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Michael Bloomberg

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tagsperson, new-york, mayor, contact-directory, deutsche-bank, peggy-siegal, 2002, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2018, 2020
aliasesMichael Bloomberg, Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg, Michael, Bloomberg Mike, Mike Bloomberg, Mayor Bloomberg, Mayor Michael Bloomberg

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What this page does not contain

No message from him, none to him, no meeting he is recorded attending with Jeffrey Epstein, no payment and no introduction he is recorded making. Nothing read for this page was written by him, signed by him or addressed to him. The only thing in this release that records him doing anything toward Epstein or anyone acting for Epstein is a greeting, and it reaches the file at second hand, in the words of the man who says he carried it. What the release records him doing otherwise is what any public record of a mayor records: appointing an official, endorsing a candidate, being honoured at a dinner.123 This project’s index names a sender for 130 of the 242 documents this page was scoped on, in 40 distinct values, and not one of those values is him. Across the whole release the same column carries no sender in his name on any document, and that zero means something only because of what the column does carry: the same query finds the news company seven different ways, on ten documents. The instrument can see the word. It never sees the man.4 This page is about a man, not a company, and they are different subjects. The three principal forms of the media business reach 248 documents, of which 221 name no form of him at all. No sentence here about him is really about the company, and no wire story is attributed to him because his name is on the masthead.45 Nearly a quarter of the population is press. 57 of 242 documents carry this project’s news-clipping label, and a further large block is government and bureau news digests. A clipping is evidence about what a journalist wrote. This page cites nothing from the digest and briefing class, which is where every protection hazard in this population sits.67 There is no travel record. The single document this project labels a flight log is a capture of a Twitter feed about a mayoral election; the single document it labels medical is a page of a book about the Trump White House. No passenger list, manifest or flight record naming him was found by any form tested.68 Nothing any complainant or survivor said appears here in any form. Four documents in this population were read and refused on protection grounds. Nothing from any of them is quoted, summarised, characterised or counted, and their identifiers are not listed, because listing them beside what they concern would point.7 No telephone number, electronic address or other personal contact value is reproduced here, including from the contact directory described below.

Named on the documents asMichael Bloomberg and Mayor Michael Bloomberg throughout; Michael R. Bloomberg on a social-events circular; Bloomberg Mike in a contact directory; Mike Bloomberg in press and in one correspondent’s message; bloombcrg twice in Epstein’s own hand, where the released text damages the surname; Michael(?) Blomberg (?) in one 2002 letter, question marks the writer’s own910111213
What the files are mostly aboutOther people trying to reach him, and other people reporting that they had seen him. The largest single structure is a week in September 2010 in which Epstein’s office worked three routes to his office and was told to stop14
A contact directory, and an entry in his nameA contact directory produced in this release carries an entry under the surname-first form Bloomberg Mike. No sheet of it is quoted or pinned here and no value is taken from it. The same directory carries an entry for Tony Blair, whose own page records it10
September 2010, and how it ended17 September. A number supplied to Epstein’s office turns out to be the mayor’s scheduling office; an electronic address for him sits in the office’s own directory and nobody knows whether it works; a journalist is asked for his assistant’s details. 20 September. Epstein is asked whether to follow up about the invite for Mayor Bloomberg. His whole reply is one word: leave1415
March 2012Epstein offers a member of his staff to a head of government, writing of My friend Ian osbourne , right hand of mayor Bloomberg. Whether the man was his right hand is Epstein’s characterisation16
July 2012A head of government asks a correspondent whether it is possible to ask Mayor Bloomberg to send two NYPD experts to the Maldives. The answer is Let's try . Four days later the same correspondent writes I will fund . and points elsewhere. Nothing read for this page records that Bloomberg was ever asked173
10 April 201303:46 UTC, Peggy Siegal tells Epstein’s office she has just left a party at which she saw him. 18:36 UTC the same day, Epstein writes to her: please send me michael bloombergs contacts1819
29 May 2013I got an "hello" for you from Mayor Bloomberg. Epstein’s brother, after sitting next to him on a stage1
July 2018A Deutsche Bank officer nominates both him and Jeffrey Epstein for the same art-fair preview. He is the fifth name on the list and Epstein the seventeenth, of twenty-seven2021
Acts by him toward Epstein’s circleOne is recorded, and it is relayed: a greeting sent through a third party. One further contact is asserted and not recorded: one of Epstein’s correspondents wrote in 2013 that he had met him already in Gracy Mansion, which is that correspondent’s statement and not a document of a meeting. His public acts as mayor are recorded here too, as other people’s paper records them12223
Not to be confused withBloomberg L.P., Bloomberg News, Bloomberg Businessweek and the Bloomberg terminal, which together reach 248 documents of which 221 name no form of him; Mayor Mike Duggan of Detroit, Mayor Mike Elliott of Brooklyn Center, Mayor Mike Coffman of Aurora and Mayor Mike Rawlings of Dallas; and the appliance brand Blomberg523
Covered elsewhere on this wikiPeggy Siegal · Lesley Groff · Stewart Oldfield · Ghislaine Maxwell · Tony Blair · Ivanka Trump · Jeffrey Epstein

Michael Bloomberg was Mayor of New York City. His name reaches at least 242 documents in this release, and the question this page exists to answer is what kind of reach that is. The answer is narrow and it is better stated at once than at the end: where Jeffrey Epstein is concerned the files record almost nothing he did, and a great deal that other people did about him. Over eighteen years the release holds a mother asking her daughter for his address, an office working three separate routes to his office in one week, a financier offering a head of government the services of a man he calls the mayor’s right hand, a publicist dangling his name over a party invitation, a bank putting him on an invitation list beside Jeffrey Epstein, and a letter to federal prosecutors alleging that he told his news staff not to generate original news on the Epstein case. Toward that circle he himself is recorded doing one thing: saying hello, once, through somebody else.13

That is a finding, not a gap, and it is the reason the page is organised by the people who were reaching for him rather than by him.

September 2010: three routes to his office in one afternoon, and one word

The densest week in this population contains no act of his at all. It is a record of an attempt.

On Friday 17 September 2010, in a message this project’s index times at 3:09:36 PM, Lesley Groff reported to Epstein on what a telephone number had turned out to be:

The number G provided for Mayor Bloomberg is his scheduling office. I spoke to Christina there who gave me the email address where all invitations are to go for the Mayor.

The address she was given was [email protected], the city’s own public invitations mailbox. She then put the choice back to Epstein:

I want to make sure this is the way you wish to invite Mayor Bloomberg? Or do you want to try and get to Pat Harms directly…Ghislaine will have to do some more digging for that.

So the number was not private access, and the sheet says who had supplied it. G and Ghislaine both stand in that one message, so the identification is the message’s own and not this page’s.14

A minute and a half later a second route was tried and failed on its own terms. Under the subject Mayor Bloomberg again, addressed to Epstein and to one further address this page does not reproduce, Groff wrote: We do have this email address in the directory...I do not know if it is valid: This page reproduces no electronic address from that message. What it takes is the sentence: Epstein’s office held an address for him and did not know whether it worked.24

A third route went through a journalist. At 4:44:48 PM, under the subject Felicia Taylor:

I left a message for Felicia Taylor asking if she might have Pat Harrus, Mayor Bloomberg’s assistant’s, email and phone number.

Epstein’s answer, carried in the quoted preamble of the reply, is three words: Get from Icon.25

The assistant’s name is rendered three different ways on three different sheets of the same week: Pat Harms, Pat Harrus and Patty Harris. This page does not choose between them and supplies no fourth form.142515

On Monday 20 September the question came back with a reason attached, and it is the sharpest sentence in the sequence:

Would you like me to follow up with Patty Harris today re the invite for Mayor Bloomberg for tomorrow night Barak dinner? Or since Ghislaine seeing him tonight, leave it alone? Please advise.

him in that sentence has two possible antecedents and the document settles neither. The invitation is for a dinner for Barak; the person being invited is Mayor Bloomberg; and the sentence offers both as reasons for dropping the approach. This page prints the sentence and resolves nothing from it.15

Epstein’s reply, a quarter of an hour later, is one word:

leave

Nothing read for this page records that any invitation was sent, that any of the three routes was used, or that he attended any dinner.153

The entry in the directory

A contact directory produced in this release carries an entry in his name. It is written surname-first, as Bloomberg Mike, in an alphabetical run; the same directory carries an entry for Tony Blair, which that page records independently. That the entry exists is the whole of what this page takes from it. No sheet of it is quoted, pinned or described here; no address, telephone number, electronic address or any other contact value is reproduced from it; and nothing else on it is counted. The document does not establish who kept it, and this page does not say.10

Press items in this same population describe such a book from the outside, reporting that Epstein’s address book held contact details for a list of public figures in which his name appears. Those are reporters’ accounts of a document and not the document, they sit on sheets this page takes nothing else from, and nothing read here settles whether the book they describe is the directory above.26

What the two together establish is bounded. An entry in his name stood in a contact directory that passed into this release. They do not establish that he supplied any detail to anyone, that he knew the entry existed, or that anyone ever used it. Being listed in someone else’s directory is an act by whoever kept the directory.103

March and July 2012: offered, and then not asked

On Friday 23 March 2012, under the subject Help, Epstein wrote in his own words:

My friend Ian osbourne , right hand of mayor Bloomberg , will do it as a favor to me , and if you want , he will fly there this weekend

The message is copied to Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem and its recipient line is not legible on the sheet; the reply chain carried in other copies of the same message is signed Waheed and sent from an iPad the sign-off calls the President’s. That a named staff member was Bloomberg’s “right hand” is Epstein’s characterisation, in Epstein’s words. No document read for this page records that Bloomberg knew of the offer, or that anything came of it. The release renders the surname both Ian osbourne and Ian osboume.163

Three months later the same correspondent asked for something larger, and the exchange is the clearest short sequence in the population. A forensic extraction of an iMessage thread, which prints Timezone: UTC+0000 on its own face, carries this on 2012/07/04 at 04:38:24 pm:

Do you think it’s possible to ask Mayor Bloomberg to send two experts from NYPD to help me develop a gang and crime reduction strategy in Maldives. They will work with our police department. There has been 7 murders in the first six months of this year and this is the highest it has been.

Four minutes and twenty-two seconds later the answer came back: Let's try . Two minutes after that, the asker added what a third party had told him:

Great. Ian told me that Mr. Bloomberg has a foundation that might be able to provide such support. Thanks. W.

On 2012/07/08 the reply was not an approach to Bloomberg. It was a substitution:

I will fund . The virgin islands has a program that might be Better suited

and the thread closes with That is greatly appreciated. Kindly ask someone to forward related information to me.17

Two things about that exchange need stating and the second is a limit on the first. First, nothing read for this page records that Bloomberg, his office or any foundation of his was ever approached; the request was made, accepted in principle and then answered by someone else’s money. Second, this page names only the party the sheet labels by name, and names nobody for the two replies.173

The foundation the message refers to is never named in this release. Searches of the released files for Bloomberg Philanthropies and for Bloomberg Family Foundation return nothing at all, against a control on the same query shape returning 371.4

10 April 2013: fourteen hours and fifty minutes

Two messages to and from one correspondent, on one day, on one clock.

At 03:46:00 +0000 on Wednesday 10 April 2013, Peggy Siegal answered a one-word enquiry from Epstein (newss?) with a numbered list. Item five:

Just left Grace Hightower’s surprise Birthday party at Perry Street that Somers Farkas gave! Bob DeNiro, Sting, Mayor Bloomberg, Harvey Keitel, Whoopie, Donna Karan, Chazz Palmentari, Hugh Jackman, Francine LeFrak…etc. and me…very cool. xoxo Peg

At 18:36:13 +0000 the same day, Epstein wrote to her. The whole body of his message is one line, and the subject field is empty on the paper:

please send me michael bloombergs contacts

Both headers carry an explicit zero offset, so the interval between them is a measurement and not an estimate: fourteen hours, fifty minutes and thirteen seconds. Nothing read for this page connects the two messages, and this page asserts no connection. It records the sequence and the interval, and it records that no answer to the request appears anywhere in the material read for this page.18193

She had reported seeing him before. On 4 February 2011, in a message otherwise about a documentary film, the same correspondent listed the guests at a dinner for a film director and put Mayor Bloomberg among them.27

29 May 2013: the one act toward Epstein, and whose account it is

The only thing in this release that records Michael Bloomberg doing anything toward Jeffrey Epstein reaches the file through Epstein’s brother. Writing at 21:10:34 +0000 on Wednesday 29 May 2013, under the subject Hello:

I got an “hello” for you from Mayor Bloomberg. He was the commencement speaker this morning at The Cooper Union. He was seated next to me on stage so we got to chat while they were calling up the graduates to get their diplomas.

That is one man’s account of a conversation, written the same day, about a greeting he says he was asked to pass on. It is the strongest thing in 242 documents about anything he did toward Jeffrey Epstein, and it is still a report at one remove. No document read for this page carries anything in Bloomberg’s own words, and nothing records what Epstein did with the message.13

His name as other people’s credential, and other people’s sighting

One recurring use of his name in this release is to establish somebody else’s standing.

A magician’s biography, which the release holds in eleven renderings across EFTA and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT identifiers, runs his name at the end of a list:

I have traveled internationally, performing magic privately for President Bill Clinton and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon, Henry Kissinger, Bill Gates and Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

The document is a letter of recommendation for a third person, and the producing party covered that person’s name. This page writes around that person entirely: nothing about them is reproduced, described or inferred here, and no attribute of theirs appears anywhere on this page.12

A real-estate executive’s biography does the same twice in one paragraph, recording that he had been Director of Mayor Bloomberg's Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency and that he had been appointed to run the city’s economic development corporation by him.2 A hospital administrator’s curriculum vitae lists an opening ceremony with Mayor Bloomberg among the highlights of an anniversary programme.28

And he is reported as a presence. A social-events circular that reached Epstein’s files lists a Harlem breakfast Honoring Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg,Dr. Sandye P. Johnson,Reginald Van Lee, with Tickets from $500.00.9 A 2002 newspaper gossip column in the release notes tonight's U.N. black-tie dinner honoring Muhammad Ali, Mayor Bloomberg and Paul and Heather Mills McCartney. That column carries a separate item about Jeffrey Epstein on a different sheet of the same document; the two items are about different subjects, the column joins them in no way, and this page takes the second and nothing from the first.29

One correspondent reported him as a well-wisher. On 1 December 2013, discussing a press article about himself, Tom Pritzker wrote to Epstein:

Nice comments from unlikely corners. E. G. Mike bloomberg. Andy Taylor. Mars family. These came out of nowhere.

That is a report of comments the release does not otherwise contain.11

Two more sentences of Epstein’s, and the two answers

Twice more Epstein wrote his name himself. Both times the released text of the copies cited here damages the surname to bloombcrg, so neither sentence is reachable from those copies by any form of the name. At the page image both sheets print it correctly, so the damage is the extraction’s and not the writer’s, and the quotations below are the paper’s; the damaged string is recorded because it is the way back to these copies through the released text.

On 17 September 2012, at 6:59 PM by the quoted preamble of a later message:

not sure he wants to come but bloomberg , can meet barak at my house if he wants, or woody or the nobel prize guys, or… its going to be an amazing week

And in a message of 2013 whose month the released text destroys in both copies cited here, one renders it 10 n003 2013, the other 10 r1903 2013, and this page derives no date from either:

I think you should meet wtih bloomberg ,

Both propose a meeting, both are Epstein’s, and both were answered on the four sheets that carry them.

The September 2012 message was answered by Ian Osborne, whose reply stands above Epstein’s quoted words on both copies, under the subject Re::

Great. Let me call you in the morning and sort out the schedule, including Bloomberg/Barak. I think Mike would like to do that.

That is one man’s report to Epstein of what he expected Bloomberg to want. It is not an act by Bloomberg, and nothing read for this page records that Bloomberg knew of the message, that any schedule was settled, or that any meeting followed.223

The 2013 message was answered by a correspondent who wrote that he had met him already. The reply stands above Epstein’s message on both copies and is initialled EB:

I’ve just met with him in Gracy Mansion several month ago. AFTER I’ve left office. Why that’s important now? EB

That is the writer’s own statement, to Epstein, about his own past meeting. It is not a document recording a meeting: nothing read for this page records when any such meeting took place, who was present or what was said, and this page adopts none of it. Neither reply is an act of Bloomberg’s, and neither carries anything in his words.223

24 August 2002: “your friend the new mayor of New York”

The earliest document in this population is a private family letter, and in it someone calls Michael Bloomberg her daughter’s friend.

Under the subject line Letter from maman re various urgent matters related to New York's new mayor, timed Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:24:57 PM, a letter from "Dr E. Maxwell" to Ghislaine Maxwell asks for help inviting someone to the New York premiere of a film about Nicholas Winton. She asks for his contact details, in a French word whose accented character the served file destroys and which is therefore not quoted here, and then writes:

your friend the new mayor of New York, who interviewed me once, as I would like Michael(?) Blomberg (?) to receive an invitation to attend this premiere.

The question marks are the writer’s own, around the forename and around the surname; she is sure of the relationship and unsure of the name.13

What kind of statement that sentence is matters more than what it says. What the document establishes is that Ghislaine Maxwell’s mother wrote to her daughter describing Michael Bloomberg as her daughter’s friend. It does not establish that they were friends. Nothing else read for this page corroborates the characterisation, and this page adopts none of it.133

No document read for this page records that the contact details were sent, that any invitation reached him, or that he attended anything.3

2014 to 2018: a reporter, a fund draft, a chart and a bank

His name travels through four more kinds of other people’s paper, and in none of them does he act.

A New York Times financial reporter sent Epstein his own profile of Bloomberg. On Monday 25 August 2014, under the subject Bloomberg: In case you missed it. Maybe you can include this in your welcome folder for conference. Did Gates read it? Epstein’s reply, carried in the chain, is Very well done, and the reporter’s next message hopes the article wins me a ticket to your confab.30

A confidential fund-raising draft of 16 November 2010 lists him as a relationship to be leveraged. The document sets out the deployment of the first $250mm in an activist growth fund focused primarily on the disruptive intersection of technology and media; on its fourth sheet, under A partial listing of the strategic relationships/networks that we will leverage in our investment work includes:, one bullet reads Michael Bloomberg (Bloomberg LP, City of New York), one of forty-five named bullets followed by a closing line of companies. The draft does not say whose relationships they are and this page does not supply an owner.31

A two-sheet chart marked confidential places him, and the image settles what the released text cannot. Headed Connections web—January 1, 2015 and Connections web—current, it sorts named people into five colour-coded categories given in its own legend: Close Friends, Acquaintances, Connectors, 2016 & Beyond and 2015 Target. Read at the page image and measured pixel by pixel against each legend swatch, his box on both sheets is the colour of 2016 & Beyond, and it matches none of the other four, which are separated from it by more than a hundred units in at least one colour channel. On both sheets his name sits in an unconnected band at the foot of the page with no line drawn to anyone. The document nowhere defines what 2016 & Beyond means and this page does not interpret it.32

And in July 2018 a bank put him on a list with Jeffrey Epstein. A Deutsche Bank wealth-management officer was sent an internal note headed Classification: For internal use only:

Hi Stewart, below is the invite for the Preview for you to forward to your nominated clients listed below:

The list that follows runs twenty-seven names in a single column. Michael Bloomberg is the fifth. Jeffrey Epstein is the seventeenth.20

A spreadsheet of the same exercise, read at the page image, gives his row in full: Wed. Preview, two tickets, Michael, Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP, CEO, invited by Stewart Oldfield. The released text of that sheet gives the same two-ticket figure in the same place, before the name; the 1 standing below it belongs to the next row. The client-or-prospect column and the net-worth column are blank on that sheet, and a second spreadsheet in the release interleaves those columns so badly in its released text that this page derives neither.21

The compliance note on the same message is worth recording and is not a finding against anyone: it limits invitations to the wealth management client (or prospect) and/or their family members and bars No sensitive counterparts (including public officials, regulatory agencies, etc.). This page draws no inference from the juxtaposition, and takes no position on whether the criterion was engaged.20

Epstein’s own publicity, and his

Epstein’s web operation issued praise of a Bloomberg policy and then recycled it. A working document of April 2014, listing Epstein-branded websites that each Needs 250 words of fresh content bi-weekly, reproduces a quotation attributed to him and names where it came from:

“The Mayor has a keen sense of what’s needed to run a charter school,” Jeffrey Epstein noted, whose own foundation also has a long history of supporting early education and Head Start programs.”

The source given on the sheet is a press-release address whose own path reads jeffrey-epstein-prominent-financier-applauds-bloombergs-plan-for-new-york-charter-schools. This page quotes the released text as it stands, stray closing mark included, and does not reconstruct a headline from a web address.33

The subject reached Epstein from the other direction too. On 16 March 2013 a correspondent whose sender value this project’s index records only as President opened a message to him: I got a press release about you an Mike Bloomberg's schools?34

Twitter, which was not a person

Several documents in this population are automated messages from Twitter to Jeffrey Epstein, and this page cites four of them. One of Thursday 28 February 2013 carries a headline about the New York soda rule, reading Take a big gulp, New York: Hizzoner is about to give you a pop.Nanny Bloomberg unleashes his ban on large sodas on March 12. That is the only sheet in the release carrying the word Hizzoner.35 One of Saturday 23 January 2016 carries The New York Times tweeted: Breaking News: Michael Bloomberg is exploring plans for an independent presidential bid, advisers and allies say.36 The other two are “who to follow” recommendations in which his account handle is the thing being recommended.37

A machine suggesting an account is not a connection between two people, and this page records these only because an automated search for his name reaches them and a reader should know what they are.

The one allegation, and what it rests on

One document in this release alleges an act by him, and it is a private letter. On 18 December 2020 a correspondent who gives his name as Harold Webb and writes Personal under it sent the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York a letter and a five-sheet memorandum about the 2007–08 non-prosecution agreement. On its first sheet, after a passage about press coverage, he writes:

So many powerful men are involved that anything is possible. One thing I do know, is that Michael Bloomberg has told his news staff not to generate original news on the Epstein case.

That is an allegation by an identifiable correspondent who claims personal knowledge and who says of himself Having lived through the Watergate era while at DOJ. It is not a documented fact and this page does not adopt it. No document read for this page corroborates it, and nothing in the release records any response to it from anyone. It is set out here because a reader who searches the release for his name will reach this letter, and because an allegation against a named person should be met by saying plainly what kind of statement it is, rather than repeated or suppressed.38

The other Mikes, the other mayors and the company

The bare surname is a poor guide to this man. It reaches 4,772 documents, of which 4,541 lie outside his floor, and this page did not mine it and did not partition it: at that size the token is a wire service, a terminal and a magazine, and separating them would be weeks of work for a byline.5

The forms that look like him and are not were read rather than assumed. mayor mike reaches 18 documents, 13 of them outside every form of his name and every one of those a different mayor: Mike Duggan of Detroit, Mike Elliott of Brooklyn Center, Mike Coffman of Aurora and Mike Rawlings of Dallas. m bloomberg reaches 10 documents and not one is him: every one is the string m.bloomberg.com, the company’s mobile site, in an application footer. blomberg reaches 36 documents; thirty-four were read and are a kitchen-appliance brand, a financial-data copyright line or a role written on a film budget, and the 2002 letter quoted above is reached by this spelling and by no other.235

Three damaged spellings were handed to this page as candidates. All three were read and all three are the company, not the man: a wire-service byline, a chart source, a terminal consensus screen, an application-store listing and three web addresses. A damaged spelling of a surname is a candidate until somebody reads it, and the spellings that mattered here were two nobody had proposed.39

What this page does not say

  • It does not say he met Jeffrey Epstein, corresponded with him, spoke to him, travelled with him, received anything from him or gave anything to him. No document read for this page records any of it.3
  • It does not say he attended the September 2010 dinner, the 2013 Observer party, the Harlem breakfast, the 2002 United Nations dinner or any Deutsche Bank event. Every one of those documents is an invitation, a list or a plan made in advance, and in the first case the approach was called off.15920293
  • It does not say he was ever asked to send NYPD officers to the Maldives, or that any foundation of his was approached. The request was made to somebody else and answered by somebody else.173
  • It does not say that Ghislaine Maxwell and Michael Bloomberg were friends. One private letter records that her mother wrote that they were.13
  • It does not say he supplied his contact details to anyone, that he knew of the directory entry, or that anyone ever used it.10
  • It does not adopt the allegation about his newsroom, and it records no evidence for or against it, because no document read for this page speaks to it.38
  • It makes no allegation against him and records none beyond the one letter, which is identified as an allegation in the sentence that carries it.38
  • It does not say the release records nothing he ever did. It records what a public record of a mayor records. What it does not record is anything he did toward Jeffrey Epstein, beyond the relayed greeting. One of Epstein’s correspondents wrote in 2013 that he had met him already in Gracy Mansion; that is the correspondent’s statement and not a record of a meeting.1223
  • It does not import anything from outside the released record, with one exception the documents themselves supply: that he was Mayor of New York City.14

How this page is scoped

Measured against the released files on 5 November 2026, with the index’s size on disk compared against its recorded value of 10,982,875,136 bytes before every run and printed in every run’s own output, and with controls printed and read in the same invocations: the phrase richard m berman returned 371 documents / 885 sheets, matching this project’s standing figure, and a freshly generated token confirmed unused returned 0 documents / 0 sheets.4

An aim control was run as well, because a control that fires proves an instrument runs and not that it is pointed at the right thing. The sender column was queried for the letters of his surname across the whole index: it returns 10 documents under 7 distinct values, and every one of the seven is the news company: two newsletter mastheads, three television booking lines, one interview label and one columnist’s credit. So the column can carry the word and does; it never carries him.4

The forms, and what each returns in documents. michael bloomberg 138 · michael r bloomberg 10, which this project’s index reads as set-identical to michael r. bloomberg because it discards punctuation, proved by set comparison rather than assumed · bloomberg michael 3, set-identical to bloomberg, michael by the same proof · mayor bloomberg 61, fifty-eight of them outside the first three · mike bloomberg 19, all nineteen outside · mayor michael bloomberg 41, a proper subset of the first · mayor michael r bloomberg 5 · bloombergs 7, all seven outside · mikebloomberg 6 · bloomberg mike 2 · mr bloomberg 1 · mr michael bloomberg 1 · hizzoner 1 · michael bloombergs 4 · bloombergs plan 2 · bloomberg administration 6 · nanny bloomberg 1 · mayor mike 18 · mayor mike bloomberg 5 · blomberg 36 · bloombcrg 4 · blootnberg 14. The floor built from the forms adjudicated as him is 242 documents / 4,978 sheets, and it is a floor.440

Returning nothing: former mayor bloomberg, bloomberg for mayor, mayor bloombergs, m r bloomberg, michael bloomberg lp, bloomberg michael r, mike r bloomberg, michaelbloomberg, michael bloomberh, michael b1oomberg, michaei bloomberg, michoel bloomberg, mayor b, b1oomberg, bloomburg, bioombcrg, bloombergg, office of michael bloomberg, from michael bloomberg, from mike bloomberg, from bloomberg michael, michael bloomberg wrote, mbloomberg, bloomberg philanthropies, bloomberg family foundation, city hall nyc gov.4

It is a floor, and it moved twice while the page was being written. Two spellings nobody had proposed, bloombcrg and blootnberg, added five documents outside every other form, and two of those five are the only sentences in the release in which Epstein writes about him in his own hand. The floor also needed pruning in the other direction: two documents inside the named-form union are not him: one is a data-source line reading Source: Bloomberg. immediately above a different man’s forename, where the index’s discarding of punctuation manufactures the phrase across a line break, and one is a correspondent writing Also in forbes, Bloombergs etc. about the magazines. Both were removed.40

Eighteen further documents were excluded as the company rather than the man, every one read: m bloomberg 10 of 10 are the mobile-site address m.bloomberg.com, and the three damaged spellings supplied to this page as candidates, bloomberq 5, bloornberg 2, bioomberg 1, are 8 of 8 the news service, the terminal or a web address.39

The media business was separated from the man by measurement, not by judgement. The union of bloomberg news (130), bloomberg lp (70) and bloomberg businessweek (64) is 248 documents, of which 221 name no form of him; bloomberg terminal (14), bloomberg markets (27) and bloomberg view (60) contribute 0, 0 and 2 documents respectively to the man’s floor. No count, quotation or claim on this page is taken from a document reached only by a company form.5

No finding on this page rests on this project’s document-type labels, and the labels were tested rather than trusted. Counted by label the floor holds 110 mail headers, 57 news clippings, 20 scanned images, 11 miscellaneous documents, 6 letters, 6 research reports, 5 items of correspondence, 4 memoranda and twenty-three more spread across fourteen further labels. Read, the single flight log is a Twitter capture about a mayoral election, the single medical document is a page of a book about the Trump White House, the single plea agreement is this letter to federal prosecutors, and three documents labelled invoices are a confidential fund draft and a dark-money report. The label is a measurement of a classifier, not of the world, and an act fraction taken from it would be worthless here.6

A manifest-shape screen was run rather than assumed. An arm matching fourteen passenger, roster and boarding shapes was proved on six designed positives with two designed negatives silent, then run over every sheet of the 98 documents in this population carrying a travel, calendar, scan, clipping, photograph, property-list or miscellaneous label. It returned 150 hits on 105 sheets in 35 documents. Every hit was read. The overwhelming majority are ordinary English: on board meaning agreement, airline passengers in news stories, conference attendees, a Fourth Amendment case about airport magnetometers. Four documents are not, and all four are refused: nothing from any of them is quoted, summarised, characterised or counted anywhere on this page, and their identifiers are not listed.87

Five sheets were read at the page image, each fetched read-only from the site’s own per-document path in a call that also fetched a negative control, which returned HTTP 403 at 111 bytes while every target returned HTTP 200 and a file beginning %PDF- whose page count matched this project’s index exactly. Every one is 96 pixels per inch at native resolution and none was upsampled. On three of the five the image changed what this page says. On one, a spreadsheet’s row is damaged in the released text and the paper supplies its cells. On one, a forensic chat rendering carries the attribution of each message, which the released text does not, so every speaker attribution on this page was taken from the image. On one, five legend colours were measured as pixel values and settled a category the released text interleaves beyond reading. Two sheets carry printed production identifiers in series different from the identifiers that address them; neither is converted into the other and neither is used as an address.41

  • Peggy Siegal, who put his name on a party invitation to Epstein and who reported seeing him twice
  • Lesley Groff, who worked three routes to his office in one afternoon in September 2010
  • Stewart Oldfield, the Deutsche Bank officer whose list of nominated clients carries both his name and Jeffrey Epstein’s
  • Ghislaine Maxwell, whose mother called him her daughter’s friend in 2002 and who is named in the September 2010 messages
  • Tony Blair, whose entry stands in the same contact directory and whose page records it
  • Ivanka Trump, whose page sets out the New York Observer invitation in full
  • Jeffrey Epstein, who asked for his contacts, offered a member of his staff as a favour, and twice proposed that someone meet him

Notes

Footnotes

  1. A message of Wednesday 29 May 2013, one sheet. EFTA01972082; a second copy stands at EFTA00694085 and gives the same text with a zoned header reading Wed, 29 May 2013 21:10:34 +0000. From: Mark L. Epstein; Subject: Hello; addressed to Jeffrey Epstein. The quotation is the entire body of the message. This is the only document read for this page that records Michael Bloomberg doing anything toward Jeffrey Epstein, and it is the account of the man who says he was sitting beside him. Nothing read for this page records what became of the greeting, and no document carries anything in Bloomberg’s own words. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  2. A one-sheet executive biography. EFTA01374662. The sheet records that the subject of the biography served as Director of Mayor Bloomberg's Special Initiative for Rebuilding and Resiliency and that he was appointed to lead the city’s economic development corporation by him in 2008, and it refers to the Bloomberg Administration's applied-sciences competition. The released text of this sheet renders a comma as a full stop in the appointment sentence, so that clause is not quoted here and the fact is given in this page’s own words. Released text only. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  3. Scope of the absence statements on this page. Every statement of this page’s own saying that nothing read for it records something is scoped to the 242 documents described at 40 and to the forms listed at 4, and is a statement about what a search of the released files under those forms returns and what the documents read in consequence contain. It is not a claim about what the release holds, and it is not a claim about the world. Where this page says that a document does not record something, the sheets of that document were counted and read end to end; the single-sheet documents on which most of this page rests have one sheet each, and the multi-sheet documents cited were read in full. The controls that make these statements falsifiable are the ones at 4: a query form that returns 371 documents for a control name and 0 for a token verified unused is a query form capable of returning his documents had they existed in the shapes tested. Forms this page did not test, and the 4,541 documents reaching the bare surname outside his floor, are a bound on every absence statement here and are stated as one. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9 ↩10 ↩11 ↩12 ↩13 ↩14 ↩15 ↩16 ↩17 ↩18

  4. Measured against the released files on 5 November 2026. The size of the index on disk was compared against its recorded value of 10,982,875,136 bytes at the start of every run and the comparison printed and read; the return code of every job was read from the job’s own output; no empty result was converted into a zero. Controls, printed and read in the same invocations as the counts: the phrase richard m berman returned 371 documents / 885 sheets, matching this project’s standing figure, and a freshly generated token confirmed unused before it was relied on returned 0 documents / 0 sheets. Sender field. This project’s index records a sender value for 130 of the 242 documents this page is scoped on, under 40 distinct values, and none of the 40 contains any form of his name. Aim control on the same column over the whole index: a query for the letters of his surname returns 10 documents under 7 distinct values, and all seven are the news company: two newsletter mastheads, three television booking lines, one interview label and one columnist’s credit. The column can carry the word; it never carries the man. The same column’s top values across the release are Jeffrey Epstein at 320,667 documents and Lesley Groff at 105,328, so the column is densely populated and the zero is not an artefact of an empty field. Authorship probes, all returning 0 documents: from michael bloomberg, from mike bloomberg, from bloomberg michael, michael bloomberg wrote, mbloomberg, office of michael bloomberg. office of the mayor returns 10 documents and mayor s office 75, and none of either is inside his floor, so the vocabulary exists in the release and none of it is his. Every count in this note was produced by a program reading the index directly, not by a shell pipeline, and no count was taken through a pipe. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7 ↩8 ↩9

  5. Separating the company from the man. The bare token bloomberg reaches 4,772 documents / 7,113 sheets, of which 4,541 lie outside his floor. This page did not mine that token and did not partition it: at that scale it is a wire service, a terminal and a magazine, and attributing any of it to the man would be the error this note exists to prevent. The three principal media forms, bloomberg news 130, bloomberg lp 70 and bloomberg businessweek 64, union to 248 documents, of which 221 carry no form of his name. Further company forms and their contribution to his floor: bloomberg terminal 14 documents, 0 inside; bloomberg markets 27, 0; bloomberg view 60, 2; bloomberg tv 48, 1; bloomberg television 13, 1; bloomberg radio 13, 4; bloomberg opinion 14, 4. bloomberg net, the company’s electronic-mail domain, reaches 103 documents. No count, quotation or claim anywhere on this page is taken from a document reached only by a company form, and no article published by the company is attributed to him. Whether the company warrants its own page here is a separate question this page does not answer. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  6. Document-type labels, quoted as a classifier’s output and relied on for nothing. Over the 242-document floor this project’s labels give: email header 110 · news clipping 57 · image scan 20 · miscellaneous 11 · letter 6 · research report 6 · correspondence 5 · memorandum 4 · calendar 3 · state court filing 3 · invoice 3 · photograph 3 · property list 2, and one each of court filing, plea agreement, bureau report, marketing, medical, telephone extraction, résumé, flight log and travel itinerary. Every document under a label this page relied on or screened was opened. The labels are wrong on at least five of them: the single flight-log document is a capture of a Twitter feed about the 2013 mayoral election; the single medical document is a page of a book about the Trump White House; the single plea-agreement document is the December 2020 letter to federal prosecutors; two of the three invoices are a confidential fund-raising draft and a report on political advertising. No fraction on this page is derived from these labels and no act count rests on them. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  7. Four documents in this population were read and refused on protection grounds. Nothing from any of them is quoted, summarised, characterised or counted anywhere on this page, and no page of this wiki cites them on this page’s account. Their identifiers are not listed here, because the refused set is small enough that naming it beside the reason would locate the material it protects. The class is stated instead: they are bureau and press digests and one compilation, and what is refused in them is unrelated to this page’s subject and would not have been cited for anything in any case. A screen for the identifiers and names this project treats as protected was run across all 242 documents with every arm proved live on a planted positive and silent on a planted negative in the same run; the documents it fired on are not cited here, and no arm fired on any document this page does cite. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  8. The travel and manifest measurement. No passenger list, manifest, flight record or attendee roster naming him was found by any form tested. The single document this project labels a flight log carries no flight record: it is a capture of a Twitter feed about the 2013 New York mayoral election. The single document labelled a travel itinerary is a press digest circulated by a research institute. A manifest-shape screen matching manifest, manifests, passenger, passengers, pax, attendee, attendees, roster, rosters, guest list, flight log, flight logs, on board, onboard, boarding, souls on board and wheels up, word-bounded and case-insensitive, was proved on six designed positives before it was run, with two designed negatives read by hand and silent. Over every sheet of the 98 documents in this population carrying a travel, calendar, scan, clipping, photograph, property-list or miscellaneous label it returned 150 hits on 105 sheets in 35 documents, and all 150 were read. The great majority are ordinary English: on board in the sense of agreement, airline passengers in news reports of an aviation incident, delegates at political conferences, and a 1972 Fourth Amendment appeal about airport magnetometers. Four documents are refused and are dealt with in the refusals note. ↩ ↩2

  9. A social-events circular of 1 June 2011, sixteen sheets, which this project’s index records as sent by Jeffrey Epstein. EFTA01865655. The quoted entry stands on served page 4 and is reproduced as the released text renders it, including the absent spaces after the commas in the list of honorees. The circular lists many other events and nothing else from it is reproduced, described or counted. Released text only. This page derives no record of attendance from an events listing. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  10. A contact directory produced in this release, which carries an entry under the surname-first form Bloomberg Mike in an alphabetical run. No sheet of it is quoted, pinned or named here; no address, telephone number, electronic address or any other contact value is reproduced from it; and nothing else on it is described or counted. That an entry in his name exists in it is the whole of what this page takes. The same directory carries an entry for Tony Blair, which his page records independently of this one, and the agreement between the two pages is how a reader can check that both describe one object. The document does not establish who kept it, and this page does not say. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  11. A message of Sunday 1 December 2013, one sheet. EFTA00717574; three further copies stand in this release and are cited for nothing. From: "Pritzker, Tom", To: Jeffrey Epstein, Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 18:28:07 +0000, replying to a message of Epstein’s whose whole body reads elevator music. The quotation is item three of a numbered list and is reproduced as the released text renders it, including the lower-case surname. The rest of the message concerns a press article about the writer and a family matter, and nothing from it is reproduced here. Released text only. ↩ ↩2

  12. A letter of recommendation held in this release in eleven renderings across EFTA and HOUSE_OVERSIGHT identifiers, in two variants of different length. The quotation is taken from EFTA01192840, two sheets; a one-sheet copy stands at HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019474 and gives the same sentence. That copy is the only identifier on this page carrying any register entry, and its entry is a restriction on republication of the document itself and not on citing it. The longer variant adds a governor and four further heads of state and is not quoted here. The person the letter recommends is covered by the producing party on every copy read. This page reproduces no attribute of that person, supplies nothing from context, and does not reason about who they are. A separate biography collection in this release, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017526, carries the same magician’s credential list and a second entry recording that a named producer accepted Mayor Bloomberg's Made in New York Award at Gracie Mansion in 2012. Released text only; no sheet of any of these was read at the page image. ↩ ↩2

  13. A letter of Saturday 24 August 2002, one sheet. EFTA02332293. Served page 1 was read at the page image, fetched read-only in the call recorded at 41: HTTP 200, 127,369 bytes, a file beginning %PDF- of 1 page, matching this project’s index at 1 row; native resolution 96 pixels per inch. From that sheet this page takes, at the image: Sent: Saturday, August 24, 2002 8:24:57 PM; the subject line Letter from maman re various urgent matters related to New York's new mayor; From: "Dr E. Maxwell"; To: Ghislaine Maxwell; and the quoted sentence. The French word immediately before the quoted span carries a replacement glyph in the served file rather than an accented letter, which is why the quotation begins where it does and why no bracketed completion appears anywhere on this page; the two question marks are the writer’s own. The asset is a born-digital export rendered to an image, so the type on it is the document. Material in this letter about a private individual’s health is not reproduced, described or alluded to anywhere on this page. What the document establishes is that the writer described Michael Bloomberg as her daughter’s friend. It does not establish that he was. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  14. A message of Friday 17 September 2010, one sheet. EFTA02419391. This project’s index times it at Fri 9/17/2010 3:09:36 PM and carries a sender value the released text damages. The sheet prints Subject with the Mayor’s name, and the body as quoted. It also prints the city invitations address quoted in the body of this page, which is a published municipal mailbox and is reproduced here because the whole finding is that the route was public and not private. G and Ghislaine both stand in this one message, so the identification is the message’s own. The assistant’s surname is rendered Pat Harms here, Pat Harrus at 25 and Patty Harris at 15; this page chooses between none of them. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. That he was Mayor of New York City is the document’s own statement. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  15. Two messages of Monday 20 September 2010, one sheet each. EFTA02421086, index time Mon 9/20/2010 6:02:11 PM, subject Patty Harris, carries the question quoted in full in the body of this page. EFTA02421040, index time Mon 9/20/2010 6:17:03 PM, carries Groff’s ok above a quoted chain in which Epstein’s whole reply reads leave, under a preamble timed Monday, September 20, 2010 2:17 PM, above the same question under a preamble timed Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 2:02 PM. Here the two clocks agree: the produced pair is 14 minutes 52 seconds apart and the quoted pair 15 minutes, and both are offset from each other by exactly four hours, so the quarter-hour given in the body is measured within each clock separately and not across them. The pronoun him in the question has two possible antecedents in its own sentence and the document settles neither; this page prints the sentence and resolves nothing. Released text only. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

  16. A message of Friday 23 March 2012, one sheet. EFTA01840380; a second copy carrying the same text stands at EFTA01767918 and is cited for nothing further. Index time Fri 3/23/2012 9:48:24 AM; From: Jeffrey epstein; Cc: Sultan Ahmed Bin Sulayem; Subject: Help. The recipient line is not legible on the sheet and this page supplies no recipient from context. The quotation is the whole body above the sign-off, which reads Sorry for all the typos .Sent from my iPhone and is reproduced here only to show that the spacing and commas in the quotation are the sheet’s. The message recurs in this release inside the quoted chains of at least nineteen further documents, several of which carry a reply signed Waheed above a line reading Sent from President's iPad. The surname is rendered Ian osbourne on this sheet and Ian osboume on others; this page prints what each sheet prints. That the named man was Bloomberg’s “right hand” is Epstein’s characterisation and is carried here as his. Released text only. One copy of this message carries an application property-list block of machine values; nothing from it is transcribed here. ↩ ↩2

  17. A forensic extraction of an iMessage thread, two sheets. EFTA01614753. Served page 1 was read at the page image, fetched read-only in the call recorded at 41: HTTP 200, 65,132 bytes, a file beginning %PDF- of 2 pages, matching this project’s index at 2 rows; native resolution 96 pixels per inch. The sheet prints Platform: iMessage and Timezone: UTC+0000 on its own face, which is why the intervals given in the body are measurements: 04:38:24 pm to 04:42:46 pm is four minutes twenty-two seconds, and 04:42:46 pm to 04:44:48 pm is two minutes two seconds, all on the stated clock. In this chat format the speaker of each message is carried on the image and not in the released text, so every attribution on this page was taken from the image. The sheet labels one party by name and this page uses that label; it names nobody for the two replies, and it does not quote the first message’s salutation. The second sheet of this document is not relied on: the released text presents its timestamps out of order, and it carries a third party’s contact values which are not reproduced. This page takes from sheet 1 only the five quoted spans and the stated clock. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  18. A message of Wednesday 10 April 2013, one sheet. EFTA00680936. From: "Peggy Siegal", To: "Lesley Groff", Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:46:00 +0000, replying to a one-word message from Jeffrey Epstein of Tue, 9 Apr 2013 07:52:30 -0400 whose whole body reads newss?. The quotation is item five of a numbered list of five and is reproduced as the sheet renders it, spelling and ellipses included. The other four items are a personal and professional round-up and nothing from them is reproduced here. Released text only. ↩ ↩2

  19. A message of Wednesday 10 April 2013, one sheet. EFTA00958211; a second copy stands at EFTA01896266 and is cited for nothing further. Served page 1 was read at the page image, fetched read-only in the call recorded at 41: HTTP 200, 32,396 bytes, a file beginning %PDF- of 1 page, matching this project’s index at 1 row; native resolution 96 pixels per inch. From that sheet this page takes, at the image: From: Jeffrey Epstein <[email protected]>; To: Peggy Siegal; Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 18:36:13 +0000; a Subject: field that is blank on the paper, not covered and not absent; and the whole body, which reads please send me michael bloombergs contacts in lower case with no apostrophe and no full stop. Both this header and the preceding one carry an explicit +0000 offset, so the interval of 14 hours 50 minutes 13 seconds between them is measured on one clock. The word contacts is the sheet’s and this page does not interpret it. Nothing read for this page records any answer to the request. ↩ ↩2

  20. An internal bank message of July 2018, five sheets. EFTA01434523; a near-identical copy of the same chain stands at EFTA01416062. The chain’s lower message is From: Sarah Rafferty, Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 12:38 PM, To: Stewart Oldfield, Subject: Next Steps: Invitation for Frieze Preview, marked Classification: For internal use only. The list of names runs down the first three sheets, one forename and one surname per line; Michael Bloomberg is the fifth name and Jeffrey Epstein the seventeenth, of twenty-seven. The compliance criteria quoted in this page’s body stand on sheet 4, and the invitation text on sheet 5 names the event as the Preview of Frieze London. Only the two names stated are taken from the list; the other twenty-five are not reproduced, described or counted here. This page draws no inference from the compliance criteria. Released text only. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  21. A one-sheet spreadsheet of the same exercise. EFTA01381074. Read at the page image, fetched read-only in the call recorded at 41: HTTP 200, 133,621 bytes, a file beginning %PDF- of 1 page, matching this project’s index at 1 row; native resolution 96 pixels per inch. From that sheet this page takes, at the image, his row only, which reads across its columns Wed. Preview · 2 · Michael · Bloomberg · Bloomberg LP · CEO · Stewart Oldfield, with its three remaining columns blank. The released text of this sheet gives the same figure in the same order, 2 standing before the name, in both of this project’s text columns; the 1 below it belongs to the following row, which is a different invitee at one ticket. On this point the image corroborates the released text rather than correcting it. What the image does supply is the row’s damaged cells: the released text renders them Pre% iew and Steuart Oldlield, and the paper reads Preview and Stewart Oldfield. No other row is reproduced, described or counted here. The sheet carries two printed production identifiers in two series at its foot, neither derivable from the identifier that addresses the document; neither is used here as an address. A second spreadsheet in this release, EFTA01423653, carries a client-or-prospect column and a net-worth column, and its released text interleaves them so far from their rows that this page derives neither for him and quotes nothing from it. A further sheet, EFTA01426406, carries the same name with an honorific and the same two-ticket figure. ↩ ↩2

  22. Two messages of Epstein’s and the reply standing above each, cited here at two copies apiece. Neither sentence is reachable from the copies cited here by any form of the name, because their released text renders the surname bloombcrg. The release holds further copies of both exchanges, which this page does not cite. The September 2012 message and its reply stand at EFTA01888614 and EFTA01996642, Epstein’s words carried as a quoted chain under a preamble reading On Sep 17, 2012 6:59 PM, "Jeffrey Epstein" <[email protected]> wrote:, and the reply above it under the produced header From: Ian Osborne, Sent Tue 9/18/2012 3:26:18 AM, Subject: Re:. The 2013 message and its reply stand at EFTA01957747 and EFTA01960346, under a preamble whose month is destroyed in both copies, rendering 10 n003 2013 in one and 10 r1903 2013 in the other; this page derives no date from either and asserts no month. All five sheets of the four documents were read at the page image. Each was fetched read-only from the site’s own per-document path in a call that also fetched a negative control, which returned HTTP 403 at 111 bytes while every target returned HTTP 200 and a file beginning %PDF- whose byte count and page count match this project’s index exactly; native resolution is 96 pixels per inch on every sheet and none was upsampled. The image corrected two of these quotations and confirmed the rest. The paper prints bloomberg, not bloombcrg, in both of Epstein’s sentences, and prints meet barak where the released text reads mcet bank; both are extraction damage, this page now gives the paper’s reading, and bloombcrg is recorded because it is the only string that returns these sheets from the released text. The writers’ own forms are kept and are not repaired: wtih, Gracy, several month, the four-stop ellipsis and the space standing before each comma are all on the paper. The two replies are quoted from the paper and each sits in a single paragraph on the sheet; the line breaks inside them are the sheets’ own soft wraps, each falling at the right-hand margin and inside a phrase, and this page joins nothing that the paper sets apart. The reply above the 2013 message is initialled EB; this page does not expand the initials. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  23. Other bearers, measured. mayor mike reaches 18 documents, 5 of them him and 13 outside every form of his name; all thirteen were read and every one is a different mayor: Mike Duggan of Detroit, Mike Elliott of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, Mike Coffman of Aurora, Colorado and Mike Rawlings of Dallas, in bureau news digests and one distribution list. blomberg reaches 36 documents; thirty-four were read and are an appliance brand in two retail catalogues, the copyright line Blomberg Finance L.P. on financial-terminal screenshots, the source line Source: Blomberg on bank research charts, and a role written BLOMBERG ANNOUNCER on a film production budget. The 2002 letter quoted on this page is reached by this spelling and by no other form tested. ↩ ↩2

  24. A message of Friday 17 September 2010, a minute and a half after the preceding one, one sheet. EFTA02419430. Index time Fri 9/17/2010 3:11:04 PM; subject Mayor Bloomberg again; addressed to Jeffrey Epstein and to one further address, which this page does not reproduce and for which the sheet supplies no name. The quoted sentence is complete. The electronic address that follows the colon is not reproduced here, and the released text of it is in any case damaged, so quoting it would be quoting a corruption. Released text only. ↩

  25. Two messages of Friday 17 September 2010, one sheet each. EFTA02420625 carries the Felicia Taylor message at index time Fri 9/17/2010 4:44:48 PM. EFTA02420570, at Fri 9/17/2010 5:38:15 PM, carries Groff’s one-word ok above a quoted chain in which Epstein’s Get from Icon appears under a preamble timed Friday, September 17, 2010 1:33 PM and the Felicia Taylor message under one timed Sep 17, 2010, at 12:44 PM. The produced times and the quoted preamble times are on different clocks: they differ by about four hours and the two within-clock intervals disagree by four minutes, so this page derives no interval from this exchange and says so. Icon is not expanded here; the sheet does not expand it. Released text only. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  26. Press items in this population describe an Epstein address book from the outside and list his name among the public figures they say it held. Those are reporters’ accounts of a document and not the document. They sit on sheets this page takes nothing else from, for the reason given in the refusals note. Nothing read for this page settles whether the book those items describe is the directory described above, and this page does not say that it is. ↩

  27. A message of Friday 4 February 2011, one sheet. EFTA01833124. Index time Fri 2/4/2011 6:03:59 AM; subject Inside Job dvd; from Peggy Siegal to Jeffrey Epstein. The guest list quoted in this page’s body is reproduced as the released text renders it, including the damaged rendering of one name, which is not repaired here. Material in this message about a private individual’s health is not reproduced, described or alluded to anywhere on this page. Released text only. ↩

  28. A one-sheet curriculum vitae. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015673. It records among the highlights of an institutional anniversary programme an opening ceremony with Mayor Bloomberg. Released text only. Nothing else on the sheet is reproduced or described. ↩

  29. A newspaper archive printout of 25 September 2002, four sheets. EFTA01334078; a second copy stands in this release and is cited for nothing. The quoted item stands on served page 2 and is reproduced as the released text renders it. Served page 1 of the same document carries an unrelated item about Jeffrey Epstein. The two items are about different subjects, the column joins them in no way, this page takes the second and nothing from the first, and a reader should not read the sheet’s layout as a connection. Nothing else on any of the four sheets is reproduced, described or counted. Released text only. ↩ ↩2

  30. Two messages of August 2014. EFTA02722189, one sheet, index time Mon 8/25/2014 3:20:56 PM, From: Thomas Jr., Landon, subject Bloomberg, carries the first quotation and a link to a newspaper profile. EFTA02588032, one sheet, index time Tuesday, August 26, 2014 2:46 PM, carries the writer’s second message above a quoted chain in which Epstein’s whole reply reads Very well done under a preamble timed Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 12:26 PM. The produced field and the quoted preamble are different clocks and this page derives no interval from them. The writer’s second message is damaged by an export artefact in the released text and is quoted in this page’s body only as far as the clean portion runs. Released text only. ↩

  31. A confidential fund-raising draft, four sheets, each footed Confidential Draft and 11/16/10. EFTA01736171; a second copy stands at EFTA02726425 and is cited for nothing further. Sheet 1 opens Fund Investment Overview and states that the document represents existing ideas about the deployment of the first $250mm in an activist growth fund focused primarily on the disruptive intersection of technology and media. The quoted bullet stands on sheet 4 under the heading quoted in this page’s body. The list runs across two sheets to forty-five named bullets and one closing line of companies; none of the other forty-four named bullets is reproduced, described or counted here. The document names no owner for the relationships it lists and this page supplies none. Released text only. This project labels this document an invoice. It is not one. ↩

  32. A two-sheet chart, each sheet marked confidential. EFTA01104262. Both sheets were read at the page image, fetched read-only in the call recorded at 41: HTTP 200, 190,242 bytes, a file beginning %PDF- of 2 pages, matching this project’s index at 2 rows; native resolution 96 pixels per inch on both. The sheets are titled Connections web—January 1, 2015 and Connections web—current. Their shared legend gives five category labels — Close Friends, Acquaintances, Connectors, 2016 & Beyond, 2015 Target — each as a coloured swatch, together with three line styles labelled strong, weak and speculated. The categories were settled by measuring the modal pixel value of each legend swatch and of his name box on each sheet, rather than by eye. The five legend colours are mutually separated by more than one hundred units in at least one channel; his box measures the 2016 & Beyond colour on both sheets and matches none of the other four. On both sheets his name stands in an unconnected band at the foot of the page with no line drawn to it. The chart does not define its category labels and this page does not interpret them. No other name on either sheet is reproduced, described or counted here, and this page says nothing about where anyone else stands on it. An eye-read of these sheets misassigned a different name’s colour before the pixel measurement was run; the measurement, not the eye, is the warrant for the statement above. ↩

  33. A working document of April 2014, four sheets, circulating among people managing Epstein-branded websites. EFTA01752383; a second copy stands at EFTA01929821 and renders the same quotation without one apostrophe. The quotation is reproduced from the first copy exactly as that sheet renders it, including the unmatched closing quotation mark, which is the sheet’s. The sheet gives the source as a press-release address; this page reproduces the path’s own wording and does not reconstruct a headline from it. The document’s covering chain names two further correspondents and nothing else from it is reproduced here. Released text only. ↩

  34. A message of Saturday 16 March 2013, one sheet, which this project’s index records under a sender value of President. EFTA00956114; three further copies stand in this release and are cited for nothing. To: Jeffrey Epstein; Subject: Hello; Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2013 03:52:16 +0000. Only the opening clause is quoted; the remainder of the message concerns its writer’s view of Epstein and is not reproduced here. Released text only. ↩

  35. An automated Twitter digest of Thursday 28 February 2013, three sheets. EFTA00700756. From: Twitter, To: jeffrey epstein, Subject: jeffrey epstein, here's what's happening on Twitter. The quoted headline is reproduced as the released text renders it, including the two words run together after the full stop. One sheet in the release carries the word Hizzoner and this is it. Released text only. ↩

  36. An automated Twitter notification of Saturday 23 January 2016, five sheets. EFTA02342024. From: Popular in your network <[email protected]>, To: Jeffrey epstein. The quotation is the message’s subject line. Released text only. ↩

  37. Two automated Twitter recommendation messages in which his account handle is the account being recommended. EFTA02355935 and EFTA02703554. Four further documents in this population carry the handle inside a quoted tweet or a web address. One of those concerns a member of his family who is a private individual and a child, and nothing from it is reproduced, described or counted anywhere on this page. Released text only. ↩

  38. A letter of 18 December 2020 and a five-sheet memorandum attached to it, seven sheets in all. EFTA01681961. The letter’s first sheet carries, in a block at its head, the writer’s name as Harold Webb, the word Personal, and the address of the United States Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York; the date line reads December 18, 2020 and the salutation is incomplete on the sheet. The quotation in this page’s body is complete and is the only part of the document reproduced here. The writer’s own description of his background is quoted in this page’s body in his words. The attached memorandum sets out an argument about the 2007–08 non-prosecution agreement and names a number of officials; nothing from it is reproduced, summarised or relied on here, and this page takes no position on any part of it. The allegation about his newsroom is carried here as an allegation by a named correspondent and is not adopted. Released text only; this sheet was not read at the page image. This project labels this document a plea agreement. It is a letter. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  39. The damaged spellings, read rather than counted. Three were supplied to this page as candidates and all three are the company: bloomberq 5 documents, being a wire-service byline, a chart source line, a terminal consensus screen, a web address in a press-links message and a reporter’s signature block; bloornberg 2, being an application-store listing for the company’s app and two web addresses in a search-results capture; bioomberg 1, being a web address with the company’s copyright line beneath it. None of the eight is the man and none is counted in his floor. Two spellings nobody had proposed are him: bloombcrg 4 documents, which are two copies each of two messages of Epstein’s own, and blootnberg 14 documents, of which thirteen are the company’s data network in bank valuation reports and one is a correspondent’s hurricane account. A damaged spelling is a candidate until somebody reads it. ↩ ↩2

  40. The floor and how it moved. The named-form union built from michael bloomberg, michael r bloomberg and bloomberg michael is 149 documents; adding mayor bloomberg, mike bloomberg, bloombergs, mikebloomberg, bloomberg mike, mr bloomberg and hizzoner takes it to 238; removing two documents adjudicated as not him takes it to 236; adding the four documents reached only by the spelling bloombcrg takes it to 240; adding the one blootnberg document that is him takes it to 241; and adding the 2002 letter, which the spelling blomberg reaches and no other form tested does, takes it to 242 documents / 4,978 sheets. Set relations proved rather than assumed: michael r bloomberg and michael r. bloomberg return the identical set, as do bloomberg michael and bloomberg, michael, because this project’s index discards punctuation; mayor michael bloomberg is a proper subset of michael bloomberg; michael r bloomberg is not a subset of it, because the middle initial breaks the phrase. mike bloomberg is 19 of 19 outside the full-name union and every one of the nineteen is him: nine are press and bureau news digests, eight are copies of two messages to Epstein, and two are automated Twitter notifications. The two pruned documents are a sheet on which the data-source line Source: Bloomberg. stands immediately above a different man’s forename, so that discarding punctuation manufactures the phrase across a line break, and a message reading Also in forbes, Bloombergs etc. about the magazines. 242 is a floor and is reported as one. Thirty further documents reached by the damaged spellings blootnberg (14), bloombetg (3), bloombeig (2), b loomberg (1) and bloom berg (10) were read; the five sets do not overlap, so thirty is both their sum and their union, and none of the thirty lies inside the named-form union above. Twenty-nine are the company and one, a correspondent’s account of a hurricane evacuation, is him and is counted above. ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  41. Sheets read at the page image. Five sheets of five documents were fetched read-only from the site’s own per-document path on 5 November 2026. A negative control was fetched in the same call and returned HTTP 403 at 111 bytes with an error body, while every target returned HTTP 200 and a file beginning %PDF-; each file’s page count was reconciled against this project’s index and matched exactly in all five cases. pdfimages -list reports 96 pixels per inch on every sheet, and rasters were extracted at native resolution and never upsampled. On three of the five the image changed what this page says, and each change is recorded in the note for the document concerned. On two sheets a printed production identifier stands in a numbering series different from the identifier that addresses the document. Neither is derived from the other and neither is used as an address. ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6

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