Do Epstein Emails Reveal Wexner as Co-Conspirator Kash Patel Said Never Existed?
BY JEFF SKINNER
STATEWIDE - A trove of emails provided by outlet Drop Site News completely contradict narratives published by The Wexner foundation, further validating him as a significant person of interest in the Epstein and Maxwell financial enterprise and trafficking network, despite decades of FBI failure to investigate or prosecute.
In August 2019, The Wexner foundation published a now discredited piece detailing what they argued was a complete list of Epstein’s involvement with the foundation and Leslie Wexner in general. The document argued that Epstein had effectively no contact with The Wexner Foundation after Epstein resigned from his position as chair of the foundation in 2007.
The paper went on to argue that Epstein “played no role in the management or administration of the Foundation’s operations,” had “no meaningful role in the Foundation’s budget [or] finances,” and “did not make decisions regarding the use of Foundation’s funds.”
Recent emails obtained by news outlet “Drop Site News” and provided in a searchable function here, completely overturn those previous statements showing Epstein was intimately involved in the foundations finances well beyond his official departure. The emails provided have been vetted and verified using forensic signatures as reported by Bloomberg News.
The emails confirm that Darren Indyke, who was Epstein’s personal lawyer and attorney for the Wexner Foundation, acted as a middleman in communications, covering Epstein’s foundation activities with attorney-client privilege. Indyke is also the executor of Epstein’s estate, which has been accused of obstruction for withholding privileged emails from civil lawsuits and congressional subpoenas.
The emails contained show that Epstein acted as effectively the boss of the Wexner empire long after his ‘official’ departure from the foundation and was the gatekeeper for all of Wexner’s money and holdings.
In multiple emails, Peg Ugland, the Wexner financial controller, repeatedly asks Indyke to ‘ask Jeffrey’ to approve money transfers between various holdings and philanthropic endeavors, marking him as the final authority in all Wexner financial matters.
Wexner himself even sent a direct email to Epstein offering his condolences, just four days prior to Epstein’s ‘sweetheart’ plea deal in 2008, telling Jeffrey he broke his first rule to ‘always be careful', to which Epstein replied 'no excuse'. The email seems to imply foreknowledge of Epstein's predilections despite Wexner's past statements to the contrary.
Emails also confirm that two weeks after Epstein had supposedly resigned as trustee of the Wexner foundation, Indyke sent a draft of a SEC filing that discloses who controls big blocks of stock in a public company for Epstein’s comment and approval, an action reserved for chair positions. Ironically, In the 2007 tax filing, Epstein was no longer named, replaced by Indyke himself as trustee.
Additionally evident in the emails is that Abigail Wexner, Leslie’s wife, took over large portions of the Foundation’s direction of philanthropic endeavors, often communicating through Indyke and Epstein, to direct where money should go into various ideological institutions, with Abigail directing financial support through Indyke and Epstein to various pro-Israel organizations and programs. The Wexner foundation has been an ardent supporter of Pro-Israeli organizations since Wexner formed the “Study Group,” in the late 90’s, a group of ultra-wealthy entrepreneurs who developed philanthropic initiatives to fund support for Israel.
Abigail’s father, Yehuda Koppel, was the commander of a special-operations unit of Haganah, the paramilitary army that created the state of Israel in 1948. Wexner’s father-in-law was entrenched deeply in foreign military intelligence for long after. The information contradicts previously issued statements by The Wexner foundation that Epstein never held any involvement in any philanthropic endeavors of the foundation and has some asking if the foundation is effectively acting as a foreign national lobbying organization with strong ties to human trafficking.
Unfortunately, if there was any appetite for investigation into the matter of Epstein and Maxwell’s intimate involvement in The Wexner Foundation, or what Wexner himself meant by Epstein’s rule of ‘always be careful,’ there would likely be no enforcement behind it.
Currently, Wexner himself is effectively dodging subpoenas in a sexual abuse trial involving student athletes at The Ohio State University by former OSU team doctor Richard Straus. Former student athletes are suing OSU for failing to prevent the abuse. Lawyers have reported Wexner's private security have repeatedly turned away servers and his personal lawyers refuse to handoff any subpoenas.
Attorneys for the plaintiffs in the case have repeatedly attempted to serve Wexner, as he sat on the board of trustees during the time Straus was abusing students. At the most recent board meeting, former alumni stood holding signs asking the board to answer for Wexner's repeated dodging of legal processes and why the school continues to plaster his and Abigail's name across multiple buildings and facilities despite their continued emerging ties to human trafficking through Epstein and Maxwell.
In a recent protest, Mike DiSabato, a former OSU wrestler told NBC news that according to newly released documents, Epstein and Maxwell had direct ties to the funding of OSU facilities through Wexner.
“Wexner’s name should not be on the Les Wexner football complex because he continues to defy subpoenas from lawyers representing students who are suing Ohio State for not protecting them from Strauss, and because of his association with Epstein,” DiSabato said. “Epstein and Maxwell were directly involved in funding this facility.”
It is factual that a $2.5 million donation by Wexner in 2007, was matched by a donation from the C.O.U.Q. Foundation—managed by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Many are frustrated by the continued level of influence Wexner and his foundation have over the university, with much of it surrounding Wexner’s personal attorney, John Zeiger, who is the chair of the OSU board of trustees.
Wexner has somehow amassed an interesting place in the Ohio political system as an unelected individual capable of vast influence and no legal accountability. According to recently released Epstein files, Wexner was named as a co-conspirator of interest with the FBI, who also attempted to issue Wexner a subpoena though not much is officially known after that. In the FBI emails, agents are 'unsure' about Ohio contacting Wexner.
The events echo a long history of Wexner avoiding legal scrutiny, either federally or locally. In 1985, his attorney Arthur Shapiro, who was planning to turn states witness and testify after a massive IRS investigation into Shapiro and his work with investors like Wexner was executed in a 'mafia' style hit in which the Columbus Police Department’s Organized Crime Bureau had indicated in a report Wexner may have been involved in ordering.
The report, titled “Shapiro Homicide Investigation: Analysis and Hypothesis,” was not made public and attempted to be buried by then Columbus Police Chief James G. Jackson who had ordered its destruction. Jackson was temporarily suspended for his actions.
Despite these efforts, the report turned up in a FOIA request from The Columbus Free Press and released in full. The report specifically names Les Wexner and his businesses as having relationships with individuals believed to be associated with organized crime families capable of carrying out the murder of Shapiro.
“Thus, it can be determined that Les Wexner, through the Limited, is associated with at least two organized crime figures who are associated with the Pittsburgh crime family," The report said.
Despite all of the above mentioned 'coincidences', neither the FBI, DOJ nor local law enforcement has ever launched actual investigations into The Wexner Foundation, the Wexner's themselves or their ties to foreign governments and illegal operations. Rather, Ohio residents have repeatedly been blindsided by testimonies by 'transparent' administrations claiming there are 'no co-conspirators' to Epstein and Maxwell despite mounting evidence to the contrary.
Ironically, the current FBI and DOJ would seem more poised to prosecute independent journalists for attempting to read Epstein documents than go after any co-conspirators they prefer to insulate, going so far as to violate the law to withhold files for additional redactions to protect co-conspirators.
Despite this, the Epstein/Maxwell and Wexner network has been extensively outlined by independent journalists long before the files release, making the files, in any format, just further corroboration of what was already known. The only remaining question is what will be done about it and why the government on multiple levels seems more inclined to protect massive foreign criminal networks instead of prosecuting them.
