The Projects and the Epstein Forensic Finance Project
The Projects is an independent accountability research platform created by R. S. Taylor and attorney Anne Mitchell. Its main Epstein investigation, the Epstein Forensic Finance Project, analyzes financial records released by the United States Department of Justice and connects its findings to the original source documents.
The platform focuses on the money surrounding Jeffrey Epstein. It organizes bank records, wire transfers, suspicious activity reports, court exhibits, corporate records, offshore entities, emails, flight records, telephone records, and other evidence into searchable databases and visual investigations.
The Projects is not affiliated with a government agency, university, media organization, or law enforcement institution. Its conclusions should be evaluated by following every claim back to the cited evidence.
Snapshot
Name: The Projects
Primary Epstein investigation: Epstein Forensic Finance Project
Research system: TESS, meaning Taking Epstein Survivors Seriously
Research leads: R. S. Taylor and Anne Mitchell, Esq.
Institutional affiliation: None stated
Primary focus: Financial networks, shell companies, bank relationships, wire transfers, offshore structures, and institutional accountability
Evidence sources: DOJ Epstein files, House records, FBI records, court filings, financial records, flight records, the Panama Papers, the Paradise Papers, and ICIJ databases
Database access: Controlled access by request
Public access: Research narratives, methodology, visualizations, timelines, GitHub materials, and selected evidence findings
Website: The Projects
What Is The Projects?
The Projects describes itself as a collection of independent investigations built from public records.
Each investigation receives its own database designed around a specific body of evidence. The databases are forensic research tools rather than unrestricted public search engines.
The Epstein database is designed to connect names, companies, accounts, transactions, locations, and documents across multiple evidence collections. Search results reportedly connect directly to citable government records.
The system is intended for researchers, journalists, attorneys, congressional investigators, and other professionals who need traceable evidence.
Access to the complete research database is controlled. However, many of the project’s findings, methodologies, data narratives, and visualizations are publicly available through the main website and its public GitHub repository.
What Is TESS?
TESS stands for Taking Epstein Survivors Seriously.
The Projects presents TESS as the data engine behind its Epstein investigations. It searches and cross references financial records, emails, court documents, telephone records, flight information, media files, and other materials.
This survivor centered name reflects the project’s stated purpose. The goal is to use the released evidence to investigate systems, institutions, financial relationships, and unresolved questions surrounding Epstein’s operation.
TESS should not be confused with an official government investigative system. It is an independently developed research platform.
The Epstein Forensic Finance Project
The Epstein Forensic Finance Project is the most developed Epstein investigation published by The Projects.
The project reports that it has processed more than 1.47 million files containing approximately 2.87 million pages. Its listed corpus includes more than 1.124 million emails, approximately 204,000 general documents, 42,000 financial records, 23,000 court filings, 3,800 telephone records, and 3,600 flight records.
The project also reports 344 face identification clusters and 90 audio transcripts. Those materials reportedly include grand jury recordings, voicemail evidence, and prison telephone calls.
These figures are published by The Projects and describe its own database. They should not be treated as an independent government audit of the complete DOJ production.
A Difference in the Published File Counts
The Projects currently publishes two slightly different corpus totals.
Its main page reports 1,478,544 files. The dedicated Epstein Forensic Finance Project page reports 1,476,437 files.
That is a difference of 2,107 files.
The discrepancy could reflect database updates, different counting methods, duplicates, later additions, or an outdated page. The site does not clearly explain the difference.
Researchers citing the size of the database should identify which page and date they used. A careful description is that the project reports processing more than 1.47 million files.
This is an important reminder that large research databases change over time. Counts should be treated as versioned statistics rather than permanent totals.
The Financial Ledger
The Projects reports a financial ledger containing 6,397 unique records with a combined value of approximately $2.308 billion.
It identifies 481 wire transfers as verified and reports records involving at least 14 financial institutions. The project also maps eight primary shell entities and more than 95 additional entities.
The reported $2.308 billion is not an allegation that every transaction was illegal.
A transaction may represent an incoming payment, outgoing payment, internal transfer, investment, loan, asset purchase, bank movement, or repeated appearance of money across related records. Dollar volume should not automatically be interpreted as profit, personal income, criminal proceeds, or money laundering.
The project divides its records into verification levels based on the evidence supporting each entry. Its strongest entries rely on court exhibits, bank documents, Federal Reserve wire identifiers, suspicious activity reports, and matching records from multiple ledgers.
The Money Machine
The Money Machine is an interactive financial flow visualization.
It displays banks, Epstein controlled companies, operators, recipients, and other entities as connected nodes. The width of each connection represents the reported dollar volume attributed to that relationship.
The visualization helps users see how funds moved through multiple accounts and entities. It can also identify heavily connected organizations and gaps where the available documents do not reveal the original source or final destination of funds.
A visual connection does not necessarily represent misconduct. It means that the project found a financial relationship in the records included in its database.
Every significant connection should be verified through the underlying bank document, court exhibit, or EFTA file before publication.
The Five Main Financial Workstreams
The Epstein Forensic Finance Project organizes its investigation into five related research areas.
The Money Machine reconstructs financial flows between banks, companies, operators, and recipients.
The Shell Entity Ledger identifies companies, trusts, partnerships, and other legal structures connected to Epstein’s finances.
The Panama Papers cross reference compares names and organizations in the Epstein records with offshore data published by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
The Verified Wires Ledger tracks wire transfers supported by bank records and other identifying information.
The Verification Layer requires source documents and attorney review for findings published by the project.
Together, these workstreams attempt to move beyond individual documents and reconstruct the broader financial architecture visible in the released records.
Major Public Investigations
The Projects publishes its major findings as numbered data narratives.
Narrative 19, We Audited $2.3 Billion in Epstein Financial Records, presents the project’s overall financial reconstruction. It examines 6,397 transactions, banking relationships, Epstein controlled entities, employees, associates, attorneys, and other recipients or sources of money.
Narrative 20, known as The Verification Wall, examines whether extracted transactions can be confirmed through primary bank records and court evidence.
Narrative 21, The Panama Papers Connection, compares Epstein related entities and people with the Panama Papers, Paradise Papers, and Offshore Leaks databases.
Narrative 22 examines public filings connected with Liquid Funding Ltd. and asks what financial institutions disclosed about the entity.
The project also publishes a financial timeline and a searchable collection of data story releases.
Liquid Funding Ltd.
One major subject examined by The Projects is Liquid Funding Ltd., a Bermuda structured finance company.
The project cites records identifying Jeffrey Epstein as a director and chairman of the company. It also cites public filings reporting that Bear Stearns held an approximate 40 percent equity interest in Liquid Funding in 2002.
A DOJ record identified as EFTA01300058 contains documents connected with Liquid Funding and Financial Trust Company. Researchers can locate the source through the EFTA01300058 evidence search.
The project cross references these records with public corporate filings and offshore database entries.
The documents may establish corporate positions, ownership interests, transactions, or addresses. They do not by themselves prove that the company was used for trafficking, money laundering, or another crime.
Epstein’s Shell Entity Network
The project maps companies and trusts that appeared in Epstein’s financial records.
Frequently examined entities include Southern Trust Company, Financial Trust Company, Plan D LLC, LSJ LLC, LSJE LLC, NES LLC, Haze Trust, Gratitude America, Hyperion Air, Neptune LLC, Zorro Management, and entities managed through HBRK Associates.
The Epstein Data shell entity map provides another evidence based overview of these organizations and links them to specific EFTA records.
A shell company is not automatically illegal. Companies and trusts may be created for property ownership, investment management, aircraft ownership, payroll, estate planning, or liability protection.
The important questions are who controlled the entity, where its money originated, where the money went, what services were provided, and whether the structure concealed activity from banks, regulators, victims, or law enforcement.
Leon Black Financial Records
The Projects devotes substantial attention to payments connected with Leon Black, his family entities, and Epstein controlled companies.
The underlying evidence includes bank records and transaction charts documenting payments to Southern Trust Company and Plan D LLC.
The Epstein Data transaction chain for the Black financial records identifies source documents including EFTA00027019 and EFTA02730996.
One cited exhibit documents payments from Leon and Debra Black, Black Family Partners, Narrow Holdings, and BV70 LLC to Epstein related entities.
The existence of a payment does not establish that it funded criminal conduct. Leon Black has described the payments as compensation for financial, tax, estate planning, and related professional services. The scale, purpose, documentation, and timing of those payments remain significant subjects of public and legal scrutiny.
Richard Kahn and Financial Administration
The project’s network analysis also identifies accountant Richard Kahn as a major financial operator within Epstein’s organization.
Banking records, emails, suspicious activity reports, trust documents, and corporate filings connect Kahn and HBRK Associates with numerous Epstein controlled entities.
The Epstein Data Richard Kahn witness brief links his role to bank accounts, wire requests, corporate administration, trust management, and property expenses.
The evidence shows that Kahn held significant administrative responsibilities. His appearance in a financial record does not independently establish knowledge of Epstein’s sexual offenses.
Researchers should distinguish documented financial control from allegations about criminal intent.
Verification and Deduplication
One of the project’s most important contributions is its discussion of duplicate financial records.
The same wire transfer may appear in a confirmation, monthly statement, internal bank email, suspicious activity report, court exhibit, and later investigative summary.
Counting every appearance as a separate transaction can dramatically inflate the number and value of financial events.
The project reports using Federal Reserve IMAD numbers, transaction dates, amounts, account details, document identifiers, and cross ledger comparisons to identify repeated records.
This methodology is important because a large extracted total can look authoritative even when it contains duplicated statement balances, summary totals, or multiple copies of the same transfer.
The public project methodology explains its confidence levels and validation process.
What the Database Can Establish
The database can help identify transactions documented in released financial records.
It can connect a transaction to an account, company, bank, sender, recipient, date, amount, or wire identifier.
It can reveal recurring financial relationships and show how several entities appear within the same chain of records.
It can help researchers locate the primary evidence supporting a published financial claim.
It can also identify gaps where the available documents do not show where funds originated or where they ultimately went.
What the Database Cannot Establish
A database entry cannot prove criminal intent by itself.
A financial connection does not automatically establish participation in Epstein’s abuse or trafficking operation.
A large transaction is not automatically suspicious, illegal, or connected with sexual exploitation.
A name appearing in a bank record does not prove that the person understood every transaction involving an account or company.
An artificial intelligence response, extracted name, face cluster, or network connection should never replace review of the primary evidence.
The project’s own interpretations must be evaluated separately from the source documents on which they rely.
Controlled Database Access
The complete Epstein research database is not an unrestricted public search engine.
The Projects states that access is available by request for oversight, legal, press, and research purposes. The database reportedly operates on a private server, and information only leaves the system when a user intentionally exports it.
This model may help protect sensitive evidence and prevent bulk misuse. However, controlled access also means that outside researchers cannot independently test every search feature or reproduce every reported result without obtaining permission.
The project balances this limitation by publishing selected ledgers, methodology, visualizations, source references, and research narratives.
Submitting Evidence
Researchers who identify a significant EFTA document can use the project’s confidential tip form.
The form asks for the document reference, a description of the finding, and information about how the record was located. Providing an email address is optional.
Researchers should still avoid submitting survivor identifying information, private medical information, explicit material, or personal data that is not necessary to evaluate the document.
Evidence involving survivors should be handled according to trauma informed and survivor centered research practices.
How to Verify a Finding
Begin with the public narrative, visualization, or database result.
Record the transaction date, amount, sender, recipient, bank, company, and cited EFTA number.
Search the EFTA number through the Epstein Data research database.
Open the original evidence file and locate the relevant page.
Determine whether the document is a bank record, email, court exhibit, financial analysis, suspicious activity report, or secondary summary.
Check for duplicate copies of the same transaction.
Compare names, dates, account numbers, amounts, and wire identifiers.
Search for related court filings or regulatory records.
Only publish conclusions supported by the primary documents.
The EpsteinWiki search hub can help locate related biographies, companies, properties, court cases, and research tools.
Key Takeaways
The Projects is an independent research platform created by R. S. Taylor and Anne Mitchell.
Its Epstein Forensic Finance Project concentrates on financial records, shell entities, banks, wire transfers, and offshore connections.
The project reports processing more than 1.47 million files and approximately 2.87 million pages.
Its published financial ledger contains 6,397 records with a reported combined volume of approximately $2.308 billion.
That total represents transaction volume within the project’s methodology. It does not mean that $2.308 billion was criminal proceeds.
The project emphasizes source document attachment, attorney review, transaction verification, and duplicate detection.
Its complete research database requires approved access, but public narratives, visualizations, methodology, and GitHub materials are available.
The main and project pages currently report slightly different file totals. Researchers should date their citations and identify which figure they used.
Every financial claim should be verified through the original EFTA file.
Why The Projects Matters
The Projects approaches the Epstein records as a connected financial system rather than a collection of isolated names.
That approach helps researchers examine how money moved through banks, companies, trusts, attorneys, accountants, employees, properties, and international structures.
Its strongest contribution is not any single headline number. It is the effort to connect every financial claim with a document that another researcher can inspect.
The project also demonstrates why financial investigations require careful deduplication. A single transaction may appear across several records, and failing to recognize those copies can produce misleading totals.
The Projects offers a valuable roadmap. The primary evidence remains the destination.
Sources
- The Projects
- Epstein Forensic Finance Project
- The Projects Data Story Releases
- We Audited $2.3 Billion in Epstein Financial Records
- The Money Machine Interactive Visualization
- The Panama Papers Connection
- Epstein Forensic Finance GitHub Repository
- Epstein Financial Forensics Methodology
- Epstein Data Research Database
- EFTA01300058 Evidence Search
- Epstein Data Shell Entity Map
- Epstein Data Financial Transaction Chain
- Epstein Data Richard Kahn Witness Brief
- EpsteinWiki Search Hub
- EpsteinWiki Mapping the Epstein Network