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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"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.htmlI 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.
*snip*
Another Jackalope
(157 posts)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
(24,570 posts)Not even a f***ing hot war can stop it from being uncovered.
Amaryllis
(11,185 posts)usonian
(24,570 posts)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.

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niyad
(131,409 posts)Funny and entertaining when a couple of female commoners do it.
HELL ON EARTH when the broad-based victimization its engendered when allowed to play out on a frighteningly large reality.
TygrBright
(21,342 posts)RetiredParatrooper
(143 posts)Just to be sure.
TygrBright
(21,342 posts)KewlKat
(5,809 posts)3Hotdogs
(15,255 posts)Ain't nuthin gonna be done with it until Anal Fistula croaks. And maybe not even then.
LiberalArkie
(19,617 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,890 posts)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
(19,617 posts)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.
OldBaldy1701E
(10,890 posts)It is why I always mention wealth when I say 'oligarchy', so that one can understand which aspect of oligarchy that I am referring to.
I would also point out that, in our society, being privileged comes from having wealth and status. I am not really aware of any other way to be 'privileged' in the modern U.S.A..
LiberalArkie
(19,617 posts)England because they did not want to pay the crown the taxes for such things as roads and schools and such things.
That is why the "Boston Tea Party" was such a big thing in British Colonial America.
NJCher
(42,934 posts)if they had this info for years, why has Wyden consistently asked for documents? He's the follow the money guy in Congress. As outspoken as he's been, someone would have tipped him off to the availability of financial documents.
erronis
(23,438 posts)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.
Attilatheblond
(8,637 posts)Copies in the wild are essential for this kind of information. The War Lords will be taking this down daily.
Amaryllis
(11,185 posts)mercuryblues
(16,322 posts)My guess is the orange glowworm got a hefty amount of it.
ancianita
(43,226 posts)purr-rat beauty
(1,170 posts)The true Deep State
Attilatheblond
(8,637 posts)cuz we live in very dark ages and governments are just window dressing
jmowreader
(53,060 posts)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?
ColoringFool
(548 posts)wnylib
(25,594 posts)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.
Ferrets are Cool
(22,731 posts)Lonestarblue
(13,403 posts)Trump would have been all over any easy and corrupt way to make money.
wnylib
(25,594 posts)himself and everyone else that he is a powerful winner.
He knows the people in Epstein's circle, and has had dealings with them, but I think that he is not smart and successful enough to be a big player among them.
TommyT139
(2,296 posts)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?
k55f5r
(514 posts)Nothing for free. Nothing.
calimary
(89,607 posts)It wasnt listed - at least anywhere that I looked.
Conveniently enough.
questionseverything
(11,721 posts)I imagine the hundred million was his pay for laundrying the billion
malaise
(295,012 posts)Huge
yellow dahlia
(5,455 posts)Wonder Why
(6,768 posts)Those murdered by ICE also deserve it posthumously.
yellow dahlia
(5,455 posts)oldmanlynn
(810 posts)Bluetus
(2,616 posts)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
(20,843 posts)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)Excellent presentation, easy to follow even for a financial dunce like me.
Why hasnt this kind of analysis been done before, especially if the underlying data is publicly available?
My guesses:
1) extensive time commitment to do the analysis and enter it into spreadsheets
2) ability to do such an analysis: what legislator would be able to train an analyst? And furthermore, where would they get the money to do so?
That's just for starters. Other reasons might occur to me.
Exp
(878 posts)Farmer-Rick
(12,590 posts)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.
Nevilledog
(54,934 posts)Clouds Passing
(7,732 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,674 posts)Not a name that I expected to see!
niyad
(131,409 posts)when I saw his correspondence with that monster, and now this. His whole life's work and reputation deservedly down the drain.
It just lowered a big icky black cloud over his name, lifes work, AND reputation!
I guess that old joke about we know what you are. Now were just haggling over the price becomes all too real (once AGAIN, dammit!!!).
niyad
(131,409 posts)of women. . ." destroyed the last iota of respect I might have retained for his work.
BlueMTexpat
(15,674 posts)that remark. Now I'll be thoroughly revetting!
niyad
(131,409 posts)The entire artticle was a real eye-opener, as were several others I read when I googled "chomsky epstein relationship".
BlueMTexpat
(15,674 posts)niyad
(131,409 posts)Epstein provided investment or other financial services to many people, I believe including Chomsky. No one has suggested that Chomsky took part in any sexual or illegal activities.
niyad
(131,409 posts)The Guardian article from Feb 3 of this year by Ramon Antonio Vargas, detailing their friendship up to epstein's death, "Newly released files show close relationship between comsky and epstein". And consider chomsky's comments comments about the "hysteria that has developed about the abuse of women. . .", amoung other misogynist remarks. It is quite clear from the exchanges quoted in the article that their clearly close relationship involved more than financial advice.
BlueMTexpat
(15,674 posts)But I was still shocked to see his name!
live love laugh
(16,303 posts)Attilatheblond
(8,637 posts)use a public access computer and try it there.