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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) co-authored the law that forced the DOJ to release the Epstein files, named Leon Black on the House floor by name, led the discharge petition that finally got 218 signatures to compel full release, and this week introduced a bill to force AIPAC to register as a foreign agent under FARA. He is four days from a primary against a candidate — Ed Gallrein — who has refused every single debate request, has never once stated a public position on releasing the Epstein files, and whose entire campaign was funded almost entirely by outside money that traces back to people named in those same files.

Gallrein has received $11,824,741 in pro-Israel PAC spending as of May 13, 2026. Source: TrackAIPAC via fec.gov.

Here is where that money comes from.

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LEON BLACK — $170 MILLION TO EPSTEIN

The Senate Finance Committee confirmed Leon Black, co-founder of Apollo Global Management, transferred $170 million to Jeffrey Epstein between 2012 and 2017 — years after Epstein's 2008 conviction. He signed a $62 million settlement with the U.S. Virgin Islands government that gave him criminal immunity specifically for financing Epstein's trafficking operations. The Epstein files corpus contains a victim journal entry (EFTA02731420) naming Black as a perpetrator. The IRS has never audited any of his Epstein payments. A major bank waited seven years to file required suspicious activity reports on his transactions — a potential federal crime.

Trump appointed Black's son Ben as CEO of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, confirmed by the Senate October 7, 2025. Ben Black now controls $250 billion in government investment authority while his father remains under active Senate investigation for funding Epstein's trafficking infrastructure.

Black donates to the Congressional Leadership Fund and Senate Leadership Fund — the same GOP super PAC network anchoring the money around Gallrein.

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MARC ROWAN — APOLLO CEO, CONFIRMED POST-CONVICTION EPSTEIN MEETINGS

Rowan replaced Black as Apollo CEO. DOJ files released February 2026 show he maintained direct contact with Epstein from 2013 to 2016 including in-person meetings at Epstein's Manhattan townhouse — five years after Epstein's conviction. His own scheduling email in the corpus reads: "If Jeff wants to meet in person, I am in NYC Aug 21(10-12), Sept 3 (1030-2), Sept 10 (9-4), Sept 11 (2-5)." (EFTA01961770)

Apollo told investors in annual SEC filings it "never did any business with Jeffrey Epstein." Rowan certified those statements under Sarbanes-Oxley. A securities class action was filed against Apollo and Rowan on April 29, 2026 in the Southern District of New York (Perez v. Apollo, 1:26-cv-03550) alleging those certifications were materially false.

In the first six months of 2025, Rowan donated $1 million to the Congressional Leadership Fund and $1 million to the Senate Leadership Fund — $3 million total to Republican PACs in six months.

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JOHN PAULSON — $250,000 DIRECTLY TO MAGA KY PAC, IN EPSTEIN'S BLACK BOOK

Thomas Massie confirmed on Democracy Now: "the one who's in Epstein's black book is John Paulson." EFTA01830219 shows Epstein directing his assistant Lesley Groff — one of the women named as unindicted co-conspirators in the 2007 Epstein plea deal — to "call John Pauson re stopping by." Groff was part of Epstein's trafficking infrastructure. That is who was routing contact to Paulson.

A 2013 invitation to an American Jewish Congress event lists Paulson as a co-sender with the invitation addressed to Epstein — four years after his conviction. (EFTA01955652)

Files also show Paulson coordinating with Epstein around fundraising connected to Howard Lutnick — Trump's current Commerce Secretary — who admitted under Senate questioning that he took his family to lunch on Epstein's private island in 2012.

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PAUL SINGER — $1,000,000, THE SINGLE LARGEST MAGA KY DONOR

Singer appears in Epstein corpus contact and name lists (EFTA02686105, EFTA02707384). His firm Elliott Management was a major creditor in the Caesars Entertainment bankruptcy — the same restructuring where Epstein brokered deals between Nicholas Ribis and Leon Black as intermediary. Singer sits on the Manhattan Institute board alongside Paulson. He donated $2.5 million to AIPAC's United Democracy Project super PAC.

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MIRIAM ADELSON — $750,000 VIA PRESERVE AMERICA PAC

No direct Epstein file connection. Her involvement is financial and political: $100 million to Trump's 2024 campaign through Preserve America PAC, $750,000 of which was transferred to MAGA KY PAC. She owns Israel Hayom, Israel's largest-circulation newspaper. Her political giving is oriented entirely around protecting unconditional U.S. support for Israel. She has an obvious motive for removing Thomas Massie, who has never voted for foreign aid to any country including Israel.

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HOW THE MONEY ACTUALLY REACHES GALLREIN

Three layers, each designed to obscure the connection:

Layer one is MAGA KY PAC (FEC: C00908723) — raised $3.189 million from those three donors and spent $2.76 million in independent expenditures attacking Thomas Massie. Run by Chris LaCivita and Tony Fabrizio — Trump's own former co-campaign manager and pollster.

Layer two is Democracy Engine, an ActBlue-founded platform AIPAC uses to route individual donor money to candidates without AIPAC's name appearing on the FEC filing. FEC records confirm AIPAC paid Democracy Engine $1.42 million in processing fees this cycle alone. The Republican Jewish Coalition PAC contributed $63,898 directly to Gallrein's campaign.

Layer three is $11,760,843 in independent expenditures — technically spent "against Thomas Massie" rather than "for Gallrein," keeping it legally separate from the campaign while accomplishing the same political result.

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THE PATTERN THAT MAKES THIS MORE THAN NORMAL POLITICS

Gallrein refused every debate request — five or more — including from friendly local radio stations. He sent a surrogate to read his speech when a county GOP dinner announced audience Q&A. He has never stated a public position on releasing the Epstein files. His only identifiable platform position is supporting Trump.

Within hours of each major Epstein file release, MAGA KY bought new waves of ads attacking Thomas Massie. The timing is documented in multiple press reports and Massie's own statements. The correlation between file drops and ad buys is not coincidental.

The Bondi DOJ has taken zero criminal action against anyone in the Black-Epstein financial network despite a $62 million immunity deal explicitly confirming Black funded trafficking operations. The IRS has never audited the payments. Apollo certified false Sarbanes-Oxley statements to the SEC. A federal lawsuit is now pending.

Ben Black runs a $250 billion government agency while his father finances the political removal of the congressman who exposed his father.

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THE ONE-SENTENCE VERSION

The man who forced Epstein's files into public view — Rep. Thomas Massie — is four days from losing his seat to a candidate funded by the people those files implicate.

The primary is Tuesday May 19. Kentucky's 4th Congressional District.

If you're in KY-04, vote. If you know someone who is, send this.

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SOURCES: FEC.gov · DOJ EFTA Corpus (EFTA01830219, EFTA02731420, EFTA01961770, EFTA01955652, EFTA02686105) · Senate Finance Committee letters March 2025, July 2025, March 2026 · TrackAIPAC (trackaipac.com) · Drop Site News May 2026 · Daily Pennsylvanian Oct 2025 · Perez v. Apollo SDNY 1:26-cv-03550 · OpenSecrets · Senate confirmation PN25-5 · Business Insider Feb 2026 · Democracy Now Sept 4 2025

This post is about one congressman: Rep. Kevin Mullin, Democrat, California’s 15th Congressional District, San Mateo County. It documents three things using public records, FEC filings, DOJ-released EFTA documents, Senate Finance Committee investigation letters, federal court filings, and congressional vote records: (1) the Epstein-connected individuals in the donor network that financed his elections, (2) his voting record on Israel military aid and related legislation, and (3) his public silence on the documented Epstein ties of his donors while his colleagues across the aisle have spoken extensively on the record. All claims are sourced. Victim allegations from the EFTA files are identified as allegations. Financial records, government investigation findings, and court filings are identified as such.
SECTION 1: HOW MULLIN WAS FINANCED
According to Track AIPAC, which sources its data from FEC.gov filings, pro-Israel PACs and associated independent expenditure groups spent $732,366 on Mullin’s elections as of April 23, 2026. This breaks down as $128,685 in direct PAC contributions and $603,681 in independent expenditures. The primary vehicle was United Democracy Project (UDP), AIPAC’s super PAC, which spent $588,767 in independent expenditures supporting Mullin’s 2022 general election. AIPAC PAC made a direct contribution of $7,900. AIPAC’s own spokesperson stated publicly: “We were proud to endorse and back Kevin Mullin because of his demonstrated support for the U.S.-Israel relationship.” [J. Weekly, November 19, 2022] Democratic Majority for Israel (DMFI) also endorsed Mullin in March 2022 and made independent expenditures on his behalf. [Jewish Insider, October 12, 2022]
The FEC-disclosed individual donors who funded UDP across the 2022 and 2024 cycles include: AIPAC’s institutional treasury ($8.5 million, 2022 cycle), Jan Koum — WhatsApp co-founder, resident of San Mateo County in Mullin’s district — ($2 million in 2022, $5 million in 2024, total $7 million), Paul Singer of Elliott Management ($1 million, 2022 cycle), Bernard Marcus of Home Depot ($1 million in 2022, approximately $3 million in 2024), Haim Saban ($1 million, 2022 cycle), Jonathon Jacobson of HighSage Ventures ($1 million in 2022, approximately $4.6 million in 2024), David Zalik of GreenSky (approximately $2 million, 2024 cycle), and Marc Rowan, CEO of Apollo Global Management ($250,000 to AIPAC-affiliated groups, 2024 cycle). [OpenSecrets, November 17, 2022; Times of Israel, July 23, 2022; FactCheck.org, September 2024; LittleSis.org; Truthout, September 2024]
SECTION 2: WHAT THE EPSTEIN FILES SHOW ABOUT MULLIN’S DONORS
Three donors in Mullin’s funding network have documented connections to the Epstein files. The documentation ranges from financial records and congressional investigation findings to direct victim allegations. Each is presented separately.
Marc Rowan — CEO of Apollo Global Management, $250,000 to AIPAC-affiliated groups
Marc Rowan appears by name in multiple DOJ-released EFTA documents confirming direct personal contact with Epstein after Epstein’s 2008 sex-offender conviction. Document EFTA01961770 contains Rowan’s own email to Epstein’s assistant listing his personal in-person availability for meetings: “If Jeff wants to meet in person, I am in NYC Aug 21(10-12), Sept 3 (1030-2), Sept 10 (9-4), Sept 11 (2-5).” Document EFTA01755467 contains scheduling correspondence from Rowan’s executive assistant, identified as working for “Marc Rowan, Apollo Management, L.P., 9 West 57th Street,” confirming a meeting with Epstein. Document EFTA02130554 shows a meeting rescheduled for Sunday September 8, 2013 at 8am at Epstein’s home at 9 East 71st Street. Documents EFTA02130796 and EFTA02130782 contain correspondence providing Rowan’s personal cell phone number to Epstein’s team for that meeting. The DOJ files show Rowan had at least five scheduled meetings with Epstein, that an Apollo president made a 2013 request for Epstein to meet Apollo’s full executive committee, and that Rowan forwarded internal Apollo financial data including a tax receivable agreement calculation directly to Epstein in March 2016. [Bloomberg, January 30, 2026; Daily Pennsylvanian, February 2, 2026; Axios, February 17, 2026; CNN Business, February 21, 2026] Apollo issued a client letter on February 18, 2026 stating “neither Marc Rowan nor anyone else at Apollo (excluding Leon Black) had either a business or personal relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.” On April 29, 2026, a federal securities class action was filed in the Southern District of New York — Perez v. Apollo Global Management, Inc., et al., No. 1:26-cv-03550 — alleging that Apollo’s repeated public denials of an Epstein business relationship were materially false and incorporated into SEC filings carrying Sarbanes-Oxley certifications signed by Rowan. [InvestmentNews, April 29, 2026]
Leon Black — Apollo co-founder, predecessor to Rowan as CEO, donor to the Apollo/AIPAC donor ecosystem
Leon Black co-founded Apollo with Rowan. The Senate Finance Committee has conducted a four-year investigation into Black’s financial relationship with Epstein, led by Sen. Ron Wyden. The investigation found Black paid Epstein $170 million — $12 million more than Apollo’s own internal Dechert investigation disclosed, with no explanation provided for the discrepancy. Approximately $100 million was paid with no written contract or services agreement. A $10 million payment was routed through a 501(c)(3) charitable organization to avoid public disclosure, per internal emails from Epstein’s lawyer Richard Kahn. [Senate Finance Committee, July 25, 2023; March 23, 2026] The USVI settlement — in which Black paid $62.5 million for immunity from criminal prosecution in the U.S. Virgin Islands — states directly: “Jeffrey Epstein used the money Black paid him to partially fund his operations in the Virgin Islands.” [USVI settlement, released by Wyden March 12, 2025] Wyden wrote to Black on March 23, 2026: “You were among Jeffrey Epstein’s primary sources of income, flooding him with cash at a time when he was already a registered sex offender.” EFTA document EFTA01368849 contains a Deutsche Bank internal document identifying “Elysium is Leon Black” — Elysium Management LLC being one of Black’s entities. EFTA00583120 and EFTA00594105 show Epstein personally guaranteed BV70 LLC loans of $22.5 million and $8 million, with BV70 being Black’s yacht entity. A $22.5 million wire was documented flowing from BV70 LLC to Epstein’s aircraft entity. EFTA00002012 documents a Bank of America account for Leon D. Black and Debra Black with Epstein’s assistant Melanie Spinella holding power of attorney. EFTA01927822 documents Epstein and Joi Ito discussing a “slush fund” with the question “Will it be coming from Leon Black? How much?” and EFTA02584438 shows Ito confirming “$500K came into my slush fund account. Thanks! Should I thank Leon Black?” regarding MIT Media Lab donations. The EFTA corpus documents over 30 calendar entries showing Black-Epstein meetings spanning 2013 to 2016, with 178 total documented meetings and phone calls. Black’s financial papers were physically found in a room on Epstein’s Little St. James Island during the August 2019 FBI raid per the raid photo log. Regarding victim allegations — these are allegations, not adjudicated findings, and no criminal charges have been filed against Black: EFTA02731427 contains a transcribed entry from a coded victim diary describing a visit to Epstein’s 71st Street townhouse in which the author states she was physically assaulted by Black. Two additional independent victim accounts describe the same specific pattern of conduct. The victims have no documented connection to each other. Attorney Jeanne Christensen told SDNY prosecutors the conduct was “too abnormal to make up” and stated “there is nothing publicly out there about the details of his specific sex acts with our client, so there is no way she could know.” A 2023 victim statement in the EFTA files is addressed directly to Black and states: “Leon. You sexually harassed me, sex trafficked me, raped me, and eventually blacklisted me.” [EFTA02731630-02731783 series] EFTA documents EFTA02731636 and EFTA02731689 contain SDNY internal files in which the investigation is titled “Leon Black/Additional HT Subject Referral” — HT denoting Human Trafficking. A June 2023 SDNY internal email documents coordination with DANY, noting DANY’s interest in passing the case because trafficking of a minor occurred in New York on at least two occasions. SDNY’s documented internal response: “we are not likely to open another investigation.” No charges have been filed. [Just Security, EFTA timeline; Business Insider, February 10, 2026]
Paul Singer — Elliott Management, $1 million to UDP in 2022
Paul Singer contributed $1 million to UDP in the 2022 election cycle, the same cycle UDP spent $588,767 electing Mullin. Singer also contributed $1 million to MAGA KY, the super PAC that ran ads targeting Rep. Thomas Massie’s reelection during the period Massie was forcing a House vote on the Epstein Files Transparency Act. [FEC filings; The Hill, January 31, 2026] Massie stated publicly: “Within hours of the Epstein file release, a superPAC funded by Israel-first billionaires Miriam Adelson, Paul Singer, and John Paulson, who himself appears in Epstein’s black book, bought another $800,000 of TV ads against me.” [The Hill, January 31, 2026] Regarding Singer’s own Epstein connection: EFTA document EFTA01904108 contains an email from Epstein’s associate Cecile de Jongh asking Epstein whether he knows “Paul Singer of Elliott Management.” Epstein replied “no.” No financial relationship or personal contact between Singer and Epstein has been documented in the released EFTA files.
Section 2 Additional: Palantir, Peter Thiel, Epstein’s Money
This is included because it documents how Epstein’s money flows into the same pro-Israel tech-defense infrastructure that Mullin’s donor network supports ideologically and financially. Peter Thiel co-founded Palantir Technologies. House Oversight Committee documents released in 2026 confirmed Epstein invested $40 million into two funds managed by Valar Ventures, a firm co-founded by Thiel, in 2015 and 2016. That investment grew to approximately $170 million and is currently the largest single remaining asset in Epstein’s estate. [New York Times; Wikipedia/Peter Thiel, citing House Oversight 2026; Byline Times, February 4-19, 2026] A DOJ EFTA-released email from former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to investor Nicole Junckermann describes a Valar Ventures meeting as involving a fund “owned by Peter Thiel and JE [Jeffrey Epstein].” Thiel’s spokesman confirmed Epstein was a limited partner but denied co-ownership. [Byline Times, February 19, 2026] Palantir signed a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense in January 2024 described as supporting “war-related missions.” Investigative reporting by +972 Magazine and Local Call documented the Israeli AI targeting system Lavender, which IDF sources said listed over 37,000 Palestinians for targeting in the first months of the conflict. When asked about this at Cambridge University in May 2024, Thiel stated: “My bias is to defer to Israel. It’s not for us to second-guess everything.” [Responsible Statecraft, July 25, 2024; +972 Magazine; Democracy Now!, April 5, 2024] Track AIPAC separately documents that Thiel spent $15 million funding JD Vance’s 2022 Senate campaign and that Vance received over $167,000 in Israel lobby contributions. [Track AIPAC, trackaipac.com/trump]
SECTION 3: WHAT MULLIN VOTED FOR
The following votes are verified through House Clerk records and the AJP Action congressional Palestine scorecard (ajpaction.org/democratic-scorecard/kevin-mullin), which grades Mullin F with a 27% total score. Yea: H.Res.771 standing with Israel (October 25, 2023). H.R.340 Hamas International Financing Prevention Act (November 1, 2023). H.Res.798 condemning Hamas support at universities (November 2, 2023). LHHS Amendment banning funds to colleges under IHRA antisemitism definition (November 15, 2023). H.Res.793 calling on Hamas to release hostages (November 28, 2023). Resolution affirming Israel’s right to exist (November 28, 2023). Spending bill cutting UNRWA funding (March 22, 2024). H.Res.883 declaring “from the river to the sea” antisemitic (April 16, 2024). H.Res.1143 condemning Iran’s missile attack on Israel (April 17, 2024). H.R.8034 Israel Security Supplemental Appropriations Act providing approximately $17 billion in military assistance to Israel (April 20, 2024). Discharge petition for the $95 billion Israel/Ukraine/Taiwan foreign aid package (March 2024). Non-signatory: Bilateral Ceasefire Letter (November 17, 2023). Letter urging Biden to shift military strategy to reduce civilian casualties (January 26, 2024). World Central Kitchen accountability letter (April 16, 2024). Biden Administration Weapon Transfer Compliance Letter (October 16, 2023).
SECTION 4: MULLIN’S PUBLIC RECORD ON EPSTEIN
Mullin voted Yea on the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 18, 2025 (House vote 427-1). That is his only documented public position on Epstein. His official House website, kevinmullin.house.gov, contains no statements addressing the following: the EFTA-documented meetings between Marc Rowan and Epstein, the Senate Finance Committee’s four-year investigation into Leon Black as Epstein’s primary financier, the USVI finding that Black’s money funded Epstein’s trafficking operations, the SDNY human trafficking referral opened on Black that resulted in no charges, the federal securities class action against Apollo and Rowan filed April 2026, or Paul Singer’s documented role in funding the anti-Massie PAC during the Epstein transparency fight. For comparison, the following colleagues have spoken publicly on Epstein-related accountability matters: Rep. Ro Khanna (D-CA-17), who co-sponsored the Epstein Files Transparency Act with Massie and appeared on Democracy Now! to discuss financial suppression of the files. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY), who filed the discharge petition, named donors by name in public statements, and called for accountability across party lines. Both Khanna and Massie represent districts in the same general region or national conversation. Khanna represents the district immediately adjacent to Mullin’s in Silicon Valley. Mullin has said nothing.
SECTION 5: SOURCES
Track AIPAC FEC data, April 23, 2026. J. Weekly, November 19, 2022. Jewish Insider, October 12, 2022. OpenSecrets, November 17, 2022. Times of Israel, July 23, 2022. FactCheck.org, September 2024. LittleSis.org; Truthout, September 2024. The Hill, January 31, 2026. Raw Story, September 2, 2025. Democracy Now!, September 4, 2025. EFTA documents: EFTA01961770, EFTA01755467, EFTA02130554, EFTA02130796, EFTA02130782, EFTA02731018, EFTA02731427, EFTA02731636, EFTA02731689, EFTA01927822, EFTA02584438, EFTA01927911, EFTA01368849, EFTA00583120, EFTA00594105, EFTA00002012, EFTA00156644, EFTA01904108 — all searchable at justice.gov/epstein and epsteinexposed.com. Bloomberg, January 30 and February 18, 2026. Daily Pennsylvanian, February 2, 2026. Axios, February 17, 2026. CNN Business, February 21, 2026. InvestmentNews, April 29, 2026. Perez v. Apollo Global Management No. 1:26-cv-03550 S.D.N.Y. Senate Finance Committee: July 25, 2023; March 12, 2025; March 23, 2026. USVI settlement, Leon Black, March 12, 2025. Hyperallergic, February 5, 2026. Business Insider, February 10, 2026. Just Security, FBI/SDNY/NYPD Epstein timeline. New York Times, Epstein/Valar reporting. Byline Times, February 4 and 19, 2026. Wikipedia/Peter Thiel, House Oversight 2026. Responsible Statecraft, July 25, 2024. +972 Magazine/Local Call, Lavender investigation. Democracy Now!, April 5, 2024. Middle East Eye, August 30, 2024. Track AIPAC, trackaipac.com/trump. AJP Action, ajpaction.org/democratic-scorecard/kevin-mullin. House Clerk Roll Call 289, November 18, 2025.

Steve Hilton is running for Governor of California. He has raised $7.1 million. His named major donors include Rupert Murdoch and Sergey Brin. The ideological network surrounding his campaign includes Peter Thiel, whose Palantir Technologies is now the AI targeting infrastructure behind Israeli military operations in Gaza, Lebanon, and Iran. Every one of these men appears in the Epstein files.

The man who connected them across a decade of elite access brokerage was also the man who put Steve Hilton’s name into those files. His name is Ian Osborne. DOJ Epstein file EFTA01861186 contains an email from Rohan Silva, Head of the Prime Minister’s Policy Unit under David Cameron, to Ian Osborne. It reads: “Hi, a funny one this, but Steve and I are really keen to meet up with Woody Allen. I don’t suppose you know someone who knows someone who knows him, do you?” Steve is Steve Hilton, Cameron’s Director of Strategy, the second most powerful unelected official in the British government at the time. Osborne’s response, documented in EFTA01861385, was to forward the request directly to Jeffrey Epstein, describing Allen as “your friend” and offering Cameron himself as additional incentive. EFTA00915738 confirms Osborne told Epstein “Yes, we would arrange it so that Cameron would be there for at least part of his time at No 10.”

Woody Allen is documented in the files as a regular guest at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse from 2010 onward. In 2025 Allen stated publicly he had no regrets about his friendship with Epstein. Read that slowly. The Director of Strategy for the British Prime Minister used a man who was simultaneously structuring Jeffrey Epstein’s investment empire as his personal fixer for celebrity access. The sitting Prime Minister was offered as currency to a convicted sex trafficker to arrange a meeting with one of Epstein’s closest documented social contacts. This is not a peripheral mention in a news article. This is operational. Now follow the money into Hilton’s campaign and follow every dollar back into the files. Rupert Murdoch is a named major donor to Steve Hilton’s governor campaign.

Murdoch employed Hilton at Fox News for six years, building the platform Hilton is now using to run for office. Murdoch is in Epstein’s personal contact book. Documents EFTA02159573, EFTA02159642, and EFTA02159729 show that in September 2012, four years after Epstein’s conviction for child sex crimes, Epstein was actively orchestrating a meeting between Wendi Deng Murdoch and the head of the Nobel Peace Prize committee through Ian Osborne. In that same email thread Osborne references a Bloomberg commitment that same evening. The Osborne legal memo in EFTA01108051 shows Osborne and Partners was simultaneously managing confidential PR strategy for Rupert Murdoch personally during the phone hacking criminal scandal. The man bankrolling Hilton’s path to Sacramento had his family and his criminal defense being managed by the same fixer who was routing Hilton’s access requests through Epstein’s network. Sergey Brin is a named major donor to Steve Hilton’s governor campaign. Brin appears on Epstein’s Seminar-MONEY invite list documented in EFTA02172320 and EFTA02172748, an attendee list coordinated between Epstein’s assistant Lesley Groff and Ian Osborne. Epstein accuser Sarah Ransome placed Brin and his then-wife Anne Wojcicki on Epstein’s private island. Brin communicated directly with Ghislaine Maxwell about dinner at Epstein’s townhouse in 2003. The US Virgin Islands subpoenaed Brin in 2023 in connection with Epstein’s JPMorgan banking relationships. Brin and Osborne appear on the same Epstein conference planning documents. Brin is now writing checks to the man whose colleagues used Osborne as their fixer. Now come to Peter Thiel and what the Epstein files reveal about Palantir, Israel, and the surveillance infrastructure that is now killing civilians across the Middle East. Peter Thiel appears in 2,906 documents in the Epstein files. He attended dinners at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse. He was invited to Epstein’s private island. He co-organized the Dialog 2014 off-the-record retreat and directly invited Jeffrey Epstein to attend. His relationship with Epstein lasted from 2012 through January 2019, six months before Epstein’s arrest, continuing eight years after Epstein’s conviction for child sex crimes. Epstein’s primary conduit for reaching Thiel during those years was Ian Osborne, the same Ian Osborne who was simultaneously managing Hilton’s access requests and Murdoch’s criminal PR and structuring Hedosophia with Epstein’s financial guidance. The Palantir-Israel connection that now defines Thiel’s legacy did not emerge organically. According to DOJ documents reported by Jacobin and Boing Boing, Epstein spent years trying to connect Thiel with former Israeli Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak, arranging at least six separate meetings because Barak specifically wanted to connect Israeli national security infrastructure with Silicon Valley AI capabilities. A June 2014 dinner at Epstein’s Manhattan apartment brought Thiel, Barak, and Epstein together to discuss Israeli security. Epstein’s emails record Thiel responding enthusiastically that the evening was “very Israeli and very stimulating.” Barak pushed Epstein to organize an AI and warfare seminar with Thiel and other top thinkers. A recorded conversation from 2013 captured in the DOJ files has Epstein advising Barak to look at Palantir as a business opportunity and offering to broker a senior role for Barak at Thiel’s firm. In 2018 Thiel’s Founders Fund led a $15 million investment round into Carbyne, an Israeli cybersecurity company with roots in Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s cyber intelligence arm, a deal arranged directly through the Epstein introduction network. Today Palantir holds a strategic partnership with Israel’s Ministry of Defense. It was named by the United Nations in 2025 as one of the companies profiting from the genocide in Gaza. Its AI systems including Lavender, Gospel, and Where’s Daddy identified over 37,000 Palestinians for targeting in the first months of the war alone. In February 2026 Palantir’s data analysis was part of the military planning for Operation Epic Fury, the US-Israel strike on Iran. Asked about ethical concerns Thiel has stated publicly “my bias is to defer to Israel.” The path from Epstein’s dinner table to Gaza’s kill lists runs through documented introductions in the files you can search right now at justice.gov/epstein. Thiel has not donated directly to Hilton’s California campaign in amounts currently visible in state filings. But the ideological and financial network he represents saturates Hilton’s donor base and political identity. Hilton was endorsed by Vivek Ramaswamy, a Thiel network figure. His entire Silicon Valley donor ecosystem operates inside the same tech-nationalist ideological framework Thiel has spent two decades building. The question is not whether Thiel’s money is directly in Hilton’s campaign today. The question is what a Hilton governorship does for the regulatory environment in the state where Palantir operates, where Sergey Brin’s Alphabet dominates the digital economy, and where Rupert Murdoch’s media empire wants to consolidate further. Ian Osborne is the thread that binds this entire network. Over a dozen Epstein documents show Osborne and Epstein structuring Hedosophia, the secretive Guernsey investment fund explicitly branded for elite circles with a $50 to $80 million initial target that became one of London’s most important tech investment vehicles, backing Uber, Spotify, Alibaba, and Ant Financial. Osborne appears 108 times in the indexed Epstein files, the fifth most frequent non-Epstein figure in the entire corpus. He was simultaneously managing access to British government for Epstein, managing Murdoch’s criminal PR, appearing on Epstein’s Silicon Valley conference planning lists alongside Brin, serving as the primary conduit for Epstein’s attempts to reach Peter Thiel, and transmitting Steve Hilton’s personal access requests to a convicted pedophile as though this was a normal way to navigate elite networks. Because in that world, it was. A Hilton governorship viewed through this lens is not a mystery. It is a projection. Murdoch gets a California governor whose communications infrastructure is modeled on Fox News and who owes his entire political platform to Murdoch’s media machine. Brin and Alphabet get a governor committed to dismantling the regulatory framework California has built around tech accountability, data privacy, and gig worker protections. The Thiel-Palantir network gets a governor in the most powerful state in America who will not challenge surveillance capitalism, will not resist defense contractor capture of state technology contracts, and will not question the foreign policy commitments of the men who built his career. The Cameron austerity playbook that Hilton directed in the UK, which cut public services by 25 to 40 percent while slashing taxes for the donor class, gets a new laboratory in the largest state economy on earth. And underneath all of it, the Epstein question that this community asks better than anyone else. Epstein’s documented function was not just introductions. It was the systematic accumulation of information that created leverage and long-term obligation among the most powerful people in the world. We know what has been released. We do not know what remains redacted. We do not know what Osborne, Murdoch, Brin, Thiel, and their networks discussed in the documents still withheld. We do not know what Epstein knew about the people now funding Steve Hilton’s campaign. We do not know what information from those relationships persists and what it is worth when one of the network’s own seeks the governorship of California. What we know is what the released files already show. And what they already show is damning enough. Follow the money. Then follow it into the files. Then ask what the files they haven’t released yet might say. All Epstein file references are drawn from the DOJ EFTA production publicly searchable at justice.gov/epstein. Key document numbers: EFTA01861186, EFTA01861385, EFTA00915738, EFTA02159573, EFTA02159642, EFTA02159729, EFTA02172320, EFTA02172748, EFTA01843639, EFTA01842917, EFTA01842514, EFTA01849248. Palantir-Israel-Epstein reporting sourced from Jacobin March and April 2026, Middle East Eye, Boing Boing, and AFSC Investigate. Campaign finance figures sourced from California Secretary of State filings April 2026. Peter Thiel Epstein file data sourced from epsteinexposed.com indexed corpus of 2.77 million released pages.

Important context. Researchers estimate the DOJ has released only a fraction of the total Epstein files. Millions of pages remain unreleased, redacted, or withheld under law enforcement exemptions. What follows is drawn exclusively from documents already made public at justice.gov/epstein. What has not yet been released may tell a far more complete story. Keep that in mind as you read every connection documented below, because every connection below exists in what Epstein’s network apparently considered safe enough to leave in writing.

Additionally Rupert Murdoch’s criminal scandal is one of the most extensively documented cases of institutional corruption in the history of modern media and it is worth understanding in full detail because it reveals exactly how his network operates and why his connection to Ian Osborne in the Epstein files is so significant and why his investment in Steve Hilton’s California governor campaign should alarm every voter in the state regardless of their political affiliation. The phone hacking scandal began at News of the World, Murdoch’s British tabloid that had been publishing since 1843 and was one of the highest circulation newspapers in the English-speaking world. Journalists and private investigators working for the paper had been illegally accessing the voicemail messages of thousands of people including members of the royal family, politicians, celebrities, and crime victims going back to at least the early 2000s. The initial exposure came in 2006 when royal correspondent Clive Goodman and private investigator Glenn Mulcaire were arrested and convicted for hacking the phones of royal aides. News International, Murdoch’s UK subsidiary, initially claimed the hacking was limited to Goodman acting as a lone bad actor, a defense that collapsed completely over the following five years as evidence of systemic institutional hacking emerged. The scandal reached its most explosive moment in July 2011 when the Guardian newspaper revealed that News of the World journalists had hacked the voicemail of Milly Dowler, a 13 year old schoolgirl who had been abducted and murdered in 2002. Journalists had accessed and deleted her voicemail messages while she was still missing, giving her family false hope that she was alive and simultaneously destroying evidence in a murder investigation. The public outrage was immediate and overwhelming. Within days Murdoch announced the closure of News of the World after 168 years of publication. It was the single most dramatic act of corporate damage control in British media history and it did not work. What followed was a years-long criminal investigation that ultimately resulted in the arrest of dozens of journalists, executives, and police officers. Rebekah Brooks, who had been editor of News of the World during the Milly Dowler hacking period and later became chief executive of News International, was arrested and charged with phone hacking, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice, and misconduct in public office. She was acquitted of all charges in 2014 in a verdict that shocked many observers given the documentary evidence presented. Her husband Charlie Brooks was convicted of perverting the course of justice for helping hide evidence including a laptop during the investigation. Andy Coulson, another former News of the World editor who had become David Cameron’s director of communications at Downing Street, the same Downing Street where Steve Hilton served as Director of Strategy, was convicted of phone hacking conspiracy and sentenced to 18 months in prison. The fact that Cameron’s communications chief was convicted of criminal conspiracy while Hilton was serving as Cameron’s strategy chief is a context that almost never gets mentioned in coverage of Hilton’s California campaign. The police corruption dimension is equally significant and less well understood. The Metropolitan Police had investigated phone hacking in 2006 and essentially buried the investigation despite having evidence of widespread criminal activity. A subsequent inquiry found that senior Metropolitan Police officers had taken payments from News International journalists for information and had actively suppressed the investigation to protect their relationships with Murdoch’s organization. Several police officers were ultimately convicted of corrupt payments. The relationship between Murdoch’s organization and British law enforcement was not just one of institutional deference. It was documented financial corruption operating over years. The parliamentary dimension produced some of the most extraordinary scenes in British political history. Murdoch and his son James appeared before the House of Commons Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee in July 2011. During the hearing a protestor attacked Murdoch with a foam pie, his wife Wendi Deng famously lunged across the table to strike the attacker, and Murdoch delivered his statement that it was the most humble day of his life. Committee members pressed both Murdochs on what they knew and when. Both claimed ignorance of the systematic nature of the hacking. Rupert Murdoch’s performance was widely described as that of a frail elderly man struggling to recall basic facts about his own organization, a presentation that many observers found difficult to reconcile with his decades-long reputation as one of the most hands-on and detail-oriented media executives in the world. The Leveson Inquiry ran in parallel with the criminal proceedings and produced a comprehensive examination of the relationship between the British press and public life. Lord Justice Leveson’s report documented in forensic detail how Murdoch’s executives had cultivated relationships with police, politicians, and public officials through a combination of favors, threats, and the implied power of the News International papers to make or destroy careers and reputations. The inquiry established that News International had operated what amounted to a shadow influence operation over British public life for decades, with politicians from all major parties competing for Murdoch’s favor and modifying their policy positions accordingly. Tony Blair’s government approved a media ownership acquisition by News Corp that critics argued was directly connected to the Sun’s electoral support. David Cameron hired Andy Coulson as his communications chief despite warnings about Coulson’s involvement in phone hacking, a decision that led directly to a convicted criminal operating at the heart of the British government.

Now bring Ian Osborne back into this picture because this is where the Epstein connection becomes most revealing. The Epstein files document in EFTA01108051 that Osborne and Partners was managing confidential PR strategy for Rupert Murdoch personally during the phone hacking crisis. This means that at the precise moment Murdoch’s organization was under criminal investigation, facing parliamentary inquiry, and managing the most serious reputational crisis in its history, the man Murdoch turned to for confidential strategic counsel was Ian Osborne, who was simultaneously structuring Jeffrey Epstein’s investment empire, transmitting Steve Hilton’s access requests through Epstein’s network, and building the relationships across British government, Silicon Valley, and global finance that made him the most important fixer in elite circles that nobody outside those circles had ever heard of. Osborne was also separately documented in the files as managing PR for Murdoch’s son-in-law through a related entity at the same time. The significance of this for your research is profound. Murdoch did not hire a conventional crisis PR firm to manage the most serious criminal scandal of his career. He hired a man who was embedded in Jeffrey Epstein’s operational network and who had simultaneous access to Downing Street, Silicon Valley, Wall Street, and the Nobel Peace Prize committee. That choice tells you something important about how Murdoch views the world and who he trusts when his back is against the wall. Now consider Steve Hilton’s specific relationship with Murdoch and what it reveals about the transaction currently underway in the California governor’s race. Hilton did not stumble into a relationship with Murdoch accidentally. He was hired by Fox News in 2017 and given his own primetime show The Next Revolution, a platform that reached millions of American conservatives every week and that Hilton used to build the national political brand he is now deploying in California.

Fox News does not give primetime shows to people it has not thoroughly vetted and whose political utility it has not carefully assessed. Murdoch’s organization chose Hilton deliberately, shaped his public identity deliberately, and is now funding his political campaign deliberately. This is not a donor relationship. This is a years-long investment in a political asset. Hilton spent six years inside Murdoch’s media infrastructure learning exactly what messages resonate with conservative audiences, exactly how to frame economic grievance in ways that protect the donor class while appearing to challenge it, and exactly how to use the Fox News brand as a political launching pad. Everything about Hilton’s California campaign, its messaging, its media strategy, its fundraising network, and its policy platform, bears the fingerprints of the organization that incubated it. When Murdoch writes a check to Hilton’s governor campaign he is not making a charitable contribution to a candidate he admires. He is activating an asset he has spent years and significant resources developing. The historical pattern of what Murdoch extracts from politicians he has invested in is documented across five decades and three countries and it is consistent without exception.

In Australia Murdoch’s papers supported politicians who weakened media ownership regulations that would have constrained his expansion. In the United Kingdom his papers supported politicians who approved News Corp acquisitions, blocked public broadcasting funding that would have competed with his properties, and suppressed investigations into his organization’s criminal conduct. In the United States Fox News has spent three decades shaping Republican politics toward culture war framing specifically designed to protect the regulatory and tax environment that has allowed Murdoch’s empire to grow unchallenged.

The Dominion case revealed that Fox News executives knew they were broadcasting election fraud lies and chose to continue because losing their audience to more extreme competitors was a greater business threat than the damage to democratic institutions. Murdoch’s testimony in that case established that he had the power to stop the lies and chose not to exercise it. What Murdoch wants from a California governor is specific and historically consistent. He wants protection for consolidated media ownership at the state level, which means no support for legislation that would break up large media conglomerates or restore localism requirements in broadcasting.

He wants a hostile regulatory environment for public media and independent journalism that competes with his properties. He wants a communications infrastructure in Sacramento modeled on the Fox News relationship between political power and media empire, where the governor’s office provides favorable access, exclusive interviews, and coordinated messaging to Murdoch’s outlets in exchange for favorable coverage. He wants a governor who will not support shield law reforms that protect journalists investigating powerful institutions from legal harassment, because Murdoch’s organization has used legal harassment of journalists as a competitive weapon for decades. And he wants a governor who will use the California bully pulpit to amplify the Fox News political framework to the largest state audience in America at a moment when Fox’s national influence is under pressure from the Dominion settlement fallout and the fragmentation of conservative media. California is not just another state for Murdoch.

It is the largest media market in the country, the home of Hollywood which he has spent decades trying to control through 20th Century Fox and its successors, and the state whose regulatory decisions on media ownership, broadband infrastructure, and digital platform accountability set national precedents that affect his global business interests. A Murdoch-funded governor of California is not a local political investment. It is a strategic acquisition of influence over the regulatory and political environment of the most consequential state in the American media landscape. Steve Hilton is the product Murdoch built, the candidate Murdoch is funding, and if California voters do not ask what Murdoch expects in return before June 2nd, they will spend the next four years watching a governor deliver the answers from Sacramento.

Colorado Senator Michael Bennet is running for governor. His biggest out-of-state backer is Michael Bloomberg, who has sent $1.25 million into his campaign. Before we talk about what that means for Colorado, let’s talk about who Michael Bloomberg actually is. Bloomberg appears in 2,782 documents in the DOJ’s official Epstein files. His name is in Epstein’s personal address book (d-15246, EFTA01297437). A flight log in the files places Bloomberg aboard Epstein’s private Boeing 727 on August 5, 2001, traveling from New Jersey to Palm Beach alongside Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, and Sarah Kellen. Sarah Kellen was later listed by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. That flight happened before Epstein’s 2008 conviction. But the relationship didn’t end there. In 2012, Epstein wrote to an associate about inviting Bloomberg to a private gathering and added: “if Michael in any way feels awkward, tell me — I always prefer that the fewer people that know the better.” Why would Bloomberg’s attendance at a dinner require that kind of secrecy from a convicted sex offender? In 2018 — a full decade after Epstein pleaded guilty to soliciting sex from a minor — Epstein was invited to a fundraiser hosted by Bloomberg for Congresswoman Stacey Plaskett, the delegate representing the US Virgin Islands, where Epstein ran his trafficking operation. Epstein responded by asking how to make the maximum legal donation to Plaskett. The New York Observer 25th Anniversary invitation (EFTA01901849) from 2013 lists Bloomberg as a featured guest alongside Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump at an event to which Epstein was also formally invited. Bloomberg has denied wrongdoing. None of this has been charged as a crime. But these are documented facts from the DOJ’s own files. Now let’s talk about what Bloomberg has done with his billions when it comes to Israel and Palestine. Bloomberg flew to Israel on an Israeli airline in 2014 while the FAA had suspended US flights there during Israel’s assault on Gaza — a campaign that killed over 2,200 Palestinians including more than 500 children. He did it, he said, to show solidarity. He called Netanyahu a “great leader and friend” that same year and sided with the Israeli prime minister repeatedly over Barack Obama. At the 2020 AIPAC conference he told 18,000 pro-Israel lobbyists that he would never condition US military aid to Israel regardless of who is prime minister or what policies they pursue. After October 7, Bloomberg donated $44 million to Israeli military ambulance services and committed another $27.8 million to rebuild Israeli cities affected by the war. His Jewish Leadership Council included at least eight past or present AIPAC donors. Bloomberg doesn’t just give to Israel. He gives to politicians who vote to keep the weapons flowing. Which brings us to Michael Bennet. According to TrackAIPAC, using FEC data, Bennet has collected over $460,000 from AIPAC and the Israel lobby over his Senate career. He voted against Bernie Sanders’ resolutions to block over $675 million in weapons sales to Israel, including shipments of 1,000-pound bombs and thousands of bomb guidance kits. He voted to send $3.8 billion in unconditional military aid to Israel through the Strengthening of Israel-US Alliance Act. And when Colorado’s Muslim community organized a gubernatorial debate and asked that Gaza be on the table, Bennet’s campaign pulled out rather than answer for his record. He offered instead to meet privately with Muslim leaders behind closed doors. When a candidate refuses to defend his votes in public, it’s worth asking what he’s protecting. Here is the through line Colorado voters deserve to understand. A billionaire named in 2,782 Epstein file documents — with a documented flight on Epstein’s plane alongside Maxwell and Kellen (flight log, August 5, 2001), his name in Epstein’s personal address book (d-15246, EFTA01297437), a documented 2012 email in which Epstein requested secrecy around Bloomberg’s attendance at private gatherings, and a documented 2018 fundraiser connection to Epstein through Congresswoman Plaskett — has committed $1.25 million to put Michael Bennet in the Colorado governor’s mansion. Bennet has taken over $460,000 from AIPAC and the Israel lobby over his Senate career. He has voted to keep the bombs flowing and refused to face his constituents about it. Who does Michael Bennet work for? Follow the money and you’ll find your answer. Bloomberg has not been charged with any crime. All Epstein file references are drawn from the DOJ EFTA production and are publicly searchable at justice.gov/epstein. Campaign finance figures are sourced from FEC records and TrackAIPAC’s database of pro-Israel lobby contributions.

🚨 A Mossad-linked foreign influence operation just issued threats against a candidate for Florida governor. Let that sink in. Canary Mission — documented by investigative journalist James Bamford in The Nation to have direct operational ties to Israeli intelligence, specifically the Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Shin Bet, which use its profiles to interrogate and deny entry to American citizens — has begun targeting James Fishback. And the reason is exactly what you would expect. Fishback walked into Palm Beach County and issued a public ultimatum to county official Mike Caruso: divest the $1 billion in Israel bonds Palm Beach County holds — making it the single largest holder of Israeli government bonds in the entire world — or face removal from office under Article 4 Section 7 of the Florida Constitution for malfeasance. One billion dollars of Florida taxpayer money sitting in a foreign government’s bonds while Florida veterans sleep on the streets and families cannot afford rent. Fishback said it plainly: “You have 48 hours to divest the billion dollars you gave to Netanyahu or I will use the Florida Constitution to remove you for malfeasance from office.” Within days a foreign intelligence-linked doxing operation that has been used by Israeli intelligence to blacklist, harass, and destroy the careers of American citizens who speak up for Palestinian rights began issuing threats against him. Meanwhile Major Cody Khork, 35, from Winter Haven Florida, came home in a flag-draped coffin after Secretary of State Marco Rubio admitted on the record — and I am quoting him directly — “We knew that there was going to be an Israeli action. We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t preemptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.” A foreign government’s planned strike drove the timing of a war that killed American soldiers. A foreign intelligence-linked operation is now threatening the one candidate who is demanding Florida’s billion dollars back. Byron Donalds has taken $368,726 from pro-Israel lobby groups per TrackAIPAC, $1 million from Steve Wynn who is flagged in the Epstein files, and killed Thomas Massie’s discharge petition to force full Epstein file release — calling the accountability push “a political circus.” Fishback has pledged to appoint a special prosecutor on day one to reopen Epstein investigations tied to Palm Beach, directed every state resource to investigate anyone in those files regardless of party, and said publicly with 391,000 views: “Despite hundreds of men being named in the Epstein files, not a single one of them has been arrested. As Florida Governor, I will direct every state resource to investigate anyone involved in sex trafficking — Democrat or Republican — to ensure every victim receives justice.” When a foreign intelligence operation starts threatening a candidate, you know he is over the target. James Fishback is NOT suicidal. 🔁 Share this everywhere.