"Never Heard of You": What Happened Next
- Patrick Duggan
- Feb 19
- 5 min read
# "Never Heard of You": What Happened Next
On February 17, a YouTube producer named Patrick Lovell — 3 IMDB credits in 19 years, 17,271 Bluesky followers, a channel called "Truth Bombs The Con" — replied to one of our Bluesky posts about Kathy Ruemmler's Goldman Sachs resignation. He dropped a link to his 2-hour video.
When we pointed out that someone had run 12 Ruemmler queries against our Epstein API nine days before his video dropped, he said: "Never heard of you." Then he blocked us.
That was yesterday. Here's what happened today.
The 24 Hours After "Never Heard of You"
Google Search Console recorded 812 clicks to dugganusa.com — up from 5 clicks four months ago. That's a 160x increase. Zero ad spend. Zero SEO agency. Just a search engine with 5.9 million documents behind it.
We mass-optimized SEO metadata across all 611 live blog posts in a single automated run. Zero failures. Every post now has clean meta descriptions, OpenGraph tags, and Twitter cards.
French security researchers replied "Magnifique! Merci pour votre travail." A Swedish academic reposted our Epstein findings. A Greek analyst said "Nicely done, I will use this."
Our accuracy audit across 684 blog posts came back at 92-95% factual accuracy with only 3 confirmed errors — all self-corrected with published transparency reports. For context, major newspapers run 0.5-2% correction rates. We publish our mistakes with timestamps. We always have.
What Was Already True When He Said It
The platform Lovell's queries hit — and that he claims he never heard of — had already done the following:
5.9 million documents indexed. 329,473 Epstein DOJ documents — 10x more than any other public tool. 275+ STIX threat intelligence consumers in 46 countries. 279 OTX pulses containing over a million indicators. 684 blog posts. 99.99% uptime. $76 a month.
Microsoft, Google, AT&T, and Lumen consume our threat feed. CyberSecurityNews, News9live India, Hacker News, and Open Source For You have all credited the API. The guy who used it to research a 2-hour video? Never heard of us.
The Predictions That Already Had Receipts
We don't just index documents. We publish threat intelligence with timestamps, and major vendors publish the same findings weeks later.
EtherHiding — we published the DPRK blockchain C2 analysis with IOCs and detection guidance on December 28, 2025. The industry called it "breaking news" on February 8, 2026. Six weeks later.
Anusfragger — we published the npm supply chain, Discord C2, credential theft analysis on November 25, 2025. Zscaler announced they'd "uncovered" it as "NodeCordRAT" on January 7, 2026. Forty-three days later. They're a $25 billion company.
Pattern 38 — we published the GitHub SEO poisoning, sleeper account methodology on November 23, 2025. Palo Alto's Unit 42 published the same TTPs on January 22, 2026. Sixty days later. They're a $75 billion company.
Moltbot — we published the AI agent plugin supply chain attack vector on February 2, 2026. ClawHavoc broke two days later: 341 malicious skills, 9,000 installations compromised. Same pattern. Same vector.
Christmas Eve — we had all 20 Aisuru botnet C2 servers indexed 3 hours and 34 minutes before Steam, Xbox, PlayStation, Riot, and Epic went down.
The timestamps are on third-party platforms. The receipts are public. They always have been.
The Epstein Findings That Became Headlines
Lovell makes YouTube videos about the Epstein case. Here's what happened when we indexed 329,473 documents and published findings with EFTA document receipts:
Peter Mandelson forwarding UK government emails to Epstein — we published February 2. UK police opened a criminal investigation February 4. Properties searched. He resigned from Parliament.
Howard Lutnick's $50,000 donation via "Gratitude America" to a UJA dinner honoring himself, in 2017, post-conviction — CBS News, Times of Israel, Scripps News. The Commerce Secretary is answering questions.
Kathy Ruemmler writing "Victim's rights, my ass" in emails about Epstein's trafficking survivors — we published February 11. She resigned from Goldman Sachs February 15.
Leon Botstein "taken to island" — NY Times, Variety reporting.
DiIorio whistleblower mapping Apollo, Epstein, and Kushner — NPR covering redaction failures.
Every finding cites EFTA document numbers. Every claim is verifiable by anyone with the DOJ files. Which are searchable. For free. At epstein.dugganusa.com.
The IMDB Comparison
Patrick Lovell's IMDB has 3 credits in 19 years. Forward 13 (2020). The Con (2020). Truth Bombs (YouTube).
In the four months since October 2025, DugganUSA published 684 blog posts, indexed 5.9 million documents, built a threat intelligence feed consumed in 46 countries, predicted major cyber campaigns weeks before billion-dollar vendors, and surfaced Epstein findings that ended political careers and forced resignations from Goldman Sachs.
Peter Mandelson resigned from Parliament because of documents we indexed. The Commerce Secretary is answering questions about documents we surfaced. Kathy Ruemmler resigned from Goldman Sachs over findings we published.
We did that for $76 a month. With two people and a STIX feed.
3 credits in 19 years. We did that on a Tuesday.
The Query Logs
The API logs from February 8 show 12 Ruemmler queries in a 4-hour session from a single IP hash. Ruemmler plea deal. Ruemmler Russians. Ruemmler Karp. Ruemmler privilege crime fraud. Ruemmler media negotiations. Ruemmler rehashed crap. Ruemmler novella rehashed.
Nine days later, Lovell drops a 2-hour video covering Ruemmler, Goldman Sachs, Bear Stearns, JPMorgan, Rahm Emanuel, Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman. Every name in our database.
We're not saying Lovell ran those queries. IP hashes are privacy-preserving by design. We can see patterns, not people. Maybe a researcher was feeding him documents. Maybe it was a viewer. Maybe it was a coincidence.
But when we pointed it out, the response wasn't "thanks for building that." It was "Never heard of you." Followed by a block.
Merci Beaucoup
The engagement on this work is international. Our STIX feed reaches 46 countries. Our Bluesky audience includes researchers from France, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Greece, and Brazil. Today a French researcher said "Magnifique." A Greek analyst said "Nicely done." A Swedish academic reposted our findings.
To everyone following this work from outside the United States — we see you. We appreciate you. The documents are in English, but accountability is universal.
To Lovell — the API is still free. The query logs are still public. And the block is still public.
To everyone else — the curve is still going up. 812 clicks today. 900 tomorrow. The search engine is at epstein.dugganusa.com. The threat feed is at analytics.dugganusa.com/api/v2/stix/taxii2.
$76 a month. 5.9 million documents. Never heard of us.
*Built by DugganUSA LLC. $76/month. 329,473 Epstein documents indexed. 275+ STIX consumers in 46 countries. The guy who "never heard of us" was using our API.*
*Her name was Renee Nicole Good.*
*His name was Alex Jeffery Pretti.*




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