Who is Diego in the Epstein files?

There is no single Diego. The label combines at least three things. The first is Diego Galan, a Deutsche Bank wealth-management strategy executive who appears in internal bank emails from 2013 to 2015. The second is Diego Pestana, a Justice Department official involved in the 2025 Maxwell interviews. The third is the city of San Diego, which appears in many unrelated documents.

Did Diego Galan communicate with Jeffrey Epstein?

The emails shown do not say so. They are internal Deutsche Bank messages about strategy presentations, deal examples and client-list templates, exchanged with colleagues such as Chip Packard, Mathew Negus, Caroline Kitidis and Haig Ariyan. The bank records appear in the archive with prosecutors' production stamps, which is probably why Galan is linked to Epstein in the statistics. The documents shown contain no message between Galan and Epstein.

What is Diego Pestana's role in the files?

Pestana is an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. He is named on the record at the start of the July 2025 interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell. His emails from late July and early August 2025 deal with sharing the interview folder and audio, combining short audio clips with the original clip, and connecting FBI staff with the Office of the Attorney General. He appears as an official handling the process, not as someone connected to Epstein's circle.

Why do so many documents mention Diego?

Much of the count comes from the many emails in the Deutsche Bank threads, which repeat the same messages in different copies. The rest comes from the word "Diego" in San Diego, which turns up in court cases, news summaries, scientific papers and witness interviews. The 187 documents therefore say little about any one person.

Who is Diego in the Epstein files?

There is no single Diego. The label combines at least three things. The first is Diego Galan, a Deutsche Bank wealth-management strategy executive who appears in internal bank emails from 2013 to 2015. The second is Diego Pestana, a Justice Department official involved in the 2025 Maxwell interviews. The third is the city of San Diego, which appears in many unrelated documents.

Did Diego Galan communicate with Jeffrey Epstein?

The emails shown do not say so. They are internal Deutsche Bank messages about strategy presentations, deal examples and client-list templates, exchanged with colleagues such as Chip Packard, Mathew Negus, Caroline Kitidis and Haig Ariyan. The bank records appear in the archive with prosecutors' production stamps, which is probably why Galan is linked to Epstein in the statistics. The documents shown contain no message between Galan and Epstein.

What is Diego Pestana's role in the files?

Pestana is an Associate Deputy Attorney General at the Justice Department. He is named on the record at the start of the July 2025 interviews of Ghislaine Maxwell. His emails from late July and early August 2025 deal with sharing the interview folder and audio, combining short audio clips with the original clip, and connecting FBI staff with the Office of the Attorney General. He appears as an official handling the process, not as someone connected to Epstein's circle.

Why do so many documents mention Diego?

Much of the count comes from the many emails in the Deutsche Bank threads, which repeat the same messages in different copies. The rest comes from the word "Diego" in San Diego, which turns up in court cases, news summaries, scientific papers and witness interviews. The 187 documents therefore say little about any one person.

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Refers to Diego Galan and also to San Diego location references in Epstein documents

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Narrated from the AI-generated summary of the documents. Numbers reflect the archive at generation time.

"Diego" in the archive is mostly a merged label for three different things. The largest group is Diego Galan, a Deutsche Bank wealth-management strategy executive whose business emails from 2013 to 2015 appear in bank records tied to the Epstein investigation. The label also covers Diego Pestana, a Justice Department official present at the July 2025 Maxwell interviews, and many references to the city of San Diego.

Most of the 71 emails with a Diego in the From/To/Cc header are Diego Galan's internal Deutsche Bank messages. These cover a December 2013 "USPB MD Update" presentation, a "Success Story" deal presentation involving Paul Morris, and January 2015 requests to colleagues for a US client list and template. A second set of emails from July and August 2025 is from Diego Pestana of the Office of the Deputy Attorney General. They concern the Ghislaine Maxwell interviews, shared folders and audio clips. Pestana is also introduced on the record in the Maxwell interview transcripts. The remaining mentions are the place name San Diego, for example in court cases, news clippings, a medical-research company and a 9/11-related report, and one FBI email about a retired agent who "now works for Diego up at NYP." Nothing in the documents shown has any of these Diegos writing to or meeting Jeffrey Epstein.

Key Highlights

•Diego Galan signs his emails as Head of Strategy, Wealth Management Americas, DB Securities Inc, 345 Park Avenue. His 2013 to 2015 messages with Chip Packard, Mathew Negus, Caroline Kitidis and Haig Ariyan are about presentations, deal examples and client lists.
•In January 2015 Galan asked colleagues to fill in a template of US clients for an internal initiative. In one email he asked whether Louis Bacon (Moore Capital) had an open account with the bank and whether a wealth-management banker was involved.
•Several Galan emails carry Deutsche Bank Bates numbers (DB-SDNY) and a "Confidential, pursuant to Fed. R. Crim. P. 6(e)" stamp. That shows they were produced to federal prosecutors in New York. The stamp alone does not show that Galan dealt with Epstein.
•Diego Pestana, Associate Deputy Attorney General, is identified in the 24 July 2025 Maxwell interview transcripts, which also name Todd Blanche. His August 2025 emails include one titled "Connecting with OAG/OASG" and others about the shared "Maxwell Interviews" folder and Maxwell audio clips. His role is that of a government official handling the interview materials.
•Many of the 187 documents mention only San Diego as a place: a San Diego woman convicted of murder in a news roundup, a university lawsuit, a trip to San Diego in a witness interview summary, and a San Diego stem-cell research operation. These say nothing about a person named Diego.
•The shared-document counts with Epstein (70) and with Haig Ariyan, Caroline Kitidis, Mathew Negus and Paul Morris reflect the same bank email threads being collected together. They are not evidence of direct contact.

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EFTA00136851.pdf

EFTA00136851

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ud and other election abuses on election day." KPBS-TV <https://www.kpbs.org/news/2020/oct/19/us-attorneys-resources-reporting-election-fraudi> San Diego (10/19, 2K) reports that in California, "The local U.S. Attorney's Office announced Monday that one of its prosecutors will oversee efforts to handl

EFTA00147264.pdf

EFTA00147264

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8:52 AM To: FBI Cc: Jeffrey Carrie Subject: FW: Conversation Overhear-8/16/19 Jeff Carrie is a former agent (retired in 3/07) who now works for Diego up at NYP. On 8/16/2019, he and his wife were at the De Novo Bar in Montclair, NJ when he overheard two ladies referencing the Epstein case. Jeff h

EFTA00147243.pdf

EFTA00147243

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EFTA00147260

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o: FBI Cc: Jeffrey Carrie Subject: [EXTERNAL] FW: Conversation Overhear-8/16/19 Jeff Carrie is a former agent (retired in 3/07) who now works for Diego up at NYP. On 8/16/2019, he and his wife were at the De Novo Bar in Montclair, NJ when he overheard two ladies referencing the Epstein case. Jeff h

EFTA00149018.pdf

EFTA00149018

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posed to benefit low-income families in San Diego. `While fraud is always wrong, the theft of charitable donations that were to be used to help San Diego's low income families is particularly disheartening,' said Acting FBI Special Agent in Charge Omer Meisel." DO) Suit Against Visa Could Impact Paym

EFTA00148727.pdf

EFTA00148727

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scheme...resulted in payouts in the names of well-known convicted murderers like Scott Peterson and Cary Stayner," as well as "Susan Eubanks, a San Diego woman convicted of shooting her four sons to death in 1997; Isauro Aguirre, who was sentenced to death for the 2013 murder of 8-year-old Gabriel Fer

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EFTA00150271.pdf

EFTA00150271

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copic procedure to address an issue with a stent in her bile duct." One Marine Dead, Eight Service Members Missing After Training Accident Near San Diego. The New York Times (7/31, Hauser, Fazio, 18.61M) reports, "One Marine died, two service members were injured and eight others were missing after a

EFTA01344565.pdf

EFTA01344565

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Also, can you mention a few aspects of the DB Product Platform and KCP offering that were attractive to the client vs. )P Morgan offering? Thanks, Diego [attachment "success story.pptx" deleted by Amanda Kirby/db/dbcom] (Embedded image moved to file: pic32281.gif) Diego Galan Head of strategy weal

EFTA01344588.pdf

EFTA01344588

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Also, can you mention a few aspects of the DB Product Platform and KCP offering that were attractive to the client vs. JP Morgan offering? Thanks, Diego [attachment "success story.pptx" deleted by Amanda Kirby/db/dbcom] (Embedded image moved to file: pic22841.gif) Diego Galan Head of Strategy weal

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EFTA01344579.pdf

EFTA01344579

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ate: 12/03/2013 04:10 PM Subject: Re: Success Story for this coming Thursday uSPB MD Banker meeting [I] classification: For internal use only Hi Diego, A couple revisions. See attached and let us know if you'd like anything else [attachment "Success story.pptx" deleted by Paul morris/db/dbcom] Be

EFTA01344571.pdf

EFTA01344571

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ate: 12/03/2013 04:10 PM Subject: Re: Success Story for this coming Thursday USPB MD Banker meeting [I] Classification: For internal use only Hi Diego, A couple revisions. See attached and let us know if you'd like anything el se [attachment "Success Story.pptx" deleted by Paul Morris/db/dbcom] B

EFTA01344572.pdf

EFTA01344572

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Also, can you mention a few aspects of the DB Product Platform and KCP offering that were attractive to the client vs. 7P Morgan offering? Thanks, Diego [attachment "success story.pptx" deleted by Amanda Kirby/db/dbcom] (Embedded image moved to file: pic13301.gif) Diego Galan Head of Strategy Weal

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EFTA01344581.pdf

EFTA01344581

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Product and support It would be great of you could send me this overview before noon tomorrow; also happy to discuss in person if easier. Thanks, Diego (Embedded image moved to file: pic10072.gif) Diego Galan Head of Strategy wealth Management Americas DB Securities Inc 345 Park Avenue, 10154-00

EFTA01344574.pdf

EFTA01344574

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o do any Product and support It would be great of you could send me this overview before noon also happy to discuss in person if easier. Thanks, Diego tomorrow; CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0030198 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_00176382 EFTA01344574

EFTA01344560.pdf

EFTA01344560

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o do any Product and support It would be great of you could send me this overview before noon also happy to discuss in person if easier. Thanks, Diego (Embedded image moved to file: pic14116.gif) Diego Galan Head of Strategy wealth Management Americas DB Securities Inc 345 Park Avenue, 10154-00

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EFTA01344587.pdf

EFTA01344587

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ate: 12/03/2013 04:10 PM Subject: Re: Success Story for this coming Thursday USPB MD Banker meeting [I] Classification: For internal use only Hi Diego, A couple revisions. See attached and let us know if you'd like anything else [attachment "success Story.pptx" deleted by Paul Morris/db/dbcom] Be

EFTA01344981.pdf

EFTA01344981

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ancial LLC (P. morris) Any other deal you can think of that would be worth presenting? Also FYI, I have not heard back from Roelfien yet. Thanks, Diego (Embedded image moved to file: pic14080.gif) Diego Galan CONFIDENTIAL - PURSUANT TO FED. R. CRIM. P. 6(e) DB-SDNY-0031007 CONFIDENTIAL SDNY_GM_

EFTA01344994.pdf

EFTA01344994

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ancial LLC (P. Morris) Any other deal you can think of that would be worth presenting? Also FYI, I have not heard back from Roelfien yet. Thanks, Diego (Embedded image moved to file: pic25270.gif) Diego Galan Head of Strategy Wealth Management Americas DB Securities Inc 345 Park Avenue, 10154-00

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EFTA01351675.pdf

EFTA01351675

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his coming Thursday. Paul will be able to do the Success Story presentation over the phone. Please let me know if you have any comments. Thanks, Diego (See attached file: WM Americas -- USPB MD Update -- 2013-12-3_4pm.pdf) (Embedded image moved to file: pic00001.gif) Diego Galan Head of Strategy

EFTA00018300 - EFTA00018369

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& Quas, J. A. (2015, March). The relation between attending therapy and accuracy of child sexual abuse memory. American Psychology-Law Society, San Diego, CA. (This paper won1st place in the AP-LS Undergraduate Paper Award competition.) Goodman, G. S. (2015, August). Effects of hitting children: Scien

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