Epstein Secrets

poration, and as Liquidator of Associated Life Insurance Company and United Fire Insurance Company, 'by his attorneys, complains of Defendants, Stephen Hoffenberg ("Hoffenberg"), Mitchell Brater ("Brater"), Charles Chugerman ("Chugerman"), Michael Rosoff ("Rosoff"), Towers Financial Cor- poration ("Towers Fin

was Chairman of the Board of Directors of United Fire, Associated, Diversified, Towers Diversified and Towers Financial. On information and belief, Boffenberg, through an entity known as the "Hoffenberg Family Trust", at all relevant times owned 100% of Professional Business Broker's Inc., a New York cor

ued primarily for the benefit of Hoffenberg or the Controlling Companies and not for the benefit of the Companies. 41. Among the checks benefiting Roffenberg individually are checks payable to American Express for personal expenses and to Wellesley College for, upon information and belief, tuition for a

Towers 7726 O6/24/88 1O,OOO.OO Parker, Chapin, Flattau & Klipi 7719 O4/13/88 932.OO Mid-State Financial Corp. 772O O7/O1/88 58,732.6O Rodman & Renshaw 77O8 O7/2O/88 26,296.65 Manett Phelps Rothenberg & Evans 39. As a result of the lack of documentation the financial statements of the Companie

earthed by Vanity Fair, Epstein may have good reason to keep his past cloaked in secrecy: his real mentor, it might seem, was not Leslie Wexner but Steven Jude Hoffenberg, 57, who, for a few months before the S.E.C. sued to freeze his assets in 1993, was trying to buy the New York Post. EFTA00204654 Page 6 The Tal

dollars," Stroll has said. Hoffenberg, says a close friend, "really liked Jeffrey... Jeffrey has a way of getting under your skin, and he was under Hoffenberg's." Also appealing to Hoffenberg were Epstein's social connections; they included oil mogul Cece Wang (father of the designer Vera) and Mohan Murja

"Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York, and I think one in Chicago, Rodman & Renshaw," Hoffenberg reportedly EFTA00204657 Page 9 The Talented Mr. Epstein;Lately, Jeffrey Epstein's high-ying style said. Then, said Hoffenberg, whil

for Towers's acquisition of the companies, Hoffenberg promised to inject $3 million of new capital into them. In fact, in his grand jury testimony Hoffenberg claimed that he, his chief operating officer, Mitchell Brater, and Epstein came up with a scheme to steal $3 million of the insurance companies' bo

"Jeffrey Epstein and Mitch Brater arranged the various brokerage accounts for the bonds to be placed with in New York, and I think one in Chicago, Rodman & Renshaw," Hoffenberg reportedly said. Then, said Hoffenberg, while making it appear as though they were investing the bonds in much safer financial instrum