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Source #3256

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TitleMultiple news reports citing confidential estate documents and New York Times investigation
Original URLhttps://www.nysd.uscourts.gov/programs/records/pacer
PublicationDirected Inquiry — Web Search
Source typeweb_search
Date2015-01-01
EntityValar Ventures
Captured2026-04-08T20:29:18.578Z UTC
Hash computed at2026-04-08T20:29:18.578Z UTC
SHA-2564896e1d91a76c3c0732f1268fe29ae240389a4f06c1d3b8385a88b9adfea05fc
Content length111 bytes
Content preview (first 800 chars) 
Jeffrey Epstein invested $40 million in two Valar Ventures funds co-founded by Peter Thiel during 2015 and 2016

Verifying this receipt

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sha256( coalesce(url, '<no-url>') || '\n' || raw_content )

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  2. Concatenate url + '\n' + content and SHA-256 it.
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  --data-binary @document.txt

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