Corrupt as fuck
Banking
Epstein joined Bear Stearns in 1976 as a low-level junior assistant to a floor trader.[35] He swiftly moved up to become an options trader, working in the special products division, and then advised the bank's wealthiest clients, such as Seagram president Edgar Bronfman, on tax mitigation strategies.[26][36][37] Jimmy Cayne, the bank's later chief executive officer, praised Epstein's skill with wealthy clients and complex products. In 1980, four years after joining Bear Stearns, Epstein became a limited partner.[35]
In 1981, he was asked to leave Bear Stearns for, according to his sworn testimony, being guilty of a "reg d violation".[38][26][24] Even though Epstein departed abruptly, he remained close to Cayne and Greenberg and was a client of Bear Stearns until it collapsed in 2008.[35]
Financial consulting
In August 1981, Epstein founded his own consulting firm, Intercontinental Assets Group Inc. (IAG),[39] which assisted clients in recovering stolen money from fraudulent brokers and lawyers.[24] Epstein described his work at this time as
being a high-level bounty hunter. He told friends that he worked sometimes as a consultant for governments and the very wealthy to recover embezzled funds, while at other times he worked for clients who had embezzled funds.[24][40] Spanish actress and heiress Ana Obregón was one such wealthy client, whom Epstein helped in 1982 to recover her father's millions in lost investments, which had disappeared when Drysdale Government Securities collapsed because of fraud.[41]
Epstein also stated to some people at the time that he was an intelligence agent.[42] Whether this statement was truthful is not clear. During the 1980s,
Epstein possessed an Austrian passport that had his photo but a false name. The passport showed his place of residence in Saudi Arabia.[43][44] Investigative journalist Vicky Ward said she was told in 2017 by "a former senior White House official" that U.S. Florida District Attorney Alexander Acosta, who handled Epstein's criminal case in 2008, said to Trump transition interviewers
"I was told Epstein 'belonged to intelligence' and to leave it alone" and that Epstein was "above his pay grade".[45][46]
During this period,
one of Epstein's clients was the Saudi Arabian businessman Adnan Khashoggi, who was the middleman in transferring American weapons from Israel to Iran, as part of the Iran–Contra affair in the 1980s.[4] Khashoggi was one of several defense contractors that he knew.[24][42] In the mid-1980s, Epstein traveled multiple times between the United States, Europe, and Southwest Asia.[43][44] While in London, Epstein met Steven Hoffenberg. They had been introduced through Douglas Leese, a defense contractor, and John Mitchell, the former U.S. Attorney General.[24]
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THIS is some deep shit i never even really looked in too but its fucked!
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