Is This the Rosetta Stone That Explains Epstein's Vast Wealth and Intelligence Ties?

This is it. The key to Epstein: Bear Stearns put him on BCCI trades in 1979, as it made millions helping the CIA, Brits, Saudis & Israelis disguise covert cash by clearing $13 billion with BCCI, a CIA money laundering bank. Epstein simply developed that clientele & career niche. pic.twitter.com/HcXZJYr0LG

— Mike Benz (@MikeBenzCyber) December 20, 2025

If the latest information about Jeffrey Epstein is accurate, the dead financier didn’t just have ties to the CIA. He allegedly brokered gun-running and other illicit deals for the Langley-based intelligence agency and others—first as a junior broker at Wall Street’s Bear Stearns, and later through the disgraced Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).

While such connections have long been speculated about—most notably in Whitney Webb’s One Nation Under Blackmail, Volumes One and Two—former Trump-era State Department lawyer Mike Benz says this is the first time he has seen evidence that Bear Stearns, which collapsed during the 2008 financial crisis and was later acquired by JPMorgan Chase, was “actively clearing BCCI trades and laundering weapons payments during the very years Epstein worked there.”

The BCCI was a notorious bank that operated as a global, clandestine banking system for international spy agencies. BCCI is reputed to have been involved in "some of the most sensitive intelligence operations of the Reagan-Bush years." The bank was closed in the early 1990s due to its shady connections.

Benz has speculated before that Epstein's ties to intelligence agencies came from his proximity to the Iran-Contra affair, but recent information connects the financier and human trafficker to intelligence agencies before and after the secret — and illegal — deal to sell arms to embargoed Iran and then use the money to help the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. The CIA's Southern Air Transport is also connected. 

In a video, which you can see below, Benz goes through recent stories and patterns of associations that he believes link Epstein to the so-called "Safari Club," a consortium of spy agencies and gun runners that included figures such as Adnan Khashoggi Those deals, he believes, would also explain Epstein's vast source of wealth. 

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