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HOUSTON
1,063
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21,642
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Seat of Harris County, and largest city in State of Texas, United States
Watch: Houston in the Epstein files
1:01Narrated from the AI-generated summary of the documents. Numbers reflect the archive at generation time.
Houston appears in the Epstein files almost entirely as a place name, a surname, or a legal citation. The files show no meeting, trip, or event in the city tied to Jeffrey Epstein.
The 1,042 documents that mention Houston are mostly emails (710, about 70 of them automated newsletters). Many of the rest are legal filings, government records, and investment and financial records. The legal records use the word in several ways. One is the case name United States v. Houston, 932 F.3d 79 (2d Cir. 2019), cited in bail-related filings that appear in several copies. Another is First City, Texas–Houston, N.A. v. Rafidain Bank, cited in a sovereign-immunity discussion. Others are a law-firm office list and press-clipping compilations. Government records on the Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in New York name a person called Justin Houston as a contact on camera and network service tickets from 2019. Elsewhere the word comes from a town-board Recording Secretary named Houston, bank and law-firm office lists, and travel and real-estate newsletters sent to Epstein's own Yahoo account.
Key Highlights
- •The most substantive legal appearance is the case citation United States v. Houston, 932 F.3d 79 (2d Cir. 2019). It is used in filings about conditions of pretrial release and is about a defendant's name, not the city, and appears in many duplicate filings.
- •Government records on the New York MCC service contract (dated Feb and Sep 2019) list "Justin Houston" as the SiNet point of contact. That is a person with the same surname, not the city. A related transcript asks whether he is the SiNet contact.
- •Several other documents use "Houston" as a surname, not the city: a town-board Recording Secretary Houston swearing in speakers in meeting minutes, and a 1990s-era federal case, U.S. v. Houston (11th Cir. 2006), in a table of internet-enticement cases.
- •Many appearances are just office lists. Goldman Sachs, a large law firm (DOJ-FL-HOLD-131 and -160), and a bank's records each list Houston among their offices.
- •The two items where Houston is in the From/To/Cc header are not correspondence with a person. One is a fake UPS-package email from "331 Houston LLC" (April 2019), which looks like spam or phishing. The other is a garbled email-archive screenshot.
- •Newsletters sent to Epstein's Yahoo account mention Houston in passing: ASmallWorld hotel deals (Hotel Derek, Houston), Concierge Auctions listings near Houston, and a Nahmad Contemporary art-gallery email that mentions the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
- •Other appearances are news clippings. Examples are a compilation covering the closure of the Chinese Consulate in Houston, a bank-robbery indictment of a Houston man, and a death of a worker at a Houston shelter for migrant children. None involves Epstein directly.
- •The high shared-document counts with George W. Bush, Donald Trump, and Prince Andrew most likely reflect those names appearing in the same long news compilations and emails as Houston. The files do not show them in connection with the city.
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5 mentionsSource: DOJ EFTA Records
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C 19, 2019 Ideally located less than an hour from Houston, El Corazon Ranch is a 381-acre outdoorsman's ret
ada6596ed2218600&id=9bc217e3e7&e=634040eedb NEAR HOUSTON, TX Previously $13.4M | No Reserve | Selling Sepa
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MBER 17-19 Ideally located less than an hour from Houston amongst rolling hills and green pastures, El Cora
bada6596ed2218600&id=c0bb256184&e=634040eedb NEAR HOUSTON, TX Previously Offered for $13.4M | No Reserve Se
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6ed2218600&id=f68098c87d&e=634040eedb STABLEWOOD, HOUSTON, TX Listed for $9.5M BIDDING OPENS JULY 12 Locate
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cf05cbada6596ed2218600&id=930faed32c&e=634040eedb HOUSTON, TX Previously Offered for $6.95M | No Reserve --
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C 19, 2019 Ideally located less than an hour from Houston, El Corazon Ranch is a 381-acre outdoorsman's ret
ada6596ed2218600&id=9d7314ab29&e=634040eedb NEAR HOUSTON, TX Previously $13.4M | No Reserve | Selling Sepa
2 mentions
C 19, 2019 Ideally located less than an hour from Houston, El Corazon Ranch is a 381-acre outdoorsman's ret
ada6596ed2218600&id=78f0c1a2d8&e=634040eedb NEAR HOUSTON, TX Previously $13.4M | No Reserve | Selling Sepa
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f05cbada6596ed2218600&id=4e5acfdadb&e=634040eedb HOUSTON, TX Previously $6.95M | No Reserve BIDDING ENDS J
BIDDING ENDS JAN 10, 2020 Steal away to your new Houston estate complete with a resort-style pool, majesti
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tm_id=38262-windy-ridge-trail-magnolia-texas NEAR HOUSTON, TEXAS LISTED FOR $11.499M NO RESERVE TAKE ME THE
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bada6596ed2218600&id=86ad2422ab&e=634040eedb NEAR HOUSTON, TEXAS Listed for $11.499M | No Reserve BIDDING O
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On the frontlines of the world's most stressful desk job
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y Hennessy-Fiske The Civil Rights Act had just passed and the slide rule was giving way to computers when Frances “Poppy” Northcutt arrived at NASA’s Houston campus in... 'Go Back Where You Came From': The Long Rhetorical Roots Of Trump's Racist Tweets HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023110 --- PAGE BREAK --- npr.org
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J.Grynberg Resume#2 (July 2014).pdf
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Source: House Oversight Committee
rocco, April 2004 Speaker at 10th Annual Latin Oil & Gas 2004 Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, June 2004 Speaker at African Petroleum Forum in Houston, Texas, April 14-15, 2005 Speaker at Africa Energy Forum 2005 in Barcelona, Spain, June 22-24, 2005 Speaker at Upstream Oil & Gas Summit at Amelia,
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utory foreign sovereign immunity and protecting a sovereign’s or sovereign’s agency’s legitimate claim to immunity from discovery.” First City, Texas—Houston, N.A. v. Rafidain Bank, 150 F.3d 172, 176 (2d Cir.1998) (ordering full discovery against defendant over whom court al- ready had subject matter juris
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1 mentionSource: House Oversight Committee
individual wells. Some of the 175,000 barrels a day moving through the pipe is loaded onto barges at Corpus Christi and towed toward refineries near Houston. Earlier this year, Phillips 66 began putting some of this crude on ships for a 2,200-mile journey around Florida to its refinery in Linden, N.J. T
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U.S. Citizenship & Immigrations Services (GSA) - St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands - OM.pdf
1 mentionHOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018727 - HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018742
Nov 4, 2014Source: House Oversight Committee
u. Brice Puerto Rico Anguilla City a EAE Antigua and Barbuda Montserrat Gua delo upe Offering Memorandum Atlanta Chicago New York ; ; . ; oy ; Houston GSA Joint Venture Equity Financing & Pre-Sale Acquisition Opportunity Los Angeles 19-F Smith Bay Road | St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands Miami Phoenix
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Aug 8, 2008Source: House Oversight Committee
is application under duress for the permit. Mr. Maxey advised he had not been sworn in and was administered the oath of office by Recording Secretary Houston. Mr. Maxey said he has had a long correspondence with the legal department of the Department of Environmental Protection and he believes on an emoti
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