The Federal Witness Who Investigated Epstein and Fell Off a Building

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In September 2020 — a year and a half before he was found dead of what coroners now deem blunt force trauma to the torso — my former associate Val Broeksmit is dropped off at the federal building in downtown Los Angeles by his fiancé, a French national by the name of Marie Peter-Toltz who’s currently listed as missing by the state of California. FBI Special Agent David Ko escorts Val through the necessary checkpoints and on to the secure conference room wherein a handful of other FBI officials sit waiting. They bear different titles and hail from regional offices as far-flung as DC, New York, and Texas, but the assembled federal officials all share at least one thing in common: Each is unaware Val had set his phone to record.

“What we’re here for is mainly to see how we can help you,” Agent Ko begins.

What Val wants help with is getting back his fiancé’s ten-year-old, recently seized by authorities on a child welfare rap after the nanny died of an overdose at their home. The situation was even messier than one might suppose, to an extent that other FBI agents had already been intervening in the case on Val’s behalf for some time without measurable success.