TIL Jeffrey Epstein may have held powerful influence over the nation's largest sex offender database via his ties to Leon Black
2d 10h ago by sh.itjust.works/u/AcidiclyBasicGlitch in til
In the most recent episode of her podcast New Orleans Unsolved, independent investigator Anna Christie provides details regarding contracts between U.S. cities and the world's largest sex offender database OffenderWatch (parent company Watch Systems LLC).
According to Christie, a contract between Lansing, MI and Offender Watch/Watch Systems LLC, written prior to 2020 specifies that all sex offender data will be stored by a data management company called Rackspace in San Antonio, Texas.
This seemingly minor detail that Christie has uncovered, could actually be extremely significant, given that Rackspace was acquired by Leon Black's Apollo Global Management in August of 2016. (Interesting side note, this was the same month that a Rackspace employee was sentenced to 12 months in federal prison for child pornography):
•Aug 2016: Apollo Global Management Acquires Rackspace, Pins Hopes on Struggling Cloud Provider
Leon Black previously stepped down from his position as CEO of Apollo, due to controversy regarding his ties to Epstein. After his departure, a new CEO, Marc Rowen, was appointed to the company. However, as Christie also points out, recently released Epstein Files indicate meetings and communications between Rowen and Epstein continued, including an email from Epstein to Rowan regarding Rothschild funding.
This past Monday, March 2nd, 2026, a class action lawsuit was brought against Apollo regarding these Epstein ties.
•Legal: Class action accuses Apollo of hiding Epstein ties in SEC filings
The suit, filed March 2 in the Southern District of New York, targets the alternative asset giant alongside CEO Marc Rowan and co-founder Leon Black. At its core, the case claims that what Apollo told investors and regulators — that the firm never did business with Epstein — was false.
The documented business transactions between Rowan, Black, and Epstein, which were previously denied, are disturbing to say the least. It's hard to dismiss the possibility that Epstein (or any of the powerful individuals in his network), could have used this influence to their advantage.
I'm currently searching for a copy of the Lansing, MI contract, and will add a link here once I find it, but I was able to find another OffenderWatch contract mentioned in the episode.
Oddly, as Christie also points out in the episode, an OffenderWatch/Watch System LLC contract with the city of Fort Worth, TX, contains an odd but potentially related paragraph regarding vendors who boycott Israel:
•https://publicdocuments.fortworthtexas.gov/CSODOCS/DocView.aspx?id=221086&dbid=0&repo=city-secretary&cr=1
If you're unfamiliar with the podcast and wondering what any of this has to do with an unsolved murder in New Orleans, it turns out that the OffenderWatch database was created by St. Tammany Louisiana native Lou Luzynski along with former St. Tammany Sheriff, Jack Strain.
Former St. Tammany Sheriff Jack Strain guilty on all sex crime charges
While Christie's podcast began as an attempt to investigate the unsolved 1982 murder of a young boy in New Orleans named Eddie Wells, it soon turned into an investigation of several seemingly related murders in Orleans and St. Tammany parishes, that all involved a former New Orleans police officer and lead detective for the NOPD pedophile unit, Stanley Burkhardt.
Former NOPD detective, convicted sex offender, back in jail facing new charges
Early in her investigation, Christie noticed Wells' death certificate listed an incorrect address in St. Tammany parish rather than his mother's address in Orleans, and she suspected this information may have been intentionally falsified by Burkhardt.
As Christie explains in this episode, the address incorrectly listed on Wells' death certificate, 516 Rutland Avenue in Covington Louisiana, is also the current address of OffenderWatch parent company, Watch Systems LLC.
By reviewing old public records, Christie was able to confirm that at the time of Wells' death and the other unsolved murders, the property listed on his death certificate, was owned by Lou Luzynski, creator of the largest sex offender database, OffenderWatch.
In October 2025, OffenderWatch announced the company had received a large investment from STG Allegro to expand its reach.
Through this strategic partnership, OffenderWatch® and STG will use the capital to enhance the Company's product offerings, accelerate innovation, and expand its reach to deliver even greater value to law enforcement agencies and the communities they serve.
TIL the 'worlds largest sex offender database' is privately owned
And in other odd coincidences that totally aren't odd coincidences, and you're weird for thinking there's anything weird about it, Rackspace announced they were teaming up with Palantir 2 weeks ago:
https://www.rackspace.com/newsroom/strategic-partnership-palantir
Excellent post. But be aware that as weird as it is, the pro-Israel contract clause is standard in Texas now, and has been since 2017.
I remember that thing: it was stupid then and stupid now, performative bullshit undertaken by Texas against pro-Palestinians boycotting Israel in 2017, Trump's first term, as part of a larger national swathe of anti-BDS (boycott, divest, sanction) laws. "Anti-Israel is anti-Texas!" So Texas put it in the state code that all businesses doing deals with Texas must also swear they're not boycotting Israel and won't even think about such a thing as long as they're getting Texas cash. Then Texas got sued on 1st Amendment grounds and had to add in a bare minimum so as to not overburden small business, and they did. Then they got sued again, and thereafter just exempted the specific businesses that sued, while allowing the law to stand for everyone else.
Aged like milk, lol. But by law it's still included in all Texas govt contracts.
Wow that's ridiculous but at least makes sense re: why Fort Worth, TX would have a clause about Israel.
This is exactly like the whole Lifetouch story. It beggars belief.
Rackspace is, and has been, ISO 27001 certified. Part of that means they can’t directly access customer data. You didn’t link any documents covering the contract that “requires” Rackspace hosting; my base assumption is they’re normal contracts that define hosting for regulatory purposes. None of the documents you’ve linked show Apollo had access to Rackspace infrastructure much less encrypted customer data on Rackspace doesn’t have keys for. The pedo employee had CSAM which does not provide Apollo access to Rackspace infrastructure much less encrypted customer data Rackspace doesn’t have keys for.
Just like with Lifetouch, if you can show that somehow the equity owners Apollo had direct access to the infrastructure of their investments and somehow managed to either hide or justify it during multiple security audits spanning a decade and somehow got access to customer encryption keys, it’s a possibility. I’m not even using Occam’s razor here; there’s genuinely nothing to even consider hanging a hat on here.
On the other hand, if Leon Black had direct access to the company running the database, all bets are off. Law enforcement shit gets to sidestep audit shit in dumb ways. But if that were the case, we wouldn’t need Rackspace as the incredibly tenuous connection because he would have had direct access.
Is there a tldr?
Jeffrey Epstein was funneling money and tax dodging advice to the company that stored data for the biggest sex offender database (and might explain why certain data seems to go missing/get changed/delayed to benefit certain pedophiles)
Also for some reason Fort Worth's contract with the database stipulates contractors can't boycott Israel.
Thanks!