Part VIII: Chain of Custody & Part IX: ‘Zero Services Rendered’
Devin Nunes, Steven Biss, and the Laptop of MAGA Secrets
Editor’s note: This investigation was originally published in April, when Telos News launched and before most of you had subscribed. I’ve taken it down and restructured it as a miniseries for subscribers to binge on through the holidays. As you’ll see, the themes are related to what you’ve been reading in the Bamboo Series, and together the two series will help you understand the birth of this Substack—and where it’s headed in 2026.
In this email are the two concluding sections of the series. The final installment of the Bamboo Series will land later this week. And I’ll also have something fun for you tomorrow. As always, thanks for reading!
—Ryan
VIII. Chain of Custody
Are the emails fake? Was there some other lawyer with the same name who was killed that year? And why was she accusing her husband of being involved in a murder?
The subject line got right to the point: “MURDER COVER UP.”
On December 7, Cornwell sent an email to Volzer, the conservator; Elliott P. Park, Biss’s receiver; and Tenley Carroll Seli, the official handling Biss’s case at the Virginia State Bar.
“So anybody want to explain where Steve got 3 million dollars after Jim Dimartino’s death when he was suspended the entire prior year?” she wrote. “OH YEAH that would the 506 exception that they used to divvy up companies they stole using the SEC. So iam going to get steve’s tax returns today from where I store my stuff to demonstrate that at no time did steve ever make this kind of money. So enjoy the notoriety. You are covering up murder, there is an innocent man in jail.”
