Data Narrative 18 — Offshore Architecture: The Brunel–BVI–ICIJ Bridge
DOJ subpoena names a BVI shell. ICIJ Offshore Leaks confirms it. $10M+ flowed through the same trust network. 8,526 pages scanned, 172 documents, one offshore map no one had connected.
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What I Found
I cross-referenced the DOJ EFTA corpus against the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database and FinCEN transaction records. What came back: the complete offshore-to-domestic financial architecture of the Brunel/MC2 modeling network. One BVI shell company — Scouting International Investment Co., Ltd. — appears in exactly one DOJ document and is independently confirmed in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database as a Brunel-controlled entity incorporated through two offshore intermediaries in Tortola. That entity sits next to a domestic trust pipeline that moved $10M+ through a single JPMorgan account, with outflows to Ghislaine Maxwell totaling $648K+ across 8 STRONG-tier transfers.
No individual data point here is new. The connected map is.
The Source Document
EFTA00809672.pdf (5 pages)
| Type | Subpoena Duces Tecum for Videotaped Deposition |
| Case | Epstein v. Rothstein, No. 50-2009CA040800XXXXMBAG |
| Bates Range | EFTA00809672 – EFTA00809676 |
Page 3, Exhibit A, Section C defines "entities owned or controlled by" Brunel:
"MC2 Models Management, LLC, MC2 Models Miami, LLC, Scouting International Investment Co., Ltd., Scouting I International Co., L'eclair au Café Limited Liability Company and Karin Models Agency"
Six entities. One of them — Scouting International Investment Co., Ltd. — appears in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database.
The ICIJ Match
Source: ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database —
icij_entities,
icij_officers,
icij_relationships,
icij_intermediaries,
icij_addresses
Scouting International Investment Co., Ltd.
| Officer | Jean-Luc Brunel (node 93239) |
| Jurisdiction | British Virgin Islands |
| Status | Struck / Defunct / Deregistered |
| Type | Standard International Company |
| Registered Address | Portcullis TrustNet Chambers, P.O. Box 3444, Road Town, Tortola, BVI |
| Intermediary | ICIJ Node | Connected Entities |
| ------------- | ----------- | ------------------- |
| Portcullis TrustNet (BVI) Limited | 54662 | 436 entities across ICIJ |
| NetIncorp.com Corporation | 290197 | 689 entities across ICIJ |
Both intermediaries are BVI-registered corporate formation agents. Portcullis TrustNet was named in the original 2013 Offshore Leaks investigation. NetIncorp.com's 689 client entities were exhaustively cross-referenced against the EFTA corpus — all 11 name matches were verified as false positives (see [NetIncorp Investigation](#netincorp-investigation) below).
ICIJ Cross-Reference of All Six Brunel Entities
| Entity | Found in ICIJ? | Details |
| Scouting International Investment Co., Ltd. | ✅ | BVI, Portcullis TrustNet, Inc. 10-NOV-2003, Struck/Defunct |
| L'eclair au Café Limited Liability Company | ❌ | "Leclair" hits 3 unrelated offshore shells |
| MC2 Models Management, LLC | ❌ | Domestic LLC |
| MC2 Models Miami, LLC | ❌ | Domestic LLC |
| Scouting I International Co. | ❌ | Possibly successor/variant entity |
| Karin Models Agency | ❌ | Domestic (deposition confirms: "our company MC2, formerly Karin Models") |
The Money Pipeline
Scouting International shows no direct financial flows in the released documents. Either it was a holding vehicle, or the records got destroyed or withheld. But the domestic side of the Brunel network moved real money through a single trust account.
The Butterfly Trust — Account #44130552, JPMorgan Chase
Source Documents:
- EFTA00092643.pdf — "Timeline of Payments to (or on Behalf of) Potential Co-Conspirators"
Inflows (Unverified)
| Source | Amount | Confidence | FinCEN Match |
| -------- | -------- | :----------: | :--------: |
| Deutsche Bank → Butterfly Trust | $2,650,000 (120+ wires) | STRONG | ✅ |
| Deutsche Bank → Butterfly Trust | $7,000,000 (settlements) | MODERATE | ✅ |
| Deutsche Bank → Butterfly Trust | $300,000 | PROVEN | ✅ |
| Deutsche Bank → Butterfly Trust | $30,000 | PROVEN | ✅ |
| Deutsche Bank → Butterfly Trust | $20,000 | PROVEN | ✅ |
| MC2 Model Management → Butterfly Trust | $50,000 | MODERATE | — |
| Total Inflows | $10,050,000+ | | |
Outflows to Maxwell (Unverified)
| ---------- | -------- | :----------: |
| Butterfly Trust → Maxwell | $150,000 | STRONG |
| Butterfly Trust → Maxwell | $100,000 | STRONG |
| Butterfly Trust → Maxwell | $50,000 | STRONG |
| Butterfly Trust → Maxwell | $30,000 | STRONG |
| Butterfly Trust → Maxwell | $21,379 | STRONG |
| Butterfly Trust → Maxwell | $12,500 | STRONG |
| Indyke → Maxwell (via Butterfly Trust) | $175,000 | STRONG |
| Indyke → Maxwell (via Butterfly Trust) | $110,000 | STRONG |
| Total Outflows to Maxwell | $648,879 | |
65 "Butterfly" entities exist in ICIJ. None match "The Butterfly Trust." This was a domestic Epstein vehicle, not an offshore shell.
MC2 Models Financial Trail (Unverified)
| ------ | -------- | :----------: |
| MC2 → JPMorgan | $800,000 | STRONG |
| MC2 → Butterfly Trust | $50,000 | MODERATE |
| Epstein → Brunel | $1,000,000 | Fund flow reference (see [$1M Offshore Wire](#the-1m-offshore-wire) below) |
| Visoski → Brunel | $182,219 | PROVEN |
| Visoski → Brunel | $10,000 | PROVEN |
The Offshore Evidence
Deposition Testimony — BVI Money Transfers
Found in 3 documents:
Deposition testimony describes money transferred to the British Virgin Islands — the same jurisdiction where Scouting International was incorporated in November 2003.
The $1M Offshore Wire
Found in 3 documents:
A $1 million wire transfer from Epstein to Brunel's offshore account is referenced in the context of MC2 being described as a recruitment pipeline. The destination of this wire is unspecified in the released documents, but the offshore infrastructure — Scouting International, BVI, incorporated November 2003, now defunct — is sitting in the same network.
Epstein Funding Brunel's Legal Defense
Source: Link & Rockenbach PA billing records — matter: "Jean-Luc Brunel, MC2 Model & Talent Miami, LLC, Tyler MacDonald"
| --------- | -------- | -------- |
| #1032 | $4,657.50 | August 2018 |
| #1826 | $13,816.63 → $24,391.65 (with past due) | January 2019 |
Network Architecture
``
EPSTEIN FINANCIAL NETWORK — BRUNEL OFFSHORE BRANCH
┌─── ICIJ Offshore Leaks ───┐
│ │
│ Scouting International │
│ Investment Co., Ltd. │
│ BVI (Inc. Nov 2003) │
│ Status: DEFUNCT │
│ │
│ Intermediaries: │
│ ├── Portcullis TrustNet │
│ └── NetIncorp.com Corp │
│ │
└────────────┬───────────────┘
│
DOJ Subpoena (EFTA00809672)
names as Brunel-controlled
│
┌────────────┴────────────┐
│ │
MC2 Models Mgmt Karin Models Agency
MC2 Models Miami (predecessor to MC2)
│
│ $50,000
▼
┌── Butterfly Trust ──┐
│ Acct #44130552 │
│ JPMorgan Chase │
└──┬──────────────┬───┘
│ │
Deutsche Bank Butterfly Trust
→ $10M+ → Maxwell $648K+
(FinCEN ✅) (8 STRONG-tier transfers)
┌─── Deposition Testimony ───┐
│ "monies transferred to the │
│ British Virgin Islands" │
│ (3 documents) │
└────────────────────────────┘
┌─── Court Filings ─────────┐
│ "$1M wire transfer to │
│ Brunel's offshore account" │
│ (3 documents) │
└────────────────────────────┘
`
NetIncorp Investigation
NetIncorp.com Corporation (ICIJ node 290197), the second intermediary that incorporated Scouting International, has 689 connected entities in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks database. Eleven of those entity names appeared in the EFTA document corpus. All 11 were investigated and determined to be false positives from entity recognition artifacts:
| NetIncorp Client | BVI | Mentions | Verdict | Actual Content |
| ----------------- | :---: | :--------: | --------- | --------------- |
| eMedia Technologies Ltd | ✓ | 43 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | OCR fragments: "Remedial," "CTVglobemedia" |
| Nepal Pacific Group Inc. | ✓ | 14 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Carpet salesman named Tenzing Nepali; $31K broadloom invoices |
| NACAR Group, Inc. | ✓ | 8 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | NASCAR sponsorship docs, NACARA immigration legislation |
| Inversiones EM 88, Inc. | ✓ | 7 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | "Inversiones Trento Spa" — Costa Rica energy press release |
| INVERSIONES PLUS CORP. | ✓ | 7 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Same Costa Rica press release as above |
| 22/11 Corporation | ✓ | 7 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Date formats in legal billing: "08/22/11" |
| Poseidon Research Corp. | ✓ | 6 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | P-8 Poseidon military aircraft news, Greek shipping address |
| Tanglewood Offshore Tech | ✓ | 3 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Tanglewood Music Center (Boston) references |
| SOBOL MARINE LTD. | ✓ | 3 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Lyubov Sobol (Russian opposition figure) in news clippings |
| TAKEDA PROPERTIES LTD | ✓ | 3 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Takeda Pharmaceuticals training venue |
| Radiance Generation, Inc. | ✓ | 2 | ❌ FALSE POSITIVE | Frederic Fekkai salon: "Color Radiance Treatment" ($65 hair service) |
Result: NetIncorp.com's 689 BVI client entities share
zero actual connections to the Epstein financial network beyond Scouting International. The Brunel link is precise and isolated — not ambient noise from a broader intermediary relationship.
Methodology
Databases Cross-Referenced
| -------- | --------- | --------- |
| DOJ EFTA Corpus | 1,476,377 files | Source documents, entity extraction, financial flows |
| ICIJ Offshore Leaks | 814K entities, 771K officers, 3.3M relationships | Offshore shell identification |
| FinCEN SAR Data | Cross-reference | Transaction verification |
| Fund Flows (5C) | 23,832 directional flows | A→B money movement |
| Fund Flows Audited (5B) | 81,451 classified transactions | 5-tier confidence scoring |
| Verified Wires | Court-exhibit authenticated | Exhibit-authenticated transfers |
Scripts Executed
| -------- | --------- | -------- |
icij_crossref.py | Initial ICIJ fuzzy matching | 745 entity, 63 officer, 25 intermediary matches |
icij_deep_dive.py | Relationship graph extraction | Full node trees for 5 targets |
icij_crossref_final.py | Financial table cross-reference | Person ↔ shell ↔ fund flow mapping |
brunel_exhaustive.py | 7-part exhaustive network dig | Portcullis/NetIncorp intermediary graphs |
brunel_full_dig.py | 172-document, 8,526-page corpus scan | Shell entity hit map, wire references |
| netincorp_deep.py` | 11-entity deep verification scan | All false positives confirmed |
Other ICIJ-Confirmed Epstein Network Entities
The initial cross-reference identified four additional high-confidence ICIJ matches beyond Brunel:
| Person | ICIJ Source | Offshore Entity | Epstein Financial Link |
| -------- | ----------- | ----------------- | ---------------------- |
| Jes Staley | Paradise Papers – Barbados | WAGGONER (BARBADOS) LTD | JPMorgan → Staley $1.38M, FinCEN confirmed |
| Michael Dubin | Paradise Papers – Appleby | Powers & Dubin Asset Mgmt (Bermuda), CPD Asset Mgmt (Bermuda) | Financial Trust → Dubin $10M ("Jeepers"), $5M JFK/Harvard |
| Epstein Family Trust | Offshore Leaks – Cook Islands | Node 169778 | Robert J Mintz intermediary, Trustcorp Limited officer |
| Ghislaine Investments | Bahamas Leaks | GHISLAINE INVESTMENTS LTD (node 20161231) | NES LLC → Maxwell $7.66M, 2,725 fund flow records |
These entities are noted for completeness. Each warrants independent narrative treatment.
What's Original, What's Not
Original
The connected map — Computational cross-reference linking ICIJ Offshore Leaks ↔ DOJ subpoena ↔ Butterfly Trust wire flows ↔ FinCEN data ↔ BVI deposition testimony in a single analytical framework
The methodology — Programmatic cross-referencing of three massive databases at scale (1.48M files × 814K ICIJ entities × FinCEN records)
The NetIncorp verification — Exhaustive 689-entity scan proving the Brunel connection is isolated, not ambient
The completeness — 8,526 pages across 172 Brunel-related documents, every financial table queried
Not Original
- The subpoena (EFTA00809672) is a publicly released DOJ document
- Butterfly Trust flows were covered in 2023 JPMorgan/Deutsche Bank lawsuit reporting
- The $1M offshore wire was reported by the Daily Beast
- BVI transfer testimony exists in previously available deposition transcripts
Honest Characterization
Rigorous forensic synthesis of public data. The individual nodes existed in separate databases. The connected map — linking an ICIJ-confirmed offshore shell to a DOJ subpoena to a $10M+ domestic trust pipeline to deposition testimony about BVI money transfers — is the original contribution. That's what forensic accounting does: it connects things that are individually known into a picture that wasn't previously visible.
Appendix: Document Corpus
172 documents across the EFTA corpus contain Brunel-related financial or legal content. Key term frequency across 8,526 pages:
| Term | Hits | Files | Significance |
| ------ | :----: | :-----: | ------------- |
| MC2 Model | 94 | 36 | Widespread — core entity |
| BVI | 362 | 77 | Mostly abbreviation noise; 3 files contain deposition testimony |
| Scouting International | 1 | 1 | ONLY in EFTA00809672 — the subpoena |
| Butterfly Trust | 15 | 5 | Court filings + financial exhibits |
| offshore | 6 | 4 | Includes "$1M wire transfer to Brunel's offshore account" |
| wire transfer | 16 | 7 | Financial documents with transaction details |
| British Virgin | 3 | 3 | Deposition testimony about BVI transfers |
| Karin Models | 14 | 10 | Depositions confirming MC2 predecessor |
| L'eclair | 1 | 1 | ONLY in EFTA00809672 — dead end |
| shell | 23 | 12 | References to shell companies in Epstein enterprise |
Narrative 18 of the Epstein Financial Forensics project. Published February 23, 2026.
Every claim is anchored to specific bates stamps and court exhibits. Verify any finding at justice.gov/epstein.