Following the Money: PayPal Mafia, Rothschilds, and a Current Cabinet Member in the Epstein Files

# Following the Money: PayPal Mafia, Rothschilds, and a Current Cabinet Member in the Epstein Files

**Author:** Patrick Duggan

**Category:** Investigative, Epstein Files, Follow the Money

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We've been indexing the DOJ's Epstein Files Transparency Act release. 40,000+ documents. Pattern recognition is what we do.

Yesterday we published about the $170M Thiel-Epstein connection that's NOT in these files. Today we found what IS in them - and it's worse.

How to Verify Everything Below

The EFTA files are public. You can download them yourself:

**DOJ Release:** https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/jeffrey-epstein-files-702-epstein-files-702-transparency-act

Every transaction below includes a BATES number (e.g., DB-SDNY-0004924). These are the official court document reference numbers. Search the files yourself.

EXHIBIT A: Leon Black / Rothschild Group Transactions

The DOJ included a full transaction exhibit. Here's what flowed INTO Epstein's Southern Trust Company:

- 10/15/2013: Leon and Debra Black - $8,500,000 (DB-SDNY-0002962)

- 12/18/2013: Black Family Partners/Apollo - $10,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0003484)

- 4/25/2014: Leon and Debra Black - $5,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0003819)

- 4/25/2014: Black Family Partners/Apollo - $5,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0003819)

- 4/29/2014: Leon and Debra Black - $15,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0003819)

- 7/15/2014: Narrow Holdings LLC c/o Elysium Management - $20,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0004009)

- 12/17/2015: Edmond de Rothschild (Suisse) SA Geneva - $10,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0005122)

- 12/18/2015: Black Family Partners - $10,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0005122)

That's $83.5 million on one exhibit page. Elysium Management is Leon Black's family office. The Rothschild bank in Geneva wired $10M directly.

EXHIBIT B: The Tech Money

Here's where Epstein's money went OUT to Silicon Valley:

**Valar Global Fund (Peter Thiel):**

- 9/24/2015: $1,950,000 (DB-SDNY-0004924)

- 3/13/2019: $2,500,000 (DB-SDNY-0007987)

- Multiple additional transfers to Valar Globaal Fund III LP

**Blockchain Capital (Bart Stephens, Brad Stephens, Brock Pierce):**

- 2/21/2018: Blockchain Capital IV, LP

- 2/21/2018: Blockchain Capital III Digital Liquid Venture Fund, LP

- 2/21/2018: Blockchain Capital Parallel Fund IV, LP

**Blockstream (Adam Back's Bitcoin company):**

- Via Kyara Investments III, LLC - wire details note "subcr to fund Blockstream Investment" (DB-SDNY-0000478)

**Coatue Enterprises (Philippe Laffont - Tiger Cub):**

- $500,000 (DB-SDNY-0007748)

**Honeycomb Ventures (Point72 / Steve Cohen):**

- $10,000,000 (DB-SDNY-0008151)

**MIT Media Lab:**

- 7/2/2014: Joichi Ito - $250,000 (DB-SDNY-0003972)

- Multiple transfers to Neoteny 3, LP (Ito's fund)

- OH2 Laboratories via Kyara IV (MIT spinoff)

The Shell Company Network

Epstein used a network of shells to move money:

- Southern Trust Company, Inc. - Main receiving entity

- Southern Financial LLC - Main sending entity

- Kyara Investments I, II, III, IV - Tech investment vehicles

- BV70 LLC - Leon Black controlled

- Narrow Holdings LLC - Leon Black/Elysium

- Plan D, LLC - Aircraft related

- The Haze Trust - $36M+ moved through

- Jeepers Inc. - Deutsche Bank brokerage

- Gratitude America - Charity front

The FBI Tip About the Current Commerce Secretary

Document EFTA00020515 is an FBI intake form from October 19, 2020:

"On 10/19/2020, at 11:43 AM Eastern Time, [REDACTED] called the FBI National Threat Operations Center (NTOC) to report information about Howard Lutnick, CEO of [Cantor Fitzgerald], who could be connected to Jeffrey Epstein."

The tipster stated:

"Howard Lutnick, CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, was Jeffrey Epstein's neighbor and he believes some of the suspicious financial activities could be related to Epstein's case."

The tipster worked at BGC/Cantor Fitzgerald from 2015-2017, witnessed "financial irregularities," and offered documentation to the FBI and IRS.

Howard Lutnick is now the United States Secretary of Commerce.

Photos With Dubai Royalty

The files contain a photo folder labeled "SJ xmas/Sultan" - photos of Epstein with Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, Chairman of Dubai Ports World.

What This Means

The EFTA files contain documented wire transfers showing:

1. Peter Thiel's Valar funds received millions from Epstein entities

2. Blockchain Capital (Brock Pierce's fund) received Epstein money

3. Blockstream (Bitcoin infrastructure) was funded via Epstein shells

4. The Rothschild bank in Geneva wired $10M to Epstein

5. Leon Black moved $80M+ through multiple shells

6. An FBI tip connects the current Commerce Secretary to Epstein as his neighbor

7. Steve Cohen's Point72/Honeycomb received $10M

This isn't speculation. These are DOJ-released documents with BATES numbers you can verify yourself.

The Pattern

Search strategy that works: Don't search for people's names (fuzzy matching gives false positives). Search for:

- Fund names (Valar, Blockchain Capital, Honeycomb)

- Shell companies (Southern Trust, Kyara, BV70)

- BATES number prefixes (DB-SDNY)

- Transaction keywords (wire, transfer, fund)

The money trail is in the files. The DOJ released it. Most journalists searched for names and found nothing. We searched for money.

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**Verify it yourself:** https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/jeffrey-epstein-files-702-epstein-files-702-transparency-act

**Key BATES numbers to search:**

- DB-SDNY-0004924 (Valar)

- DB-SDNY-0007987 (Valar)

- DB-SDNY-0005122 (Rothschild)

- DB-SDNY-0000478 (Blockstream footnote)

- EFTA00020515 (Lutnick FBI tip)

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*This analysis was performed using DugganUSA's threat intelligence platform. We applied the same pattern recognition methodology we use for tracking nation-state APTs. The receipts are in the files - you just have to know what to search for.*

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*Her name was Renee Nicole Good.*

*His name was Alex Jeffery Pretti.*