Complaint cites 2017 email on ‘latest batch of medical expenses for girls’
The complaint, filed Wednesday in federal court in New Mexico and brought by Attorney General Raúl Torrez, accuses Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of helping finance and conceal Epstein’s sex trafficking at his remote Zorro Ranch property in Stanley, N.M. The two men serve as co-executors of Epstein’s estate. The suit says they helped Epstein obtain cash he used to pay girls and young women and helped conceal his abuse through a web of corporate entities and bank accounts.
The lawsuit alleges that Indyke, as Epstein’s personal lawyer, arranged payments to victims that left them indebted to Epstein. Kahn, as Epstein’s accountant, monitored the spending of victims and prepared tax returns for some of them, according to the complaint.
The complaint alleges that several Jane Does, including minors, were abused at the ranch. It says new information about Indyke and Kahn came to light after the Epstein files were released last year and this year.
The complaint accuses Indyke of deliberately structuring cash withdrawals just below the $10,000 federal reporting threshold. It also cites a 2017 email in which Kahn wrote about “the latest batch of medical expenses for girls.”
The lawsuit seeks to strip the men of their gains from their association with Epstein and ensure assets from the estate are distributed to victims. It also asks the court to prevent the men from making distributions from the estate while the case moves forward. The men control the assets in the estate and could receive some proceeds if there is money left over, according to the complaint.
According to the lawsuit, Indyke received more than $16 million from Epstein and related entities between 2011 and 2019. Epstein helped Indyke buy homes in New Jersey and Florida, paid for fertility treatment for him and his wife, and gave him $7 million in loans that were never repaid, the complaint says.
Kahn received more than $10 million over the same period, the lawsuit says. His firm was paid $4.9 million from Epstein’s JPMorgan accounts between roughly 2005 and 2013, according to the complaint.
The two men could collect as much as $75 million under a trust Epstein set up before his death — $50 million for Indyke and $25 million for Kahn, the lawsuit says. The estate, which was valued at about $578 million shortly after he died, has been depleted to just over $107 million, according to the complaint.
Indyke and Kahn began working for Epstein before he pleaded guilty in Florida to procuring a minor for prostitution, and they continued working for him until the very end, the lawsuit says. Lawyers for Kahn and Indyke didn’t immediately respond to requests for comment. The two men have previously denied any involvement in Epstein’s sex trafficking and have said they had no knowledge of any criminal activity or abuse. Their lawyers have also said the cash withdrawals were authorized and reviewed by banks, and the estate’s assets have gone to resolve claims and pay taxes or operational expenses.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan are also investigating the two men. The prosecutors have been scheduling interviews with potential witnesses in recent months and have requested documents about their dealings with the men, The Wall Street Journal reported. Neither man was questioned about his work for Epstein in 2019 and 2020, when federal prosecutors in Manhattan were investigating Epstein and Maxwell on sex-trafficking charges, the Journal reported last year. Indyke and Kahn handled banking and legal matters for Epstein and the women in his orbit, the Journal reported last year.
In June, MSI reported that New Mexico investigators had sent preservation letters to JPMorgan, Google and more than two dozen companies, with the attorney general’s office planning additional requests covering records belonging to Indyke and Kahn. The federal civil lawsuit filed Wednesday against the two men is the latest step in that widening investigation.