EFTA01369019

This page, stamped EFTA01369019, is a single page of an internal Deutsche Bank private-wealth AML compliance email thread, Bates DB-SDNY-0061070 / SDNY_GM_00207254.¹ It carries the two earliest-dated messages in a longer exchange captioned “Inquiry Regarding THE HAZE TRUST … Alert# SAM1788880,” both from Monday, December 5, 2016.¹ The same Bates run also produced two later pages of the same thread, EFTA01369017 (Bates 0061066) and EFTA01369018 (Bates 0061069), both read from the image for this page. This page’s own Bates number, 0061070, immediately follows EFTA01369018’s; the gap in the sequence falls earlier, between EFTA01369017 and EFTA01369018 (Bates 0061067–0061068), and those two numbers do not appear under any EFTA identifier this page’s searches found; they are treated below as missing from what has been released, not as a defined gap.²

This page’s own content answers a narrower question than the one that has been put to it. It does not show a bank tracing a six-million-dollar wire into a trust for an art purchase; it shows a compliance officer being told about a wire for an art purchase, and immediately telling her own colleagues, in writing, that this is not the wire she is asking about.

The two messages on this page

Reading bottom-up, the earlier message is from Cynthia Rodriguez, sent Monday, December 5, 2016 at 11:32 am to Amlcompliance Inquiries, Zbynek Kozelsky, Stewart Oldfield and Vahe Stepanian, copied to Joshua Shoshan and Donald Summer, subject “RE: Inquiry Regarding THE HAZE TRUST, Account# [redacted], Alert# SAM1788880 [I]”:¹

The originating wire came from the client’s account called Southern Trust Company, Inc account number [redacted in the image]. This wire was not submitted through HSBC but through Bank of New York in order to be placed into their N4G account for the art purchase. The beneficiary is our client Jeffery Epstein as the originating party and the art purchaser. Please let me know if you need anything else.¹

The account number Rodriguez cites is blacked out in the image; this page does not reproduce it.¹ Her message does not give a date or amount for the Southern Trust Company/Bank of New York wire it describes, and no other document cited here supplies one.

The later message on this page, sent the same day at 12:05 pm by Danya Friedman on behalf of “Amlcompliance Inquiries,” replies to Rodriguez, copying the same group and adding two further names:¹

Thank you for the response Cynthia. Team, this is not the wire I am asking about. Please see the incoming wire listed below from HSBC. I see the $23,000,000.00 incoming wire from the Private Bank account and that is not/was never in question. I need to know where these funds originate.

10/27/2016, $6,186,980.68, HSBC SECURITIES SERVICES (IRELAND) DAC at HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION¹

So Friedman’s message names two other sums, distinct from the wire Rodriguez had just described: a $23,000,000.00 wire from “the Private Bank account,” which she says was never in question, and a $6,186,980.68 wire dated October 27, 2016 from HSBC Securities Services (Ireland) DAC, whose origin is the open question the rest of the thread is about. Beneath the quoted text, the page reproduces a block of payment-routing fields, apparently pasted from the wire record itself; it is only partly legible even at the image, and among the fields that can be read it names HSBC Bank USA, National Association; an account at Pershing LLC; HBRK Associates, Inc.; and “THE HAZE TRUST.”¹ The block also carries what reads as a bank identifier code; this page does not reproduce that code or attempt to reconstruct the full payment chain from a partly legible field export.

The rest of the thread: two further requests, and an answer that does not answer

Friedman’s December 5 message did not get a written answer on this page. EFTA01369018, the next page in Bates order (0061069), shows her following up twice: on Wednesday, December 14, 2016 at 8:56 am (“I am writing to follow up on my inquiry below”), and again on Tuesday, December 20, 2016 at 8:01 am, this one marked “Importance: High” and headed “URGENT - THIRD REQUEST!!!!!,” reading “I am writing to follow up on the inquiry below. Please note that this is the 3rd request for information. Please respond ASAP.”³

EFTA01369017 (Bates 0061066) carries the replies that finally came, later that same morning. At 10:09 am, Vahe Stepanian wrote to the same distribution: “We don’t know the answer. Are we supposed to reach out to client about this?”⁴ Two minutes later, at 10:11 am, Stewart Oldfield replied: “Client is a billionaire. It’s not like this is a specific $6mm of his. Most of his wealth comes from investments and advisory fees.”⁴ Sixteen minutes after that, at 10:27 am, Friedman answered both of them, on behalf of AML compliance, still without an origin for the funds: “Please find out where these funds originate. We need it for audit purposes.”⁴

No page found in the searches described below carries a further reply. On the record assembled here, the compliance function’s own third urgent written request, on December 20, was met with a relationship manager’s judgment that the sum was not meaningful against the client’s overall wealth, and with a second colleague’s request for instructions rather than an answer; compliance’s response was to repeat the original question. Whether the $6,186,980.68 wire’s origin was subsequently identified, whether the client was in fact contacted, and whether Alert# SAM1788880 was closed or remained open are not shown in the pages cited here.

What was searched, and not found

This page’s citations were checked against the corpus’s full-text index for the two Bates sequences the thread is stamped in. Querying DB-SDNY-0061065 through DB-SDNY-0061073 and SDNY_GM_00207249 through SDNY_GM_00207256 returns only the three pages of this thread (this page, EFTA01369017 and EFTA01369018) and, at the low end of the DB-SDNY range, an unrelated Deutsche Bank “Daily Deposit Report” page stamped EFTA01369016 that shares no addressee or subject line with this thread and is not treated as part of it here. The two intervening Bates numbers, 0061067 and 0061068, and every Bates number after 0061070, return nothing under either sequence. This page reports that as the result of the searches run, not as a finding that the pages were never produced.

Related

This exchange falls in the same month as a separate Deutsche Bank compliance review of the Butterfly Trust’s beneficiaries, addressed to the same Cynthia Rodriguez and involving Stewart Oldfield, already documented on Bank Records of the Epstein Entity Network; that review concerns a different trust, and this page treats the two as separate documents rather than as one pattern. The Haze Trust itself also appears, as a single line in a relationship-manager balance report, on the same topic page. See also Deutsche Bank.

Footnotes

1. Deutsche Bank internal email, “RE: Inquiry Regarding THE HAZE TRUST, Account# [redacted], Alert# SAM1788880 [I],” Cynthia Rodriguez to Amlcompliance Inquiries and others, December 5, 2016, 11:32 am, and Danya Friedman on behalf of Amlcompliance Inquiries to Cynthia Rodriguez and others, same subject, December 5, 2016, 12:05 pm. Bates DB-SDNY-0061070 / SDNY_GM_00207254. Cited from a duplicate copy of the same email, checked at the image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01369003 p.1. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵ ↩⁶ ↩⁷ ↩⁸

2. Full-text search of pages_fts for DB-SDNY-0061065 through DB-SDNY-0061073 and SDNY_GM_00207249 through SDNY_GM_00207256, run against the corpus at /mnt/d/dump/AI-investigator/Epstein-research-data/full_text_corpus.db, September 2026. ↩

3. Same thread, Danya Friedman on behalf of PWM AMLCompliance, “URGENT - THIRD REQUEST!!!!! RE: Inquiry Regarding THE HAZE TRUST…,” December 20, 2016, 8:01 am, and Danya Friedman on behalf of Amlcompliance Inquiries, “RE: Inquiry Regarding THE HAZE TRUST…,” December 14, 2016, 8:56 am. Bates DB-SDNY-0061069 / SDNY_GM_00207253. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01369018 p.1. ↩

4. Same thread, Danya Friedman on behalf of Amlcompliance Inquiries, “RE: URGENT - THIRD REQUEST!!!!! RE: Inquiry Regarding THE HAZE TRUST…,” December 20, 2016, 10:27 am, quoting Stewart Oldfield, December 20, 2016, 10:11 am, and Vahe Stepanian, December 20, 2016, 10:09 am. Bates DB-SDNY-0061066 / SDNY_GM_00207250. Read from the page image. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01369017 p.1. ↩ ↩² ↩³