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Nevilledog

(54,932 posts)
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 04:46 PM 17 hrs ago

"I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched."

https://randallscott25-star.github.io/epstein-forensic-finance/narratives/19_grand_opus_narrative.html

I started this project because the documents were public and everybody was reading them. One file at a time, one name at a time. I wanted to do more than read them. I wanted to follow the money — across every wire, every shell, every bank — and find out where it all led. A shell upon a shell inside a shell.

Thousands of pages of wire transfer records, bank statements, CHIPS and SWIFT logs, canceled checks, and SAR narratives — all released by the Department of Justice and various court proceedings. The raw material for a forensic audit was sitting on government servers. So I built one.

Over the course of this project, I processed 10 distinct payment types across 14 financial institutions. The publication ledger holds 10,964 unique transactions totaling $2.146 billion (Unverified). That figure breaks down into four tiers: $1.61 billion in wire transfers, CHIPS, and SWIFT transactions; $343 million in bank statement entries; $7.6 million in checks and cash instruments; and $185 million in contextual document references.

The first three tiers alone total $1.96 billion. That's 104.4% of the aggregate values reported in the banks' own SARs. The data doesn't just corroborate the suspicious activity reports. It slightly exceeds them.

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"I Audited $2.1 Billion in Epstein Financial Records. Here's Every Name the Money Touched." (Original Post) Nevilledog 17 hrs ago OP
Wow. Another Jackalope 16 hrs ago #1
The Trump-Epstein sex, blackmail and money-laundering criminal operation is the biggest in recorded history. usonian 16 hrs ago #2
Dont forget drug trafficking and prostitution. Amaryllis 16 hrs ago #4
I think back to Laverne and Shirley usonian 16 hrs ago #6
Guy should get a Pulitzer. n/t TygrBright 16 hrs ago #3
And a security company RetiredParatrooper 16 hrs ago #7
LOL, true dat! n/t TygrBright 13 hrs ago #24
The question now is, Will anyone do anything with all this information? KewlKat 16 hrs ago #5
Authorities have probably had this info for years. 3Hotdogs 16 hrs ago #10
Because of the income level. The lords in the U.S. are more protected than the Lords in England LiberalArkie 15 hrs ago #17
Well, they tweaked our entire society to favor themselves. OldBaldy1701E 1 hr ago #30
I think it is strange when people talk about the US is controlled by oligarchs, when it was founded by oligarchs LiberalArkie 30 min ago #34
This is an amazing report. The author carefully documents his findings/methods on github erronis 16 hrs ago #8
Senator Wyden blasts DEA, asks why 'major' investigation into Epstein never led to charges (drugs,prostitution, money) Amaryllis 16 hrs ago #9
To me, the big question is where did all that unaccounted money go? mercuryblues 16 hrs ago #11
Important. Thank you. Bookmarking. ancianita 15 hrs ago #12
That explains it purr-rat beauty 15 hrs ago #13
I just did a somewhat interesting analysis of his shell entities jmowreader 15 hrs ago #14
John Barron. ColoringFool 15 hrs ago #18
I am not a financial type of person. wnylib 14 hrs ago #19
Bingo Ferrets are Cool 10 hrs ago #28
Trump has used John Barron as an alias. He may have used another alias we don't know about. Lonestarblue 33 min ago #33
Maybe Trump's name is in unreleased documents? TommyT139 8 hrs ago #29
K & R malaise 15 hrs ago #15
So huge! yellow dahlia 14 hrs ago #20
That person deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest reward in the country. Wonder Why 15 hrs ago #16
Thank you for sharing - important stuff! yellow dahlia 14 hrs ago #21
Where is trump? Are they still hiding his involvement oldmanlynn 14 hrs ago #22
We know that he did some of th emoney laundering with real estate transactions Bluetus 12 hrs ago #27
Thank you for posting. Unbelievable, just unfing-believable. Joinfortmill 13 hrs ago #23
Impressive DET 13 hrs ago #25
Holy SMOKES! K&R !!!!!!!!!!! Exp 13 hrs ago #26
Well that sent me down a rabbit hole Farmer-Rick 1 hr ago #31
Nutlick at the core of this Clouds Passing 35 min ago #32
WTF! Noam Chomsky!! BlueMTexpat 27 min ago #35
How do you know a link is safe? I'm wary at this point.... live love laugh 6 min ago #36

Another Jackalope

(154 posts)
1. Wow.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:26 PM
16 hrs ago

I am NOT a money guy - columns of figures chase me right off - but this made my eyes bug out. I've never seen a blueprint of a money laundering machine before. Just wow.

usonian

(24,550 posts)
2. The Trump-Epstein sex, blackmail and money-laundering criminal operation is the biggest in recorded history.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:30 PM
16 hrs ago

Not even a f***ing hot war can stop it from being uncovered.

usonian

(24,550 posts)
6. I think back to Laverne and Shirley
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 05:52 PM
16 hrs ago

Like, who can keep up with the worst criminals in history?

Give us any chance - we'll take it
Read us any law - we'll break it
We're gonna beat it out of you
Doin' it our way

No one's gonna turn us back now
Cause we'll stab them in the back now
We're gonna take it all from you
Doin' it our way

In short, the Libertarian Four Freedoms.




source: https://www.lyricsondemand.com/tvthemes/laverneandshirleylyrics.html

3Hotdogs

(15,253 posts)
10. Authorities have probably had this info for years.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:09 PM
16 hrs ago

Ain't nuthin gonna be done with it until Anal Fistula croaks. And maybe not even then.

LiberalArkie

(19,612 posts)
17. Because of the income level. The lords in the U.S. are more protected than the Lords in England
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:41 PM
15 hrs ago

OldBaldy1701E

(10,884 posts)
30. Well, they tweaked our entire society to favor themselves.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 08:50 AM
1 hr ago

But, let's keep on using that same corrupted system to try and fix the issues with the tweaked and corrupted system.

That makes perfect sense.

LiberalArkie

(19,612 posts)
34. I think it is strange when people talk about the US is controlled by oligarchs, when it was founded by oligarchs
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:50 AM
30 min ago

but is moving to a plutocracy.

What is the Difference Between Oligarchy and Plutocracy - Pediaa.Com
Plutocracy and oligarchy are both forms of governance characterized by the concentration of power in a small group, but they differ in their basis of power:
Oligarchy refers to rule by a small group of privileged individuals, regardless of their wealth or status.

Plutocracy, on the other hand, specifically denotes a system where power is held by a small group of wealthy individuals.

Essentially, plutocracy is a subset of oligarchy, as it focuses on the wealth of the ruling minority.


In summary, while both systems involve a small ruling class, plutocracy is centered around wealth, whereas oligarchy can include any small group in power.

erronis

(23,424 posts)
8. This is an amazing report. The author carefully documents his findings/methods on github
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:03 PM
16 hrs ago

as a way to safeguard and distribute the information.

It is very easy for anyone (you, me) to pull all of his material to your local storage (or your cloud) by doing a git fork from the repository at https://github.com/randallscott25-star/epstein-forensic-finance

Github is owned by Microsoft and I can see that company agreeing to take this information down on a request from the empire or powerful individuals (Bill Gates?) Copies in the wild will prevent them from covering it up.

mercuryblues

(16,316 posts)
11. To me, the big question is where did all that unaccounted money go?
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:15 PM
16 hrs ago

My guess is the orange glowworm got a hefty amount of it.

jmowreader

(53,060 posts)
14. I just did a somewhat interesting analysis of his shell entities
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:32 PM
15 hrs ago

The eight shell entities at the center of Epstein's money laundering scheme are listed, along with their imbalance in inflow and outflow, below:

More inflow than outflow:
Southern Trust Company: $49.1M
Southern Financial: $412.3M
2017 Caterpillar Trust: $15.0M
Total imbalance: $476.4M

More outflow than inflow:
Haze Trust: $79.9M
Plan D: $9.5M
Gratitude America: $31.0M
Jeepers Inc: $155.6M
BV70: $101.5M
Total imbalance: $376.6M

Unaccounted-for money: $99.8M

Here's what I'm thinking: Entity A took in the dirty cash. An "Entity B" not listed here picked it up and moved it to "Entity C," and when Entity C gets rid of the money it's clean, pressed,. starched and has nice crisp creases in it.

Somewhere between Entity A and Entity C, someone skimmed damn near $100 million. I suspect it was Epstein.

This throws a huge wrench into the "Trump had Epstein murdered to keep him from telling the feds who Trump was playing Hide the Mushroom with" theory. If Epstein stole $100 million from people he was laundering money for, there are plenty of people with both the motivation and the means to have him killed in jail. It's still thoroughly possible that Trump is the responsible individual but he's no longer the only candidate.

The one name I don't see In this report, and kinda expect to, is Donald Trump. How many layers of insulation did Trump have between himself and Epstein's network?

wnylib

(25,569 posts)
19. I am not a financial type of person.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 07:36 PM
14 hrs ago

So my guess is based on personality types and their behavior.

I think that you don't see Trump's name because he is a two bit player trying to hob nob with pros. He's like a Chihuahua trying to run with a pack of Rottweilers, constantly yapping to sound tough and important.

Trump's association with this pack is/was mostly as a begger getting bailed out from his financial failures. Along the way he learned to capitalize on his tendency to fail, using failures for benefits like tax write offs. We know that he had financial dealings with Deutsche Bank, which is named in the OP analysis. He might have done some minor laundering for the big guys through his Trump corporation.

Mostly, he was/is owned by the big time criminals due to financial dependence on them. My guess is that they decided to back him in becoming leader of the powerful US where his talent for melodramatic theatrical cons were/are useful to them on promoting their agendas.





Lonestarblue

(13,400 posts)
33. Trump has used John Barron as an alias. He may have used another alias we don't know about.
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:47 AM
33 min ago

Trump would have been all over any easy and corrupt way to make money.

TommyT139

(2,293 posts)
29. Maybe Trump's name is in unreleased documents?
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 02:14 AM
8 hrs ago

This gentleman did the analysis on what was made public. Is it likely that not all of the financial papers were released, or that there simply are gaps in what is present in the whole collection?

But then if so, how would the author have been able to put as much together as he did?

Wonder Why

(6,764 posts)
16. That person deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest reward in the country.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 06:37 PM
15 hrs ago

Those murdered by ICE also deserve it posthumously.

Bluetus

(2,613 posts)
27. We know that he did some of th emoney laundering with real estate transactions
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 09:31 PM
12 hrs ago

They wouldn't necessarily be in his name if he received the payments at arm's length. Plus he has a million corporations.

Nonetheless, every one of these transactions should be investigated.

Joinfortmill

(20,830 posts)
23. Thank you for posting. Unbelievable, just unfing-believable.
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:31 PM
13 hrs ago

The more we learn, the more questions arise. The amount of money changing hands was unfathomable. Hundreds of millions of dollars moving back and forth from banks, to trusts, to individuals. What was Epstein actually doing?

DET

(2,463 posts)
25. Impressive
Sat Feb 28, 2026, 08:49 PM
13 hrs ago

Excellent presentation, easy to follow even for a financial dunce like me.

Why hasn’t this kind of analysis been done before, especially if the underlying data is publicly available?

Farmer-Rick

(12,589 posts)
31. Well that sent me down a rabbit hole
Sun Mar 1, 2026, 09:11 AM
1 hr ago

That Debra Black along with her money bags husband Leon were very busy little criminals, prospering from child abuse.

Behind every great fortune is a great crime. Debra and Leon Black made big money off the pedos and the children.

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