Epstein Secrets

other Bear Stearns employees in part of what became a protracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March II. 1981. by the Seagram Company L..! for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in- vestors were found guilts. including Italian financier Giuseppe T

. This was alleged to have involved multiple clients' accounts con- trolled by Epstein. Eventually. in 1991. insurance regulators in Illinois sued Hotrenberg. He settled the case. and Epstein, who was only a paid consul- tant. was never deposed or accused of any wrongdoing. Barry Gross. the attorney who

Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in- vestors were found guilty. including Italian financier Giuseppe Tome. who had used his relationship with Seagram owner Edgar Bronfman Sr. to obtain information about the tender offer. After the tender offer was announced. the S.E.C. began investigating trade

boroff and Ne- derlander told Epstein (hat Snyder was too late. but. without their realizing it. Hoffen- !.eig has claimed. Snyder wrote a check to Hotrenberg and bought out some of his in- vestment. But then Snyder wanted out. "Nederlander started to get these irate calls from (Snyder.] who wasn't pan of

other Bear Stearns employees in part of what became a protracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March II, 1981. by the Seagram Company Lsil for St. Joe Minerals Corp. Ultimately several Italian and Swiss in. vestors were found guilty. including Italian financier Giuseppe

million was reported as being safely invested in a money-market account. United Finis eater chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms pan of Hotrenberg's account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein (at Moffat- bag's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh. ye