Methodology

734,122 Names

4 EFTA citations2,147 words0 persons referenced

*This analysis queries every person entity in the EFTA corpus — 734,122 unique names extracted by NLP from 1.48 million documents — for co-occurrence across document categories. No names were pre-selected. The database determined who appears in both financial and victim-related records. See COMPLIANCE.md for professional standards framework.*

734,122 Names

I asked the database who bridges the financial and victim document universes. It answered without being told who to look for. This analysis queries every person entity in the EFTA corpus — 734,122 unique names extracted by NLP from 1.48 million documents — for co-occurrence across document categories. No names were pre-selected. The database determined who appears in both financial and victim-related records. See COMPLIANCE.md for professional standards framework.

The Question

11.4 million entity extractions. 1.48 million DOJ documents. 734,122 unique person-type entities. Most show up in one category. A few in two. A handful in three.

I ran one query: show me every person who appears in at least 3 financial documents AND at least 3 victim-related documents. No name list. No search terms. I let the database decide.

The Query

``sql


SELECT name, financial_files, victim_files, flight_files
FROM entities × files
WHERE entity_type = 'PERSON'
GROUP BY name
HAVING financial_files >= 3 AND victim_files >= 3
ORDER BY financial_files + victim_files DESC

After filtering NLP noise (common nouns misclassified as persons, location names, legal citation fragments), the query returned 57 real names.

Every one of them falls into one of four categories. The classification is the finding.

Category 1: The Operational Core

These individuals managed Epstein's financial, travel, and household operations. They appear in financial documents because they moved money. They appear in victim documents because victims, prosecutors, and civil plaintiffs named them.

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Flight Docs

Role

------

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Ghislaine Maxwell

204

1,312

Convicted on 5 federal charges including sex trafficking of a minor (2021)

Darren K. Indyke

196

204

176

Estate attorney; co-signed wire transfers; named defendant in USVI victim lawsuit (<a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00018778.pdf" target="_blank">EFTA00018778</a>)

Lesley Groff

134

153

Executive assistant; managed scheduling; appears alongside "Jane Doe" in same documents

Richard Kahn

110

Attorney; disbursed $9.3M through wire network; named defendant in USVI victim lawsuit

Larry Visoski

249

Primary pilot; named in depositions where victims described travel to Epstein properties

Sarah Kellen

132

Identified by victims as scheduler who arranged visits

Alfredo Rodriguez

128

Household staff; testified about what he witnessed; attempted to sell "black book" to FBI

Jean-Luc Brunel

120

MC2 modeling agency; named by victims; found dead in Paris jail, February 2022

Juan Alessi

Household staff; testified about operations at El Brillo Way

Nadia Marcinkova

Named by victims in depositions and civil filings

Maxwell is the only person in the corpus who occupies the center of all three document categories at scale. She was convicted. The database confirms what the jury found.

Indyke and Kahn are the financial managers. They signed wire transfers (Narrative 1–6), appeared on travel documents, and were named as defendants in a 55-page USVI victim lawsuit (<a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA00018778.pdf" target="_blank">EFTA00018778</a>) alongside Epstein — a court filing that references Little Saint James and uses Jane/John Doe plaintiff designations.

Groff is the scheduler. Documents in the corpus place her name in the same file as "Jane Doe" (<a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00446172.pdf" target="_blank">EFTA00446172</a>) and "the Federal Crime Victims Rights Act" (<a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00429909.pdf" target="_blank">EFTA00429909</a>). She managed the calendar.

Category 2: Named Associates

These individuals are not operational staff but appear in both financial and victim-related documents due to their public association with Epstein. Their victim-document presence reflects civil lawsuits, media coverage within the corpus, and legal proceedings — not necessarily direct accusations.

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Flight Docs

Public Connection

------

---------------

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Alan Dershowitz

408

Defense attorney; named in Virginia Giuffre civil suit

Roy Black

250

Defense attorney; also received $4.6M wire from Plan D LLC (Exhibit B)

Prince Andrew

211

Named in Virginia Giuffre civil suit; settled 2022

Bill Clinton

201

Flight log presence; named in civil depositions

Donald Trump

163

Named in victim-related civil filings

Leslie Wexner

L Brands; financial relationship with Epstein

Scott Rothstein

645

Ran $1.2B Ponzi scheme; case intersected with Epstein through South Florida legal community

Roy Black is a borderline case. He is Epstein's defense attorney — which explains his victim-document presence (250 filings). But he also received $4.6 million through the wire transfer network from Plan D LLC (Exhibit B, Narrative 3). He is both legal representation and wire recipient. Scott Rothstein appears in 645 victim documents — more than Maxwell's 491 last-name-only count. His $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme case generated extensive South Florida court filings that cross-reference the Epstein investigation through shared jurisdiction, shared attorneys, and shared legal proceedings.

Category 3: The Legal Ecosystem

The largest category. These are the attorneys, prosecutors, judges, law firms, and paralegals who worked the Epstein case on all sides. Their presence in both financial and victim documents reflects the legal process, not operational involvement.

Victims' Attorneys:

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Role

------

---------------

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Bradley J. Edwards

948

Lead victims' attorney; author of "Relentless"

Jack Scarola

706

Co-counsel for victims

Michael J. Pike

350

Victims' attorney; correspondence references "Jane Does Nos. 2 through 7"

Spencer Kuvin

—

Victims' attorney (Pike's firm)

Prosecution:

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Role

------

---------------

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------

Lilly Ann Sanchez

236

Assistant United States Attorney; prosecuted the case

Bruce E. Reinhart

177

Magistrate Judge; signed search warrant

Defense Attorneys:

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Role

------

---------------

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------

Jack Goldberger

561

Lead defense counsel

Marc S. Nurik

562

Defense attorney

Martin G. Weinberg

217

Defense attorney; 52 financial docs is notable

Fred Haddad

277

Palm Beach defense attorney; emails with Groff, Indyke, Goldberger

Jay P. Lefkowitz

Attorney

Robert Josefsberg

162

Attorney

Robert D. Critton

495

Attorney

Law Firms:

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Role

------

---------------

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------

Podhurst Orseck

Victims' law firm

Fowler White Burnett

225

Defense law firm

Kellerhals Ferguson Kroblin

—

V.I. estate counsel; received $23M in wire transfers

Other Legal:

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Role

------

---------------

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Joseph L. Ackerman

316

Attorney; worked Epstein legal matters

Jackie Perczek

115

Paralegal or legal staff; court filings dating to 1981

W. Chester Brewer

135

Attorney

Russell Adler

116

Attorney

Katherine W. Ezell

110

Podhurst Orseck attorney

Kara Berard Rockenbach

Attorney

Scott J. Link

132

Attorney

Christopher E. Knight

106

Attorney

Category 4: Financial Infrastructure

One name appeared that is not an attorney, associate, or operational staff member:

Name

Financial Docs

Victim Docs

Role

------

---------------

-------------

------

Eric Gany

115

Epstein's office shipping clerk — 115 "financial" docs are FedEx invoices billed to "ERIC GANY / JEFFREY E EPSTEIN / FINANCIAL TRUST COMPANY" at 457 Madison Ave, New York

What the Classification Reveals

Of 734,122 unique person entities in the EFTA corpus, exactly 57 real names bridge both the financial and victim document universes at a threshold of 3+ documents each.

Of those 57:

10 are operational staff — the people who ran the machine

7 are named associates — public figures connected to Epstein

~25 are attorneys and legal professionals — the people who litigated the case

~15 are name variants of the above (OCR artifacts, first-name-only, last-name-only)

1 is a shipping clerk

The legal ecosystem is the largest category because the Epstein case generated thousands of court filings over two decades. Attorneys on both sides appear repeatedly across document types. This is normal legal practice, not evidence of involvement.

The operational core is the smallest category — and the most significant. These are the people who did not enter the victim document universe through legal filings about the case. They entered it because they were named in the filings as participants. Maxwell (convicted), Indyke and Kahn (named defendants in USVI victim lawsuit), Groff (appears alongside victim references in operational documents), Kellen (identified by victims as scheduler), Rodriguez and Alessi (testified about what they witnessed).

What I Did Not Find

No unknown operational staff. Every person who bridges the financial and victim universes at scale is already publicly identified. The 734K scan did not reveal a hidden participant.

No financial entity executives. No banker, fund manager, or investment professional appears in victim documents. The money sources and recipients documented in Narratives 1–7 are absent from the abuse record.

No victim names. "Jane Doe" appears 1,303 times in financial-adjacent documents (primarily court filings with monetary components). No identified survivor's real name bridges both categories.

The EFTA corpus, searched exhaustively and without prejudice, returns a network that is already known. What is new is the scale of documentation — the number of documents in which each person appears — and the confirmation that the operational core is exactly as small and as identified as prior investigations concluded. No one is hiding in 1.48 million files who hasn't already been found.

Source: DOJ EFTA Document Release — 11.4 million entity records, 734,122 unique persons, across 1.48 million files. Entity co-occurrence measured by unique file count per document category. NLP noise filtered by character length (>6), frequency thresholds (≥3 per category), and manual review of 100 top results. This analysis is published as part of the <a href="https://github.com/randallscott25-star/epstein-forensic-finance#readme" target="_blank">Epstein Financial Forensics</a> repository. For the girls.

Source Documents & Exhibits

Primary Source

Corpus-wide person entity extraction — full EFTA database scan.

Corpus Statistics Source

Method: Complete person entity scan across 1,476,377 files. Finding: 734,122 unique persons extracted. 57 bridging entities (appearing in 3+ shell entity contexts). Zero unknown entities among top bridgers — all identified and categorized. Database: 11.4M extracted entities across 19 datasets (see METHODOLOGY.md).

Scope Note

Person scan covers all document types in the full EFTA corpus. This is not limited to financial documents or Deutsche Bank production.

📄 EFTA Source Documents

Click any document ID to open the DOJ PDF in a new tab. Click a Dataset number to browse neighboring files.

Document

Source

Description

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DS8

Sample financial document — entity co-occurrence source

DS9

~~Removed~~ — Email sent by Ike Groff (Lesley's husband). "Victim Payouts" headline refers to GM ignition switch settlements, not Epstein. See WSJ, June 2014.

DS9

Lesley Groff — Federal Crime Victims Rights Act

DS9

Lesley Groff — Jane Doe reference

Full EFTA Corpus

DS1–12

734,122 unique person entities queried for financial × victim document co-occurrence

All 12 DOJ Datasets: <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-1-files" target="_blank">1</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-2-files" target="_blank">2</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-3-files" target="_blank">3</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-4-files" target="_blank">4</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-5-files" target="_blank">5</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-6-files" target="_blank">6</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-7-files" target="_blank">7</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-8-files" target="_blank">8</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-9-files" target="_blank">9</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-10-files" target="_blank">10</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-11-files" target="_blank">11</a>, <a href="https://www.justice.gov/epstein/doj-disclosures/data-set-12-files" target="_blank">12</a>

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Shell Network — Person bridging analysis

Entity P&L — Person entities

Executive Summary

Methodology

How to Verify

EFTA document IDs from public DOJ release at <a href="https://efts.gov" target="_blank">efts.gov</a>. Full methodology in METHODOLOGY.md.

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