DOJ Files Show Stewart Oldfield and Paul Morris Handling Jeffrey Epstein's Deutsche Bank Business Through 2019

On February 1, 2018, Deutsche Bank's compliance inquiries desk sent a high-priority request to Cynthia Rodriguez and Stewart Oldfield about an account identified in the subject line as "Client: JEFFREY E. EPSTEIN." The bank wanted an explanation for an incoming wire dated December 20, 2017 in the amount of $50,000 from NLR Resorts International LLC at TD Bank, and it told the relationship team the complete response had to arrive within five business days. Four days later, Oldfield forwarded the request back to Rodriguez and asked, "Did you get the info on this one?" Rodriguez replied that they were still waiting for a response and would answer as soon as Bella sent it over. [3]

Taken alone, the page does not say whether the wire was improper, whether Deutsche Bank was satisfied with the explanation, or what the transfer ultimately represented. It does something narrower and cleaner. It places Oldfield inside the live supervision of Epstein's account activity in early 2018. [3] A January 13, 2017 internal call report tied to Southern Financial and Richard Kahn adds a second page to that picture. In it, Oldfield wrote that the team needed a "comprehensive plan for Jeffrey to move deposits into most efficient vehicles across the firm." The document itself says only "Jeffrey," but the surrounding banker records reviewed here explicitly identify the client as Jeffrey Epstein and place Oldfield in that same account orbit. [1][3][4] These pages do not show a bank already finished with a high-risk client. They show bankers still working his accounts, deposits, and explanations. [1][3][8]

The paper trail starts before the 2018 compliance inquiry. On September 4, 2013, Paul Morris, identified in the email as a managing director at Deutsche Bank's private bank, wrote that he was "going to see epstein on Friday on other matters" and would ask whether there was any update on "LB." The chain was about LB Financing, but Morris's line matters because it shows him treating Epstein as an active client contact inside a bank business discussion. [2]

The later pages show the relationship still generating work inside the bank. On March 23, 2019, Richard Kahn asked Oldfield to "please confirm you did not disclose mr epstein's name when speaking with banker." Oldfield replied: "There was no discussion of any names. Not even the name of the trust." [4] Then, on November 12, 2019, after Epstein's death, an email about Deutsche Bank's internal investigation said the bank planned to reach out to former employees "including Paul Morris" to see if they would be willing to speak "about Epstein's accounts." [5]

The broader Deutsche Bank-Epstein relationship has been public for years; New York regulators fined the bank $150 million in July 2020 over compliance failures tied to Epstein and other high-risk clients. [8] What these pages add is a tighter named-banker chronology. The DOJ viewer currently returns 7,778 file records for Stewart Oldfield and 10,694 for Paul Morris. In the viewer's relationship counts, Oldfield co-appears with Jeffrey Epstein in 1,432 records, and Morris co-appears with Epstein in 4,731. [6][7] This signal covers five core documents. Together they show named Deutsche Bank bankers surfacing in Epstein-related business, compliance, and investigation records from 2013 through November 2019. A deeper investigation may reveal more. [2][3][4][5][6][7]