Jeffrey Epstein arrested for child sex trafficking

[Eddie Dane]

Do the words "ponzi scheme" mean anything to you?

he seems to have gone from math teacher to options trader to partner in a bank to hedgefund manager to probably spy and then some.

Epstein was obviously much more than a scammer and blackmailer.
He must have been very, very intelligent. Note he also provided services like recovering huge amounts of money from fraudulent investments and helped rich people park their money in tax havens.

This guy taught math at an elite prep school, contacted the very prominent parents their and impressed them (well, Greenspan) so much they gave him a job as an options trader.

If anything, he must have had incredible people skills and the ability to learn to trade with very complex financial products, law and particularly tax law.

as for blackmail:

The island thing seems perfect for that. The ideal setting to get people to act in ways they would never do in their own surroundings. a combination of feeling isolated from normal society on 'orgy island', away from the law and eyes of colleagues, family, press and community. The perfect spot to let go.

Then later, you're not so sure about how private that all was. And reviewing the facts, you really would not like these things to become public. Too much alcohol, you had not done any coke since college. That girl might have been a bit too young now that you've sobered up and what if that Epstein dude has cameras on that island?

And then your secretary calls. Mister Epstein is on the line and he wants to know if you're interested in investing in his hedge fund.

 

[Eddie Dane]

Epstein using the underage prostitutes for blackmail doesn't make sense, because it's either a two-headed snake or a wolf with no teeth, depending on how you look at it. Epstein couldn't expose anyone without taking himself down at the same time. He was not in a position to blackmail anyone.

Imagine you're Prince Andrew and someone leaks explicit photos of you shagging a seventeen-year-old.

I don't think exclaiming 'But Jeffery does that all the time, and he said it was OK!' is going to be a winning PR move.

 

[The Atheist]

Imagine you're Prince Andrew and someone leaks explicit photos of you shagging a seventeen-year-old.

No big deal - the age of consent in UK is 16, so it's only stupid Americans would care about it.

It's the 13/14 year olds Andy's worried about.

 

[Checkmite]

Imagine you're Prince Andrew and someone leaks explicit photos of you shagging a seventeen-year-old.

I don't think exclaiming 'But Jeffery does that all the time, and he said it was OK!' is going to be a winning PR move.

It doesn't have to be; "this photo was taken at Epstein's estate and the girl was provided by him" puts Epstein in prison, is the only point I'm making. MAD.

 

[Arcade22]

One explanation, of many possible with no regard to probability, is that power of attorney was a blackmail payment.

I'd' find it far more likely that he was a con artist and/or was a lover of Leslie Wexner and that's how he came to effectively have control of all his personal finances in what can only be considered a highly informal and irregular arrangement.

 

[Eddie Dane]

I'd' find it far more likely that he was a con artist and/or was a lover of Leslie Wexner and that's how he came to effectively have control of all his personal finances in what can only be considered a highly informal and irregular arrangement.

It seems out of character for a billionaire business owner to give free rein over his affairs to another person, even a spouse.

I think Epstein also acquired his enormous house in NY for a symbolic amount from Wexner.

For reasons that have never been explained, Wexner appears to have made a gift of the house to Epstein, transferring title for the cost of $0 around 1996. The New York Times reports the property was formally transferred in 2011 from a trust controlled by Wexner and Epstein to a Virgin Islands-based entity controlled by Epstein; Wexner, meanwhile, told the Times through a spokeswoman that he "severed ties" with Epstein a decade ago.

https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a28340797/jeffrey-epstein-townhouse-upper-east-side/

 

[Cavemonster]

Epstein using the underage prostitutes for blackmail doesn't make sense, because it's either a two-headed snake or a wolf with no teeth, depending on how you look at it. Epstein couldn't expose anyone without taking himself down at the same time. He was not in a position to blackmail anyone.

If he had incriminating pictures or videos, the threat may be to send those anonymously to employers, families, spouses or law enforcement.

Sure, the target could have turned around and named Epstein, but he likely could have assured they had no hard evidence backing that accusation. Sure he may technically have been at risk, but I think in that situation their level of risk looks a lot higher than his.

 

[BobTheCoward]

I'd' find it far more likely

Please don't ignore where I wrote

of many possible with no regard to probability

 

[JoeMorgue]

Let's turn too far into the skid and start forgetting that people would occasionally met with Epstein for reason that weren't child pimping.

I'm sure the Tribes will be digging through the AP Photos for the next century trying to find every picture of someone from the other side shaking hands with Epstein at a dinner or whatever to wave about, but there's more then enough actual people with actual plausible connections to his actions to worry about.

 

[Drewbot]

The prison guards are now in his will?

That is why it took 2 weeks from the time of the last attempt.

 

[Arcade22]

It seems out of character for a billionaire business owner to give free rein over his affairs to another person, even a spouse.

I think Epstein also acquired his enormous house in NY for a symbolic amount from Wexner.



https://www.townandcountrymag.com/society/a28340797/jeffrey-epstein-townhouse-upper-east-side/

He wasn't just strictly his "personal money manager" either:

From the outset, Mr. Epstein’s role extended far beyond that of a traditional money manager. In the late 1980s, Mr. Wexner started building Limitless, a 316-foot yacht. Mr. Epstein managed its construction and design, said Craig Tafoya, who captained Mr. Wexner’s ships for 15 years.

In meetings with shipbuilders in London, Mr. Tafoya said, Mr. Epstein dove into details about the yacht and cast himself as a tough negotiator. “He didn’t take B.S. from anybody,” Mr. Tafoya said, adding that Mr. Epstein didn’t spend much time on the yacht because he “could look at a glass of water and get seasick.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html

Edit:

In a letter last week to his family foundation, Mr. Wexner, 81, accused Mr. Epstein of having misappropriated “vast sums.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/business/jeffrey-epstein-wexner-victorias-secret.html

 

[Eddie Dane]

As a side note: I wonder if Victoria's Secret (owned by Wexner) brand will be affected by this involuntary co-branding with a notorious sexual exploiter of young women.

 

[Arcade22]

but there's more then enough actual people with actual plausible connections to his actions to worry about.

Specifically?

 

[Henri McPhee]

It doesn't happen.

 

[CORed]

A lot of people including scientists, diplomats and their staff went to Epstein's island. I'd bet most if it was purely business and he kept it under wraps more than people think.

If he was not a complete idiot, of course he was keeping it under wraps. I know a fair number of people seem to think that pedophilia is rampant among the rich and powerful, and that any of them would leap at the opportunity to share Epstein's "massage" girls, the reality is that any time he offered to share, he was taking a risk of exposure.

Personally, had Epstein's activities involved adult women, I wouldn't give a **** about it. Yes, he might have been violating prostitution laws, but, I'm of the opinion that as long as consenting adults are involved, it's nobody's business but their own. However, given the age of the girls, he deserved to never see the light of day again.

 

[Venom]

Personally, had Epstein's activities involved adult women, I wouldn't give a **** about it. Yes, he might have been violating prostitution laws, but, I'm of the opinion that as long as consenting adults are involved, it's nobody's business but their own. However, given the age of the girls, he deserved to never see the light of day again.

Interesting. Don't agree at all, especially depending on how you define an adult woman. Legal 18 year old American? Epstein picks her up and she's trapped there, forced to do things to his powerful buddies she never signed up for? I think that's extremely serious.

Personally I don't believe anyone should not see the light of day unless they've actually killed someone, and even then, I think it's too Medieval-y radical.

 

[cullennz]

Far out

It is either extremely dodgy or the mother load of all badly run prisons

I didn't even think you could hang yourself with the sheets they use these days

Maybe he bribed himself a fancy silk one

Forgive me if already posted

https://nypost.com/2019/08/12/jeffrey-epstein-hanged-himself-with-prison-bedsheet-source/

Jeffrey Epstein hanged himself with prison bedsheet: source

Jeffrey Epstein was found hanging in his lower Manhattan jail cell with a bedsheet wrapped around his neck and secured to the top of a bunk bed, The Post has learned.

The convicted pedophile, who was 6 feet tall, apparently killed himself by kneeling toward the floor and strangling himself with the makeshift noose, law enforcement sources said Monday. He hadn’t been checked on for several hours, sources said.

Epstein was “unresponsive” when he was discovered in his cell at the Special Housing Unit of the Metropolitan Correctional Center at around 6:30 a.m. on Saturday, the federal Bureau of Prisons has said.

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Edited for rule 4.

 

[BobTheCoward]

Far out

It is either extremely dodgy or the mother load of all badly run prisons

I follow some defense attorney Twitter and it might be uniquely bad. They are sharing stories of clients who have been to multiple facilities and we're begging to go back to Rikers rather than stay at MCC and reports from 2018 of just how bad the staffing shortages were.

The American jail system might be a travesty.

 

[dann]

Could it be that Epstein was afraid of adult women - if they weren't employed by him as procurers?
Susan Astani is married to Danish multimillionaire Christian Kjær, who had a meeting with Epstein, who wanted to buy his Caribbean island:

But he was very annoyed that Astani would be at the meeting.
"He didn't even look at me. He just said that it was a serious meeting - between men," says Susan Astani, who describes Jeffrey Epstein as an odd character.
But Christian Kjær did not agree that Astani couldn't be at the meeting. He made it clear to Epstein that his wife would have to participate if he hoped to buy the island.
Jeffrey Epstein was very keen to buy the island from Christian Kjær since he already owned the neighboring island Little St. James and hoped to build a bridge between the two paradise islands, which are a part of the Virgin Islands.
Kjær insisted that his wife attended the meeting, which didn't make the atmosphere between Astani and Epstein any better.
"At no time did I have eye contact with him. It was as if he and Christian were the only two people in the room," she says and states:
"I got the clear impression of him that he was a male chauvinist."
Susan Astani had an unpleasant experience with deceased multimillionaire (BT, Aug. 12, 2019)

 

[Drewbot]

"MALE CHAUVINIST"

Really? Male Chauvinist? This guy was an Epstein-Chauvinist.

He really loved himself.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-baby-ranch-new-mexico-eugenics-a9030411.html

Jeffrey Epstein for years hoped to seed the human race with his DNA by impregnating women at his ranch in New Mexico, according to a new report that also detailed his apparent interest in having his head and penis frozen when he died.

He was either completely broken down, to be able to kill himself... or... (Insert conspiracty theory here)