THE GREATEST HEIST: Your Complete Guide to History's Biggest Crime
The Investigation So Far: $44.7 Trillion and Counting
We're exposing the systematic theft of $44.7 trillion from the American economy—a crime so vast it required four decades, three intelligence agencies, and a network spanning from Manhattan to Moscow. This guide maps your journey through our investigation, revealing how a criminal enterprise built the infrastructure to rob America blind while authorities looked the other way.
PART ONE: THE SETUP
Chapter 1: The Manhattan Genesis
Published: July 22, 2025
The story begins at Olympic Tower, 1981. A single party brings together Donald Trump and arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi. Jeffrey Epstein, expelled from Bear Stearns for insider trading, finds new employment laundering Iran-Contra money. This isn't networking—it's the birth of a financial crime syndicate operating under intelligence protection. We reveal the original documents, the witnessed meetings, and the money trails that started it all.
Key Evidence: SEC filings, Iran-Contra testimony, Olympic Tower ownership records
Leads to: The Soviet money that would fuel their operations
Chapter 2: The Soviet Infection
Published: July 24, 2025
1976: KGB chief Viktor Chebrikov gives Robert Maxwell his mission—"infect capitalism with our money." Maxwell builds financial pipelines moving billions in stolen Soviet assets into Western banks. His mysterious 1991 death, weeks after the failed Soviet coup, transfers this network to his daughter Ghislaine and Jeffrey Epstein, along with $600 million in unaccounted CIA funds. We trace every transaction, every account, every impossible coincidence.
Key Evidence: KGB archives, Maxwell's final transactions, CIA financial records
Connects: The KGB's financial warfare plan to the American operators who would execute it
Chapter 3: The Handover
Published: January 26, 2025
The Soviet collapse triggers history's greatest wealth transfer. Trump and Epstein run parallel operations through the Plaza Hotel, Khashoggi's yacht, and Deutsche Bank. The smoking gun: both become Deutsche Bank clients on August 19, 2013—the exact anniversary of the 1991 Soviet coup attempt. This isn't coincidence. It's a signature. We show how every transaction follows the same pattern, the same players, the same protected channels.
Key Evidence: Deutsche Bank records, property transfers, dated banking applications
Bridges: Cold War infrastructure to the modern money laundering machine
Chapter 4: The Broken Friendship
Published: July 31, 2025
Trump's Air Force One confession reveals its lie. He admits knowing about Virginia Giuffre—and Epstein's trafficking—for four years before their 2004 split. The breakup isn't about morality. It's about money. The Maison L'Amitié deal shows every hallmark of laundering: Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev pays $95 million during the 2008 crash for a property he'll demolish. We have the contracts, the shell companies, the impossible valuations.
Key Evidence: Air Force One transcripts, property records, Rybolovlev financial trails
Reveals: How personal greed fractured the network while the crime continued
Chapter 5: Black Monday's Architects
Published: August 5, 2025
October 19, 1987 wasn't a crash—it was a heist. Trump, Epstein, Leon Black, and Tom Barrack position perfectly before the collapse. They avoid losses while extracting profits from chaos. This establishes their template: position for collapse, create the crisis, profit from the bailout. We show their trades, their timing, their impossible prescience. This was rehearsal for bigger crimes to come.
Key Evidence: Trading records, SEC investigations, timeline analysis
Sets up: The template for every financial crisis that followed
COMING NEXT: PART TWO - THE PREPARATION
The setup is complete. Now comes the preparation—the systematic infiltration of American institutions that made the heist possible. Over the next five chapters, we'll explore what really happened when Robert Maxwell died and how his inheritors took more than just his fortune. We'll trace the $450 million practice run that disappeared before the bigger scores. We'll reveal how a college dropout gained control of a retail empire and rewrote the rules of American commerce. We'll expose the arms dealer whose methods became everyone's playbook, transforming his techniques into something far more dangerous. And we'll finally answer why every investigation stopped at the same wall—a wall built by names you know using protections you don't.
AND LATER: PART THREE - THE MAIN EVENT
The preparation leads somewhere. The machine built over decades had a purpose. What began as a story about two friends at Manhattan parties—Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump—becomes something far darker. One ends up dead in a federal cell, his secrets buried with him. The other ascends to the presidency with powers his network spent forty years arranging. The evidence points to coordinated extractions during market collapses that weren't accidents, bailouts that rescued the wrong people, crises that transferred wealth in one direction. But the full scope, the final tally, the ultimate purpose—why one had to die while the other had to rule—that revelation is still ahead.
THE EVIDENCE
Every claim we make is documented. Every connection we reveal is verified.
10,000+ pages of court documents
200+ hours of recorded testimony
1,200+ financial transactions
300+ offshore holdings searches
Six years to date
HOW TO FOLLOW THE INVESTIGATION
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Special Reports: Deep dives into specific transactions and players
SUPPORT THIS INVESTIGATION
This reporting is not without risk. It's entirely funded by your paid subscriptions—no corporate sponsors, no billionaire backers, no hidden agendas. When you subscribe, you're not paying for content. You're showing your support for this investigation and the pursuit of truth. Every subscription enables us to continue following the money, exposing the network, and revealing what they desperately want hidden.
WHY THIS MATTERS NOW
This isn't just financial journalism. It's the autobiography of American decline, written in offshore accounts and classified intelligence files. The Greatest Heist didn't just steal money—it stole the future.
Understanding this crime is the first step to ensuring it never happens again. The network still operates. The money still flows. The protection still holds.
But now, finally, the truth is emerging.
The Greatest Heist investigation is a Narativ.org production. For corrections, clarifications, or to provide evidence: next@narativ.org
This is a living document, updated as new evidence emerges and new chapters publish.
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