See, this whole "Intelligence" thing, and Mossad BS is a waste of time. Epstein was smart enough. This board is home to many highly intelligent people, but I suspect few are billionaires. You don't need to be a genius to get rich, you just need to understand how money works across a variety of systems, and then have the balls to take a few risks with volatile stocks, real estate loans, and investing in startups or expansions. And if you lack ethics and morals it can be much easier by using other people's money, and charging them a commission. While it's not rocket science, it kind of is.
Then there's the grift, and that's just knowing how to manipulate the right people.
What keeps me awake is not the sex stuff. It's the complicity of the banks in this story, and the fact the FBI and DEPARTMENT of JUSTICE looked the other way from Epstein for almost 18 years. This was between 2005 and 2016, crossing four different Presidential administrations, so we just can't hang it on the Diaper Don alone. I can see the Bush DoJ being distracted by terrorism, but Obama, and Biden? Nobody in those administrations felt a guilty pang about underage girls being abused by powerful men, while at the same time championing women's rights, and children's welfare? This is not a stand-alone issue. The FBI failed the US Women's Olympic Gymnastics Team with a dismal half-assed investigation, which led to an internal investigation, which led to other investigations. The FBI is really good at financial crimes, narcotics, terrorism, and high-profile/easy to prosecute sex crimes. But as soon as someone who is politically important is caught with his pants down they look like a clown show.
I'm a simple man, but to me this is a problem.
And while the low-hanging fruit of the conspiracy theory world is preoccupied with the sex, and the who's who in the files, they ignore Deutsche Bank entirely. You know, the guys who, since 2016, have had a high executive suicide rate that coincided with Epstein's arrest? Maybe they don't mention pizza enough in their emails, I guess.