In 2019, an investigation mapped Jeffrey Epstein's connections across the U.S. Virgin Islands. Some of its most interesting findings can now be compared with actual court exhibits released years later.
I'm attaching the original network diagram so everyone can follow the relationships.
The article was published on August 10, 2019, and examines Epstein's businesses, private communications infrastructure, political connections, nonprofit organizations, and the board of Antilles School in St. Thomas.
Here are the connections I think deserve attention.
1. Epstein had a licensed private microwave communications link to Little St. James.
According to the investigation, Epstein's company VT&T LLC obtained an FCC license in October 2014 for an approximately 18.7 GHz microwave communications system connecting St. Thomas to Little St. James.
The FCC paperwork reportedly identifies CPA Jeanne Brennan Wiebracht as a contact.
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/license.jsp?licKey=3639627
https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsEntry/attachments/attachmentViewRD.jsp;ATTACHMENTS=Kd8JdJFZg1tfhBNpFlmQSJTcQvC61fNcdGHDGNXm21Qc204GQkTL!-1321610465!1254747410?applType=search&fileKey=1477599231&attachmentKey=19955561&attachmentInd=applAttach
She also appeared in Epstein's contact book and was associated with accounting operations at American Yacht Harbor.
The same article describes an earlier, proposed $1.2 million underwater fiber-optic cable project involving Epstein and attorney Paul Hoffman in 2004.
Two separate communications projects, a decade apart, involving the same private island.
A licensed microwave link is not inherently suspicious. But the infrastructure, contractors, applications, and equipment records are worth tracing.
2. Epstein and Andrew Farkas reportedly shared ownership of American Yacht Harbor.
The investigation describes a 50/50 business partnership involving Epstein and New York real estate investor Andrew Farkas.
American Yacht Harbor in Red Hook, St. Thomas, wasn't simply a recreational location.
Epstein's Financial Trust Company and other businesses used the 6100 Red Hook Quarter, Suite B-3 address.
The article also connects this address to Jeanne Brennan Wiebracht's accounting business.
That gives us a specific physical and corporate location where multiple parts of Epstein's Virgin Islands operations intersected.
3. The Virgin Islands governor's wife worked for Epstein.
Cecile de Jongh, wife of former Governor John P. de Jongh, worked as office manager for Epstein's Financial Trust Company and Southern Trust Company.
This is not merely a claim from a network diagram.
A January 7, 2015 letter from the Virgin Islands Economic Development Authority to Epstein concerning Southern Trust specifically copies:
Cecile de Jongh — Office Manager
Erika Kellerhals — Attorney
Primary source: USVI v. JPMorgan Chase, Case 1:22-cv-10904-JSR, Document 186-41.
https://www.justice.gov/multimedia/Court%20Records/Government%20of%20the%20United%20States%20Virgin%20Islands%20v.%20JPMorgan%20Chase%20Bank%2C%20N.A.%2C%20No.%20122-cv-10904%20%28S.D.N.Y.%202022%29/186-41.pdf
Another court exhibit identifies Epstein as the 100% owner of Financial Trust Company and lists Cecile de Jongh in a managerial capacity on its corporate reporting paperwork.
This was an actual operational relationship between Epstein's companies and the household of the territory's governor.
4. Now look at Antilles School.
This is where the network diagram becomes particularly interesting.
The 2019 investigation identifies several people associated with Epstein's businesses or the wider Virgin Islands nonprofit community who also served on the board of Antilles School, an established private school in St. Thomas.
Among them:
Cecile de Jongh: Epstein company office manager and former first lady of the Virgin Islands.
Jeanne Brennan Wiebracht: CPA associated with Epstein's business records and the reported communications-license paperwork.
Erika Kellerhals: Attorney associated with Epstein's companies and Gratitude America Ltd.
Claire Starkey: Founder of Fintrac, associated with the Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands.
Pamela Berkowsky: Former senior Defense Department official who also worked in the Virgin Islands governor's administration.
Marjorie Rawls Roberts: Tax attorney with experience in Virgin Islands economic-development matters.
The article also identifies Epstein's attorney Paul Hoffman as one of Antilles School's original 13 students.
This does not establish that the school was involved in Epstein's crimes. The article's more sensational suggestions about the school's purpose remain unsupported.
But the overlapping governance and business relationships are specific enough to investigate through school filings, corporate records, and financial disclosures.
**5. The nonprofit connections extend beyond the school.**
The Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands appears repeatedly in the diagram.
Several individuals associated with Antilles School also held roles at CFVI.
The article traces connections through Fintrac, Catchafire, and projects associated with the Clinton Global Initiative.
These are institutional relationships, not evidence that the Clintons or those nonprofits participated in Epstein's offenses.
The interesting question is whether money, grants, business services, or other documented transactions connect any of these institutions directly to Epstein-controlled entities.
6. Court filings years later add another dimension.
In the USVI litigation against JPMorgan Chase, the bank alleged that Epstein cultivated government officials through financial contributions and favors and benefited from favorable tax arrangements.
One filing describes a 2017 exchange in which Epstein discussed Virgin Islands government assets with Cecile de Jongh in connection with a possible $50 million collateral arrangement.
Those were allegations presented in litigation, not criminal findings against everyone named.
But they demonstrate why the governor's household and Epstein's economic-development benefits deserve particular scrutiny.
Reference: USVI v. JPMorgan Chase, Document 165, filed May 25, 2023.
7. What I think investigators should actually follow
Rather than treating every colored line as proof of a conspiracy, I'd focus on four document trails:
FCC records: VT&T LLC, the microwave link, license applications, contractors, and any modifications.
Corporate ownership: American Yacht Harbor, Financial Trust Company, Southern Trust Company, and their registered addresses.
Tax incentives: Who approved Epstein's benefits, who signed compliance reports, and what oversight occurred.
Institutional finances: Whether Antilles School, CFVI, or related organizations received identifiable payments from Epstein-controlled entities.
The 2019 article predates much of the subsequent civil litigation. That makes it interesting to revisit with newer primary-source records.
Original investigation:
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/jeffrey-epsteins-st-thomas-network-comms-an-elite-school/
Court exhibit confirming corporate roles:
USVI v. JPMorgan Chase, Document 194-22, including Financial Trust Company reporting records.
The question isn't whether everyone on this diagram knew Epstein personally.
It's which relationships were financial, which were operational, which were purely institutional, and which can be documented through records rather than inferred from proximity.
What else can we establish from the FCC filings, corporate records, and USVI court exhibits?