvard University.* Harvard University Office of the General Counsel and Foley Hoag LLP, May 2020, pp. 10-15 and nn. 9, 15. https://ogc.harvard.edu/file_url/208
|
||||
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01128080, DataSet 9, "Assignment and Assumption Agreement" to Black Family Partners, L.P., June 7, 2007. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01128080.pdf
|
||||
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00590922 to EFTA00590923, DataSet 9, "Confirmation of Resignation of Jeffrey Epstein as a Director and a Member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation," Leon Black Family Foundation, Inc., undated (after 2013), with attached "Resignation of Director and Member of the Executive Committee." https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00590922.pdf
|
||||
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01128080, DataSet 9, "Assignment and Assumption Agreement" to Black Family Partners, L.P., June 7, 2007. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01128080.pdf
|
||||
[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA02628470, DataSet 11, email from Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein forwarding email chain with Brad Wechsler, "The Origins Project Donations from Leon Black and Leon Black Family Foundation," January 18 to 22, 2019 (duplicate at EFTA02630295). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02628470.pdf
|
||||
[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00348546, DataSet 9, email from a representative of Sunrise Israel to Lesley Groff, "Sunrise Israel-support from Leon Black family foundation," May 3, 2015. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00348546.pdf
|
||||
[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00324273, DataSet 9, email from Lesley Groff to Jeffrey Epstein forwarding "Sunrise Israel- request for support from the Leon Black Family Foundation," June 7, 2016. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00324273.pdf
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -64,7 +64,13 @@ relations:
|
|||
role: "Hyperion Air, LLC named as a defendant in the territory's suit against the Epstein estate"
|
||||
start: 2020
|
||||
end: 2022-12-01
|
||||
fn: 8
|
||||
fn: 9
|
||||
- type: investigated
|
||||
with: "[[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "grand jury subpoena OLY-46 for business records, appearance date May 8, 2007; named in the money laundering request to NES, LLC"
|
||||
start: 2007-05-08
|
||||
fn: 7
|
||||
created: 2026-09-25
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-25
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
@ -81,6 +87,10 @@ In March 2012 a 2001 [[Bell 430]] helicopter, serial number 49078, registered N9
|
|||
|
||||
The chronological log of the [[Operation Leap Year]] investigation kept by the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]] records grand jury subpoenas returnable August 18, 2006 to Epstein's aviation companies Hyperion Air, Inc. and [[JEGE, Inc.]], issued with subpoenas to Chase, [[Colonial Bank]], [[Washington Mutual]] and [[Capital One]].[^4] The draft indictment prepared in that office in 2007 recited overt acts in which girls identified as Jane Does traveled "aboard the Gulfstream aircraft owned by Hyperion Air, Inc." NBC News reported that a May 2007 prosecution memorandum released in the [[Epstein Files]] sought approval to charge Epstein, JEGE, Inc., Hyperion Air, Inc. and three redacted co-conspirators in a sealed 60-count indictment.[^2][^5] No indictment was filed. The [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]] of September 2007 disposed of the federal case, and Hyperion kept the Gulfstream for another six years.[^1][^6]
|
||||
|
||||
The grand jury subpoena log of the investigation, kept under Lions number 2006R01181 for grand jury FGJ 05-02 in [[West Palm Beach, Florida|West Palm Beach]] and its successor FGJ 07-103, assigns control number OLY-46 to a subpoena for the "business records" of "Hyperion Air, Inc, Custodian of Records," with an appearance date of May 8, 2007 and no return date entered. The next number, OLY-47, is the matching subpoena to the custodian of records of JEGE, Inc., on the same date. The preceding entry, OLY-45, sought account records from New York Strategy Group, LLC, with an appearance date of May 2, 2007; the log then records subpoenas OLY-51 to OLY-54 for the business records of the [[Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation|J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation]], J. Epstein & Company, [[Epstein Interests]] and [[Financial Trust Company]], all returnable June 12, 2007.[^7]
|
||||
|
||||
The same file holds the office's correspondence with the defense lawyer [[Gerald Lefcourt]] over a subpoena to [[NES, LLC]], an Epstein company; the letter enclosed further subpoenas to two NES employees, [[Eric Gany]] and Harry Beller. The subpoena's attachment asked for "all documents and information referring or relating to the transfer of fund to or from any account owned by NES, LLC to or from any account owned by JEGE, Inc., Jeffrey E. Epstein, Hyperion Air, Inc., Financial Trust Co., New York Strategy Group, Inc., J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundations, Inc., and/or Epstein Interests," from January 1, 2003. A letter to Lefcourt of August 16, 2007, its signature redacted, answered his objections: "Mr. Menchel's comment to you about potential money laundering charges related only to a resolution of the case. In other words, if the sex offense case is resolved, the Office would close its investigation into other areas as well. The matter has not been, and it does not appear that it will be, resolved so the money laundering investigation continues, and Request Number 6 will not be withdrawn." The reference is to [[Matthew Menchel]], chief of the office's Criminal Division until August 2007. The letter added: "the information provided regarding the pilots came from the corporate records of Hyperion and JEGE, Inc., not NES." The non-prosecution agreement was signed five weeks later.[^7]
|
||||
|
||||
### The JPMorgan Account
|
||||
|
||||
JPMorgan's due diligence report on Hyperion Air, Inc., dated January 23, 2009, noted that "This entity is 100% owned by Jeffrey Epstein"; the bank's internal description of the account's purpose, approved in November 2006, was "Managing payments for operational expenses of personal aircraft." The forensic accountant [[Jorge Amador]], retained by the [[Government of the United States Virgin Islands]] in [[Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank|its suit against JPMorgan]], identified eight JPMorgan accounts and ten entities "purportedly related to Epstein's personal aircraft."[^3]
|
||||
|
|
@ -91,19 +101,19 @@ Of at least 134 currency transaction reports JPMorgan filed on Epstein accounts
|
|||
|
||||
The reference is to the sanctions lists of the [[Office of Foreign Assets Control]]. Between October 2011 and November 2013 the Hyperion account issued 548,751.87 dollars in checks payable to "Cash," most in round amounts of 30,000 or 40,000 dollars, which Epstein's accountant [[Harry Beller]] signed and endorsed. A JPMorgan "Verify & Confirm" review of March 9, 2013 recorded that the "large cash withdrawals from the account [were] for fuel expenses when traveling to foreign countries." Amador found no fuel receipts or other documentation in the account records, and noted that Epstein continued to pay two fuel vendors from his personal account between March 2011 and July 2013. Between 2011 and 2013 the Hyperion account also made eleven foreign currency transactions totaling 224,655.79 dollars, nine of them purchases of euros or British pounds, on none of which JPMorgan filed a currency transaction report.[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
In a December 2014 email a [[Southern Trust Company]] employee was described as "currently working on the scanning and shredding for all of the entities, FTC, LSJ, Zorro, NES, JEGE, Hyperion, and JEVIF," hired "as a temporary college intern-type person to deal with shredding sensitive documents as a summer project."[^7]
|
||||
In a December 2014 email a [[Southern Trust Company]] employee was described as "currently working on the scanning and shredding for all of the entities, FTC, LSJ, Zorro, NES, JEGE, Hyperion, and JEVIF," hired "as a temporary college intern-type person to deal with shredding sensitive documents as a summer project."[^8]
|
||||
|
||||
### Hyperion Air, LLC
|
||||
|
||||
The operating agreement of Hyperion Air, LLC, dated October 19, 2012, was signed by Epstein as "Sole Member."[^3] The territory's complaint against his estate described the company as organized that day with Epstein and his chief pilot [[Larry Visoski]] as managers, and as the owner of a Bell helicopter (N331JE) and a "Keystone" helicopter (N722JE) that Epstein used "to transport young women and underage girls between St. Thomas and [[Little St. James]]"; the complaint dated Epstein's shell-company formations to the period after his 2010 registration as a sex offender in the territory, stating that "most of these companies were created in 2011 and 2012."[^8]
|
||||
The operating agreement of Hyperion Air, LLC, dated October 19, 2012, was signed by Epstein as "Sole Member."[^3] The territory's complaint against his estate described the company as organized that day with Epstein and his chief pilot [[Larry Visoski]] as managers, and as the owner of a Bell helicopter (N331JE) and a "Keystone" helicopter (N722JE) that Epstein used "to transport young women and underage girls between St. Thomas and [[Little St. James]]"; the complaint dated Epstein's shell-company formations to the period after his 2010 registration as a sex offender in the territory, stating that "most of these companies were created in 2011 and 2012."[^9]
|
||||
|
||||
N722JE was a 2008 Sikorsky S-76C-2 that Epstein's company [[Air Ghislaine, Inc.]], later Freedom Air International, had bought in 2008 and sold on July 26, 2011 to [[ASI Wings]] LLC of Hartford, [[Connecticut]]. On June 13, 2019, three weeks before Epstein's arrest at [[Teterboro Airport|Teterboro]], ASI Wings sold it back to Hyperion Air LLC, with "Lawrence P. VISOSKI Jr." signing as manager. Visoski signed the bill of sale of May 13, 2021 by which Hyperion sold it to Industrial Integrity Solutions Inc. of Ontario, California. N331JE was sold in May 2020 to CMG Aircraft Leasing Inc. of [[Miami]], a broker, which resold it the same day to QIR Air Resources LLC of [[Salt Lake City]]; its registration became N430D in July 2020.[^1]
|
||||
N722JE was a 2008 Sikorsky S-76C-2 that Epstein's company [[Air Ghislaine, Inc.]], later Freedom Air International, had bought in 2008 and sold on July 26, 2011 to [[ASI Wings]] LLC of Hartford, [[Connecticut]]. On June 13, 2019, three weeks before Epstein's arrest at [[Teterboro Airport|Teterboro]], ASI Wings sold it back to Hyperion Air LLC, with "Lawrence P. VISOSKI Jr." signing as manager. Visoski signed the bill of sale of May 13, 2021 by which Hyperion sold it to Industrial Integrity Solutions Inc. of Ontario, California. The name of the buyer's chief financial officer, who signed for Industrial Integrity Solutions, is redacted in one production of the FAA correspondence and legible in another.[^1][^10] The same individual signed, as manager, the aircraft security agreement of May 11, 2021 by which N550GP, LLC, a California company at 2151 East Convention Center Way in Ontario, pledged to [[Bank of Hope]] the Gulfstream G550, serial number 5173, then registered N212JE "(Pending change to N550GP)," that [[Plan D LLC]] had sold on December 22, 2020.[^11] N331JE was sold in May 2020 to CMG Aircraft Leasing Inc. of [[Miami]], a broker, which resold it the same day to QIR Air Resources LLC of [[Salt Lake City]]; its registration became N430D in July 2020.[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
### Federal Interest
|
||||
|
||||
On August 18, 2021 an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]], then preparing the trial of [[Ghislaine Maxwell]], sent the FAA's Law Enforcement Assistance Program in [[Atlanta]] a list of search terms that included "Hyperion Air LLC," "Air Ghislaine," "Thomas World Air LLC" and "Freedom Air Petroleum LLC." The FAA special agent replied the same day: "In 2015/2016, DEA S/A was interested in EPSTEIN and his aircraft," naming an agent of the [[Drug Enforcement Administration]]'s Saint Thomas Resident Office, and "In August 2019, the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] in Atlanta, GA was interested in aircraft linked to EPSTEIN." The agent's search found "No other aircraft registered to or indexed to Hyperion Inc or LLC, and none to Ossa Properties Inc."[^1]
|
||||
|
||||
The territory named Hyperion Air, LLC as a defendant, with Indyke, [[Richard Kahn]], the estate, [[Plan D LLC]] and other Epstein companies, in the suit it settled on December 1, 2022 for more than 105 million dollars.[^8][^9]
|
||||
The territory named Hyperion Air, LLC as a defendant, with Indyke, [[Richard Kahn]], the estate, Plan D LLC and other Epstein companies, in the suit it settled on December 1, 2022 for more than 105 million dollars.[^9][^12]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -113,6 +123,9 @@ The territory named Hyperion Air, LLC as a defendant, with Indyke, [[Richard Kah
|
|||
[^4]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), pp. 1, 4-6, 11. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
|
||||
[^5]: "Epstein files live updates: Trump DOJ releases millions more pages of records," NBC News, January 30, 2026. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/live-blog/epstein-files-trump-doj-release-live-updates-rcna256639
|
||||
[^6]: Opinion and Order, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 v. United States, No. 9:08-cv-80736-KAM (S.D. Fla. Feb. 21, 2019), ECF No. 435, 359 F. Supp. 3d 1201. https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.flsd.317867/gov.uscourts.flsd.317867.435.0.pdf
|
||||
[^7]: Carlson, Suzanne. "Court filings show V.I. First Lady's loyalty to Epstein." *Virgin Islands Daily News,* June 21, 2023 (JPMorgan exhibits, December 2014 email). https://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/court-filings-show-v-i-first-ladys-loyalty-to-epstein/article_c2dca0a7-a243-5365-88c0-389c576ad022.html
|
||||
[^8]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, No. ST-20-CV-14 (V.I. Super. Ct.), Second Amended Complaint, paragraphs 33 to 36, 137 to 139, filed as Exhibit 1 to Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), ECF No. 1-1 (December 27, 2022). https://web.archive.org/web/20260117011558/https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank,%20N.A.,%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20(S.D.N.Y.%202022)/001-01.pdf
|
||||
[^9]: "U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Settles Sex Trafficking Case Against Estate of Jeffrey Epstein and Co-Defendants for Over $105 Million," *Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice,* December 1, 2022. https://usvidoj.com/u-s-virgin-islands-attorney-general-settles-sex-trafficking-case-against-estate-of-jeffrey-epstein-and-co-defendants-for-over-105-million/
|
||||
[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00193068, DataSet 9, "Grand Jury Subpoena Log, In Re: Operation Leap Year," U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida, 2006 to 2007, entries OLY-45 to OLY-54 (EFTA00193072 to EFTA00193073), letter to Gerald Lefcourt, August 16, 2007 (EFTA00193091 to EFTA00193092), and subpoena attachment to NES, LLC (EFTA00193124 to EFTA00193125). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00193068.pdf
|
||||
[^8]: Carlson, Suzanne. "Court filings show V.I. First Lady's loyalty to Epstein." *Virgin Islands Daily News,* June 21, 2023 (JPMorgan exhibits, December 2014 email). https://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/court-filings-show-v-i-first-ladys-loyalty-to-epstein/article_c2dca0a7-a243-5365-88c0-389c576ad022.html
|
||||
[^9]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, No. ST-20-CV-14 (V.I. Super. Ct.), Second Amended Complaint, paragraphs 33 to 36, 137 to 139, filed as Exhibit 1 to Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), ECF No. 1-1 (December 27, 2022). https://web.archive.org/web/20260117011558/https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank,%20N.A.,%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20(S.D.N.Y.%202022)/001-01.pdf
|
||||
[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00087596, DataSet 9, email chain "RE: FAA Question" between a Special Agent, Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, August to September 2021 (second production). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00087596.pdf
|
||||
[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01329275, DataSet 10, Aircraft Security Agreement between N550GP, LLC and Bank of Hope, May 11, 2021, with Irrevocable De-Registration and Export Request Authorization and Irrevocable Power of Attorney (SDNY_GM production). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01329275.pdf
|
||||
[^12]: "U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Settles Sex Trafficking Case Against Estate of Jeffrey Epstein and Co-Defendants for Over $105 Million," *Government of the U.S. Virgin Islands Department of Justice,* December 1, 2022. https://usvidoj.com/u-s-virgin-islands-attorney-general-settles-sex-trafficking-case-against-estate-of-jeffrey-epstein-and-co-defendants-for-over-105-million/
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -51,6 +51,12 @@ relations:
|
|||
role: "grand jury subpoena returnable August 18, 2006"
|
||||
start: 2006-08-18
|
||||
fn: 3
|
||||
- type: investigated
|
||||
with: "[[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "grand jury subpoena OLY-47 for business records, appearance date May 8, 2007; named in the money laundering request to NES, LLC"
|
||||
start: 2007-05-08
|
||||
fn: 5
|
||||
created: 2026-09-25
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-25
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
@ -65,17 +71,19 @@ On January 19, 2001 Real Estate Exchange Inc. of Portland, Oregon sold a 1969 Bo
|
|||
|
||||
The chronological log of the [[Operation Leap Year]] investigation kept by the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]] records grand jury subpoenas returnable August 18, 2006 to Epstein's aviation companies [[Hyperion Air]], Inc. and JEGE, Inc.[^3] The draft indictment prepared in that office in 2007 recited overt acts in which girls identified as Jane Does were flown "aboard the Boeing 727 aircraft owned by JEGE, INC." NBC News reported that a May 2007 prosecution memorandum sought approval to charge Epstein, JEGE, Inc., Hyperion Air, Inc. and three redacted co-conspirators in a sealed 60-count indictment. No indictment was filed; the [[Epstein non-prosecution agreement|non-prosecution agreement]] of September 2007 disposed of the federal case, and JEGE kept the 727 for another twelve years.[^2][^4]
|
||||
|
||||
The grand jury subpoena log of the investigation, kept under Lions number 2006R01181, assigns control number OLY-47 to a subpoena for the "business records" of "JEGE, Inc., Custodian of Records," with an appearance date of May 8, 2007 and no return date entered; OLY-46, the preceding entry, is the identical subpoena to Hyperion Air, Inc. A subpoena to the Epstein company [[NES, LLC]] asked for records "relating to the transfer of fund to or from any account owned by NES, LLC to or from any account owned by JEGE, Inc., Jeffrey E. Epstein, Hyperion Air, Inc., Financial Trust Co., New York Strategy Group, Inc., J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundations, Inc., and/or Epstein Interests." A letter from the office to the defense lawyer [[Gerald Lefcourt]] on August 16, 2007 stated that "the money laundering investigation continues, and Request Number 6 will not be withdrawn," and that "the information provided regarding the pilots came from the corporate records of Hyperion and JEGE, Inc., not NES."[^5]
|
||||
|
||||
### The JPMorgan Accounts
|
||||
|
||||
[[JPMorgan Chase]] prepared a "Confidential Due Diligence Report" on JEGE, Inc. dated March 4, 2010, and another in March 2013 noting that "This is an entity 100% owned by Jeffrey Epstein"; a JPMorgan entity account application for JEGE LLC signed February 11, 2013 identified Epstein as its sole owner. The bank described the purpose of the JEGE accounts, as it did that of [[Air Ghislaine, Inc.]], as "Operational management of one of his business entities that result from his financial advisory business."[^5]
|
||||
[[JPMorgan Chase]] prepared a "Confidential Due Diligence Report" on JEGE, Inc. dated March 4, 2010, and another in March 2013 noting that "This is an entity 100% owned by Jeffrey Epstein"; a JPMorgan entity account application for JEGE LLC signed February 11, 2013 identified Epstein as its sole owner. The bank described the purpose of the JEGE accounts, as it did that of [[Air Ghislaine, Inc.]], as "Operational management of one of his business entities that result from his financial advisory business."[^6]
|
||||
|
||||
In a December 2014 email a [[Southern Trust Company]] employee was described as "currently working on the scanning and shredding for all of the entities, FTC, LSJ, Zorro, NES, JEGE, Hyperion, and JEVIF."[^6]
|
||||
In a December 2014 email a [[Southern Trust Company]] employee was described as "currently working on the scanning and shredding for all of the entities, FTC, LSJ, Zorro, NES, JEGE, Hyperion, and JEVIF."[^7]
|
||||
|
||||
### JEGE, LLC
|
||||
|
||||
On May 30, 2013 a 1988 Gulfstream G-IV, serial number 1085, registered N423TT, was registered to JEGE, LLC of St. Thomas, with Lawrence Visoski signing as manager. The company's 2013 statement to the FAA gave its formation date as October 19, 2012 and its members as "Jeffrey EPSTEIN and Lawrence VISOSKI." Visoski changed the registration to N212JE in July 2013 and to N120JE in August 2017; the number N212JE then passed to the Gulfstream G550 of [[Plan D LLC]].[^1] The territory's 2022 complaint against Epstein's estate listed JEGE LLC among the Virgin Islands companies in what it called the Epstein Enterprise, most of which were "created in 2011 and 2012, soon after Epstein registered as a sex offender in the Virgin Islands."[^7]
|
||||
On May 30, 2013 a 1988 Gulfstream G-IV, serial number 1085, registered N423TT, was registered to JEGE, LLC of St. Thomas, with Lawrence Visoski signing as manager. The company's 2013 statement to the FAA gave its formation date as October 19, 2012 and its members as "Jeffrey EPSTEIN and Lawrence VISOSKI." Visoski changed the registration to N212JE in July 2013 and to N120JE in August 2017; the number N212JE then passed to the Gulfstream G550 of [[Plan D LLC]].[^1] That aircraft, a Gulfstream GV-SP (G550), serial number 5173, had been registered N415LM to [[Chevron|Chevron USA Inc.]] of Oakland, California, which sold it to Plan D on March 29, 2017, with Visoski signing as manager; Plan D's statement to the FAA named Epstein as a member and Visoski as manager. By a bill of sale dated December 22, 2020, the FAA agent wrote, "Lawrence VISOSKI on behalf of Plan D LLC 'sold' N212JE to Six G Aviation LLC who 'sold' it the same day to N550GP LLC in Ontario, CA." It was registered to N550GP LLC on February 24, 2021, with the manager of its member, Frontier JV LLC, signing, and took the number N550GP in March 2021.[^1] On May 11, 2021 N550GP, LLC pledged the aircraft, still "N212JE (Pending change to N550GP)," to [[Bank of Hope]] under an aircraft security agreement signed by its manager, who in the same month signed as chief financial officer of the company that bought Hyperion Air's helicopter N722JE.[^8][^9] The FAA's Aircraft Registration Branch in [[Oklahoma City]] certified a copy of the aircraft's file on August 23, 2021, and the copy entered the discovery production of the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York|Southern District of New York]] in the prosecution of [[Ghislaine Maxwell]]; a paralegal of that office listed among the FAA registration files it needed unlocked on September 10, 2021 one titled "N550GP was N212JE was N415LM registration."[^10][^11] The territory's 2022 complaint against Epstein's estate listed JEGE LLC among the Virgin Islands companies in what it called the Epstein Enterprise, most of which were "created in 2011 and 2012, soon after Epstein registered as a sex offender in the Virgin Islands."[^12]
|
||||
|
||||
On September 8, 2014 a flight chartered by JEGE LLC carried five passengers, among them the [[New Mexico]] attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee [[Gary King]] and his running mate, [[Deb Haaland]], from Santa Fe to Washington; the campaign reported paying 22,060 dollars to the charter company [[Injet]], and at 5:36 a.m. the next day a charter booker emailed Epstein's accountant [[Richard Kahn]] and Visoski that the plane was "on the ground at IAD." King later said his staff had told him that [[Bill Richardson]] was helping to arrange an airplane and that "we didn't have any reason to know or believe that it was a plane that was owned by Jeffrey Epstein"; a spokesperson for Haaland said the way the plane was chartered "was never communicated to her."[^8][^9]
|
||||
On September 8, 2014 a flight chartered by JEGE LLC carried five passengers, among them the [[New Mexico]] attorney general and Democratic gubernatorial nominee [[Gary King]] and his running mate, [[Deb Haaland]], from Santa Fe to Washington; the campaign reported paying 22,060 dollars to the charter company [[Injet]], and at 5:36 a.m. the next day a charter booker emailed Epstein's accountant [[Richard Kahn]] and Visoski that the plane was "on the ground at IAD." King later said his staff had told him that [[Bill Richardson]] was helping to arrange an airplane and that "we didn't have any reason to know or believe that it was a plane that was owned by Jeffrey Epstein"; a spokesperson for Haaland said the way the plane was chartered "was never communicated to her."[^13][^14]
|
||||
|
||||
### The 2019 Transfer
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -87,8 +95,13 @@ The company's 2019 statement to the FAA gave the same formation date but named i
|
|||
[^2]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01703108 to EFTA01703163, DataSet 10, draft indictment, United States v. Epstein (S.D. Fla., unfiled, 2007), paragraphs 3 and 4 and overt acts. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01703108.pdf
|
||||
[^3]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), pp. 1, 4-6, 11. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
|
||||
[^4]: "Epstein files live updates: Trump DOJ releases millions more pages of records," NBC News, January 30, 2026. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/live-blog/epstein-files-trump-doj-release-live-updates-rcna256639
|
||||
[^5]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), Expert Report of Jorge Amador, ECF No. 238-31 (filed July 25, 2023), pp. 9-10 and nn. 29-30, 18-19 and n. 74 (citing JPM-SDNYLIT-00036338, JPM-SDNYLIT-00025011, JPM-SDNYLIT-00037171). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653.238.31.pdf
|
||||
[^6]: Carlson, Suzanne. "Court filings show V.I. First Lady's loyalty to Epstein." *Virgin Islands Daily News,* June 21, 2023 (JPMorgan exhibits, December 2014 email). https://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/court-filings-show-v-i-first-ladys-loyalty-to-epstein/article_c2dca0a7-a243-5365-88c0-389c576ad022.html
|
||||
[^7]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, No. ST-20-CV-14 (V.I. Super. Ct.), Second Amended Complaint, paragraphs 137 to 139, filed as Exhibit 1 to Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), ECF No. 1-1 (December 27, 2022). https://web.archive.org/web/20260117011558/https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank,%20N.A.,%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20(S.D.N.Y.%202022)/001-01.pdf
|
||||
[^8]: Paras, Julian, and Pat Davis. "Records show Gary King, Deb Haaland used Epstein-linked jet during 2014 campaign." *New Mexico Political Report,* February 17, 2026. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/02/17/records-show-gary-king-deb-haaland-used-epstein-linked-jet-during-2014-campaign/
|
||||
[^9]: Davis, Pat, and Julian Paras. "Gary King campaigned on prosecuting child sex offenders, while courting Epstein at lunch and accepting donations through companies designed to avoid 'press coverage' for King." *New Mexico Political Report,* February 23, 2026. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/02/23/gary-king-campaigned-on-his-record-prosecuting-child-sex-offenders-then-invited-epstein-to-lunch-and-accepted-epstein-donations-through-companies-designed-to-avoid-press-coverage-for-king/
|
||||
[^5]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00193068, DataSet 9, "Grand Jury Subpoena Log, In Re: Operation Leap Year," U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida, 2006 to 2007, entries OLY-46 and OLY-47 (EFTA00193072 to EFTA00193073), letter to Gerald Lefcourt, August 16, 2007 (EFTA00193091 to EFTA00193092), and subpoena attachment to NES, LLC (EFTA00193124 to EFTA00193125). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00193068.pdf
|
||||
[^6]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), Expert Report of Jorge Amador, ECF No. 238-31 (filed July 25, 2023), pp. 9-10 and nn. 29-30, 18-19 and n. 74 (citing JPM-SDNYLIT-00036338, JPM-SDNYLIT-00025011, JPM-SDNYLIT-00037171). https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653/gov.uscourts.nysd.591653.238.31.pdf
|
||||
[^7]: Carlson, Suzanne. "Court filings show V.I. First Lady's loyalty to Epstein." *Virgin Islands Daily News,* June 21, 2023 (JPMorgan exhibits, December 2014 email). https://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/court-filings-show-v-i-first-ladys-loyalty-to-epstein/article_c2dca0a7-a243-5365-88c0-389c576ad022.html
|
||||
[^8]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01329275, DataSet 10, Aircraft Security Agreement between N550GP, LLC and Bank of Hope, May 11, 2021 (SDNY_GM production). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01329275.pdf
|
||||
[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00087596, DataSet 9, email chain "RE: FAA Question" between a Special Agent, Federal Aviation Administration, and the U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, August to September 2021 (second production). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00087596.pdf
|
||||
[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01261591, DataSet 9, Federal Aviation Administration, Certificate of True Copy, aircraft file for Gulfstream GV-SP (G550), serial number 5173, registration N550GP, August 23, 2021 (SDNY_GM production). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01261591.pdf
|
||||
[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00023437, DataSet 8, email chain "RE: FAA Question," U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York, September 10 to 29, 2021. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00023437.pdf
|
||||
[^12]: Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, No. ST-20-CV-14 (V.I. Super. Ct.), Second Amended Complaint, paragraphs 137 to 139, filed as Exhibit 1 to Government of the United States Virgin Islands v. JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., No. 1:22-cv-10904-JSR (S.D.N.Y.), ECF No. 1-1 (December 27, 2022). https://web.archive.org/web/20260117011558/https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank,%20N.A.,%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20(S.D.N.Y.%202022)/001-01.pdf
|
||||
[^13]: Paras, Julian, and Pat Davis. "Records show Gary King, Deb Haaland used Epstein-linked jet during 2014 campaign." *New Mexico Political Report,* February 17, 2026. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/02/17/records-show-gary-king-deb-haaland-used-epstein-linked-jet-during-2014-campaign/
|
||||
[^14]: Davis, Pat, and Julian Paras. "Gary King campaigned on prosecuting child sex offenders, while courting Epstein at lunch and accepting donations through companies designed to avoid 'press coverage' for King." *New Mexico Political Report,* February 23, 2026. https://nmpoliticalreport.com/2026/02/23/gary-king-campaigned-on-his-record-prosecuting-child-sex-offenders-then-invited-epstein-to-lunch-and-accepted-epstein-donations-through-companies-designed-to-avoid-press-coverage-for-king/
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
|
|
@ -49,6 +49,19 @@ relations:
|
|||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "director of Humanity+, as of August 2019"
|
||||
fn: 3
|
||||
- type: funded
|
||||
with: "[[Epstein Interests]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "20,000 dollars by wire from JPMorgan Chase"
|
||||
start: 2010-09-13
|
||||
fn: 6
|
||||
- type: funded
|
||||
with: "[[Jeffrey Epstein]]"
|
||||
reverse: true
|
||||
role: "272,500 dollars listed by his accountant as paid from 'Enhanced' to Humanity Plus"
|
||||
start: 2016-09
|
||||
end: 2017
|
||||
fn: 10
|
||||
created: 2026-09-25
|
||||
updated: 2026-09-25
|
||||
---
|
||||
|
|
@ -63,13 +76,19 @@ According to Bostrom, the association "entered its next phase after a meeting in
|
|||
|
||||
### Epstein Interests and the Hong Kong Project
|
||||
|
||||
The 2010 tax return of Epstein Interests recorded a 20,000 dollar payment to the association, made two years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea in [[Florida]].[^3] Epstein Interests was one of the Epstein entities to which the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]] issued grand jury subpoenas on May 31, 2007, alongside the [[Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation|J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation]], J. Epstein & Company and [[Financial Trust Company]].[^6]
|
||||
The 2010 tax return of Epstein Interests recorded a 20,000 dollar payment to the association, made two years after Epstein's 2008 guilty plea in [[Florida]].[^3] The wire instruction, a memorandum on Epstein Interests letterhead addressed "To: Janet, JP Morgan" and "From: Jeffrey Epstein," dated September 13, 2010, read: "Please transfer TWENTY THOUSAND DOLLARS ($20,000) from the above account to: Bank: Wells Fargo Bank ... For Credit to: World Transhumanist Association Inc." [[JPMorgan Chase]] received it by fax on September 14, 2010 as page 15 of a 15-page transmission. The other fourteen pages were memoranda on Jeffrey E. Epstein letterhead from his accountant [[Harry Beller]], among them wires of 100,000 dollars to a FirstBank account in [[San Juan, Puerto Rico|San Juan]] for LSJ, LLC of Red Hook Quarters, [[St. Thomas]], 250,000 dollars to the account of "DARREN K INDYKE PLLC," the practice of his lawyer [[Darren Indyke]], with the instruction "Please email Richard Kahn with the Federal reference number," and 250,000 dollars to [[HBRK Associates]], the firm of his accountant [[Richard Kahn]]; most of the rest were payments to engineering, construction, landscaping and supply companies.[^6] Epstein Interests was one of the Epstein entities to which the [[U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of Florida]] issued grand jury subpoenas on May 31, 2007, alongside the [[Jeffrey Epstein VI Foundation|J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation]], J. Epstein & Company and [[Financial Trust Company]].[^7]
|
||||
|
||||
In October 2010 [[OpenCog]], the open-source artificial general intelligence project of [[Ben Goertzel]], announced a two-year project at the M-Lab of [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] to build intelligent video game characters, with 380,000 dollars in funding, "the majority of which is supplied by ITF, with a minority supplied by [[Novamente]] in collaboration with Epstein Interests and Humanity+." The project was to be led by the M-Lab faculty members [[Gino Yu]] and [[Wilson Yuen]], with Goertzel overseeing its artificial intelligence work, and to draw graduate students from [[Xiamen University]] in China, where Goertzel was co-supervising an OpenCog robotics project. The announcement described the goal as a "Sputnik of AGI."[^7] [[Natasha Vita-More]], executive director of Humanity+, told BuzzFeed News in 2019 that the Epstein money "was used for AI research" and that "When Mr. Epstein did make a donation to Humanity+, it was long before any news broke about his unethical behavior"; Goertzel was then a director of Humanity+.[^3] In 2009 Epstein's C.O.U.Q. Foundation gave 50,000 dollars to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, now the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]].[^3]
|
||||
In October 2010 [[OpenCog]], the open-source artificial general intelligence project of [[Ben Goertzel]], announced a two-year project at the M-Lab of [[Hong Kong Polytechnic University]] to build intelligent video game characters, with 380,000 dollars in funding, "the majority of which is supplied by ITF, with a minority supplied by [[Novamente]] in collaboration with Epstein Interests and Humanity+." The project was to be led by the M-Lab faculty members [[Gino Yu]] and [[Wilson Yuen]], with Goertzel overseeing its artificial intelligence work, and to draw graduate students from [[Xiamen University]] in China, where Goertzel was co-supervising an OpenCog robotics project. The announcement described the goal as a "Sputnik of AGI."[^8] [[Natasha Vita-More]], executive director of Humanity+, told BuzzFeed News in 2019 that the Epstein money "was used for AI research" and that "When Mr. Epstein did make a donation to Humanity+, it was long before any news broke about his unethical behavior"; Goertzel was then a director of Humanity+.[^3] In 2009 Epstein's C.O.U.Q. Foundation gave 50,000 dollars to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, now the [[Machine Intelligence Research Institute]].[^3]
|
||||
|
||||
### The Enhanced Payments
|
||||
|
||||
On August 14, 2016 the German artificial intelligence researcher [[Joscha Bach]] wrote to Epstein under the subject "Company": "What is the current idea re: my formal employer in the US? Does it make sense to frame it as a startup, put me into an existing non-profit (Ben Goertzel has 'Humanity Plus', which does non profit AGI research and is a Delaware company), or did anything come out of Joi's existing MIT affiliated companies?" The reference is to [[Joi Ito]], director of the [[MIT Media Lab]].[^9]
|
||||
|
||||
On January 14, 2018 Bach wrote to Epstein, "Could you please help with money? I should have talked to you earlier about it but the needle is indeed on empty"; Epstein forwarded the message to Kahn with the word "yes." On January 16 Kahn asked Epstein to "please advise on amount to send Joscha and from which entity" and set out the "history" of the payments. It recorded 50,000 dollars "Enhanced to Joscha" in January 2016, 157,500 dollars "Enhanced Humanity Plus" in September 2016, 115,000 dollars "Enhanced to Humanity Plus" in 2017, three further payments of 25,000, 20,000 and 10,000 dollars "Enhanced to Joscha" between 2016 and June 2017, and two sums of 16,850 and 14,280 dollars for "tuition - JEE." The payments to Humanity Plus in the list total 272,500 dollars and those to Bach 105,000 dollars. Epstein answered "125 k." On January 17, 2018 Kahn wrote back: "125 from enhanced to humanity plus or joscha. Please advise."[^10][^11] The entity called Enhanced is not otherwise identified in the correspondence.
|
||||
|
||||
### The Gratitude America Gift
|
||||
|
||||
In a statement issued in August 2019 Humanity+ said that "Gratitude America, Ltd. made a donation to Humanity+ in 2018" of 100,000 dollars that "did not include Mr. Jeffrey Epstein's name," and that its Schedule B stated the money "was granted to educational research and development of Artificial Intelligence, the ethical use of AI, and increasing awareness of how AI can benefit humanity." It stated that it "had no knowledge of Mr. Epstein's horrific alleged criminal activity, and we strongly condemn it," that "Epstein was never a member of Humanity+, nor affiliated with any known transhumanist organization," and that "Epstein's egocentric ideas about eugenics ardently conflict with the philosophy of transhumanism." The *[[The New York Times|New York Times]]* had reported in July 2019 that Epstein told scientists of plans to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his [[Zorro Ranch]] in [[New Mexico]].[^4][^8]
|
||||
In a statement issued in August 2019 Humanity+ said that "Gratitude America, Ltd. made a donation to Humanity+ in 2018" of 100,000 dollars that "did not include Mr. Jeffrey Epstein's name," and that its Schedule B stated the money "was granted to educational research and development of Artificial Intelligence, the ethical use of AI, and increasing awareness of how AI can benefit humanity." It stated that it "had no knowledge of Mr. Epstein's horrific alleged criminal activity, and we strongly condemn it," that "Epstein was never a member of Humanity+, nor affiliated with any known transhumanist organization," and that "Epstein's egocentric ideas about eugenics ardently conflict with the philosophy of transhumanism." The *[[The New York Times|New York Times]]* had reported in July 2019 that Epstein told scientists of plans to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his [[Zorro Ranch]] in [[New Mexico]].[^4][^12]
|
||||
|
||||
### Footnotes
|
||||
|
||||
|
|
@ -78,6 +97,10 @@ In a statement issued in August 2019 Humanity+ said that "Gratitude America, Ltd
|
|||
[^3]: Aldhous, Peter. "Jeffrey Epstein's Links To Scientists Are Even More Extensive Than We Thought," *BuzzFeed News,* August 27, 2019 (citing the 2010 Form 990 of Epstein Interests, https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/6188966-Epstein-Interests-2010-990.html). https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/peteraldhous/jeffrey-epstein-science-donations-apologies-statements
|
||||
[^4]: Humanity+, "Humanity+ Clarification of Epstein Donation," August 4, 2019, archived December 24, 2020, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20201224085040/https://humanityplus.org/humanity-clarification-of-epstein-donation/
|
||||
[^5]: Humanity+, "About," archived January 16, 2013, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20130116101752/http://humanityplus.org/about/
|
||||
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), entry for May 31, 2007. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
|
||||
[^7]: OpenCog, "OpenCog-based game characters at Hong Kong Poly U," October 2010, archived January 22, 2021, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122170135/https://opencog.org/2010/10/opencog-based-game-characters-at-hong-kong-poly-u/
|
||||
[^8]: Stewart, James B., Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. "Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA." *New York Times,* July 31, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html
|
||||
[^6]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA01589498 to EFTA01589515, DataSet 10, wire transfer memoranda faxed to JPMorgan Chase, September 13 and 14, 2010, 15 pages, with the Epstein Interests memorandum for the World Transhumanist Association at EFTA01589514 (JPM-SDNY Bates range; duplicate copy of the final page at EFTA01583862). https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01589498.pdf
|
||||
[^7]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00224943, DataSet 9, "Epstein Investigation Timeline," Exhibit A-1 (U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Florida), entry for May 31, 2007. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00224943.pdf
|
||||
[^8]: OpenCog, "OpenCog-based game characters at Hong Kong Poly U," October 2010, archived January 22, 2021, Wayback Machine. https://web.archive.org/web/20210122170135/https://opencog.org/2010/10/opencog-based-game-characters-at-hong-kong-poly-u/
|
||||
[^9]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00821389, DataSet 9, email from Joscha Bach to Jeffrey Epstein, "Company," August 14, 2016. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00821389.pdf
|
||||
[^10]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA00911083, DataSet 9, email from Richard Kahn to Jeffrey Epstein, "Joscha Bach," January 16, 2018, forwarding email from Joscha Bach, January 14, 2018. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00911083.pdf
|
||||
[^11]: U.S. Department of Justice, Epstein Library, EFTA02537093, DataSet 11, email chain between Richard Kahn and Jeffrey Epstein, "Re: Joscha Bach," January 16 to 17, 2018. https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2011/EFTA02537093.pdf
|
||||
[^12]: Stewart, James B., Matthew Goldstein, and Jessica Silver-Greenberg. "Jeffrey Epstein Hoped to Seed Human Race With His DNA." *New York Times,* July 31, 2019. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/business/jeffrey-epstein-eugenics.html
|
||||
|
|
|
|||
Loading…
Add table
Add a link
Reference in a new issue