How a Philippines-based ops tried to bury Jeffrey Epstein's bad pressMANILA, Philippines — Long before his 2019 arrest, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein was already working to erase his criminal past from the internet. By 2010, Jeffrey Epstein was already a convicted sex offender and on probation after a year in jail. US DOJ Epstein Library Screenshot of a email from Al Seckel to Jeffrey Epstein from the "Epstein Files" released in February 2026. "Our group in the Philippines is building links and links to our sites, pseudo sites, and the other Jeffrey Epsteins of the world," Seckel wrote. He argued that once automated web crawlers revisited search results, Epstein’s critics would instead see favorable or unrelated content created by his team.
