Epstein Secrets

Univer- sity academic had his soapbox pulled out from under him, and he's blaming massage-lov- ing millionaire Jeffrey Ep- stein. Or maybe lawyer Alan Dershowitz. Or maybe both. Biologist Robert Trivers was scheduled to speak at Har- vard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, a cur- riculum estab- lished w

iami lawyer who has defended the likes of Rush Limbaugh and William Kennedy Smith. While the private eyes were conducting a parallel investigation, Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor, traveled to West Palm Beach with information about the girls. From their own profiles on the popular Web site MySpace.co

ules that the girls were underage. Yeah, the attorney who twisted Krischer's arm was none other than Alan Dershowitg. I wonder what it costs to get Alan to fly down to Florida and slime victims of statutory rape these days? Is it a standard fee or an hourly rate? Nice work you got there. Florida can

the belief of Rutgers University biologist Robert Trivers, whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamic (PED) was axed after he called Dershowia a "Nazi- like apologise for his 'rationalization of Israeli attaas on Lebanese civilians? Travers told the Harvard Crimson a PED official said he w

But after Trivers, peeved :by what he called Dershow- itz's "rational- ization of Israeli attacks on L

for Evolutionary Dynamics, a cur- riculum estab- lished with a$6.5 million donation from Epstein. But after Trivers, peeved :by what he called Dershow- itz's "rational- ization of Israeli attacks on Leba- nese civilians," called him a "Nazi-like apolo- gist," the PED had second thoughts. Well, gee Bob

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

have returned campaign contributions from him. But Mr. Epstein fought back, as- sembling a team of star lawyers, in- cluding Gerald B. Lefcourt and Alan M. Dershowitz, a friend of his, to look into the backgrounds of his young ac- cusers. Mr. Lefcourt says that the police acted "outrageously" and that his cli- e

the belief of Rutgers University biologist Robert Trivers, whose talk at Harvard's Program for Evolutionary Dynamics (PED) was axed after he called Dershowitz a "Nazi-like apologist" for his "rationalization of Israeli attacks on Lebanese civilians." Trivers told the Harvard Crimson a PED official said he

of lawyers that also includes Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz and for- mer Whitewater prosecutor Ken

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

eams' former Chairman of the Board of Directors, Alan Greenberg. After leaving in 1981, Epstein continu

t and trusted friend to many senior executives at Bear Steams. 4. In August 2006, FTC invested in excess of $20 million in a hedge fund called the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Enhanced Leverage Fund, L.P. (the "Enhanced Fund"). Tenth months later, this investment was wiped out when the Enhanced Fund, which in the i

and Chief Operating Officer in August 2007. 12. Alan Schwartz ("Schwartz") became Co-President and Co-

ts were being investigated by the press, including Landon Thomas at the New York Times, following the collapse of two Bear Stearns hedge funds, the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund ("the "High-Grade Fund") and the Bear Stearns High-Grade Structured Credit Strategies Leverage Fund ("the Enhanced Fund") (c

after being personally recruited as a trader by Alan Greenberg ("Greenberg"), Bear Stearns' former Cha

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