Start Here: TrueHoop’s Jeffrey Epstein investigation

"Some of the greatest shit I have ever read."

I’ve consumed a metric ton of Epstein content, and have come to love the work of Julian Dorey. He has a sharp brain and a willingness to ask questions that expose the nooks and crannies of the Epstein scandal. So it meant a lot to me when Julian brought up TrueHoop to John Kiriakou—a fascinating source of intel.

He has inspired me to do something I should have done a long time ago: create a real user guide to TrueHoop’s Epstein investigation.

TrueHoop has been covering the NBA since 2005. But starting in 2019—and accelerating through 2021 and beyond—we kept pulling on a thread that led somewhere unexpected: a deep, documented entanglement between the NBA’s most important source of money, a convicted sex trafficker, the CIA, and some of the most powerful figures in American finance and politics. This is a guide to that reporting.