3 million pages of evidence, thousands of unsealed flight logs,

millions of data points, names, themes and timelines connected.

You are listening to the Epstein files, the world's first AI-native investigation into the case

that traditional journalism simply could not handle.

Welcome back to the Epstein Files. Last time we looked at File 135, The Publicist.

Today, we are analyzing File 136, The Defender.

As always, every document and source we reference is available at Epsteinfiles.fm.

So let us start with the Origins Project at Arizona State University,

because the funding records establish how Epstein turned science philanthropy into a loyalty network,

and Lawrence Krause is the documented

case study.

Right. Our objective today is to audit the specific institutional decisions and the financial

pathways preserved in the archives.

Exactly.

We need to trace the precise, verifiable connection between the continuous funding of the Arizona

State University Origins Project and the subsequent

deployment of high-level legal resources.

Specifically to protect its director, Lawrence Krause.

Right.

By examining the paper trail released under the EFTA, we can objectively measure how this

financial patronage operated.

Not just as a mechanism for scientific discovery.

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