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Goldman Sachs & the Epstein Account

$70M in wires, CEO at dinner, internal crisis emails, and the account they rejected

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The $70 Million Wire (2004-2005)

$50M wire to Goldman FAO Financial Trust Company (Feb 2005). $20M wire to Goldman FAO JCK Partners Opp Fund LP (Apr 2005). $2.8M wire to Goldman FAO Financial Trust Company Inc (Feb 2004). Plus additional free deliveries. Total: $72.9M in fourteen months.

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Financial Trust Company to Goldman Sachs wires via Citibank; JCK Partners fund; free deliveries

02

The Blankfein Dinner (September 2010)

Lloyd Blankfein (Goldman CEO) attended Epstein's dinner for Ehud Barak (Israeli Defense Minister) alongside Larry Summers, Steve Schwarzman (Blackstone), Charlie Rose, and Arthur Sulzberger (NYT). The CEO of Goldman Sachs at the dinner table of a registered sex offender.

folder_open Ehud Barak dinner guest list

Blankfein, Summers, Schwarzman, Rose, Sulzberger — 15 VIPs at Epstein residence

EFTA02421941 NUCLEAR Ehud Barak dinner guest list: Summers Bloomberg Schwarzman Blankfein Sulzberger Pritzker Rose Clark
03

Goldman's Internal Mortgage Crisis Emails

Epstein possessed November 2007 Goldman internal emails featuring CEO Blankfein ("we lost money, then made more than we lost because of shorts"), President Cohn (mortgage P&L: +$373M SPG Trading), CFO Viniar, and Communications director van Praag ("It feels like GS is running everything").

folder_open Goldman Sachs 2007 internal communications

Blankfein, Cohn, Viniar, van Praag discussing mortgage shorts, P&L, and media strategy

04

The Account Goldman Rejected

June 2015: Kahn asks Epstein to approve $10M for Southern Trust at Goldman. Judie Taylor (Goldman Investment Management): "We're very excited." July 2015: Taylor reports Goldman "unable to open account. She pushed hard internally." Epstein continued accessing Goldman products through intermediaries.

folder_open Goldman account opening and rejection

Taylor enthusiasm; compliance rejection; alternative access via Morgan Stanley bond trading

05

The Ruemmler Bridge

Kathy Ruemmler served as Obama's White House Counsel (2011-2014), then became Goldman Sachs General Counsel. She lunched with Epstein AND Bannon on March 24, 2018. Epstein asked her about NSA intercept capabilities and discussed Zuckerberg meetings through her.

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Obama WH → Goldman GC → Epstein/Bannon lunch; NSA intercept questions; Zuckerberg meeting

EFTA02240659 CRITICAL Epstein's Saturday schedule: '1-2pm Reid Hoffman Skype' followed immediately by '2pm LUNCH w/Kathy Ruemmler, Miro and Steve Bannon.' Karyna handling logistics.
EFTA02491483 NUCLEAR Epstein to KATHY RUEMMLER (Obama's former White House counsel): 'my meeting with zuckerburg has grown as they all want info on money, elon musk, thiel, reid hoffman, it will be fun.' Plus: 'its an interesting question for one of your nsa guys.'
EFTA02731526 NUCLEAR Evidence package cover letter: 3 Black accounts, Spinella, Goldman Sachs, NDA