[GRADE A1 -- EFTA01428503, EFTA01435967, EFTA02286268, EFTA01375143, EFTA02637769, EFTA01421364, EFTA02165828]
[V2.0] On February 11, 2019 -- five months before arrest -- Kahn emailed Dam O'Sullivan at Deutsche Bank: "can you please obtain pricing to sell these positions." The bonds listed totaled approximately $7.5M across Southern Trust Company and Southern Financial LLC accounts, including $2.469M in General Electric and $3M in Southern Cal Edison. This liquidation preceded the account closure campaign by six weeks.
On March 29, 2019 -- 3.5 months before arrest -- Kahn emailed Stewart Oldfield (DB): "i believe as of 3-31-2019 balances are down to: 9,266,439... i will continue to close accounts as quickly as possible."
On May 3, 2019 -- 2 months before arrest -- Bella Klein (CC: Kahn) sent Oldfield "6 letters requesting to close accounts" covering Southern Financial (x2), Southern Trust (x2), JEGE, and Hyperion Air.
On May 8, 2019, Kahn thanked Lesley Groff for "both" signed and notarized Butterfly Trust documents (EFTA02286268).
[V2.0] On March 15, 2019, Indyke emailed Epstein about Truth Robot LLC formation. Epstein responded: "Can't have my name." Indyke replied: "Will delete and have Rich sign as 'Treasurer' of Southern Financial, LLC." This documents active deletion of Epstein's name from corporate records and substitution of Kahn, three and a half months before arrest.
Neptune LLC (EFTA01416771), where Kahn served as Manager and Epstein as UBO/Sole Member, was deactivated on July 9, 2019 -- three days after Epstein's arrest. The DB KYC review from April 2019 lists Neptune's full control structure: Kahn (Manager), Epstein (UBO), Harry Beller (Auth Signor), Darren Indyke (Auth Signor), and Karyna Shuliak (Joint Account Holder).
On July 12, 2019 -- the day after returning the suitcases to the FBI -- Kahn emailed Stewart Oldfield at Deutsche Bank a link to a New York Times article about Epstein witness tampering charges. No text accompanied the link. The timing is notable: Kahn, who had just been involved in the evidence chain, forwarded a media article about witness tampering to the banker who managed Epstein's accounts.
In 2012, Lesley Groff emailed with Rich Kahn CC'd: "I know Rich spoke to you re doing some office work for him (example: shredding)... Rich is wondering if [redacted] was still on the list/available to work for him?" This documents active document destruction at HBRK as early as 2012.
On March 12, 2019, Epstein emailed Kahn: "as i thought send him a note, quite disturbing that the story keeps changing... you should be more careful. jeffrey trusts you and you give me bad info every day." The language suggests tension in the information management relationship as the legal walls close in.
WHAT THIS SHOWS AND DOES NOT SHOW: The documents establish that Kahn was liquidating bonds five months before arrest, closing DB accounts while simultaneously opening Schwab accounts, deleting Epstein's name from corporate records, deactivating entities post-arrest, forwarding witness tampering articles to bankers, and hiring for document shredding at HBRK. The timeline: bond liquidation (Feb 2019) to entity name deletion (Mar 2019) to account closures (Mar-May 2019) to Schwab account opening (Apr-May 2019) to Neptune deactivation (Jul 9, 2019) documents a systematic multi-month concealment campaign. The documents do NOT prove foreknowledge of the specific arrest date.