cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35912411
From the article
That wealth arrived suddenly. According to associates, until the end of the 90s, Epstein was living in a two-bedroom apartment on Manhattan’s Upper East Side close to the river. It was only when Maxwell arrived from London that his lifestyle was dramatically elevated.
Epstein moved to a townhouse on 68th Street and later to a 28,000-sq-ft mansion on 71st Street, later transferred to him by Wexner in 2011.
Steven Hoffenberg, a former business partner of Epstein convicted of running a Ponzi scheme, claimed that Maxwell’s father, disgraced press baron Robert Maxwell, introduced his daughter to Epstein in the late 1980s.
so, lobbying pimp by day, and underage girls pimp by night
I’m going to take a wild guess here and say a combination of pimping and blackmail.
…Uh, from those very same people?
Seriously, Guardian? Are you for real asking this question?
My God, the corpse of journalism is really just rotting in the ground at this point isn’t it.
The working poor? They got billions…each having at least 1 dollar, together they have billions.
He has his underage girls listen to the clients and tell him insider secrets. He used that info to make investments.
