NEW: One of Dubai’s Most Powerful Executives Discussed Sex, Business With Epstein Among an elite network that corresponded with Epstein, few kept in communication with him as long as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Here’s what the emails reveal 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

NEW: One of Dubai’s Most Powerful Executives Discussed Sex, Business With Epstein Among an elite network that corresponded with Epstein, few kept in communication with him as long as Sultan Ahmed bin Sulayem. Here’s what the emails reveal 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

EPSTEIN Files: As FBI agents and other personnel were reviewing the files last year, Kash Patel asked them to find out if Epstein was ever an FBI confidential human source. Response: "Per searches conducted by NYO and the DNI all searches for 'Jeffrey E. Epstein were negative."

NEW: The Epstein files released last week includes hundreds of pages of docs that lays bare the behind-the-scenes chaos at the FBI early last year over the review of the files & questions on what should be redacted related to victims and public figures 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Gift Link /Free to Read Newsletter FOIA Files Epstein Files Review Was Totally Chaotic Documents from the cache of files on Jeffrey Epstein released last week shed light on how the US govt reviewed and redacted them. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

What’s in the “Epstein Files,” and what isn’t, with the great @jasonleopold.bsky.social:

When @jasonleopold.bsky.social told me the Justice Department inexplicably redacted the “J.P.” from “J.P. Morgan” in a J.P. Morgan research note, I didn’t believe him. But here it is:

Newsletter FOIA Files How Lost 1930s-Era Paintings Owned By US Government Were Recovered The General Services Administration has a program to find misplaced or stolen New Deal-era artwork owned by the US government. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

NEW: The House Oversight Committee just formally issued a subpoena to Darren Indyke (who filed the #FOIA request) Epstein's personal atty & co-executor of his estate as well as subpoenas to billionaire Les Wexner and Epstein's accountant Richard Kahn, the other co-executor of his Epstein's estate.

FOIA Files Epstein Filed a FOIA Request Sought docs on “how, why, or when Epstein was selected to be a subject of any such monitoring, surveillance, observation, questioning, interrogation, investigation.” www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... via @bloomberg.com @jasonleopold.bsky.social

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Jeffrey Epstein Filed a #FOIA Request in 2014 The request to CBP sought docs on "how, why, or when Epstein was selected to be a subject of monitoring, surveillance, observation, questioning, interrogation, investigation" www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Happy #FOIAing Trump's first-term presidential records day to those who celebrate!

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! Get ready to #FOIA Trump's first-term presidential records! Jan. 20, 2026 is a big day for government document junkies. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Lots of people with no experience being hired at the GS-15 level. If you see a lot of $167,603 or $195,200 salaries, this is why www.opm.gov/policy-data-...

Thanks to a FOIAed spreadsheet from @jasonleopold.bsky.social at www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet..., I have updated the DOGE Tracker with a lot more info on who was getting paid. dogetrack.info/people/paid-... The myth of everybody working for free is a lie. Many were appointed GS-15 max salary

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! This week, I invited my @bloomberg.com colleague @agordon.me to break down data I obtained related to DOGE & govt hiring that took me nearly a year to pry loose. www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Throwback to one of my epic document(s) scores related to Jan. 6 www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jaso...

2025 FOIA Files Recap: It's been a devastating year for the #FOIA. Agencies gutted or eviscerated their FOIA offices & fired staff. But thanks to the incredibly hard work of FOIA officers across the govt I managed to pry loose some important docs. Here are the highlights. Thank you FOIA officers! 🧵

Another reminder that FBI tasked 934 agents and other personnel to review & redact Epstein files between March & May & prepare the docs for public release. FBI paid $851K in OT/premium pay for a week's worth of work. Via my #FOIA www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Further confirmation of Epstein money laundering investigations first reported by @jasonleopold.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social and the other folks at @bloomberg.com (Document: EFTA00037469)

NEW episode of my podcast Disclosure is out! One Xmas, my co-host @mvtopic.bsky.social requested the first 25 pages of docs located from a search of the FBI's investigative files referencing “Santa Claus.” The FBI responded by saying they never heard of the guy podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

TONIGHT AT 8: FOIA expert @jasonleopold.bsky.social joins to discuss the widespread redactions throughout the Epstein files. Plus, former Time photo editor Emily Keegan on the viral White House Vanity Fair photoshoot that broke the internet.

🚨 Epstein Files: In his letter to Congress, Todd Blanche says docs were withheld under the deliberative process, atty-client privilege & atty work product. In #FOIA that's the equivalent of a B5 exemption. 🧵

Epstein Files countdown: What should the files reveal? For one, details about this previously undisclosed money laundering investigation conducted by the US Atty in Fla in 2007 & 2008. My @bloomberg.com colleagues & I uncovered details of this unknown probe in Oct www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Epstein files: Ahead of Friday's deadline to release the files it's notable that FBI already reviewed/redacted the files this year, as I previously reported. Big question is whether the files were reprocessed over the past month & certain redactions, protecting names aside from victims, were lifted

Participating in my first Reddit AMA *right now* alongside legends and fellow (proud) FOIA nerds @laurenleharper.bsky.social @kevinok.bsky.social @jasonleopold.bsky.social → come join the fun www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

👋 Our FOIA requests and lawsuits revealed a trove of government secrets in 2025. Join @freedom.press, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, @weareoversight.bsky.social, and @kevinok.bsky.social on r/IAmA at 1 p.m. EST to ask us anything about our work and discoveries. ➡️ www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comme...

Got #FOIA questions? @laurenleharper.bsky.social @kevinok.bsky.social & @lizhempowicz.bsky.social have the answers. Join us for a FOIA AMA today at 1 eastern.

No cats consented to being in my photo but I am also excited! Join me, @freedom.press, @kevinok.bsky.social, @lizhempowicz.bsky.social of @weareoversight.bsky.social and everyone’s favorite @jasonleopold.bsky.social to talk FOIA at 1 today

Very excited for my AMA on Reddit tomorrow at 1:00 with FOIA giants @laurenleharper.bsky.social of @freedom.press, @jasonleopold.bsky.social, and @lizhempowicz.bsky.social of American Oversight! Ricardo and April will be there too

Receipts!

NEW FOIA Files newsletter is out! DOJ & FBI have made revelatory disclosures in my #FOIA lawsuit about the docs it withheld related to their review/redaction of the Epstein files Intriguingly, the FBI said it searched "client lists" to locate records www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

The deadline to release the Epstein files is next week. Join me Thursday at 5 ET with public record expert @jasonleopold.bsky.social to talk about what the DOJ could do to avoid putting out info and what options the public has to make sure we get these files. open.substack.com/live-stream/...

And read reporting shepherded by @emma.best's @ddosecrets.com , which recently obtained the emails from Jeffrey Epstein's private Yahoo account. ddosecrets.com/article/epst...

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW investigative report: "Things will get really nasty." Hedge funds. Brokerages. Billionaires. Jeffrey Epstein’s financial ties on and off Wall Street were broader than previously known, a cache of emails @bloomberg.com obtained earlier this year reveals 🧵 www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW report on the leaked Epstein emails, which were obtained by Bloomberg several months before they were submitted to Distributed Denial of Secrets. Epstein’s Wealth and Power Fueled by Wall Street Connections, Emails Reveal www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

NEW episode of my podcast, Disclosure, just dropped! This week, my co-host @mvtopic.bsky.social and I dig into the FBI’s massive review of the Epstein files earlier this year, based on dozens of emails I recently obtained via #FOIA www.iheart.com/podcast/1119...

This is one of the excellent Jason Leopold's wildest #FOIA stories yet. Has one of your record requests to the United States federal government gone missing? Well, here is maybe why...

NEW FOIA Files is out! In May, I published an investigative report about twin brothers who hacked into Opexus, a govt contractor that handled #FOIA docs & other govt records. On Wed, the brothers were arrested & charged with computer crimes www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

This is an INCREDIBLE investigative story, told in the form of a graphic novel. Arrested by phone - a true story. A must read www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

NEW episode of my podcast Disclosure is now available to all! It's all about Wu-Tang Clan and how I spent years, along with my co-host & atty @mvtopic.bsky.social, fighting to get the DOJ to release docs about Once Upon a Time in Shaolin Please check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Shoutout to Bloomberg for reporting on the email I mentioned at the end of the show (see below) in September. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

FBI documents show the agency spent more than $850,000 on overtime pay for agents tasked with processing and redacting Epstein-related files. Here's how we confirmed the records are authentic:

Thanks to @jasonleopold.bsky.social for his excellent work and for his professional courtesy in helping me confirm it all, a combo rare enough to deserve a mention.

Dan Bongino responses on X to FBI emails I obtained via FOIA about the processing & redaction of Epstein files, including this one email sent to him.

NEW: Here's a rare look behind the scenes at the FBI's review of the Epstein files in March, based on emails I obtained via #FOIA. Dan Bongino was copied on an email related to "guidance on the types of redactions to apply."

NEW via my #FOIA: These are all the divisions at FBI involved in the review of the Epstein files earlier this year. Between March 15 and March 22, 934 FBI agents and other personnel reviewed the recors

Or read the exact same story about Epstein that was first published by @bloomberg.com on Nov. 1 www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...