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Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich (Do you remember Epstein?) NYT
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/magazine/jeffrey-epstein-money-scams-investigation.htmlhttps://archive.ph/WKBgH Archived.
For years, rumors swirled about where his wealth came from. A Times investigation reveals the truth of how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society.
Tons here. This is telling:
Rung by rung, Epstein climbed a social and financial ladder, often using young women as a potent form of currency. His girlfriends, lovers and even exes helped elevate his status inside a bank, got him hired to track down missing assets and gained him entree to prestigious organizations. And deliberately or not, some of them enabled him as he constructed a sex-trafficking operation that would later ensnare hundreds of teenage girls and young women.
That story starts at Bear Stearns, the place where Epstein learned how to win and use power. The institution continued to enable him long after he had shown his true colors.
More than four decades later, Tennenbaum still regrets that he didn’t end Epstein’s career when he had the chance.
“I didn’t realize,” he said, “that I was creating one of the monsters of Wall Street.”
That story starts at Bear Stearns, the place where Epstein learned how to win and use power. The institution continued to enable him long after he had shown his true colors.
More than four decades later, Tennenbaum still regrets that he didn’t end Epstein’s career when he had the chance.
“I didn’t realize,” he said, “that I was creating one of the monsters of Wall Street.”
Some previous detective work.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220810679
His publicly known network of contacts.
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We mapped Jeffrey Epstein's social network. Here's what we found.
https://america2.news/we-mapped-jeffrey-epsteins-social-network-heres-what-we-found/
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gathered and done. 
That was interesting in the Linked OP about what Hakeem Jeffries said about PEDO. I bookmarked that. Thank You!
https://newrepublic.com/post/202623/hakeem-jeffries-trump-johnson-republicans-pedophile-protection-program
Thank You Again! 
When asked by a reporter about working with someone who has been obstructing the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files, Jeffries said that “the Trump administration and Mike Johnson are running a pedophile protection program.”
“That’s what they’ve been doing. And that’s the reason why they refuse to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, for weeks now,” Jeffries added, referring to the congresswoman who won a special election on September 23 to replace her late father, Representative Raúl Grijalva. “She was elected in late September decisively.”
Jeffries said that Grijalva hasn’t been sworn in by House Speaker Johnson because she would be the deciding vote on legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.
“Week after week after week have gone by, and Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva is unable to serve 800,000 people in the state of Arizona all because of the pedophile protection program being run by Mike Johnson and House Republicans at the direction of their boss, Donald J. Trump,” Jeffries added.
“That’s what they’ve been doing. And that’s the reason why they refuse to swear in Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva, for weeks now,” Jeffries added, referring to the congresswoman who won a special election on September 23 to replace her late father, Representative Raúl Grijalva. “She was elected in late September decisively.”
Jeffries said that Grijalva hasn’t been sworn in by House Speaker Johnson because she would be the deciding vote on legislation requiring the Department of Justice to release the Epstein files.
“Week after week after week have gone by, and Representative-elect Adelita Grijalva is unable to serve 800,000 people in the state of Arizona all because of the pedophile protection program being run by Mike Johnson and House Republicans at the direction of their boss, Donald J. Trump,” Jeffries added.
Thank You Again! 
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