Epstein Secrets

et. But a report in the March issue of Vanity Fair, on newsstands this week, unmasks Epstein's mystery image. Epstein wasn't exactly the top gun at Bear Steams, as he claims - and left the firm amid a swirl of rumors and an • SEC violation, the article said. His mentor in high finance was Steve Hoffenberg,

.com/Issues/2006-09-28/news/feature_full.html 10/16/2006 EFTA01713424 browardpalmbeach.com I News I Daddy's Girl Page 5 of 11 adoptive parents, Laird and Mary Hodge. When she was 5, the Hodges told her she was adopted. At 18, Linda employed a service to help her find her birth parents. Three year

ose personal friends with people with whom he went to high school and, to this day, maintains close business contacts with his former colleagues at Bear Steams. Those who know Mr. Epstein well describe him admittedly as quirky but certainly not immoral; and overall as kind, generous and warm-hearted. They

trument these components so that the reflective layers of the architecture had useful information available to them. He contrasted the Soar project (Laird, Newell, and Rosenbloom 1987) as an effort to eliminate and unify components rather than to accumulate and diversify them, as in the Minsky- Slam= p

d his successes without the personal guidance and support of others. These key people first identified the promise in Mr. Epstein and brought him to Bear Steams and Company, Inc. There, starting in 1976 at the age of 23 as a floor trader's junior assistant, he became in 1980 a limited partner. Among the ver

trument these components so that the reflective layers of the architecture had useful information available to them. He contrasted the Soar project (Laird, Newell, and Rosenbloom 1987) as an effort to eliminate and unify components rather than to accumulate and diversify them, as in the Minsky- Sloman