Epstein I believe had government contacts with computer spying skills.
Such skills can make a lot of unethical money if utilized upon certain computers.
People showed up at Epstein’s place not only to eat his food, drink his booze, and gawk at his young females, but also to gather financial tips.
One key point of your suggestion...various people (Hillary Clinton in particular) demonstrated they had friends with insider connections, knowing when a future was going up or down.
I think a lot of this forgetfulness by the news media...is simply covering for what should be a massive SEC investigation on stock purchases by all of these ‘guests’ of Epstein. It probably gets into the tens of billions gained in this era by isle-chatter.