From Disgrace to Disaster: The Epstein NPA After the Unsealed Files

Lesley Groff And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Trip to Congress (Part 5) (7/4/26)

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, and did not knowingly help Epstein or Maxwell commit crimes. She described Epstein as a “master manipulator” who lied to her and kept his “legitimate” world apart from his abuse, while acknowledging that she scheduled massage appointments when Epstein provided names and numbers, sometimes circulated calendars that included those appointments early on, and understood the massages as routine at the time. She said she did not personally meet the massage providers, did not know they were minors or young women, and assumed they were masseuses, even though members pressed her on why an extremely wealthy man would use rotating names and phone numbers instead of a professional massage service. The questioning also focused heavily on Epstein’s network and whether Groff had knowledge of powerful men being provided access to girls or young women through Epstein or Maxwell. Groff repeatedly answered no when asked whether she had arranged massages for prominent figures, knew of sexual activity involving minors or young women, or knew of anyone who knowingly facilitated Epstein’s crimes. She acknowledged scheduling or connecting Epstein with high-profile contacts, including Prince Andrew, Ehud Barak, Larry Summers, George Mitchell, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton-related circles, and Donald Trump phone calls, but denied arranging Trump travel during her employment and denied knowledge of Trump-related law enforcement communications. She also said she never suspected Epstein or Maxwell of working with any intelligence service. Overall, Groff’s testimony was defensive and narrow: she admitted to being part of the machinery that kept Epstein’s calendar and contacts moving, but insisted she never saw the criminal operation underneath it and never knowingly enabled it. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source:   Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf [https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf]

Lesley Groff And The Transcript From Her Epstein Related Trip to Congress (Part 4) (7/4/26)

Lesley Groff told the House Oversight Committee that she worked for Jeffrey Epstein from February 2001 until July 2019 as his secretary/administrative assistant, handling scheduling, calls, travel coordination, calendars, and staff logistics. Her central position was that Epstein kept her separated from his criminal life, that she never witnessed abuse, never had a victim disclose abuse to her, and did not knowingly help Epstein or Maxwell commit crimes. She described Epstein as a “master manipulator” who lied to her and kept his “legitimate” world apart from his abuse, while acknowledging that she scheduled massage appointments when Epstein provided names and numbers, sometimes circulated calendars that included those appointments early on, and understood the massages as routine at the time. She said she did not personally meet the massage providers, did not know they were minors or young women, and assumed they were masseuses, even though members pressed her on why an extremely wealthy man would use rotating names and phone numbers instead of a professional massage service. The questioning also focused heavily on Epstein’s network and whether Groff had knowledge of powerful men being provided access to girls or young women through Epstein or Maxwell. Groff repeatedly answered no when asked whether she had arranged massages for prominent figures, knew of sexual activity involving minors or young women, or knew of anyone who knowingly facilitated Epstein’s crimes. She acknowledged scheduling or connecting Epstein with high-profile contacts, including Prince Andrew, Ehud Barak, Larry Summers, George Mitchell, John Kerry, Wesley Clark, Bill Clinton-related circles, and Donald Trump phone calls, but denied arranging Trump travel during her employment and denied knowledge of Trump-related law enforcement communications. She also said she never suspected Epstein or Maxwell of working with any intelligence service. Overall, Groff’s testimony was defensive and narrow: she admitted to being part of the machinery that kept Epstein’s calendar and contacts moving, but insisted she never saw the criminal operation underneath it and never knowingly enabled it. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source:   Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf [https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/Lesley-Groff-Transcript.pdf]

Mega Edition: Jes Staley Made Sure Jeffrey Epstein Kept Banking With JP Morgan Chase (7/4/26)

Jes Staley’s role at JPMorgan was not simply that of a banker who happened to know Jeffrey Epstein; according to lawsuits, regulatory findings, and later court testimony, he functioned as Epstein’s internal champion. As head of JPMorgan’s private bank, Staley maintained a close relationship with Epstein even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, exchanging more than 1,000 emails with him and continuing to treat him as a valuable client and personal contact. The core allegation is that when compliance concerns, suspicious withdrawals, and human-trafficking red flags arose around Epstein’s accounts, Staley pushed the bank to keep him rather than cut him loose. In other words, Epstein had someone inside the institution with status, access, and credibility who could vouch for him, smooth over concerns, and help keep the relationship alive longer than it should have survived. That lobbying mattered because JPMorgan was not just holding a checking account for some random rich man; it was providing banking infrastructure to a convicted sex offender whose financial activity should have set off alarms. The U.S. Virgin Islands and Epstein survivors argued that JPMorgan benefited from Epstein while missing or ignoring signs that his money was connected to abuse and trafficking, and JPMorgan later sued Staley, accusing him of concealing what he knew and putting Epstein’s interests ahead of the bank’s. Staley has denied wrongdoing and has said he did not know about Epstein’s crimes, but regulators later concluded that he misled Barclays about the depth of his Epstein relationship, and JPMorgan ultimately paid $75 million to settle the USVI case while also settling with Staley. So the picture that emerges is of Epstein using Staley as a powerful institutional shield: a senior banker who gave him credibility, protected the client relationship, and helped keep the doors open at one of the most important banks in the world. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: Leon Black And The Attempt To Change The Narrative Surrounding HIs Epstein Ties (7/4/26)

Leon Black has tried to reshape the Epstein story around him by narrowing it into a business relationship gone wrong: Epstein, in Black’s telling, was not a partner in criminality, not a source of women, not a blackmailer, and not someone whose abuse network Black knowingly touched. Instead, Black has repeatedly framed Epstein as a financial and tax adviser who provided estate-planning services, with Black later saying he was “duped” or deceived by a man whose crimes he did not understand. That is the clean version Black has pushed: yes, he paid Epstein enormous sums after Epstein’s 2008 conviction, but the money was for tax, estate, and financial advice; yes, the association was embarrassing and damaging, but not criminal; yes, he regrets it, but he insists regret is not the same thing as guilt. Apollo’s 2021 review said Black paid Epstein roughly $158 million for advisory services and found no evidence that Epstein had any business relationship with Apollo, a finding Black and his defenders have leaned on heavily as part of the rehabilitation effort. But the problem for Black is that the “just financial advice” narrative has never fully settled the matter, because the scale of the payments, the timing after Epstein’s sex-offense conviction, and the later allegations keep dragging the story back into darker territory. Black stepped down from Apollo in 2021 after the Epstein relationship became a corporate and reputational crisis, and in 2026 he again faced congressional scrutiny over his Epstein ties, including questions about non-disclosure agreements, alleged payments, and whether Epstein’s role went beyond taxes and estate planning. Black has denied abusing women, denied being with underage women, denied paying Epstein for access to women, and denied being blackmailed, but lawmakers grew frustrated when he refused to answer certain questions tied to NDAs, leading to subpoenas for more testimony and records. So the narrative Black has tried to build is one of distance, deception, and professional embarrassment; the counter-narrative is that Epstein was too compromised, too notorious, and too grotesquely overpaid for anyone to accept that explanation at face value without a much harder look. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: Prince Andrew And The Blindside He Never Saw Coming (7/3/26)

According to source accounts surrounding the lawsuit, Prince Andrew was caught flat-footed by Virginia Roberts Giuffre’s decision to take him into a U.S. federal court rather than simply continue the fight through interviews, public statements, and media pressure. The lawsuit, filed in August 2021 in the Southern District of New York, accused Andrew of sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress tied to Giuffre’s allegation that Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell trafficked her to him when she was 17. Andrew denied the allegations, but the filing changed the entire battlefield: this was no longer just a reputational crisis or another ugly Epstein headline. It became a live civil case with discovery, depositions, court deadlines, service fights, and the possibility that Andrew would be forced to answer questions under oath. The “blindsided” part matters because Andrew and his camp appeared to believe they still had legal escape routes, especially the 2009 settlement between Giuffre and Epstein, which they argued should shield him from liability. But Judge Lewis Kaplan rejected the attempt to dismiss the case in January 2022, finding that the settlement language was not clear enough to simply wipe away Giuffre’s claim against Andrew at that stage. That ruling left Andrew exposed to the very thing he seemed desperate to avoid: a drawn-out American legal fight with sworn testimony, evidence demands, and global headlines hanging over the monarchy. The case was eventually settled out of court in February 2022 without an admission of liability, but by then the damage was done—Giuffre had forced Andrew out of the palace-controlled public-relations arena and into a legal forum where denial alone was no longer enough. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com