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Oct 5, 2022 • 11 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X
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BIG #FOIA SCOOP: Among the excuses Trump offered after FBI found classified docs at MAL, is GSA packed the boxes

But these docs-including PICS of pallets Trump's team packed, stacked & shrink wrapped-I obtained from GSA tells another story.

w/@jackgillum bloomberg.com/news/articles/…



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What we have here in this incrediby detailed 165 page cache of emails, contracts, invoices, is the entire backstory from Jan through Sept 2021 of how GSA assisted the outgoing Trump transition team with SHIPPING pallets of boxes to MAL and a storage facility. ImageImageImage
Trump's outgoing transition got $2.6M -$2M & change for Trump and $520K for Pence -- to set up office space in Arlington and MAL and purchase supplies, pay staff, pay for shipping, packing etc ImageImage
Trump's team had to certify to GSA that everything that was shipped to MAL was "required to wind down the Office of the Former President or are items that are property of the Federal Government" ImageImage
But here's the key question. Were these "document boxes" shipped to MAL the ones that held classified records the FBI retrieved? We just don't know from these records and neither does GSA.

But the pallets had the same type of bankers boxes FBI took from MAL ImageImageImage
Some of the pallets shipped from the outgoing transition's team in Arlington went to a storage facility in West Palm Beach, Florida. ImageImage
Trump had to pay GSA rent for the outgoing transition team's office space. One of Trump's transition team officials requested a "rent exemption."

Beyond that, here's what the team needed from GSA to set up shop after Trump departed the WH. ImageImageImage
To further underscore that GSA was not involved in the packing of boxes, Trump's outgoing transition official in Florida sent an intern to DC to restack one of the pallets. ImageImage
At one point, one of Trump's outgoing transition officials asked about keeping the autopen. Later she asked about shipping a portrait of Trump, which a GSA official said could not be done using GSA funds because it was a personal item ImageImage
It took a month or so for what turned out to be 6 pallets to be delivered to a storage facility in West Palm Beach and to Mar-a-Lago. The process was a bit chaotic.
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One email in this cache that seemed odd is this July 19, 2021 exchange between a GSA official and Trump's director of correspondence for the outgoing transition about transition funds. It sounds like something prompted it but it's unclear. Image

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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
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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
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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
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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. 
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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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Nov 25, 2025
🚨 NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The FBI turned over dozens of emails to me in response to my #FOIA request that provides a behind-the-scenes look at the discussions involving the review and redaction of the Epstein files

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The records I got also reveal the number of hours the FBI devoted to the project, which required some agents to work nights and weekends. The FBI paid personnel from various divisions, including counterintelligence and international operations, $851,344 in overtime for working on the Epstein files between March 17 and March 22, according to the documents. FBI personnel clocked in a total of 4,737 hours of overtime between January and July. Of that, more than 70% occurred during the month of March while personnel reviewed the Epstein files, the documents show.
The emails reveal the special training given to FBI personnel working on what it called the “Epstein Transparency Project.” In some instances they referred to it as the “Special Redaction Project.” The training entailed PowerPoint slide presentations and video instruction on how to review the files.
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Nov 21, 2025
NEW/EXCLUSIVE: A French branch of HSBC closed a bank account maintained by Jeffrey Epstein in 2007 after compliance officers flagged transactions for suspicious activity, including payments tied to a modeling agent later accused of rape & sex trafficking

The previously unreported closure, which HSBC officials announced to Epstein in a letter dated Dec. 21, 2007, is the only known instance of a major bank closing one of his accounts before he pleaded guilty to sex offenses in Fla. in 2008.
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This is part of a series of stories based on emails sent to and from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo account obtained by @business. Emails and attachments from that account weren't included in more than 20,000 pages of documents that a congressional committee released publicly on Nov. 12.
An HSBC spokesman declined to comment. But two people familiar with the matter told Bloomberg that the bank closed Epstein’s account because employees in its compliance department raised red flags. Their concerns included financial transactions involving young women associated with the French modeling agency MC2 and its owner, Jean-Luc Brunel.
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