DOJ Epstein Files: I found what’s around those 3 missing files (Part 2)

Follow-up to my Dataset 9 indexing post. I pulled the adjacent files from my local copy of the torrent. What I found is… notable.

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TLDR

The 3 missing files aren’t random corruption. They all cluster around one event: Epstein’s girlfriend Karyna Shuliak leaving St. Thomas (the island) in April 2016. And one of the gaps sits directly next to an email where Epstein recommends her a novel about a sympathetic pedophile—two days before the book was publicly released.

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The Big Finding: Duplicate Processing Batches

Two of the missing files (326497 and 534391) are the same document processed twice—once with redactions, once without—208,000 files apart in the index.

Redacted Batch	Unredacted Batch	Content
326494-326496	534388-534390	AmEx travel booking, staff emails
326497 - MISSING	534391 - MISSING	???
326498-326500	—	Email chain continues
326501 - MISSING	—	???
326502-326506	—	Reply + Invoice
—	534392	Epstein personal email

Random file corruption hitting the same logical document in two separate processing runs, 208,000 positions apart? That’s not how corruption works. That’s how removal works.

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What’s Actually In These Files

I pulled everything around the gaps. It’s all one email chain from April 10, 2016:

The event: Karyna Shuliak (Epstein’s girlfriend) booked on Delta flight from Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas → JFK on April 13, 2016.

St. Thomas is where you fly in/out to reach Little St. James. She was leaving the island.

The chain:

• 11:31 AM — AmEx Centurion (black card) sends confirmation to [email protected]
• 11:33 AM — Lesley Groff (Epstein’s executive assistant) forwards to Shuliak, CC’s staff
• 11:35 AM — Shuliak replies “Thanks so much”
• 3:52 PM — Epstein personally emails Shuliak
• Next day — AmEx sends invoice

The unredacted batch (534xxx) reveals the email addresses that are blacked out in the redacted batch (326xxx):

• Lesley Groff: [email protected]
• Ann Rodriquez: [email protected]
• Bella Klein: [email protected]
• Karyna Shuliak: [email protected]

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The Epstein Email (EFTA00534392)

The document immediately after missing file 534391:

From: "jeffrey E." <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Karyna Shuliak
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2016 19:52:13 +0000

order http://softskull.com/dd-product/undone/

He’s telling her to buy a book. The same day she’s being booked to leave his island.

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The Book

“Undone” by John Colapinto (Soft Skull Press)

On-sale date: April 12, 2016
Epstein’s email: April 10, 2016

He recommended it two days before public release.

Publisher’s description:

“Dez is a former lawyer and teacher—an ephebophile with a proclivity for teenage girls, hiding out in a trailer park with his latest conquest, Chloe. Having been in and out of courtrooms (and therapists’ offices) for a number of years, Dez is at odds with a society that persecutes him over his desires.”

The protagonist is a pedophile who resents society for judging him.

The author (John Colapinto) is a New Yorker staff writer, former Vanity Fair and Rolling Stone contributor. Exactly the media circles Epstein cultivated.

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What’s Missing

So now we know the context:

• EFTA00326497 — Between AmEx confirmation and Groff’s forward. Probably the PDF ticket attachment referenced in the emails.

• EFTA00326501 — Between the forward chain and Shuliak’s reply. Unknown.

• EFTA00534391 — Immediately before Epstein’s personal email about the pedo book. Unknown, but its position is notable.

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Open Questions

1. How did Epstein have this book before release? Advance copy? Knows the author?

2. What is 534391? It sits between staff logistics emails and Epstein’s direct correspondence. Another Epstein email? An attachment?

3. Are there other Shuliak travel records with similar gaps? Is April 2016 unique or part of a pattern?

4. What else is in the corpus from [email protected]?

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Verify It Yourself

Try the DOJ links (all return errors):

• https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00326497.pdf
• https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00326501.pdf
• https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 9/EFTA00534391.pdf

Check the torrent: Pull the EFTA numbers I listed. Confirm the gaps. Confirm the adjacencies.

Grep the corpus: Search for “QWURMO” (booking reference), “Shuliak”, “jeevacation”, “Colapinto”

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Summary

Three files missing from 531,256. All three cluster around one girlfriend’s April 2016 departure from St. Thomas. Same gaps appear in two processing batches 208,000 files apart. One gap sits adjacent to Epstein personally recommending a novel about a sympathetic pedophile, sent before the book was even publicly available.

This isn’t random corruption.

Full analysis + all code: https://github.com/degenai/Dataset9

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If anyone has the torrent and wants to grep for Colapinto connections or other Shuliak trips, please do. This is open source for a reason.

ysk the page limit has been fixed, it caps out around 9600 for a total of ~197k file entries. Way less than the largest torrent’s 530k. Scraping now to get a list of the files they kept on the DOJ so we can determine which files they don’t want out there. Would be a good lead to further investigate the torrent

Just like I said… In NO way do I trust DOJ… Our only hope is if someone drops the full data set 9 somewhere.