Looks like I was off the mark in #25.
Extremely in depth read on Epstein's connections to Russia.
Note this was published last summer, prior to the latest documents release.
The Cesspool and Chaos: the Russian Connection in the Epstein Affair
Francoise Thom
July 30, 2025
desk-russie.info
"Epstein was thus feeding the Kremlin strategies to counter the economic war waged by the West."
"The U.S. Senate Finance Committee reviewed part of a confidential Treasury Department file on Epstein. The file shows that Epstein used several Russian banks, now under sanctions, to process payments related to his sex trafficking network. A significant number of his victims came from Russia, Belarus, and other East European countries, establishing a direct financial link between his criminal enterprise and financial institutions in the region. The scale of the transactions is staggering: one of his bank accounts alone recorded 4,725 transfers totaling nearly $1.1 billion, representing thousands of potential leads for investigation."
"For Yuri Shvetz, a KGB defector who was one of the first to show how Epstein's network had converged with that of the FSB, Pozhidaeva's case is clear: "How could someone as smart and educated as Pozhidaeva become a women's rights activist while possibly seeking the support of Jean-Luc Brunel and Jeffrey Epstein, who led and participated in human trafficking and the rape of underage girls for more than two decades?" There is only one explanation. She was an agent infiltrated with the help of Jeffrey Epstein to penetrate "the American network linked to supercomputers and artificial intelligence." Shvetz recalls that Putin considers artificial intelligence, supercomputers, and control of advanced information technology to be the most crucial national security issue for Russia, "as essential to the survival of his regime as the atomic bomb was to Stalin." "Seventeen thousand Russian computer scientists work in the United States, and many of them are linked to Russian intelligence services"brilliant people who have been employed by Apple, Microsoft, and other companies for years.""
"The Wall Street Journal reports that Epstein arranged meetings in 2006 between Peter Thiel and the Russian ambassador to the United Nations, Vitaly Churkin. Three days after Churkin's death, Epstein sent this email to Peter Thiel: "My friend the Russian Ambassador is dead. Life is short, let's start with dessert.""