This whole “associates” business bugs me.
Epstein “belonged to intelligence”. WHOSE intelligence, we don’t know, but his GFs father, Robert Maxwell, was connected to Israeli intel.
His gig was luring people into compromising situations, capturing them on video, and blackmailing them. To what end? For money? To control them, make sure they voted “the right way”? We don’t know, because all the notebooks, DVDs, audio files, and images were seized by FBI and other US intel cleanup teams and have now become the property of the US Deep State and whoever else they have been shared with.
Part of his appeal was the ability to rub shoulders with famous or influential people. The Clintons, for example. Being a “visiting Fellow” at Harvard with a phone and a secretary, for example. Biology and Math professors. Famous artists.
Being essentially a nobody, all these “associates” burnished the brand, so when one of his targets got an invite to the Upper East Side, or Paris, or New Mexico, or Little St. James and checked him out, they would see a very impressive list of his “associates”.
SO what I want to know about this “list of associates” is, how many of them were blackmail targets, and how many were just bait, who never touched or even saw one of his girls?
Jim, I have been told by numerous people on FR that it is anti-semitic to criticize the government of Israel. You may want to be careful.