The longtime legal professional and one-time accountant of the late intercourse offender Jeffrey Epstein advised lawmakers earlier this month that they had been by no means questioned by federal authorities about their work for the disgraced financier, in accordance with deposition movies launched Tuesday by the Home Oversight Committee.
Throughout their hourslong depositions over two days, legal professional Darren Indyke and accountant Richard Kahn supplied new particulars about their years of labor for Epstein, elevating questions in regards to the lack of scrutiny they seemingly confronted from federal prosecutors after investigations started into his crimes, and why each males continued to work for Epstein regardless of the allegations towards him following Epstein’s 2008 plea deal on solicitation fees in state court docket.
“I drank the Kool‑Help on the time. I feel that is the reply, is I drank the Kool‑Help on the time,” Indyke advised lawmakers when pressed about why he by no means stop working for Epstein.
Each males denied being conscious of the scope of Epstein’s crimes and described their relationship as strictly skilled, although their decades-long work with Epstein make them a few of the most educated individuals about Epstein’s life and companies. Indyke and Kahn function co-executors of Epstein’s property, had been bequeathed by Epstein $50 and $25 million respectively, and managed Epstein’s authorized and monetary affairs.
Following are the principle takeaways from the depositions.
Epstein allegedly had $30M in annual bills
Each males sought to defend Epstein’s funds, arguing that the online of holding firms and financial institution accounts utilized by Epstein had been customary observe and that Epstein wanted to function in money after his 2008 responsible plea restricted his entry to credit score. They denied that they both knew of or facilitated funds to assist his intercourse trafficking operation that included underage girls and ladies.
“It didn’t strike me as uncommon that Mr. Epstein’s enterprise, family and private wants required massive quantities of money regularly. I by no means believed that the money I withdrew from Mr. Epstein, and his employees, was utilized by Mr. Epstein, or his employees, for any improper functions,” Indyke mentioned.
Darren Okay. Indyke, Jeffrey Epstein’s former lawyer, arrives for his deposition earlier than the Home Oversight Committee on Capitol Hill, March 19, 2026, in Washington.
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Indyke denied trying to “construction” financial institution withdrawals to keep away from triggering an alert to the Treasury Division, although he acknowledged that he frequently withdrew $7,500 at a time for Epstein, totaling greater than $700,000.
“I didn’t imagine that any amount of money that I gave to the accounting division was going for use for an improper function. I believed that there have been reliable causes to convey that money in and I did so,” he mentioned.
In response to Kahn, Epstein’s properties, staff, and different bills price between $25M and $30M yearly.
“I used to arrange for Epstein a price range on one sheet of paper that included all of his entities, and I imagine his annual maintenance for every little thing, not simply his staff, for his properties, staff, planes, vehicles, items, and private expenditures was someplace within the $25 to $30 million vary,” Kahn mentioned. “That features the gasoline for his planes, repairs and upkeep for his planes, if he does capital enhancements on one in all his properties, if he buys a automotive, if he provides a present, if he hires a decorator. The whole lot.”
Why they did not stop working for Epstein
Each males had been pressed about why they continued working for Epstein regardless of his 2008 responsible plea and subsequent civil lawsuits towards him. Indyke advised lawmakers that he believed Epstein was “devastated and very contrite” about his crimes.
“When he was in jail and he appeared devastated and advised me he wasn’t ever going to be in that place once more and advised me he did not know that there have been those who had been underage and mentioned this was by no means going to occur once more, I believed him,” mentioned Indyke, who often visited Epstein in jail.
In response to Indyke, he later grew to become skeptical about a few of the accusations towards Epstein — telling lawmakers he “drank the Kool‑Help on the time” — and didn’t imagine Epstein would proceed to commit crimes based mostly on the elevated scrutiny on him.
“Clearly, he did a whole lot of horrible issues,” Indyke mentioned. “I say this once more as a result of I would like all people to be clear about this. I did not see it. I did not see something, and no person complained to me about something. So I do not know. However all these individuals got here ahead, so clearly there’s one thing there. So your query is, what do I imagine now. I imagine he did dangerous issues.”
Lawmakers pressed Indyke in regards to the dozens of lawsuits filed towards Epstein following his launch from jail, suggesting he knew that extra allegations had been levied towards Epstein but he continued to work for him.
“Had I identified that he was doing it, I’d have walked away. However within the context of all of this ‑‑ all the info that was supplied, which instructed that a whole lot of what was being mentioned was not true and a whole lot of what was being claimed occurred up to now after he had gone to jail and after he mentioned he wasn’t going to do it once more, I did not have a motive to imagine, after he obtained out, that he was doing it once more,” he mentioned.
Kahn equally advised lawmakers that he believed Epstein’s declare that his arrest was a “mistake.” When pressed in regards to the public allegations that got here out towards Epstein in 2018, Kahn mentioned he was too busy “placing out fires” to determine to step away from the work.
“The whole lot was taking place fairly quick. We obtained dropped by the financial institution, and I used to be then being requested to do issues. I nonetheless was fascinated about leaving, however I used to be, you already know, fairly busy at the moment placing out fires,” Kahn mentioned. “I’d have favored to assume with a transparent head … I’d have definitely left working for him.”
Their roles in alleged ‘sham marriages’
Each Indyke and Kahn additionally confronted questions on their alleged function arranging “sham marriages” to maintain Epstein’s victims in the USA. A number of lawsuits, which had been later settled with no admission of wrongdoing, alleged that the boys assist prepare the marriages for Epstein.
Kahn mentioned he regretted writing an “embellished” letter of advice to assist one of many marriages, saying he was unaware that the wedding was pressured.
“These two girls supplied me with a kind letter and later got here to my workplace and suggested me on pattern strains that I ought to embrace within the letter. I agree that the letter was embellished. I noticed the letter as no totally different than me writing a co-op suggestion letter for a good friend who I had not seen in 10 years, and I wrote within the letter how nice his youngsters are, and these are youngsters that I by no means met,” Kahn mentioned.
“These two girls by no means advised me that this marriage was pressured. I’ll let you know, in hindsight, I remorse scripting this letter as a result of I now know that I unknowingly contributed to those girls’s ache and struggling. However this was not me collaborating in immigration fraud,” he mentioned.
Indyke acknowledged the marriages in his deposition, although he pushed again on the declare they had been “shams” or fraudulent.
“I used to be not conscious that it was a sham marriage. I am nonetheless undecided that it is a sham marriage, however she was one of many those who was married,” he mentioned about one in all Epstein’s victims.
Indyke’s denials about what he allegedly advised witnesses
Lawmakers additionally pressed Indyke over allegations that he discouraged one in all Epstein’s victims from talking to regulation enforcement.
In response to an FBI report launched earlier this yr by the Division of Justice, a sufferer advised investigators that Indyke suggested her “by no means discuss to the police” and to return to him if she wanted assist.
Indyke denied that he ever suggested a sufferer to not go to regulation enforcement, although he said he suggested them about talking with an legal professional.
“It has been a very long time now, however I imagine I’d have mentioned and did say one thing to the impact that you do not have to talk to them and not using a lawyer current, and in order for you, counsel can be supplied for you. And the explanation that I used to be requested to try this is that individuals had been expressing concern about having to speak to regulation enforcement. They did not know ‑‑ they’d by no means performed it earlier than and it scared them and so they wished to know,” Indyke mentioned.
Kahn’s recollections about Epstein’s secure
Kahn additionally confronted questions on his actions instantly after the raid on Epstein’s New York townhome in 2019. In response to documents launched by the DOJ, Kahn recovered some objects that had been saved in Epstein’s secure that had been left behind following the search earlier than turning them over to the FBI.
In response to Kahn, Epstein’s home supervisor thought the objects left behind within the secure “weren’t secure to be left alone in the home” as a result of the constructing’s locks and safety had been disabled following the search. Kahn mentioned that the home supervisor put the objects into two suitcases and delivered them to Kahn’s dwelling for safekeeping.
“I by no means opened them. I left them in my eating room. I imagine a day or two later, I obtained a name … that the FBI was on the home once more seeking to gather issues that they did not take from their first go to. I imagine the request of me was, ‘Are you able to please convey the 2 luggage to the house?'” Kahn advised lawmakers. “I went dwelling. I grabbed the 2 luggage. I introduced them to the residence, and I imagine at that time limit, the FBI gave me a receipt for the 2 luggage.”
