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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.

Between 12:20 am until after 1 am this morning maybe 100+ cars came roaring down Polhemus and descended onto a normally peaceful neighborhood. Peeling out and revving their high powered engines with the sole purpose of waking the dead.

The cops were powerless. They sat by idly as the immature brats had their way. Obviously the hoard needed the attention that they never got as children or were compensating for diminished shortcomings.

Look, I don't care if they stick to the freeways or cities but cruising through quiet neighborhoods in the middle of the night? I hope their parents paddle their hind quarters and send them to their room for a long term grounding when they get home.

Let Rive Gauche transport you to the 1920s – 40s!

Come listen to a trio of musicians play French cafe-style music and Jazz Manouche on the accordion, violin, guitar, and bass!

This free concert will take place at the Museum of American Heritage, in the historic garden first planted in 1907 by Thomas and Dora Williams. No RSVP is required — just stop by.

We hope to see you there!

more layoffs this week from LinkedIn, Amazon, Cisco...there's probably so many more but it really sucks.

if you're navigating a lay-off or are between opportunities, come clear your head and connect with folks who are in the same boat 🤝🏼

this monday, we’re heading to San Jose for a cool contrast between the city sprawl and pristine hills.

• when: monday, may 18 @ 10:30 am
• stats: 4.5mi loop / 728 ft gain

grab your spot and see the full details here:

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hope to see y'all there!

(pic of ~60 of us from last monday's hike 🙂 - and yes, we'll be splitting into groups and staggering start times so as to not overwhelm the trail)

9am till 5pm, Lozzy’s Retro Resale Thrift Store is open! New and vintage stuff in this week! Come look!

The store is ONLY open the 1st and 3rd Saturdays of the month!

Can't find something you are looking for? We might have it next time we are open! Just ask!

1610 S El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA 94402

Some key features today:

-VINTAGE Glassware

-Crystal Glassware

-New & SEALED Vintage Star Wars toys/memorabilia

-Media of all types

-Flip-Flops/sandals

-Shoes

-Hiking boots

-Kid's summer sport equipment

-Learning games and Board games

-NEW Legos

-Jewlery

-Makeup

-Kids & Infant clothing

-Kids & Infant shoes

-Infant toys and learning games

-The Original Green Pan ceramic nonstick pot/pan set in flush pink color

-Shoes for every occasion (& a bunch of Adidas slides)

-Board games

-NEW legos

-Home goods

-Cool Ship wheel made into a light

-Action figures

-NEW Squishmellow stuffed animals in and out of box of all sizes

-Pop! Figures

-NEW Brix characters

-Vintage hats

-Accessories

& a lot more!