In July 2020, New York's Department of Financial Services fined Deutsche Bank $150 million for its relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The coverage treated this as its own scandal, separate from Deutsche Bank's Trump loans, separate from Kushner Companies' banking relationship, separate from the $10 billion in Russian money the bank had moved through mirror trades.

We were told these were different problems that happened to involve the same bank.

The House Oversight Committee documents tell a different story. One month after Epstein died, federal prosecutors were asking whether to merge his case with an existing Kushner investigation.

The same compliance officer reviewed both accounts while the same relationship manager handled them both. Epstein had also been tracking Kushner's financial vulnerabilities in real time and sharing that intelligence with his network.

Then the people who could explain how these accounts connected started dying.

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