The Gates Foundation Investigates Its Epstein Connections (7/23/26)

Doug Band And His Epstein Related Congressional Transcript (Part 5) (7/23/26)

Doug Band told the House Oversight Committee that his personal contact with Jeffrey Epstein was limited, infrequent and largely incidental to his work as Bill Clinton’s longtime aide. He said he barely knew Epstein, did not recall receiving gifts from him and had no knowledge of Epstein’s abuse or other criminal conduct while they were acquainted. Band nevertheless described Epstein and Clinton as appearing to be friends, pointing to the time they spent together, Epstein’s aircraft and his potential value as a supporter of Clinton’s post-presidential work. He acknowledged accompanying Clinton on trips aboard Epstein’s plane and visiting Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse, but said he did not remember witnessing private conversations between the two men or seeing anything improper. Band described a more substantial relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell, admitting that they developed a friendship through Clinton’s orbit while firmly denying that it was ever romantic or physical. He said he began hearing troubling reports about Maxwell around 2011 and responded by removing her from Clinton’s contact lists and attempting to cut her out of the former president’s world. Much of the questioning focused on emails suggesting social familiarity, dinners, travel arrangements, birthday plans and flirtatious language, but Band repeatedly said he could not remember the communications or the events being discussed. His testimony therefore presented Epstein as a peripheral acquaintance and Maxwell as a former friend, while leaving lawmakers with numerous instances in which documentary records appeared more detailed than Band’s recollection. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Band-Final-Transcript-7.16.26.pdf [https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Band-Final-Transcript-7.16.26.pdf]

Former New Mexico Attorney General Alleges DOJ Stonewalled Epstein Probe (7/23/26)

Former New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has offered to assist the state’s renewed investigations into Jeffrey Epstein’s Zorro Ranch, alleging that federal authorities effectively shut his office out of the case after he began investigating in 2019. Balderas said his team interviewed one survivor and was developing a potential first-degree criminal sexual penetration charge against Epstein when federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York intervened. Although federal officials indicated they would share evidence with New Mexico once their prosecution concluded, Balderas says the promised records never arrived and repeated requests from his office were ignored. Balderas has now contacted current Attorney General Raul Torrez and the chairwoman of New Mexico’s Epstein Truth Commission, offering his records and cooperation as they investigate what occurred at the ranch and how authorities handled the allegations. Torrez, who has reopened the state investigation, said Balderas’ account confirms that the Justice Department repeatedly failed to honor its commitments to share information. He has threatened legal action unless the DOJ turns over specific unredacted records, arguing that New Mexico needs the evidence to protect survivors, determine whether state laws were violated and hold anyone responsible accountable. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Jes Staley Is Set To Face Congress Today Over His Epstein Ties (7/23/26)

Jes Staley’s appearance before Congress centers on the collapse of his long-running effort to portray his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein as distant, professional and misunderstood. The record suggests something far closer: years of communication, visits, continued contact after Epstein’s 2008 conviction and descriptions of the relationship that went well beyond ordinary banker-client business. Staley has repeatedly leaned on selective memory and claims of ignorance, but those defenses are difficult to reconcile with his experience as one of the world’s most sophisticated financial executives. Regulators in Britain already concluded that he misleadingly characterized the relationship, and the documentary evidence has made his attempts to minimize it increasingly untenable. Congress now has an obligation to confront Staley with the emails, travel records, regulatory findings and contradictions he has spent years trying to explain away. His loss of status and career should not be confused with the suffering endured by Epstein’s victims, and he should not be allowed to recast himself as another casualty of Epstein’s deception. The central question is not whether Staley can survive another hearing with his reputation partially intact, but whether his narrative can survive direct comparison with the facts. For once, wealth, prestige and selective memory should not be enough to shield a powerful man from accountability. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

The Gates Foundation Investigates Its Epstein Connections (7/23/26)

An external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation found that Jeffrey Epstein participated in roughly 30 meetings with Bill Gates and nine other foundation leaders and employees between 2011 and 2014. The meetings reportedly focused on philanthropic matters, including a proposed donor-advised fund, polio eradication strategy, donor introductions and Gates’s involvement with a nonprofit that later received foundation funding. Some meetings took place at Epstein’s Manhattan home, while one occurred on the foundation’s campus. The review found no evidence that the foundation paid Epstein or that its personnel knew about or participated in his ongoing criminal activity. However, the review also confirmed that Gates and senior foundation officials were repeatedly warned about the reputational dangers of dealing with Epstein because of his 2008 conviction. Despite those concerns, the relationship continued for several years, with Gates later acknowledging that he failed to properly scrutinize Epstein’s background. The foundation has responded by approving stronger centralized vetting procedures and a formal system for escalating organizational risks. Gates said the review was necessary to provide transparency and strengthen oversight, but its findings raise fresh questions about why clear warnings from foundation employees were not enough to end the relationship sooner. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: Epstein Was Supposed To Be In Jail. Instead he Was Still Abusing Victims (7/23/26)

Jeffrey Epstein was allegedly continuing to abuse young women even while serving his Florida jail sentence and supposedly being monitored by state and local authorities. After pleading guilty in 2008, Epstein was granted an extraordinarily permissive work-release arrangement that allowed him to leave the Palm Beach County Stockade for as long as 12 hours a day, six days a week, and travel to an office operated through his Florida Science Foundation. Women later alleged that they were brought to that office and Epstein’s Palm Beach residence for sexual encounters while he remained an inmate. The arrangement was especially alarming because Epstein was already a convicted sex offender, yet deputies supervising his release reportedly allowed visitors into the office, while the corresponding guest logs were eventually destroyed. Rather than preventing further abuse, the system appears to have given Epstein the freedom and privacy necessary to continue the same predatory conduct for which he had supposedly been punished. More women are now publicly describing what they say happened during that period as the release of millions of pages of Epstein-related records renews attention on the failures surrounding his Florida sentence. Roza Gilles, who was an 18-year-old aspiring model in 2009, has alleged that Epstein began abusing her after she was hired to work at his Palm Beach office while he was still serving jail time. Her account adds to earlier allegations from women who said Epstein sexually exploited them during work release and raises further questions about what supervising deputies, jail officials and other authorities knew or should have known. The emerging stories suggest that Epstein’s lenient sentence was not merely inadequate, but may have actively enabled him to find and abuse additional victims while the government claimed he was under supervision. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com