Epstein Secrets

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vember 2006, Epstein caused FTC and COUQ to invest nearly $35 million in Bear Steams High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies, L.P. (the "HG Fund"), Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage, L.P. (the "EL Fund"; together with the HG Fund, the "HG Funds") and Bear Stearns Asset Backed Securities Partn

the 14 other members were issued subpoenas, that alone was a message being sent by the GOP, that they will do anything in their power to keep Mayor Bloomberg in power, because all those members being probed are working to support Ferrer in next year's mayoral race." The elder Gonzalez's lawyer, "Don't Wo

as opted to prop up that entity with $1.6 billion in loans (see BusinessWeek.com, 6/22/07, "Bear Stearns to the Rescue—Sort Of"). The four-year-old Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Leverage fund was down about 10% as of the end of April. Bear Stearns has suspended investor redemptions in that fund, too. The W

atement. The richest man in the room was Michael Bloomberg, the financial information wizard turned mayor o

the law. Epstein's Virgin Islands-based money-management firm, Financial Trust Company, is listed in the SEC filing as a "beneficial owner" of the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage fund. A January filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission describes Epstein's firm as having "the power