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Simon Andriesz sang to the feds about Trump’s commerce secretary and handed Congress the emails tying the cabinet member to Jeffrey Epstein. Thai officials found the banker’s body on September 23, and fourteen days later the Don telegraphed his intentions to the world.
“I could’ve done very bad things to Hillary Clinton. I could’ve done very, very bad things to Joe Biden. I could’ve done very bad things to Barack Hussein Obama. … I can do whatever I want, if I want.”— Donald Trump, October 7, 2026, Oval Office.
Arnold Böcklin, Isle of the Dead. Names carried into silence before they ever reached the stand. Public domain.
Thai officials found Simon Andriesz, the British banker who exposed the Epstein ties of Trump’s commerce secretary, dead outside Bangkok on September 23, 2026. The municipal office listed asphyxiation from hanging as the cause of death for the 57-year-old, who had lived in Cornwall, England. Searching the Justice Department’s Epstein release for Howard Lutnick’s initials, the banker found 2018 emails in which the two men discussed a start-up. The whistleblower gave those emails to the House Oversight Committee before the commerce secretary testified there in May. Lutnick had already told the Senate Appropriations Committee in February that he took his family to Epstein’s island in 2012.
Trump kept his commerce secretary in the cabinet after the emails and island visit surfaced. Andriesz told FBI agents that Lutnick hid a business relationship with Epstein, and agents never opened an investigation into the banker’s claims. The whistleblower joins Epstein, Ivana Trump, and Virginia Giuffre among people tied to the president’s circle whose accounts never reached a jury.
FBI agents ignored Andriesz for six years, but investigators in Norway, France, and Britain began opening Epstein inquiries in February 2026. Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten Windsor that month on suspicion of misconduct in public office. In April, Norwegian and French detectives formed a joint team targeting diplomats Mona Juul and Terje Rød-Larsen for corruption.
Trump controls nuclear launch codes and the pardon power, and his administration fired Epstein prosecutor Maurene Comey in July 2025. Those powers stop at the American border, where the president cannot appoint, reward, or dismiss a single foreign investigator. Inside the United States, Epstein, Ivana Trump, and a Trump accuser died, and Bondi lost her office before anyone questioned the four under oath. Three executives who ran the future president’s casinos died first, thirty years before the financier’s arrest.
On October 10, 1989, a helicopter carrying three of Donald Trump’s most capable executives lifted off from Manhattan and never arrived.
Stephen Hyde, 43, ran all three Atlantic City casino properties. Mark Grossinger Etess, 38, was building the Taj Mahal from the ground up. Jonathan Benanav, 33, served as executive vice president of Trump Plaza. Pilots Robert Kent and Lawrence Diener died alongside all three when the main rotor detached over the Garden State Parkway and the aircraft fell straight down into the tree line. The helicopter carried five people: three Trump executives and two pilots.
Trump publicly claimed a scheduled seat on that flight, missed only because the afternoon ran long. Bernie Dillon, a Trump Sports and Entertainment vice president, told the Associated Press that Trump had never planned to board. In his 1991 book, Trumped!, former Trump Plaza president John O’Donnell documented what came next: Trump blamed the crash victims for financial failures the dead could never contest.
The Taj Mahal opened six months later. Bankruptcy followed within the year.
All five arrived at that crash site without subpoenas, without pending testimony, and without any scheduled appearance before any authority. The three executives mattered because each man knew the casino decisions Trump would spend the next decade blaming on the dead. The executives lost every chance to contradict Trump’s account over the Garden State Parkway on October 10, 1989. New Jersey casino regulators could have asked Trump to explain the distance between the eulogy and the blame, and every regulator declined.
The FBI arrested Jeffrey Epstein on sex trafficking and conspiracy charges on July 6, 2019, and his contact book listed presidents, princes, and financiers. A January 2020 federal prosecutor’s email placed Donald Trump aboard the financier’s jet eight times between 1993 and 1997. Trump told New York magazine in 2002 that Epstein was a terrific guy who liked beautiful women, many of them on the younger side.
Guards found Epstein dead inside the Metropolitan Correctional Center thirty-five days after the arrest, weeks after staff lifted a thirty-one-hour suicide watch. Bureau of Prisons staff had transferred his cellmate out the previous day, contrary to a psychology department directive. The June 2023 Inspector General report found guards Tova Noel and Michael Thomas skipped required rounds for hours and falsified count records. Investigators also found the jail’s video recording system had malfunctioned two days earlier, leaving gaps in surveillance footage from that night.
New York City Chief Medical Examiner Barbara Sampson ruled the death a suicide on August 16, 2019, despite those failures. The examiner kept that ruling after Dr. Michael Baden, a pathologist retained by the family, said in October 2019 that the injuries indicated strangulation.
At a July 31, 2019 hearing, U.S. District Judge Richard Berman set June 8, 2020 as the earliest trial date. The judge dismissed the indictment on August 29, 2019, and the black book never reached a jury. Every name tied to those pages escaped criminal prosecution except Ghislaine Maxwell, whom a federal jury convicted of sex trafficking in December 2021.
Former Attorney General Pam Bondi said in February 2025 that the Epstein client list sat on her desk for review. A July 7, 2025 Justice Department and FBI memo then concluded that investigators had failed to find any incriminating client list. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Bondi on March 17, 2026, and scheduled her sworn deposition for April 14, 2026. President Trump fired her on April 2, 2026, twelve days before that deposition.
First Lady Melania Trump denied any relationship with Epstein or Ghislaine Maxwell at the White House on April 9, 2026, and refused questions. Prosecutors have charged only Epstein and Maxwell among the financiers, politicians, and royals in the 2026 release.
The First Lady’s denial named Epstein, but the 3.5-million-page release under the Epstein Files Transparency Act includes a rape allegation against her husband. The FBI’s October 27, 2020 intake report EFTA00020518 records a limousine driver’s account of a 1995 airport run with Trump near Dallas-Fort Worth. The driver said Trump, then a real estate developer, repeated the name Jeffrey on a phone call and referred to abusing a girl. Trump’s remarks alarmed the source enough to consider pulling onto the median and forcing Trump from the car. Intake reports log unverified tips, and Trump’s own Justice Department has branded claims that tipsters filed before the 2020 election false.
The driver later met a woman who alleged that Trump and Epstein raped her, and she would disclose only two details. A girl with an unusual name made the introduction, and the assault took place in a hotel or another building. The source urged a police report, and the woman called on Christmas Day 1999 to confirm the filing.
The driver told the woman that reporting the rape was the right decision, and she fell silent on the line. While families opened presents that morning, a woman had just accused the future president of rape. The driver and the woman lost contact on January 10, 2000, according to the report. The FBI logged that account during Trump’s first term, and the president later fired the attorney general controlling those files before she could testify.
According to the report, the driver later received word from Kiefer, Oklahoma, that a gunshot had blown off the woman’s head. The driver told agents that local police said definitively the woman had not killed herself, but the county coroner ruled the death a suicide. The woman died within two weeks of placing her name in a police report that accused the future president of rape.
In March 2026, the Justice Department released 16 pages that the department had withheld without legal basis. The pages summarize four FBI interviews with a separate accuser who said Trump sexually assaulted her when she was a minor. FBI agents found the accuser credible enough to conduct three additional sessions, but the White House dismissed the allegations as untrue and sensationalist.
At the February 11, 2026 House Judiciary Committee hearing, Representative Ted Lieu placed the limousine driver’s account directly before Attorney General Bondi. Even as of that hearing, Justice Department investigators had never contacted the driver, more than five years after the FBI logged the tip. The driver at least lived to wait for that call, and Trump’s first wife, who spent fifteen years inside his business, did not.
Police found Ivana Trump, the president’s first wife, at the bottom of a staircase in her Manhattan townhouse on July 14, 2022. The New York City medical examiner attributed the 73-year-old’s death to blunt impact injuries to the torso and ruled the fall an accident. Most obituary writers in the national press focused on the 1992 divorce and omitted the pending fraud case against her former husband.
Ivana Trump served as a material witness in New York Attorney General Letitia James’s civil fraud investigation into the Trump Organization. Justice Arthur Engoron had ordered depositions of Trump, Ivanka Trump, and Donald Trump Jr. starting July 18, 2022, four days after her death. The first wife had managed the Plaza Hotel and the Trump Castle casino, and she died before testifying under oath about either property.
Virginia Giuffre gave the sworn testimony Ivana Trump never gave, naming Epstein, Maxwell, and Alan Dershowitz in civil suits from 2009 through 2022. Giuffre told FBI investigators in 2021 that Maxwell recruited her at 16 from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club. In February 2022, the survivor forced Andrew Mountbatten Windsor, then Prince Andrew, into a settlement worth roughly £12 million. Giuffre and Dershowitz dropped their mutual claims in November 2022 after she conceded possibly misidentifying the former Harvard law professor.
Giuffre’s family announced on April 25, 2025, that the 41-year-old had died by suicide at her Western Australia farm. In May 2019, Giuffre had posted that she was not suicidal and urged her followers to protect her three children if she died. Western Australia Police classified the death as non-suspicious and declined a criminal inquiry despite that warning. Giuffre’s memoir, Nobody’s Girl, reached bookstores in October 2025, and King Charles III stripped Andrew of his prince title that same month. Thames Valley Police arrested Andrew Mountbatten Windsor in February 2026, but prosecutors have yet to charge any powerful man Giuffre named under oath.
“Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.”— Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1735
Readers have just followed ten deaths across thirty-seven years, beginning with three executives and two pilots in October 1989. Jeffrey Epstein died 35 days after his arrest, ten days after Judge Berman set a June 8, 2020 trial date. A Trump accuser died within two weeks of filing a police report, and Ivana Trump died four days before the depositions Engoron had ordered. Virginia Giuffre died six years after writing that she was not suicidal, and Simon Andriesz died months after handing Lutnick’s emails to Congress.
The mob has a word for this kind of housekeeping. Medical examiners ruled Epstein’s death a suicide and Ivana Trump’s fall an accident, and a county coroner overrode police on the Oklahoma woman. Those officials closed every file, and Trump and his circle never faced a single dead witness under oath.
Trump and other men in those files occupy federal office, and their appointees decide which names stay redacted. Reporters who publish these documents expose themselves and their sources to a president who fired his own attorney general before her deposition. Giuffre named powerful men under oath, and federal prosecutors have yet to charge a single man on her list. Every man named on those pages remains free, and so do you, the reader who now knows those names. Dead witnesses never reached a courtroom, and living witnesses still call Justice Department officials who refuse to answer.
“Death solves all problems. No man, no problem.”— Joseph Stalin, as written by Anatoly Rybakov in Children of the Arbat, 1987
Sources
The Banker. Chris Newlands, “Whistleblower who flagged Lutnick’s links to Epstein dies by suicide.” October 2, 2026. Original reporting on Simon Andriesz’s death. thebanker.com
The Daily Beast. “Cause of Death Revealed for Epstein Whistleblower.” October 6, 2026. Retained for the specific reported cause of death. thedailybeast.com
UPI Archives. “Trump officials die in helicopter crash.” October 10, 1989. UPI Archives
UPI Archives. “NTSB blames manufacturer for 1989 Trump helicopter crash.” May 21, 1992. UPI Archives
John R. O’Donnell with James Rutherford. Trumped! The Inside Story of the Real Donald Trump—His Cunning Rise and Spectacular Fall. Simon & Schuster, 1991. WorldCat.org
New York magazine. Landon Thomas Jr., “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery.” October 28, 2002. nymag.com
U.S. Department of Justice. Epstein Library. Official repository of released records and court materials. United States Department of Justice
U.S. House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. “Chairman Comer Issues Subpoena to Attorney General Pam Bondi.” March 17, 2026. oversight.house.gov
Reuters. “Trump fires Pam Bondi as US attorney general.” April 2, 2026. reuters.com
Reuters. “Trump, adult children testimony postponed in light of Ivana Trump death.” July 15, 2022. reuters.com
Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County. People v. Trump, 2024 NY Slip Op 30493(U). Decision and Order, February 16, 2024; Index No. 452564/2022. nycourts.gov


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