On October 17 2025, the House Oversight Committee released thousands more pages of Epstein documents. Katherine Keating's name was systematically removed from nearly every page. Except one. A single subject line that someone forgot to redact.
That mistake revealed something nobody knew about: meetings with Kuwait's royal family during the country's largest corruption scandal, scheduled the day after a parliamentary investigation got cancelled, with those meetings being relayed to Jeffrey Epstein's office marked "High" importance.
This episode examines what happened in Kuwait in June 2011. A Deputy Prime Minister facing corruption charges. Billions in government contracts under investigation. American strategic interests at maximum risk during the Arab Spring. And someone with connections to a former Australian Prime Minister coordinating meetings with the key players while updating Epstein's office about her schedule.
We look at who Katherine Keating is and why her name needed to be hidden. We examine Sheikh Ahmad Al-Fahad Al-Sabah, the Kuwaiti official she may have been meeting, who would later be convicted of forgery and banned from the Olympics for elaborate criminal schemes. We trace the timeline of Kuwait's corruption crisis and what it meant for American military infrastructure in the region. And we explore why this specific connection might have been considered too sensitive to leave in the public record.
The redaction pattern suggests someone understood these connections needed to stay hidden. Before October 17, 2025, nobody knew to ask these questions. Now the evidence is public. Whether anyone investigates depends on what happens next.