Ryan Knudson

Epstein held 250,000 shares in the publicly traded company.

The amount of a future dividend payout can impact whether someone buys or sells that company's stock.

And knowing it ahead of time could give an investor an advantage.

A spokesman for Black said Epstein provided tax and estate planning services for Black's family office and was given information about his holdings in Apollo for these purposes.

I've got another example for you.

This one involves Israel's former prime minister, Ehud Barak.

Epstein's emails show that in 2016, Barak sent confidential information about a company he'd invested in.

It was a tech startup called Reporte, where Barak was chair of the board.

A spokesperson for Ehud Barak said that Reporte was a private company, and because Epstein was one of its biggest early investors through a partnership led by Barak, Epstein was entitled to receive the information approved by the board.

His spokesperson said that all of Barak's business activities, including Reporte, were conducted under careful legal advice and according to the law.

After the break, Epstein's inside man at J.P.

Morgan.

One of Jeffrey Epstein's valuable sources, according to Amelie's reporting, appears to be Jess Staley, who was a senior JPMorgan executive until 2013.

What could have Epstein have done with that information?

So did his buddy give him access to buying preferred shares?

Information that suggested that the bank was going to do better in the future?

In 2010, Staley forwarded an email to Epstein that had details about an upcoming deal that JP Morgan was secretly working on.

It involved the billionaire Pritzker family.

Less than three weeks later, the deal went through.

Do you know if Epstein did anything with this information?