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EFTA00037690 is a single-page internal email in the Department of Justice’s Epstein release (Data Set 8), sent within the FBI’s New York Field Office on Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 14:24:03 UTC.1 The sender’s name and email address are redacted on the image; the header tags the sender only “(NY) (CON),” a tag distinct from the one carried by both recipients, who are tagged “(NY) (FBI)” and whose names and addresses are likewise redacted.1 The signature block gives no name either, only a title and squad: “Squad C-40 (FAST) Senior Financial Investigator (SFI),” followed by two further lines, apparently a phone extension and a further contact line, both redacted.1 This page does not identify the sender or either recipient, and supplies none of them a role, gender or other attribute the production withholds beyond what the header itself states.

The subject line reads “Butterfly Trust SARs.” Two attachments are named but not included in the produced page: “Flow_of_Funds_Butterfly_Trust.pptx” and “Butterfly_Fund_FinCEN_List.xlsx.”1 The message body, in full, is one sentence: “This entity seems to be a conduit for money paid to female victims.”1 The sentence does not itself name an entity; “this entity” is identified only by the subject line and the two attachment names, both of which name the Butterfly Trust. On that basis, and no further, this page treats the sentence as concerning the Butterfly Trust, the same trust Deutsche Bank opened checking and money-market accounts for on January 24, 2014, documented on the Deutsche Bank page from the New York State Department of Financial Services’ consent order, and discussed further on Bank Records of the Epstein Entity Network.

Beneath the sentence, the page carries a standard legal notice, printed identically on other internal FBI emails in this release that also cite Bank Secrecy Act material, stating in part: “SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY REPORTS CONTAIN UNSUBSTANTIATED ALLEGATIONS OF POSSIBLE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, AKIN TO CONFIDENTIAL INFORMANT TIPS.”1 That is the document’s own description of the class of material (Suspicious Activity Reports, or SARs, filed by banks under the Bank Secrecy Act) that the sender’s characterisation is drawn from.

Whose characterisation this is, and what it is not

The sentence is one financial investigator’s working assessment, written to two colleagues, of what bank SAR data “seems to” show. It is not a quotation from a bank’s own SAR, not a finding by a court, a prosecutor or the Bureau institutionally, and not a charge against the trust or against anyone connected to it. The document gives no reasoning, no supporting figures and no named transaction on its face; the analysis is confined to the two attachments, which are not part of this produced page and are not available to check. This page reports the sentence as what one FBI financial investigator wrote, hedged with “seems to be,” in an internal email; it does not adopt the characterisation, and no document found for this page shows the Bureau, a prosecutor or a court adopting it either.

The trust’s beneficiaries are not named or numbered anywhere on this page. What Deutsche Bank’s own records show about payments the Butterfly Trust made (to whom, in what categories, and for what stated purposes) is set out, with the same discipline of reporting a category rather than a roster, on the Deutsche Bank page. Nothing on this page adds to, corrects or confirms that account; the two records are independent of each other, from different institutions, and this page does not merge them.

The same title and squad elsewhere in this release

The signature “Squad C-40 (FAST) Senior Financial Investigator (SFI)” recurs, without a name attached, on other internal FBI New York emails in this release: an August 2019 exchange about the deed to Little St. James, forwarded again in December 20202; a June 2019 exchange about the deed to a Manhattan townhouse3; and an August 2019 message, also forwarded in December 2020, asking whether any assault occurred on a property called “Great St Jim”4. This page does not assert that a single individual wrote all of them; it reports only that the title and squad designation repeat, which is what the record shows.

One of those emails, dated a month later on November 7, 2019, is addressed “Hi Mark” and carries the subject line “Butterfly Trust and Epstein,” preceded by redacted text this page does not attempt to reconstruct. Its body reports that Bank of America records for one account “should connect” a transfer of $175,000 in March 2019 to a Wells Fargo account, tracing it to a payment of $250,000 in December 2018 from “The 2013 Butterfly Trust,” and states that “The Deutsche Bank SARs show the BoA account.”5 The recipient’s surname and the account numbers appear on the page image; this page reproduces neither, consistent with the desk’s rule against reproducing account numbers. This later email shows the same squad continuing to trace specific fund flows connected to the trust a month after the October 9 email; it does not confirm, explain or otherwise follow from the October 9 sentence, and this page does not treat it as doing so.

What was searched, and not found

A full-text search of the corpus for the exact phrase “conduit for money” returns three pages across the whole release: this document, and two copies of an unrelated anti-money-laundering certification form (a fund subscription document, Annex F, using the phrase in generic boilerplate about wiring institutions) that has no connection to Epstein, Butterfly Trust or SARs.6 A search for the exact subject line “Butterfly Trust SARs” returns only this document.7 Neither of the two named attachments, “Flow_of_Funds_Butterfly_Trust.pptx” and “Butterfly_Fund_FinCEN_List.xlsx,” appears under its own filename in any other page this desk’s full-text index was searched against.8 These are the results of the searches run, not a finding that the release contains nothing further on the subject.

Footnotes

  1. FBI internal email, “Butterfly Trust SARs,” sender tagged “(NY) (CON)” to two recipients tagged “(NY) (FBI),” October 9, 2019, 14:24:03 UTC, signed “Squad C-40 (FAST) Senior Financial Investigator (SFI).” Sender, recipient and signature identifiers redacted in the image. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00037690 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. “Re: Little St James Island - Last Deed of Record,” internal FBI New York email thread, August 7-8, 2019, signed “Squad C-40 (FAST)” / “Senior Financial Investigator (SFI),” and the same thread forwarded again December 1, 2020. Read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00037750 pp.1-2; https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00038139 pp.1-2. ↩

  3. “9 E 71st Street New York NY DEED,” internal FBI New York email and reply, June 27, 2019, signed “Squad C-40 (FAST)” / “Senior Financial Investigator (SFI).” Read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00037754 p.1; https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00037757 pp.1-2. ↩

  4. “Great St Jim LLC,” internal FBI New York email, August 15, 2019, signed “Squad C-40 (FAST)” / “Senior Financial Investigator (SFI),” forwarded again December 1, 2020. Read from the page images. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00037759 p.1; https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00038142 p.1. ↩

  5. FBI internal email, subject line ending “Butterfly Trust and Epstein,” redacted text preceding it, November 7, 2019, 14:08:34 UTC, signed “Squad C-40 (FAST) Senior Financial Investigator (SFI).” Sender, recipient, cc and account-holder identifiers redacted or withheld on this page; account numbers appear on the image and are not reproduced here. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00037696 p.1. ↩

  6. Full-text search of pages_fts for the phrase "conduit for money", run against the corpus at /mnt/d/dump/AI-investigator/Epstein-research-data/full_text_corpus.db, September 2026. Three results: EFTA00037690, and page stamps EFTA01386254 p.1 and EFTA01374167 p.1 (the latter two an “ANNEX F” anti-money-laundering certification form, unrelated on inspection). ↩

  7. Full-text search of pages_fts for the phrase "Butterfly Trust SARs", same database, September 2026. One result: EFTA00037690. ↩

  8. Full-text search of pages_fts for "Flow_of_Funds_Butterfly_Trust" and separately for "Butterfly_Fund_FinCEN_List", same database, September 2026. Each returns only EFTA00037690. ↩

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