{"id":48374,"date":"2026-03-28T10:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/diamonds-and-hard-drives-from-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-for-5-days-now-we-know-where-they-went\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T10:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T10:11:17","slug":"diamonds-and-hard-drives-from-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-for-5-days-now-we-know-where-they-went","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/diamonds-and-hard-drives-from-jeffrey-epsteins-safe-went-missing-for-5-days-now-we-know-where-they-went\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamonds and hard drives from Jeffrey Epstein&#8217;s safe went missing for 5 days. Now we know where they went."},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69c6ed628373a547629c73e3?format=jpeg\" alt=\"A man on a beach\"\/><figcaption>Jeffrey Epstein<\/p>\n<p>DOJ&#039;s Epstein files<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>The FBI left behind hard drives and diamonds from Jeffrey Epstein&#039;s safe when they raided his house.<\/li>\n<li>Epstein&#039;s accountant, who gave them to the FBI five days later, told lawmakers how he got them.<\/li>\n<li>Another deposition sheds light on hard drives that went missing from Epstein&#039;s Florida home.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When FBI agents raided Jeffrey Epstein&#039;s Manhattan mansion upon his July 2019 arrest, they used a chainsaw to open a metal safe.<\/p>\n<p>Inside, they found a pile of loose diamonds, cash, passports with the disgraced financier&#039;s photo under different names, and several hard drives and CDs.<\/p>\n<p>Because the agents didn&#039;t have a warrant to seize the safe&#039;s contents, they left them in the middle of the floor with the hard drives and binders piled on top, agent Kelly Maguire testified at the criminal trial of Epstein&#039;s co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.<\/p>\n<p>Five days later, when the FBI returned to the mansion with a new warrant in hand, the safe&#039;s contents were gone.<\/p>\n<p>Later that day, the items were handed over to the FBI in the form of two suitcases by Richard Kahn, Epstein&#039;s longtime accountant.<\/p>\n<p>The episode has fueled speculation among watchers of the Epstein story amid broader concerns about cover-ups and undue influence in the case.<\/p>\n<p>Why Kahn took the safe&#039;s contents, and what he did with them, has been a mystery \u2014 until now.<\/p>\n<p>In his March 11 testimony before the House Oversight Committee, Kahn said that the safe&#039;s contents passed through three different people before coming into the FBI&#039;s possession.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69c6e6ca8e5f53c45ea2d007?format=jpeg\" alt=\"jeffrey epstein safe\"\/><figcaption>This photo of Jeffrey Epstein&#039;s sawed-open safe, with hard drives and other items piled on top, was shown to jurors at Ghislaine Maxwell&#039;s trial.<\/p>\n<p>US Department of Justice<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a deposition made public Tuesday, Kahn said he was informed of the raid by Merwin Dela Cruz, the manager of Epstein&#039;s Upper East Side mansion, who said he packed the safe&#039;s contents into two suitcases and left them with Kahn&#039;s doorman in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When the FBI broke into Epstein&#039;s home, they broke down his door, so his door could not lock and the alarm could not set properly,&quot; Kahn told the committee. &quot;When Merwin, the house manager, was at the house, he realized that these items were not safe to be left alone.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Kahn, who wasn&#039;t in New York City at the time of the raid, said he took possession of the items &quot;three or four days later.&quot; He testified that he brought the two bags into his apartment and didn&#039;t look inside them.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I never touched them. I never opened them,&quot; Kahn said. &quot;I left them in my dining room.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A day or two later, Dela Cruz called Kahn again to say the FBI was looking for the stuff they had left behind, Kahn told the committee.<\/p>\n<p>That&#039;s when he grabbed the bags from his home and brought them to the FBI agents at Epstein&#039;s house, Kahn said.<\/p>\n<p>Reached by Business Insider, Dela Cruz declined to comment. Daniel Ruzumna, an attorney representing Kahn, declined to comment beyond Kahn&#039;s testimony.<\/p>\n<p>At Maxwell&#039;s trial, Maguire testified that the contents of the suitcases &quot;appeared to be all of the items that had been previously located in the safe.&quot; In a court filing, prosecutors said the safe&#039;s stash included 48 loose diamonds, which is the same number of diamonds Epstein bequeathed to his fianc\u00e9e, Karyna Shuliak, while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges before his jailhouse suicide.<\/p>\n<h2>The missing Palm Beach hard drives<\/h2>\n<p>The testimony released by the committee on Tuesday also shed light on the fate of computers removed from Epstein&#039;s Palm Beach, Florida, house shortly before police officers executed a search warrant there in 2005, during a local investigation into his interactions with underage girls.<\/p>\n<p>Florida law enforcement officials never found the computers. Their investigation culminated in a plea deal that required Epstein to serve a year in jail \u2014 after which he resumed his business and social lives, interacting with many rich, famous, and powerful figures.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69c6e7ac8373a547629c7382?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Jeffrey Epstein palm beach house\"\/><figcaption>Jeffrey Epstein&#039;s Palm Beach house, which the police searched for evidence in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>US Department of Justice<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a March 19 deposition with the House Oversight Committee, Darren Indyke, Epstein&#039;s longtime personal attorney, said he learned after Epstein&#039;s 2008 conviction that the hard drives were in the possession of Riley Kiraly, a private investigations firm.<\/p>\n<p>In an October 2005 memo released by the Justice Department as part of the Epstein files, firm co-owner William Riley told one of Epstein&#039;s lawyers that an employee had retrieved computers from Epstein&#039;s home, among other items of &quot;potential evidentiary value.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>After Epstein&#039;s Florida criminal case concluded, Riley asked Epstein and his lawyers what he should do with items belonging to Epstein, the DOJ&#039;s files show. He said they included computer hard drives, which were cloned &quot;by a forensic specialist&quot; and &quot;locked in storage.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Riley declined to comment to Business Insider. Indyke said in the deposition that he didn&#039;t know anything about the storage units. The Epstein files show that Kahn was in charge of paying the fees for the storage site, but he wasn&#039;t asked about them in his deposition.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Democrats on the House Oversight Committee sent letters to Riley and two other private investigators who worked for Epstein, asking about the computers.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The Committee requests that you make yourself available for a transcribed interview to provide insight into the contents, removal, storage, and location of materials removed from Mr. Epstein&#039;s Palm Beach home,&quot; the letter to Riley says.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeffrey Epstein DOJ&#039;s Epstein files The FBI left behind hard drives and diamonds from Jeffrey Epstein&#039;s safe when they raided his house. Epstein&#039;s accountant, who gave them to the FBI five days later, told lawmakers how he got them. Another deposition sheds light on hard drives that went missing from Epstein&#039;s Florida home. 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