In early 2013, Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend, Karyna Shuliak, was stressed about her US visa status. Later that year, she married an American citizen and her worries were gone.
A Green Card followed, and, in 2018, citizenship. Then Shuliak divorced her spouse: a woman named Jennifer who had been in a relationship with Kimbal Musk after Epstein connected them.
“now that she’s an american you should throw her a big ole party,” one of Epstein’s go-to immigration lawyers messaged on the day of Shuliak’s naturalization interview. “with a mechanical bull, red white and blue balloons, and deep fried snickers bars on flag toothpicks.”
Shuliak’s immigration story — and the stories of several other women revealed in a cache of files released by the US Department of Justice — show how Epstein used student visas, English language courses and sham marriages to make sure the women in his orbit stayed right where he wanted them.
The convicted pedophile had arranged for Shuliak’s admission to Columbia University’s dental school, as a transfer student from Belarus who hadn’t finished her degree, via a complicated process that began in 2011. After she got in, communications between her and members of the Ivy League school’s international student office show her immigration case was another hurdle to clear.
Steve Bannon, a former White House adviser to US President Donald Trump, discussed opposition strategies with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein against Pope Francis, with Bannon saying he hoped to “take down” the pontiff, according to newly released files from the US Department of Justice.
Messages sent between the pair in 2019, released in the massive document dump last month, reveal Bannon courted the late financier in his attempts to undermine the former pontiff after leaving the first Trump administration.
Bannon had been highly critical of Francis whom he saw as an opponent to his “sovereigntist” vision, a brand of nationalist populism which swept through Europe in 2018 and 2019. The released documents from the DOJ appear to show that Epstein had been helping Bannon to build his movement.
“Will take down (Pope) Francis,” Bannon wrote to Epstein in June 2019. “The Clintons, Xi, Francis, EU – come on brother.”
https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/world/bannon-epstein-take-down-pope-francis-latam-intl
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman traded jabs Friday night over their past relationships with Jeffrey Epstein, with each accusing the other of potential criminal conduct tied to those prior associations with the notorious child sex offender.
Both Musk and Hoffman were featured prominently in the Justice Department’s latest release of Epstein files, with new revelations being uncovered about the two billionaire’s ties to the disgraced financier.
Musk, who previously stated that Epstein had “tried repeatedly” to get him to visit his private island, was revealed to have “practically begged for an invitation” to the island himself. And Hoffman, a billionaire venture capitalist, appeared to have his previous account of his relationship with Epstein contradicted by the newly released DOJ files.
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And yet, despite both being exposed for having a deeper relationship with Epstein than either had previously acknowledged, Musk came out swinging Friday by calling for Hoffman to be “investigated.”
Hoffman fired back, insisting that the FBI had already “cleared” him of any wrongdoing, while also writing to Musk in a social media post: “You on the other hand…”
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Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) posted a startling message on social media Friday declaring, “I am not suicidal,” following a heated public clash with conservative media figures over House voting procedures.
Massie’s comment came after a lengthy thread in which he criticized what he called “the swamp” and accused conservative commentators, including Laura Ingraham, of misleading the public about a House procedural vote related to the SAVE Act.
“Can you, the people, ‘vote your way out of this?’ Honestly, not if you get your news from these folks,” Massie wrote, claiming that even members of Congress are deceived by conservative media.