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milestogo
(22,919 posts)Another Jackalope
(154 posts)2.1 billion dollars of it. It's a frankly mind-blowing piece of forensic accounting.
https://randallscott25-star.github.io/epstein-forensic-finance/narratives/19_grand_opus_narrative.html
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I started this project because the documents were public and everybody was reading them. One file at a time, one name at a time. I wanted to do more than read them. I wanted to follow the money across every wire, every shell, every bank and find out where it all led. A shell upon a shell inside a shell.
Thousands of pages of wire transfer records, bank statements, CHIPS and SWIFT logs, canceled checks, and SAR narratives all released by the Department of Justice and various court proceedings. The raw material for a forensic audit was sitting on government servers. So I built one.
Over the course of this project, I processed 10 distinct payment types across 14 financial institutions. The publication ledger holds 10,964 unique transactions totaling $2.146 billion (Unverified). That figure breaks down into four tiers: $1.61 billion in wire transfers, CHIPS, and SWIFT transactions; $343 million in bank statement entries; $7.6 million in checks and cash instruments; and $185 million in contextual document references.
The first three tiers alone total $1.96 billion. That's 104.4% of the aggregate values reported in the banks' own SARs. The data doesn't just corroborate the suspicious activity reports. It slightly exceeds them.
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