Epstein related.

Heiress sues big banks for $12B, claims dad looted $350M trust in offshore scheme tied to Ghislaine Maxwell siblings, Epstein probe

By Jennifer Gould

Published Jan. 17, 2026,

Entire article:

https://nypost.com/2026/01/17/real-estate/heiress-drops-12b-bombshell-says-big-banks-helped-dad-loot-her-trust/

Excerpt:

The Stocks maintains that La Hougue never legally controlled the trust, which was created in Colorado, because a trust provision required successor trustees to be from a US-regulated bank or trust company. That made the new trust appointment a “fraud on a power,” that is void ab initio – null and void from the start.

Tanya Dick-Stock, the daughter of late Canadian-born Denver real estate mogul John Dick Sr., and her husband Darrin Stock, sued Barclays, HSBC, and multiple trust companies in Colorado District Court on Dec. 5th, claiming the banks unlawfully handed control of her $350 million trust to her father, according to a complaint filed by their lawyer, former US presidential candidate John Edwards.

Tanya and Darrin argue Barclays and BTI never successfully resigned and therefore they remain the trustees – making them responsible for the losses and damages of at least $12 billion.

If the couple wins, their argument could set a new precedent for activists seeking to hold big banks responsible for fraud against individuals and large pension funds, said James S. Henry, co-founder of United Against Money Laundering and a Global Justice Fellow at Yale.

“We’ve seen the decimation of anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regulations, so this effort to involve private litigation comes at an essential time,” Henry said.

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Dick Sr.’s trust company, La Hougue, is now a key target of the US Senate Finance Committee’s investigation into how the late convicted pedophile and former Maxwell boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein financed his international child sex trafficking ring, The Post has learned.

In September, Senator Ron Wyden, the Senate Finance Committee’s ranking member, introduced the Produce Epstein Treasury Records Act to compel Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to release Epstein-related Treasury records to Senate investigators.

In a letter to Sec. Bessent, Wyden (D-OR) asked for files relating to 58 individuals and entities “with documented Epstein ties” — and La Hougue was number 20 on the list

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In another scandalous twist, Dick Sr.’s client list was made public around five years ago, thanks to an explosive stash of 350,000 confidential documents that Tanya and Darrin stumbled upon in a locked squash court. To their shock, they soon discovered that her father was at the heart of the fraud.

The client list also includes unsavory characters such as Russian oligarch Alexander Zhukov — Roman Abramovich’s ex-father-in-law; Israeli art dealer Ronald Fuhrer, linked to a missing Botticelli; American porn king Eddie Wedelstedt, who was convicted of tax fraud and obscenity charges in 2006; Igor Vishnevskiy, the former head of Glencore in Russia; and individuals involved in the theft of more than $100 million during the 1980s Savings and Loan scandal.