Warren Eisenstein

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

A friendship that began in Brooklyn in the 1960s and is documented in the release in unusual density until his death in 2014. It twice touches Epstein’s legal record: once in 1981, as the named counterparty of a loan, and once in 2007-08, as the author of a character letter the defence put in front of a State Attorney. Everything else here is an ordinary friendship. No allegation against him exists anywhere in the release, and none is made here.

Who	Dr. Warren Eisenstein, optometrist, of Richardson, Texas; died 27 February 2014, aged 611
In the release	987 documents under the full name, 1,172 by surname, 1,183 across the surname plus the three OCR forms named below, essentially one correspondence, 2008 to 2014, with four courier sheets and one card charge from 2002-20052
Messages he wrote	Between 258 and 293 distinct, after deduplication2
⭐ The act	Wrote a character letter for Epstein that the defence quoted twice, in block quotation, in its mitigation memorandum to the Palm Beach State Attorney3
And	Named as the counterparty of a 1981 loan whose discovery brought a Bear Stearns disciplinary action, in the account Epstein gave the S.E.C. ⚠ Credible allegation, not documented fact; see below4
Said publicly	His family’s published obituary names Jeffrey Epstein among five “lifelong friends and soul mates”, Dallas Morning News and Legacy.com, February 20141
⚠ Money	$6,500.00 charged on Jeffrey Epstein’s Chase card to his optometry practice as merchant, billed as CONTACT EYEWEAR, DALLAS TX, posted 9 February 2004. ⚠ Nothing records what it was for and nothing shows he received anything. No wire, no bank line and no cheque names him5

The letter the defence used

Epstein’s defence collected character letters and quoted them to the Palm Beach State Attorney. This man’s is quoted twice, at greater length than any other in the same passage.

⚠⚠ THE MEMORANDUM DOES NOT PRINT HIS FORENAME. It is covered, leaving “Eisenstein, O.D., also of Dallas, Texas”; Terry B. Kafka is named in full on the same page. The identification here rests on what the sentence does print, an optometrist of Dallas and a long-time friend from Epstein’s youth, read against the rest of the correspondence. This page states it as an identification, not as a name the document gives.³

The memorandum introduces him that way, records that they both drove New York City taxicabs during college summer breaks, and then gives a story from their schooldays:

In high school, although we both were excellent academically, we were jokers in physical education. … One month before graduation, our phys-ed teacher called us into his office and informed us that even though we were “two smart boys”, we would not graduate because we would get a failing grade in phys-ed. … After 10 minutes of negotiating with our teacher, Jeff convinced him that we would do anything he asked us to do until graduation.

and then the passage the memorandum introduces as his summary of the friendship:

Over the years, his genius has taken him to achieve levels of success unattainable by anyone I’ve ever met. … As we’ve gotten older, our lives have become more complicated, but we have never missed calling each other on our birthdays. It’s a small, silly thing, but how many childhood friends do you know, who have never forgotten your birthday? The most important thing to me is that as vast a difference [as] our worlds are, our long-term, deep seated friendship is the strongest lifelong friendship one could ever have.

The underlining of “never” is in the document.³

⚠ This is a letter solicited for a sentencing purpose and the page treats it as one. It is what a friend wrote when asked to write, to a prosecutor, on behalf of a man about to be sentenced. That does not make it insincere and this page does not suggest it was.

What the package of letters was for is written on its covering note, four pages earlier in the same production, handwritten on the firm’s letterhead:

Here is Acosta’s number. ▮ Let me know what he has to say, because Jay Lefkow[i]tz has to follow up w/a call to him to finali[z/s]e.

Enclosing some fun reading on your Defendant

The character letters are the “fun reading.” They went to the State Attorney while the federal negotiation with Alexander Acosta ran in parallel, which also dates the memorandum, otherwise undated on its face, to the 2007-08 negotiation. The note is read in full at Jack Goldberger.³

What nine hundred documents are

A count this size has been an artefact three times on this wiki, so it was measured before anything was written.²

• 1,265 pages across 1,172 documents, 1.08 pages per document. Hundreds of separate short items, not a photographed book and not a running head.
• 629 of the documents carrying his name have a message he sent in them. That is the number that matters: the population is not people writing about him.
• The only recurring structure is about thirteen documents carrying one Bear Stearns passage (1.3% of the pool) and, as it happens, the only documents in it that touch Epstein’s institutional history.
• Deduplicated, his own messages are between 258 and 293, running 11 December 2008 to 14 February 2014. ⚠ The page gives a range, not a figure, because the two keys disagree.

⚠ The surname over-states him by about a sixth, and every spelling together by about a fifth; the confusable is his widow. Linda Eisenstein has 150 mentions, 134 of them without him, and 53 sender rows of her own across 48 documents, 29 after the same deduplication, running into September 2015. ⚠ A previous desk note assumed the confusable would be a son, because that was the shape on a neighbouring subject. It is not. An inherited assumption is not a measurement.²

Who he was

From his obituary, read at the image: born in Brooklyn to Lenny and Rivka Eisenstein, “a true Sea Gater”; he left Brooklyn at nineteen to join the Topeka band that became Kansas, and left the band on a promise to his parents; then the University of Kansas, then the Southern College of Optometry in Memphis, where he took his doctorate and met his wife Linda; then Dallas, and an optometry practice in Richardson. ⚠ The sources disagree on the practice name: the family’s own obituary reads Contact/Eyewear and a 2004 card statement reads CONTACT EYEWEAR, while a 2005 courier label reads CONTRACT EYE WEAR. Two of the three say Contact, and an earlier version of this page printed the courier’s spelling without saying the sources differed.¹

⚠⚠ THE OBITUARY NAMES JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Among the survivors it lists “his lifelong friends and soul mates: Dr. Michael Buchholtz (NY), Jeffrey Epstein (NY), Terry Kafka (Dallas), Jerry Ruoti (NY) and Joseph Zucca (NY).” The family published that in the Dallas Morning News and on Legacy.com between 28 February and 3 March 2014, five and a half years after Epstein’s conviction and registration as a sex offender. It is the plainest statement of the friendship in the release, and it is the family’s, not the defence’s. The same paragraph names his brother Benjamin, his caretaker Arnie Mercado, and his staff at the practice.¹

⚠ A band is named in his own hand, but it is not Kansas. In August 2012 he forwarded Epstein an executive summary for two men, writing: “This is Jeff Glixman from my old rock group Rocky Fox, along with Phil Ehart.” The word Kansas is not on the sheet. Glixman produced Kansas and Ehart drummed for it, but that is outside the document. What the document corroborates is a Topeka-era band called Rocky Fox, and an earlier version of this page claimed it corroborated Kansas.⁶

The friendship in the record

Four courier shipments sent in Epstein’s name reach him between 2002 and 2005, two of them to addresses the sheets print as Richardson, Texas and two to destinations the sheets bar,: two of the four sent under Ghislaine Maxwell’s name jointly with Epstein’s, the last addressed to his optometry practice. Two are signed for in his own name, as the courier rendered it. ⚠ What was in them is not recorded on any of the four, all of which read “NO REFERENCE INFORMATION”.⁷

He used Epstein’s houses, and Epstein’s staff arranged it. In September 2009 a message reached Epstein: “Please call! I’m enjoying the ranch immensely! Would love to talk” In September 2013 he asked directly, “Johnny, Can we do the ranch from Oct. 6-12 ?”, was told yes, and answered: “We’ll set up air and I’ll send the itinerary to Leslie. It’s been 5 years since visiting Zorro.” The stay happened in mid-October and Epstein’s office tracked it across at least eighteen copies of the office schedule, down to the departure day. He wrote afterwards: “Johnny, Thanks for another great time at the ranch.”⁸

In April 2013 he stayed in New York on the same footing: an apartment found for him by Epstein’s assistant, a flight number in the office schedule, a member of Epstein’s staff flown in to drive him, and a party he organised himself, which Epstein’s office put in the schedule as “8:00pm Party for Warren Eisenstein at Philip’s Soho Loft”.⁹

In September 2009, as civil-deposition material was reaching the press, he wrote: “Don’t let those bastards wear you down…” Epstein’s own line, written the previous evening and sitting below his in the quoted chain, was “crazy, it comes with the territory”.¹⁰

1981, and the reason Epstein gave for leaving Bear Stearns

Epstein resigned from Bear Stearns on 12 March 1981, eighteen days before he testified. In S.E.C. testimony of 1 April 1981, Epstein said he had found “offensive” the way Bear Stearns handled a disciplinary action over a possible Reg D violation: he had lent money to a friend. In a 1989 deposition he put the loan at $20,000 and named this man. Bear Stearns fined him $2,500.

⚠⚠ THIS IS A CREDIBLE ALLEGATION AND NOT A DOCUMENTED FACT, AND THE DISTINCTION IS THE WHOLE POINT. The testimony itself is not in this corpus, and no loan instrument, no Bear Stearns personnel record and no transcript was found. What the release holds is two secondary texts: a Vanity Fair article printed out and kept in Epstein’s files, and pages of Filthy Rich that quote the 1 April 1981 testimony verbatim as question and answer and name the S.E.C. investigators. ⚠ An earlier version of this page called the account “a magazine’s”, singular, and said Epstein “twice gave this under oath as his reason for leaving.” Neither is what the sources say: the article offers the testimony and the deposition together as the answer to Bear Stearns’s public line that Epstein left of his own volition, and the deposition is cited only for the loan’s size and counterparty.⁴

⚠ The same article calls this man Epstein’s “closest friend.”⁴

The last eighteen months

In November 2012 he wrote jointly to Epstein and Terry Kafka to stop them overriding his oncologist, disclosing his diagnosis and asking them to leave the decisions to his doctor. The same day he forwarded both men the referral chain he had set running himself, through one of his own patients.¹¹

His subject lines mark the rest. In July 2013: “I’m not dead yet”. In January 2014: “The End’s a comin”. The last message he is recorded sending Epstein is dated 14 February 2014.¹¹

He died on 27 February 2014. ⚠ A photograph of a brass memorial plaque bearing his name, his Hebrew name and the date is in Epstein’s own produced files, and so is the order confirmation for his newspaper obituary.¹

What this page does not carry

No allegation against him was found anywhere in the release.¹²

One money instrument touches his practice, and this page had it wrong until it was checked. ⚠⚠ AN EARLIER VERSION SAID “NO WIRE, NO BANK LINE, NO CHEQUE AND NO INVOICE FOR SERVICES NAMES HIM.” A $6,500.00 charge to CONTACT EYEWEAR, DALLAS TX is posted 9 February 2004 on Jeffrey Epstein’s Chase Gold MasterCard statement, the largest single item on it and 52% of that month’s purchases. ⚠ Nothing in the release says what it was for, nothing shows this man personally received anything, and a charge at an optometrist is the most ordinary thing on this page. It is recorded because the sentence it refutes was built into a section.⁵

⚠ Why it was missed is the finding. The absence was measured in the vocabulary of the man’s name, across a document population defined by his name. The instrument is keyed to his business, and the page had chosen the courier’s misspelling of that business over the two sources that spell it correctly. The wrong trading name is part of what hid the charge.⁵

⚠ Documents in this population carry an unredacted driver’s-licence number belonging to a private third party, a date of birth appearing in more than one place, and an unredacted conference-call access code. None is reproduced, and their existence is reported to the editor.¹³

⚠ A promising-looking record was opened and discarded. A March 2013 exchange in which his identifiers and a guest’s were collected looked like a flight manifest and is not one: opened, it is credentials for a motor-racing event in Dallas. The page reports the discard because the unopened version of that document would have been a good false finding.¹³

Related

• Terry Kafka: the third of the Brooklyn circle; the 2014 correspondence about this man’s death is largely his
• Mark Epstein
• Ghislaine Maxwell
• Darren Indyke
• Zorro Ranch
• Epstein’s office schedules
• Epstein’s early associates

Footnotes

Footnotes

1. Death and biography. Dallas Morning News obituary order confirmation, Sparkman Richardson, carrying the full obituary text and photograph: EFTA01114416 pp.1-2, read at the image at 700 dpi. Net $2,682.50, run 28 February to 3 March 2014 in the Dallas Morning News and on Legacy.com. ⚠ An earlier version cited p.1 only; the survivors, the caretaker, the practice name and the memorial service are all on p.2, and so is the naming of Jeffrey Epstein. It gives the death on 27 February 2014, aged 61; birth in Brooklyn to Lenny and Rivka Eisenstein; “a true Sea Gater”; the Topeka band that became Kansas, left on a promise to his parents; the University of Kansas; the Southern College of Optometry, Memphis, and his doctorate; his wife Linda; and the Richardson practice. On the practice name the sources differ: the obituary reads Contact/Eyewear, the February 2004 card statement at [^money] reads CONTACT EYEWEAR, and the 2005 courier label at EFTA00218975 p.7 reads CONTRACT EYE WEAR. ⚠ An earlier version printed the courier’s spelling alone, which is also the spelling that kept the card charge hidden. “Rivka” is read at 700 dpi against a text layer that renders it “Rh’ Ica”. The memorial plaque photograph, carrying his name, the date and the Hebrew name and date: EFTA01197273 p.1, read at the image. ⚠ That the plaque photograph is in Epstein’s own produced files is a fact about Epstein’s files and the page says nothing more about it. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴ ↩⁵

2. The measurement. "Warren Eisenstein" returns 987 documents and the surname 1,172, across 1,265 pages, 1.08 pages per document. ⚠⚠ A count this size is usually an artefact and this one was tested: on this wiki a photographed book’s running head once inflated a subject to hundreds of pages, and a firm name inflated another. Neither shape is present. 629 of the documents carrying his name have a message he sent in them; 204 are addressed to him; 96 are office schedule or alert lines. The only recurring structure is about thirteen documents carrying one Bear Stearns passage, 1.3% of the 997-document full-name pool. Deduplicating 717 sender rows across 629 documents on a day-plus-normalised-subject key, cross-checked against the e-mail metadata store, gives 258 to 293 distinct authored messages, about two copies each, 11 December 2008 to 14 February 2014. ⚠ The page states a range because the keys disagree; a single figure would be a false precision. ⚠ Identity: every spelling of the surname together over-states him by roughly 19%, and the surname alone by 17.6%. The surname with the three OCR forms named below gives 1,183 documents against 996 carrying a full-name form, which is where the 19% comes from; the surname alone gives 1,172, and a reader working from that figure would get 17.6%. ⚠ An earlier version printed 1,188 and 997, neither of which is reachable from the forms this page names. The chief confusable is Linda Eisenstein, his widow, with 150 mentions, 134 of them without him, and 53 sender rows of her own across 48 documents, 29 after the same deduplication, running into September 2015; then Elizabeth, Charles, Marci and Ilana Eisenstein, a film director, a case citation, and one misspelling of a physicist. ⚠ Benjy Eisenstein is not a confusable: he is the subject’s brother, given as “brother Benjamin of Long Island, NY” in the obituary this page cites. An earlier version of this footnote listed him among the other people of the surname. ⚠ Elsenstein, Eiscnstein and Eisensten are live OCR forms reaching documents the correct spelling never touches, including a 2005 office message slip and two courier invoices. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

3. The character letter, as quoted by the defence. Mitigation memorandum transmitted to Palm Beach State Attorney Barry Krischer by Jack A. Goldberger of Atterbury, Goldberger & Weiss. EFTA02857384 pp.78-79, read at the image at 700 dpi; a DOJ-OGR-* twin exists, for which the /pdf/ route returns HTTP 403; ⚠ that is a fact about the route and not about the release, and nothing here rests on the twin, the EFTA copy being read at the image. He is quoted in two block quotations, introduced as an optometrist of Dallas and “another long-time friend”. The underlining of “never” is in the document, under the first of the two occurrences only, which is the one bolded here; the second is not underlined. Internal ellipses are marked. ⚠⚠ BOTH block quotations are cut short here, and two earlier versions understated this: the first said nothing else was altered, the second disclosed only the cut in the second block. The first block also continues past “…until graduation”, and the second past “…one could ever have” with a semicolon rather than the full stop printed here. Neither terminal elision is marked in the blocks above and both are disclosed here instead. The document continues past “one could ever have” with a semicolon, not a full stop, and three further sentences; the terminal elision is unmarked in the block above and is disclosed here instead. ⚠⚠ THE MEMORANDUM DOES NOT PRINT HIS FORENAME, which is covered, while Terry B. Kafka is named in full on the same page. The identification is the desk’s and is stated as one in the body. ⚠ The covering note is EFTA02857384 p.74, on Atterbury, Goldberger & Weiss letterhead, addressed “Barry”, read at 700 dpi; it is transcribed and attributed at Jack Goldberger, where the handwriting readings are marked as readings. It dates the package to the 2007-08 federal negotiation, which this page otherwise had no source for. ⚠ The sheet carries other material about other people and a barred surname; none of it is reproduced. ⚠ The memorandum’s footer records a public-records request number, which is how it entered the public record. ↩ ↩² ↩³ ↩⁴

4. The 1981 matter, and why it is not a documented fact. EFTA00188312 p.113, read at the image at 700 dpi; a monospaced printout of a Vanity Fair article kept in Epstein’s files, with search-term highlighting. It reads: “In his S.E.C. testimony, given on April 1, 1981, Epstein claimed that he had found ‘offensive’ the way Bear Stearns management had handled a disciplinary action following its discovery that he had committed a possible ‘Reg D’ violation-evidently he had lent money to his closest friend. (In the 1989 deposition he said that he’d lent approximately $20,000 to Warren Eisenstein, to buy stock.)” ⚠ The article offers the testimony and the deposition together as the answer to Bear Stearns’s public line that Epstein left of his own volition. It does not say he gave the disciplinary matter as his reason for leaving, and an earlier version of this page said he did, twice. The release also holds a second text: at least five HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_* document identifiers, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022058, _022067, _022068, _009249 and _009250, which are not linked because that series returns HTTP 403 from the reader, pages of Filthy Rich chapter 23, which quote the 1 April 1981 testimony verbatim as question and answer, name the S.E.C. investigators Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn, record that Epstein told the S.E.C. the rumours about his departure concerned an affair rather than a client, that what he said he had not realised was that such a loan might be improper, not that it was used to buy stock, and that “In the end, Bear Stearns fined him $2,500…”, the sentence continuing past an em dash with “an embarrassing thing, to be sure” ⚠ An earlier version described the account in the release as a single magazine’s, and a later one drew a contrast between “a verbatim transcript excerpt” and “a journalist’s paraphrase”. That contrast is false on this page’s own anchor sheet: EFTA00188312 p.113 carries question-and-answer testimony too, ending “Q: Sir, are you aware that certain rumors may have been circulating around your firm in connection with your reasons for leaving the firm? / A: I’m aware that there were many rumors.” Both texts carry paraphrase and both carry transcript. ⚠⚠ The testimony itself is not in this corpus. No loan instrument, no Bear Stearns personnel record, no U-5 or CRD entry and no transcript was found, on sweeps in disciplinary vocabulary as well as the vocabulary of the claim; every hit that also carries a spelling of the name is a copy of one of these two texts. This page therefore reports two secondary accounts of testimony neither author has produced here, at that tier, and makes no finding. ⚠ An earlier desk note treated this as the subject’s strongest anchor; it is not, because the anchor test asks for the document recording the act, and that document is absent. ↩ ↩² ↩³

5. The one money instrument, and the four that were counted as all of them. EFTA00186348 viewer p.21, read at the image at 700 dpi: a Chase Gold MasterCard statement in the name of Jeffrey E. Epstein, 457 Madison Avenue, closing 19 February 2004, new balance $12,476.18, account number redacted. The transaction line reads CONTACT EYEWEAR, DALLAS, TX, posted 02/09, $6,500.00. ⚠⚠ TWO OCR RENDERINGS IN THE CORPUS DISAGREE, ONE GIVING $8,500.00. THE ARITHMETIC SETTLES IT: 39.23 + 20.75 + 1,850.22 + 6,500.00 + 4,065.98 = 12,476.18, the printed total, to the cent. Read the ledger, not the description field. A second produced copy, filed in Case No. 08-80736-CV-MARRA, is at EFTA00227381 p.875. ⚠ Purpose unknown. ⚠ Also corrected: an earlier version said the population held only four financial documents. It holds eleven invoices and one receipt, and the receipt is the $2,682.50 obituary order at [^obit], which this page was already citing. ⚠ What still holds, on searches of CHIPS, Fedwire, Book Transfer, Authorization for Asset Movement, beneficiary lines and the statement and ledger document classes, corpus-wide and against every spelling of the name: no wire, no bank transfer and no cheque names him. deutsche appears in exactly one document of the 997 and it is the magazine printout at [^bearstearns]. ↩ ↩² ↩³

6. The band, in his own hand. EFTA02700810 p.1, 26 August 2012, text layer. Read at the image at 700 dpi. The sheet prints, with a transfer-encoding fault that has eaten the first letter of three words: “Schmitgee, Let me know if you know anyone =nterested in something like this. This is Jeff Glixman from my old rock group =ocky Fox, along with Phil Ehart. They asked me to send this to =ou. Johnny”. ⚠⚠ THE BAND NAMED ON THE SHEET READS “=OCKY FOX”, WHICH THE DESK READS AS “ROCKY FOX”, AND THE SHEET DOES NOT CONTAIN THE WORD KANSAS. ⚠ An earlier version of this footnote printed the repaired spelling inside a span labelled “in full”, two footnotes after the same page had correctly refused to normalise DARREN INDIGHE. An earlier version of this page said the sheet corroborated Kansas and that the band’s producer and drummer were “both named on the sheet”: the two men are named, the band is not. That Glixman produced Kansas and Ehart drummed for it is outside this document. ⚠ Whether Epstein did anything in response is not recorded. ↩

7. Four courier shipments, 2002-2005, all four read at the image at 700 dpi. ⚠⚠ TWO OF THESE FOUR CITATIONS WERE WRONG IN AN EARLIER VERSION, AND ONE OF THE TWO WAS INTRODUCED BY A CORRECTION. That version cited EFTA01313833 for the 2002 shipment; it does not mention him on any of its ten pages in any spelling and is a November 2002 invoice to other recipients. The identifier that belongs to the 2002 shipment had been moved onto the 2005 one. Corrected:

   • 23 October 2002, delivered 24 October 12:45, signed W.IESEN, $25.49, invoice 4-446-62537: EFTA01259774 viewer p.7. Sender block GHISLAINE MAXWELL / JEFFREY E EPSTEIN. ⚠ The sender street line on this sheet is blacked out and only the city, state and ZIP survive, so no street address is attached to this shipment here.
   • 28 October 2002, delivered 29 October 08:27, signed M RAMOS, $13.84: EFTA01313785 viewer p.7. Sender block G MAXWELL / JEFFREY E EPSTEIN, 457 Madison Avenue. ⚠ This second sheet carries the same joint sender block, so “the first sent under Ghislaine Maxwell’s name” in an earlier version was an exclusivity the sheets do not support: it is two of the four.
   • 8 July 2003, sender “JEFFREY EPSTEIN / NYSG LLC”, delivered 10 July 15:00, signed W.ARREN EINSTEIN, $9.20: EFTA01318334 viewer p.3. ⚠ An earlier version also cited p.1, which does not carry it. ⚠ This sheet prints “Release signature on file” and records a failed first attempt, so the name on it stands against a standing authorisation rather than a signature given at the door. The same page carries an unrelated shipment whose sender the sheet prints as DARREN INDIGHE; an earlier version silently normalised that to Darren Indyke.
   • 22 March 2005, addressed to the practice, delivered 23 March 09:19, signed M.BURROWS, $16.90, invoice 5-442-31459: EFTA00218975 viewer p.7.

   ⚠⚠ All four read “NO REFERENCE INFORMATION”: the contents are unknown and this page does not speculate. Carriage on each is under thirty dollars. ⚠ Street addresses on these sheets are redacted where the producer redacted them, and none is reconstructed from any other copy. ↩

8. A ranch in 2009, and Zorro in 2013. ⚠⚠ THE 2009 MESSAGE DOES NOT SAY ZORRO AND AN EARLIER VERSION HEADED THIS FOOTNOTE AS THOUGH IT DID. EFTA02437712 p.1, 29 September 2009, relayed with a blank sender field, reads “The following is from Dr. Eisenstein: Please call! I’m enjoying the ranch immensely!”: “the ranch”, unnamed. The only document putting him at Zorro in September 2009 comes from a redacted sender and is not attributed to him here. ⚠ And his own line in 2013, “It’s been 5 years since visiting Zorro”, points to 2008, not 2009. The page prints both and joins neither; the gap is the finding. The request of 9 September 2013, Epstein’s one-word answer and his reply naming the five-year gap are all on EFTA01958564 p.1: “Johnny, Can we do the ranch from Oct. 6-12 ?” / “yes” / “Thanks JB! We’ll set up air and I’ll send the itinerary to Leslie. It’s been 5 years since visiting Zorro.” The stay of 14-20 October 2013 is tracked across the office schedules, of which eighteen documents carry the phrase,, including EFTA00382352 pp.3-4 and EFTA00284881 pp.3-5, with a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_* copy whose PDF returns HTTP 403 from the reader, which is a fact about that route and not about the document. The thank-you of 21 October 2013: EFTA02576075 p.1, read at the image. ⚠ He addresses Epstein by nicknames throughout and signs off with a fixed phrase; the page prints them as the documents have them and decodes none of them. ⚠ Several of these messages are addressed to “Jeffery Edwards”, an address Epstein used; the identification rests on the same e-mail address appearing under both names in the release. ↩

9. April 2013. ⚠ An earlier version of this footnote carried no document identifiers at all. Lesley Groff to Epstein, 27 February 2013, EFTA02520839 p.1: “Warren Eisenstein is asking if he may stay in an apt when he comes April 22-28. We do have an apt available… Please advise” His own invitation of 5 March, EFTA02404766 p.1: “we’ll be in NY from April 23 thru the 28. Terry set up a get-together at his son Philip’s VERY COOL Soho Loft… It will be on Fri 4/26.” The office schedule for Tuesday 23 April, EFTA00391771 p.1, records a staff member flown in “to drive Warren around” and his own arrival at LGA. EFTA01896887 pp.3-4 carries the driver across 23-27 April, the departure flight, and “8:00pm Party for Warren Eisenstein at Philip’s Soho Loft”. ⚠ The party is the one act of his own in the episode and an earlier version recorded only what was arranged for him. ⚠ The schedule records only that he was to “stay at 301”, one of Epstein’s own New York buildings. ↩

10. September 2009. EFTA00770291 p.1, read at the image; twin at EFTA02437301. His own message is at the head of the sheet and Epstein’s line, written the previous evening, sits below it in the quoted chain. ⚠ An earlier version said Epstein’s was above his, which is the opposite of what the sheet shows. ⚠ His message is two sentences and the body quotes the first; the second is coarse and is not reproduced. ⚠ The page reports what each wrote and does not characterise what either meant. ↩

11. November 2012 to February 2014. ⚠⚠ THE JOINT MESSAGE WAS CITED TO THE WRONG DOCUMENT IN AN EARLIER VERSION. It is EFTA01975389 p.1, to Jeffrey Epstein and Terry Kafka, 14 November 2012: “I am begging you not to second guess Michael’s decisions… It’s my life (what’s left of it)… neither of you are oncologists… Michael is.” EFTA01980626 is only the referral chain, a Kafka reply wrapping his forward, and the diagnosis is redacted on it — the earlier version attached a statement about the diagnosis to the document that does not carry it. The subject lines: “I’m not dead yet”, 24 July 2013, EFTA02520357; “The End’s a comin”, 21 January 2014, EFTA02579727, body “My days are numbered. Dead man walkin’”. The last message of 14 February 2014 is EFTA02581494, which an earlier version did not cite at all. ⚠⚠ His diagnosis is named in the November 2012 message and is not reproduced here. The page reports that he disclosed one and asked that his doctor’s decisions stand. ⚠ The 2014 traffic about his death is largely Terry Kafka’s, and belongs on that page; an earlier desk note called this subject “the hub of the 2014 spike”, which is wrong: his own traffic peaks in 2013 and stops in February 2014 because that is when he died. ↩ ↩²

12. Absences, each scoped, each with a live positive control. ⚠ An earlier version said every countable result set had been opened. It had not: the enumeration this page inherited put massage in three documents when it is in ten, all of them about Jeffrey Epstein or a different Eisenstein. The conclusion survives a re-sweep over all 1,183 documents of the union; the claim to have opened everything does not, and is withdrawn. No allegation against him was found anywhere in the release. No deposition of him, no interview report, no filing naming him as a party was found. ⚠ Each of these says what was not found, not what does not exist. ⚠ Two list documents were opened and weighed: EFTA00315076 places him on a “Visitor List” among academics and others, and this page does not treat appearing on someone else’s list as an act of his; but EFTA02438252, 7 October 2009, subject “The List”, is a Coney Island reunion list he compiled and sent Epstein himself, which by that same standard is an act and is recorded as one. He is named in one deposition, three times across two transcript pages, where Mark Epstein says “I think he went to the same schools, yeah. He was my brother’s age” and names the school as P.S. 188, Brooklyn (⚠ which dates the friendship against Jeffrey Epstein and not against the witness), in Jane Doe v. Epstein, No. 08-80893-CIV-MARRA/JOHNSON (S.D. Fla.), 21 September 2009, when plaintiffs’ counsel asked Mark Epstein to name a close friend of Epstein’s from Coney Island and the answer was this name. That is a third party naming him, not an act of his, and the page records it as such. ↩

13. Withheld, and one discard. ⚠ EFTA02010908 prints an unredacted driver’s-licence number belonging to a private third party; a date of birth appears in more than one document; and EFTA00381524 carries an unredacted conference-call access code. None is reproduced and all are reported to the editor. ⚠ The discard: a March 2013 exchange collecting his date of birth and a guest’s licence number looked like a flight manifest. It was opened. It is credentialling for a motor-racing event in Dallas, brokered through a driver, and it is recorded here because a page built on the unopened version would have carried a plausible and wholly false finding. ↩ ↩²