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EPSTEIN ‘ADMITTED TO ME’ HE WAS A SPY: Ex-Business Partner Of Sex Criminal Claims Prince Andrew Is Protecting Ghislaine Maxwell, Stonewalling Prosecutors’ Investigation Over Blackmail Fears
Medium.com ^ | 23 December 2019 | Dylan Howard

Posted on 12/24/2019 11:12:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum

Steven Hoffenberg was arrested by FBI agents in Arkansas in 1996, after regulators accused him of defrauding investors. The former business partner of Jeffrey Epstein in Towers Financial spent 18 years in jail for the largest Ponzi schemes in history prior to Bernie Madoff’s crimes. But the notorious sex criminal got away scot-free. Why? In a series of new and exclusives conversations, Hoffenberg reveals the real reason he evaded justice in one of America’s largest Ponzi schemes—he was an international spy. Dylan Howard Dylan Howard Dec 23 · 5 min read

Britain’s Prince Andrew and Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged pimp Ghislaine Maxwell have joined forces to stonewall investigators and prevent Epstein’s victims from obtaining justice.

That’s the explosive claim of former Epstein colleague and friend, Steven Hoffenberg, who confirms that Epstein was indeed a top-level agent for the Israeli Mossad, as first confirmed in the best-selling book Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales. Ghislaine Maxwell (right) with Prince Andrew and Virginia Roberts in 2001.

In a series of bombshell interviews with me following the release of the book, Hoffenberg confirmed that not only does he have first-hand knowledge of Epstein’s work as an agent of the Mossad, as described in the book; but also, his former cohorts Prince Andrew and Maxwell are still actively working to keep his explosive secrets.

Hoffenberg famously worked as Epstein’s business partner at the ill-fated Towers Financial Group in the 1990s. In 1993, the business collapsed as a multi-billion-dollar Ponzi scheme was exposed. Hoffenberg pleaded guilty and went to prison in 1995, but Epstein got off scot-free. Steven Hoffenberg is the former chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, a debt collection agency, that he used in a Ponzi scheme. He was the owner of the New York Post. The firm collapsed in 1993, and in 1995 Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to bilking investors out of $475 million. The SEC considered his financial crimes as “one of the largest Ponzi schemes in history” prior to Bernie Madoff’s crimes a decade later.

According to Hoffenberg, it was his espionage connections that helped him skate. During his work with Epstein, Hoffenberg says, he had a front-row seat to the espionage work that brought Epstein into close contact with foreign agents from Saudi Arabia, Israel, Russia and more.

Hoffenberg revealed:

I liked the book [Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales] a lot.

Unfortunately, the media doesn’t understand 75% of the Epstein story.

Because it’s a complicated story. Maxwell, the Crown, and spying. Of course, right now Prince Andrew is preventing the Southern District of New York from arresting Maxwell.

There is a problem, because [Alex] Acosta in 2008, the reason that Epstein didn’t get any time and got a non-prosecution agreement was because of the intelligence agencies involvement with Epstein, and the two Maxwells, in Israel. I know that for a fact from Epstein.

What you write [in Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales] is true. Matter of fact, I have been asked by many others about the spying, and I would never comment on the spying. I didn’t want to get ahead of this. But you have now created the platform. Your story is true.

It is the truth. There’s no question. What you write is true. I am an eyewitness.

He admitted this to me. That was not a core problem because he shared with me thousands of conversations; everything about his life. I mean, I was like his brother. We were inseparable for a long time. So I know every step of what you write.

You see the espionage connections were too hot, and that concerned me for risk — up until your book. I’ve been pressed on espionage and I wouldn’t give it up. I didn’t confirm the espionage until your book came out. It’s a very serious master plan to the whole Epstein mystery. That was the master plan by Epstein.

He’s got Andrew pinned to the wall right now. He’s got the crown stuck. Why the Crown is now taking this position. Maxwell has been described as a Co-conspirator. (She has denied any claims of wrongdoing). Why doesn’t the Crown in the U.K. seek justice? That’d bust the bubble in the UK. There’s 75% of Epstein’s story that is not understood by the media and the public. But we’ve got to bring it out there, we’ve got to tell them.

He was needed by the CIA or the FBI for intelligence, because he was manipulating the American intelligence for the overseas organizations: MI6, the Israeli’s, and the Saudi’s. That’s what he was doing. They were afraid of the exposure that he brought to the table for what he did with Prince Andrew, MI6, the Israeli’s, and the Saudi’s. That’s why (Alex) Acosta said to the media, “This is an intelligence criminal case, this is not a standalone criminal case.” Acosta said that.

Don’t forget, he and I interacted from ’87 through ’96 or around that timeframe. So we were inseparable, as being together and talking every day. Working together every day. I set up that office at Villard House at that time, which was his office that we opened up specifically for him. We were always together and he trusted me totally. I didn’t know he was setting me up at the time, which he was, to take the entire fall for the crimes. I was not supposed to take the fall. I was supposed to get a slap on the wrist. But he’s the one that caused me to not get a slap on the wrist, because he double-crossed me with the money.

I don’t actually have an axe to grind for something that happened decades ago. But I was there, and that’s what happened and I have the evidence of that — of how he framed me. This is all true. I mean, I’m not using this as a story for that, because this is only one little component that I got set up. I got set up in the first round of big money crimes with Epstein. The story is remarkable. Nobody’s going to say that I have an axe to grind because I’m not a participant in all of these cover ups. I’m in one, heavily. Heavily. So you know, that’s not an axe to grind at all. That’s a story to tell. That’s all it is. It’s something to explain. His mindset, the profile, how Epstein saw things, and how he played the chess board. That’s all it is.


TOPICS: Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: bookdeals; epstein; fakenews; felon; hoffenberg; mariasantiago; morelies; newyorkpost; ponzischeme; ponzischemer; santiago; stevenhoffenberg; stevenjhoffenberg

1 posted on 12/24/2019 11:12:47 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This is my shocked face; no, really!


2 posted on 12/24/2019 11:18:03 AM PST by pingman ("I ain't in no ways tarred.." of WINNING!)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Steven Hoffenberg was arrested by FBI agents in Arkansas in 1996, after regulators accused him of defrauding investors. The former business partner of Jeffrey Epstein in Towers Financial spent 18 years in jail for the largest Ponzi schemes in history prior to Bernie Madoff’s crimes.

Ah, well, I guess that makes Steven's a reliable source of truthful information. So...who is publishing his book? Some mega-publisher out of Stuttgart Germany through a front or two, perhaps?

3 posted on 12/24/2019 11:18:47 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

in this case, spy = sexually perverted yahoo.


4 posted on 12/24/2019 11:20:24 AM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: piasa

So you only trust information about criminals from law-abiding citizens who never actually associated with them and not fellow criminals who actually did?


5 posted on 12/24/2019 11:20:54 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Democrats only believe in democracy when they win the election.)
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To: piasa

You cant be serious


6 posted on 12/24/2019 11:32:03 AM PST by Dartoid
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

He also admitted he didn’t kill himself. His last words, in fact.


7 posted on 12/24/2019 11:33:02 AM PST by Larry Lucido
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

No, I don’t trust anyone for information until it’s verified.
Here’s one reason... years ago when this guy was nailed :

Hoffenberg did not name Epstein at the time as a co-conspirator.

So, when did he first make the claim Epstein was a coconspirator?


8 posted on 12/24/2019 11:34:50 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

This lines up with all the other stories floating around. The truth is somewhere in the middle.

I do not thinks it is a cazy devil cult / pizza thing, it is just a scheme run by the intelligence community to set important people in high offices and businesses up for blackmail.


9 posted on 12/24/2019 11:35:50 AM PST by DEPcom
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What event, when, caused him to change his mind?

I don’t know, I am asking.


10 posted on 12/24/2019 11:36:39 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: DEPcom

Similar to Franklin Cover up.

Some years ago someone PMed me about there being some scandal with Evan Bayh’s father and that is the real reason he resigned.

I think there is dirt on most of them.


11 posted on 12/24/2019 11:37:31 AM PST by RummyChick
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12 posted on 12/24/2019 11:38:04 AM PST by Ouchthatonehurt
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Spies go around telling people, “I’m a spy.” Right. On Lifetime movies maybe when the con man is trying to reel in an unsuspecting vulnerable woman. (And she believes him.)


13 posted on 12/24/2019 11:41:18 AM PST by MayflowerMadam
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Thanks for posting. Fascinating.

Ghislaine Maxwell DID NOT hang herself in prison. Can someone put a ham sandwich on her head? MOSSAD? INTERPOL? CIA? N.O.W. 5 EYES (what are they a cyclops with pink-eye?) Hillaryous Rotten Criminal? (she was at Chelsea’s wedding)...or does Bill need a humidor for his cigars? Justice in the republic 2019.
Sorry girls, ladies, women.

TOO BIG TO QUESTION?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wDHvmCVRxU


14 posted on 12/24/2019 11:51:12 AM PST by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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Bkmk


15 posted on 12/24/2019 12:51:07 PM PST by sauropod (Hold onto that impeachment for a while. It'll get better with age, just like Jennifer Rubin has.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Wasn’t he also a Navy Officer? Seems like the guy was into all kinds of fantasies.


16 posted on 12/24/2019 12:53:26 PM PST by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: DEPcom

“I do not thinks it is a cazy devil cult / pizza thing, it is just a scheme run by the intelligence community to set important people in high offices and businesses up for blackmail.”

Some scapegoats will go to jail for appearances.

Maybe the most interesting question in politics today is: who got Epstein’s files? They are very, very powerful people now.

These files are probably more damaging than the FBI files Clinton got in the 90’s.

J. Edgar Hoover, Robert Cohn, and Robert Kennedy showing future politicians the path to power.


17 posted on 12/24/2019 1:10:09 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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18 posted on 12/24/2019 1:37:25 PM PST by bitt (A FRIVOLOUS impeachment vote is a SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Arkansas ! Who else is from Arkansas we know of that are major crooks?


19 posted on 12/24/2019 11:28:33 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....)
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Arkencide is a permanent cure to loose lip people, just the Clintons


20 posted on 12/25/2019 9:03:13 AM PST by okie 54
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