Former government official Catherine Austin Fitts has alleged that Jeffrey Epstein was involved not only in sex-based blackmail operations but also in laundering massive sums of missing government funds—specifically $21 trillion from the Department of Defense and HUD. Fitts suggests that these funds may have been funneled through Epstein, with connections to Israeli intelligence (Mossad), and implies a deeper cover-up to protect financial and geopolitical power structures.