1/ 🧵BREAKING: Previously unreported federal Epstein file emails reveal that Jeffrey Epstein claimed he personally killed cold fusion — the discovery that could have given the world clean, limitless energy from water.
Not through science. Through congressional defunding and a meeting with the head of the Mormon Church.
It's in the federal record. EFTA02437662. Previously unreported. Full story 👇
2/ October 1, 2009. One year after his sex offense conviction. Epstein writes to associate Al Seckel:
"regarding cold fusion. i killed pons years ago"
Seckel presses: "How did you kill him?"
Epstein's answer names a specific congressman, a specific funding fight, and the head of the Mormon Church.
EFTA02437662 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
3/ Epstein described lobbying Congress against the funding for Pons's research at the University of Utah, naming Rep. Wayne Owens (D-UT) and claiming he met with LDS Church leadership — because BYU's competing cold fusion program ran through the Church's governance.
This wasn't peer review. It was political assassination of a scientific career by a private citizen with no scientific credentials.
EFTA00740161 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
4/ Meanwhile, Seckel — Epstein's correspondent — was evaluating cold fusion devices for "one of the google guys," sat on the board of Milken's Knowledge Universe, and was about to moderate a panel at the Kodak Theater with the President of CNN on the topic:
"Are We Transitioning from an Age of Information into an Age of Misinformation?"
His argument: people who "want to issue health care advice, start a website" are a civilizational threat.
2009. In Epstein's inbox.
5/ And the opening line of Seckel's October 14 email to a registered sex offender?
"Congratulations on your labeling! :-)"
That's the network. A man who killed scientists' careers. A man who decided which science billionaires should fund. And the intellectual blueprint for information control — a decade before ISD and CCDH deployed it at scale.
EFTA00740600 justice.gov/epstein/files/…
6/ Disclosure: I've spent nine years investigating the physics of cavitation — the phenomenon that may explain what Pons actually observed. Engineer Mark LeClair has proposed that cavitation-driven nuclear reactions occurred in Pons's cells without Pons understanding the mechanism.
If that hypothesis holds, Epstein didn't kill junk science. He killed science that was ahead of its time.
Read both parts of my cavitation series here:
Part I: sayerji.substack.com/p/the-one-inch…
Part II: sayerji.substack.com/p/when-water-b…
7/ Every claim is sourced to federal court exhibits with EFTA Bates numbers anyone can verify. I've drawn explicit lines between what the documents establish and what they don't.
Read the full piece. Verify rather than believe.
🔗 sayerji.substack.com/p/i-killed-pon…
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Read my entire 10-Part Epstein Files Investigative Series: sayerji.substack.com/archive
“I Killed Pons Years Ago”: Epstein Files Reveal Claim of Personal Role in Destroying Cold Fusion Scientist’s Career Through Congressional Defunding 👉sayerji.substack.com/p/i-killed-pon…
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