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The Lutnick Deal: Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Control the Terms of a Business Pipeline -- Kait Justice
"The Lutnick Deal: Why Did Jeffrey Epstein Control the Terms of a Business Pipeline Between Prince Andrew and Howard Lutnick's Firm?"https://kaitjustice.substack.com/p/the-lutnick-deal-epstein-prince-andrew
How classified trade intelligence may have flowed through Epstein into a deal with the Commerce Secretary's firm, and why the same model now appears to operate through Jared Kushner.
More excellent analysis by Kait.
For ten years, from 2001 to 2011, Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, the man the world knew as Prince Andrew, Duke of York, held a position in the British government called the Special Representative for International Trade and Investment. The role sent him around the world on the taxpayer's money to meet with heads of state, sovereign wealth fund managers, and the kinds of people who control the largest pools of investment capital on earth.
He visited the United Arab Emirates nine times, Qatar five times, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Egypt four times each, at least thirty trips to the Middle East in seven years alone, building personal relationships with Gulf rulers and the people who manage their countries' wealth. That role gave him access to classified government intelligence about where those funds were planning to invest, which markets governments were prioritizing, what trade relationships were opening up, and where billions of dollars were about to move before anyone outside government knew about it.
The Epstein files released by the Department of Justice in January 2026 show that Andrew was forwarding those classified reports to Jeffrey Epstein within minutes of receiving them.
In November 2010, his special advisor sent him country reports from an official government tour of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, and Andrew forwarded them to Epstein five minutes later. On Christmas Eve 2010, he forwarded a confidential brief on investment opportunities in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, where British forces were deployed and UK government money was funding reconstruction.
In February 2011, he told Epstein he had visited a private equity firm the week before and "thought of you" as someone "looking for somewhere for money to go." This appears to have been a pipeline of classified trade intelligence that flowed from a British royal, literally the King's brother, to Jeffrey Epstein, who was dictating the terms of a business deal between that royal's private company and one of the most powerful financial firms in America.
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He visited the United Arab Emirates nine times, Qatar five times, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Egypt four times each, at least thirty trips to the Middle East in seven years alone, building personal relationships with Gulf rulers and the people who manage their countries' wealth. That role gave him access to classified government intelligence about where those funds were planning to invest, which markets governments were prioritizing, what trade relationships were opening up, and where billions of dollars were about to move before anyone outside government knew about it.
The Epstein files released by the Department of Justice in January 2026 show that Andrew was forwarding those classified reports to Jeffrey Epstein within minutes of receiving them.
In November 2010, his special advisor sent him country reports from an official government tour of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Vietnam, and Andrew forwarded them to Epstein five minutes later. On Christmas Eve 2010, he forwarded a confidential brief on investment opportunities in Helmand Province, Afghanistan, where British forces were deployed and UK government money was funding reconstruction.
In February 2011, he told Epstein he had visited a private equity firm the week before and "thought of you" as someone "looking for somewhere for money to go." This appears to have been a pipeline of classified trade intelligence that flowed from a British royal, literally the King's brother, to Jeffrey Epstein, who was dictating the terms of a business deal between that royal's private company and one of the most powerful financial firms in America.
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