Thread by @KlasfeldReports

Epstein’s Upper East Side townhouse, the one feds want to seize and which is valued at $77 million, was owned by an LLC. His two private jets were owned by separate entities that he controlled, court papers revealed yesterday.

This is a global shadow economy story.

https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1148692688885227520

"The defendant has refused to answer any questions about his income or assets for the Pretrial Services report, so the scope of his wealth and his assets remains entirely concealed to the government and to the court," Epstein's prosecutor, yesterday.

Something interesting:

Epstein's indictment says his Manhattan mansion is owned by an entity called Maple, Inc.

NYC records associated with that block/lot shows a $10 sale on Dec. 2011 by one Epstein-owned company to another. You read that right.

Doc: documentcloud.org/documents/6186…

Prosecutors' bail memo, on the other hand, says that the Manhattan mansion is owned "through an LLC."

Business records from the U.S. Virgin Islands show two entities associated with the address on the signature line. One is an LLC.

I should add this point, that the $10 is the legal minimum for this transaction. The amount isn't the significance. it's trying string together the chain of entities, both in this transaction owned by Epstein, and the address associated with others.

https://twitter.com/grantstern/status/1148808767393415168

This is only to emphasize how much of Epstein's wealth, and where his assets are, is unknown either to prosecutors or on the public record.

This has already turned up as an issue in court proceedings and will be an area of research in the future.