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Sep 24, 2020 • 4 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
NEW from our ##FinCENFiles cache of records. This story is amazing.

A Russian Billionaire With Close Ties To Putin And the White House Made $600K in Suspicious Payments To Nobu

🍣🍣🍣 buzzfeednews.com/article/johnte…
Here is the 15-page suspicious activity report a bank sent to Treasury's Financial crimes Enforcement Network regarding these suspicious payments, revealed here for the first time #FinCENFiles

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🚨Confidential government documents reveal that for a time, Crocus International, headed by billionaire Russian real estate developer Aras Agalarov, paid Nobu’s hefty licensing fees through untraceable offshore companies, which are a red flag for possible money laundering
The arrangement led the bank’s investigators to threaten to stop accepting the payments entirely. Some came through a Latvian bank that has since been shut down due to its involvement in a Russian money laundering scheme.

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Mar 6
NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein

🎁bloomberg.com/news/features/…
The investigation, which grew out of a longstanding probe into organized crime, was conducted by a secretive intelligence and law enforcement unit of the DEA and a transnational crime-fighting task force. It began after an informant told authorities that Epstein was involved in the illicit funding and distribution of so-called club drugs, including ecstasy, ketamine and methamphetamines, according to the people, who asked not to be named to discuss sensitive law enforcement matters.
The individuals named in a document related to the investigation, according to the people, included Epstein’s accountants, attorneys and European women who worked as his assistants or fashion models. The DEA investigation also named two businesses.
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Feb 19
NEW: Kathy Ruemmler shared nonpublic details with Jeffrey Epstein about the White House's probe into a 2012 prostitution scandal that engulfed the Secret Service during her tenure as White House counsel, emails show
bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
In a dozen or so exchanges that were sent months after Ruemmler left her White House position in 2014, she complained to Epstein about “this secret service crap” and forwarded to him a draft email that contained detailed, nonpublic information about the behind-the-scenes role the White House Counsel’s office played in investigating the 2012 prostitution scandal
Epstein offered advice, as well as what he described as “edits” to the email draft, which Ruemmler indicated she was planning to send to a journalist. “Breathe, smile. You’re free,” he wrote in one message.
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Feb 6
NEW: The Epstein files released last week includes hundreds of pages of docs that lays bare the behind-the-scenes chaos at the FBI early last year over the review of the files & questions on what should be redacted related to victims and public figures
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First off, remember when Attorney General Pam Bondi said last March that the FBI turned over a “truckload” of Epstein files after she bungled the rollout of “Phase One” of the documents? Well, Bondi wasn’t being facetious. According to the documents in the Epstein files, the FBI literally rented a U-Haul to transport some of the documents from New York to Washington (others were shipped via FedEx).Image
One important document is an eight-page timeline that summarizes the FBI’s collection and review of the Epstein files between March and the end of April 2025, a couple months before the DOJ and FBI concluded that “no further disclosure” of the files “would be appropriate or warranted.”Image
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Dec 18, 2025
Epstein Files countdown: What should the files reveal? For one, details about this previously undisclosed money laundering investigation conducted by the US Atty in Fla in 2007 & 2008. My @business & I uncovered details of this probe in Oct.

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We pubbed our 1st investigative story in our series in Sept, based on 18K previously undisclosed emails @business obtained earlier this year. That story, about the relationship b/w UK Amb to the US Peter Mandelson & Epstein, resulted in Mandelson's firing
bloomberg.com/features/2025-…Image
Our next story focused on Ghislaine Maxwell. The emails shed new light on Maxwell’s partnership w/Epstein & exposed the holes in the story she told Todd Blanche this summer. One detail we revealed: Maxwell & Epstein discussed undergoing a shared fertility procedure. And this
bloomberg.com/features/2025-…Image
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Dec 12, 2025
🚨 NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files

Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…Image
While we all wait and see if the DOJ will meet its Dec. 19 deadline and turn over the Epstein files to the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, I’m still trying to cut through the secrecy around the FBI’s review of the files. In particular, I’ve been curious to know what was behind the mad scramble at the FBI to prepare the files for public release, and then why the bureau and DOJ abruptly concluded that disclosure of them would not be “appropriate or warranted” after all.
Last month, I got 60 pages of emails from the FBI, some of which I featured in the Nov. 25th edition of FOIA Files. They were the first look inside the rushed process at the FBI that took place earlier this year, between March and May. 
bloomberg.com/news/newslette…
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Dec 10, 2025
NEW investigative report: Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @business obtained earlier this year reveals
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bloomberg.com/features/2025-…
The emails provide new details about Epstein as an investor and adviser, including how he leveraged influence when his bets lost money. They also show that Epstein’s ties on Wall Street were broader than previously known, involving not just standard banking relationships but some of the most sought-after hedge funds, such as Renaissance Technologies, whose reputation for success is almost mythical.
After stories of Epstein’s teenage victims spilled into the open, Wall Street continued to stay in touch. He had access to prestigious names in global finance, including the investment firm of billionaire Carl Icahn. And as Epstein was directing his high-powered attorneys to pressure the government into offering him a light sentence, he threatened legal action against Bear Stearns and top executives for steep losses.
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