Federal documents released as part of the US Department of Justice's January 2026 Epstein file disclosure contain a previously unreported email exchange in which Jeffrey Epstein claimed personal credit for ending congressional funding for cold fusion research — describing in specific terms how he lobbied against the science and met with the head of the Mormon Church to secure the outcome.
The emails, filed under federal exhibit numbers EFTA02437662, EFTA00740161, and EFTA00740600 show a 2009 exchange between Epstein and Al Seckel — a perceptual scientist, TED speaker, and board member of Milken's Knowledge Universe. The correspondence took place approximately one year after Epstein's June 2008 guilty plea to soliciting a minor in Florida.
