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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
Have just gone through the financials for Jeffrey Epstein's Southern Trust Company (2013-2018) and matched them up with the payments by Leon Black in the Dechert report and here is what I have found:
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2 years
Just now: a new blow to Trump's SPAC deal: "On June 16, 2022, Digital World became aware that a federal grand jury sitting in the Southern District of New York has issued subpoenas to each member of Digital World’s board of directors," says DWAC in an 8K
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7 years
"She died doing what was right" - Va. paralegal killed during protest of white supremacist rally
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3 years
Black accounted for 81% of the $184 million in "fee income" taken in by Epstein's Southern Trust. It's important to note the only other revenues Southern Trust reported during those years was from investment income. Hence, Black was far and away the largest client.
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3 years
If you add in the unpaid $20 million balance on those loans, the total dollars paid by Black to Epstein over the period is $178 million. We noted the unexplained loans when we first reported on Southern Trust's financials in Oct. 2019.
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2015 is an interesting year. Epstein's Southern Trust reported taking in $54,999,980 in fee income. Dechert says that Black paid $30 million to Southern Trust in 2015. So about $25 million came from other clients. We have our suspicions but not ready for publication.
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3 years
In 2013, 2014 and 2017, Black accounted for all but $1 million of the fee income taken in by Southern Trust in those years.
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Of all the unsealed Epstein documents this may be the most interesting: JE’s reaction to Maxwell telling him Gawker had published the infamous black book of names
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3 years
Based on information turned over by Deutsche Bank to NY regulators which we obtained -- the loans were actually wired from Black's BV70 LLC to Epstein's Plan D before going to Southern Trust. BV70 owned Epstein's yacht and Plan D owned Epstein's plane.
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
The Dechert report tells us that in 2017 it was actually a loan for $22.5 million and $8 million and in 2018 some $10 million was paid back but Epstein ever paid back the rest. It also appears Black never filed a claim for the estate.
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Then there are the two loans from Black in 2017. On the financials for Southern Trust it appears as one loan for $30.5 million. And in 2018, the loan is listed as being worth $20.5 million -- suggesting Epstein paid back $10 million in 2018.
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3 years
The Dechert report tells us: "These loans were payable on demand from BV 70 LLC, were intended to be short-term loans and were made in connection with an art transaction involving Epstein." But there's no explanation why the payments were structured as loans.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
The Dubins, Glenn and Eva, longtime friends of Jeffrey Epstein have joined the USVI attorney general subpoena hit parade. The AG wants to know about some plane rides with Epstein and Ghislaine and three wire transfers in 2014 and 2016.
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"subpoenas seek certain of the same documents demanded in the above-referenced SEC subpoenas, along with requests relating to Digital World’s S-1 filings, communications with or about multiple individuals, and information regarding Rocket One Capital."
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Big Jeffrey Epstein estate update: Just now the estate finally filed an updated accounting that shed some light on his mysterious bank Southern Country International but also raises yet more questions.
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Matthew Goldstein
2 years
And filing says DWAC itself has received a grand jury subpoena. Rocket One Capital is a Miami hedge fund. (more to come)
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Mini Jeffrey Epstein update: @SteveEder and I finally got a list of all the employees who were fulltime for Epstein's highly-profitabel Southern Trust in the USVI and there were never more than 9 in any year). And not a single one was a scientist or a data researcher.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
It's been a year since Jeffrey Epstein died of an apparent suicide but he continues to haunt Wall Street powerhouse Leon Black who had long ties to the convicted sex offender. The USVI attorney general is now on the case. Story with @SteveEder @davidenrich
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Matthew Goldstein
2 years
"Send lawyers, guns and money" Maybe just the lawyers and && and the enablers. Our story on how the oligarchs invest in hedgies, buy yachts and fancy apartments with @kenvogel @JesseDrucker @maureenmfarrell @mmcintire and the @davidenrich photo credit!
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Matthew Goldstein
5 years
Not fake news: as required by last week’s legal settlement
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
As always, we will remain on the money hunt and trying to unravel the mystery of Epstein's finances. Send all tips to me or @SteveEder
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5 years
Under appreciated twitter feed
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In doing this story, we decided to ditch the phrase “hedge fund manager” because not sure it really describes what Epstein’s investment firm was doing.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
The juicy stuff in this one to former hedgie Glenn Dubin
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Matthew Goldstein
2 years
Here's the 8K
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
And here is the very first story we did on Southern Trust and the mysterious flow of cash -- it was within days of us reporting this story we began looking hard at Leon Black based on tips. It took awhile to establish the $$$ and we still came up short.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Trump says he’s blocking Postal Service funding because Democrats want to expand mail-in voting during pandemic - The Washington Post
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Ever since we got exclusive financials showing that Epstein's purported DNA data mining shop -- Southern Trust -- took in well over $200 million in less than 6 years, we've been hunting for the outfit's big clients
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Matthew Goldstein
6 years
Fill in this space
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Matthew Goldstein
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Trump Media files an 8K this morning that appears to keep the six month lockup.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Jeffrey Epstein $$ trail update: The AG in the Virgin Islands finds unexplained transaction at the Bank of Epstein before and after his death and some may have been outside the bank's limited charter
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
And there's more: In April 2019, Epstein lent $2.6 million to the bank and in December that money was returned to the estate. We believe that money came when Epstein was moving dollars out of Deutsche Banke. But if he could move that money, why later arrange a loan to the bank?
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
Tonight: The Attorney General for the USVI, which has sued the Epstein estate, filed a motion to freeze all payments claiming the executors have mismanaged assets by paying big legal fees and landscaping fees for Epstein’s islands in addition to other expenses
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
Jeffrey Epstein victim compensation fund is temporarily suspending future payments (after paying out over $50 million to victims) because Epstein's estate says it has liquidity issues. Yet as of 12/31/20 Epstein estate had $49 million in cash and total assest of $240 million.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Here’s a sneak peek at the civil subpoena to Wall St big wig and big time art collector Leon Black
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Half hour before it starts and already over 400 people planning to listen in on the Ghislaine Maxwell bail hearing
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Just want to make a pitch here for beat reporting and sticking with a story -- even when you find yourself pounding your head against the table. The Leon Black story really began with this story that @SteveEder and I did a year ago on Southern Trust.
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Matthew Goldstein
10 months
A Senate committee has a lot of questions for Leon Black about the tax and estate work Jeffrey Epstein did for him and why the private equity mogul paid so much for it
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
This story adds a new name to the Epstein Chronicle -- The Butterfly Trust. More to follow as i report and tweet from and undisclosed location on the Jersey Shore. Big shoutout to @davidenrich @randypennell
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
USVI Attorney General follows the money to Southern Trust and now alleges that Jeffrey Epstein's the co-executors of his estate were not just his longtime biz associates but enablers in helping Epstein carry out and hide his predatory activities.
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Matthew Goldstein
5 years
The Bike Cemetery. It’s not a Steven King story but a story on another failed Chinese unicorn with overly big ambitions via ⁦ @jotted ⁩ ⁦ @caocli
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
But here's where the mystery deepens: "Upon receipt of the funds from the Estate, SCI repaid outstanding loans due to another estate owned entity." What estate owned entity? Why not just name it? And is that $15 million still within the estate? We just don't know.
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Matthew Goldstein
5 years
Leslie Wexner gave Jeffrey Epstein a power of attorney that gave him limitless powers over his personal fortune for nearly two decades. Want to know how Epstein got so rich...look no further.
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Matthew Goldstein
6 years
When is infrastructure week?
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
And finally, remember this bank is a special kind of bank that is only supposed to handle money for non-domestic residents or entities of which Epstein as a US citizen certainly was not. Also in 2018, Epstein's representatives told the USVI the bank never commenced operation.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
We do know that Southern Trust was paying fees to an outfit with fewer than a dozen employees -- none of whom had a science background and those on the payroll include a former model, the wife of a former VI governor and his longtime girlfriend at the time of his arrest and death
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
America 2020: Yolanda Jackson is laid off from her special ed para job in March because of the pandemic. Georgia is slow in sending her unemployment checks. Then her landlord of 7 years moves to evict despite CARES Act moratorium. Her story is not unique.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
And many of the civil subpoenas are to entities that Leon Black has used to amass an art collection that is believed to be worth $3 billion and include the famous painting "The Scream." As always please send tips and info.
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
The report also discussed a $30 million loan from Black to Epstein. @steveeder wrote about that loan in Oct. 2019 and we always had our suspicions about it. Also it was only partly repaid by Epstein and the lender never came calling for the $20 million balance
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Matthew Goldstein
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All of which makes clear that there was no DNA analysis going on; no scientific research and not clear what if anythng was going to generate more than $250 million in revenues in 6 years. It would be nice if those employees would tell their stories.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
So @steveeder and I discovered that Jeffrey Epstein's main charitable foundation wasn't a real charity for much of its existence -- having lost its tax exempt status from the IRS in 2008
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Early on our sources said to look towards Leon Black and it appear that was directionally correct tho there's much more work to do and to be uncovered.
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Matthew Goldstein
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The running toliet, the lie about calling his mother, the comparison to Rain Man and the chatting with fellow inmates about celebrities, finance and escorts -- here is Epstein in his final days at the MCC via @BenWeiserNYT @SteveEder and @danielle_ivory
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Matthew Goldstein
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Original promoters of Trump Media — Wes Moss and Andy Litinsky — are suing TMTG in Delaware chancery over a dispute about their shares. They want an expedited hearing before the merger vote on March 22
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Matthew Goldstein
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There it is. Your Donald Trump Form 3 detailing his DJT shares
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Matthew Goldstein
8 months
Hedge fund advisory firm to Roman Abramovich is charged by the SEC (more to come on this firm we first reported on)
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Update. Today, landlords of Cares Act protected properties can start giving out 30 day notices of eviction. The clock is now ticking down to Aug 24 after which evictions can actually begin unless moratorium is extended or Congress provides tens of billions in rental assistance.
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
Got a CARES Act eviction story. Feel freel to tell it here now that sotry is open for comments
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Matthew Goldstein
4 years
According to a footnote in today's filing: "At the direction of the Decedent (Epstein), SCI (the bank) loaned the Decedent $15,500,000.00 which was used by the Decedent to retain criminal defense attorneys following the Decedent's arrest in July 2019."
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Matthew Goldstein
2 years
BOP now giving out the Epstein docs we sued for via FOIA requests. CNN has them now
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Matthew Goldstein
6 months
After covering the demise of FTX and now this trial for nearly a year, I can firmly say I still don’t get the point of crypto. All these seemingly smart people investing so much energy into a product in search of a purpose. Is the only purpose to make $$$
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Matthew Goldstein
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And then: "In October 2019, $11,041,591.15 of the funds paid to the attorneys were returned to the estate bank account. Following receipt of those funds, the Estate returned the $15,500,000.00 to SCI (the bank) in satisfaction of the loan."
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Matthew Goldstein
7 years
I hear tax policy is hard too.
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
SEC Chair nominee Gary Gensler financial disclosure is out. Going through it but it does show he recently sold off a bunch of shares he had in Tesla.
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Matthew Goldstein
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Members of the CFPB advisory boards got emails this morning effectively telling them thanks for their service but the boards were being revamped. Here's line from the email: "We don’t plan on having any additional meetings until the appointment of new board and council members."
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Matthew Goldstein
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After all the reporting by us the big question remains: why would a billionaire in the prime of his life and running a publicly traded retail giant, give unfettered financial authority to a guy from NY who spent a cup of coffee working at Bear Stearns?
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Matthew Goldstein
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It’s not just Deutsche, JPM, FirstBank and Banco Popular that provided financial services for Jeffrey Epstein. The USVI is throwing out a fairly big net for bank records with these subpoenas. FYI Citi was Epstein’s main banker when he was just starting out.
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
USVI filed amended complaint charging Jeffrey Epstein co executors were “captains” of his criminal enterprise. Story to come. But see this bit from the filing
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Matthew Goldstein
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No hedge funds are down in 2016
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The former attorney general's investigation was complicated at times by the fact that Mr. Epstein had a two-decade long relationship with the Virgin Islands, both as a resident, a businessman, a political donor and other ties local officials.
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Late breaking update: Two of the three defendants in the DWAC/Trump Media insider trading case appear set to change their not guilty pleas on Wednesday
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Matthew Goldstein
2 years
@pbump Until the SPAC deal closes they are limited to how much cash they can access to build out the platform
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Matthew Goldstein
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Sen. Brown and 5 other Sen. Dems send letter to Mnuchin asking Treasury to let Fannie/Freddie to retain capital ahead of GSE reform plan.
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Matthew Goldstein
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JPMorgan’s Epstein Deal Has Open ended awards for victims unlike the Deutsche deal. Lawyers to get up to 30 pct in both deals as fees
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@AlexBerenson Children with special needs and learning disabilities who rely on in school services have lost lots of ground — especially in families who can’t afford to supplement with private servicers over zoom
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New Tesla whistleblower retained by attorney Stuart Meissner has gone to SEC with complaint that alleges the company failed to disclose theft of materials from a factory and did not "disclose Tesla's unauthorized wiretapping and hacking of Tesla employee cellphones and computers"
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Matthew Goldstein
3 years
Single source of funds to Epstein. Hmm
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Matthew Goldstein
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@AlisonFrankel @JohnJHarwood @AmandaBecker This seems like bigger news then what he said no to
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Update:Attorney General of USVI has moved to intervene in Ghislaine Maxwell's lawsuit against Epstein's estate that seeks payment of her legal fees. The AG also seeks to enforce its subpoenas against Maxwell whose bail hearing on sex trafficking charges is tomorrow in fed court.
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Matthew Goldstein
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We reported on this document before it was sealed by Judge Rakoff who rules it was an inadvertent error for the filing to be public. But in ruling the judge confirms what we reported: JPM filed numerous SARs against Jeffrey Epstein yet kept him on as a client
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Matthew Goldstein
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The $400 million FTX gave the Modulo hedge fund in the second half of last year has been sitting in plain view in a JPMorgan bank account, which ultimately is good news for FTX creditors
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Matthew Goldstein
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Over reliance on data -- like over reliance on algos -- has ruined many things and rendered relying on instinct as some quaint idea. Getting back to basics is fine with me
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Have to vent. When you have covered a story for more than 3 years and all the people have discovered Trump Media in the past week, it’s rich
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