Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, February 15th.

Today on Forbes, Epstein could have made $100 million on a secret police tech investment.

Jeffrey Epstein was a convicted sex offender when he quietly became a major investor in a police technology startup that is now being acquired for hundreds

of millions of dollars.

The 2015 deal, in which he invested $1 million in startup, Reporti, was brokered by the

former Prime Minister of Israel, Ehud Barak, according to recently released Department

of Justice emails.

Barack was an early investor and the board chairman of Reporte, which was later renamed Carbine.

While details of Epstein's involvement in the company and his decade-long relationship with Barack have previously been reported, the nature and size of the investment have not.

At the time of Epstein's investment,

the company was worth $4.5 million, according to an email from Darren Indyke, one of Epstein's personal lawyers. In November, police tech giant Axon announced it was acquiring Carbine

at $625 million.

The deal has yet to close, but if Epstein had maintained his stake in the company,

it could have been worth over $100 million.

Developed by former members of Israel's elite spy units,

Carbine's tech is designed for emergency responders. When a 911 call comes in, the software

allows the caller to use their smartphone camera to stream video to police HQ so officers

can see what is happening on the ground. The recently released emails show that Epstein's original

$1 million investment was hidden by a holding company that Barack set up.

The holding company also included $500,000 from Nicole Junkerman,

a German-born investor whom Epstein introduced to a sprawling network of wealthy dignitaries.

The term sheets for the investments, which are included in the DOJ's cash of 3.5 million files

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