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tagsentity, virgin-islands, delaware, epstein-company, aircraft, banking
aliasesHyperion Air, LLC, HYPERION AIR LLC, Hyperion Air, Inc., HYPERION AIR, INC., Hyperion Air Inc

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Two companies of the nameHYPERION AIR, INC., a Delaware corporation, and HYPERION AIR, LLC, a U.S. Virgin Islands limited liability company12
Delaware certificate of incorporation filedJuly 18, 1991, at 2:30 p.m.; Delaware file number 226875813
Delaware stated business”Own and operate private aircraft”4
Virgin Islands articles of organization filedOctober 19, 201225
Virgin Islands sole memberJeffrey E. Epstein; from 2019, the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein by its co-executors56
Virgin Islands initial managerLawrence Visoski, under an operating agreement that makes the company manager-managed7
Company addresses in the documents cited herePrincipal place of business, 6100 Red Hook Quarter, B3, St. Thomas (operating agreement, 2012); seller’s address, 9053 Estate Thomas, Suite 101, St. Thomas (aircraft purchase agreement, 2021)58
BanksJPMorgan Chase; Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas910
Aircraft named in the documents cited hereGulfstream G-1159B, N909JE; a Bell helicopter, N331JE; a 2008 Sikorsky S-76C++, serial 760750, N722JE11128
Named as defendantGovernment of the Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Superior Court of the Virgin Islands, Case No. ST-2020-CV-141213

Hyperion Air is the name of two companies in the released record, and they are not the same company. HYPERION AIR, INC. was incorporated in Delaware on July 18, 1991 and gave its business on its Delaware annual reports as “Own and operate private aircraft.”14 HYPERION AIR, LLC filed articles of organization with the Office of the Lieutenant Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands on October 19, 2012, the same day as JEGE, LLC and Plan D, LLC.2514 Both held aircraft Jeffrey Epstein used. The Delaware corporation’s name is printed on the passenger manifest forms used aboard the Gulfstream N909JE; the Virgin Islands company was the seller of the Sikorsky helicopter N722JE in 2021.118

This page is about the companies as companies: how they were constituted, what their governing documents allowed, which institutions made decisions about them, and what those institutions recorded. The registration history of the individual airframes is on Epstein’s flight department and is not repeated here. Nothing on this page is a finding of wrongdoing.

The Delaware corporation, and the FBI’s request of May 2007

On May 23, 2007 the Division of Corporations of the Delaware Secretary of State shipped a certified corporate file for HYPERION AIR, INC. to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.151 The covering FBI evidence form at the head of the same run is an FD-340 recording receipt of the material on May 29, 2007, its “From” line reading “Division of Corporations” and, two lines below, “Dover, DE.”, with the material described in manuscript as “Corporate Record re: JEGE, Inc. & Hyperion Air, Inc.” The form’s pre-printed row “Grand Jury Material - Disseminate Only Pursuant to Rule 6 (e) Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure” has a box beside “Yes” and a box beside “No”: on that row, as on the three other label rows on the sheet, the “Yes” box is empty and a pen stroke meets the “No” box and crosses the word “No.”16 A parallel certified file for JEGE, INC. had been shipped six days earlier.17

The Delaware certification, whose signing officer’s name is blacked out in the produced copy and is not supplied here, states that the attached are “TRUE AND CORRECT COPIES OF ALL DOCUMENTS ON FILE OF ‘HYPERION AIR, INC.’” and itemises them: a certificate of incorporation filed July 18, 1991 at 2:30 p.m., and certificates of change of registered agent filed September 19, 1996 and January 13, 1997. It closes: “AND I DO HEREBY FURTHER CERTIFY THAT THE AFORESAID CERTIFICATES ARE THE ONLY CERTIFICATES ON RECORD OF THE AFORESAID CORPORATION, ‘HYPERION AIR, INC.’”1 A separate certificate of the same date certifies the corporation “IS DULY INCORPORATED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE AND IS IN GOOD STANDING” as of May 23, 2007.18

The certificate of incorporation gives the registered office as 32 Loockerman Square, Suite L-100, Dover, with The Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc. as registered agent; states the purpose in the standard Delaware form, “to engage in any lawful act or activity for which corporations may be organized”; authorises fifteen hundred shares of common stock at a par value of one tenth of a mill; and provides for perpetual existence.3 The 1997 certificate moved the registered office to 1013 Centre Road, Wilmington, with Corporation Service Company as agent.19

The annual franchise tax reports in the certified file run from 1991 to 2004.420 On the 1992 report the typed entry for nature of business reads “Own and operate private aircraft,” the box for principal place of business outside Delaware is empty, and the single director and all three officers, president, secretary and treasurer, are typed as Jeffrey E. Epstein at a Palm Beach, Florida address; the signature box below carries a manuscript signature, the manuscript title “PRESIDENT” and the manuscript date “2-17-93.”4

Eight days before that shipment, on May 15, 2007, a federal grand jury sitting at West Palm Beach in the matter styled “IN RE: OPERATION LEAP YEAR” heard an FBI special agent, whose name the production withholds, answer a question put to clear up a grand juror’s query about which aircraft a count concerned. Asked to “restate for the Grand Jury which company owns the Gulfstream,” the witness answered: “The Gulfstream is owned by Hyperion Air, Inc.” Asked “And the Boeing is owned by whom?”, the answer was “JEGE, Inc.”21

The Virgin Islands company: what the operating agreement provides

The operating agreement of HYPERION AIR, LLC is “made and entered into as of October 19, 2012 by Jeffrey E. Epstein (hereinafter referred to as ‘Sole Member’)”, who in the same sentence “hereby forms HYPERION AIR, LLC, a U.S. Virgin Islands limited liability company” by the filing of articles of organization with the Office of the Lieutenant Governor on that date.5 Its stated purpose is “to engage in any lawful activity, operate any lawful enterprise or to have any other lawful purpose permitted by the law of the territory of the U.S. Virgin Islands,” its duration perpetual, and its resident agent for service of process Business Basics VI, LLC at 9100 Port of Sale Mall, Suite 15, St. Thomas. The same section provides that “[t]he Company’s principal place of business shall be 6100 Red Hook Quarter, B3, St. Thomas U.S. Virgin Islands 00802 or such other place or places as the Sole Member may hereafter determine.”5 Exhibit A records a single member, Jeffrey E. Epstein, one hundred membership units, one hundred per cent membership interest and one thousand dollars contributed.22

Section V governs management, and it is the provision that later transactions turn on. “The Company shall be manager-managed. The initial Manager of the Company shall be Lawrence Visoski.”7 The manager has “full and complete authority, power and discretion” over the business, but the written consent of the sole member is required before the manager may “[s]ell, transfer, assign, convey, or otherwise dispose of any part of the Company’s assets,” cause the company to incur any debt above five thousand dollars, or “[i]ncur any single expense or combination of related expenses in excess of $5,000.”23

The release holds the agreement in several copies. A twenty-four page run in the estate materials carries three copies of it, at pages 1 to 8, 9 to 16 and 17 to 24. Rendered and examined at four hundred dots per inch, each of the three signature pages carries a large signature in blue ink above the rule printed “Jeffrey E. Epstein,” and each of the three Exhibit A pages carries a blue ink stroke on the “By:” rule above the printed “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN,” beside the printed date October 19, 2012. On all three of those signature pages the separate acceptance block headed “DESIGNATION AS MANAGER AND THE TERMS HEREOF APPLICABLE TO THE MANAGER ARE ACCEPTAED BY:”, above the rule printed “Lawrence Visoski,” carries no mark of any kind.24 A further copy elsewhere in the release, examined the same way, carries no ink on either rule and appears to be an unexecuted conformed copy.25

On September 13, 2018 the Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands, Osbert E. Potter, issued a certificate of existence for the company: it certifies the October 19, 2012 filing, that the duration “shall be perpetual,” “[t]hat the company has paid all applicable fees to date,” and “[t]hat Articles of Termination have not been filed by the company.” The certificate carries an embossed territorial seal and a manuscript signature above the printed name.2 The copy in the release bears a Deutsche Bank production stamp, which places it in the bank’s file rather than the company’s.2 A certificate for JEGE, LLC in the same form, reciting the same October 19, 2012 filing, was issued on the same day and is in the same bank’s file.14

JPMorgan Chase: “Can we proceed with opening checking accounts for the below US VI entities?”

On February 21, 2013 Eileen A. Moriarty of JPMorgan wrote to the bank’s Private Bank Risk Management, copying the group styled “Account Opening Connecticut,” under the subject “Please approve 3 KYCs.” Below a one-word greeting the message asks: “Can we proceed with opening checking accounts for the below US VI entities?” Under it stand three lines naming HYPERION AIR LLC, JEGE LLC and PLAN D LLC. Account references printed on the page are not reproduced here. The reply, of the same date and under the subject “RE: Please approve 3 KYCs,” reads in its entirety “Approved,” above a signature block for Private Bank Risk Management at an address in Houston, Texas.9 The page is stamped “Confidential Treatment Requested by JPMorgan Chase” and carries a JPM-SDNY production number, which places it in the bank’s production to the Southern District of New York.9

The three companies named in that request had all filed articles of organization in St. Thomas on the same day four months earlier.214 The subject line asks for approval of three know-your-customer files; the body asks whether the bank may “proceed with opening” the accounts. The document does not say what the accounts were for.9

The bank’s later account index, produced to the Southern District of New York in September 2020 and described on JPMorgan Chase, lists this name twice among the accounts on which it held wire data, on consecutive lines of the group it heads “Epstein & ‘JE DM’ Accounts”: “Hyperion Air LLC” and “Hyperion Air, Inc.”26

Deutsche Bank: the 2018 periodic review

Deutsche Bank held Hyperion Air, LLC as a client account under what its staff called the Southern Financial relationship, and in 2018 the account fell due for what the bank’s own subject line calls a “2018 Periodic Review of High Risked Accounts.”27 On July 30, 2018 a know-your-customer case representative in the bank’s Mumbai service centre wrote to two New York wealth-management officers that the review covered accounts “due for remediation 08/31/2018,” set out the responsible parties he had taken from the repositories, and asked for confirmation:28

Acct Holder - Hyperion Air, LLC

Sole Member — Jeffrey Epstein

Authorized Signatories — Harry Beller & Darren Indyke

Kindly advise if the above RP’s are correct and whether there are any material changes to this account?

The same message asks the New York side to “assist in procuring SoS from the US Virgin islands government registry,” explaining: “Note, we already have the COE (Certificate of Existence) for this entity. The SoS is required so we can evidence that this entity is STILL registered with the authorities and is active.”10

The review was still open in November. On November 2, 2018 Bradley Gillin, a vice president in Deutsche Bank Wealth Management in New York, relayed the outstanding items to Mumbai. One of them reads: “(4) Operating Agreement for Hyperion Air LLC indicates the company is manager-managed and the initial manager was Lawrence Visoski. Is he still manager? Please provide evidence of the current management for this entity. — Please provide evidence confirming if Lawrence Visoski is still the initial manager at Hyperion Air LLC. We have re-checked the repositories and didn’t find anything for this.”29 Three days later Gillin answered the remaining points: “Both were previously answered. Lawrence is not a signer (as per my email below), he is a legal rep. We spoke to the family office on Nov 1 to confirm no material changes.”30 The documents cited here do not record that the evidence of current management the reviewers asked for was ever produced.

The bank’s account closures of July 2019, in which Hyperion Air, LLC appears among the accounts to be closed, are described on Deutsche Bank.31

An automated Deutsche Bank “Daily Deposit Report” for relationship-manager code 81851, for April 28, 2016, lists HYPERION AIR, LLC with a balance of $118,289.71 in a column headed BALANCE, under a category code “D” the report does not define.32 That report is scoped to the relationship-manager code and not to Epstein: alongside his companies it lists an individual, a couple, a trust and two further companies that no document cited here connects to him, and this page does not name them. The same reading of these reports, and the caution that goes with it, is set out on bank records of the entity network, which works from a different relationship-manager code; Hyperion Air, LLC appears under code 81851 in the 2016 report cited here and under code 82289 in a report of March 2019.3233

The manifests, and whose documents they are

The passenger manifest forms used aboard the Gulfstream are printed with the Delaware corporation’s name. A form in an FBI evidence production is headed “HYPERION AIR, INC.” above “PASSENGER MANIFEST,” with a printed line giving the registration number N909JE, the type G-1159B and the pilots Dave Rodgers and Larry Visoski. The first two passenger entries are machine-printed, in the same face as the rest of the form’s print; the date, the route, the times and the performance figures are written in by hand, as are the passenger entries numbered 6 to 10. On that sheet three passenger lines, numbered 3 to 5, are covered by an applied black mass which is not a rectangle: its edge steps, the upper block running further right than the lower. Four of the manuscript lines are entered not as names but as “PAX.”11

Who owned those documents became a live question in a Florida civil action. At the deposition of Larry Visoski on October 15, 2009, in the Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County, plaintiff’s counsel Bradley J. Edwards asked where the manifests were kept. Visoski answered “Corporate — our corporate office,” identified it as “Up in New York, Darren Indyke,” and when pressed for the corporation said “NES, LLC, I guess,” to which counsel for the witness, Mr. Reinhart, asked “Do you know for sure?” and the witness answered “I don’t know for sure.”34 After an off-the-record discussion Reinhart put a correction on the record:35

Let me clarify this way: As the passenger manifests, they are corporate documents of either JEGE or Hyperion Air, whatever company owns the plane. Mr. Visoski has physical custody of them. He retains them but they’re not his documents. They’re the corporate documents. So they’re not in New York.

That is counsel’s characterisation on the record, not a ruling. The deposition is a condensed transcript, four transcript pages to the sheet; the exchange runs from transcript page 97 line 17 to page 98 line 24, all on a single page of the produced document.3435

The Estate sells the Sikorsky, 2019 to 2021

By October 2019 the sole member of Hyperion Air, LLC was the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein. A Written Consent of Sole Member dated October 31, 2019 opens: “The undersigned, the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, by Darren K. Indyke and Richard D. Kahn, as Co-Executors thereof, being the Sole Member (the ‘Sole Member’) of Hyperion Air, LLC.”6 It resolves that the company sell “that certain 2008 Keystone Helicopter (Sikorsky) model S-76C aircraft, bearing manufacturer’s serial number 760750,” registered as N722JE, to Helicopter 1029, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company at 767 Fifth Avenue, New York, “for the purchase price of Three Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($3,500,000).”6 It authorises Indyke, “in the capacity as authorized representative,” to execute the purchase agreement.6 On the following page it ratifies prior acts taken on the company’s behalf by Indyke and by “the Manager (Lawrence Visoski) of the Company.”36 Both co-executor lines on the execution page carry manuscript signatures.36 The consent exists because the operating agreement requires it: the manager may not dispose of company assets without the sole member’s written consent.23

Eighteen months later the same airframe was sold to a different buyer for a different price. An Aircraft Purchase Agreement entered into as of April 16, 2021 is made “by and between HYPERION AIR, LLC, a U.S. Virgin Islands limited liability company, whose address is 9053 Estate Thomas, Suite 101, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands (‘Seller’), and Industrial Integrity Solutions, LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company.”8 The subject is the same helicopter, “one used 2008 Keystone (Sikorsky) model S-76C++ helicopter, bearing manufacturer’s serial number 760750,” registered as N722JE, with its two named engines. The price is “One Million Eight Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars (US $1,800,000),” payable as a deposit of “One Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars (US $100,000.00)” wire transferred to an Oklahoma City escrow agent and a balance of “One Million Seven Hundred Thousand U.S. Dollars (US$1,700,000)” at closing.8 The aircraft was already positioned for pre-purchase inspection at the Banyan facility at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, and the agreement provides for closing there.37 The documents cited here do not record what became of the 2019 transaction, or why the 2021 price was set where it was.

The file holds an earlier, redlined draft of the same agreement in which the purchaser’s name and state of organisation are struck through and replaced, and the escrow bank is changed; and it holds a Second Amendment dated May 7, 2021 which recites a First Amendment of April 20, 2021 and extends the closing deadline from May 7 to May 13, 2021, “so that May 13, 2021 is the absolute final and latest date by which Purchaser must close.” The seller’s willingness to extend is conditioned on the purchaser adding one hundred thousand dollars to the deposit and agreeing that “the full amount of the Deposit, as so increased, is non-refundable and immediately, absolutely, and unconditionally due and payable to Seller regardless of whether or not the Closing occurs.”38

The redlined draft’s execution block runs across two pages. The seller’s block prints “HYPERION AIR, LLC / By: / Name: Darren K. Indyke / Title: Authorized Representative,” and the “By:” rule is clean and unmarked; on the following page the purchaser’s block carries the prior purchaser’s name struck through in red and replaced, with the “By:” and “Title:” lines blank and no applied rectangle anywhere on the sheet.39 On the execution page of the clean copy, the one quoted above, the seller’s “By:” rule is likewise clean, while on the purchaser’s side an applied black rectangle covers the signature line and part of the entity name and the entry beside “Title:” is written in by hand.40 The run holds five copies of the Second Amendment. On the copy cited here both parties’ signature lines are covered by applied black rectangles, and from beneath each rectangle a pen stroke of varying weight extends past its edge and below the printed rule; a second copy is the same, and on the remaining three the seller’s rule is clean and unmarked while the purchaser’s carries a rectangle with a stroke escaping below it.41

The Government of the Virgin Islands

The Attorney General of the United States Virgin Islands named Hyperion Air, LLC as a defendant in the Government’s civil action against Epstein’s estate under the territory’s Criminally Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act. The Government’s First Amended Complaint pleads:12

Defendant, Hyperion Air, LLC is a limited liability company established and organized under the laws of the Virgin Islands on October 19, 2012. Jeffrey Epstein is a manager/member of Hyperion Air, LLC, along with his pilot, Larry Visoski. The purpose of Hyperion Air, LLC is listed in its Annual Report as “holding assets.”

The next paragraph reads: “Hyperion Air, LLC is the registered owner of a Bell helicopter with N-number N331JE and a Keystone helicopter with N-number N722JE. Upon information and belief, Epstein used these helicopters to transport young women and underage girls between St. Thomas and Little St. James.”12 The Government’s word “Keystone” for the S-76 matches the description the aircraft carries in the company’s own sale documents, which style it “2008 Keystone (Sikorsky) model S-76C++.”86

Those are the Government’s allegations. The action is against Epstein’s estate and no answer from him to them exists; the documents cited here record no response to the action from Hyperion Air, LLC, from Indyke or from Kahn. The complaint’s own account of the company’s management differs from the bank record and from the operating agreement: the operating agreement names Epstein as sole member and Visoski as initial manager, and Deutsche Bank was told in November 2018 that Visoski “is not a signer … he is a legal rep.”5730

On January 16, 2020 the same Attorney General’s office filed a Criminal Activity Lien Notice under Title 14 V.I.C. section 610, reciting the civil action and naming Hyperion Air, LLC among the defendants. The notice creates a lien on property in the territory in the name of or under the signatory authority of those parties, on any beneficial interest of theirs in such property, and on “[a]ny and all bank accounts, certificates of deposits and any other accounts” in their names.1342 The instrument carries two different years in its own print: the running head gives January 16, 2020, and a dated line at the left margin, level with the signature rule, gives January 16, 2019, a discrepancy also recorded on Nautilus, Inc.42

What the documents cited here do not establish

A full-text search of the released files for the phrase “Hyperion Air” returns 7,315 pages across 4,449 documents, most of them bank statements, wire records, account listings and litigation exhibits in which the name appears in a list. A search returns a floor and not a count of the release, and no claim is made here about material the search did not surface.

The documents cited here do not establish when either company ceased to exist, whether either was dissolved, or what the outcome of the Government of the Virgin Islands action was. They do not establish what happened to the October 2019 sale approved at $3,500,000, or whether the April 2021 sale at $1,800,000 closed on the extended date. They do not establish who, if anyone, signed the operating agreement’s manager acceptance block, which is blank on each of the four copies examined here, or what the Delaware corporation’s relationship to the Virgin Islands company was, if any: no instrument in the documents cited here transfers anything from one to the other. One document cited here names both: JPMorgan’s September 2020 account index lists them as two separate account names in the same group, and records nothing about how they were related.26

JEGE LLC; JPMorgan Chase; Deutsche Bank; Nautilus, Inc.; Darren Indyke; Richard Kahn; Harry Beller; Epstein’s flight department; Bank records of the entity network.

Footnotes

  1. Certificate of the Secretary of State of Delaware, May 23, 2007, certifying true and correct copies of all documents on file of “HYPERION AIR, INC.”, within a certified Delaware corporate file produced to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.29. Rendered at 300 dpi and read against the image; the certifying officer’s name is covered by an applied black rectangle and is not supplied here. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. Certificate of Existence for HYPERION AIR, LLC, Office of the Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands, issued at Charlotte Amalie on the thirteenth day of September 2018 over the printed name of Osbert E. Potter. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01387522 p.1. Rendered at 400 dpi and read: the sheet carries an embossed territorial seal and a manuscript signature above the printed name, and a Deutsche Bank production stamp at the foot. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  3. Certificate of Incorporation of HYPERION AIR, INC., Delaware Division of Corporations filing stamp “FILED 02:30 PM 07/18/1991”, in the same certified file. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.30. Rendered at 600 dpi with the FIFTH article magnified: the incorporator’s name under “NAME” is covered by an applied black rectangle, as is the street line under “MAILING ADDRESS” beside it, and neither is supplied here. ↩ ↩2

  4. State of Delaware 1992 Annual Franchise Tax Report for HYPERION AIR INC., same certified file. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 pp.39–40. Rendered at 400 dpi and read: the nature-of-business entry, the director row and the three officer rows are machine-typed on the form; the principal-place-of-business box is empty; the signature box carries a manuscript signature, and the title and date beside it (“PRESIDENT”, “2-17-93”) are manuscript, in a hand distinct in stroke weight and baseline from the typed entries on the same sheet. The report’s federal employer identification number is not reproduced here. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. Operating Agreement of HYPERION AIR, LLC, a U.S. Virgin Islands limited liability company, made as of October 19, 2012, Section I. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00308263 p.1. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  6. HYPERION AIR, LLC, Written Consent of Sole Member, October 31, 2019, first page. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01339374 p.781. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. The same agreement, Section V.A, management. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00308263 p.4. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. Aircraft Purchase Agreement between HYPERION AIR, LLC and Industrial Integrity Solutions, LLC, entered into as of April 16, 2021, clean copy, opening recitations and Section 1. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00022706 p.29. Rendered at 600 dpi with the date line magnified: it reads “of April 16, 2021”, the “16” written in by hand in a stroke of varying weight that sits off the baseline of the machine-set “April” and “2021” either side of it and carries a hand-drawn underline. The Second Amendment recites the same April 16 date for the original agreement. Two strings quoted above are damaged in the machine text of this page and are read here from the image: the model designation in the recital, which reads cleanly on other pages of the same run so that a string search reports this pin as wrong, and the dollar sign in “(US$1,700,000)”, which the extraction renders as a second S. Both passages are on this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  9. JPMorgan internal email, February 21, 2013, subject “Please approve 3 KYCs” and the reply “RE: Please approve 3 KYCs”, stamped “Confidential Treatment Requested by JPMorgan Chase” and bearing a JPM-SDNY production number. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01583436 p.1. Rendered at 400 dpi and read against the image; the page carries no applied redaction. Account references appearing on it are not reproduced here. Both messages carry a clock time with no zone printed, so no interval and no ordering by time is stated above. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  10. The same chain, the Hyperion Air, LLC responsible-party block and the request for a certificate of good standing. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01421982 p.5. Rendered at 300 dpi and read against the image. ↩ ↩2

  11. HYPERION AIR, INC. passenger manifest form, registration number N909JE, in an FBI production. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00066572 p.128. Rendered at 600 dpi and the passenger list magnified: the company name, the form title, the registration, type and pilot line, and passenger entries 1 and 2 are machine-printed, of uniform stroke weight and seated on the printed baselines in the same face as the rest of the form’s print; the date, route, time and performance entries, and passenger entries 6 to 10, are manuscript, in irregular capitals of varying stroke weight sitting on and across the printed rules. Three passenger entries are covered by an applied black mass which is not a rectangle: at 600 dpi its edge steps, the upper block running further right and the lower block starting further left. Four further entries read “PAX”. No passenger is named here. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  12. Government of the Virgin Islands v. Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, First Amended Complaint, paragraphs 35 and 36, filed as an exhibit on September 1, 2020 in Case 1:15-cv-07433-LAP. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00018778 p.8. The pins to this document are to pages of the exhibit as filed; the complaint’s own folio runs one lower. Rendered at 400 dpi and read against the image. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  13. Criminal Activity Lien Notice, Attorney General of the United States Virgin Islands, Title 14 V.I.C. section 610, in the matter of the Estate of Jeffrey E. Epstein, Probate No. ST-19-PB-80, reciting Case No. ST-2020-CV-14. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00074744 p.117. ↩ ↩2

  14. For JEGE, LLC: Certificate of Existence, Office of the Lieutenant Governor of the Virgin Islands, issued at Charlotte Amalie on the thirteenth day of September 2018 over the printed name of Osbert E. Potter, reciting articles of organization filed October 19, 2012. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01298588 p.1. Rendered at 300 dpi and read against the image; the sheet carries an embossed territorial seal, a manuscript signature above the printed name, and a Deutsche Bank production stamp. For Plan D, LLC: the Government of the Virgin Islands First Amended Complaint, paragraph 33, “In its original Articles of Organization, filed October 19, 2012”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00018778 p.8. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  15. The same run, Delaware Division of Corporations billing detail for file number 2268758 addressed to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, order 070532902, dated 05-23-2007, itemising a certified history and certified copies of the annual reports. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.5. ↩

  16. The same run, FBI evidence form FD-340 (Rev. 4-11-03) at its head. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.1. Rendered at 600 dpi and the check-box band magnified: the printed legend reads “Grand Jury Material - Disseminate Only Pursuant to Rule 6 (e) Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure”, and the sheet carries four pre-printed label rows, each followed by a box beside “Yes” and a box beside “No”: To Be Returned, Receipt Given, the grand jury row, and Federal Taxpayer Information (FTI). On all four the “Yes” box is empty and a pen stroke of varying weight, sitting off the print baseline, meets the “No” box and runs out across the word “No”. The Date Received, From and Description entries are manuscript. The receipt-from stack is three lines, each printed caption sitting below its own rule; the contributor’s name line reads “Division of Corporations” in the clear and is quoted above. The File Number line, part of the Field Office line, the line between the contributor’s name and its city and state, and the “By” line are covered by applied black rectangles, and nothing under them is supplied here. ↩

  17. The same run, Delaware billing detail for JEGE, INC., file number 3284812, order 070532893, dated 05-17-2007. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.3. ↩

  18. The same run, Delaware certificate that “HYPERION AIR, INC.” is duly incorporated and in good standing as of the twenty-third day of May 2007. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.28. ↩

  19. Certificate of Change of Location of Registered Office and Registered Agent of HYPERION AIR, INC., January 1997, same file. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.35. ↩

  20. State of Delaware 2004 Annual Franchise Tax Report for HYPERION AIR, INC., the last annual report in the certified file. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01694239 p.79. ↩

  21. Testimony before the Federal Grand Jury, West Palm Beach Division, in the matter styled “IN RE: OPERATION LEAP YEAR”, Grand Jury 07-103, May 15, 2007. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00009512 p.35; the caption and the description of the witness as an FBI special agent are at pp.1–2. The witness’s name, and the name of the Assistant United States Attorney examining, are blacked out on those pages and are not supplied here. ↩

  22. The same agreement, Exhibit A, member listing and capital contributions. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00308263 p.8. ↩

  23. The same agreement, Section V.B, limitation of the manager’s authority. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00308263 p.5. ↩ ↩2

  24. A twenty-four page run holding three copies of the same operating agreement, at pp.1–8, 9–16 and 17–24. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00312828 pp.7, 8, 15, 16, 23 and 24. All six pages rendered at 400 dpi and magnified: on each of pp.7, 15 and 23 a large blue-ink signature, of varying stroke weight and crossing the printed rule, sits above the rule printed “Jeffrey E. Epstein”, and the rule printed “Lawrence Visoski” below carries no mark; on each of pp.8, 16 and 24 a blue-ink stroke sits on the “By:” rule above the printed “JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN”. Those are the three copies in this run and no claim is made here about copies elsewhere in the release. ↩

  25. The same copy, execution page. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00308263 p.7. Rendered at 400 dpi and magnified: both printed rules, the one above “Jeffrey E. Epstein” and the one above “Lawrence Visoski”, are clean, with no ink or other mark above either. ↩

  26. WilmerHale to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York, September 2, 2020, and Appendix A, the index of accounts on which the bank held wire data, as cited and described on JPMorgan Chase. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00096342 pp.1–2, 4–5. Appendix A rendered at 400 dpi and read row by row: under the heading “2. Epstein & ‘JE DM’ Accounts” the rows “Hyperion Air LLC” and “Hyperion Air, Inc.” are consecutive, at Bates JPM-SDNY-00054741 and JPM-SDNY-00054742. The account numbers in the left-hand column of this table are covered by applied black rectangles and are not reproduced here. The index gives no dates and says nothing about the relationship, if any, between the two companies. ↩ ↩2

  27. Deutsche Bank email chain, subject “2018 Periodic Review of High Risked Accounts J. Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation, Inc (GCIS#486427) & Hyperion Air, LLC (GCIS#487225) under the SOUTHERN FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIP”, top message dated Mon, 24 Sep 2018 05:54:27 -0400. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01421982 p.1. The offset is printed in the header of this message; the quoted messages below it carry clock times with no zone, and only their dates are used above. ↩

  28. The same chain, message of July 30, 2018 opening the review. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01421982 p.4. ↩

  29. Deutsche Bank email of Bradley Gillin, November 2, 2018, subject “Hyperion Air LLC - KYC [I]”, with the signature block on the following page giving his title and office. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01426009 pp.3–4. Both rendered at 400 dpi and read against the image: p.3 carries the item quoted above, and p.4 the signature block reading “Bradley Gillin / Vice President / Deutsche Bank Wealth Management” above a New York office address. The correspondents’ email addresses and the contact lines in the signature block are covered by applied black rectangles, and nothing under them is supplied here. Nothing else on these pages is quoted or described here. ↩

  30. The same thread, Gillin’s reply of Monday, 05 Nov 2018 09:03:35 -0500. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01426009 p.1. ↩ ↩2

  31. Kimberly Hart, “URGENT!!! Need to close accounts ASAP - please prioritize today,” July 8, 2019, and the forwards and reply that follow it, as cited and described on Deutsche Bank. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01432070 pp.1–5. ↩

  32. Deutsche Bank automated “RM0081851 Daily Deposit Report” for April 28, 2016, headed “LARGE, ZERO AND NEGATIVE BALANCES”. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01478229 p.1. Rendered at 400 dpi and read row by row against the image: HYPERION AIR, LLC carries category “D” and the balance 118,289.71. Account numbers appearing in this report are not reproduced here, and the report’s other account holders are not named here. ↩ ↩2

  33. Deutsche Bank automated “RM0082289 Daily Deposit Report” for March 22, 2019, listing HYPERION AIR, LLC. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01427910 p.1. ↩

  34. Deposition of Larry Visoski, October 15, 2009, Circuit Court of the Fifteenth Judicial Circuit in and for Palm Beach County, Florida, Case No. 502008CA028051, transcript p.97 lines 17–25. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01110326 p.26; the caption and appearances are at pp.1–2. The plaintiff’s name is blacked out in the produced copy and is not supplied here. This is a condensed transcript printing four transcript pages to the sheet, so the transcript page numbers above do not correspond to the pages of the produced document. ↩ ↩2

  35. The same deposition, transcript p.98 lines 18–24, on the same page of the produced document. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01110326 p.26. Rendered at 400 dpi and read against the image. ↩ ↩2

  36. The same consent, second page, the ratification and the execution block. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA01339374 p.782. Rendered at 400 dpi and magnified: both “By:” rules carry manuscript signatures, of varying stroke weight and crossing the printed rules, above the printed names of the two co-executors. ↩ ↩2

  37. The same agreement, Section 3, pre-purchase inspection at “the Banyan FBO facility located at the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport KFXE”, and Section 4, closing. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00022706 pp.30–32. ↩

  38. Second Amendment to Aircraft Purchase Agreement, made as of the 7th day of May 2021, reciting the Original Agreement of April 16, 2021 and the First Amendment of April 20, 2021. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00022706 p.75. The First Amendment itself is not among the documents cited here. ↩

  39. Execution block of the redlined draft of the same agreement. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00022706 pp.12–13. Both rendered at 400 dpi and magnified: p.12 carries the seller’s block, its “By:” rule clean with no mark and no applied rectangle on the sheet; p.13 carries the purchaser’s block, in which the prior purchaser’s entity name is struck through in red and the replacement is set in red underline, the “By:” and “Title:” lines are blank, and there is no applied rectangle on the sheet. The run holds two copies of the agreement, distinguished by their printed folios: the draft’s pp.12 and 13 print “11” and “12”, against the clean copy’s p.29 printing “1” and p.39 printing “11”. ↩

  40. Execution page of the clean copy of the same agreement. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00022706 p.39. Rendered at 400 dpi and magnified: the seller’s “By:” rule is clean, with no mark above it; on the purchaser’s side an applied black rectangle with straight edges covers the signature line and part of the entity name, and the entry beside “Title:” is manuscript, in a stroke of varying weight sitting off the baseline of the printed text around it. ↩

  41. Execution page of the Second Amendment. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00022706 p.77. The run holds five copies of the Second Amendment, at pp.69–71, 72–74, 75–77, 78–80 and 81–83, and all five execution pages were rendered at 400 dpi and read. On p.77, cited here, an applied black rectangle covers each of the two “By:” rules, and from beneath each rectangle a curved pen stroke of varying weight extends past its edge and below the printed rule, unlike the uniform machine-printed names beneath; p.80 is the same. On pp.71, 74 and 83 the seller’s “By:” rule is clean, with no rectangle and no mark, while the purchaser’s rule carries a rectangle with a stroke escaping below it. ↩

  42. The same notice, second page, the property covered and the signature block. https://epstein-data.com/EFTA00074744 p.118. Rendered at 400 dpi and read: the running head reads “Attorney General / Criminal Activity Lien / January 16, 2020 / Page 2”, and “DATED: January 16, 2019” sits at the left margin, level with the “By:” rule, with the signature to its right. ↩ ↩2

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