We're investigating a firm called MP Estate Planning, which sells trusts to save elderly people from the "modern threats" of divorce, bankruptcy, care home fees and inheritance tax. We believe the trusts don't work. If you've come across the firm, please get in touch.

I don't really understand this. Most expats won't be within just a few days of falling UK tax resident. Even if they are, the obvious solution is: spend a few weeks in France, Italy, the US... anywhere at all except the UK. www.ft.com/content/80bf...

What’s worse than running a scheme that defrauds the IRS and sends fake £39m demands to public officials? Accidentally publishing the names of all your clients on the internet.

TikTok, YouTube and Facebook are full of rubbish tax influencers, spinning any kind of old codswallop, whether it's for clicks or fees I'm trying to create a "Greatest Hits" list. The worst of the worst I'd love it if people could post examples. I'll start - Samuel Leeds:

Simon Goldberg denied to me he’s running a huge tax fraud. He says he's an expert. Says he “studied under Winston Shrout” Shrout was convicted of tax fraud, got 10 years, fled, & was captured by US marshals

Meet Simon Goldberg. He tells people the US Govt will pay your UK gas, electricity, credit card bills - all your spending. Yes, it's fraud. But the IRS actually sends the cheques. The insane part? He started a *private prosecution* of the YouTuber who revealed it. 🧵

Edward Lucas is dead right. If Epstein had been British he’d never have been exposed. Our libel law is an ongoing disgrace. www.thetimes.com/article/1786...

Random question. Why didn’t the UK authorities act on the formal US request in 2020 to interview Andrew?

I regret to inform you I am getting more mad emails from Iain Clifford Stamp. It may look like he’s mentally ill, but Stamp makes millions selling a sovereign citizen “get-rich-quick” scheme to naive and vulnerable people.

The barrister Setu Kamal sued @danneidle.bsky.social for £8m for defamation. Representing himself in court, Kamal cited three cases that made Neidle’s case “untenable”. But, in a bizarre twist, it turned out that these cases were hallucinated by ChatGPT: https://goodlaw.social/n1cv

A scammer - slammed by the High Court for filing "incoherent" claims, sentenced to 12 months in jail for contempt of court, and currently a fugitive from justice, has just ordered me to delete everything I’ve written about him - or he’ll sue me in *Wyoming*.

Two weeks ago, Peter Mandelson told us he had no recollection of planning to buy a £2m apartment in Rio via a Panama holding company and a Brazilian company. Yesterday we found notarised incorporation documents for the Brazilian company, with Mr Mandelson's signature.

For the four people who used our guide to building a DIY Epstein search engine: it's now expanded with an AI "agentic" UI, where you ask a question & it does a bunch of research, and comes back with a response, linking to documents. When it's good it's very good:

Podcast with the brilliant Daniel Greenberg (who's drafted more legislation than I suspect I've ever read) on ethics of taxation - Jewish ethics and ethics in general. buff.ly/sxJktGn or buff.ly/sQGLFEo

I guested on the Rest is Money podcast to talk about our Epstein investigation, and give a preview of what’s coming next: the lawyers and other professionals who enabled Epstein. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Jes Staley - former senior exec at JPM and CEO of Barclays - told the FCA he and Epstein were not friends. Let's break that rule that we can't call rich/famous people "liars". Thread:

Mr Neidle’s “leading lawyers” are correct. (Modestly prevents me from saying this non-leading lawyer reached the same conclusion last week!) 😉

Can Mandelson be prosecuted? We’ve discussed the law and the evidence with leading lawyers. The bottom line: "misconduct in public office" is the only viable route. The law is messy and proving intent is hard - but we believe there is a realistic prospect of conviction. 🧵:

Interesting email. Mandelson in 2013 considering shifting Global Counsel towards doing deals/arranging financings, rather than just lobbying/advisory. Did that ever happen?

Last week I published instructions on how to create your own private Epstein files search engine. Faster, easier and more reliable than the public websites. Now updated to add autonomous AI research . It's amazing how useful it is. Unedited prompt and results attached:

Just discovered Mandelson’s reaction to our first report he’d leaked government emails:

Random mad thing. There are emails in the Epstein files that appear to be from Bill Clinton. But actually it seems his assistant Doug Band shared Clinton's BlackBerry (!).

There is a tax tribunal hearing this week; the unregulated firm "Property118" are appealing HMRC's decision to issue a notice that Property 118 promoted a tax avoidance scheme. Something odd is emerging from the evidence...

Lots of people asking how to easily search the Epstein files. The DOJ search is rubbish. Other public searches don't have all the documents. Here are the instructions (for Linux). Anyone with moderate technical ability can do this within an hour or so. github.com/DanNeidle/ep...

Epstein even helped Mandelson with his speeches... 1/2

If Mandelson really told Starmer he barely knew Epstein, that was an epic whopper of a lie. Here's Mandelson to Epstein in 2009: "You are the only person who knows everything about me. Don't go away". Their relationship only got closer after 2009.

Epstein very upset that George Osborne was blocking "my boy", Jes Staley, from becoming CEO of Barclays. Osborne didn't know the half of it. Staley seems almost as close to Epstein as Mandelson was.

May 2012. The height of the Eurozone crisis. Peter Mandelson was very focussed:

Mandelson's firm, General Counsel, covered-up Mandelson's relationship with Epstein. Here's Global Counsel's CEO and co-founder, preparing to tell the press that Mandelson barely knew Jeffrey Epstein. Who did he check that line with? Jeffrey Epstein.

Who did Epstein turn to for advice on handling a Today Programme interview request, during the first reports of Andrew’s links to a sex offender?

It was always about the next job. Epstein reviewed a draft of Mandelson's memoir - he said "as currently written the chances of a JPMorgan position would be zero" Mandelson not remotely shocked by this. He just thought JPM wouldn't read it.

Did a fun interview with the What’s Left podcast. Mostly me talking about Mandelson. Sometimes me trying to avoid talking about politics. youtu.be/9UblUvJ931E

We've just found a new email on Mandelson's $$$$ almost-job with DB... what was the "DB revelation"?

Lots of rumours about Epstein and Russia/Putin. There's only one Mandelson email I can find that mentions Putin, and it suggests they regard him as nothng more than a VIP they'll try to catch at a big meeting.

Can anyone *imagine* what would have happened if it had become public, at the height of the financial crisis, that Mandelson was leaking to Wall Street, and advising bankers to threaten his own Government? To stop a tax on bankers' bonuses! Would the Government have fallen?

This is a great point. Can’t see any Mandelson leaks in the files from 2004-2008, but that could just be that those files aren’t published yet.

Peter Mandelson is telling the truth on one thing: the idea he was bought for a $4k “bursary” or a $75k gift is ridiculous The real incentive was a post-government payday - one so big he *rejected* a $3–5m-a-year offer And Epstein enabled that payday Here’s the evidence. 🧵

New email: Epstein and businessman/lawyer David Stern, talking about Mandelson as if he's on retainer. Epstein says "Do we need help - mandelson?" The reply: "too early to get Mandelson involved" Quick thread:

This is bonkers. Mandelson - while he was a British Cabinet Minister - used by Epstein to lobby the US Government on behalf of JPMorgan.

Epstein made $10k+ payments to Mandelson's partner around the time of the email leaks. Mandelson says he thought the payments were bursaries from an educational foundation. We're not allowed to say famous people are lying. But is Mandelson lying? A 🧵 on the evidence:

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Only in the UK can we have documentary evidence of documents being leaked, no denial of the leak, but journalists still have to put "alleged" in the headline. Libel law is broken.

There's more. On 31 March 2010, Lord Mandelson's principal private secretary sent him a note of a meeting between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Larry Summers, US Treasury Secretary. Lord Mandelson forwarded it to Jeffrey Epstein five minutes later.

Question: how did Mandelson forward government emails from a personal email account within four minutes of receiving them? Surely he wasn’t permitted a blackberry with both personal and government email access?

A fun project for finance/data nerds. Can anyone *reliably and robustly* decode this messy bank statement export in the Epstein files? Would show how much Epstein transferred to Lord Mandelson's then-partner

In this email to Jeffrey Epstein, what did Peter Mandelson mean by "loud pretty women of your persuasion"?

What is Peter Mandelson discussing with Jeffrey Epstein in this email? The "G" is clearly Gordon Brown. The "Brown" isn't, at least I think it isn't.

None of this is a surprise:

Mandelson leaked No 10 documents to Epstein - who then helped him pursue a $4m job The latest: taxpolicy.org.uk/2026/02/02/m...

Alistair Darling and the official Treasury were always aware that investment banks had an inside track to Number 10. But the brazen nature of that inside track is rather breath-taking.