cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/62981270

In the months leading up to Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest on federal sex trafficking charges on July 6, 2019, a small U.S. Virgin Islands bank he owned that had employed no one and laid dormant for years suddenly came alive.

A flurry of transactions totaling more than $20 million passed through the bank named Southern Country International from April to early July that year, according to a Miami Herald investigation based on the recently released documents by the U.S. Justice Department.

And months after the disgraced financier was found dead in a Manhattan detention facility on Aug. 10, an additional $25 million was moved through Southern Country, with roughly a quarter of that amount coming from unspecified sources.

  • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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    17 days ago

    FTA: “But the investigation was closed four years later, a Federal Bureau of Investigation memo says. The memo does not state any findings or the reason for closure.”

    Right around the time Trump was reelected? Must be a coincidence.

    It’d also be interesting to know who the recipients of the payments were once they left Epstein’s shell companies.

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    18 days ago

    “Governor de Jongh had no role in the operations of Southern Country International,” Cevallos said. “He had no involvement in its banking-license application or in any subsequent review of its operations.”

    De Jongh declined to discuss his wife’s relationship and employment with Epstein.

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    17 days ago

    This motherfucker (Epstein) is more likely sitting on a beach raping more kids than buried in whatever they call a grave.