Epstein’s Money Men Stand to Collect Millions and Manhattan Prosecutors Just Came Knocking

Jeffrey Epstein signed a new will two days before he died in a Manhattan jail cell.

The lawyer and accountant he named to carry it out have controlled his fortune ever since.

Now federal prosecutors in Manhattan want to know exactly what those two men were doing while Epstein was alive.

Indyke and Kahn Could Collect 75 Million Dollars From Epstein's Estate

The Wall Street Journal broke the story on September 23, 2026: federal prosecutors in New York are investigating Darren Indyke, Epstein's longtime lawyer, and Richard Kahn, his accountant since 2005.

Follow the money, because that is where this story turns ugly.

As executors, the two men control what is left of Epstein's fortune – more than $100 million – and they handle the claims of the women he abused.

An estate compensation program has already paid eligible victims more than $120 million.

Documents cited in the Journal's reporting show Indyke could receive $50 million from the estate, and Kahn $25 million.

The men who ran Epstein's legal and financial affairs while he was alive now settle his victims' claims – and they are in line for a fortune from the same pot.

That arrangement would be outrageous even if they were saints.

A federal criminal investigation makes it look a whole lot worse.

The Washington Examiner reports that prosecutors have been setting up witness interviews and requesting emails and financial records tied to the two executors.

Investigators want to understand the legal entities Epstein allegedly used to cover his tracks, and how Indyke and Kahn dealt with financial and legal matters involving young women.

Nobody has been charged, and the specific crimes on the table have not been made public.

A Justice Department spokesperson kept it short: "We have always said with regard to Epstein that if the evidence presents itself, we will investigate."

Both men have consistently denied any wrongdoing, and their attorneys "emphatically" rejected the accusations in a lawsuit victims filed a few weeks before the probe came to light.

Kahn Gave Congress the Names of Five Clients Who Paid Epstein

Kahn sat for a closed-door deposition with the House Oversight Committee on March 11, 2026.

Oversight Chairman James Comer said Kahn named the people and firms that were paying Epstein – Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, Leon Black and the Rothschilds.

None of them has been charged with a crime, and paying a financial adviser is not one.

But that client money is what paid for Epstein's lifestyle.

Kahn insisted he "was not aware of the nature or extent of Epstein's abuse of so many women until after Epstein's death."

He described the gifts Epstein handed out as "a very small fraction of Epstein's spending" and said he "did not see them as red flags for abuse or trafficking."

He kept the books for a convicted sex offender, and a steady stream of gifts to women and men never struck him as strange.

Indyke was scheduled to sit for his deposition eight days later.

The victims tell a very different story.

Their lawsuit accuses the two executors of having "helped orchestrate Epstein's operation."

It also says women who settled with the estate had to sign away their right to sue Indyke or Kahn.

JPMorgan Already Paid for Keeping Epstein's Money Machine Running

Epstein's money trail has already cost some powerful players.

JPMorgan Chase paid $290 million in 2023 to settle claims from Epstein's victims that the bank enabled his trafficking.

The US Virgin Islands pulled more than $105 million out of the estate in a 2022 settlement of its sex trafficking case.

Ghislaine Maxwell got 20 years in federal prison for her role in the operation.

President Trump signed the Epstein Files Transparency Act on November 19, 2025, forcing the Justice Department to make its unclassified Epstein records public.

Every document that came out made one question louder: who kept the lights on for Epstein?

Manhattan prosecutors are now turning that question on the two men who paid his bills.

If the answers match what the victims have been saying, 75 million dollars in inheritance could turn into a far less comfortable conversation for Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn.

Sources:

• Ben Whedon, "Fed probing executors of Jeffrey Epstein estate: WSJ," Just the News, September 23, 2026.
• Kaelan Deese, "Two Jeffrey Epstein associates under investigation by New York federal prosecutors," Washington Examiner via Denver Gazette, September 23, 2026.
• Alison Durkee, "DOJ Investigating Executors of Epstein's Estate, Report Says," Forbes, September 23, 2026.
• Graham Kates, "Richard Kahn, Epstein's accountant, tells Congress he didn't know about abuse, saw no red flags in spending," CBS News, March 11, 2026.
• US Virgin Islands Department of Justice, "U.S. Virgin Islands Attorney General Settles Sex Trafficking Case Against Estate of Jeffrey Epstein and Co-Defendants for Over $105 Million," USVI Department of Justice, December 1, 2022.
• JURIST Staff, "Trump signs Epstein Files Transparency Act into law," JURIST, November 2025.