Federal authorities in New York have opened an investigation into two longtime associates of the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, according to a source familiar with the matter, bringing new scrutiny to the men who manage the late sex offender’s estate.
Darren Indyke, Epstein’s longtime lawyer, and Richard Kahn, his longtime accountant, are under investigation, the source confirmed to the Washington Examiner, declining to specify what authorities are examining.
“We don’t comment on the existence, or lack thereof, of investigations,” a Justice Department spokesman told the Washington Examiner. “We have always said with regard to Epstein that if the evidence presents itself, we will investigate.”
The Washington Examiner reached out to lawyers for both men but did not receive a response.
Federal prosecutors in Manhattan have been arranging witness interviews and requesting emails and financial records concerning dealings with the two men, according to the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the investigation. The newspaper said it could not determine what charges prosecutors were exploring.
Both men have previously denied knowing about Epstein’s sex trafficking or knowingly helping him commit crimes. They have also said none of the women told them they were being sexually abused.
The investigation puts renewed attention on two advisers whose work for Epstein spanned his criminal cases and continued through the administration of his estate after he died in 2019.
People interviewed by prosecutors described questions about the men’s roles in legal entities allegedly used to conceal Epstein’s activities, as well as their handling of financial and legal matters involving young women, according to the newspaper.
A separate Wall Street Journal investigation published last year described the men’s roles in arranging cash, paying women, and managing entities that obscured Epstein’s transactions. Both denied wrongdoing. The newspaper also reported that neither was questioned about his work for Epstein during the federal investigations of Epstein and convicted coconspirator Ghislaine Maxwell in 2019 and 2020.
Indyke and Kahn began working for Epstein before his Florida guilty plea and stayed with him until his death. As executors, they became responsible for managing his assets and resolving victims’ claims. An estate compensation program paid more than $120 million to eligible victims, with other claims settled separately.
The men also stand to benefit from assets left after claims against the estate are resolved. Documents described in the newspaper’s reporting showed Indyke could receive $50 million and Kahn could receive $25 million.
The investigation follows more than a year of disputes over the Trump administration’s campaign promise to make public access to the Epstein files, during which an effort to end further disclosures gave way to a congressional mandate to release records, millions of pages becoming public, and scrutiny of then-Attorney General Pam Bondi, who has since been replaced by Todd Blanche.
Last summer, the DOJ and FBI said in a two-page unsigned memorandum that their review found no incriminating client list or evidence sufficient to open investigations into uncharged third parties. The agencies also concluded that “no further disclosure would be appropriate or warranted.”
Following that memo’s publication, the Republican-led House Oversight and Government Reform Committee pressed forward with its own investigation of the government’s handling of Epstein and Maxwell, seeking records and testimony about their crimes and the circumstances of Epstein’s death.
Democrats on the committee led by Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) have protested President Donald Trump’s DOJ for months over their perceived lack of action taken on the Epstein investigation, accusing the administration of “covering up evidence of a potential assault by the President.” No allegations made in relation to Trump and Epstein have been corroborated, and Trump has called such allegations a “Democratic hoax,” in addition to his removal of Epstein from his Florida-based club in the mid-2000s.
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The committee has since completed 19 transcribed interviews, including two interviews with the estate executors under oath, taking Kahn’s interview on March 11 and Indyke’s on March 19. Its congressional investigation is separate from the federal prosecutors’ investigation.
The Washington Examiner reached out to Republican and Democratic leadership of the committee.