This week Stacey tells us about Matthew Mellon, the Mellon banking heir and early cryptocurrency investor known for his substantial stake in Ripple, whose life ended mysteriously on April 9, 2022, in a Cancun hotel room while traveling from his home in Florida to an experimental rehab treatment.

Sources:

https://vilk.medium.com/mellons-missing-millions-he-blew-his-family-s-fortune-on-fast-living-then-made-1billion-back-de429e1771e6

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellon_family

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Mellon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Negley_Mellon

https://www.celebritynetworth.com/articles/billionaire-news/billionaire-banking-heir-matthew-mellon-dies-rehab

https://feeds.bbci.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-43800610

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/17/billionaire-banking-heir-matthew-mellon-dies-at-54.html

https://gulfnews.com/lifestyle/a-matter-of-money-and-heartbreak-1.731418

https://www.standard.co.uk/hp/front/cleared-the-oil-billionaire-too-absentminded-to-spy-on-his-jimmy-choo-tycoon-ex-7284360.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamara_Mellon

https://www.finance.senate.gov/ranking-members-news/wyden-expands-epstein-investigation-with-probe-of-hundreds-of-suspicious-bank-of-new-york-mellon-transactions

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01250229.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00433799.pdf

https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/bianca-pratt-christopher-getty-matthew-mellon-nicole-hanley-news-photo/819138180?adppopup=true

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00746142.pdf

https://estateandprobatelawyer.com/a-cautionary-tale-cryptocurrency/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/webarchive/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.co.uk%2Fblogs%2Fadamcurtis%2Fentries%2F44122901-c2e8-34f5-93e0-d4402c163966

https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/bank-of-mellon-epstein-sex-trafficking-class-action.pdf

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This week Erin tells us about Jason James Mahn, who on April 1, 1993, in Pensacola murdered his father’s girlfriend, Debra Shanko, and her 14-year-old son, Anthony Shanko, in their home before fleeing the state and later being arrested in Oklahoma.

Sources:

https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/83423/83423ans.pdf

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/fl-supreme-court/1254367.html

https://truecrimearchives.blog/jason-james-mahn-from-death-row-to-life-imprisonment/

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/images/mahn_jason_james/op-83423.pdf

https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1993/04/13/suspect-made-death-threats-says-former-co-worker/

https://murderpedia.org/male.M/m/mahn-jason-james.htm

https://www.insideprison.com/state-inmate-search.asp?lnam=mahn&id=1281543

https://library.law.fsu.edu/Digital-Collections/flsupct/dockets/83423/83423ini.pdf

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This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Financial_Corporation

https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1994/dig021894.pdf

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffrey-epstein-steven-hoffenberg-intelligence-agencies-spy-1197708/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/908/1265/1457501/

https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/751153024/jeffrey-epsteins-former-business-associate-i-want-to-assist-victims

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00270335.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00182748.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01326141.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01140030.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339405.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01326139.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01937998.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01937998.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00376722.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00680461.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%2010/EFTA01433867.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA01106124.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00583986.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339406.pdf

https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00339410.pdf

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