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Surya Mattu

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Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com

Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 24/07/2026

Our analysis shows for the first time the enormous scale of Epstein’s travel operation. More than 3,700 commercial flights were booked between 2009 and 2019. The activity we documented went all the way through June of 2019, weeks before Epstein's arrest.

Infographic captioned:

Young Women Moved Through Epstein’s Paris Apartment
Travel itineraries booked by Epstein staff in the last weeks before his arrest and scheduled appointments in Paris

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 24/07/2026

Digging through Skype records, flight records and other documents we documented how Epstein recruited dozens, potentially more than a hundred women, who were transported to his properties in France, the UK, the US and the US Virgin Islands.

Infographic displaying flight booking activity. Caption reads:
Most Flights Booked to Paris Came From Eastern Europe
Flights booked by Epstein associates from European cities to Paris, including connecting flights, 2009–2019

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 16/11/2025

Epstein’s Library 📚 Gift Link: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 25/09/2025

And polish his reputation

From: J. Epstein <jeeproject@yahoo.com>
To: Alan M. Dershowitz <[REDACTED]@law.harvard.edu>
Date: Wed, Sep 13 2006 4:52 AM
Subject: Re: draft - letter to friends
I would amend the place where it says he wishes I had
cameras in the massage room... IT would be illegal...
ANd I think we could do better thatn the last
paragraph ,, JEffrey is a "good person".. great
friend. , loyal, funny, generous, not GOOD

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 25/09/2025

Offered coaching and counter messaging

Document showing a list of good and bad words titled New York Strategy Group, LLC. Interview Prep. Feb 28, 2008

Good Words:

Smart
Brilliant
Future oriented
Right place at the right time
Lucky
Friendly (?)
**Unique
*Hardworking
*Focused
Opportunities (?)
Long term view
Out of the box
*Mathematician
See what others couldn’t (math)
Down to earth
(No) playful
*Respectful
Respectful of legal process
*Remember where I grew up
Loyal
Long term relationships
(Goal is to) do the right thing
Cooperative (with legal authorities)
Chinese proverb (opportunity knocking)
Long term view
Down to earth
Informal
From a poor/working class background
Remember where I grew up
Investor in science
Visionary

Bad Words:

Lied
Rich
Pervert (sex)
Abuse
Indict
Sex slave
Coerce
Dirty old man
Secretive
Opportunistic
“Child”
Under age
Pornography
Sex terms
Sex toys
Playboy
Shallow
Arrogant
Misogynist
Powerful
Bought and paid for
Intimidate
Threat
Harass
Greedy
Obsessed

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 25/09/2025

Deflect harsh questions

From: Stephen M. Kosslyn <[REDACTED]@wjh.harvard.edu>
To: jeeproject@yahoo.com
Date: Thu, Jun 14 2007 5:32 PM
Subject: Fwd: Crimson Article: [REDACTED]
FYI:

I'll not respond

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 25/09/2025

They helped him draft apologies

DRAFT NUMBER ONE
I AM SORRY

As a child growing up, I was taught to apologize. One apologized for any number of things, and I recall thinking it was unfair when I had to apologize for something I didn’t do or something I didn’t think was my fault. As I’ve grown older, I’ve said ‘I’m sorry’ for events unrelated to me but where an event or outcome caused distress or pain. Those apologies are an expression of sympathy, a way of saying we care about our fellow human beings.

I have been wrestling energetically with the challenge of how to apologize for actions of mine which caused distress to parents, distracted our courageous members of law enforcement and caused long time friends to question my judgment.

It is too painful to rehash events which have been prominently featured, if mischaracterized, in our local headlines. I fervently hope it will be acceptable for me to simply offer to the community my apologies for associating with young women who turned out to be under the age of eighteen. While some may question my assertion, I did not know. Truly. And I apologize.

Lawyers argue against apologies on the theory that they are an admission of guilt. I disagree. There are now enough facts on the public record for people to make up their own minds. So I hope my apology will be noted and taken as evidence of my concern for my neighbors here in Palm Beach.

APOLOGY #2

I wish to apologize to my neighbors and friends for my actions which brought scandal and shame to my name and to assure them that I will conduct myself appropriately in the future.

Apology #3

To my neighbors:

William James, the great 19th century medical doctor and religious philosopher, wrote an essay in which he talks about two hours we face, the hour of terror and the hour of satiety. The latter means that time when someone has everything – is “sated” – and asks “Is this all there is?”

I’ve been blessed during my life. I’ve taken advantage of the opportunities offered by the American dream. The rewards have been substantial, but I’ve experienced that second hour. My life was satiated, and I failed to ask what was really important. What’s important is to live so that first hour, the terror of death, is erased by having lived to make a difference in the lives of others. I’ve been forced to ask myself what’s important, and my choices will be different in the future.

This isn’t the place to review the sensational charges you may have read about. There are enough facts on the public record for anyone who wishes to review and make up his or her own mind. Please accept my sincere apologies for my selfish actions which have embarrassed me, caused my friends to question my judgment and taken a great deal of time on the part of all levels of law enforcement authorities. Again, this is a public and heartfelt apology.

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 25/09/2025

The network included academics, attorneys and media specialists who helped him—in different ways and to varying degrees—just as his life threatened to spin out of control.

Email from Jeffery Epstein:

I am going to fund the personal genome project at
harvard , questions does the beauty reside in the
dna,, is the formula more elegatn.. ,, of is it the
hunt for complementarity, that determines the eye of
the beholder

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 04/03/2025

Content moderation on WhatsApp is difficult, since the platform’s chats are end-to-end encrypted. But the Digital Witness Lab researchers found 12 instances in which group topics and descriptions contained references to gun sales. This is unencrypted data that WhatsApp can monitor, Mattu said. That it is going unchecked suggests the company isn’t doing even the “most basic thing,” to curb such content, he added.

According to the Digital Witness Lab researchers, about half the profiles they studied that posted gun advertisements from India were business accounts — specialized profiles equipped with additional features for customer operations. Rahul operates one, too. WhatsApp’s business platform policy explicitly prohibits these accounts from trade involving weapons.

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 26/11/2024

Seems to make it works.

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 26/11/2024

I think the AI is trolling me

AI code autocomplete feature suggesting a function called calculateTaxForWealthy should return the input salary multiplied by 0.95 and a function called calculateTaxForPoor should return the input salary multiplied by 1.05

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 26/11/2024

even provided a more succinct version

screenshot showing a line of code suggested by an AI powered autocomplete feature. The function being generated is called calculate_salary and returns 0.95 of the salary value if is_woman is set to true and 1.05 of the salary value if its set to false

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 26/11/2024

Oof, we have a long way to go. Saw this floating around the internet so wanted to try it myself. Screenshot created using Cursor and claude-3.5-sonnet (though it produced the same result with gpt 4o)

A screenshot of an AI powered code autocomplete feature creating two functions one called calculateWomanSalary and the other called calculateManSalary. It returns 0.95 of the salary value for the woman and 1.05 for the man.

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Surya Mattu @suryamattu.com · 02/10/2023

For my final investigation at The Markup, we looked at how successful PredPol was at predicting crimes. The results were underwhelming. www.wired.com/story/plainf...