The conspiracy theorists were right. There is a small group of people who exert untoward influence on the world. They’re in bed with each other financially and sometimes literally. They do business together, they party together, and they commit horrific crimes against women and children together. These men literally conspire amongst themselves to determine the future of politics, economics, and world events.
This piece will cover more of Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and Epstein’s connections and how Lutnick’s firm Cantor Fitzgerald saw record profits during the 2008 financial crisis. I’ll cover Epstein’s involvement in the development of cryptocurrency and his involvement in Bitcoin.
It’s all connected; Cantor Fitzgerald is heavily involved in crypto. Trump has multiple crypto companies, and there’s e-mail evidence that Epstein financed the development of cryptocurrency.
The world’s biggest stablecoin issuer struggled to maintain banking relationships for a few years and faced accusations it wasn’t fully backing its circulating tokens — then one of the world’s biggest financial firms, Cantor Fitzgerald, became its custodian. - Dec 2025, Coindesk
How Tether became money-launderers’ dream currency. The stablecoin is fuelling a global shadow economy. And it’s never been more respectable.”-July 2025, The Economist.
A stablecoin launched by Donald Trump’s World Liberty Financial crypto venture is being used by an Abu Dhabi investment firm for its $2 billion investment in crypto exchange Binance, one of World Liberty’s co-founders said on Thursday. -May 2025, Reuters
Director of M.I.T.’s Media Lab Resigns After Taking Money From Jeffrey Epstein. Mr. Ito, the tech evangelist and master networker who led the M.I.T. Media Lab — a program that prides itself on contrarian thinking — acknowledged last week that he had received $1.7 million from Mr. Epstein, including $1.2 million for his own outside investment funds. - 2019, NYT
One file highlighted by crypto investor Patrick Riley shows an email chain between Epstein and Joichi Ito, the former head of MIT’s Media Lab whose Digital Currency Initiative played an integral role in helping crypto grow into the giant it is today. As the email exchange makes clear, Epstein’s backing was a key pillar in establishing the DGI. - Feb 2026, Futurism
How Did Cantor Fitzgerald Open for Business on Sept 13, 2001?
The thread I started pulling today began with the question: how did Cantor Fitzgerald manage to open for business on September 13th, just two days after they lost 658 out of their roughly 1,000 employees? Cantor’s offices were on floors 101-105 of the North Tower. Not a single employee who was in their office when the planes struck on 9/11 survived. Howard Lutnick just happened to be out of the office that day, notice that Trump says “for five years he didn’t do it”. For five years Lutnick didn’t take his children to school, yet on 9/11 he just happened to be out of the office.
All of Cantor’s computers, documents, and other essential equipment necessary to operate were destroyed when the towers collapsed, not to mention two thirds of the employees required to do that work died. Yet “Cantor [managed to pull] through and even managed to turn a substantial profit in the fourth quarter of that fateful year.”
In my investigation of how Cantor pulled off the miracle I didn’t find any smoking gun evidence of prior-planning to take advantage of 9/11. At the time Cantor had a London office with 700 employees, and they had data-center back-ups in NYC which is where they based their operations with their surviving employees. The deaths of the Cantor employees generated a massive volume of good-will based business for the firm, which helped them survive.
I did find some run-of-the-mill business backstabbing. Cantor copied the business model of Telerate, which Cantor used until 2001 to distribute real-time U.S. government securities data. “No other such data was available to the public” until 1999 when Cantor launched its own eSpeed, which allowed users to do the same thing. In 2001 Telerate went bankrupt, and Cantor sued Dow Jones, who had sold off Telerate in 1998 but was still contractually obligated to guarantee Telerate’s payments to Cantor. Cantor won a $202 million settlement from Dow Jones in 2006.
Howard Lutnick was known as “the most hated guy on wall street” because of these types of shady dealings. Lutnick forced out Cantor’s founder, Gerald Cantor using an incapacity clause and gained control of Cantor Fitzgerald after a failed attempt to buy the firm from Cantor’s family. Cantor’s wife accused Lutnick of “staging a coup and betraying the man who had treated him like a son and groomed him for power.” She banned Lutnick from Gerald’s Cantor’s funeral.
An honorable businessman would have partnered with or purchased Telerate. Howard Lutnick used Telerate to grow Cantor Fitzgerald, copied Telerate’s business model, which drove Telerate into bankruptcy, and then still managed to get paid $202 million from Dow Jones after the bankruptcy. The audacity, to use Telerate to build your company, then steal Telerate’s business model, drive them out of business, and then demand Dow Jones, who had sold Telerate in 1998 for $510 million, pay you $202 million because Telerate could no longer fulfill its contracts… because you drove them out of business.
It reminds me of how Lutnick, as commerce secretary, has been a champion for Trump’s tariffs while his sons quietly purchased the rights to tariff refunds from companies who have been paying tariffs for 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. And now that the Supreme Court has struck down Trump’s tariffs, those contracts will be worth 4-5x what Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Howard Lutnick’s sons, paid for them.
Cantor Fitzgerald Record Profits During 2008 Financial Crisis
In my digging into how Cantor Fitzgerald was able to open just two days after 9/11 I found this gem.
In 2008, when many Wall Street firms — including Jefferies Group, a firm that some analysts view as its closest publicly traded peer — suffered severe declines in revenue and profits, Cantor stunningly earned 80 percent more than in the previous year, in part by deftly ridding itself of virtually all of its inventory of risky securities. In July 2007 the firm had $60 billion in fixed-income assets on its balance sheet, according to Lutnick, much of it mortgage-related securities. By September of that year, the firm had just $20 billion — all of it government-issued. - Sept 2009, Institutional Investor
From an April 2009 Time article, “Lutnick says his firm made more money in 2008 than ever before. The firm is taking advantage of the crisis to expand into more areas of investment banking.” Howard Lutnick has an uncanny ability to take advantage of crisis. It was interesting to hear Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns connect to the September 12th, 2001 call. Those investment banking giants collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis, yet Lutnick’s Cantor Fitzgerald made record profits.
Lutnick could simply be smart, ruthless, and savvy. But it starts to look a lot more like conspiracy when you remember Lutnick purchased 11 East 71st Street in 1998 from Comet Trust. Comet Trust had previously acquired it from a trust associated with Leslie Wexner and managed by Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein lived at 9 East 71st Street. Epstein and Lutnick’s homes shared a wall.
Epstein’s Last Interview with Steve Bannon:
At the beginning of the interview Epstein recounts how David Rockefeller invited him to the Trilateral commission, and he ends this little segment with casual racism.
In 1995, Rockefeller welcomed Epstein to the board of Rockefeller University, according to prepared remarks we found in his family’s archive. Around then, Epstein hosted Rockefeller at his Manhattan mansion to discuss with a small group of wealthy people how to best pass on money and values to younger generations, according to someone who was there. Epstein also became a member of the Trilateral Commission. A program for a dinner in 1998 celebrating the commission’s 25th anniversary noted the evening’s participants, including Epstein and Forester, who were listed as a pair. (Forester said she didn’t recall attending.)
Henceforth, Epstein would relentlessly cite his Rockefeller connections, even claiming that he managed money for the dynastic family. - Dec 2025, NYT
Human trafficking survivor Anneke Lucas alleges she was exploited by David Rockefeller and abused by Pierre Trudeau.
Lucas, 61, discussed her traumatic childhood experiences, which included being trafficked and sexually abused by former Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau at the age of 10. She also claimed that her exploitation was orchestrated by billionaire David Rockefeller, under the supervision of financier Evelyn de Rothschild.
Note: this came out in 2024, now in 2026 we know that Epstein was involved with the Rothschilds. https://tribune.com.pk/story/2512331/anneke-lucas-reveals-childhood-abuse-by-david-rockefeller-and-pierre-trudeau
At 28 minutes Epstein says:
Epstein: And there’s another company in the front page today called Bear Sterns. Oh, no. I said, why? Because that's the company I was a partner in. And in fact, that was a company I had a very large investment in.
Epstein: The person I had called was Jimmy Kaine the president of Bear Sterns and I said tell me what's going on. And so that my knowledge of the financial crisis happened with Jimmy who was at the center of the storm telling me about what Lehman had gone under and they were trying to figure out a way should they bail out Bear Sterns.
Bannon: Who was the other call to?
Epstein: The other call was to my friend at JP Morgan who was then I didn't know it at the time trying to buy Bear Sterns. So at one point I had two phones. It was difficult because they're afraid people are going to hang themselves with the phone cord. So they don't actually come together and they're pretty short. So I was actually going between two phones talking to Burns and JP Morgan at the same time. So, I found it amusing.
Bannon: And it never struck you about how to end up in a situation like this?
Epstein: No, that would be probably means I would be too self-aware.
Epstein is implicated in the Panama papers. “From at least 2000 to 2007, Epstein chaired a company registered in Bermuda called Liquid Funding Ltd. This entity was partially owned by the investment bank Bear Stearns, where Epstein had worked, according to the report. The bank’s collapse would help set in motion the 2008 financial crisis.”
Did Epstein Trigger the 2008 Financial Crisis?
There’s been a long-standing rumor that Epstein triggered the 2008 financial crisis when he attempted to withdraw 57m of funds that he held at Bear Stearns. This Financial Times article debunks that claim, yet clearly illustrates just how deeply Epstein was involve with all of the players in the 2008 sub-prime mortgage crisis.
In the telling of the financier’s lawyers, “Epstein tried to redeem FTC’s entire investment in the Enhanced Fund” in spring 2007, but Spector talked him round across multiple conversations in which he misleadingly stated “that the situation was under total control”. The last of these calls was placed in mid-May 2007, after which “Epstein decided at least to delay FTC’s redemption based on his conversations with Spector.” Weeks later, on June 7, Enhanced Leverage suspended redemptions and the fate of Epstein’s punt on subprime was sealed. -Financial Times
Epstein was talked out of withdrawing his funds from Bear Stearns. This shows that he was concerned, and attempted to take out his money, but was eventually talked out of it by Spector.
The Miami Herald in 2018, part of the investigative series which led to Epstein’s second arrest in 2019, reported that Epstein was a “key federal witness” in the criminal prosecution of two Bear Stearns executives.
The Herald learned that, as part of the plea deal, Epstein provided what the government called “valuable consideration” for unspecified information he supplied to federal investigators. While the documents obtained by the Herald don’t detail what the information was, Epstein’s sex crime case happened just as the country’s subprime mortgage market collapsed, ushering in the 2008 global financial crisis.
Records show that Epstein was a key federal witness in the criminal prosecution of two prominent executives with Bear Stearns, the global investment brokerage that failed in 2008, who were accused of corporate securities fraud. Epstein was one of the largest investors in the hedge fund managed by the executives, who were later acquitted. It is not known what role, if any, the case played in Epstein’s plea negotiations.
JPMorgan “paid off Jeffrey Epstein after 2008 financial crisis" plus an “additional 9 million.” And in 2019 the NYT reported that weeks after Epstein died in prison JPMorgan reported more than $1 billion in suspicious transactions to the US government.
JPMorgan said in its report that it was flagging about 4,700 transactions, totaling more than $1 billion, because they were potentially related to reports of human trafficking involving Mr. Epstein. It also mentioned Mr. Epstein’s wire transfers to Russian banks and sensitivities around “his relationships with two U.S. presidents.” Mr. Epstein at times was close with President Trump and former President Bill Clinton.
Epstein Profited from Insider Information in the Aftermath of 2008 Crisis
From the BBC: Newly released emails have raised further questions about the relationship between former minister and ambassador Lord Peter Mandelson and the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
Email exchanges published in the US indicate Lord Mandelson was in close contact with the disgraced late financier during a period in which he was at the heart of government amid the financial crisis.
The emails suggest Lord Mandelson gave Epstein advance notice of an impending EU bailout, sent him internal government information about the state of the UK economy and lobbied the Treasury on banking policy at Epstein’s suggestion.
Advance notice of EU bailout for Greece
Lobbying Treasury on bankers’ bonuses after Epstein conversation
The policy was introduced after the financial crisis and meant that bonuses over £25,000 in the finance industry would be liable for an extra 50% tax rate.
On 15 December 2009, Epstein wrote: “[A]ny real chance of making the tax only on the cash portion of the bankers bonus.”
“Trying hard to amend,” Lord Mandelson replied. “Treasury digging in but I am on [the] case.”
Mandelson helped Epstein friend secure deal with UK government
Lord Mandelson helped an investment banker friend of Epstein to secure a deal with the UK government to buy a highly profitable asset and later sought to make money from his bank, emails in the latest tranche reveal.
The 2010 sale of the asset, an energy trading business part-owned by crisis-stricken RBS, was arranged following a meeting Epstein said he had set up between investment banker Jes Staley, Darling and Lord Mandelson, who was business secretary at the time.
Less than a year after the deal was agreed and after he had left office, Lord Mandelson discussed how he might personally make money arranging deals for the same investment bank, JP Morgan.
Two weeks later on 16 February 2010, the government announced an agreement had been reached to sell the business to JP Morgan for $1.7bn (£1.2bn) dollars. After leaving office following the general election of May 2010, Lord Mandelson wrote to Epstein on Christmas Day to discuss plans to generate work for his consultancy firm Global Counsel.
Why would a British Lord do so much to help Epstein? Surely it has nothing to do with these compromising photos.
Epstein’s Next Door Neighbor’s Investment Banking Firm Made Record Profits During 2008 Financial Crisis
Shocking! At a time when investment banks were collapsing, the investment bank of Jeffrey Epstein’s next door neighbor, Cantor Fitzgerald made record 80% profits. Truly an incredible stroke of luck and good fortune that Cantor happened to off-load most of their mortgage-related securities before the crisis hit, and was thus poised to take advantage of market conditions as their competitors collapsed.
Epstein and Cryptocurrency
Via Bullionbite Feb 2026: Let that sit for a second. Bitcoin v0.1 had been public for less than a year. Most venture capitalists couldn’t spell blockchain. And Jeffrey Epstein, freshly convicted, is casually discussing a new financial alternative while name-dropping the PayPal founders and the architect of Napster.
“75 percent of bitcoins code comes directly from [Epstein’s] investments,” a crypto account called Crypto Bitlord agonized in response. “We’ve basically funded an elite global pedophile ring since 2015. I feel sick.”
Another crypto account lamented that “BTC has been funding a global elite pedo group since 2015… great.”
The email chain from Ito also suggests that Bitcoin’s mysterious developer — the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto — may have in fact been five “core developers,” each of whom was in talks with Epstein.
One of those core devs may have been early Bitcoin contributor Adam Back, who invented the proof-of-work algorithm cited by “Nakamoto’s” original whitepaper on crypto. A separate email chain shows Ito suggesting the convicted sex criminal meet with Back and other tech luminaires to discuss this revolutionary new currency. https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/crypto-bros-nauseated-realizing-bitcoin-190833577.html
As a human trafficker and money launderer Epstein immediately saw the value of cryptocurrency for his criminal enterprises. So it doesn’t surprise me that his best friend Donald Trump would go on to become so heavily involved in crypto. It also doesn’t surprise me that Epstein’s next-door neighbor would also become heavily involved in crypto.
After these deep-dives I now believe that the Epstein files are so explosive not because of the crimes and trafficking of children, but because Epstein was a pivotal node in a much more disturbing global criminal conspiracy which involves the very foundations of our current economic system. And exposure of the true criminal conspiracy would collapse the economic and power structures of western nations.
So basically Nutlick was really good pals with Epstein since we know Nutlick has been lying all along. And if it’s going to bring the system down, let it burn. We’ll build a better system for the working class and screw these billionaires. They’re all pedos anyway.
Interesting that Lutnick just happened to be out of the office on 9/11.