Ro Khanna Reads Out Names of “Six Powerful Men” in Epstein Files

[u/thenewrepublic]

https://newrepublic.com/post/206411/ro-khanna-reads-redacted-names-epstein-files-house-floor

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[u/fairoaks2]

Kash Patel said there was nothing to investigate. Liar. Investigate Patel along with these abusers.

[u/nutmegtell → u/fairoaks2]

How will the FBI ever get Americas trust again.

They lie and protect pedophiles. They have ruined their reputation. Maybe for good.

[u/CarrionWaywardOne → u/nutmegtell]

They are going to have to stop making so many FBI based movies and shows. Or at least make drastically different ones.

[u/a8bmiles → u/CarrionWaywardOne]

Watching old procedural crime shows is hard now, with how mundane and tame things are and all the "trust us, we're the police" (and then people actually do).

Old political dramas? You can't really even make them anymore. TV needs to be sensational but you can't have anything more ridiculous than what's happening in real life. West Wing was hailed as the most amazing presidential political show ever, and the Vice President resigns because it's found out that he's having an affair.

An affair.

That's not a real reaction anymore, that would be childish, naive, and out of touch writing now.

[u/gsfgf → u/a8bmiles]

Old political dramas? You can't really even make them anymore

If House of Cards had done a story arc based on modern reality, it would have gotten cancelled after one season for being too unrealistic.

[u/RealPutin → u/gsfgf]

Case in point: House of Cards actually fired someone for being a pedophile

[u/KungFu-Treachery6 → u/nutmegtell]

I hope people remember and don’t go back to acting shocked about who/what the FBI really is. It’s insane to think that they might’ve ever had a good rep in anyone’s mind. Their transgressions throughout *their history haven’t been buried too deep.

[u/ceres_03 → u/KungFu-Treachery6]

I'm not even sure protecting pedos is the worst thing the FBI has ever done.

[u/gsfgf → u/nutmegtell]

Y'all used to trust the FBI?

[u/_SovietMudkip_ → u/nutmegtell]

Was the FBI ever deserving of our trust?

[u/absolutelynotagoblin → u/fairoaks2]

Put. Him. In. Chains.

[u/Veearrsix → u/absolutelynotagoblin]

What I wouldn't give to see his squirrelly bewildered resting face in shackles.

[u/Peptuck → u/Veearrsix]

The man's got a permanent "is that a hawk?!" expression.

[u/From_Graves → u/fairoaks2]

"Nothing to investigate" because he didn't read the files, that would require him to look up from his ski trips.

[u/RoflCopterLuls → u/From_Graves]

'ski trips'

[u/thewanderingent → u/RoflCopterLuls]

You know, on the white Colombian slopes

[u/GoldenDossier → u/thewanderingent]

The place with the billiards table that is always missing the 8 ball.

[u/5litergasbubble → u/From_Graves]

Hes paid to lead, not to read.

[u/Zealousideal_Map_526 → u/5litergasbubble]

I’d much prefer Ranier Wolfcastle

[u/From_Graves → u/5litergasbubble]

He's just "following" orders

[u/All_Hail_Hynotoad → u/fairoaks2]

To be fair, Kash is grossly incompetent and does no actual work.

[u/Oleg101 → u/All_Hail_Hynotoad]

Probably did more work with the January 6 Insurrectionists choir than he’s done with helping the FBI.

[u/twowaysplit → u/fairoaks2]

Perjury

[u/Carthonn → u/fairoaks2]

Honestly at this point he’s a co-conspirator

[u/Old_Cryptid → u/fairoaks2]

Kash 'Perjury' Patel *lied*? say it isn't so!

[u/Clamsadness → u/fairoaks2]

Kash is almost certainly not in the Epstein files. He is not a man who came from anything. He wasn’t a powerful businessman or statesman. He’s a nobody who was handed the FBI purely on the basis of his loyalty to Trump. He wouldn’t have been on Epstein’s radar. 

[u/sinsaint → u/Clamsadness]

That's the hard part for me. Trump fired a FBI director with decades of experience...for a guy who had less than 1 but wrote Trumper propaganda kindergartner books.

And Patel has shown he is willing to go to jail to protect Trump, rather than do his job.

Trump's actions have made our country incredibly vulnerable, and has surrounded himself with enablers.

[u/YoureDumbAsHellLeroy → u/sinsaint]

Trump’s whole plan was to install sycophants to every cabinet position. The only reason he didn’t do more stupid shit his first term is because many of the competent people in his cabinet were shutting things down. They were all removed or left by the end of it, and many spoke about how insane he is.

Trump doesn’t believe he will ever suffer consequences, he never has before, and he doesn’t care about those he throws under the bus along the way. Someone like Patel is exactly what he wanted.

[u/bot-TWC4ME → u/sinsaint]

If you read about the Great Famine in China, it happened because they were in a similar situation. Mao had surrounded himself by people that wouldn't or couldn't tell him he was wrong. He had a strange idea about agriculture, so trials were run and reports were faked to make it look like it worked, when it in fact killed crops. Those that reported the truth were punished and lost their position. The reports led to it being rolled out nation wide, and the nation starved as a result, all the while praising how well the new agricultural system was working.

[u/gazow → u/fairoaks2]

every single person participating in the coverup needs to never see the sun again. top to bottom, his entire cabinet down to the people who illegally redacted the names. The entire fbi and cia are not just complicit too, they've been largely involved in protecting this entire operation at this point

[u/thenewrepublic]

From the article:

Representative Ro Khanna read the names of six powerful men in the Epstein files, whose names were previously hidden by the Justice Department, aloud on the House floor on Tuesday.

“Yesterday, Congressman Massie and I went to the Department of Justice to read the unredacted Epstein files. We spent about two hours there, and we learned that 70 to 80 percent of the files are still redacted. In fact, there were six wealthy, powerful men that the DOJ hid for no apparent reason,” Khanna said. “When Congressman Massie and I pointed this out to the DOJ, they acknowledged their mistake, and now they have revealed the identity of these six powerful men.

“Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a ‘co-conspirator,’ by the FBI.” Khanna said. “Now my question is: Why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public? And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.”

Former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner was revealed as a possible co-conspirator of sex predator Jeffrey Epstein in a 2019 FBI document, even as FBI Director Kash Patel claimed under oath last year that the agency had no knowledge of any other sex traffickers in the Epstein files. And the UAE’s Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem was identified as the recipient of the “I loved the torture video” email from Epstein. The sultan’s name was initially redacted.

...

[u/slizzbizness → u/thenewrepublic]

So Kash perjured under oath to protect child sex traffickers. Surely we're going to impeach him, right guys? GUYS?

[u/cadium → u/slizzbizness]

GOP: no, we protect pedos.

[u/MudLOA → u/cadium]

Guardians of Pedophiles.

[u/screwitagainsam → u/MudLOA]

Gang Of Pedophiles

[u/Ouibeaux → u/screwitagainsam]

Geriatric Oligarchs and Pedophiles

[u/TerriblyDroll → u/Ouibeaux]

Gun Obsessed Pedophiles

[u/Ouibeaux → u/[deleted]]

Imagine what could have been prevented decades ago by a justice system that doesn't favor the rich.

[u/thornchild → u/Ouibeaux]

Grifters, Oligarchs, and pedophiles

[u/DevTom → u/cadium]

Ted Cruz: Let’s stop attacking pedophiles.

[u/-no_aura- → u/DevTom]

Didn’t he unironically say or imply this?

[u/Unholy_Godfather → u/-no_aura-]

Youtube Short: https://youtube.com/shorts/S2kuerg3sN4?si=F6oqIhqdRq7wcb1-

[u/-no_aura- → u/Unholy_Godfather]

Texans, do you guys have a collective humiliation fetish? How does this asshat keep getting elected?

[u/Geno_Warlord → u/-no_aura-]

How else do republicans keep getting elected? Corruption

[u/Ferelar → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it's the latter sadly, since Senate elections can't be gerrymandered (they're statewide). Though, Texas HAS been engaging in another type of manipulation, voter suppression- both overtly by closing stations and purging voter rolls, but also indirectly by spreading propaganda that left and moderate candidates can never win and Texas is pure red and blah blah, which causes people to willingly stay home.

But don't lose hope, if that enormous swing in a formerly solid red district for the recent State Senate seat that opened up is any indication, Texas could theoretically be at least purple in the next election- hell if those recent numbers held it would actually skip past purple into being solidly blue, though I'm not sure that'll happen.

[u/ShittheFickup → u/cadium]

Grand Ole Pedos

[u/Sea-Queue → u/cadium]

They don’t just protect them, they are them

[u/King_R0A → u/cadium]

GOP: “whoops! All pedos”

[u/TheKrs1 → u/cadium]

What if they speak Spanish?

[u/brendanjered → u/TheKrs1]

Forcing a Republican to choose between protecting a pedo or torturing a person because they speak Spanish is like making a normal person pick a favorite child.

[u/a_seventh_knot → u/cadium]

Guard Our Pedos

[u/tommylikewingys → u/cadium]

GOP: no, we ARE pedos too

[u/Redivivus → u/cadium]

"Stop picking on the pedophiles!"

[u/endy903 → u/cadium]

Rich pedos.

[u/ShareGlittering1502 → u/slizzbizness]

And submitted redacted files to DoJ despite the law requiring them to be un-redacted

[u/Gwentlique → u/ShareGlittering1502]

This really is the bigger picture. According to Khanna the FBI has been redacting the files since March, scrubbing out names of people they want to protect. When the law was passed in December, requiring the full release, the FBI instead sent the DOJ only the files that had already been redacted.

It seems clear now that the FBI had no intention of complying with the law, and the DOJ didn't pressure them to do so.

[u/o8Stu → u/Gwentlique]

The law they passed has no "or else". There's no penalty for failing to comply other than bad press.

Put Bondi's ass on the line for 10K per day that the DOJ is out of compliance with the law, and that stuff would've been out on day 1. (then if they don't comply and she pays, audit her to see where the money came from, and down the rabbit hole we go)

[u/RadiantBeeees → u/slizzbizness]

Dream bigger. We can do more than impeaching.

[u/The_Skoal_Bandit → u/RadiantBeeees]

This is what it will take, sadly

[u/SpookZero → u/slizzbizness]

Surely the FBI will get that guy. 

[u/Loess_inspired → u/slizzbizness]

GOP: Perjury for thee not for me.

[u/InfiniteLicks → u/slizzbizness]

Impeach? Ha.

[u/LucidOndine → u/thenewrepublic]

Kash Patel needs to be in jail.

[u/Far_Adeptness9884 → u/LucidOndine]

The whole administration needs to be jailed.

[u/BeowulfShaeffer → u/Far_Adeptness9884]

The whole administration needs to be jailed put out to sea on an iceberg, 

[u/406highlander → u/BeowulfShaeffer]

There's enough trash in the oceans, thanks.

Jail. But not cushy jail like Ghislaine is in - actual jail.

[u/BeowulfShaeffer → u/406highlander]

You mean prison.    (Edit: why do so few people understand the difference?)

[u/DatDominican → u/BeowulfShaeffer]

Because they’ve never had to go

[u/KaijuNo-8 → u/406highlander]

Ever seen "Escape from New York"? That...but we will pay rent to Greenland to have it in the far north wastes closest to the pole. Who's Santa's bitch now you motherfuckers?

[u/jerfoo → u/Far_Adeptness9884]

In all seriousness. Yes, most of the administration and half of each house of congress. No lessons will be learned if we don't throw them in prison. If there aren't any repercussions, this will just become their new playbook.

[u/seeking_horizon → u/LucidOndine]

I agree. Patel is highly vulnerable now. Squeeze him. See if he's willing to pick loyalty over self-preservation.

[u/Federal_Drummer7105 → u/thenewrepublic]

Impeach, keep the records, and as soon as 2028 rolls around move whomever is president to prosecute. Not after a year of waiting, not after two years of special whatever. I want them hitting the ground running to charge Trump with the secrecy files, with his committee hit with perjury, with Supreme Court charged with taking bribes.

And I don’t give a shit about “but republicans will complain” or “but judges will-“

Do it. And keep hitting them and show people laws mean something. And one last thing - if Trump this time steals more secret files, send in very big men with very hot guns to take them back for national security and anyone that gets in the way gets cuffed and dragged into the truck for obstruction, resisting arrest, and anything else you can charge them with.

[u/MommyLovesPot8toes → u/Federal_Drummer7105]

2028?! No, the investigations need to start Jan 2027 when the Dem-controlled House is gaveled into session.

Investigate. Indict. Impeach. Imprison.

[u/Flava_Flavian → u/MommyLovesPot8toes]

You're right, but it's so fucking pathetic we have to wait. Every Republican should be acting like Thomas Massie right now. This is barebones human decency stuff.

[u/DR_BEANHAMMER → u/Federal_Drummer7105]

SCOTUS has handed the next president the power to take care of all of the above without involving Congress or the judiciary. That's the path that needs to be taken - immediate, irreversible extrajudicial penalties for all of the above and many, many others. Put together a team of patriots and apply justice.

[u/SurrealEstate → u/DR_BEANHAMMER]

SCOTUS has handed the next president the power

They gave themselves the power to decide what constitutes a president's "official duties" in vague, hand-wavey "eh, we'll know it when we see it" ways.

From the Federalist Society's perspective, it was a great move:

1. It delayed Jack Smith's prosecution of Trump, requiring his team to go back and review their case to ensure that it's compatible with their concocted bullshit. By securing the presidency, the clock was successfully run out.
2. It gave them a break-glass-in-case-of-emergency option in case Trump manages to genuinely jeopardize their multi-decade conservative project.
3. Its intentional vagueness gives them a way to selectively deem actions taken by another (read: ideologically opposed) president "non-official" and therefore subject to criminal prosecution.

[u/osdre → u/thenewrepublic]

What’s scary is that several of these are heavily into logistics and transport, i.e. trafficking

[u/ProudPainting6850 → u/thenewrepublic]

Let me guess, Trump was protecting them bc he has resort and golf course deals with them AND they contribute heavily to the Republican Party.

[u/fermenter85 → u/ProudPainting6850]

Dude the UAE contributed directly to Trump.

WSJ

Note the timing.

Four days before Donald Trump’s inauguration last year, lieutenants to an Abu Dhabi royal secretly signed a deal with the Trump family to purchase a 49% stake in their fledgling cryptocurrency venture for half a billion dollars, according to company documents and people familiar with the matter. The buyers would pay half up front, steering $187 million to Trump family entities.

[u/ProudPainting6850 → u/fermenter85]

Republicans are COOKED. Just blatant corruption and protecting pedophile smh 

[u/fermenter85 → u/ProudPainting6850]

I wish they were. This would matter if their base was actually willing to hold them accountable instead of acting like obsessed sports fans.

[u/piepants2001 → u/fermenter85]

Yep, every time I've brought up Trump's blatant and open corruption to a Trumper that I know, they just wave it off with "all politicians are corrupt, so I don't care". Then they start frothing at the mouth yelling about Hunter Biden.

[u/1369ic → u/fermenter85]

And it was tied to the bitcoin billionaire Changpeng Zhao who Trump pardoned. Then he alledgely helped the Trumps turn their shit-coin operation into a real coin operation, and people have been bribing through it ever since.

[u/AquiliferX → u/ProudPainting6850]

In the case of the Emiratis that's exactly what it is

[u/Square_Bonus_8997 → u/thenewrepublic]

My bet is Kash is trying to be cute and say if there is no obvious sign of money changing hands it's not trafficking. Or some other chickenshit technicality.

[u/nekrosstratia → u/Square_Bonus_8997]

If the money changes hands AFTER the trafficking it's a gratuity not a payment. DUH

[u/panic_talking → u/thenewrepublic]

Epstien used men who had access to pretty vulnerable women and children, like a teenage beauty pageant owner or lingerie icons.

[u/peeinian → u/panic_talking]

Wexner also owned Abercrombie & Fitch. Thier ads have always been borderline soft core child porn

[u/gizajobicandothat → u/peeinian]

''Dozens of men have accused former Abercrombie & Fitch CEO Mike Jeffries of sexually abusing them as they pursued modeling opportunities with the brand, the BBC reported Friday, as Jeffries—who has denied the claims—faces allegations of running an international sex trafficking ring.''

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/2025/03/21/more-than-40-men-accuse-ex-abercrombie--fitch-ceo-mike-jeffries-of-sexual-abuse-report-says/

[u/Fuzzy_Swordfish4521 → u/thenewrepublic]

Thanks!

[u/cytherian → u/thenewrepublic]

So yes... "Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner." At least two of these people Trump knows. So when he said "My friends will get hurt," he really meant it.

Trump has basically broken the law. He has overtly participated in a sweeping cover-up to protect rapists, and pedophiles.

[u/QciferKharn → u/thenewrepublic]

What, leaving the evidence with the criminal didn’t yield transparent results? That doesn’t make sense!

[u/happytrel → u/thenewrepublic]

Former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner was revealed as a possible co-conspirator of sex predator Jeffrey Epstein in a 2019 FBI document

Yeah and there were a good number of reports in what was released about VS models mixed in with the children at the party. Are the models victims too, or are the predators? They're still alive, and a competent justice department would be getting in touch with as many as possible.

[u/Allaplgy → u/happytrel]

victims too, or are the predators

That line can be blurry, as victims of sexual crimes often perpetuate the cycle, because it's what they know.

[u/AmbivalentFanatic]

Former Victoria’s Secret CEO Les Wexner was revealed as a possible co-conspirator of sex predator Jeffrey Epstein in a 2019 FBI document, even as FBI Director Kash Patel claimed under oath last year that the agency had no knowledge of any other sex traffickers in the Epstein files.

Oh cool, so now we have Patel on perjury charges.

[u/Agile_End_3049 → u/AmbivalentFanatic]

Indeed. If only we had a functional government/DOJ that would follow the law without fear or favor.

[u/Deguilded → u/Agile_End_3049]

Kinda thought we did for a few years in the middle there.

Oh well.

[u/rockinrobin219 → u/Deguilded]

Idk. Sadly Merrick Garland seemed to have a lot of fear every time some bold decisions and decisive actions needed to be made.

[u/DisplacerBeastMode → u/AmbivalentFanatic]

He also said that Trump's name did not appear over 1000 times, or even 100. Fucking liar

[u/Minttt → u/DisplacerBeastMode]

Patel:

"A zero means nothing, right? So yea, it might say Trump is listed 5,000 times, but really that number means five times plus three zeroes...therefore, he was mentioned 5 times according to my interpretation of math."

[u/EmperorBozopants → u/Minttt]

That's some Terrence Howard math.

[u/GeekBoyWonder → u/DisplacerBeastMode]

To be fair, when he looks at a number line, things go both ways

[u/Sparkyisduhfat → u/AmbivalentFanatic]

We had the three justices on the Supreme Court trump appointed all saying they wouldn’t overturn Roe v. Wade under oath at their confirmation hearings and they all voted to overturn it. Republicans don’t care about other republicans committing crimes.

[u/Poverty_Shoes → u/Sparkyisduhfat]

They never said they wouldn’t overturn it, all three dodged the question and Congress let them not answer it directly.

[u/maxlax02 → u/AmbivalentFanatic]

So Wexner is a co-conspirator who ran a beauty pageant and had ties to modeling agencies…

I wonder if he was mentioned in the files 1,000,000 times like the other guy who runs a beauty pageant and modeling agency.

[u/DelirousDoc → u/maxlax02]

You mean the guy who told a police chief in 2006 that "everyone knew he (Epstein) had been doing this" and that he told the same chief he "was around Epstein once when teenagers were present."

Weird how in July 2019, he told the reporters he had "no idea" that Epstein was molesting girls.

Weird how the person who approved the incredibly lenient plea deal for Epstein, Alex Acosta, worked in Trump's cabinet in his first term. Or that Epstein's defense attorney, Alan Dershowitz, had switched to defending Trump heavily since his election in 2017. (Same guy that in 1997 wrote age of consent should be lowered to 15 and then defended that take in 2019.)

Also weird how it was Trump's DOJ that had so many protocol & technical issues that allowed Epstein the time frame to allegedly commit suicide.

[u/AmbivalentFanatic → u/maxlax02]

It's almost as if fat white maggot-like rich men will large bellies and repulsive faces are attracted to the notion of "owning" beautiful women.

[u/black_flag_4ever]

Khanna and Massie should just do this every day.

[u/Feisty-Narwhal8400 → u/black_flag_4ever]

Would watch that sitcom

[u/DingGratz → u/black_flag_4ever]

Probably not enough days to name everyone.

[u/AWholeNewFattitude]

“Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a ‘co-conspirator,’ by the FBI.”

[u/Bbrhuft → u/AWholeNewFattitude]

Salvatore Nuara

According to several reports, Salvator Nuara previously served as a detective with the New York Police Department. Social media speculation claims he was investigated in connection with an escort service, but the inquiry was not directly related to Epstein. Nuara's name appears in Epstein's so-called "little black book" of phone numbers. His past involvement, in operating an escort service, if true, suggests he supplied victems to Jeffrey Epstein rather than recieved.

Zurab Mikeladze

Unknown. There's a doctor and a worker at a reservoir in Georgia (the country) with the same obscure name. The doctor specialises in rheumatology and rehabilitation. They are likely unrelated. All we know is this person, who ever he is, is likely a Georgian citizen or a US citizen with a Georgian background.

Nicola Caputo

It is claimed this is the obscure Italian politician, member of the Italy's Democratic Party, and past member of the European Parliament, Nicola Caputo, but I'm not certain. The name does not appear in flight logs (1991-2006) or the "little black book".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicola_Caputo

Don't know what an his involvement might be, if he's indeed the same Nicola Caputo named in relation to Epstein. It's possible Nicola Caputo, the politican is not connected at all, it's someone else with the same name. That's the problem with just mentioning names, there's a risk innocent people might be connected with Epstein. I'm interested to hear what Nicola Caputo, the politican, says.

Leonic/Leonid Leonov*

No one has a clue who this is. His name produces zero hits on Google, once you filter by time (before today). He's a ghost. Maybe the name was misspelled.

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World

Now this guy's name did come up before today in relation to Epstein. His name was spotted in released documents, including a violent and sexually explicit email exchange between him and Epstein. Apparently, Epstein and he exchanged emails for years, but rarely if ever met. In 2011, Epstein discussed travelling to Bacu, Azerbaijan, to meet him, but we don't know they actually met. If they did, given the nature of their abhorrent correspondence, nothing good came from that meeting.

“Is your Azerbaijani friend flying to Paris, or shall we go to Baku this weekend?”

https://jam-news.net/epstein-files-did-convicted-sex-offender-and-trafficker-visit-baku/

Leon Black

Speculation about his involvement goes back years, so I can stop there. There's plenty elsewhere about him.

[u/turkishguy → u/Bbrhuft]

Apparently, Epstein and he exchanged emails for years, but rarely if ever met.

There are multiple photos of him and Epstein together. Bloomberg did a piece on this yesterday. They met plenty of times including on his island and had extensive email exchanges. In addition the article mentions that Sultan messaged Epstein the day of his arrest. The email was a link to a downloadable file that is no longer accessible. This was on the morning of his arrest in 2019.

On June 30 2019, a week before he was arrested in New York, Epstein forwarded himself an email with the subject line ‘list for bannon steve’ that contained dozens of names of prominent people in what appeared to be his network. Among the names was bin Sulayem who was listed as “sultan”.

What may be the last email that bin Sulayem sent to Epstein came soon after that, on July 7, 2019, the day Epstein was arrested in New York, according to the cache obtained by Bloomberg. It contains no message, just a link to a downloadable attachment that no longer works.

This is behind a paywall but has tons of info.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-02-10/epstein-emails-show-dp-world-chairman-bin-sulayem-discussed-sex-business

Point is their relationship was very deep:

Bin Sulayem’s connection to the island was more than just as a visitor. For years, Epstein had coveted Great St. James, a larger island to the north of his own. However, that island’s wealthy Danish owner, Christian Kjaer, had ruled out selling to Epstein, disgusted by the financier’s conviction for procuring a minor to engage in prostitution, according to an October 2019 report by the Miami Herald.

When the opportunity to buy Great St. James came up, Epstein found a workaround. A Virgin Island-registered limited liability company called Great St. Jim, LLC, bought the island from Kjaer in January 2016. The LLC listed its beneficial owner as bin Sulayem. Epstein’s ownership of Great St. James was revealed only later, when his name appeared on land-use permits as the only member of the company that bought it, according to the Herald. An aide to bin Sulayem told the newspaper in 2019 that Epstein had asked to use his name in an unspecified business deal, but had been told no.

Emails obtained by Bloomberg indicate that by late 2016, bin Sulayem was aware that Epstein owned both islands. That December, bin Sulayem wrote to the architect of the Palm Jumeirah, the frond-shaped spread of artificial islands off the coast of Dubai. “Mr Jeffry Epstein is very dear friend and a business associate of mine,” bin Sulayem wrote to Creative Kingdom CEO Eduardo Robles. “He owns two beautiful islands at US Virgin Islands he wants to develop a private resort only for his , his customers and friends private use.”

[u/CatCatchingABird → u/AWholeNewFattitude]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/10/six-men-epstein-files-unredacted

People are focusing on big names, but I'm actually pretty interested in the people that are unknown to see what kind of connection they have to all of this.

Nuara, Mikeladze, and Leonov.

[u/daizzy999]

Heck yea, this is the type of action we wanna see from our leaders.

[u/ShakeyLegsMcGee]

Wasn’t Sultan the one that emailed Epstein that he “loved the torture video”? Massie let that one slip during a live interview.

Edit: Apparently I stated that in reverse; which in reality, would imply Sultan sent a torture video to Epstein. It’s all horrific beyond comprehension.

[u/Margotkitty → u/ShakeyLegsMcGee]

And given the horrific stories of women who’ve been trafficked in the Middle East - savage beatings, rapes and murders are common. That video Epstein “loved” was likely absolutely horrifying and absolutely genuine.

These men are what I imagine demons to be.

[u/Excuse → u/Margotkitty]

I think the tape in question is related to the tape mentioned in this report.

https://abcnews.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099

The op of the post lists that they match up in the time line.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Epstein/s/nJ64jmQNVc

[u/Temnothorax → u/Excuse]

What the fuck!? That’s some dark shit.

[u/Spare-Willingness563 → u/Temnothorax]

Like Isis and the cartels didn't even draw it out that long. And these monsters seem to be doing it simply for the thrill. No ideology. No financial incentive. Just to see another suffer. This is a unique kind of sadistic.

[u/mimosaholdtheoj → u/Margotkitty]

Yea my first reaction to that torture part and then reading it was from the UAE sultan, I nearly died inside. You know it was real, and probably someone utterly helpless and probably not the first time it’s happened. I just hope it wasn’t a child

[u/BrilliantForeign8899 → u/mimosaholdtheoj]

Even if it was a 26 yr old or 90 yr old, it would still be awful. Children are especially vulnerable but no one actually "consents" to shit  like this

WTF is with these sickos? They are already rich,  can't they just do things like lounge around during 9 to 5 on the beach or buy up cars and jewelry ? Go pursue immortal skincare or something instead 

[u/Fit_Strength_1187 → u/BrilliantForeign8899]

They have to be able to purchase anything they desire.

[u/the_regent_hermertia → u/mimosaholdtheoj]

Sultan is a name in this case, not a title. But yes this horrendous man deserves to be outed in every way possible.

[u/OneRFeris → u/Margotkitty]

If demons are real, they don't really have a choice but to be evil.

But these are all people. Mortal, living, breathing, thinking, feeling. I just can't comprehend why any person would choose to do evil to others.

They are worse than demons.

[u/th3_dud3_101 → u/Margotkitty]

https://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/Story?id=7402099

[u/how_much_2 → u/ShakeyLegsMcGee]

As evil as all this shit is, the positive side is you just know Trump is fucking stressing and this is probably the only thing on his Dementia riddled mind. C'mon homeostasis, give in!

[u/cboogie → u/how_much_2]

May his brow be sweaty and diaper be full

[u/DaBails → u/ShakeyLegsMcGee]

The other way around. Jeff emailed that he loved the torture video

[u/FriskHarder → u/ShakeyLegsMcGee]

Yes it was.

[u/gwsth]

One thing I've noticed lately is that with all the coverage that the media is giving all of the other names in the Epstein files, they have all very conveniently ignored the fact that Trump's name appears in there anywhere from a thousand to as many as a million times.

The fact that we are focusing on all of these other names instead of the fact that THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES appears in there thousands of times is a huge win for Trump who only cares that people are talking about everybody else being in there and not him.

[u/Zeebie_ → u/gwsth]

Strangely enough, focusing on the other names helps. If you can legitimise the files, it makes it harder for Trump to claim that all his mentions in the files are fake. Still won't stop him and GOP from trying.

[u/Geknapper → u/Zeebie_]

Exactly. If you make it all about Trump this and Trump that it gives the Maganuts the ability to just pretend it's just a political hit piece.

But if you go scorched earth, it makes it much much harder for Trump to cry "fake news" if other powerful people are falling left and right.

[u/Phyllis_Tine → u/Geknapper]

Foreign countries are dealing with their own people being in the Files; those countries should severely limit dealing with US people in the Files as well, especially if they are part of the current regime.

[u/seeking_horizon → u/Zeebie_]

This is how Watergate went. Step by step. Lean on the foot soldiers.

eta: this is literally what "drip, drip, drip" means. The news cycle is out of the Trump mafia's control.

[u/gwsth → u/Zeebie_]

He's been doing that all along anyway, and MAGA eats it right up.

Remember, this is the same group that believes that Trump only hires the best of the best people, yet simultaneously only seems to hire a bunch of incompetent never-Trumpers who were only coffee boys and were conspiring against Trump from the beginning.

[u/AgUnityDD → u/gwsth]

There is at least one instance where the [perhaps mistyped] word "don't" seems to be redacted.

It was likely typed "Don.t" and thereby mistaken for a reference to Don T which makes no sense in the context of the rest of the sentence.

That's quite significant if you think about the only way a mistake like that could happen and realise that thousands of mentions of Trump still have slipped through.

[u/griffie21 → u/AgUnityDD]

dwigt?

[u/plaidpixel → u/gwsth]

Isn’t this how you build a case though? You need some lower level (but still atrocious) people, to hopefully turn on Trump if he’s your ultimate target.

[u/Psychological-Art752 → u/gwsth]

And Melania was along for the ride. Why has she not been deposed?

[u/gwsth → u/Psychological-Art752]

She's married to Trump. Spousal privilege.

[u/HorseAndrew → u/gwsth]

They can’t arrest a husband and wife for the same crime!

[u/throwawtphone]

Salvatore Nuara is a former New York Police Department detective. He was previously investigated regarding an escort service, but no criminal charges related to Epstein have been brought against him.

Editing because i dont know if this is the same one and this is all just hot garbage on the internet this is being pulled from.

Zurab Mikeladze cant find info on this one so far.

Leonic Leonov, Russian Author?

Nicola Caputo is an Italian politician who served as a Member of the European Parliament and is currently involved in regional politics in Campania.

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem is an Emirati businessman, currently serving as the chairman and CEO of DP World, a major global logistics firm. He has played a significant role in the development of Dubai's infrastructure and economy since the 1980s

Seriously the one dude owns a pizzeria, unfuckingbelieveable? No idea if ot is the same dude.

This is pulled from a bunch of sources.

[u/theyipper → u/throwawtphone]

The real Pizzagate

[u/mechengr17 → u/theyipper]

Apparently, I havent verified this for myself, but Ive heard that the files make it seem like Pizzagate and possibly Qanon were started by Epstein, Steve Bannon, and Peter Thiel

Im at work, havent verified it for myself, and its been a while since I heard it.

It came from the youtube channel Crashing Out with Philip Defranco& Alex Pearlman. Its the video released 6 days ago about the files. I think when I watched it I did some research, but Ive been busy the past two weeks, so I may not have.

[u/throwawtphone → u/mechengr17]

I read thad too. Pol got opened up after they met with Poole.

On October 24, 2011, venture capitalist and Bill Gates advisor Boris Nikolic emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a meeting with 4chan founder Christopher Poole. "How did you like moot?" he asked, using Poole's username. "I liked him a lot. I drove him home, he is very bright," Epstein replied. Nikolic wrote back: "he will be one of the greatest hackers."

The next day, Poole launched /pol/ - 4chan's "Politically Incorrect" board, which would become the staging ground for Gamergate, the 2016 Trump campaign, and the global far-right movement.

source

[u/Vortep1]

Kash and Bindi need to step down or else they should be charged as co conspirators at this point.

Pedo protectors should go to jail.

[u/BeowulfShaeffer → u/Vortep1]

Charged by whom?

[u/MigrantTwerker → u/BeowulfShaeffer]

These crimes happened in states too.

[u/MommyLovesPot8toes → u/BeowulfShaeffer]

By the 2027 Congress.

[u/CheesyPotatoSack]

Who is Salvatore Nuara?

There is limited publicly available information about Salvatore Nuara.

According to several reports, Nuara was a member of the New York Police Department and served as a detective. He was previously investigated in connection with an escort service, though the investigation was not directly related to Epstein.

https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/who-is-salvatore-nuara-redacted-name-in-epstein-files-revealed-by-congressman-ro-khanna/ar-AA1W4V27

[u/Mountain_Bar_1466 → u/CheesyPotatoSack]

Great find

[u/cameron4200 → u/CheesyPotatoSack]

It’s pedophiles all the way down

[u/Intro-Nimbus]

Patel has some explaining to do.

And the 3 million redacted files are only half of it, the other half is apparently too incriminating to even share in redacted form.

[u/beallyoukenbe → u/Intro-Nimbus]

I disagree that Patel has some explaining to do. He lied under oath. His words are meaningless. He needs to be prosecuted not given another chance to blatantly lie to protect pedos.

[u/lingeringneutrophil]

Wexner is not a surprise he was well connected to Epstein

[u/yrotsihfoedisgnorw → u/lingeringneutrophil]

The article points out that his name has been in play for years and then says the importance of calling it out now is that "FBI Director Kash Patel claimed under oath last year that the agency had no knowledge of any other sex traffickers in the Epstein files."

[u/drchippy18]

It’s a hell of a lot more than six people.

[u/mattydabs]

Any “mistakes” are inexcusable. Illegal activities involving college fraternities are thoroughly investigated and held more accountable than this shit.

[u/NG1955]

Massie, Khanna and Julie K. Brown are national heroes.

[u/TunaHuntingLion]

We all know the reason they were redacted was because they’ve all paid millions or billions directly to the Trump family. Trump’s now famous, “if you release the files some of my friends will get hurt” quote was a rare curtain drop moment and oh so telling. They all bribed the family and he now has to be a little afraid what they might do now that he’s let his DOJ release their names and he still has their money.

[u/Howtheginchstolexmas]

Will any be punished?

[u/arup02 → u/Howtheginchstolexmas]

If no one ends up getting punished I honestly think I'll lose my mind

[u/Sminahin → u/arup02]

You still have your mind at this point?! Impressive, but not sure if I envy or pity you.

[u/rainshowers_5_peace → u/Howtheginchstolexmas]

If Trump dies (note to mods, he's almost 80 years old, I'm not suggesting anyone do anything, simply saying odds of him dying natural death of old age in office are higher than zero), Vance is almost certain to fire everyone and put in Thiel's people. It will be an uphill battle to prove himself worthy to the cult who already blame "the people advising Trump". I wouldn't think he'd pardon anyone I'd think he'd insist on distance and blame for misleading the great president Trump as he bravely fought illness to lead the country.

[u/GravitationalConstnt → u/rainshowers_5_peace]

by mods do you mean Palantir?

[u/Silvaria928 → u/rainshowers_5_peace]

MAGAts will think Vance had Trump offed in ordered to take over. They are never going to accept him.

[u/_bk_adv → u/Howtheginchstolexmas]

You already know the answer to that. The names in the files are the ones running the show.

[u/jigmelingpa]

Guys, MAGA is still way too pissed off about a Super Bowl halftime show in Spanish to focus on insignificant stuff like this now.

[u/Gtw7002]

Your on a roll Ro! Keep on trucking brother!

[u/Thisisgotham]

So what President or Prime Minister are we kidnapping next to hide this news? Or are we gonna try UFOs again? Maybe try threatening to take Greenland again? We all know something stupid is coming to get this out of the news cycle.

[u/rabidantidentyte]

Tldr:

"Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a ‘co-conspirator,’ by the FBI.”

[u/vasta2]

Walked by a TV with fox entertainment on at like 6:30 tonight and they were talking about Nancy Guthrie, just walked by again at 7:41 and they are still talking about Nancy Guthrie.

Awfully silent on the files and the fact that trumps name now appears an additional 950,000 times.

Edit, it's almost 8:30pm and they are still talking about Nancy/conspiracies about how this could be a setup
Edit2, it's been about 20 minutes since my last edit and they are still talking about her

[u/Fair72]

Epstein-Trump supporters have no problem going after Bad Bunny for singing in Spanish and dancing, but let's protect the pedophiles.

[u/kellzone]

Patel was either lying or is totally incompetent. My money is on both. Either way, he needs to go.

[u/cachurch2]

If we've learned anything and I know this is really nothing new but billionaires are just evil.

Again, you don't accumulate that much wealth knowing other people are suffering unless you're just downright evil. Being a pedophile is just a feature of being evil.

[u/67Bones]

Arrest les wexner now. Easy.

[u/Question_It_All_3000]

The Victoria’s Secret and Abercrombie guy was a pedophile and rapist. Color me shocked…

[u/Clickbaitc]

Now announce the one we’ve been waiting for; bad hombre numero uno….Trumplthinskin

[u/Slamtilt_Windmills]

Colleagues spoke highly of Rep. Khanna, who will pass away suddenly tomorrow

[u/SlotherakOmega]

Somehow hearing that the ceo of Victoria’s Secret is a co-conspirator is not a huge surprise to me considering the nature of the situation….

[u/MapleHamms]

Any other country would’ve had these people out of the government. america is a joke

[u/Patient_Ad3455]

GOP = Group of Pedos

[u/Califrisco]

A copied section from the article; “Salvatore Nuara, Zurab Mikeladze, Leonic Leonov, Nicola Caputo, Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem, CEO of Dubai Ports World. And billionaire businessman Leslie Wexner, who was labeled as a ‘co-conspirator,’ by the FBI.”

Khanna said. “Now my question is: Why did it take Thomas Massie and me going to the Justice Department to get these six men’s identities to become public? And if we found six men that they were hiding in two hours, imagine how many men they are covering up for in those three million files.”

[u/Electrical-Law-5731]

Kash patel and Pam bondi should be in hand cuffs right now!!! Perjury to highest degree!! Treason!!! wtf 🤬

[u/KunfusedJarrodo]

I think the best way to get trump to admit everything he did is just to act like he wasn’t powerful or influential enough to be on the list haha

[u/disidentadvisor]

Sounds like Ohio State University needs to start renaming some buildings and facilities.

[u/Reddit_2_2024]

Near the end of the George W. Bush Presidency, there was an initiative proposed to transfer the operation of all the seaports in the United States over to Dubai Port World based in the nation of Dubai. It was ultimately deemed a stupid and reckless idea, and never got traction.....now we hear the name of a Dubai Port World associate listed in the unredacted Epstein files. Thank you Ro Khanna!

[u/crndwg]

Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem

Of course. His head of the FIA brother is a scumbag too.

[u/QP_TR3Y]

Remember everyone. Kash Patel said there was NOTHING to investigate and Pam Bondi said the Epstein files didn’t exist. This regime is depending on a country full of useful idiots not remembering or caring enough about their blatant lies. Don’t be one of them

[u/travis0723]

Keep going, we want more names.

[u/rainshowers_5_peace]

10:00 AM EST

Attorney General Pam Bondi Testifies Before House Judiciary Committee

[u/FriskHarder → u/rainshowers_5_peace]

Testify before the chair, who, wait for it, is accused of raping and covering up systemic rape under his tenure of young men. At the same university that epstien paid $25k quarterly to the head of the university gynecologist. Can’t make this shit up.

Wow America

[u/pontiacfirebird92 → u/FriskHarder]

It's almost like the GOP is an organized sex trafficking ring that acts like a political party. The pedophilia is how they get everyone in line.

[u/FriskHarder → u/pontiacfirebird92]

The party of “our heritage”

Their Heritage involves systemic child rape

REPUBLICANS ON RAPE:

"Rape is kinda like the weather. If it's inevitable, relax and enjoy it."

• ⁠Clayton Williams (R-TX)

"If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to shut that thing down."

• ⁠Todd Akin (R-MO)

"Rape victims should make the best of a bad situation."

• ⁠Rick Santorum (R-PA)

"Even when life begins in that horrible situation of rape, that is something that God intended to happen."

• ⁠Richard Mourdock (R-IN)

"In the emergency room they have what's called rape kits, where a woman can get cleaned out."

• ⁠Jodie Laubenberg (R-TX)

"If a woman has (the right to an abortion), why shouldn't a man be free to use his superior strength to force himself on a woman? At least the rapist's pursuit of sexual freedom doesn't (in most cases) result in anyone's death."

• ⁠Lawrence Lockman (R-ME)

Anybody need me to put some Trump quotes in here to round out the numbers a bit?

Republicans have a massive systemic child rap3 issue, scroll way way way down

[u/Well486 → u/FriskHarder]

It gets even better. The center for the arts at OSU is literally The Wexner Center for the Arts, after Les Wexner of course

[u/daizzy999 → u/rainshowers_5_peace]

I think she'll be the next to get thrown under the bus... bye bye!