u/GoldenRule2023

A person loses their housing, which in Los Angeles most often means they lost their job and can longer pay rent, not that they did anything wrong. They cannot get into a shelter, because the shelters are full. They cannot get interim housing, because it does not exist at the scale needed. They cannot get permanent housing, because the waitlist has no end. There is no lawful place for them to lie down and sleep, which is not optional for any human being. And then the city arrests them for sleeping.That is not an accusation. It is arithmetic. By the city’s own accounting there are no available options, and it punishes people for the absence of options it created and measured and buried. When you make every exit illegal and then criminalize standing still, you have not addressed homelessness. You have made it a crime to be a person who cannot afford a home. ( full article link below)

https://open.substack.com/pub/plainsitepapers/p/the-crime-of-having-nowhere-to-go?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=88mjxl

For its first seven months, Los Angeles spent about $17,000 a month on every homeless person it moved indoors under Inside Safe, Mayor Karen Bass's signature program. Not for a home. For a motel room, plus the machinery stacked around it.

Seventeen thousand dollars a month is more than most Angelenos earn. It works out to roughly $204,000 a year, for one person, in a motel. It is enough to have rented that person ten studio apartments. And it is the city's own arithmetic: $32.6 million spent on 57,533 room-nights through June 2023, or $567 a night per person

Follow link above for the whole article.

The Only Accountability Left Is Ours

She called it the "Daddy Hunter capital of Palm Beach." She wasn't wrong. She just didn't know the half of it. The woman in this video raves about the food, the scene, the caviar. She jokes that she can't guarantee the men there aren't married. She and her friends are living their best lives at one of the hottest tables in the country. "Get a rez or cry about it."

What she doesn't mention, because she almost certainly doesn't know, is who owns it.

Stephen P. Hanson is the co-founder of The Polo Room in Palm Beach. His public-facing partner is Ignacio "Nacho" Figueras, the world's most famous polo player, global brand ambassador, and the handsome face of the operation.

Hanson has been quietly co-owning one of Palm Beach's most sought-after reservations while keeping a very low profile.

There's a reason for that.

The official DOJ Epstein File Transparency Act archive contains:

An FBI victim interview in which a woman told federal agents Epstein "trafficked me too" and described Epstein dispatching Hanson to her apartment for paid sex acts more than a dozen times.

Photographs of Hanson inside Epstein's Little St. James private island home with a young woman whose face the DOJ has fully redacted.

Hanson in the same email as Jean-Luc Brunel, the modeling agent who sourced hundreds of girls for Epstein, found hanged in his Paris prison cell in 2022 while awaiting rape trial.

A shell company Epstein designed in writing to hide his name, used to purchase an $18.5 million Gulfstream G550 in Hanson's name.

A $500,000 wire from Epstein's own Deutsche Bank account to Hanson's lawyer to fund it.

Hanson's jets used to fly young women to Epstein's properties with passports collected.

Nacho Figueras has not condemned Hanson's documented entanglement with Epstein. The Polo Room's other investors have not spoken. No one associated with the restaurant has been asked to account for what the public record now shows about their partner.

The current administration has made clear it will not pursue accountability for the men in Epstein's network.

The Oversight Committee has not subpoenaed Hanson. He has not been charged. He has not been deposed. He has not been asked a single question under oath.

So it falls to us.

We the People have one tool left when institutions fail.

We stop spending our money there. We stop making them rich. We stop giving them the cover of normalcy while victims wait for justice that never comes.

The Polo Room is not just a restaurant. It is the last remaining public face of a man the DOJ archive places at the center of Jeffrey Epstein's world.

Every reservation, every table, every bottle of wine ordered there is a signal that none of it matters.

It matters.

Boycott The Polo Room.

Share this everywhere.

Tag Nacho Figueras.

Tag The Polo Room.

Ask them publicly why they have not spoken.

The documents are public. The questions have not been asked. The accountability has to come from somewhere. It starts here.

https://open.substack.com/pub/plainsitepapers/p/dead-reckoning-stephen-hanson-owned?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=88mjxl

https://open.substack.com/pub/plainsitepapers/p/the-trap?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=88mjxl

https://open.substack.com/pub/plainsitepapers/p/the-confessor-and-the-predator?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=android&r=88mjxl

Why has Stephen Hanson not been investigated for what the documents in in the linked article, Dead Reckoning reveal? Why has the Epstein Oversight Committee not subpoenaed Hanson to testify under oath on camera?

@congressmanrobertgarcia @rokhannausa @repstansbury @repraskin

Repost this and send it to the Oversight Committee.

Stephen Hanson invoked his daughters six times as the reason "the girl from Scottsdale," a woman he'd had a ten-year affair with, had to be silenced. In the same two years, seven emails document his teenage daughter being brought to Jeffrey Epstein's home. He asked a convicted sex offender how to make the affair go away. Epstein's reply referenced countries that "deal with blackmailers more effectively."

Then the emails about her just end. Did they have her disappeared?

Every fact here comes from his own emails, in the official DOJ archive. This is the story those documents tell when you read them in order.

Stephen Hanson invoked his daughters six times as the reason "the girl from Scottsdale," a woman he'd had a ten-year affair with, had to be silenced. In the same two years, seven emails document his teenage daughter being brought to Jeffrey Epstein's home. He asked a convicted sex offender how to make the affair go away. Epstein's reply referenced countries that "deal with blackmailers more effectively."

Then the emails about her just end. Did they have her disappeared?

Every fact here comes from his own emails, in the official DOJ archive. This is the story those documents tell when you read them in order.

Trump's Ratepayer Protection Pledge entrance and just watched people clap. The ovation goes long enough that it stops reading as enthusiasm and starts reading as instruction.

The social science on why is real. Pluralistic ignorance, where everyone privately wants to stop but assumes they're alone, so nobody risks being first. The loyalty trap, where competence stops mattering and visible devotion is what keeps your seat. Milgram's peer work, where people go along as long as the person beside them goes first.

But those mostly explain the people with something to lose. What I can't stop chewing on is the rich ones. The senators, the donors, the people with the money and the standing to walk away and never clap again. Fear doesn't hold them. So what does? Self-interest, because they get richer too and it's easier to look away? Or has the self-interest curdled into something realer, where they've talked themselves all the way into actually liking him because that's more comfortable than seeing the trade for what it is? Watch his face while they clap, then watch theirs.

Curious what you land on. Cowardice, greed, genuine belief, or some blend where you can't tell them apart anymore.

Fox News ran a segment on a Manhattan encampment last week. I went through the city's own data on the claims in it.

The correspondent walks into an encampment during the heat wave, narrates the contents of someone's suitcase on camera, and says the people living there don't want jobs and don't want to go inside.

I pulled the numbers on that. A few things I found:

- NYC's right to shelter means roughly 97 percent of the city's homeless population is in a shelter. So the problem isn't that shelters are full. It's that there's a bed and no exit. (State Comptroller, March 2026)

- The city placed a record 13,000+ households into homes with CityFHEPS vouchers in FY2024, a 42 percent jump. The shelter population still rose about 50 percent, largely from asylum seekers ineligible for those vouchers.

- The most recent citywide housing survey put the net rental vacancy rate at 1.4 percent.

- Across more than 4,148 encampment sweeps, the number of people offered permanent housing through a voucher application, direct placement, or supportive housing transfer was zero. The city spent over $6.4 million on those sweeps since 2024.

I also didn't let Mamdani off the hook. He pledged to end sweeps, reversed in February, restarted them in May. Legal Aid and the Coalition for the Homeless called it a broken promise and I think they're right.

Everything's sourced and linked. Full piece linked above.

Disclosure: my Substack, no paywall.

Seven years ago today July 4th, Stephen Hanson texted Jeffrey Epstein "Enjoy Paris." Two days later Epstein was arrested at Teterboro. He was dead 35 days after that.

Today Plainsite publishes what the documents show about the private jets.

This piece contains findings from the DOJ Epstein archive that have never been reported anywhere — until now:

Jeffrey Epstein asked in writing: "do we have one on the shelf that does not show my name?" Six days later SFS LLC was formed — wholly owned by Steve Hanson — to purchase an $18.5 million Gulfstream G550. Epstein's own Deutsche Bank account wired the $500,000 deposit to the structuring lawyer three days before the LLC was created.

Hanson already had a private jet. A Bombardier Global 5000. Documents show it was used to fly a redacted young woman to Zorro Ranch with Epstein in 2012. And to fly Karyna Shuliak — the woman Epstein left $100 million and his private island to — internationally from dental school with her passport collected in 2013.

The Gulfstream G550 is now flying for the billionaire Sand's family behind Corona beer. They had no idea what they were buying.

Hanson's lawyer says Epstein pulled the wool over everyone's eyes. The documents say something else.

Full article: https://open.substack.com/pub/plainsitepapers/p/dead-reckoning-stephen-hanson-owned?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=88mjxl

Plainsite. Public Record. Hidden Truth.

This is a call to action. We are looking for the best investigators to help us solve this mystery. Two months ago we published The Trap, a Plainsite investigation into Steve Hanson's decades-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Many of you read it here. This piece is a follow-up, and it is different. The Trap was an investigation we delivered. This one is an investigation we are inviting you into please helping.

At the center of Hanson's emails to Epstein is a woman. She is never named. She is the one Hanson called the girl from Scottsdale, the rotten bitch, the total psychopath, and finally the California person. In his own words, he met her at his James Hotel in Scottsdale in 2004 or 2005, where she and her friends would hang around. He spent ten years paying for her life. He bought her a diamond ring. He bought her horses. He took her calls almost daily. Then in 2014 to 2016 he spent two years begging Epstein for help silencing her. The correspondence about her stops in July 2016. She has never been publicly identified. Two months of national press coverage, including a front-page New York Times investigation by Kim Severson, The Trap, and Adam Robb's earlier piece on Press Trip, have not produced her name. Not one woman has come forward as her. Not one person in Hanson's orbit has named her. The press has done what the press can do. It is not enough.

We need you. The basics. The full case is in the linked Plainsite piece above.

She met Hanson in 2004 or 2005 at the James Hotel in Scottsdale. He was in his fifties, married, with daughters. She would have been a young adult. He has never said her name in any document we have found.

The James Hotel and its J Bar lounge were a major destination in 2004 to 2006. The New York Times called the J Bar one of the hottest hotel-bar scenes in the country. Travel and Leisure named the James America's Sexiest Resort. She was part of that scene.

The Agency Arizona, a modeling agency founded by Margaret Merritt in 2004, operated from inside the James Hotel during Hanson's ownership. Margaret has not responded to outreach from us or from the New York Times.

The financial relationship involved real estate, a diamond ring, and horses. The horses are one of the strongest leads we have. Hanson and his wife Deana were known in the East Hampton equestrian scene at the Hampton Classic. He was running a separate set of horses with this woman in a different geography during the same years.

By 2016 she was in California. After July 2016, the documented record about her stops.

Who we need to hear from.

Anyone who modeled for, worked with, or remembers The Agency Arizona between 2004 and 2010

Anyone who worked at, photographed, or remembers the J Bar or James Hotel scene in 2004 to 2006

Anyone in the American horse world, anywhere, who remembers a woman with a wealthy older out-of-state partner who paid for her horses

Anyone who knew Steve Hanson during his Scottsdale years and remembers the women in his social circle

Her, if she is reading

Ground rules for the comments.

Please do not post names of specific women in this thread. We are not running a public identification process. Real women who have nothing to do with this story could be harmed by speculation in a comment thread. If you have a name, a tip, a lead, or a memory, send it to us privately.

Our tip line is: PLAINSITEINVESTIGATES@proton.me. Anything you share will be held in confidence by default. We will not publish your name without your explicit permission.

Discussion of the documents, the timeline, the venue, the agency, the equestrian world, and the broader case is welcome. Public identification of candidate women is not.

Full piece, with all citations, EFTAs, timeline, and research paths at link to article above.

This is one tiny piece of one of the largest document releases in modern American history. The Hanson archive alone runs across thousands of pages. The Scottsdale woman is one of many women whose lives are described in this archive in men's words, with no chance to speak for themselves. We are looking for her first. We will keep going.

Thank you for everything you have brought to this work so far. Let's find her.

New York Times on Steve Hanson

The FBI has a victim statement naming him. He visited Epstein in jail. He brought his teenage daughter to Epstein's home. Why has Steve Hanson, Epstein's closest restaurant-world friend, never been charged, deposed, or even publicly questioned?