New York man started exposing people in the Epstein Files, one per day. Now, he waits to be the ‘first American man prosecuted over the Epstein files’

Carlos Calzadilla-Palacio claims to be the first American man to face court proceedings regarding the Epstein files. However, as he points out, and as recorded in the New York Post, he is facing summons after he set up an Epstein Files Easter egg hunt throughout Manhattan, in New York. He states that he is facing legal action even as the individuals named within those documents remain largely untouched by the legal system.

Calzadilla-Palacio is the founder of the social media movement, Disrupt Politics, a “grassroots post-partisan movement taking on the corporate elite who have rigged our economy and government to profit from eroding our quality.” As his court date nears, he has been counting down the days on Instagram through his page, systematically sharing his findings from the files, and exposing the people he refers to as the Epstein class.

In his latest post, he explained the situation, stating, “In 11 days, I become the first American man facing court over the Epstein files before anyone actually in the files. And my crime is that I organized an Epstein files Easter egg hunt all across Manhattan to expose the Epstein class. Every day leading up to my court date, I’ve been opening a new egg with a name and a file they did not want you to see.” The person in the egg was Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn.

Every egg reportedly gives details about the person from the files

Calzadilla-Palacio established that Hoffman eventually sold his company to Microsoft for $26 billion, and that he is a current Microsoft board member with a net worth estimated by Forbes at nearly $3 billion. He then claimed that documents from the Department of Justice place Hoffman within the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein on multiple occasions. 

In the video, he highlighted an email from 2016 in which Epstein instructed his assistant to tell Hoffman that his passport had been found in a gift bag. The LinkedIn founder reportedly replied with one word, “Excellent.” He then presented a scheduling memo from 2014, which was six years after Epstein’s guilty plea for soliciting a child. The memo allegedly indicated that Jeffrey Wilhoff, Joy Ito, and Reid Hoffman were scheduled to visit the Zorro Ranch for the weekend. 

Calzadilla-Palacio explained that the location was the place where multiple women had alleged that abuse had occurred. He also produced an email from Epstein to his assistant regarding a trip to St. James, his private island. In it, he noted Hoffman’s Virgin America flight details. 

In the post, Calzadilla-Palacio then pointed to another email from Hoffman’s own team to Epstein, narrating, “Reed will spend the night at 9 East 71st Street, the Manhattan townhouse where prosecutors said most of the abuse of women took place.” Calzadilla-Palacio contrasts this with the recent closed-door testimony of Bill Gates, who told Congress he never visited the island, the ranch, or the Florida home. 

Calzadilla-Palacio noted that the files show records that Hoffman visited two of those locations. He then claimed that while Hoffman initially implied he had visited the island only one time, he later walked that statement back and said he had been, in his own word, “mistaken.” Calzadilla-Palacio stated that Hoffman’s defense has been that he was raising money for the MIT Media Lab, and he has expressed regret for not vetting Epstein more carefully.

The reaction from the Instagram community has been supportive of these efforts to bring the information to light. User nve00 commented, “Thank you for doing this,” while hotnewyorkerinmiami wrote, “So sorry you’re going through this. Justice will be served. Karma is a b—h. You’re courageous young man.” 

Other users expressed similar sentiments, with neomi_mar calling him a “living legend” and encouraging him to keep it up. The user studiosjaak suggested to “protect this young man at all costs!!” while tagging several political figures and the International Criminal Court. Calzadilla-Palacio urged his followers to share his content, noting that he is facing “incredible algorithmic suppression,” and that it is vital to get this information out to as many people as possible. 

Back in April, the event rallied 45 people to show up at Washington Square Park to “uncover who in NYC needs to be held accountable for their part in the [Epstein] files.” Per the NY Post, the crowd chanted “release the names” before heading out through the city to find 800 hidden plastic eggs with QR codes, as Calzadilla-Palacio shows in his video.

While the participating hunters were out looking, Calzadilla-Palacio was reportedly issued a summons and a $50 ticket by the NYC Department of Parks and Recreation for not having the permit to set up his “Epstein Table.” As Calzadilla-Palacio counts down to his summons, it is worth noting that even lawmakers are hungry for Epstein prosecutions.