The Department of Justice during the Trump administration has declined to disclose the identities of two associates of Jeffrey Epstein who received a total of $350,000 from the late financier in late 2018, court filings and media reports show.
The filings assert that Epstein wired $100,000 on Nov. 30, 2018, "from a trust account he controlled, to an individual named as [REDACTED] a potential co-conspirator — and for whom Epstein obtained protection in — the NPA." The same records, prosecutors wrote, show that on Dec. 3, 2018, Epstein wired $250,000 to another person who was also "named as a potential co-conspirator." The payments were made as media scrutiny intensified over Epstein’s 2008 non‑prosecution agreement, an arrangement that prosecutors have said shielded some of his associates from prosecution.
Those transfers became public after Epstein’s arrest and indictment in New York in 2019, when prosecutors filed records that redacted the recipients’ names. The Miami Herald’s reporting on the 2008 plea deal had already identified several individuals it said benefited from the agreement, and the filings state one of the redacted recipients had been "named and featured prominently" in that series.
The 2008 non‑prosecution agreement, often referred to as an NPA, resolved state charges against Epstein in Florida and has been at the center of reporting and litigation about who benefited from its protections. Epstein’s 2019 arrest on federal charges in New York brought renewed attention to the earlier deal and to payments, relationships and possible co‑conspirators referenced in subsequent court records.
In the filings that disclosed the wire transfers, prosecutors did not publicly identify the recipients, and the Justice Department has declined to unredact those names in the records reviewed by media outlets. The filings describe the transfers as coming from a trust account Epstein controlled and link the recipients to the earlier NPA protections.
Because the names remain redacted in court documents, public records do not reveal the identities of the two individuals who received the six‑figure payments. The filings contribute to an ongoing paper trail in the broader legal and journalistic scrutiny of Epstein’s financial transactions and the 2008 agreement that has drawn sustained attention from prosecutors, lawmakers and news organizations since his arrest in 2019.