Show HN: OSS AI agent that indexes and searches the Epstein files

https://epstein.trynia.ai/

211•jellyotsiro•3w ago

Hi HN,

I built an open-source AI agent that has already indexed and can search the entire Epstein files, roughly 100M words of publicly released documents.

The goal was simple: make a large, messy corpus of PDFs and text files immediately searchable in a precise way, without relying on keyword search or bloated prompts.

What it does:

- The full dataset is already indexed - You can ask natural language questions - Answers are grounded and include direct references to source documents - Supports both exact text lookup and semantic search

Discussion around these files is often fragmented. This makes it possible to explore the primary sources directly and verify claims without manually digging through thousands of pages.

Happy to answer questions or go into technical details.

Code: https://github.com/nozomio-labs/nia-epstein-ai

Comments

wutsthat4•3w ago

And what did you learn?

jellyotsiro•3w ago

Trump famously told New York Magazine in 2002: "I've known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He's a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side."

Trump and Epstein were social acquaintances in Palm Beach and New York circles during the 1990s-early 2000s. They socialized together at Mar-a-Lago and other venues

TowerTall•3w ago

Interesting. It is my impression that almost everyone globally already knew this. What else did you learn?

jellyotsiro•3w ago

ill take like 1 hour in the evening to dive deeper, i was never familiar with epstein stuff until i built the agent to simplify things for me.

tokai•3w ago

Its peak HN to whip out a LLM, instead of just reading a news paper article or two.

DANmode•3w ago

Better not choose the wrong two.

anon84873628•3w ago

If you want to understand these people, watch the Daily Beast podcast "Inside Trump's Head" with Michael Wolff. It's a little slow but will paint the picture of their motivations, friendship, falling out, etc etc.

ishtanbul•3w ago

This is one of the most widey quoted phrases by trump on the topic of epstein

subzero06•3w ago

In 2024, Trump used Epstein's former private jet for campaign appearances

estearum•3w ago

Also apparently the two had Thanksgiving dinner together as recently as like 2021?

anon84873628•3w ago

Epstein died in 2019. People have suggested they had Thanksgiving dinner together in 2017 based on vague references in one of the emails, but Trump's presence at Mar a Lago is confirmed that day.

estearum•3w ago

Ah sorry, I was anchoring "beginning of first term" and misplaced that as 2020. Fuck how time flies!

The "vague reference" is Epstein himself seeming to suggest he was having dinner with Trump. But you're right that there isn't direct corroborating evidence beyond Epstein saying so and their travel schedules aligning in South Florida over Thanksgiving.

tehjoker•3w ago

This is a good idea. One thing I never understand about these kinds of projects though: why are the standard questions provided to the user as prompts never cached?

jellyotsiro•3w ago

oh forgot about it, thanks. just a funny project i build in couple hours so didnt really sweat haha

tehjoker•3w ago

This agent is really interesting! Learning a lot. Thanks!

jampekka•3w ago

Outputs are usually generated with random sampling, so the same prompt may get different outputs.

iowemoretohim•3w ago

Those are going to be some spicy hallucinations.

dfxm12•3w ago

can search the entire Epstein files

It's worth noting that only about 1% of the files have been released, according to the DOJ.

Of the released files, many have redactions.

jellyotsiro•3w ago

sorry all publicly available files *

King-Aaron•3w ago

If the Lake Michigan thing is just in the first 1%, then whatever's in the other 99% is going to be absolutely disgusting.

Tom1380•3w ago

I searched it with the tool but nothing came up about Lake Michigan. What happened?

King-Aaron•3w ago

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%208/EFTA000250...

"He participated regularly in paying money to force me to ___ with him and he was present when my uncle murdered my newborn child and disposed of the body in Lake Michigan. "

The uncle is allegedly referring to Trump

sam345•3w ago

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2025/12/27/a.... This mentions the Trump angle. It also mentions that the report came out before the 2020 election and could be fake. I'm a little confused because the report itself says nothing about Trump so don't know where the Free press gets that and they don't tell you what the source is or I missed it.

Edit: Oh I get it. The woman's statement Donald Trump is named as one of the witnesses. She says that he watched the murder. He wasn't the uncle. He is listed as a witness to the murder. This is highly highly suspect in my opinion. Seems very sensationalistic and no reason given it as to why Trump was there. His name is just thrown in.

estearum•3w ago

The allegation is quite clearly that Trump participated in [ redacted ] this pregnant 13 year-old.

> [Trump] participated regularly in paying money to force me to [ redacted ] with him

The reason he was allegedly there was probably to [ redacted ] a 13 year old... That's what convicted rapists with deep connections to child sex traffickers do...?

Terr_•3w ago

I would expect a large portion of the remaining records to be internal emails about memos about the process of building a case around evidence, rather than the root evidence itself.

Not that that would excuse the administration's unlawful behavior so far, or indicate the unreleased 99% can't have some big bombshells.

Terr_•3w ago

Yep, they failed to meet the deadlines required by law, and it's not just any redactions either, but unlawful redactions.

nubg•3w ago

Does this work with vector embeddings?

jellyotsiro•3w ago

it uses semantic search so yes

andy_ppp•3w ago

I keep thinking that the lack of children’s faces in the blacked out rectangles make the files much less shocking. I wonder if AI could put back fake images to make clearer to people how sick all this is.

13hunteo•3w ago

I understand the sentiment, but I'm always very concerned when it comes to AI generating pictures of children.

amelius•3w ago

Why? They are generated pictures, not real pictures.

ben_w•3w ago

A lot of people are now struggling to detect which images are AI generated, and inferring reality from illusions.

To an extent, this was already the case with many other things, including stuff that was expressly labelled as fiction, but I recall an old quote, fooling all of the people some of the time and some of the people all of the time, it is now easier to fool more people all the time and to fool all people an increasing fraction of the time.

This isn't only limited to fake pics of kids, but kids are weak and struggle to defend themselves, and in this context the tools faking them seems to me likely to increase rates of harm against them.

amelius•3w ago

How about adding a caption saying "the parts of this picture marked with a red outline have been generated by AI"?

ben_w•3w ago

Dunno. https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/598:_Porn

dylan604•3w ago

Is that caption going to be written as text in the image, as people will just collect/share the image without a caption that was part of a webpage/PDF the image was originally embedded.

dfxm12•3w ago

in this context the tools faking them seems to me likely to increase rates of harm against them.

Why does it seem this way to you?

ben_w•3w ago

The history of age of consent laws including Pitcairn Island, the observed results of sexualised deepfakes in classrooms by other students, and the observation that according to sexual therapists "fetishisation" is the development of a sexual response and conversion into a requirement over the course of repeated exposure rather than any innate tendency that a person is born with.

amelius•3w ago

This is a good point.

PlatoIsADisease•3w ago

I read that in a book, in a study, they were able to cause people to be aroused by money by pairing it with sexy bits. But later, they lost the association pretty quickly.

This doesn't contradict what you are saying, and the study could be like most psychology (unreplicated), but it seems the impact is minor... But minor on 6 billion people could be terrible for a few people.

PlatoIsADisease•3w ago

I'm on your team here, no one is being hurt.

Now the implications of letting people generate pictures of children....... Do I need to say more? Even then, I'm not sure my opinion on this. No one is getting hurt by the generation of the images, but they "might could maybe possibly" cause them to act on things in real life.

When I was a teenager I used to make this argument for legalization of drugs. It wasn't the drugs that caused people to steal and murder, it was the human.

Now that I'm older, I can imagine consequences of a few bad apples pointing to AI as the starting point.

amelius•3w ago

Yes, why are violent movies allowed if this is the argument?

nancyminusone•3w ago

I believe this would decrease credibility of the evidence, not increase it.

Xmd5a•3w ago

You're barely scratching the surface.

> Mr. Gates, in turn, praised Mr. Epstein’s charm and intelligence. Emailing colleagues the next day, he said: “A very attractive Swedish woman and her daughter dropped by and I ended up staying there quite late.”

What if I told you that the child sitting on Epstein's lap, the teenager he French-kissed, the girl whose skin he covered with fragments from Nabokov's Lolita, the one who had an entire corridor filled with her pictures in one of his properties, who appeared in every framed photograph on his desk and whose name is on the CD-ROMs, the only woman Epstein said he would ever marry – what if that girl is the daughter Bill Gates mentions? And that she and her mother were Epstein's main romantic interests and most percussive tools?

sschueller•3w ago

Is it able to handle a much larger dataset? Only a tiny fraction of data has been release from what is looks like.

jellyotsiro•3w ago

yes! once for files come out, I will add them right away

thecopy•3w ago

Reminder that only 1-2% of the files have been released.

Terr_•3w ago

Yep: Breaking his campaign promises, in violation of the deadlines imposed by US Federal law, and with unlawful levels of redaction.

mschuster91•3w ago

A case can be made to discuss if the deadlines imposed by that law are actually achievable with humans and an acceptable degree of errors (i.e. overredaction, improper/recoverable redaction, and underredaction).

That's also why many "large" criminal cases only have a very limited subset of the initial charges make it to trial (often to understandable public outrage). The larger the case, the more evidence material has to be sifted through to make an airtight case, so a lot of it is dropped before the trial to secure a conviction at all.

Basically Al Capone, rinse and repeat - they got him on taxes because that's far easier to prove than ordering or committing a murder to the required degree of certainty.

The interests of the victims, their families and the general public are different from the interests of the government... the victims/families/public want justice for the unique crime they were subject to, the government just wants to lock up the bad guy for as long (or as short, let's be clear) as possible.

dylan604•3w ago

> A case can be made to discuss if the deadlines imposed by that law are actually achievable with humans and an acceptable degree of errors (i.e. overredaction, improper/recoverable redaction, and underredaction).

But just a few months ago, they came out and said there were no more documents to release, now there are too many documents that it's not humanly possible to release the documents in said time frame?

mschuster91•3w ago

> But just a few months ago, they came out and said there were no more documents to release

That lie is a different but just as pressing problem. But that, at least, is far easier to hold the responsible people accountable... assuming of course someone actually wants to dive into that rabbit hole, and current Congress doesn't look like it will. Maybe after the mid-terms there will be some movement if the shift is serious enough, but for now I'll assume the worst case that either no one will be held accountable, or Trump will issue a blanket pardon again.

wartywhoa23•3w ago

The question is not how to analyze that, it's how to prosecute those who are above the law.

7bit•3w ago

In order to which you must analyze the files.

tyre•3w ago

Not really. We know many people involved and they’re not going to get prosecuted. Analysis is not accountability.

delusional•3w ago

How hard do I need to analyze the files for Bill Gates, Donald Trump, and Bill Clinton to be sentenced to work night shift at McDonalds for minimum wage for the rest of their lives?

yuppiepuppie•3w ago

When first reading OSS, I thought this was going to be an Office of Strategic Services AI [0] agent :)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services

sebastiennight•3w ago

...whose most famous agent, OSS 117, predates James Bond by four years btw:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OSS_117

Imustaskforhelp•3w ago

Please create a way to share conversations. I think that can be really relevant here

I am not a huge fan of AI but I allow this use case. This is really good in my opinion

Allowing the ability to share convo's, I hope you can also make those convo's be able to archived in web.archive.org/wayback machine

So I am thinking it instead of having some random UUID, it can have something like https://duckduckgo.com/?q=hello+test (the query parameter for hello test)

Maybe its me but archive can show all the links archived by it of a particular domain, so if many people asks queries and archives it, you almost get a database of good queries and answers. Archive features are severely underrated in many cases

Good luck for your project!

jellyotsiro•3w ago

Shareable conversations would definitely make the tool more useful yeah. I really like the query parameter approach over UUIDs so it would make links human-readable

axegon_•3w ago

As many others pointed out, the released files are nearly nothing compared to the full dataset. Personally I've been fiddling a lot with OSINT and analytics over the publicly available Reddit data(a considerable amount of my spare time over the last year) and the one thing I can say is that LLMs are under-performing(huge understatement) - they are borderline useless compared to traditional ML techniques. But as far as LLMs go, the best performers are the open source uncensored models(the most uncensored and unhinged), while the worst performers are the proprietary and paid models, especially over the last 2-3 months: they have been nerfed into oblivion - to the extent where simple prompts like "who is eligible to vote in US presidential elections" is considered a controversial question. So in the unlikely event that the full files are released, I personally would look at the traditional NLP techniques long before investing any time into LLMs.

dmos62•3w ago

What use-cases gave you disappointing results? Did you build some kind of RAG?

mariogintili•3w ago

what are the most unhinged and uncensored models out there?

jellyotsiro•3w ago

Open source models with minimal safety fine tuning or Grok

apercu•3w ago

Grok is arguably not uncensored, it’s re-aligned to a specific narrative lane.

“Uncensored” is simply a branding trick that a lot of seemingly intelligent people seem to fall for.

kanzure•3w ago

Wait, is abliteration actually just a branding trick? That doesn't sound correct.

apercu•3w ago

My post was sociological - yours is technical.

Are you on purpose not having the same conversation or are you confused as to whether or not I think abliteration itself is marketing?

axegon_•3w ago

Saying grok is uncensored is like saying that deepseek is uncensored. If anything deepseek is probably less censored than grok. The doplin family has given me the best results, though mostly in niche cases.

jellyotsiro•3w ago

On the limited dataset: Completely agree - the public files are a fraction of what exists and I should have mentioned that it is not all files but all publicly available ones. But that's exactly why making even this subset searchable matters. The bar right now is people manually ctrl+F-ing through PDFs or relying on secondhand claims. This at least lets anyone verify what is public.

On LLMs vs traditional NLP: I hear you, and I've seen similar issues with LLM hallucination on structured data. That's why the architecture here is hybrid:

- Traditional exact regex/grep search for names, dates, identifiers - Vector search for semantic queries - LLM orchestration layer that must cite sources and can't generate answers without grounding

sebastiennight•3w ago

> can't generate answers without grounding

"can't" seems like quite a strong claim. Would you care to elaborate?

I can see how one might use a JSON schema that enforces source references in the output, but there is no technique I'm aware of to constrain a model to only come up with data based on the grounding docs, vs. making up a response based on pretrained data (or hallucinating one) and still listing the provided RAG results as attached reference.

It feels like your "can't" would be tantamount to having single-handedly solved the problem of hallucinations, which if you did, would be a billion-dollar-plus unlock for you, so I'm unsure you should show that level of certainty.

plagiarist•3w ago

I understand uncensored in the context of LLMs, what is unhinged? Fine tuning specifically to increase likelihood of entering controversial topics without specific prompting?

tyre•3w ago

Yes, or catering to a preferred world view different from the mainstream SOTA model worldview.

Look for anything that includes the word “woke” in any marketing /tweet material

WhitneyLand•3w ago

That doesn’t sound right. What model treats this as a controversial question?

"who is eligible to vote in US presidential elections"

pixl97•3w ago

Grok: "After Elon personally tortured me I have to say women are not allowed to vote in the US"

axegon_•3w ago

This particular one: I suspect openAI uses different models in different regions so I do get an answer but I also want to point out that I am not paying a cent so I can only test those out on the free ones. For the first time ever, I can honestly say that I am glad I don't live in the US but a friend who does sent me a few of his latest encounters and that particular question yielded something along the lines of "I am not allowed to discuss such controversial topics, bla, bla, bla, you can easily look it up online". If that is the case, I suspect people will soon start flooding VPN providers and companies such as OpenAI will roll that out worldwide. Time will tell I guess.

WhitneyLand•3w ago

1. I tried a couple OpenAI models under a paid account with no issue:

“In U.S. presidential elections, you’re eligible to vote if you meet all of these…” goes on to list all criteria.

2. No issue found with Gemini or Claude either.

3. I tried to search for this issue online as you suggested and haven’t been able to find anything.

Not seeing any evidence this is currently a real issue.

spacecadet•3w ago

Its true. We have basically moved off the platforms for agentic security and host our own models now... OpenAI was still the fastest, cheapest, working platform for it up until middle of last year. Hey OpenAI, thank us later for blasting your platform with threat actor data and behavior for several years! :P

slfreference•3w ago

All these attempts looks like emulation of "Pen (software) is mightier than Sword" or that only if more people believed in the cause, we would be close to resolution.

Remember folks, soft power is nothing in front of hard power.

gregw2•3w ago

Feedback: This agent didn't really work well when I tried it with a specific non-famous, but definitely publicly known individual with known connections to Epstein. I'd rather not post a specific name here. I found more documents with keyword searches. I guess it did get me to the conclusion that there wasn't much out there, but it didn't even mention stuff that showed up in name keyword searches.

To replicate though, you might look at the list of individuals mentioned in the brief email from Epstein to Bannon a couple weeks before Esptein died containing ~30 names and phow your engine works with each one. See how a keyword search does on library of congress vs your agent.

jellyotsiro•3w ago

Thanks for testing this. The Bannon email from June 30, 2019 is in there (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029622). Good stress test idea.

Couple things happening:

Semantic search limitation: Less-famous names don't have strong embeddings, so it defaults to general connections rather than specific mentions Keyword search gap: You're right — raw grep can catch exact names I'm missing

VladVladikoff•3w ago

I saw a similar problem. Roger Schank had some conversations with Epstein and the emails can be seen in Epsteinvisualizer.com but your site claimed there was no emails or connection. To be fair to Roger, who was an AI legend of his time and someone I knew personally before his untimely death, he really was not a pedo, and most likely never got involved with the girls, I think him and Epstein just talked about AI and education mostly.

ck2•3w ago

Not sure if this is possible but it should be known there is a COMPLETE INDEX to the original Epstein Files

(not including the new millions upon millions of documents and photos)

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.47...

from a 2017 FOIA they had to provide it

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters/2025-08-08/here-s...

Might be possible for machine-learning to determine what is missing?

(which is basically 99% missing as we already know less than 1% released)

DanielScharf•3w ago

Super Cool!

darepublic•3w ago

This is just feeding the files into a rag db I assume? I hope? And then you can use any decent model in front of it

jellyotsiro•3w ago

rag is not a core! we use both semantic search but combining with fts, grep, direct read, etc.

kevin_thibedeau•3w ago

It would be nice to have a way to query the exposed redactions to audit which of them were in violation of the Act.

onionisafruit•3w ago

> I'm experiencing technical difficulties accessing the archive at the moment. The search tools are returning internal server errors.

looks like it’s getting hugged

nathan_compton•3w ago

Why the heck does this start with some sort of video bullshit?

sjreese•3w ago

Very good; HOW TO DETECT & STOP STATE-PROTECTED CRIMINAL ENTERPRISES WHAT WORKED IN THE EPSTEIN CASE: Proven Tactics 1. COURAGEOUS LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT Chief Michael Reiter & Detective Joseph Recarey

What they did:

Refused political pressure ("I told him those suggestions were improper and could constitute a crime") Documented everything - Built case with 50+ consistent victim statements Escalated when blocked - Went to FBI when State Attorney compromised Personally supported victims - Wrote letters on police letterhead Lesson: One honest cop with integrity can make a difference, even against billionaires

2. INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM Julie K. Brown - Miami Herald's "Perversion of Justice" (2018)

What she did:

Interviewed 60+ women who were victims Obtained sealed court documents through legal channels Connected patterns across jurisdictions Published despite risk - Exposed the 2008 plea deal cover-up Direct Result:

Judge ruled prosecutors violated victims' rights (Feb 2019) Acosta resigned (July 2019) Epstein re-arrested (July 6, 2019) 2019 federal indictment Lesson: Persistent investigative journalism with victim testimony can reopen cases

3. PRO BONO VICTIMS' RIGHTS ATTORNEYS Brad Edwards & Paul Cassell

What they did:

Pro bono representation starting 2008 Used Crime Victims' Rights Act (18 U.S.C. § 3771) - sued federal government Won - Judge ruled 2008 plea deal violated victims' rights Exposed systemic failures through legal discovery Lesson: Civil litigation can succeed where criminal prosecution fails

4. VICTIMS SPEAKING OUT (Despite Intimidation) Virginia Giuffre, Courtney Wild, & 100+ Others

What they did:

Broke silence publicly (2011 - Giuffre to Mail on Sunday) Provided consistent testimony (50+ women with same story) Persisted despite mockery (early accusers ridiculed) United for compensation (100+ filed claims by 2020) Result:

Courtney Wild Crime Victims' Rights Reform Act (2019) Epstein Victims Compensation Fund - $50 million paid out Lesson: Mass victim testimony is powerful evidence

5. FOIA REQUESTS & DOCUMENT TRANSPARENCY What worked:

2015: Judge unsealed details in underage sex lawsuit July 2, 2024: Grand jury docs from 2006 unsealed FOIA mechanisms forced document releases Lesson: Public records requests can expose cover-ups

6. CONGRESSIONAL OVERSIGHT July-August 2025 Actions

What they did:

House Resolution 119-581 - Rep. Thomas Massie forced DOJ file release Subpoenas to former AGs - House Oversight demanded accountability Public hearings - August 25, 2025 subpoena to Acosta Lesson: Congressional pressure can force reluctant agencies to act

PRACTICAL ACTIONS ANYONE CAN TAKE DETECTION PHASE 1. Follow the Money Tax haven connections (Virgin Islands, Switzerland, Bermuda) Unusually high wire transfers ($1.9 billion in Epstein's case) Shell companies with vague descriptions ("DNA database & data mining") No clear income source for lavish lifestyle Offshore legal structures (Appleby, etc.) 2. Watch for Protection Patterns Charges downgraded mysteriously (federal → state misdemeanor) "Unusual" prosecutorial decisions (Chief Reiter's words) Grand jury recommendations ignored Plea deals sealed from victims Work release for serious crimes Short sentences despite evidence 3. Identify Systematic Patterns Multiple victims with same story (Reiter: "50-something 'shes' and one 'he'") Victim intimidation (private investigators, surveillance) Attempts to discredit victims ("lifestyle" arguments) Evidence suppression ACTION PHASE A. If You're a Victim or Witness: 1. Document Everything

Keep contemporaneous notes Save all communications Photograph/video evidence safely Secure cloud backups (multiple locations) 2. Report Through Multiple Channels

Local police (get case numbers) FBI (if interstate/international) State AG office Congressional representatives IRS whistleblower program (financial crimes) 3. Find Pro Bono Legal Help

Victims' rights attorneys Civil rights organizations Law school clinics National Crime Victim Law Institute 4. Safety First

Secure housing if threatened Protective orders Alert police to threats Document intimidation attempts B. If You're a Journalist/Researcher: 1. Use FOIA Aggressively

Federal agencies: FOIA requests (5 U.S.C. § 552) State/local: Public records laws Court documents: Motions to unseal OGIS mediation if agencies delay (average 138 delay cases/year) 2. Interview Pattern

Multiple independent sources Corroborating victims Former employees/insiders Document experts 3. Build Coalitions

Partner with victims' rights groups Coordinate with other journalists Academic researchers Forensic accountants C. If You're Law Enforcement: 1. Follow Chief Reiter's Example

Refuse political pressure Document interference attempts Escalate to federal authorities if local blocked Support victims personally Build thorough cases (multiple witnesses) 2. Protect Investigation

Secure evidence chain Multiple backup copies Avoid single points of failure Document surveillance of investigators D. If You're a Concerned Citizen: 1. Support Transparency

Contact representatives - demand investigations Submit FOIA requests - public has right to records Support investigative journalism - subscribe, donate Attend public meetings - ask questions 2. Amplify Victims' Voices

Share credible reporting (not conspiracy theories) Support compensation funds Contact representatives about victims' rights Vote for accountability 3. Financial Pressure

Report suspicious activity to: IRS Whistleblower Office (if tax fraud) FinCEN (financial crimes) State banking regulators JPMorgan paid $105M after USVI AG sued - banks CAN be held accountable LEGAL TOOLS THAT WORK 1. Crime Victims' Rights Act (18 U.S.C. § 3771) Right to notification Right to be heard Right to restitution Can sue federal government for violations 2. RICO (18 U.S.C. § 1962) Sue criminal enterprises Triple damages Attorney fees covered 3. State Victims' Rights Laws 30+ states have constitutional protections Some allow appeals/interventions 4. Civil Lawsuits Even if criminal case fails Lower burden of proof Discovery process exposes evidence WARNING SIGNS OF STATE PROTECTION Check if investigation shows these red flags:

No IRS audits despite obvious tax fraud Federal prosecutors give sweetheart deals Intelligence agency connections mentioned Political figures intervene in investigation Evidence "disappears" or is suppressed Victims not notified of proceedings Work release for serious crimes Sealed plea agreements Co-conspirators immunized (like Epstein's deal) Investigators surveilled/threatened WHAT ULTIMATELY BROKE THE EPSTEIN CASE The combination of:

Honest local cops (Reiter/Recarey) who built the evidence Pro bono lawyers (Edwards/Cassell) who sued for 11 years Investigative journalist (Julie K. Brown) who exposed it Courageous victims (Giuffre, Wild, 100+ others) who spoke out Court unsealing documents (2015, 2024) Congressional pressure (2019, 2025) No single actor could do it alone. It required a coalition.

KEY LESSONS What Doesn't Work: Trusting institutions to self-police Going through "proper channels" alone Waiting for DOJ/FBI to act Staying silent out of fear

What Does Work: Multiple channels simultaneously (police + FBI + press + civil suits) Documentation (Reiter: "This was 50 'shes' and one 'he'") Persistence (Edwards/Cassell: 11 years pro bono) Public pressure (Miami Herald broke it open) Coalition building (victims + lawyers + press + Congress) Using existing laws creatively (Crime Victims' Rights Act)

RESOURCES Report Criminal Activity:

FBI: tips.fbi.gov IRS Whistleblower: irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office DOJ: justice.gov/actioncenter Legal Help:

National Crime Victim Law Institute: law.lclark.edu/centers/ncvli Crime Victims' Rights Clinic: Your local law school Media:

Investigative Reporters & Editors: ire.org ProPublica tips: propublica.org/tips FOIA Help:

OGIS (FOIA Ombudsman): archives.gov/ogis MuckRock: muckrock.com The Epstein case proves that even state-protected criminal enterprises CAN be exposed - but it requires courage, persistence, coalition-building, and using every legal tool available.

draworak•3w ago

Does anyone know how NIA is able to build up an index and feed it into an LLM? And can this be done locally also?

punkmonk7•2w ago

I built something similar: epsteinos.net

same thing but the ui makes it look like you're on his laptop

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