BlackRock and Vanguard Own the Epstein Network

Unmasking the Rust’s Goon Squad

This is Part 5 of our Epstein series — the unplanned escalation.

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For months, the public has been conditioned to see the Epstein story as a political war.
A “list.” A partisan spectacle. A left-right cage match that keeps the public staring sideways.

That narrative is the final Great Distraction.

Because the Epstein–Maxwell network was never a rogue operation, and it was never a story of “Democrats vs. Republicans.”

It was a service.
A deniable, vertically integrated machine that provided access, leverage, and operational cover to the most powerful financial actors on Earth.

And now we can prove who owns it.

This isn’t a horizontal fight.
This is a vertical operation built and maintained by the transnational financial elite —
a structure we’ve named:

The Rust.

BlackRock.
Vanguard.
And the billionaire class orbiting them.

Here is the schematic.

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PILLAR 1 — The Old Guard (The 1980s Blueprint)

The Epstein engine didn’t appear out of nowhere. It is the evolution of a system that began with a predecessor: Robert Maxwell, Ghislaine’s father.

Maxwell didn’t merely run a media empire. He ran a multibillion-dollar fraud — stealing £460 million from his own employees’ pension funds.

This crime was structurally impossible without what the UK government later called:

“Complicity as a Service.”

The DTI report explicitly named the enablers:

• Goldman Sachs — “lender of reputation,” who helped Maxwell illegally dump pension shares

• Lehman Brothers — censured and fined after being forced to return some of the stolen assets

This was the blueprint:
Elite banks acting as operational partners in a massive fraud run by an intelligence-linked asset.

That is the seed of the Epstein–era architecture.

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PILLAR 2 — The New Guard (The 2000s Operation)

The next generation didn’t create a new machine.
They inherited the model.

Jeffrey Epstein operated with the full backing of the new financial elite:

JPMorgan Chase (Epstein’s main bank, 1998–2013)

Over $1 billion processed.
Epstein labeled a “treasured customer.”
Compliance alarms ignored from the top down.

Jes Staley — his personal defender inside the bank — exchanged hundreds of emails with Epstein and is now accused by victims of direct participation.

Mary Erdoes, the bank’s Private Bank head, was warned repeatedly of “human trafficking and money laundering” and did nothing.

Deutsche Bank (The Post-Conviction Enabler)

Immediately adopted Epstein after his sex-offender conviction.
Knowingly processed payments to victims and co-conspirators.

This is the same “Complicity as a Service” model — simply upgraded and scaled.

The Clients of The Rust

The customers of this machine weren’t random billionaires.

They were the Rust itself.

• Leon Black (Apollo Global) paid Epstein $158 million for fraudulent “services.”

• Other Rust-aligned elites — Gates, Thiel, Bannon, Musk — orbited the same access markets.

JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank paid a combined $365 million in fines.

Not as accountability.

As the cost of protecting the real owners.

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PILLAR 3 — The Vertical Link (The Boss Level)

This is where the schematic locks into place.

We can now prove that the same entity owns all three layers of the machine:

• The Old Guard (Maxwell era)

• The New Guard (Epstein era)

• The “Rust” atop the pyramid

This linkage happens in two ways:

LINK ONE — Personnel (The Revolving Door)

Where did the senior leadership of Maxwell’s enabling banks go?

Into the command structure of BlackRock — the core of the Rust.

Rick Rieder

• Senior executive at Lehman Brothers throughout its Maxwell-era misconduct

• Now Chief Investment Officer at BlackRock

• On its Global Executive Committee

Adebayo “Bayo” Ogunlesi

• Lead Director at Goldman Sachs during Maxwell-era operations

• Now a Senior Managing Director at BlackRock

• Also on its Global Executive Committee

The Rust didn’t replace the Old Guard.

It absorbed it.

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LINK TWO — Ownership (The Vertical Control Structure)

Here is the closed-loop proof:

The Rust owns the banks that enabled Epstein

JPMorgan Chase

• #1 shareholder: Vanguard (~10%)

• #2 shareholder: BlackRock (~7.6%)

Deutsche Bank

• #1 shareholder: BlackRock (~7.55%)

• #3 shareholder: Vanguard (~4.17%)

The Rust owns the clients that used Epstein

Apollo Global (Leon Black’s firm)

• #1 shareholder: Vanguard (~8.05%)

• #2 shareholder: BlackRock (~5.9%)

This is a perfect loop:
They own the bank.
They own the client.
They hire the personnel.
They control the apparatus.

This is the Goon Squad.

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THE CONCLUSION — The Schematic of Vertical Control

Once you follow the ownership structure, everything becomes clear.

The Rust owns:

1. The Banks

JPMC and DB — the institutions that laundered money for Maxwell and Epstein.

2. The Clients

Apollo — the billionaires paying for the services.

3. The Personnel

Rieder, Ogunlesi — the Old Guard leaders absorbed into BlackRock’s executive command.

4. The Media

CNN, NYT, Fox — all majority-owned (institutionally) by BlackRock and Vanguard, enabling the Great Distraction.

5. The Politicians

Schumer — funded by Epstein and BlackRock.
Wyden — investigating Epstein’s banks while receiving funds from the owners of those same banks.

6. The Narrative Control Mechanism

They bury the vertical story by feeding the public a horizontal circus.

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THE REVELATION

Now that the loop is visible, the rest becomes obvious.
The Epstein–Maxwell network was never an isolated crime ring.

It was a deniable, disposable arm of a vertically integrated structure run by the financial elite —
The Rust.

They own the stage.
They own the cast.
They own the script.

And the public was given a puppet show.

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Continue to Part 6

You want the connection between BlackRock/Vanguard and the Nazi operation?

Here it is:

The Epstein network didn’t come out of nowhere.
It was downstream of a financial-intelligence architecture that started 90 years ago — and never died.

The Nazi-era operation in the second article built the first version of the modern offshore, intelligence-integrated capital system.
BlackRock and Vanguard are simply sitting on top of the final form of that system.

The first article shows the current owners of the machine.
The second shows the original engineers.

If you read them separately, you miss the entire point:

The architecture survived the war.
It survived the Cold War.
It survived Epstein.

It’s still here.

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This entire indictment is built on our latest intelligence report:

• 🔗 The Vertical Integration of the Maxwell/Epstein Engine and the Transnational Financial Elite (”The Rust” 🦠)

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