Federal records released this winter sketch a striking double life for a West Palm Beach concierge physician who treated Jeffrey Epstein, arranged care for women around him, and separately weighed in on Veterans Affairs policy during the Trump years. The newly public documents show a web of overlapping medical, social, and political relationships, stretching from exam-room logistics to strategy chats linked to Mar-a-Lago.
According to Miami New Times, emails, text messages, and lab reports in the Justice Department’s Epstein files depict Dr. Bruce Moskowitz trading messages with Epstein about run-of-the-mill tests, referrals to specialists, and one exchange where Epstein texted that a result was “positive gonorhea.” Miami New Times reviewed nearly 3,000 Justice Department documents in the release.
Moskowitz was not just a concierge doctor. ProPublica previously identified him as part of an informal three-man council that pushed Veterans Affairs officials on personnel moves, technology contracts and flagship programs from a perch in Palm Beach. That reporting describes a steady drumbeat of calls and meetings where the trio pored over draft policies and weighed in on candidates for senior VA jobs.
Documents show clinical exchanges and referrals
The Justice Department files highlight the routine and the eyebrow-raising alike. On June 4, 2010, an email schedules a TB test in West Palm Beach. A January 2018 message chain shows Epstein reporting a “positive gonorhea” result and Moskowitz replying, “At Er call me early.” In other messages, Moskowitz appears to suggest sending women to an emergency room to avoid having their contacts reported to the health department. Records from the U.S. Department of Justice include those exchanges along with the related lab reports.
Money, perks and the Mar-a-Lago link
The paper trail also shows Epstein providing money and perks to Moskowitz. Filings on ProPublica indicate Epstein donated at least $220,000 to the Bruce and Marsha Moskowitz Foundation between 2014 and 2017. Justice Department documents further detail invitations to Epstein’s New Mexico ranch and offers of an apartment and a driver. All of it adds up to a relationship where medical care, social access, and generous favors blurred together.
Why it matters
Those overlapping worlds come with legal and ethical baggage. A D.C. Circuit opinion held that VoteVets had plausibly alleged the so-called Mar-a-Lago group functioned as an advisory committee that should have been subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, triggering transparency and oversight requirements; the court’s reasoning is laid out on Justia. The gonorrhea-related exchanges, meanwhile, intersect with public-health law: gonorrhea appears on Florida’s list of reportable conditions, meaning clinicians and labs must notify public health authorities, as detailed by the Florida Department of Health.
Moskowitz did not respond to Miami New Times’ requests for comment, and the expanded Epstein files have only sharpened attention on the medical professionals named in them. With local regulators, licensing boards and members of Congress all poring over the Justice Department release, pressure is likely to build for clear answers on where private medical practice ends and public power begins.
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