Articles
Narratives drawn from the document archive — every claim footnoted to source
The Ghost Network
5 articles in this series — ordered by series position
Twelve Shell Companies
One man. Four jurisdictions. A dozen entities — each with one job. This wasn't wealth management. It was engineering.
6,536 Packages
Between 1999 and 2015, Epstein's operation shipped 6,536 FedEx packages — currency from Deutsche Bank, checks to MIT, sculptures, JPMorgan documents, and fresh sushi to Manhattan. Then the police knocked. And the pipeline went quiet.
$75 Million in the Sky
Four aircraft. Four shell companies. And a $22.5 million wire from an entity that Deutsche Bank couldn't find on the internet.
The $50 Million Question
Leon Black signed a $22.5 million contract. Then he wired $50 million. The excess funded everything from attorney fees to Larry Summers's KIT KAT bar.
The Machine Keeps Running
$4.5 million wired from the Caribbean nine days after arrest. Payroll still running a month after death. $6 million to attorneys four years later. The financial machine was built to outlive its creator. It did.
Articles are narrative investigations drawn from the DOJ Epstein document release (1.3M+ documents, 73,000+ emails). Every quoted passage is sourced to specific documents searchable on this site. Articles are distinct from Analysis Reports, which are data-driven deep dives into the archive.