Epstein Secrets

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erage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York. and I think one in Chicago. Rodman & Ren- shaw." Ho0enberg reportedly said. Then. said Reifenberg. while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much safer financial instruments. they used them as collateral to buy the stock

llion was rerorted as being safely invested in a money-market account. United Fire's former chief financial officer Daniel Payton confirms part of Reifenberg.; account. He says he recalls making one or two telephone calls to Epstein (at Holten- berg's direction) about the missing bonds. "He said, 'Oh. y

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vice a lavish hfesryle that included a mansion on Long Island. homes on Man- hattan's Sutton Place and in Florida. and a fleet of cars and planes. Reifenberg and Epstein had much in common. Both were sntan and obsessed with making money. Both were front Brook- lyn. According to Hoffer.bent the Two men w

Hoffenberg. O ne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- titers was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hofknberg claimed in a 1993 hearing before a grand jury m Illinois that Epstein came up with the idea of financing these bids through To

g a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than 5450 million in one of the largest Paul schemes in American history, When Epstein met Reifenberg in Lon- don in the 1980s. the latter was the char- ismatic. audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation. a collection agency that was suppos