JPMorgan, Jamie Diamond, Jeffrey Epstein and the Battle Over Britain’s Banker Tax (7/15/26)

Warren Buffet Makes A Final Decision On Donations to The Gates Foundation (7/15/26)

Warren Buffett left the Gates Foundation out of his annual charitable donations for the first time, directing roughly $6 billion in Berkshire Hathaway stock instead to four foundations connected to his family. The omission followed renewed disclosures about Bill Gates’ meetings and correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein. Buffett also accelerated his broader estate plans, announcing that his remaining Berkshire shares, valued at nearly $146 billion, will be donated to those four foundations by December 31, 2034. The Gates Foundation has received most of Buffett’s previous charitable giving, totaling more than $61 billion since 2006. Buffett and Gates were once exceptionally close, but Buffett said they had not spoken for months following the release of additional Epstein-related documents in late 2025. Gates has denied knowing about Epstein’s crimes and has not been accused of wrongdoing, maintaining that he met Epstein because he believed the financier could help raise money for charitable projects. The Gates Foundation has hired an outside reviewer to examine its past engagement with Epstein and its procedures for vetting potential partners. Buffett declined to directly judge Gates’ conduct, but said he wanted to avoid involvement in anything that might later become the subject of an investigation. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: Warren Buffett omits annual donation to Bill Gates’ foundation after his Epstein ties were disclosed - ABC News [https://abcnews.com/Business/wireStory/warren-buffett-omits-annual-donation-bill-gates-foundation-134747146]

JPMorgan, Jamie Diamond, Jeffrey Epstein and the Battle Over Britain’s Banker Tax (7/15/26)

Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding answers from JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon about whether he acted on advice connected to Jeffrey Epstein while lobbying against a proposed British tax on bankers’ bonuses. Warren’s questions follow the release of a 2009 email exchange in which Epstein asked then-Labour minister Peter Mandelson whether Dimon should pressure UK chancellor Alistair Darling over the tax. Mandelson reportedly replied that Dimon should “mildly threaten” Darling, and Dimon later warned that JPMorgan could reconsider investments in Britain, including plans for a new London headquarters. Warren said the communications raise serious questions about the extent of JPMorgan’s relationship with Epstein and what Dimon Dimon testified in 2023 that he had never met Epstein and had not heard his name until Epstein’s 2019 arrest. JPMorgan continues to insist that Dimon never communicated with Epstein, never sought his advice and was not involved in decisions involving Epstein’s accounts. The bank has also rejected former executive Jes Staley’s claim that he discussed Epstein with Dimon, describing Staley’s testimony as unreliable. JPMorgan acknowledged that maintaining Epstein as a client was a mistake but said the bank ended the relationship in 2013 and would have acted sooner had it known he was continuing to commit crimes. Warren is now seeking a fuller accounting of whether Dimon’s lobbying efforts were influenced, directly or indirectly, by Epstein and his political connections. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: JP Morgan boss pressed by US senator about contact with Jeffrey Epstein | JP Morgan | The Guardian [https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/13/jp-morgan-boss-jamie-dimon-us-uk-jeffrey-epstein-elizabeth-warren]

The Adfin Deal: Howard Lutnick, Jeffrey Epstein and the Paper Trail (7/15/26)

British whistleblower Simon Andriesz uncovered evidence in the publicly released Epstein records suggesting that Howard Lutnick, now the United States commerce secretary, had a more substantial business relationship with Jeffrey Epstein than Lutnick had previously acknowledged. Andriesz, a former managing director at Lutnick’s Wall Street firm Cantor Fitzgerald, found a 2018 email exchange in which Lutnick personally updated Epstein about Adfin, a digital-advertising company in which companies controlled by both men had acquired stakes in 2012. The correspondence indicated that the two remained in direct communication years after Lutnick claimed he had effectively cut Epstein out of his life. Andriesz provided his findings to American lawmakers before Lutnick appeared at a congressional hearing in May, believing the documents raised serious questions about whether Lutnick had fully disclosed the nature and duration of his Epstein connection. Lutnick has maintained that he did not initially know Epstein was also invested in Adfin and has characterized their interactions as limited, but the records show that the two were involved in the same business venture and were still discussing its performance in 2018. Andriesz expressed frustration that evidence involving such a powerful government official appeared to generate little interest, despite the broader public demand for transparency concerning Epstein’s financial relationships and the influential people surrounding him. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com source: How US commerce secretary's Epstein links were uncovered by British whistleblower [https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9q28dlyxrzo]

Mega Edition: Zorro Ranch And The Mysteries It Still Holds (7/15/26)

Zorro Ranch was long one of the least thoroughly examined pieces of Jeffrey Epstein’s world, despite repeated allegations that women and girls were taken there and abused. Unlike his Manhattan townhouse and Palm Beach residence, the sprawling New Mexico property was not searched by federal authorities after his 2019 arrest, leaving years of activity at the ranch largely unexplored. Its remote location, enormous size and limited law-enforcement scrutiny allowed it to remain one of the darkest gaps in the Epstein investigation, with unanswered questions about who visited, what records were kept there and how the property fit into his broader trafficking operation. That changed in March 2026, when New Mexico investigators finally searched the former ranch after reopening a criminal investigation, but the passage of time has made the search for answers far more difficult. The property had already been sold, witnesses had scattered, physical evidence may have deteriorated and federal records needed by state investigators remained heavily redacted or unavailable. New Mexico officials say those records may identify survivors, witnesses and possible co-conspirators, meaning Zorro Ranch may still hold information capable of expanding the known scope of Epstein’s crimes. The ranch is no longer accurate to describe as never searched, but it remains one of his least fully investigated properties and one of the places most likely to contain secrets that were ignored for far too long. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com

Mega Edition: The CVRA Was Meant To Protect Survivors. It Did The Opposite. (7/15/26)

The Crime Victims’ Rights Act was supposed to guarantee victims notice, dignity, participation and the right to be heard, yet those protections were repeatedly cast aside throughout the Epstein case. Federal prosecutors negotiated the 2007 non-prosecution agreement in secret, concealed it from the girls Epstein abused and allowed Epstein and his alleged co-conspirators to receive extraordinary protections without the victims having any meaningful opportunity to object. The victims were misled about the status of the investigation while the government quietly finalized a deal that prevented federal prosecution and helped Epstein secure an exceptionally lenient state sentence. By the time the truth emerged, the agreement had already been executed, leaving the victims to fight for years merely to establish that the government had denied them the basic rights Congress had promised. The violations did not end with the original agreement because the victims have repeatedly been forced to battle the same institutions that failed them in the first place. They have faced delays, secrecy, withheld records, disputed interpretations of when CVRA protections begin and procedural rulings that elevated government convenience over victim participation. Even after a federal judge found that prosecutors had violated the victims’ rights, later appellate decisions left them without an effective remedy because Epstein had never been formally charged in federal court before the agreement was reached. The result was a devastating legal loophole: prosecutors could secretly negotiate away a case before filing charges and then argue that the victims had no enforceable rights because no case had yet been filed. In the Epstein matter, the CVRA became less a shield for victims than another promise the justice system repeatedly failed to keep. to contact me: bobbycapucci@protonmail.com