The Greatest Heist Live: What I Told Paid Subscribers Last Thursday Night

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.narativ.orgLast Thursday night I did something I’ve never done before.For the first time publicly, I sat down with investigative journalist Patrick Lovell — who executive produced The Con about the 2008 crash which you can watch here — to discuss the core findings from the first ten chapters of The Greatest Heist investigation. This wasn’t a regular show—it was a 60-minute paid subscriber event where I could finally speak openly about what the evidence reveals.Patrick brought the perfect combination of skepticism and insight. As he put it during our conversation: “When I started to read it, I couldn’t stop. I felt like I was, I don’t know, like a teenager reading some of my favorite CIA or intelligence books by authors like Robert Ludlum.” The Olympic Tower MomentThe whole thing crystallized for me around 1981. That’s when I discovered that Adnan Khashoggi—this high-flying arms trader connected to Iran-Contra—had relationships with both Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump at around the same time.As I explained to Patrick: “The more I explored the connections between Khashoggi and Trump and Khashoggi and Epstein, it became clear that they were basically being recruited by a network.”Trump was influenced by Khashoggi in building Trump Tower and his lavish penthouse, based on Khashoggi’s setup at Olympic Towers. Just below them in that same building? The future offices of the Jeffrey Epstein Foundation.“Not only were they co-located, they also happened at the same amount of time, same period of time, but also connected to these extraordinary networks, which we’ll find out later, turned out to be a giant criminal syndicate.”The David Bogatin ConnectionPatrick asked what first made me realize this was operational, not social. The answer: David Bogatin.In 1984, Bogatin walks into Trump Tower with $6 million in cash to buy five condos. Trump was there to see the suitcase of cash come in. Three years later, FBI identifies Bogatin as a lieutenant of Semion Mogilevich—the Russian mobster who was also Robert Maxwell’s business partner.“The fact that you had this name, Semion Mogilevich, show up in both the histories of Trump and the Russian mob and the history of Robert Maxwell and the Russian mob, that to me was a big indicator that there was something much bigger here.”Maxwell’s DirectiveRobert Maxwell is central to understanding how this works. As I revealed last night, Maxwell was working for KGB, MI6, and Mossad simultaneously. He was a triple agent.And Epstein? He got hired by Douglas Leese—an MI6 operative—for training specifically in “money laundering, investment banking, and financial fraud.” Leese was working with Maxwell on Iran-Contra arms deals.When Patrick asked how Epstein transformed from math teacher to financial operative, I explained: “Maxwell had met Epstein in the 1980s, much earlier than previously anticipated, and Epstein was learning how to be an international arms trader from Leese and from Maxwell.”The Extraction ModelWhat makes this operation so effective? The extraction model they perfected.“In 1987, when the market crashed, I have it in the book that it was a controlled crash,” I explained. “These network of men who had interests related to Russia or other countries like the Saudis or the UAE or Qatar, they all work together at least to benefit from the crash of 1987.”The pattern repeats: create crisis, position beforehand, profit from collapse, let taxpayers fund the bailout. Tom Barrack gets the Plaza Hotel at fire-sale prices in 1987 and flips it to Trump. Leon Black scoops up distressed S&L assets into Apoll