fbi_intelligence case

St. Thomas Safe Streets Task Force (USVI) — FBI Financial Crimes Liaison

Docket 281D-SJ-05884082
Court FBI San Juan Field Office (USVI Resident Agency)
Status open
Category fbi_intelligence
Case 281D-SJ-05884082 is the FBI San Juan field office's St. Thomas Safe Streets Task Force file — a multi-agency racketeering/financial-crimes liaison vehicle (the 281D classification denotes Racketeering Enterprise Investigations). The corpus contains a single FD-999 liaison record showing the Task Force's SAR Review Team flagged the Estate of Jeffrey Epstein, Southern Country International, Southern Trust Co., Darren Indyke, and Richard Kahn at a July 13, 2021 meeting with the USVI U.S. Attorney's Office.
1EFTA pages linked
0linked emails
1must-read docs
1sampled for briefing

Background

The St. Thomas Safe Streets Task Force (STT-SSTF) is a federally-led multi-agency unit run out of the FBI San Juan Field Office's USVI Resident Agency. Safe Streets Task Forces nationwide are organized under the FBI's Criminal Investigative Division and typically focus on violent crime, gangs, and racketeering — the 281D case classification used here denotes a Racketeering Enterprise Investigation, and the document explicitly tags the matter as Transnational Organized Crime, Western Hemisphere (TOC-West), Type 3 Assessment.

Unlike the litigated cases in the corpus, 281D-SJ-05884082 is not a court docket. It is an FBI investigative file number that sits behind a SAR (Suspicious Activity Report) Review Team — a recurring inter-agency meeting in which the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of the Virgin Islands, FBI, IRS, DEA, and DHS Office of Inspector General review FinCEN SARs together and identify subjects warranting follow-up. The 7/13/2021 meeting documented in this file flagged six SAR-derived subjects of interest, three of which sit squarely inside the Epstein financial network.

The Safe Streets file is administratively distinct from, but topically overlapping with, the USVI Attorney General's civil enforcement action against the Epstein estate (later settled for ~$105M) and the parallel federal exposure of estate co-executors Indyke and Kahn. The case has no public docket, no filed date, and no judicial disposition because it is an internal FBI liaison/intelligence case rather than a charged matter. Its presence in the EFTA production is itself the disclosure: federal investigators in 2021 were still actively reviewing post-mortem SAR activity tied to Epstein-controlled USVI entities.

What the corpus shows

The corpus contains exactly one document on this case: an FBI FD-999 "Liaison with an Organization Outside of the FBI" report dated July 13, 2021 (EFTA00128664, two pages). It memorializes a teleconferenced SAR Review Team meeting attended by an FBI Special Agent, a Criminal AUSA from the USVI U.S. Attorney's Office, an IRS Special Agent, a DEA Special Agent, and a DHS-OIG investigator — six attendees in total, with the stated initiative "Financial Crimes Awareness."

The document lists the SARs and persons/entities of interest derived from the meeting. Three of the six items map directly to the Epstein network: (1) the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Southern Country International, Southern Trust Co., and estate co-executors Richard D. Kahn and Darren K. Indyke (item 3); (2) Erika Ann Kellerhals — the USVI attorney who served as registered agent for multiple Epstein entities — together with "Bella Klein" and "IGO Co." (item 4); and (3) Shenelle S. Weekes, Dale Carty, and Sherman Black (item 5), names tied to USVI political and law-enforcement networks. Items 1 and 2 (Keith F. Lewis; Shakim Mik) appear unrelated to the Epstein matter.

The FD-999 cross-references a second case number, 804I-SJ-3371215, indicating the SAR review touches both the racketeering file (281D) and a separate FBI investigative classification. The next SAR Review Team meeting is noted as scheduled for August 10, 2021 — implying a recurring cadence of which only this single liaison record has surfaced in the EFTA production.

Must-read documents

EFTA00128664 page 1
EFTA00128664
FD-999 Liaison Report — SAR Review Team meeting, 7/13/2021 (St. Thomas Safe Streets Task Force / USAO-USVI)
The only corpus document for this case. Establishes that as of mid-2021, the FBI San Juan office's Safe Streets Task Force was running a recurring inter-agency SAR review with USAO-USVI, IRS, DEA, and DHS-OIG, and that the Epstein estate, Southern Country International, Southern Trust Co., Indyke, Kahn, and Kellerhals were active items of interest derived from FinCEN SAR filings.

Full evidence inventory

No additional documents linked to this case beyond the must-reads above.

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