Posted on 07/11/2019 1:55:13 PM PDT by TigerClaws
When federal prosecutors announced sex-trafficking charges against Jeffrey Epstein this week, they described him as “a man of nearly infinite means.” They argued that his vast wealth — and his two private jets — made him a flight risk. Mr. Epstein is routinely described as a billionaire and brilliant financier, and he rubbed elbows with the powerful, including former and future presidents. Even after his 2008 guilty plea in a prostitution case in Florida, he promoted himself as a financial wizard who used arcane mathematical models, and he often dropped the names of Nobel Prize-winning friends. He told potential clients that they had to invest a minimum of $1 billion. At his peak in the early 2000s, a magazine profile said he employed 150 people, some working out of the historic Villard Houses on Madison Avenue. Much of that appears to be an illusion, and there is little evidence that Mr. Epstein is a billionaire.
quote: Mr. Epstein’s wealth may have depended less on his math acumen than his connections to two men — Steven J. Hoffenberg, a onetime owner of The New York Post and a notorious fraudster later convicted of running a $460 million Ponzi scheme, and Leslie H. Wexner, the billionaire founder of retail chains including The Limited and the chief executive of the company that owns Victoria’s Secret.
quote: Mr. Epstein’s firm, Financial Trust Company, has released no audited financial statements or performance reports to back up his claims of investment prowess. In a 2002 court filing, Mr. Epstein said he had 20 employees, far fewer than reported figures around that time
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Anyone checked out his addresses?
My debt is more fact than illusion :)
The only reason anyone thought he was a billionaire was because of you in the MSM, NYT.
The only ones who fell for the illusion were reporters.
If it was an illusion, then he won’t need to explain how he made that much money.
On the other hand, if the money came from an orchestrated blackmail scheme, then just about now he would want it to be considered “an illusion”. So, perhaps the assertion of “illusion” is a way to cover his tracks.
He has gone from math teacher to blackmailer to disgraced pedo creep.
If he really has the Pics and Videos they think he has, by all means hi is a Billionaire many times over. Most would easily surrender half their fortune today to get them from Epstein.
His fortune may consist of the balance due on the bribe payments the subjects of his island photography owe him.
or...just have him whacked by whomever the Clinton folks whacked Seth.
Ah yes, he really didn’t exist, and there really wasn’t an airplane or a temple or an island, either.
Okay, we ALL know it’s coming.
There is no question about it.
It’s only a matter of time.
It’s practically guaranteed.
The ONLY QUESTION IS THIS:
WHO WILL PLAY JEFFERY EPSTEIN IN THE LIFETIME MOVIE?
Got any suggestions?...................
He probably has dozens of businesses and properties owned by shell companies.
Bernie Madoff redux.
Someone who bears more than a passing resemblance to Donald J. Trump.
Either the guy with the really sick tan that was the lawyer in The Godfather III or John Travolta :)
Nobody in the business world knows anything?
BTTT
Richard Gere.
That was Robert Duvall, waaaay too old now, and so is Travolta probably............
Possibly, but he’s long in the tooth now............
Kind of like ...so?
He had enough to do what he did. Fly Clinton and a Kevin Spacey around, fund Clinton Foundation, buy an island and build all that weird stuff etc...
Who cares if he wasn’t a billionaire.
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