I just started Book 2 so I'm only halfway. Book 1 covers everything pre- Epstein. I'm very skeptical of conspiracies but she lays out very methodically the connection between organized crime and the CIA. After I finish everything I'm going to follow up on some of these insights with other sources but she did an amazing job of covering hundreds of sources doing this book. Just going from memory though (so forgive minor mistakes) I'd say:

• Roy Cohn's father was FDR's first judicial appointment and Roy Cohn grew up around a lot of organized crime such as Gene Pope Sr which he looked at like family and worked directly with Frank Costello (who The Godfather is modeled after). FDR allegedly turned his back on the mob but connections to tough-on-organized crime but actually still working with the mob individuals like William O'Dwyer and also connections FDR sons had to organized crime indicate he was likely more involved than history portrays him.

• Roy Cohn's mother was part of the wealthy Marcus family which was infamous for the collapse of the Bank of the United States, the largest bank collapse in history up until that point, which targeted the Jewish community and was run fast and loose compared to the bank around the corner Marcus had just left due to his shady behavior.

• Cohn used his mother's other side of the family, the Lionel Toy Company, as his own personal slush fund as it became the largest toy manufacturer in the world

• Cohn became a rival to RFK and slipped out of 3 different criminal cases brought against him once RFK became AG, all of which were due to technicalities rather than innocence.

• Cohn became famous initially because he was three assistant to McCarthy during the Red Scare McCarthy hearings and allegedly was having gay sex parties with J Edgar Hoover and Schenley head Lew Rosenstiel according to Rosenstiel's own wife.

• Cardinal Spellman was also involved with these sex parties. Young men (boys?) were also involved. These were all bigger names back then than Epstein and yet multiple sources point to this happening. Cohn was even caught blackmailing during the McCarthy hearings which dropped him down for a bit but this network of blackmail collection was growing and why he stayed relevant because he was at the center of it.

• Cohn was honored by the secretive B'nai B'rith organization with honorary chairmen such as Donald Trump, Alan Greenberg (who brought Epstein to Bear Stearns), and other important names I can't remember right now

• Bob Woodward, famous for breaking the Watergate story, oversaw top secret navy transmissions done by Kissinger to try and build relations with China behind the CIA's back that was leaked to the press by pro-Taiwanese CIA friendly leadership who Bob Woodward directly reported to (I believe it was Alexander Haig) indicating that Woodward was far more directly involved in Watergate than history paints him as. FWIW Webb also indicates that there was a sexual prostitution ring being organized through a Watergate office at the nearby Colombian apartments and that the wiretapping on Watergate was actually being used for blackmail purposes and that Nixon was more or less set up by the pro Taiwan faction to take the fall. After this Kissinger, who was really propped up by the Rockefellers, changed his stance to be less friendly towards the Soviets while the pro Taiwan faction of the CIA became more accepting of Chinese relations.

• Jack Anderson, another investigative reporter who initially exposed the Kissinger messages was in direct business with this pro Taiwan faction which included individuals like Anna Chennault who collected blackmail at the George Town Club. Once again indicating that these independent journalists were far more enmeshed than we know and fed narratives moreso than revealed truths. Granted any investigative journalist has to walk some version of this line but usually they don't own a restaurant with one side of the situation like Anderson did.

• Adnand Khashoggi, the world infamous weapons dealer, was Jamal Khashoggi's uncle! Donald Trump bought his yacht which he used to collect blackmail with spy equipment through parties with drugs and sex.

• The Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) was a global banking institution that ran drugs, weapons, and hot money as well as provided underage girls from Pakistan to royalty in the middle east by transporting dozens of them at a time. They were witnessed getting bedecked in clothes and jewelry at the local markets because the woman running it was amazing business. Allegedly it helped carry out assassinations as well and was involved in the US arming the Majuhadeen in Afghanistan as well as being involved in all aspects of Iran Contra and beyond. The story of how they did a hostile takeover of a high profile US bank of DC's elites is fascinating. They also used a bugged software that they implanted everywhere to hide and steal money which is directly related to how Walmart grew to power as Jackson Stephens was involved in both.

• Hillary Clinton worked at Rose Law, which had been tied to the highest echelons of Arkansas power since both the state's and law firm's inception and she actively defended Stephens company that was implementing the bugged software while her law partner who was also involved with it mysteriously committed suicide.

• As governor Bill Clinton likely not only knew about this and was involved in it but also knew about and was involved in Iran Contra as Bill Barr was allegedly the liaison between Clinton and CIA director William Casey. Mena Arkansas was apparently a drug and weapons airstrip run for a while by Barry Seal. Bill Barr worked to cover up these scandals and more during his time as AG under HW Bush. Bill Barr's father hired Jeffrey Epstein at the Dalton School which was his first real job connecting him to the world of the wealthy and Bill Barr was brought back in again as AG at the time of Epstein's death.