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*Breaking News: Shocking Allegations Surface in Latest Epstein Document Release – Romanian Lawyer Accused of Mentoring Jeffrey Epstein in "Dark Arts" of Exploitation*
*Bucharest / New York, February 26, 2026* – In a stunning twist amid the ongoing unsealing of Jeffrey Epstein-related files by the U.S. Department of Justice, new documents and leaked correspondence have sparked wild speculation and unverified claims pointing to a mysterious Romanian lawyer who allegedly served as an early mentor to the disgraced financier.
Sources close to the investigation, speaking on condition of anonymity, describe the individual – referred to in redacted emails only as "the Bucharest advisor" – as a low-profile Romanian attorney specializing in international finance and offshore structures in the late 1990s and early 2000s. According to fragments of emails exchanged between Epstein and unnamed European contacts around 2001–2003, this lawyer purportedly provided guidance on "creative asset protection" and "discreet relationship management" techniques – euphemisms that investigators now believe may have helped Epstein refine the sophisticated network of recruitment, NDAs, and compartmentalization that later became central to his criminal activities.
One particularly explosive excerpt from a 2002 message, partially de-redacted this week, reads: "The Romanian was clear: layer the favors, never one source. Teach discretion as the ultimate power move." Epstein reportedly replied with enthusiasm, noting he had "learned more in one Bucharest dinner than in years on Wall Street." While no direct evidence ties the lawyer to Epstein's sex trafficking crimes – and Romanian authorities have not commented – online forums and investigative journalists have dubbed the figure "the one who taught Epstein how to be bad," suggesting early lessons in manipulation and evasion shaped the financier's later behavior.
The lawyer's identity remains shielded, with speculation swirling around several Bucharest-based firms known for advising high-net-worth Eastern European clients during Romania's post-communist transition. Some point to connections with offshore entities in the British Virgin Islands – a favorite Epstein vehicle – but nothing has been confirmed.
This revelation comes amid fresh fallout from the Epstein files, including the recent resignation of Goldman Sachs' top lawyer over her own "Uncle Jeffrey" correspondence, and mentions of multiple Romanian women and wire transfers linked to Epstein's circle. Romania has appeared over 800 times in the documents, often in contexts involving young women, modeling opportunities, or anonymous donations – though most references lack clear criminal ties.
Legal experts caution that much of the current buzz stems from speculation rather than hard proof. "These are fragments, not a smoking gun," said one U.S.-based attorney familiar with the case. "Epstein had dozens of advisors across continents. Linking one Romanian lawyer to his entire criminal evolution is a stretch without more context."
Romanian officials have yet to launch a formal probe, but pressure is mounting for transparency, especially as Epstein's web continues to ensnare global elites even years after his death.
The DOJ has promised additional releases in the coming weeks. For now, the story of the enigmatic Romanian lawyer adds yet another shadowy chapter to one of the most infamous criminal sagas of our time.
The ruling British Labour Party and the anti-immigration Reform Party lost the Gorton and Denton by-election to the Greens (the genuinely left-wing party) who had courted the Muslim vote.
The Daily Telegraph, which people are calling the Telavivegraph, thinks the Greens have become extremists. They always were, but not because they oppose what Israel is doing in Gaza.
Nick Robinson of the BBC said many will dismiss the result by pointing to a “large Muslim vote still motivated and angry about what happened in Gaza”.
In fact it is not only what happened but what is still happening in Gaza and it is not just Muslim voters who care.
Many, many Christians and some Jews do, though probably few Hindus. Plenty of Conservatives do.
Anyway Muslim voters like everyone else have many reasons not to vote Labour even before you think of Mandelson, McSweeney and Epstein.
This short clip, which I posted before, shows the Reform candidate Matt Goodwin whom I like a lot in many ways, making a chump of himself by defending Israel.
I wonder if it cost him the election.
Masha Gessen told a Ha'aretz interviewer on 8 May 2024 that Biden's support for the Palestinians would cost him the election.
"If he doesn't have the youth vote he has no hope of beating Trump. So that's another brick in the case for the incredible support for Israel. That Biden and his administration are willing to sacrifice the election to ongoing engagement with Israel is heartbreaking, shocking."
No he didn't.
Yes it was.
His senility led to his being pushed off the ticket, of course, but Gaza lost Kamala Harris the US presidency instead.
It will cost the right-wing populists votes in Europe as they all back Netanyahu.
It will also cost 'the West' an incalculable amount.
"This is something that did not begin and did not end with him [Epstein], and he was just perpetuating this. I think that’s why it’s really important to challenge some of the narratives that have come out around this case that Epstein was solely responsible for all of this activity and that he had deceived the billionaires who funded him and that this is all to be blamed on a single man. I think if we do that, we’re really doing his victims an injustice because this is something much larger than Epstein. If the other people and other parties responsible or not pursued or held to account, this is likely to continue well into the future." Whitney Webb, August 15 2019
The Romanian population has fallen by over 4 million inhabitants since the December 1989 Revolution, from 23 million to around 19 million.
Andreea Diaconescu writing in Ziare.com said only in 1940 when the USSR, Hungary and Bulgaria took parts of Romania was there a bigger drop in the population.
That's not a good analogy as that drop took place in the course of one disastrous summer, not 36 years.
In 1990 alone there were 992,265 legal abortions in Romania: 3,158 abortions for every 1,000 live births. Only in 2010 did the figure dip below 500 per 1,000 for the first time.I missed this a week ago.
'Former Prime Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday addressed the 2026 Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations in Jerusalem, warning that Turkey under President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan poses a new strategic threat to Israel. He described Erdoğan as “a sophisticated and dangerous adversary who wants to surround Israel” and cautioned that the country must not “turn a blind eye again.”
'Bennett highlighted what he described as a growing axis of concern in the region, linking Turkey, Qatar, and the Muslim Brotherhood with Pakistani nuclear capabilities, saying the alliance is attempting to incite hostility against Israel, including influencing Saudi Arabia. He said, “While certain Israeli officials are on Qatari payroll, Qatar and Turkey, which is based in Syria, and with Israeli consent in Gaza, are feeding a new monstrous axis of the Muslim Brotherhood similar to the Iranian one.”'
Tucker Carlson says that American public opinion is turning against Israel and Israel knows this change will not be reversed. Israel therefore wants a new powerful ally with nuclear bombs and will cultivate India to take America's place.
Netanyahu clearly wants an alliance with India.
I do recommend you read Whitney Webb's book One Nation Under Blackmail.
Here she is on left-wing news site MintPress News in 2019 discussing Ron Cohn, the sinister lawyer to Joseph McCarthy and Donald Trump.
Rod Dreher has made the same allegations about Cardinal Spelman of New York and his network of practising homosexual priests that continues from generation to generation.
The connections Roy Cohn built during the 1950s made him a well-known public figure and translated into great political influence that peaked during the presidency of Ronald Reagan. Yet, as Cohn built his public image, he was also developing a dark private life, which would come to be dominated by the same blackmail pedophile racket that appears to have first begun with Lewis Rosenstiel.
One of the “blackmail parties” Susan Kaufman attended with her then-husband Lewis Rosenstiel was hosted by Cohn in 1958 at Manhattan’s Plaza Hotel, suite 233. Kaufman described Cohn’s suite as a “beautiful suite…all done in light blue.” She described being introduced to head of the FBI J. Edgar] Hoover, who was in drag, by Cohn, who told her that Hoover’s name was “Mary” in a fit of barely concealed laughter. Kaufman testified that young boys were present and Kaufman claimed that Cohn, Hoover and her ex-husband engaged in sexual activity with these minors.
Graham Phillips (born 1979) is a British blogger and video blogger, sanctioned by the UK government in July 2022 and again in April 2025, for producing and publishing pro-Russian propaganda regarding the war in Ukraine.
TBILISI, Feb 24 (Reuters) - Britain introduced sanctions against two pro-government television channels in Georgia on Tuesday, accusing them of spreading deliberately misleading information about Russia's war in Ukraine.
The sanctions against Imedi and Postv are part of a new British package targeting 297 entities to mark the fourth anniversary of Moscow's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
Britain accused the channels of promoting false narratives about the war, including those that destabilise Ukraine or threaten its territorial integrity. It said Imedi in particular had spread falsehoods casting Ukraine's government as "illegitimate" or a "puppet" of the West.
John Mearsheimer is starting to think that the USA will not attack iron now Iran has committed not to develop nuclear weapons. I think Donald Trump's political instincts will tell him it would be a huge mistake. I pray so but I was wrong when I thought Putin would not attack Ukraine. An attack on Iran would be equally illegal, of course, but Mr Trump has said that legality does not matter to him.
From The GrayZone, the left-wing site that Max Blumenthal edits.
Damon Wilson, the head of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), was interrupted by a member of Congress during a House oversight hearing on Tuesday after revealing that his agency "began supporting the deployment [and] operation of about 200 Starlinks early on" amid the violence which swept through Iran last month.
Before he could finish the sentence, he was cut off by the ranking member of the House Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs, Rep. Lois Frankel, who told Wilson: "You know what, I’m going to interrupt you – we’d better not talk about it."
What kind of leader do we need?
"Personally, I'm happy with a leader like Putin. Who will come after him, I don't know. I like Mishustin, too, but for all his qualities, he doesn't have Putin's charisma. People like Putin are rare; they're very hard to find."
...The West is currently waging a war against Russia—both in Ukraine and beyond, using the Kyiv regime's forces. Do you think we could have avoided this war? If so, at what cost? And was it necessary?
"We didn't start this war. The West did. America is already withdrawing from it because it has realized its futility. Therefore, America has a future, while Europe finds itself in a difficult situation. The countries of Europe were great, but they are no longer so. The population of each European country is smaller than that of a single province in China. They have failed to create a united Europe; on the contrary, the European Union is essentially doomed. France and Germany can no longer resolve their own problems independently. They have enormous debts, including to America."
I like Aris Roussinos enormously. In Unherd he quotes from Mandelson's 1996 tract The Blair Revolution “the respect in which politicians are held has been… damaged by the widespread impression that ‘they’re only in it for themselves'”.
Mr Roussinos says very truly: "The Britain of 1996, the dismal object of Mandelson’s declinist rhetoric, now looks like a vanished golden age: an even partial return to it is the highest aspiration of Right-wing populism".
In fact the Thatcher years (I disliked her in her time) look like a blissful Edwardian age, in so many ways. The hereditary peers sat in the House of Lords, vicars were men, the armed forces, the Churches, the universities, the monarchy, every British institution was in good shape then and is not now. The Cold War kept the peace.
The Major years were better because unemployment came down but the disastrous decision to expand the universities was taken, which prefigured Blairism. The worst things were also proto-Blairite: Maastricht and the negotiations with the IRA, though Mrs Thatcher started that and was deeply hurt by Enoch Powell's wounding question on the subject.
50,000 dependents from the Indian Subcontinent entering the country each year now seems terribly bad but looks very good compared to the deluge that came after (or started in the last months of John Major's time in office).
The Blair-Mandelson years started in the UK in 1997 and have continued till now - the Tory years under 4 Prime Ministers were a continuation of Blairism.
Liz Truss might have been the exception but we hardly knew her.
Boris Johnson was more Blairite than Blair and his monument is the Boris wave of legal, non-EU migration to the UK reaching 906,000 in the year ending June 2023—contradicting pledges to lower immigration levels after leaving the European Union.
His other monuments are dissuading Zelensky from continuing negotiations with Russia in the spring of 2022 and improving Theresa May's terrible Brexit.
The Mandelson-Epstein scandal seems to encapsulate a lot about Blair and Blairism: Britain viewed from a plane by deracinated internationalists from humble backgrounds dizzied by big money; the indifference to the past; the greed (not least Blair's, about which Epstein and Barak gossip), the corruption, sexual permissiveness and the Zionism.
How it makes me miss the hereditary peers sitting in Parliament.
Donald Trump at the Israeli American Council's annual national summit on Sept 19, 2024 said that Zionist megadonors Miriam and her late husband Sheldon Adelson visited the White House “probably almost more than anybody” during his first term, and that the favours he did for them were exclusively for Israel. “As soon as I'd give them something, always for Israel, they'd want something else...”
Miriam Adelson donated $100 million to Trump's campaign which got her the best seat at the inauguration and, according to Andrew Napolitano, let her impose Rubio on him as Secretary of State.
It does look as though Trump is looking after his donors just like any swamp creature.
Of course Netanyahu no doubt has things on him, via Epstein and other sources.
"To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains itself the accumulated evil of the whole." Nuremberg Tribunal 1946 quoted by Peter Oborne
"....If we think our present problems are because of a decline in the quality of politicians, we should think of the Suez Crisis in 1956, in which gentlemanly old-school politicians and diplomats directed the reckless and illegal conflict. We should also remember their misguided decision soon after to join the European Economic Community, based on an elementary misunderstanding of Britain’s economic performance. Our leaders of old believed that more rapid economic growth in Italy, France and Germany – which came as a result of rebuilding and modernising after the war – proved that Britain was a failure. Britain was “the sinking Titanic” and Europe was “the lifeboat”. Furthermore, America wanted us to join. So, politicians accepted highly unfavourable membership terms – they must “swallow the lot”, said the chief negotiator.
"Ironically, they swallowed the lot just as the Continent’s “economic miracle” ended for good. Membership brought high inflation, which fuelled the chaos of the 1970s. Under Thatcher and Blair, whole industries closed. With British governments eager to say yes, the EU system permitted and encouraged the replacement of British industries and workers with cheaper goods and people. As with the earlier grand illusions of free trade and empire, some people benefited. Most did not. But somehow, Britain managed to outperform the EU. The sluggish European economies were a drag on the British economy – a drag that the present Government is desperate to reimpose."
Professor Robert Tombs yesterday in The Daily Telegraph
"So far, no American president has had either the bravery or the decency to tell the truth, which is that from the time of the end of the Soviet Union in December 1991 until now, the US has been on a campaign to weaken Russia, to divide Russia, to surround Russia, to put US military all around Russia, to break apart Russia if possible, to sanction Russia to its knees, whatever it is. That’s been the US campaign. So if this war is going to stop, the US has to stop its campaign against Russia. That’s the story.’
