In August 2024, a hacker group called Handala breached the personal email of Ehud Barak, the former Prime Minister of Israel. Barak was one of Epstein’s closest associates.
Those emails were published by Distributed Denial of Secrets. Journalists Jack Poulson and Harrison Berger spent months going through them. What they found was a direct financial relationship between Ehud Barak and Scott Bessent, the man who is now running the United States Treasury.
Here is what the emails show:
(1) August 2013. Barak emails a senior Soros Fund executive about “ichiban,” a Japanese word meaning “number one.” It is the code name for a currency trade being run by Bessent at Soros Fund. The trade that would make $3.5 billion crashing the yen.
(2) December 2013. Barak emails about meeting with Bessent directly. He refers to Bessent as “Sterling” in the correspondence.
(3) May 2014. Soros Fund executives discuss seeding Bessent’s new hedge fund, Key Square Capital, with $100 million to $450 million. Barak is included in these discussions.
(3) February 2015. Barak has a direct meeting with Bessent scheduled. The emails reference ongoing financial discussions between them.
(4) May 2015. Discussions continue about Bessent’s fund launch and Barak’s financial involvement.
This is the same Ehud Barak who was business partners with Jeffrey Epstein. The same Barak who ran an intelligence-linked venture capital fund. The same Barak who was connected to Carbyne and TOKA, surveillance tech companies Epstein helped fund and sell to the US Government.
And Scott Bessent, who had this financial relationship with Epstein’s business partner, who was code-named in Epstein-adjacent communications, is now the Treasury Secretary of the United States.
The Senate had a chance to investigate. Ron Wyden tried to expand the Epstein probe to include financial connections like these. Senate Republicans blocked it, and in March 2026 they killed the bill.
The leaked emails exist. The financial relationship exists. The meetings exist. The Senate investigation was blocked. A follow the money on these financials would be revealing, so the question is why??
This is the man running the U.S. Treasury. The man weakening your dollar. The man who just got the president’s family a bank charter for their private digital dollar. The man who yesterday threatened to cut countries off from the dollar system entirely.
And his financial history runs through Jeffrey Epstein’s business partner.
Nothing to see here folks….