I have a 4th option. Epstein was a high value asset but his sexual deviance eventually got so bad they had to arrest him.
“Epstein was a high value asset but his sexual deviance eventually got so bad they had to arrest him.”
I think something along these lines is very close to the truth. He may even have gone rogue - or solo. This isnt worth all the angst from some circles. What people like Epstein were doing has been done for thousands of years before the Roman Empire existed, and is continuing to this day in various backwaters around the world. Looking for some form of earthly justice or bloodletting is just primal scream emoting.
During a tense moment in the Cuban Missile Crisis some idiot at NASA Wallops Island conducted a rocket launch. JFK supposedly said, "There's always some dumb sonova bitch who doesn't get the word." It's just possible that some state prosecutor just didn't "get the word."