Whitney Webb
Our investigations stand on Whitney's work. This page collects what we drew from it, every page on this site that uses it, and how we graded each claim built on it.
The book
Where their work appears on this site
How we graded the claims built on their work
2 FACT · 11 PROBABLY TRUE · 4 SOME SMOKE. A grade is our reading of the public record on one claim, not a verdict on the person.
- Polymarket: Cantor, Palantir, and the PROMIS lineage →
8. The 2022 Predecessor — Chiliad, Carbyne, and Epstein-orbit prediction-market interest
PROBABLY TRUE - Military Grift →
BCCI — the bank that ran the plumbing
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
Cohn Exports the Model: The Lineage to Maxwell and Epstein
PROBABLY TRUE - The Roy Cohn Method →
Jeffrey Epstein's adoption of the Roy Cohn method
SOME SMOKE - Military Grift →
Mena and ADFA — Barry Seal, Jackson Stephens, and the Arkansas node
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
Reading the 1991 convergence: POA, Maxwell’s death, and the Mega Group first meeting in the same year
SOME SMOKE - Israeli Influence on the United States →
Robert Maxwell and the international distribution of modified PROMIS
PROBABLY TRUE - The Roy Cohn Method →
Roy Cohn's 'favor bank': trading favors, leverage, and blackmail
FACT - Self-Dealing & Crony Capitalism →
The Cohn / Rosenstiel / Hoover Blackmail Triangle
SOME SMOKE - Military Grift →
The Shackley / Wilson ‘private CIA’ — the pre-Enterprise pattern
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
Wexner gave Epstein his institutional standing (Harvard, Rockefeller University)
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
Wexner’s 2020 letter and the deceit claim
PROBABLY TRUE - The Epstein Class →
What Epstein's contact directory documents about his operational reach
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
What Wexner Foundation records look like once Epstein’s trustee role and the $2.3M Barak transfers are factored in
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
Why the 1991 founding date sits inside the Wexner-Epstein timeline
SOME SMOKE - The Epstein Class →
Why the Epstein-as-intelligence-asset pattern matters without a smoking gun
PROBABLY TRUE - Leslie Wexner →
Wikipedia and later reporting call the Mega Group a pro-Israel lobby; the 1998 WSJ called it philanthropic
PROBABLY TRUE