Jeffrey Epstein came from a blue-collar family in Brooklyn, NY. Dad was a gardener.
And? This is the United States, the whole point of our existence is anyone can become anything they want based on their own merits and luck. We are not confined to whatever our family names or titles allow.
He had no teaching qualifications, let alone in mathematics, yet William Barr, Snr., secured him a teaching job at a decent school...teaching maths. I
That was 1974, schools across our country were trying new things, and Dalton School is a private school, not a public school which allows them flexibility in hiring teachers. Epstein graduated high school at 16, and studied music in one college before transferring to NYU to study mathematics for about three years before dropping out. You imply he was uneducated, but the opposite was true. He just didn't finish college. Turns out he didn't need to.
I don't know why Epstein is referred to as 'a financier' or 'a billionaire', as you do, because he also has zero qualifications or licence to practise being a broker or financial adviser.
The guy literally started at the bottom as a floor trader for Bear Sterns, and worked his way up the food chain in four years to become a limited partner. Since you clearly do not understand the United States, or money, here's what you need to know. That kind of vertical move does not happen unless you have the chops, and a track record of profit for the company. The folks on the top floor of Bear Sterns do not waste their time.
As far as licensing goes, there are always ways around that. He didn't have a license, by Bear Sterns did, and he didn't work alone.
He had to leave Bear Sterns after playing fast and loose with a few trades. He then started IAC, which began as a legit financial consulting firm recovering money from fraud, and later drifted into shady practices. After that, he worked for Towers Financial Corp, a collection agency, and corporate raiding firm. Tower was, in fact, a Ponzi scheme. While working there, Epstein launched his own financial consulting agency: J. Epstein & Company. JE&C managed accounts for billionaires. So a million dollar service fee here, a million dollar commission there, and soon we're looking at real money.
Wexner is Epstein's only
known client.
I'm a simple man, but I refer to Epstein as a billionaire based on his final portfolio.
Imagine being of sound mind, health and hardly old aged, with substantial wealth and simply handing over PoA to some semi-literate smuck who can't hold down a job
Let's see, he had jobs right out of when he dropped out of college up through 1993, when he left Towers to concentrate on JE&S full time. 16 years of holding down a job. And in the financial world, those guys, even the honest ones, do not operate like we blue-collar folk do. I live in Monterey, CA. Every day private jets land here filled with rich folks in town to play golf, and talk business. They arrive at 08:00, and are wheels-up no later than 18:30. He had three years of college level mathematics, I've had one. He skipped grades to graduate at 16.
This is why you fail. Epstein was not a semi-literate schmuck (nice of you to misspell it, BTW). He might not have been brilliant, but he was a professional conman. He learned from the best, and improved on their schemes. People like you buy into conspiracy theories - Epstein
WAS a conspirator by the basic definition of the word. He scammed his way into truck-loads of money, and weaseled his way into all the choice inner circles across the globe. He knew money, the markets, and how to play people. And when he couldn't play them straight he'd find a way to blackmail them.
All the scientists who ever met him and spoken publicly have said they were shocked at the shallow level of his knowledge.
And yet they took his money. And a few went to his island, and or his townhouse. I'm curious as to your definition of ethics and intelligence.
Try again, Axxman300, as to how there is nothing at all unusual about the astonishing influence of this dude.
You need to get out more.
Maybe it's because I grew up surrounded by millionaires, but Epstein is just one of a small army of enterprising manipulators of the brain-dead, ego-driven, sexually demented trust-fund wealthy set. I worked retail sales in a high-end toy store. Wealthy educated people were always easier to manipulate simply because they don't believe they can be fooled.
If you don't believe that, just look at the crypto markets.