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Kimberly Hart

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aliasesKimberly Hart, Hart, Kimberly, Kim Hart

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⚠ what this page is about, and what it is not

The Deutsche Bank control officer who asked what Epstein’s connection to a Ponzi scheme had been, and who, two days after his arrest, ordered every remaining Epstein account at the bank closed by the end of the day. No allegation against her was found anywhere in the release, and none is made here.

WhoKimberly Hart, Managing Director, Divisional Control Officer, Wealth Management Americas, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, per her own signature block1
In the release494 documents2
Her own messages264 sender rows across 201 documents, 21 February 2011 to 17 July 20192
⭐ 22 Oct 2018”It is hard for me to comment without additional information. I am comforted by the fact that the case was dismissed but it would be helpful to know the following:” — then four questions, including “What was his connection to Hoffenberg?”3
⭐⭐ 8 July 2019, 7:33 AM”URGENT!!! Need to close accounts ASAP - please prioritize today” — a numbered instruction listing 27 named accounts and one redacted, ending “Please confirm back to me once completed.”4
⚠ Two days earlierEpstein had been arrested. ⚠ The message does not say so, and this page does not put words in it.4
By 9:39 AM”The brokerage accounts are hard closed.”4

October 2018: the four questions

When a relationship manager brought a Ponzi-scheme complaint naming the bank’s client to her desk, she did not close the matter and did not wave it through. Her first reply asked where the hit had come from:

Was this returned as an RDC alert — or part of the regular Lexis/Nexis due diligence? Her substantive answer, on 22 October, is quoted in full at Stewart Oldfield and turns on four questions, the last of which asks whether a named colleague “is he comfortable maintaining the relationship with Mr. Epstein and his related entities?”3

⚠ A prior approval of hers, dated 2 October 2017, is referred to on the same sheet by a colleague asking her to “confirm again that we are comfortable moving forward”. ⚠⚠ No document read for this page records her answer, or any decision.3

8 July 2019: the closure order

Epstein was arrested on 6 July 2019. At 7:33:19 AM EDT on Monday 8 July she sent a message headed “URGENT!!! Need to close accounts ASAP - please prioritize today”, classified “For internal use only”, to a relationship manager and copying three colleagues. It opens:

The following need to be completed today:

It then sets out three numbered categories.4

1. “$0 balance deposit accounts that are still open”, fourteen named plus one whose name is redacted:

Accounts to close (deposit)
DARREN K. INDYKE PLLC
GRATITUDE AMERICA, LTD
GRATITUDE AMERICA, LTD
HBRK ASSOCIATES, INC
HYPERION AIR, LLC
JSC INTERIORS LLC
▮ (name redacted)
LSJE, LLC
MORT, INC
NEPTUNE, LLC
NES, LLC
PLAN D, LLC
THE 2007 JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN INSURANCE
ZORRO MANAGEMENT, LLC
ZORRO MANAGEMENT, LLC (HOUSE ACCOUNT)

2. “$0 balance brokerage accounts that are still open”, eleven rows:

Accounts to close (brokerage)
JEFFREY EPSTEIN
J EPSTEIN VIRGIN ISLANDS FOUNDATION
JEEPERS INC
SOUTHERN FINANCIAL LLC
SOUTHERN FINANCIAL LLC
SOUTHERN FINANCIAL LLC
SOUTHERN TRUST COMPANY INC
SOUTHERN TRUST COMPANY INC
SOUTHERN TRUST COMPANY INC
SOUTHERN TRUST COMPANY INC
THE HAZE TRUST UAD 02/09/99 JEFFREY

3. “Deposit accounts with residual balances. Please distribute balances and close accounts today.”, two rows:

AccountTypeDate on the sheetBalance
BUTTERFLY TRUSTGlobal Deposits | Money Market Business Account1/24/201421.72
JEFFREY EPSTEINGlobal Deposits | NOW and SuperNOW Accounts3/8/201612.05

It ends: “Please confirm back to me once completed. Thanks in advance. Kim”4

⚠⚠ WHAT THE LIST IS AND IS NOT. It is the bank’s own roster of Epstein-related accounts still open on its systems on 8 July 2019, in the control officer’s own words. ⚠ It is NOT a list of accounts holding money: categories 1 and 2 are expressly “$0 balance” accounts, and the only two live balances on the sheet are $21.72 and $12.05. ⚠ The duplicated names are as printed: three SOUTHERN FINANCIAL rows, four SOUTHERN TRUST rows, two GRATITUDE AMERICA rows. The desk does not guess what distinguishes them, because an account number column runs down the left of each list and is redacted end to end. ⚠ No account number is reproduced here, and none was legible to reproduce.4

What happened within two hours

08:34 the relationship manager forwarded it on. 08:40 the reply came back:

The accounts are in Pending Close category. I have requested they are hard closed.

09:02:

These are IWP brokerage accounts — we already took care of that this morning.

09:39: “The brokerage accounts are hard closed.”4

The next morning she chased the rest, and was told:

Butterfly and JE will be closed today. The other accounts have been closed since May, but are still showing active in DB Force. PWM Production support is aware of the issue and is working to have this fixed in the system.

⚠⚠ THAT ANSWER MATTERS AND IS EASY TO MISREAD. It says the accounts had been closed since May 2019, before the arrest, and were still showing as active in the bank’s own system. ⚠ It is one employee’s statement in an e-mail, not a systems record, and no document read for this page corroborates it, dates the May closures, or explains the discrepancy.5

What this page does not say

No allegation against her was found anywhere in the release.6

⚠⚠ NOTHING HERE SUGGESTS SHE DID ANYTHING IMPROPER. In both documents read she is the person asking the questions and issuing the instruction. ⚠ Whether the bank should have acted sooner is an institutional question and belongs at Deutsche Bank, not to any individual named here. ⚠ Her 2 October 2017 approval is referred to by a colleague and the approval itself was not read; nothing is inferred from it.

Footnotes

Footnotes

  1. Identification. Title and employer are taken from her own signature block as it prints on the sheets read for this page: Kimberly Hart / Managing Director I Divisional Control Officer / Wealth Management Americas / Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas / 345 Park Avenue, 14th floor, New York, NY 10154. The I between title and role is the text layer’s rendering of a vertical bar. ⚠ Telephone, fax, mobile and e-mail print as redacted bars and none is supplied. The address is a bank office floor, not a residence. ↩

  2. The measurement. "Kimberly Hart" returns 494 documents. In the e-mail metadata store she is the normalised sender of 264 rows across 201 documents, 21 February 2011 to 17 July 2019; a looser match on the sender string returns 287. Her largest subject groups are RE: Epstein - negative media [I] (32 rows), URGENT!!! Need to close accounts ASAP - please prioritize today (23, plus 14 more as RE: variants), Fw: October 2014 AML/KYC Escalation Reports [I] (6) and several on Butterfly Trust. ⚠ These are ROW counts, not documents or distinct messages. ⚠ No doc_type figure is printed, under the rule in _desk/TOOLS.md. ⚠ The desk opened two documents for this page. ↩ ↩2

  3. October 2018. EFTA01423573 p.3 (22 Oct 2:30 PM, the four questions) and p.5 (18 Oct 5:22 PM, the reference to her approval of 10/2/17), both rendered and READ AT THE IMAGE at 700 dpi; the 9 October exchange is on p.6 and p.7 of the same seven-sheet chain. The chain is treated at length at Stewart Oldfield. ⚠ No answer from her to the four questions appears in anything read for this page. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. 8 July 2019. EFTA01426137, an eleven-sheet chain of eight messages, subject URGENT!!! Need to close accounts ASAP - please prioritize today [C] [I]. Pages 8, 9 and 10 — page stamps EFTA01426144, EFTA01426145, EFTA01426146 — were rendered and READ AT THE IMAGE at 700 dpi, and the account tables above are transcribed from those images. The remaining sheets were read in the text layer, including the four replies timed 08:34, 08:40, 09:02 and 09:39. ⚠⚠ THE TEXT LAYER IS WRONG HERE AND THE IMAGE GOVERNS: the extracted text silently omits the redacted account row between JSC INTERIORS LLC and LSJE, LLC. A desk working from the text layer would have printed fourteen deposit accounts and missed that a fifteenth was withheld. ⚠ A redacted column of account numbers runs down the left of both $0 balance lists and beside both residual-balance rows; nothing from it is reproduced, and nothing in it was legible. ⚠ The double spaces and the duplicate entity names are as printed. ⚠ Five further Deutsche Bank employees appear on these sheets and are not named on this page, because nothing here turns on them; no e-mail address is reproduced. ⚠ The arrest date of 6 July 2019 is not stated in this document and is supplied here as public record, flagged as such. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  5. 9 July 2019. EFTA01380130 p.1, read in the text layer, RE: URGENT!!! Need to close accounts ... [C] [I], a reply to her of Tuesday, July 09, 2019 8:26 AM answering her message of 8:10 AM. ⚠ This sheet was NOT rendered, and the quotation is therefore marked as text-layer throughout; the desk did not verify it at the image. ⚠ “DB Force” and “PWM Production support” are the sheet’s own terms and are not expanded. The sheet carries CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) with the production stamps DB-SDNY-0078310 and SDNY_GM_00224494. ↩

  6. Absences, each scoped. No allegation against her was found in the release read for this page. ⚠ This is a check against 494 documents in which the desk opened two, one of them at the image. It ran no systematic adverse sweep and searched none of the six derived stores. ⚠ A deeper pass is owed, and this page records the debt rather than implying it does not exist. ↩

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