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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
(154 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
(24,550 posts)Not even a f***ing hot war can stop it from being uncovered.
Amaryllis
(11,183 posts)usonian
(24,550 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
(131,370 posts)TygrBright
(21,342 posts)RetiredParatrooper
(143 posts)Just to be sure.
TygrBright
(21,342 posts)KewlKat
(5,809 posts)3Hotdogs
(15,253 posts)Ain't nuthin gonna be done with it until Anal Fistula croaks. And maybe not even then.
LiberalArkie
(19,614 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(10,884 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
(19,614 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.
erronis
(23,424 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.
Amaryllis
(11,183 posts)mercuryblues
(16,316 posts)My guess is the orange glowworm got a hefty amount of it.
ancianita
(43,216 posts)purr-rat beauty
(1,170 posts)The true Deep State
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
(543 posts)wnylib
(25,570 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
(13,400 posts)Trump would have been all over any easy and corrupt way to make money.
TommyT139
(2,293 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?
malaise
(294,991 posts)Huge
yellow dahlia
(5,447 posts)Wonder Why
(6,764 posts)Those murdered by ICE also deserve it posthumously.
yellow dahlia
(5,447 posts)oldmanlynn
(810 posts)Bluetus
(2,613 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
(20,831 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?
Exp
(875 posts)Farmer-Rick
(12,589 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.
Clouds Passing
(7,727 posts)BlueMTexpat
(15,671 posts)Not a name that I expected to see!
niyad
(131,370 posts)when I saw his correspondence with that monster, and now this. His whole life's work and reputation deservedly down the drain.