The Man Who Blocked the Epstein Files Twice Just Got Promoted to Run Homeland Security
- Patrick Duggan
- Mar 5
- 5 min read
# The Man Who Blocked the Epstein Files Twice Just Got Promoted to Run Homeland Security
Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) was named Secretary of Homeland Security today. He replaces Kristi Noem, who was fired after telling Congress that Trump knew about a $220 million taxpayer-funded advertising campaign. Wrong thing to say out loud, apparently.
Mullin will now oversee the Secret Service, ICE, CBP, and Homeland Security Investigations. There are 1,958 Secret Service references in the Epstein files. Zorro Ranch. Travel logs. Protection details. Flight coordination.
He blocked the Epstein file release. Twice. He admitted it was to give Trump cover. And he just got the keys to the agencies sitting on the operational data.
Block #1: July 17, 2025
Senator Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) introduced a resolution on the Senate floor demanding the Trump DOJ release all Epstein-related files. Mullin stood up and objected. Called it "political theater." Said it wasn't Congress's role to dictate to the Department of Justice what sensitive files to release.
This is the same Department of Justice that sent Attorney General Pam Bondi 200 pages and called it the complete Epstein file. The same DOJ where Bondi had to learn from "a source" that thousands more pages existed in the FBI's New York field office. The one where Bondi ordered a 14-day investigation report that, as of today, does not appear in any public record.
Mullin said Congress shouldn't tell DOJ what to do. DOJ was already not doing it on their own.
Block #2: July 24, 2025
Gallego came back. Tried again. This time he offered a compromise — combine Mullin's court-unsealing resolution with his DOJ-release resolution. One vote, both goals.
Mullin blocked it again.
His position, stripped to its bones: unseal what courts already have on file — fine. Release what the FBI actually investigated — absolutely not.
The New Republic headline: **"GOP Senator Admits He Killed Epstein Resolution to Give Trump 'Cover.'"**
The cover story was that Mullin wanted "transparency" through the courts. The reality was that DOJ investigative files include FBI witness statements, plea deal negotiations, surveillance records, and evidence never presented in any courtroom. Court documents are the curated version. FBI files are the raw feed.
Mullin blocked the raw feed. Twice.
The Goldman Sachs Trade
On February 4, 2026, Mullin disclosed selling between $15,001 and $50,000 in Goldman Sachs stock.
On March 5, 2026 — today — Congress subpoenaed Goldman Sachs general counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and Leon Black in connection with the Epstein investigation.
Ruemmler was Obama's White House Counsel before becoming Goldman's top lawyer. She represented Leon Black's relationship with Epstein before taking the Goldman job. She sits at CARVER 22 in our scoring matrix with 4,028 indexed documents.
Mullin sold Goldman stock one month before Goldman got subpoenaed over Epstein.
He also violated the STOCK Act by failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in trades — seven stock purchases by his wife reported two and a half years late. The Ethics Committee previously ordered him to repay $40,000 related to his plumbing business income.
What We Found in the Index
We searched "Mullin" across 398,534 Epstein Task Force documents. 630 hits.
The Mullin in the files isn't Markwayne — it's **Michael Mullin**, a Deutsche Bank US Private Banking (USPB) banker paired with Terri Sohrab. But the document he appears in is a grand jury exhibit that tells a story all by itself.
**EFTA01460927** — Deutsche Bank internal email, January 2015. Classification: Confidential. Bates stamp: DB-SDNY-0122652. Marked **PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e)** — grand jury material from the Southern District of New York.
The email lists 61 Deutsche Bank private banking clients and 9 prospects for a "Quintessentially Platinum" VIP event. The client names include:
> **Jeffrey Epstein**
> **Barry Sternlicht** (JAWS Estates Capital)
> **Wilbur Ross** (later Trump's Commerce Secretary)
> **Merkin** (J. Ezra Merkin, the Madoff feeder fund manager)
The bankers covering these clients include **Rosemary Vrablic** — the Deutsche Bank private banker who handled the Trump Organization's accounts, arranging over $300 million in loans when no other bank would lend to Trump. She resigned in 2021 after the New York Times reported she entered into real estate deals with a client.
**EFTA01460919** — Four days later. Same email chain. Deutsche Bank Managing Director Chip Packard writes:
> "I'm ok sticking with the top 31 but want to add Alex Sapir and Rotem Ronen to it. **I would remove Jeffrey Epstein though at this point.**"
"At this point." January 27, 2015. Seven years after Epstein's first conviction. Deutsche Bank's wealth management division was still considering him for a VIP client event. A Managing Director had to explicitly say take him off the list. The implication: Epstein had been on the list. At some point, he was acceptable.
The same client list. The same bank. The same VIP program. Epstein and Trump's banker in the same document. Grand jury material. Filed under seal in the Southern District of New York.
What He Now Controls
As Secretary of Homeland Security, Mullin oversees:
**Secret Service** — 1,958 references in the Epstein files. Protection details for high-profile individuals. Travel coordination. Zorro Ranch documentation. The Secret Service provides protective intelligence — they know who visits, who travels, who meets whom.
**Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)** — The federal agency that investigates sex trafficking, child exploitation, and transnational crime. HSI was involved in Epstein-adjacent investigations. They maintain case files, witness records, and operational intelligence.
**Customs and Border Protection (CBP)** — International travel records. Passenger manifests. Entry and exit data. Every flight to and from Little St. James, Zorro Ranch, or any international Epstein property passed through CBP's systems.
**CISA** — The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Our STIX threat intelligence feed has 275+ consumers in 46 countries. CISA is nominally the agency responsible for protecting the infrastructure we're indexing on a $500/month VM.
The man who blocked the Epstein files twice — who admitted it was to provide cover — now controls the agencies with the most comprehensive operational data on Epstein's network.
The Pattern
Bondi received 200 pages and was told it was everything. Patel's 14-day investigation report never materialized. Bongino's Secret Service has produced zero public accounting despite 1,958 file references. And now Mullin — who physically blocked the Senate floor vote on releasing DOJ files — gets promoted to run the department that houses the Secret Service, HSI, and CBP.
The UNABOM Task Force in 1994 indexed 7 million documents, canceled all leave, assigned extra agents, and completed leads in 24 hours. They caught their target.
The Epstein crew in 2025-2026 has blocked releases, lost reports, sold stock before subpoenas, and promoted the blocker to run the agencies holding the evidence.
The FBI's own FOIA files — released today on our search engine — show what thoroughness looks like. Case 149A-SF-106204. Major Case #75. Nineteen thousand text documents. Seven million source documents. SUN Sparc 10 workstations. Every field office in the country mobilized.
That was for one man in a cabin.
This is a network involving presidents, princes, billionaires, intelligence services, and the systematic trafficking of children. And the response is: block the vote, lose the report, sell the stock, promote the blocker.
Search It Yourself
> Try "Mullin" at https://epstein.dugganusa.com — 630 hits in the Epstein files
> Try "Deutsche Bank Quintessentially" — the VIP client list with Epstein and Wilbur Ross
> Try "Rosemary Vrablic" — Trump's banker on the same list
> Try "Secret Service" — 1,958 references
> New today: **FBI FOIA Vault** tab — Ivana Trump, Kushner Companies, NXIVM, Kaczynski
398,534 DOJ documents. 2 million ICIJ offshore entities. 3.3 million relationship edges. 2.5 million federal court decisions. 11.6 million total. Free. Searchable. Government-sourced.
The man who blocked the files now runs the department. The files are already public.
**https://epstein.dugganusa.com**
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*His name was Alex Jeffery Pretti.*
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