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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ Profile picture
@JayShams
Nov 14, 2025 • 12 tweets • 6 min read • Read on X
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🧵 Jeffrey Epstein's relationship with Kathryn Ruemmler — the former top Obama White House lawyer, onetime Attorney General candidate, and potential Supreme Court nominee, who is now the top lawyer at Goldman Sachs — was far deeper than previously known, emails show. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Image
Ruemmler confided in Epstein when a rival law firm tried to poach her, when looking for an NYC apartment, and when she was being vetted for consideration as US Attorney General. She also turned to him for minor issues, like what it's like to fly Emirates.

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We've known for years that Ruemmler met with Epstein in his Manhattan mansion shortly after she left the White House, and while she was a partner at the Big Law firm Latham & Watkins. But not much more than that.

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Ruemmler came on my radar again in September.

The Epstein estate produced a copy of his penultimate will.

It names Kathryn Ruemmler as a backup executor.

That was pretty weird. How close were they? Jeffrey Epstein trusted Kathryn Ruemmler to manage his $630 million estate? Image
The final version of Epstein's will, finalized while he was in jail on sex-trafficking charges, had Bill Gates associate Boris Nikolic listed as the backup executor.
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In any case, Epstein's longtime personal lawyer Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn ended up as the executors.

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This all raised the question... did Jeffrey Epstein ever hire Kathryn Ruemmler as a personal lawyer?

Some of Ruemmler's emails released this week are for "privilege."

Weird!

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Moreover, Jeffrey Epstein looped Ruemmler into emails with people we already know were his lawyers, like Alan Dershowitz, Marty Weinberg, and Ken Starr.

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Latham & Watkins said Epstein was never a client of the firm. businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…
There's also a wild part where — before it was announced that Eric Holder was stepping down — Ruemmler was talking with Epstein about whether she should accept the job as US Attorney General in the Obama administration.

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And there are cryptic emails between Ruemmler and Jeffrey Epstein appearing to reference Elon Musk and "your boy."

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Read the full story here: businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…

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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ Profile picture
Feb 2
NEW: Jeffrey Epstein planned to bequeath his $630 fortune to 43 people.

The infamous 1953 Trust, signed 2 days before Epstein's death, had remained secret for years.

Now we know what's in it.

The biggest surprise? Epstein planned on getting married.

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Jeffrey Epstein planned to give Karyna Shuliak $100 million, his private islands and other properties, and a lot of diamonds.

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It was a shift from an earlier trust, which would give the properties to Celia Dubin.

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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ Profile picture
Dec 19, 2025
NEW: As Steve Bannon filmed 15 hours of interviews with pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, the two texted about using an obscure legal maneuver.

The maneuver could explain why the footage hasn't seen the light of day.

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Steve Bannon discussed using an obscure legal maneuver that would make him part of Jeffrey Epstein's legal team, potentially putting 15 hours of interviews under attorney-client confidentiality

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While going through the recently released texts between Steve Bannon and Jeffrey Epstein, the discussion of a "Kovel" caught my eye.

A Kovel agreement is a way to put the work of non-lawyers under attorney-client confidentiality. businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…Image
Read 12 tweets
Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ Profile picture
Nov 20, 2025
NEW: Harry Beller isn't one of the boldfaced names who can be found all over Jeffrey Epstein's social calendar and emails.

But for years, the obscure accountant was entrusted with some of the most delicate parts of Epstein's financial life.

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Jeffrey Epstein's accountant of 22 years raised alarm bells at JPMorgan.

Now Congress wants answers.

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Harry Beller is something of a financial Forrest Gump of the Jeffrey Epstein money trail.

He did Ghislaine Maxwell's taxes, he incorporated some of Epstein's companies, he signed checks and withdrew a lot of cash from Epstein's accounts.

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Read 10 tweets
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Oct 17, 2025
Alex Acosta told the House Oversight committee that he NEVER said Jeffrey Epstein "belonged to intelligence." Image
"I have no reason to believe that," Alex Acosta said about Epstein being a member of the intelligence community. "And if there was any secure information, procedures would have been triggered that were never triggered."

Read my story about that: businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…Image
For background, see my story about the DOJ procedures that would have been triggered if Jeffrey Epstein had intelligence connections: businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…
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Jul 29, 2025
NEW: I spoke to four people who've seen the Epstein files.

They say there are no signs in there that Jeffrey Epstein worked for intelligence. Nothing the US government wanted to be classified. No interest from intelligence agencies. Nada. Image
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"Nothing supports the contention that there was either a honeypot blackmail scheme or any association with intelligence," one source told me.

Read the story here: businessinsider.com/jeffrey-epstei…
The lack of anything related to intelligence agencies in the Epstein files raises more questions about why the Trump administration won't just release them.

If there's nothing sensitive there from a national security perspective, why all the secrecy?
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Jacob Shamsian ⚖️ Profile picture
Jul 24, 2025
As a person who covered Ghislaine Maxwell's criminal trial, and who has read through pretty much every single Jeffrey Epstein lawsuit, I find the current discourse to be in bizarro land.
Of course I want answers. I have written to Maxwell in the hopes that she'd talk to me (no luck).

But the idea of subpoenaing Ghislaine Maxwell for her testimony, or interviewing her in jail — how does that work?
She has a live criminal appeal. It doesn't make sense that she'd jeopardize it unless she gets some kind of immunity.

And if she does, how can you trust her? She has every incentive in the world to get out of her 20-year sentence.
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