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Nobody has ever satisfactory explained where Epstein got all this money to begin with. He seems to have been running some sort of blackmail operation ensnaring
by empath75 6y ago
Nobody has ever satisfactory explained where Epstein got all this money to begin with. He seems to have been running some sort of blackmail operation ensnaring wealthy people into criminal activity and videotaping them or otherwise recording it.
His first job was as a math teacher at a _girl's school_ run by the current Attorney General's father, and he seems to have leveraged that somehow into an investment job through one of the parents at the school, despite having no qualifications for that kind of work.
It seems worth noting that he went from working with young girls to sex trafficking them, and that the man who supposedly was going to get to the bottom of his murder is the son of the man who first gave him access to young girls.
- stickfigure 6y agoHis life has been under a microscope. If there was a smoking gun to be found, it would have been found. Nobody's opsec is that good, especially with number of people involved in the kind of conspiracy you describe.
- apercu 6y agoSure is a lot of smoke. Lots. Don't you think some one should look in to this all a little before we decide "nothing to see here"?
- ta17711771 6y ago....there HAVE been smoking guns! But, that depends on 1) how complete your personal research has been 2) how strictly you define smoking gun
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- arminiusreturns 6y agoThey've been covered up, and the few reporters doing a deep dive are ignored and relegated to small corners of the internet. Whitney Webb being one of those.
- mikeyouse 6y agoAs far as I understand it, he basically acted as a proxy for Les Wexner (and I wouldn't doubt if he was blackmailing him to stay in that position based on some of the accounts of the assault victims) and just treated Les's money as his own. These grand ideas about vaults full powerful people on tape are a lot less plausible than him just taking advantage of a single billionaire to fund his lifestyle.
- AndrewBissell 6y agoWhat was the point of the pinhole cameras recording everything that happened at every one of his properties, then? And what was contained in the cache of CDs with labels like "Young [name] with [name]" which the FBI recovered from a safe in his NYC mansion? Your idea of the situation is also at odds with what the victims themselves have reported and testified.
- empath75 6y ago... and then buried in a dark hole somewhere.
- arminiusreturns 6y agoOnce you become a front man for the intelligence agencies (yes, multiple) blackmail operations all normal accounting goes out the window. Part of it is probably from the blackmail, part of it probably from the agencies, he probably had a lot less control over it than it seemed I would venture to guess. Add in the normal organized crime angle and it's almost impossible to say.