20 Documents Name Richard Kahn as Epstein's Financial Fixer — UBS Shutdown, $22M Property Deals

Kahn operated from 575 Lexington Avenue, 4th Floor, New York and appears in 20 documents spanning September 2012 through September 2017. His role reached across Epstein's most sensitive financial decisions.

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UBS Pulled the Plug — Citing "Reputation Risk"

In September 2014, UBS Financial Services informed Epstein it would be closing his credit card accounts. The reason, according to internal communications: the bank no longer wanted "any reputation risk" associated with Epstein.

Document vol00011-efta02712531-pdf captures Kahn relaying the news directly to Epstein:

"i just called Julie our UBS account rep and she explained although attached letter was vague UBS will be closing credit cards as they do not want any reputation risk per their compliance dept"

Kahn offered to call UBS to push back on the October 10th deadline, and promised a follow-up email identifying the most active UBS card users and the financial impact. The document shows Kahn actively managing the fallout from a major financial institution's decision to cut ties — years before Epstein's 2019 arrest.

$22.25 Million Property — And Redirected Funds

A September 2014 email (Document vol00011-efta02711448-pdf) shows Kahn reporting on a real estate operation to Epstein involving two properties and an entity named David Mitchell.

Kahn wrote that one Brooklyn property had an estimated cash position of $375,000, while a 26th Street property had been lowered in price to $22,250,000 with six showings and no firm offers.

More significantly, Kahn disclosed that Mitchell required written instructions to redirect money flows to "HBRK / DKI" (Kahn's firm and an associated entity) in lieu of another arrangement — and that Mitchell needed to "run it by his attorney" first.

This document exposes the layered structure through which Epstein's real estate income was managed and routed.

Tax Returns, Compensation History, and Leon's Finances

Document vol00011-efta02724570-pdf places Kahn at the center of Epstein's tax strategy. In September 2013, accountant Thomas Turrin of Raich Ende Malter & Co. wrote to Epstein asking whether he should send "the draft of Leon's income tax return" to Richard Kahn at 575 Lexington.

Epstein confirmed: "no 9 east 71 st" — directing the draft to his Manhattan townhouse instead.

The reference to "Leon's" return — given the strong documented connections between Epstein and Leon Black across this same evidence set — places Kahn in a position of visibility over Epstein's financial relationships with major investors.

A separate document (vol00011-efta02705497-pdf) from September 2013 is titled "Compensation History" and originates from Kahn — though its full contents require further review.

Stock Transfers and TD Ameritrade

By 2017, Kahn was coordinating Epstein's brokerage relationships. Document vol00010-efta01268391-pdf shows Kahn emailing TD Ameritrade Senior Financial Consultant Rafael Otoya to ask when stocks would appear in "our account."

Kahn copied Alpha Group Capital on the message — a detail that connects Epstein's securities holdings to another financial entity in the network.

A September 14, 2017 email (vol00010-efta01268343-pdf) shows Epstein personally forwarding Otoya's contact request to Kahn, writing: "please speak with richard and paul regarding trading needs, custody, prime brokerage, etc" — confirming Kahn's direct authority over Epstein's brokerage operations in the months before Epstein's finances came under federal scrutiny.

HBRK Associates: The Firm Behind the Finances

Kahn's employer, HBRK Associates Inc., appears across every document in this set. The firm's office at 575 Lexington Avenue served as the operational hub for correspondence across UBS, TD Ameritrade, Deutsche Bank, and Epstein's real estate entities.

The documents span more than five years of continuous financial management — from 2012 through at least September 2017. Kahn also handled logistics for Epstein's Manhattan townhouse at 9 East 71st Street, supervising renovation contractors, projection screen installations, and construction bids worth tens of thousands of dollars.

One September 2015 email shows Kahn managing tuition payments for a third party at Epstein's direction — another indicator of how broadly his financial management role extended.

What the Documents Show

The 20 documents involving Richard Kahn establish a financial operator who sat between Epstein and his banks, brokerages, accountants, property managers, and contractors.

He relayed UBS's compliance decision. He reported on multimillion-dollar property valuations. He was addressed as the recipient for sensitive tax documents. He handled stock transfer logistics through 2017.

The DOJ documents do not allege wrongdoing by Kahn, and no charges against him have been made public. But his paper trail — now part of the federal evidence record — maps in granular detail how Epstein's financial machinery operated day to day.

Read the primary source documents at invarchives.com.

Disclaimer: This article is based solely on documents in the public DOJ evidence record. InvArchives makes no allegation of criminal conduct against any individual named. All individuals are presumed innocent. Document citations refer to records in the federal Epstein Task Force Archive (EFTA).