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I know I’ve said this a few times already but this is even crazier than a movie. There’s a legitimate international conspiracy theory playing out in real life before our eyes and literally no one gives a fukk 
Epstein Thread: His brother says Barr cover up; Scumbag Alan Dershowitz asked Trump to pardon Maxwell; Epstein commits suicide! :damn:
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whatever happened to Lev and Igor?
Was she getting her back blown out?
I imagine that the court process has stalled, due to pandemic and they are both trying to work out favorable plea agreements. Maybe concerned about changes at the US Attorrneys Office, if the election changes the admin, though I think Berman is solid.
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Man a chick like that is probably asexual. Or she gets off to some shyt so wild that you couldn't even imagine.
She was probably his handler
Artist hired by Jeffrey Epstein to paint naked portraits of his underage victims | Daily Mail Online
Artist who was hired by Jeffrey Epstein to paint naked portraits of his underage victims reveals how Donald Trump ogled her and had to be ushered to another room, as pedophile said: 'No, no, no, she's not here for you'
- Maria Farmer claims Donald Trump once ogled her when he stopped by Jeffrey Epstein's New York City office, she exclusively told DailyMail.com
- She was hired by Epstein soon after she graduated from The New York Academy of Art in her early 20s, meeting Trump on the third day of working for Epstein
- Farmer said she felt like she was Trump's dinner, with Epstein having to shoo him him into the next room, saying 'No, no, no, she's not here for you'
- The 50-year-old was the first to publicly accuse Epstein of sex abuse
- Farmer spoke to DailyMail.com about the ordeal at the hands of the pedophile and his alleged procurer Ghislaine Maxwell that has affected her whole life
- She also claims Maxwell was 'best friends' with Trump's first wife Ivana
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Watching the Netflix doc, how are these dudes teflon
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Wondering if anon is really going to go in on Trump and these guys
they were also calling GRU out
they were also calling GRU out
its not even that good. that REAL info is in this thread.Watching the Netflix doc, how are these dudes teflon
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Watching the Netflix doc, how are these dudes teflon
Combination of implicating people in very high places and ties to intelligence agencies.
Watching the Netflix doc, how are these dudes teflon
White privilege and Rich fukks goes a long way, they skate the laws for a long time if your black everyone gonna be eyeballing you, and you wouldn't get away with an 8th of what epstein got, it's fukking disgusting how this degenerate and his clique was doing dirt for a long time and people at the top turned a blind eye but black weed dealers get hit with RICO laws...
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Co-executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate faces questioning under oath over extensive ties to pervert: source
Stephen Rex Brown
New York Daily News |
May 11, 2020 | 4:00 AM
Jeffrey Epstein (AP)
The co-executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate faces questioning under oath next month about his longtime ties to the pervert, a source tells the Daily News.
Darren Indyke is scheduled to be deposed by attorneys representing Epstein victims on June 22. It is perhaps the first time Indyke has been questioned under oath about his more than two decades of work as Epstein’s lawyer.
Epstein named Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn as co-executors of his estate only two days before hanging himself in his lower Manhattan cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of underage girls.
A source said the attorneys will look to grill Indyke about his possible role helping Epstein maintain his super-villain lifestyle.
“Indyke was Epstein’s in-house lawyer of the Epstein enterprise,” the source said.
The deposition will likely lead to thorny conflict of interest questions about Indyke’s status as executor of Epstein’s $634 million estate and possible witness to alleged crimes committed by the financier.
Indyke is expected to be grilled about his alleged role handling paperwork for sham marriages between Epstein victims, the source said.
He’ll also be questioned about whether he has any knowledge of surveillance footage from inside Epstein properties that has seemingly disappeared, the source said.
Surveillance footage from inside Epstein properties, like his Manhattan mansion, has seemingly disappeared. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
Indyke will be asked about whether he helped secure living arrangements for Epstein victims. Public records show the 55-year-old Long Island native had a former address at 301 E. 66th St., where many Epstein victims, employees and guests also stayed.
He can expect questions about whether he has any knowledge of VIPs and young girls on Epstein’s plane, which was nicknamed the “Lolita Express.” He’ll also be quizzed about his involvement managing Epstein’s payroll — including any role he may have had in payments to employees after the pervert was arrested last year, the source said.
An alleged Epstein victim claims in a lawsuit against the estate that Epstein’s “long-time New York attorney” arranged the legal paperwork for her sham marriage in 2013 to another Epstein victim who was not a U.S. citizen. The suit does not identify the attorney.
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“What you’re describing is a conflict of interest,” probate attorney Jeffrey Weinstein said.
“He can’t be a representative of the estate if he’s a witness to charges that may affect the estate financially.”
Decorative faces are seen outside of Jeffrey Epstein 71st Street Manhattan residence. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
The Daily News exclusively reported in March that Epstein’s eastern European girlfriend at the time of his death, Karyna Shuliak, married an Epstein victim in 2013 and finalized a divorce after his arrest. Shuliak and the woman divorced in July 2019, shortly after the pervert was arrested.
Epstein appears to have been Indyke’s client for his entire career, according to an August 2019 Yahoo Finance article. Indyke’s name appears on documents linked to Epstein’s charities, properties, investments and business dealings.
Epstein filed his will in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The estate is seeking court approval there for an independent claims program that would allow victims to receive compensation for the pervert’s abuse and keep their cases out of court. Approval of the program has been tied up in court due to the opposition of the Virgin Islands Attorney General. In the meantime, victims’ lawsuits against the Epstein estate are proceeding into a phase in which both sides exchange evidence.
Emails to Indyke’s criminal defense attorney and an attorney for the estate were not returned.
Co-executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate faces questioning under oath over extensive ties to pervert: source
Stephen Rex Brown
New York Daily News |
May 11, 2020 | 4:00 AM
Jeffrey Epstein (AP)
The co-executor of Jeffrey Epstein’s estate faces questioning under oath next month about his longtime ties to the pervert, a source tells the Daily News.
Darren Indyke is scheduled to be deposed by attorneys representing Epstein victims on June 22. It is perhaps the first time Indyke has been questioned under oath about his more than two decades of work as Epstein’s lawyer.
Epstein named Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn as co-executors of his estate only two days before hanging himself in his lower Manhattan cell while awaiting trial for sex trafficking of underage girls.
A source said the attorneys will look to grill Indyke about his possible role helping Epstein maintain his super-villain lifestyle.
“Indyke was Epstein’s in-house lawyer of the Epstein enterprise,” the source said.
The deposition will likely lead to thorny conflict of interest questions about Indyke’s status as executor of Epstein’s $634 million estate and possible witness to alleged crimes committed by the financier.
Indyke is expected to be grilled about his alleged role handling paperwork for sham marriages between Epstein victims, the source said.
He’ll also be questioned about whether he has any knowledge of surveillance footage from inside Epstein properties that has seemingly disappeared, the source said.
Surveillance footage from inside Epstein properties, like his Manhattan mansion, has seemingly disappeared. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
Indyke will be asked about whether he helped secure living arrangements for Epstein victims. Public records show the 55-year-old Long Island native had a former address at 301 E. 66th St., where many Epstein victims, employees and guests also stayed.
He can expect questions about whether he has any knowledge of VIPs and young girls on Epstein’s plane, which was nicknamed the “Lolita Express.” He’ll also be quizzed about his involvement managing Epstein’s payroll — including any role he may have had in payments to employees after the pervert was arrested last year, the source said.
An alleged Epstein victim claims in a lawsuit against the estate that Epstein’s “long-time New York attorney” arranged the legal paperwork for her sham marriage in 2013 to another Epstein victim who was not a U.S. citizen. The suit does not identify the attorney.
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“What you’re describing is a conflict of interest,” probate attorney Jeffrey Weinstein said.
“He can’t be a representative of the estate if he’s a witness to charges that may affect the estate financially.”
Decorative faces are seen outside of Jeffrey Epstein 71st Street Manhattan residence. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/for New York Daily News)
The Daily News exclusively reported in March that Epstein’s eastern European girlfriend at the time of his death, Karyna Shuliak, married an Epstein victim in 2013 and finalized a divorce after his arrest. Shuliak and the woman divorced in July 2019, shortly after the pervert was arrested.
Epstein appears to have been Indyke’s client for his entire career, according to an August 2019 Yahoo Finance article. Indyke’s name appears on documents linked to Epstein’s charities, properties, investments and business dealings.
Epstein filed his will in the U.S. Virgin Islands. The estate is seeking court approval there for an independent claims program that would allow victims to receive compensation for the pervert’s abuse and keep their cases out of court. Approval of the program has been tied up in court due to the opposition of the Virgin Islands Attorney General. In the meantime, victims’ lawsuits against the Epstein estate are proceeding into a phase in which both sides exchange evidence.
Emails to Indyke’s criminal defense attorney and an attorney for the estate were not returned.
Attorney General Sees Too Much Secrecy in Epstein Estate
Attorney General Sees Too Much Secrecy in Epstein Estate
The top prosecutor in the U.S. Virgin Islands says the estate needs to provide more detail about Jeffrey Epstein’s finances and is insisting on clauses that could protect others from wrongdoing.
By Matthew Goldstein and Steve Eder
April 27, 2020
“We have a lot of concerns with respect to the transparency of the estate,” said Denise N. George, the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
Some of the same furtive techniques that Jeffrey Epstein employed in life are showing up in the litigation over dividing up the wealth he left behind when he died.
There are mysterious companies, lingering nondisclosure agreements and contractual clauses that some lawyers fear could protect anyone who took part in Mr. Epstein’s wrongdoing.
The estate’s lawyers say they have a plan to fairly distribute money to dozens of women who have accused Mr. Epstein of sexually abusing them as teenagers. But the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Mr. Epstein built a complex web of corporate entities, says Mr. Epstein’s money is still buying silence.
And in the middle is a fortune estimated at well over a half-billion dollars.
“We have a lot of concerns with respect to the transparency of the estate and its finances and the accounting of the estate,” the attorney general, Denise N. George, said in an interview last month.
Ms. George filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit against the estate in January, roughly five months after Mr. Epstein committed suicide while being held in federal custody in Manhattan after his arrest on sex trafficking charges. She said she sued to protect the interests of Mr. Epstein’s accusers and recoup some of the money that Mr. Epstein made during his two decades in the Virgin Islands.
The estate has insisted it is acting in the best interest of Mr. Epstein’s accusers. But it has also provided an incomplete accounting of his finances, according to records reviewed by The New York Times.
At least one business — IGO Company L.L.C., a corporate entity established by Mr. Epstein in December 2006 — was left out of the estate’s court filings. The company, which lists Mr. Epstein as its sole owner, was still active and in good standing as of Monday, according to a U.S. Virgin Islands government site.
Lawyers for the estate did not respond to a request for comment. The co-executors of the estate are Darren Indyke, a lawyer, and Richard Kahn, an accountant. Both men worked closely with Mr. Epstein for many years and were listed as officers for some of his businesses.
Jeffrey Epstein built a complex web of corporate entities in the Virgin Islands.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
The American Yacht Harbor club on St. Thomas.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
Much of the fighting between the estate and Ms. George’s office involves a plan to establish a victims’ compensation fund, which would allow accusers to receive payments from the estate without a potentially costly court case. The estate’s representatives say the proposed fund — which would be set up with the help of the specialist who ran the compensation program for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — would allow accusers to receive money quickly and privately.
But Ms. George said the estate wanted to attach too many strings to those payments.
On April 7, Ms. George’s office told the probate court handling Mr. Epstein’s will that she and the estate had reached an impasse over the estate’s demand that victims who take part in the fund agree to a broad release that would bar them from suing any party “whether they participated negligently or intentionally in wrongdoing themselves.”
To Ms. George, the estate’s conduct was a reminder of the legal maneuvers that surrounded Mr. Epstein’s guilty plea 12 years ago to soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida. In 2007, federal prosecutors agreed to a wide-ranging nonprosecution agreement that covered Mr. Epstein’s named and unnamed co-conspirators. (A federal appeals court this month rejected a legal challengebrought by one of his victims to the agreement.)
Ms. George’s office said the estate now wanted to “secure similarly broad protection for Epstein’s compatriots-in-crime from their victims.”
Lawyers for the estate reject that argument. In their response, they said Ms. George had mischaracterized the situation and said two lawyers representing several accusers were ready to move forward with the fund. The estate’s lawyers contend the liability release is “modeled on releases employed in multiple voluntary compensation programs.” Its intent, they say, is to make sure a victim does not double-dip by getting compensation from the fund and then suing an individual affiliated with the estate who might be entitled to be legally reimbursed by the estate.
The particulars of how Mr. Epstein made his millions have long been a mystery, in particular after his 2008 conviction. Financial filings the estate has made so far have raised as many questions as they have answered.
In January, the estate filed a required report that, along with routine transactions to pay bills and other expenses, showed the estate had transferred more than $12 million to Southern Country International, a little-known private bank Mr. Epstein had established in 2014.
The magistrate judge overseeing the probate of the will, Carolyn Hermon-Purcell, questioned the estate’s lawyers about the transfers and asked for a fuller accounting. The estate has not yet filed an explanation; the territory’s courts have granted blanket extensions because of the coronavirus outbreak.
But according to four people familiar with the matter, the estate’s $12 million payment to the bank involved preparations for Mr. Epstein’s criminal case. Mr. Epstein used the bank to pay a $12 million retainer fee to the criminal defense attorney Reid Weingarten, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter has not been made public.
In mid-December, Mr. Weingarten’s law firm, Steptoe & Johnson, returned the unused portion of that retainer — roughly $11 million, according to the estate’s first quarterly filing. The next day the estate sent that money to the bank.
What happened to the money in Southern Country after that is not clear; the estate reported the bank had a year-end balance of just $500,000.
Southern Country is an unusual kind of bank: an international banking entity, which is limited to conducting business for customers overseas. Mr. Epstein was approved for his license in 2014, but the bank had not commenced doing business as of April 2018, according to a letter the bank sent to its regulator.
The now-shuttered Southern Trust, which is valued at $234 million.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
According to two people briefed on the matter, Mr. Epstein began to move money to Southern Country last spring after Deutsche Bank, his longtime bank, decided to sever all ties with him in response to a series of stories about Mr. Epstein by The Miami Herald.
Ms. George’s office is small compared with her mainland counterparts, and she has bulked up its resources by hiring a forensic accountant and outside lawyers with Motley Rice, a large plaintiffs’ litigation firm. But it has been active.
In recent weeks, Ms. George’s office sent a subpoena seeking bank records for Mr. Epstein’s businesses in the Virgin Islands, according to two people briefed on the matter. She also subpoenaed some records from the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, the government agency that granted lucrative tax benefits to Mr. Epstein’s companies, said Tracy Bhola, an authority lawyer.
According to one person familiar with the matter, Ms. George’s office has also made a demand for information from Mr. Epstein's former girlfriend and business associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who recently filed a lawsuit against the estateasking it to cover her legal fees for any claims brought against her by his accusers.
Ms. George’s office has also reached out to some of Mr. Epstein’s former employees in the Virgin Islands. She said her office was trying to navigate around nondisclosure agreements that Mr. Epstein had signed with many of his them. She said the estate should commit to releasing the employees from those agreements.
“Just the existence of an N.D.A. casts a shadow or chilling effect on anyone speaking freely,” she said.
While many of Mr. Epstein’s companies — including IGO Company L.L.C. — continue to exist on paper, there is little left of their physical operations.
Those include Southern Trust, once Mr. Epstein’s main business venture, which generated $300 million in profits in just six years. Mr. Epstein had said it was a DNA research firm, although Ms. George said her office had found no evidence it engaged in that kind of work. Southern Trust alone is valued at $234 million, and the estate has yet to disclose where most of its assets are being held.
For months after his death, employees still showed up at the company’s office in the American Yacht Harbor club on St. Thomas. That stopped in late February, and by the start of last month the office doors were secured with a padlock.
Matthew Goldstein covers Wall Street and white collar crime and housing issues. @mattgoldstein26
Steve Eder is an investigative reporter, writing about the federal government under President Trump, as well as his personal businesses. He has previously covered the 2016 presidential campaign and wrote for the Sports desk. @steveeder
A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2020, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Virgin Islands Seeks More Transparency From Epstein Estate. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe
Attorney General Sees Too Much Secrecy in Epstein Estate
The top prosecutor in the U.S. Virgin Islands says the estate needs to provide more detail about Jeffrey Epstein’s finances and is insisting on clauses that could protect others from wrongdoing.
By Matthew Goldstein and Steve Eder
April 27, 2020
“We have a lot of concerns with respect to the transparency of the estate,” said Denise N. George, the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
Some of the same furtive techniques that Jeffrey Epstein employed in life are showing up in the litigation over dividing up the wealth he left behind when he died.
There are mysterious companies, lingering nondisclosure agreements and contractual clauses that some lawyers fear could protect anyone who took part in Mr. Epstein’s wrongdoing.
The estate’s lawyers say they have a plan to fairly distribute money to dozens of women who have accused Mr. Epstein of sexually abusing them as teenagers. But the attorney general of the U.S. Virgin Islands, where Mr. Epstein built a complex web of corporate entities, says Mr. Epstein’s money is still buying silence.
And in the middle is a fortune estimated at well over a half-billion dollars.
“We have a lot of concerns with respect to the transparency of the estate and its finances and the accounting of the estate,” the attorney general, Denise N. George, said in an interview last month.
Ms. George filed a civil forfeiture lawsuit against the estate in January, roughly five months after Mr. Epstein committed suicide while being held in federal custody in Manhattan after his arrest on sex trafficking charges. She said she sued to protect the interests of Mr. Epstein’s accusers and recoup some of the money that Mr. Epstein made during his two decades in the Virgin Islands.
The estate has insisted it is acting in the best interest of Mr. Epstein’s accusers. But it has also provided an incomplete accounting of his finances, according to records reviewed by The New York Times.
At least one business — IGO Company L.L.C., a corporate entity established by Mr. Epstein in December 2006 — was left out of the estate’s court filings. The company, which lists Mr. Epstein as its sole owner, was still active and in good standing as of Monday, according to a U.S. Virgin Islands government site.
Lawyers for the estate did not respond to a request for comment. The co-executors of the estate are Darren Indyke, a lawyer, and Richard Kahn, an accountant. Both men worked closely with Mr. Epstein for many years and were listed as officers for some of his businesses.
Jeffrey Epstein built a complex web of corporate entities in the Virgin Islands.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
The American Yacht Harbor club on St. Thomas.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
Much of the fighting between the estate and Ms. George’s office involves a plan to establish a victims’ compensation fund, which would allow accusers to receive payments from the estate without a potentially costly court case. The estate’s representatives say the proposed fund — which would be set up with the help of the specialist who ran the compensation program for victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks — would allow accusers to receive money quickly and privately.
But Ms. George said the estate wanted to attach too many strings to those payments.
On April 7, Ms. George’s office told the probate court handling Mr. Epstein’s will that she and the estate had reached an impasse over the estate’s demand that victims who take part in the fund agree to a broad release that would bar them from suing any party “whether they participated negligently or intentionally in wrongdoing themselves.”
To Ms. George, the estate’s conduct was a reminder of the legal maneuvers that surrounded Mr. Epstein’s guilty plea 12 years ago to soliciting prostitution from a minor in Florida. In 2007, federal prosecutors agreed to a wide-ranging nonprosecution agreement that covered Mr. Epstein’s named and unnamed co-conspirators. (A federal appeals court this month rejected a legal challengebrought by one of his victims to the agreement.)
Ms. George’s office said the estate now wanted to “secure similarly broad protection for Epstein’s compatriots-in-crime from their victims.”
Lawyers for the estate reject that argument. In their response, they said Ms. George had mischaracterized the situation and said two lawyers representing several accusers were ready to move forward with the fund. The estate’s lawyers contend the liability release is “modeled on releases employed in multiple voluntary compensation programs.” Its intent, they say, is to make sure a victim does not double-dip by getting compensation from the fund and then suing an individual affiliated with the estate who might be entitled to be legally reimbursed by the estate.
The particulars of how Mr. Epstein made his millions have long been a mystery, in particular after his 2008 conviction. Financial filings the estate has made so far have raised as many questions as they have answered.
In January, the estate filed a required report that, along with routine transactions to pay bills and other expenses, showed the estate had transferred more than $12 million to Southern Country International, a little-known private bank Mr. Epstein had established in 2014.
The magistrate judge overseeing the probate of the will, Carolyn Hermon-Purcell, questioned the estate’s lawyers about the transfers and asked for a fuller accounting. The estate has not yet filed an explanation; the territory’s courts have granted blanket extensions because of the coronavirus outbreak.
But according to four people familiar with the matter, the estate’s $12 million payment to the bank involved preparations for Mr. Epstein’s criminal case. Mr. Epstein used the bank to pay a $12 million retainer fee to the criminal defense attorney Reid Weingarten, according to the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the matter has not been made public.
In mid-December, Mr. Weingarten’s law firm, Steptoe & Johnson, returned the unused portion of that retainer — roughly $11 million, according to the estate’s first quarterly filing. The next day the estate sent that money to the bank.
What happened to the money in Southern Country after that is not clear; the estate reported the bank had a year-end balance of just $500,000.
Southern Country is an unusual kind of bank: an international banking entity, which is limited to conducting business for customers overseas. Mr. Epstein was approved for his license in 2014, but the bank had not commenced doing business as of April 2018, according to a letter the bank sent to its regulator.
The now-shuttered Southern Trust, which is valued at $234 million.Gabriella N. Baez for The New York Times
According to two people briefed on the matter, Mr. Epstein began to move money to Southern Country last spring after Deutsche Bank, his longtime bank, decided to sever all ties with him in response to a series of stories about Mr. Epstein by The Miami Herald.
Ms. George’s office is small compared with her mainland counterparts, and she has bulked up its resources by hiring a forensic accountant and outside lawyers with Motley Rice, a large plaintiffs’ litigation firm. But it has been active.
In recent weeks, Ms. George’s office sent a subpoena seeking bank records for Mr. Epstein’s businesses in the Virgin Islands, according to two people briefed on the matter. She also subpoenaed some records from the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority, the government agency that granted lucrative tax benefits to Mr. Epstein’s companies, said Tracy Bhola, an authority lawyer.
According to one person familiar with the matter, Ms. George’s office has also made a demand for information from Mr. Epstein's former girlfriend and business associate Ghislaine Maxwell, who recently filed a lawsuit against the estateasking it to cover her legal fees for any claims brought against her by his accusers.
Ms. George’s office has also reached out to some of Mr. Epstein’s former employees in the Virgin Islands. She said her office was trying to navigate around nondisclosure agreements that Mr. Epstein had signed with many of his them. She said the estate should commit to releasing the employees from those agreements.
“Just the existence of an N.D.A. casts a shadow or chilling effect on anyone speaking freely,” she said.
While many of Mr. Epstein’s companies — including IGO Company L.L.C. — continue to exist on paper, there is little left of their physical operations.
Those include Southern Trust, once Mr. Epstein’s main business venture, which generated $300 million in profits in just six years. Mr. Epstein had said it was a DNA research firm, although Ms. George said her office had found no evidence it engaged in that kind of work. Southern Trust alone is valued at $234 million, and the estate has yet to disclose where most of its assets are being held.
For months after his death, employees still showed up at the company’s office in the American Yacht Harbor club on St. Thomas. That stopped in late February, and by the start of last month the office doors were secured with a padlock.
Matthew Goldstein covers Wall Street and white collar crime and housing issues. @mattgoldstein26
Steve Eder is an investigative reporter, writing about the federal government under President Trump, as well as his personal businesses. He has previously covered the 2016 presidential campaign and wrote for the Sports desk. @steveeder
A version of this article appears in print on April 28, 2020, Section B, Page 3 of the New York edition with the headline: U.S. Virgin Islands Seeks More Transparency From Epstein Estate. Order Reprints | Today’s Paper | Subscribe