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People (8)

  • Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Kissinger's deputy and a Halperin wiretap defendant, Nixon's chief of staff, NATO commander, Reagan's first Secretary of State, and later a director and paid consultant of MGM Mirage, SDC International and DOR BioPharma.
  • Andrew Lourie Federal prosecutor who managed the West Palm Beach office during the Epstein investigation, twice acted as chief of the Public Integrity Section, and left for Criminal Division leadership while the non-prosecution agreement was negotiated.
  • David Bornn St. Thomas lawyer, partner of Epstein's territorial counsel Erika Kellerhals from 2017, then Governor Albert Bryan's chief legal counsel, whom Epstein's circle contacted in 2019 and who relayed Kellerhals's inquiry to Attorney General Denise George.
  • Donald Rumsfeld Illinois congressman, Ford chief of staff and twice Secretary of Defense, G.D. Searle and General Instrument chief executive, Gilead chairman, and Reagan's 1983 envoy to Saddam Hussein.
  • Jeffrey Sloman First Assistant U.S. Attorney in Miami during the Epstein non-prosecution agreement, who negotiated its addendum, supervised the case after Acosta's recusal, then led the office before entering white-collar defense practice.
  • Matthew Menchel Criminal Division chief in the Miami U.S. Attorney's Office who conveyed the 2007 two-year state plea offer to Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers, left for Kobre & Kim weeks later, and later dined with Epstein.
  • Raymond Banoun Former head of the fraud division of the U.S. Attorney's office in Washington who defended BCCI from 1988 and whom the Senate subcommittee found may have willfully misled it.
  • Stephen Cutler American lawyer who ran SEC enforcement, including the 2003 Enron case against JPMorgan Chase, then became JPMorgan's general counsel from 2007 to 2015 while the bank kept Jeffrey Epstein as a client.

Organizations (13)

  • Center for a New American Security Washington national-security think tank founded in 2007 by Kurt Campbell and Michèle Flournoy, funded by defense contractors, the Pentagon and Coefficient Giving, whose chief executive Richard Fontaine sits on Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust.
  • Federation of American Scientists Science-policy nonprofit founded in 1945 by atomic researchers as the Federation of Atomic Scientists, led by the former OSTP official Daniel Correa, whose AI program is funded by the Future of Life Institute.
  • Goldman Sachs New York investment bank founded in 1869 whose former executives became Treasury officials, which paid 550 million dollars in 2010 over a mortgage CDO and entered a 2020 deferred prosecution agreement over 1MDB bribery.
  • In-Q-Tel Nonprofit venture capital firm created by the CIA in 1999 to buy into technology startups with public money, which has made more than 800 investments, leaves many unannounced, and pays its founding sponsor George Tenet as a trustee.
  • Jane Street Capital New York proprietary trading firm that trained Sam Bankman-Fried and Caroline Ellison, agreed in 2024 to buy FTX's Anthropic shares, and faces India's 2025 manipulation order and the Terraform estate's insider trading suit.
  • Kirkland & Ellis American law firm whose partners Jay Lefkowitz and Kenneth Starr negotiated Jeffrey Epstein's 2007 non-prosecution agreement with Alexander Acosta, a former Kirkland associate, and which later employed William Barr.
  • Kissinger Associates New York consulting firm founded by Henry Kissinger in 1982 whose officers Brent Scowcroft and Lawrence Eagleburger advised Banca Nazionale del Lavoro before returning to government during the bank's unreported lending to Iraq.
  • Kobre & Kim Litigation firm founded by two former Manhattan federal securities fraud prosecutors, which hired Matthew Menchel and Andrew Lourie, two supervisors of the 2006 to 2007 Epstein investigation, on leaving government.
  • Office of Science and Technology Policy White House science and technology office whose directors under Biden and Trump shaped federal AI policy, from Eric Lander's 2022 resignation to Michael Kratsios's 2025 AI Action Plan.
  • Scale AI San Francisco AI data company founded in 2016 by Alexandr Wang, holder of 105.6 million dollars in Army obligations, whose Labor Department inquiry was dropped in 2025 and in which Meta bought a non-voting stake.
  • Sequoia Capital Menlo Park venture capital firm founded by Don Valentine in 1972, early investor in Apple, Cisco, PayPal, Square and FTX, which separated from its China and India affiliates in 2023 and 2024.
  • Sullivan & Cromwell New York law firm founded in 1879 whose partners included John Foster Dulles and Allen Dulles, and whose clients ranged from the Schroder bank to the FTX group and Samuel Bankman-Fried.
  • WilmerHale Law firm formed by the 2004 merger of Hale and Dorr and Wilmer Cutler Pickering, which defended JPMorgan Chase in the Virgin Islands Epstein suit and investigated Epstein ties for Bard College and Apollo.