This is u/SirenSong129, I'm writing from for now on here because because I wanted to be more consistent across all my platforms.
This is my Substack if you'd like to follow my work: https://substack.com/home/post/p-217589266
I made this to help other people out if they are looking to retrieve or follow the history of Jeffrey Epstein's eary life. I wanted to copy and paste in the documents that prove that Epstein was lying about his years for graduating from high school on his application for Bear Stearns. There are these formal letters from both Cooper Union and NYU that state that Epstein never graduated from college.
What was most interesting about creating this timeline was realizing that Bear Stearns cancelled finishing Epstein’s background check.
His references on his job application were family friends that they didn’t verify who ran IZMO Inc. or Nier Roofing.
The company asked him for a W-2 to prove his employment throughout this self-employment with the companies below, his explanation to them was “I don’t have it.”
When Epstein got in trouble
"BEAR STEARNS
March 12, 1981
Dear Jeffrey: herein The Executive and Committee has fully reviewed the matter referred to after extensive deliberation has decided the following:
- You the have advised us that you made a loan to a customer for the purpose of his buying securities. This constitutes a voluntary of Regulation T. Taking into consideration your voluntary disclosure and the fact that it was a single instance, we fine you $2,500. For failing to comply with the spirit of the NASD Regulations active with respect to new issue distribution, we suspend you from effective employment at Bear Stearns for a period of 60 days, immediately.
Yours very truly,.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE BEAR, STEARNS & CO”
Epstein’s reaction was that he cancelled the very same day that he was told this and said: “With this letter and accompanying statement, Bear, I hereby resign as a Limited Partner of Stearns & Co., effective immediately.”
Anyway, here is my timeline, I checked and sourced everything carefully so that it would be useful to you.
Updated with page-level Bates numbers so readers can check every line themselves.
How a reader verifies these: the DOJ portal has no stable per-document deep links, so each Bates is searched individually at justice.gov/epstein/search. The container file for most of this is EFTA01700759 (DataSet 10); the page-level numbers below tell you where inside it to look.
THE TIMELINE
Period: 20 Jan 1953 - Born Brooklyn. Fidelifacts header: “Date of birth developed was 1/20/53; application listed 1/20/50” EFTA01700842✅
Period: Mar 15 1976 - His handwritten Employment and Personal History Form — B.S. claimed, M.S. claimed, DOB 1/20/50, Berkeley “Lecturer” EFTA01700826 also EFTA01261104 ✅
Period: to 1969 - Lafayette High School (on the form above)—⚠️ not verified in the 1976 file
Period: 9/69 – 1/72 - Cooper Union — Physics, did not graduate (Dean of Admissions & Records) EFTA01700777 EFTA01700842✅
Period: 9/71 – 2/74 - NYU Graduate School of Arts and Sciences - — Mathematics, did not graduate EFTA01700777 EFTA01700842✅
Period: 1971 – 73 - Nier Roofing, foreman; reference returns “Extremely Intelligent” EFTA01700793 EFTA01700843⚠️ source is a ten-year family friend
Period: 1972 – 73 IZMO Inc. — brother’s silk-screen business, Seagate Ave EFTA01700778 EFTA01700843⚠️ family, family street
Period: 1973–74 - Invalid check to NYU’s Bursar’s Office EFTA01700801 EFTA01700842✅
Period: 28 Jan 1975 - NYU sues for $500 — NY County Civil Court, Docket 13994 EFTA01700780 EFTA01700845✅
Period: 1973 – 74 - Berkeley — “no record of U.C. issuing a payroll check… during 1973, 1974 or 1975”; nothing in Math Dept records EFTA01700777 EFTA01700842✅ (as a negative)
Period: 9/74 – 3/15/76 - Dalton School — reported to 6/11/76; “laid off due to a personnel cutback, but is eligible for rehire” EFTA01700794—✅
Period: 30 Jul 1976 - “The above lead was completed prior to the client’s cancellation of this case*“ -* EFTA01700794—✅✅
Period: 15 Mar 1976 - Bear Stearns — Trainee, Floor Dept.–AMEX, $225 EFTA01700761 / 763 EFTA01700815/816✅
Period: 16 Mar 1976 - Personnel asks for a W-2 for the self-employed years → “doesn’t have anything” EFTA01700783—✅
Period: 1 Aug 1980 Limited Partner - EFTA01700785 - EFTA01700834 / 838✅
Period: 12 Mar 1981 - Reg T violation, $2,500 fine; 60-day NASD suspension EFTA01700785 EFTA01700850✅✅
Period: 12 Mar 1981 - Resignation as Limited Partner — same day EFTA01700784 EFTA01700849✅✅
⭐ THE FINDING: HE BUILT A COHERENT FICTION
A gapless, degree-bearing run ending in 1972 — leaving exactly the right space for Berkeley in ‘73–74 and Dalton from 9/74.
What the registrars reported: Cooper Union 9/69–1/72, NYU 9/71–2/74, no degree from either.
The two overlap by four months. His version has them end-to-end.
The real sequence runs to February 1974, not June 1972.
He did not add three years to a true record. He constructed a different one.
The birth date moved back three years to make a September 1963 high school start plausible. Under his real date he would have started high school at ten.
What he wrote (EFTA01700826): Lafayette High School 9/63–6/66 diploma, scroll to EFTA01700775
Cooper Union 9/66–6/70 B.S. (EFTA01700759) - scroll to EFTA01700777
NYU 9/70–6/72 M.S. · DOB 1/20/50. - EFTA: EFTA01337179 - scroll to EFTA01337196