Richard D. Kahn
Listed for conduct in a professional or corporate capacity, per the inclusion rule. This page records role and source only.
- Capacity
- accountant
- Roles
- treasurer; director; co-executor; fund administration correspondent; President, Gratitude America, Ltd.
- Entities
- Southern Trust Company Inc; The C.O.U.Q. Foundation Inc; Honeycomb Ventures I LP; Honeycomb Ventures IV LP; Gratitude America Ltd
- First seen
- 2011
- Last seen
- 2018-05
- Source documents
- USVI AG complaint para 37; Sunbiz officer index; DOJ library EFTA02366568 (2017-07-10), EFTA00873783, EFTA00803628 | Looking the Other Way, U.S. Senate Committee on Finance (Ranking Member Wyden), 4 Aug 2026, wyden_wall_street_epstein_report.pdf
Record
Correspondence to Epstein forwarding Honeycomb Ventures I and IV fund documents and distribution statements. NEGATIVE RESULT ON FILE: no Florida corporate footprint outside C.O.U.Q., confirmed by two independent Sunbiz officer searches.
Named PRESIDENT of Gratitude America, Ltd. on the signed 990-PF Part VIII (EIN 66-0789697, TY2015 and TY2018), at 575 Lexington Ave 4th Floor, 1.00 hr/week, compensation $0.
SENATE FINANCE REPORT 2026-08-04: accountant; 2023 JPMC internal know-your-customer profile quoted as saying Kahn 'was a primary actor in movement of Epstein's funds' and 'potentially assisted in facilitating the sex trafficking ring'; his company HBRK Associates Inc. had signatory authority over Epstein accounts at JPMC and other institutions. Recommendation 11: should be investigated. ALLEGATIONS AND CHARACTERISATIONS, NOT FINDINGS.
FACILITATION ALLEGATIONS & VICTIM SETTLEMENTS (added 2026-09-10, primary public sources): FACTS - co-executor (with Darren K. Indyke) of Epstein's estate (The 1953 Trust); the estate reached a proposed victim class settlement of $25 million (under 40 eligible claimants) to $35 million (40+), estate-funded, with 'no admission of wrongdoing,' pending federal-court approval (2026). ALLEGATIONS (public-complaint claims; NOT findings; Kahn denies them): plaintiffs characterize Kahn as 'a de facto financial manager of Epstein's sex trafficking operation' who managed the operation's expenses (while Indyke is alleged to have handled cash withdrawals), and allege the co-executors 'organized, controlled, and directed almost every aspect' of the enterprise (New York Supreme Court, filed 2026-08-19, NYC Gender-Motivated Violence Act). Separately the USVI alleges the co-executors 'authorized or directed many of the transactions' (USVI v. Indyke, ST-20-CV-14; SAC para 31). DEFENSE - Kahn denies all allegations; counsel states 'not a single woman has ever accused Mr. Indyke or Mr. Kahn of committing sexual abuse or witnessing sexual abuse,' and no complaint alleges he personally participated in sexual exploitation. Sources: NY Supreme Court complaint (Aug 2026); estate settlement filings (2026); ABC News; Bloomberg Law.
RECOVERED FROM DEFECTIVELY-REDACTED SAC (added 2026-09-10; court-public per charter sec.11, non-victim): The USVI's Second Amended Complaint (USVI v. JPMorgan Chase, No. 1:22-cv-10904, S.D.N.Y.) was published by DOJ with DEFECTIVE redactions - black bars drawn over text that stayed recoverable by standard copy/paste - and is preserved on the Internet Archive. Among the recoverable (thus court-public) allegations: the complaint alleges the estate/enterprise carried large outstanding loans to entities tied to the co-executors (a self-dealing / conflict allegation). The recovered text shows the figures '$16 million' and 'net $10 million net', with an adjacent portion of the passage still redacted even in the defective copy, so the exact relationship between the two figures is not fully legible; the legible remainder reads that these are loans still outstanding to Indyke- and Kahn-related entities. ALLEGATION from the public complaint, not a finding; Kahn denies wrongdoing. Source: public SAC (justice.gov; Internet Archive, defectively-redacted original), recoverable by standard copy/paste.