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The Epstein 20 – There Are Now 20 People Connected To Epstein Who Have Wound Up Dead

A mere 20 people with connections to Epstein have been killed in recent years—the latest was last week.

Sorry, not killed. I meant to say “they chose to take their own lives rather than keep telling the world about the powerful men involved in a horrible sex trafficking enterprise.” Oh, and some of them died from “natural causes” like the highly contagious Rope Around Neck Syndrome or the tragically rare Fall From Tree Disease.

Here’s the list that should be on the front page of every newspaper but isn’t.

  1. Jeffrey Epstein – hanged in jail cell with a mysterious vanishing noose – 2019
  2. Jean-Luc Brunel – French fashion designer and Epstein co-conspirator – also hanged in his jail cell – 2022
  3. Carolyn Andriano – Epstein survivor who gave testimony that helped convict Ghislaine Maxwell – drug overdose – 2023
  4. Virginia Giuffre – The most prominent Epstein victim and accuser – stated publicly she would never take her own life then took her own life – this came months after surviving a bus hitting her – 2025
  5. Daniel Siad – “Modeling scout” who worked extensively with Epstein – was under investigation in France when he had a “heart attack” – 2026
  6. Efrain “Stone” Reyes – Epstein’s final prison cellmate who provided information to authorities – died of “Covid complications” – 2020
  7. Mark Middleton – White House aide to Epstein buddy Bill Clinton – he facilitated several events with Epstein – died from both hanging and shooting himself, which means he either shot himself and then got to work on the hanging or hanged himself and then, while hanging there, shot himself – 2022
  8. Steven Hoffenberg – Business associate who alleged Epstein’s involvement in his Ponzi scheme – 2022
  9. Ken Starr – Epstein’s lawyer during his 2008 plea deal – 2022
  10. Roy Black – Epstein’s other lawyer during his 2008 plea deal – 2025
  11. Umar Dzhabrailov – Russian senator with connections to Epstein – died of Gunshot To Chest Disease – 2026
  12. Simon Andriesz – Banker and whistleblower who revealed business ties between Epstein and Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick – died by tripping and falling into a noose – 2026
  13. Thomas Bowers – Former Deutsche Bank wealth management executive with ties to Epstein – died by hanging – 2019
  14. Steve Bing – Film producer and political donor who reportedly contacted the FBI about Epstein – died by accidentally jumping out of a Los Angeles high-rise – 2020
  15. Valentin Broeksmit – Deutsche Bank whistleblower, possibly had direct information about Epstein’s business transactions – died by fall from a tree… after getting locked in a breezeway… at a middle school he had no connection to… on a Sunday night… when the school wasn’t open… – 2022
  16. Alberto Pinto – Epstein’s interior designer – 2012
  17. Al Seckel – Organized events for Epstein – died after enjoying a long, scenic walk off a 100-foot cliff – 2015
  18. Joseph Recarey – police officer who first built the case against Epstein – died from sleeping at age 50 (reported as complications from sleep apnea) – 2018
  19. Leigh “Skye” Patrick – Epstein survivor – died of an “accidental” overdose – 2018
  20. Annabelle Neilson – Socialite closely tied to Epstein – died of a stroke – 2018

So there you have it—the 20 people with close ties and information on Jeffrey Epstein and his associates who have died in recent years. I left out the few people who were ancient (one was 95 years old) and the people who died before Epstein’s first 2008 arrest. But this list, of course, can’t include other possible victims who died even before they were able to come forward to reveal anything.

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Tusk Cries ‘Russian Interference’ As Opposition Pushes No-Confidence Vote For Court Takeover

Recent days have seen Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk thrust into the international spotlight after what’s been widely dubbed a forced takeover of what’s supposed to be an independent top court, the Constitutional Tribunal.

Another key official, Poland’s Supreme Court First President Zbigniew Kapiński, has joined the growing chorus of those condemning Tusk’s actions as tantamount to orchestrating a coup d’état.

“These actions bear the hallmarks of a coup d’état,“ Kapiński declared Monday, in reference to the chaotic events kicked into motion Friday night.

According to more of Kapiński’s remarks as quoted in The Hungarian Conservative:

Kapiński insisted that Bogdan Święczkowski remained the legitimate president of the Tribunal and warned that the government could attempt a similar takeover of the Supreme Court itself. Appointed to his current position by President Karol Nawrocki in May, he argued that nothing comparable had happened since the introduction of martial law in communist Poland.

The Supreme Court chief has also convened an extraordinary General Assembly of judges for Tuesday, 3 November, to discuss threats to Poland’s constitutional order and adopt an official position on the crisis.

When The Economist notes that democracy is being blown up…

Poland’s Constitutional Tribunal is supposed to embody democratic stability, but has spent the past decade as a battleground for fights between populists and liberals. The latest conflict looks like a full-blown constitutional crisis.

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Canadian Propaganda System Goes Full-on To Justify War Against Iran

Canada is laying the groundwork for a new round of US/Israeli violence against Iran. This week Ottawa claimed Iran is occupying UAE territory, suggested Iran was funding attacks in Canada and signed a security accord that could draw us into the aggression.

On Wednesday Prime Minister Mark Carney announced that Canada believes Iran is “occupying” the islands of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb. In a joint statement with the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Canada’s Prime Minister backed UAE’s position claiming the three small, strategically important islands in the eastern Persian Gulf near the Strait of Hormuz were under Iranian “occupation”.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baqaei denounced Ottawa’s “brazen and interventionist” position. For their part the Iranian Canadian Congress said it “strongly objects to the characterization of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb, and Lesser Tunb as UAE territories ‘under occupation’, a statement which undermines Iran’s sovereignty and territorial integrity and risks further unlawful aggression against Iran.”

Even hardline critics of the Iranian government also wrote articles, launched a petition and rallied in Toronto on Sunday against Canada’s position. Some of the opponents of the Islamic Republic pointed out that Ottawa didn’t publish any legal explanation for its support of UAE’s territorial claims over islands Iran has formally controlled since just before UAE’s 1971 creation and prior to the Islamic Republic.

As Ottawa has put Iran’s territorial integrity into question, it has also portrayed a country bombed tens of thousands of times recently as an aggressor. A number of reports linked to Canada’s new National Security Strategy suggested Iran has been attacking Canada (in reality, Ottawa has severed relations, labeled Iran a state sponsor of terror, listed part of its army a terror group, seized its diplomatic assets and imposed dozens of rounds of sanctions in support of a long-standing Zionist/imperial campaign against Iran).

On Tuesday CBC published “Why a spate of gun-for-hire shootings in Toronto were likely paid for by Iran. Attacks on Jewish, U.S. and anti-regime targets fit worldwide pattern of violence.” Despite the bold headline, there’s no evidence presented in the article linking Iran to the shootings. In a complaint to the CBC, Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East’s Media Accountability Project noted, “What is not established through the facts in the article is any concrete link to Iran.” (Does anyone believe Tehran benefits to the point of paying random individuals shooting up various institutions in Toronto?)

Politically the CBC story served its purposes. In response, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre reiterated his call to deport Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) operatives and the claims also boosted the anti-Iran angle in coverage of Canada’s new National Security Strategy.

Two days later the front of the Globe and Mail read: “Officials flag unprecedented security threats against Jewish community.” The third paragraph of an article tied to the release of the National Security Strategy mentioned “threats from Iran”. In another story this week, CSIS officials reportedly told Iran International they had “disrupted potentially lethal threats against people in Canada in multiple cases involving Iranian intelligence or proxies.”

Concurrently, Liberal MPs Anthony Housefather and Judy Sgro told the House of Commons Iran was a threat and criminal. Housefather announced a parliamentary petition calling the Iranian government a danger to Canadians while Sgro spoke “in solidarity with the courageous people and political prisoners of Iran” and “the ‘no to execution Tuesdays’ campaign.”

As politicians and media focused on Iran’s purported crimes, Canada hosted the leader of a deeply autocratic regional enemy that’s contributed significantly to violence in Sudan, Libya and Yemen. But there was little discussion of UAE monarch Mohamed bin Zayed’s repression and violence since the UAE is close to the US and Israel and has large wealth funds.

The Carney government signed a trade accord, launched formal negotiations on an extradition treaty and deepened its military ties to a small state with significant US and Israeli soldiers present there. According to the official release, the Canada-UAE Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) on Defence Cooperation “modernises the Canada-UAE Defence Cooperation Arrangement for enhanced bilateral cooperation on defence, including military education and training, defence policy dialogue, joint exercises, defence industrial cooperation, cyber security, and information exchanges, while creating a Joint Military Committee to guide its implementation.”

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NASA’s 1.5 Ton Spacecraft Set For Imminent Uncontrolled Reentry

NASA’s space telescope that tracks gamma-ray bursts has experienced an “ongoing attitude control issue” according to the space agency. A separate report from solar tracker website SpaceWeather warns the spacecraft is expected “to fall out of the sky” in the very near term.

“NASA’s Swift observatory is about to fall out of the sky. The 1.5-ton spacecraft spent nearly 22 years observing gamma-ray bursts. Now it is expected to reenter Earth’s atmosphere within days, creating a fireball that could even be visible in daylight (magnitude -8 to -10),” SpaceWeather wrote on its website.

SpaceWeather continued:

NASA’s Space Weather Operational Readiness Development Center predicts reentry on Nov. 3rd at 16:18 UTC +/- 12 hours. The Aerospace Corporation says Nov. 4th at 09:30 UTC +/- 26 hours. Uncontrolled reentries are hard to pin down, and the orbit is decaying fast. Only in the final hours will we know for sure when and where it will re-enter.

Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and southern Mexico are in the potential re-entry zone. Swift’s orbit is tilted 21 degrees to the equator, so debris can only come down between latitudes 21N and 21S. That band is mostly ocean, so the odds still favor a harmless splashdown.

Most of Swift will burn up in the fireball. But according to chief scientist Brad Cenko, some tungsten pieces and the observatory’s mirrors could survive.

NASA tried to save Swift. In July, Katalyst Space launched a robotic spacecraft named LINK to rendezvous with Swift and boost it higher. The mission failed. Meanwhile, solar activity puffed up Earth’s upper atmosphere, dragging Swift down faster than expected.

Shawn Domagal-Goldman, director of the Astrophysics Division at NASA, told USA Today that the spacecraft played “a major role in advancing our understanding of the changing universe and was part of a revolution in astrophysics that showed how critical rapid-response observations are to the entire community,” adding, “Swift leaves us with an extraordinary archive of multiwavelength observations that will fuel new discoveries for decades more.”

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California Jail Goes on Three-Hour Lockdown Rather Than Hand Criminal Illegal Aliens to ICE, Monterey County Supervisor Tells Agent They Will Not Release Anyone When ICE is Present

The Monterey County Jail in Salinas was visited by ICE agents on Tuesday for a targeted operation seeking three individuals with prior arrests for DUI, drug offenses, and providing false identification.

Instead of working with them to facilitate transfers, the jail was placed on lockdown for roughly three hours, suspending new bookings and inmate releases while a crowd of protesters and observers gathered outside.

ICE left without taking anyone into custody during the standoff, and the sheriff’s office has indicated that they would do it again.

The three criminal illegal aliens in question were Eduardo Castro-Lopez (also known as Jordan Eduardo Yac), Jose Luis Quinones (also known as Jose Manuel Garcia), and Angelina Ramirez-Sepulveda.

An ICE spokesperson told Border Hawk that “what should have been a simple, routine operation quickly went sideways.”

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US Attacks Iran’s Qeshm Island On Election Eve

Trump Bombs Qeshm Island

Since Sunday into Monday, Iran headlines were driven by a return to ‘peace talks imminent’ claims, pushing down oil prices; however, late in the day we learn via official channels speaking to The Wall Street Journal that President Trump just bombed Qeshm Island earlier the same day.

This bold and risky act came right on the eve of the midterm elections, at a moment the war remains deeply unpopular with voters. But interestingly, Trump didn’t openly announce the attack, like with some prior escalations and bombings.

“The U.S. attacked Iran’s Qeshm Island on Monday, U.S. officials said, in the latest of a series of limited strikes Washington has secretly carried out against the country in recent weeks as President Trump touted the possibility of a diplomatic deal,” WSJ writes. The paper further underscores that he spent the whole day signaling there won’t be a renewed bombing campaign against Iran any time soon:

The assault follows comments by Trump playing down the possibility of a return to war with Iran after Tuesday’s midterm elections.

“We had a war with Iran. We won,” Trump told reporters Monday. “I don’t know if you even call it a war because we haven’t been doing any fighting for months.”

But the U.S. has been engaged in smaller-scale strikes against Iran for several weeks, officials said, with explosions reported around Qeshm island on Monday on social media. Some of the officials described the assaults as defensive in nature to prevent Iran from having the freedom to attack commercial ships in the Strait of Hormuz. .

So there’s clearly a political reason for the administration not officially reporting such strikes. It would certainly negate any attempt to portray de-escalation in the conflict.

“The U.S. has been purposefully keeping the campaign quiet so as not to signal any intention of resuming major combat operations,” one official speaking to the Journal says.

Trump Says ‘No Rush’ on Renewing Iran War

On midterm election eve, President Trump is seeking to appear confident and is trying to reassure voters. He told Axios in a phone interview published Monday afternoon that he’s “in no rush” to decide whether to resume attacks on Iran.

There’s lately been an avalanche of speculation saying that he’s likely to order a new bombing campaign soon after the midterm vote on Tuesday. There are also reports saying that Israel’s Netanyhu is strongly lobbying for renewing the war. Of course, Trump knows the war is deeply unpopular with the average voter (on both sides of the aisle) right now, and so the obvious attempts at ‘calming’ the populace…

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Campaign Worker for Abdul El-Sayed Among Those Arrested by the FBI in Michigan for Terrorizing Jewish Community Leaders and University Officials

Back in June, the FBI arrested eight people at the University of Michigan for engaging in an ongoing campaign of terror against Jewish community leaders and officials at the University of Michigan.

Over this weekend, four more people were arrested as part of the same investigation.

It has now been revealed that one of the original eight arrested by the FBI was a campaign worker for Abdul El-Sayed.

Anyone surprised?

From the New York Post:

A former Abdul El-Sayed campaign worker was among the dozen anti-Israel activists accused of terrorizing members of Michigan’s Jewish community, according to feds.

Mariam Odeh, 24, was one of eight included in the original rounds of indictments by the US Attorney’s Office for allegedly threatening University of Michigan officials in an attempt to force the school to cut ties with Israel, the US Attorney’s Office in Eastern Michigan said.

The number of conspirators grew to 12 Friday when four more alleged co-conspirators were indicted, federal prosecutors said.

Odeh, who was charged in June for her alleged role in the scheme, did a stint working for El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign, The Detroit News reported that same month.

She had been paid twice by the lefty candidate’s campaign, records obtained by the outlet showed.

An El-Sayed spokesperson later confirmed Odeh’s position as an hourly employee on the campaign for two weeks to the outlet.

The Dearborn, Michigan native left the campaign gig on April 15, after raking in nearly $750, El-Sayed spokesperson Roxie Richner told the paper.

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“The Height Of Hypocrisy”: Charity Founder Gets Eight Years For Embezzling Millions

The founder of a charity that helped low-income workers cover emergency bills has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison for spending millions of dollars in donations on himself. Keith Taylor, 59, of New York, founded Modest Needs around 2002, and U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon sentenced him, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced Wednesday. He pleaded guilty in August 2025 to defrauding the charity and its donors and to evading more than $1 million in federal income taxes.

Modest Needs was a 501(c)(3) that used crowd-sourced funding to help people living paycheck to paycheck with unexpected costs such as medical bills or a broken appliance. Prosecutors say Taylor embezzled more than $2.5 million from the charity and its donors since at least 2015 and used it to fund his own lifestyle.

The list of what the money bought is the heart of the case. Taylor regularly ate at Per Se, Jean-Georges, Masa and Marea, sometimes twice a day, and spent more than $320,000 of charity funds at New York restaurants and steakhouses. Donations also paid over $300,000 of the rent on a 30th-floor apartment in a midtown Manhattan skyscraper, more than $100,000 to food delivery services, and bills for his electronics and his own medical care. Another $270,000 went straight into his personal brokerage account.

“Keith Taylor embezzled millions from a charity for low-income families to pay for his own lavish lifestyle,” U.S. Attorney Jamie McDonald said. “This is the height of hypocrisy.” He added that Taylor “shattered the trust of those who believed in the mission of the charity, denying essential help to vulnerable individuals and families in genuine need.”

Taylor was arrested in June 2024, and prosecutors say the spending did not stop. He purportedly resigned and was barred from the charity’s bank accounts as a condition of pretrial release, yet he kept using its money for meals, medical expenses and the rent on the luxury apartment, in violation of those conditions.

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Hillary Clinton: Trump Has ‘Truly Lost the Plot of Being President’

Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said President Donald Trump has “truly lost the plot of being president for the American people.”

Cooper said, “How do you think he is as a candidate, when you see the guy you debated then and you see the person now, and with the press conference he gave today outside the reflecting pool and the plans and the decorations and the crafting projects, how how different is he?”

Clinton said, “Look, I think that he’s lost the plot. You know, back in 2016, ten years ago, think about that, he had a theory of the case. He knew how he wanted to present himself. He had people around him who at least had some ability to rein him in or to say no to him. He’s totally unfettered and unhinged now. And for him to go to the reflecting pool, one of the great failures of his efforts to redo Washington and stand there as though it was a huge success, and go on and on about all of his, you know, projects ripping up Washington, destroying the East Wing, building an arch that will interfere with air traffic control, navigation in and out of Washington. I mean, you can’t make this up. He is so focused on himself.”

She added, “He wants to build tributes to himself, in the image of himself. I mean, he’s truly lost the plot of being president for the American people.”

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Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ Says You Should Vote Democrat Because Ground Beef is $6.30 a Gallon

Ana Navarro of ‘The View’ is encouraging her social media followers to vote for Democrats, which is no surprise at all, even though the show touts her as a Republican.

In a recent video, Navarro must have been a little nervous because she says that ground beef is now $6.30 a gallon.

Ground beef comes in a gallon now? Who knew?

From Twitchy:

The View’s Ana Navarro took to social media on Monday with a USDA ‘Grade F’ get-out-the-vote message. She’s urging her fellow idiots to vote Democrat, of course. She sounds more sauced than usual. Apparently, she’s a fool when it comes to fuel. She says it’s getting expensive to put ground beef in our cars and trucks or pick up a few jugs of meat at the grocery store. Wut?

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