"Never Heard of You": How a YouTube Producer Used Our Epstein API, Then Blocked Us When We Showed the Receipts

# "Never Heard of You": How a YouTube Producer Used Our Epstein API, Then Blocked Us When We Showed the Receipts

**By Patrick Duggan | February 18, 2026**

On February 8, 2026, someone sat down and ran 12 queries against our Epstein files API in a 4-hour session. They searched for Kathy Ruemmler — the former Obama White House Counsel who just resigned from Goldman Sachs. They searched for her plea deal connections, her Russian ties, her relationship with Brad Karp at Paul Weiss, her privilege claims, her criminal complaint exposure, her media negotiations. They searched for "Ruemmler rehashed crap" and "Ruemmler novella rehashed."

I know this because I log every query. Every timestamp. Every IP hash.

Nine days later, on February 17, Patrick Lovell — a YouTube producer with 17,271 Bluesky followers and a channel called "Truth Bombs The Con" — dropped a 2-hour video titled "TB #751: What if you had a magic key to unlock the Truth behind the Epstein Class?" He tagged it on Bluesky with the pitch: "What if you had the key to unlock the Truth behind the Epstein Class and what it all means? You do. Open the door and you will never be the same."

The video covers Kathy Ruemmler. Goldman Sachs. Bear Stearns. The 2008 financial crisis. JP Morgan. Rahm Emanuel. Peter Thiel. Reid Hoffman. Every single one of these names lives in our database. We have 329,473 DOJ documents indexed at epstein.dugganusa.com. We are, to my knowledge, the only public site that has indexed the complete release.

Here's the thing: Lovell replied to *my* Bluesky post. On February 15, I had written: "WE CALLED IT. Feb 11: We published 'What the Headlines Are Missing' about Kathy Ruemmler. Feb 15: She resigns from Goldman Sachs." Lovell responded with a link to his video. I said "watching :)" and then noted: "looks like a lot of people using my tool and not citing it for credit to me. Knowing that I am the only site to index the whole thing."

His response: **"Never heard of you."**

I replied that I was curious why he'd responded to me with the link if he'd never heard of me. He said: "You obviously didn't see what I reveal. You should."

So I showed him.

The Query Logs

Here's what IP hash `f58652e0d48cb525` searched on February 8, 2026:

| Time (UTC) | Query | Results |

|------------|-------|---------|

| 17:39:14 | Karp Ruemmler | 94 |

| 19:14:30 | Ruemmler | 372 |

| 19:14:41 | Ruemmler plea deal | 370 |

| 19:14:42 | Ruemmler Russians | 370 |

| 19:14:55 | Ruemmler Karp | 370 |

| 20:15:14 | Ruemmler privilege | 370 |

| 20:16:46 | Ruemmler Sasse | 370 |

| 20:16:46 | Ruemmler criminal complaint | 370 |

| 21:02:34 | Ruemmler privilege crime fraud | 370 |

| 21:38:38 | Ruemmler media negotiations | 370 |

| 21:38:48 | Ruemmler April 2015 | 370 |

| 21:48:48 | Ruemmler rehashed crap | 370 |

| 21:48:48 | Ruemmler novella rehashed | 370 |

Then more Ruemmler queries from different IP hashes on February 9, 12, and 15. Goldman Sachs and Bear Stearns queries from yet another IP on February 11.

I posted this data in the Bluesky thread.

Lovell blocked me.

What I'm Not Saying

I'm not saying Patrick Lovell ran those queries. I don't know who `f58652e0d48cb525` is. IP hashes are privacy-preserving by design — I can see patterns, not people. Maybe it was a researcher feeding him documents. Maybe it was a viewer who watches his channel. Maybe it was a complete coincidence that someone ran a 4-hour deep-dive on the exact same person, with the exact same investigative angles, nine days before his video dropped.

What I am saying is this:

1. Those queries hit our API. Our infrastructure. Our $76/month server that indexes 329,473 DOJ documents so researchers, journalists, and the public can search them for free.

2. The video covers the same names, the same connections, the same angles as the queries.

3. When I pointed this out, the response wasn't "thanks for building that" or "great resource." It was "Never heard of you" followed by a block.

Support Journalism

We don't charge for Epstein file searches. We don't paywall our API. We don't require attribution in our terms of service. We built this because the DOJ released 329,473 documents and someone needed to make them searchable. We did it for $76/month on Azure while Goldman Sachs paid Latham & Watkins millions to manage Ruemmler's conflicts.

But if you're going to build a 2-hour video on data you found through someone's infrastructure, and then tell that someone "Never heard of you" when they notice — maybe you're not the truth-teller you think you are. Maybe you're just another content creator who treats open-source tools like they grew on trees.

The API logs are public record now. The Bluesky thread is public. The block is public. And this post is public.

You can search the Epstein files yourself at [epstein.dugganusa.com](https://epstein.dugganusa.com). Free API keys. No attribution required. But if you use it to build your brand and then pretend you've never heard of us — we'll notice. We always notice.

We log everything.

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