king the numbers earned him a place in the special-products division, where he worked on extremely complex tax-related problems for a select group of Bear Stearns’s wealthiest clients—an elite within the elite—including Seagram CEO Edgar Bronfman. In the spring of 1981 Bronfman made a bid to take over the St. Jo

enber | Like so many others without the necessary w ent at the office, he'd als 3 someone who was familia frey Epstein, who had traded options for Bear Stear F st 110 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022079 --- PAGE BREAK --- FittHy RicH Hoffenberg began paying twenty-five thousand dollars per month for Epstein’s exp

in his office. | yerg was a Wall Street outsider. Aq yut, like Epstein. . anted was respect. The other was” th Wall Street’s inner workings. jetg : ar Stearns, fit the bill. { huge. According to Hoffenberg, Epstein handled the attempted take- over of Pan Am—a deal that went sideways almost immediately. :

s and Emery Air Freight. 6. According to the Vanity Fair article, before working with Wexner and Hoffenberg, defendant Jeffrey Epstein worked with Beam Stearns. He left the firm very suddenly in 1981 after being questioned by S.E.C. investigators in an insider trading scandal involving several Italian and

ut Jeffrey Epstein, he is a billionaire and owner of a private island in the Virgin Island (Little St. James Island), and was a financial trader at Bear Steams. He then founded his own financial management firm, J. ..-- EXHIB\1 ~ Case 9:08-cv-80119-KAM Document 165 Entered on FLSD Docket 06/19/2009

wenty-eight years ago, in 1981, and that Epstein was merely questioned because the SEC believed "Epstein had information on insider trading at Bear Sterns." The foregoing assertions in Mr. Cassell's affidavit have absolutely no bearing on Jane Doe's Injunction Motion. Then, Mr. Cassell goes beyond the

to Jane Doe's Injunction Motion Page 7 of24 Italian and Swiss investors. Id. '1[6. This statement is obviously intended to associate Epstein with Bear Sterns, a tarnished financial institution apparently involved in questionable international transactions in the 1980's, to somehow suggest Epstein is frau

declares that in so doing he would incriminate himself; his assertion does not of itself establish the hazard of incrimination. Id. at 684. In Bear Sterns, the Court found that the defendant failed to meet his burden in asserting the privilege against self-incrimination in response to a request for pro

AM Document 81 Entered on FLSD Docket 04/20/2009 Page 4 of 11 potential sources of information and to produce those sources.” Id. at 41. In Bear Sterns, the Court explained that the facts of Hubbell were unique and do not support a blanket, all-encompassing assertion by a witness or party that the

n a phone from the backseat to the front.) In 1976, another Dalton father, asking “wouldn’t you rather be rich than be a teacher?” introduced him to Bear Stern’s chief Ace Greenberg, a conversation Epstein recounts as this: Greenberg: “Everyone tells me you’re super smart in math and you’re Jewish and you’re

be a hypocrite. I wanted to be free. I was not remotely ambivalent about what I wanted: to be free. That was the reason to make money.” His rise at Bear Sterns was a steep one. And he soon became the protégée of Jimmy Cayne (also hired by Ace Greenberg on a whim—he met him in a bridge game—who would go on to

o years. math nt the Dalton School on the Upper East Side. till r's berg. a friend of the father of one of Epstein's students. offered him a iob at Bear Steams. In one ban //vvs,..-uv rve-i retthi c.1 h; I: — 07/26/17 Page 95 of 102 Public Records Request No.: 17-295 Received: 1/13/08 3:14PM; 61/11/

lving a civil business case in Philadelphia. In 1981 the S.E.C.'s Jonathan Harris and Robert Blackburn took Epstein's testimony and that of other Bear Steams employees in part of what became a protracted case about insider trading around a tender offer placed on March II. 1981. by the Seagram Company L

e sport, and within just a few years he had his own stable of clients. "He was not your conventional broker saying 'Buy IBM' or 'Sell Xerox,'" says Bear Steams CEO Jimmy Cayne. "Given his mathematical background, we put him in our special-products division, where he would advise our wealthier clients on th

n a phone from the backseat to the front.) In 1976, another Dalton father, asking “wouldn’t you rather be rich than be a teacher?” introduced him to Bear Stern’s chief Ace Greenberg, a conversation Epstein recounts as this: Greenberg: “Everyone tells me you’re super smart in math and you’re Jewish and you’re

a phone from the backseat to the front.) In 1976, another Dalton father, asking ““wouldn’t you rather be rich than be a teacher?” introduced him to Bear Stern’s chief Ace Greenberg, a conversation Epstein recounts as this: Greenberg: “Everyone tells me you’re super smart in math and you’re Jewish and you’re

chauffer on a phone from the backseat to the front.) Another Dalton father, asking “wouldn’t you rather be rich than be a teacher?” introduced him to Bear Stearn’s chief Ace Greenberg. Hence, Epstein, like many in the late ‘70s, arrived on Wall Street. Ifon one side of Wall Street there were the salesmen (the

tap., The story goes that the father of ohe of Epstein's students:was so impressed with the.man that he put .him fn to:uc_h with a seniorpartner at Bear Stea,rns, the glob~ investment b~1,1k and ,securities firm. CA/Aronberg-000142 FILED: PALM BEACH COUNTY, FL, JOSEPH ABRUZZO, CLERK. 3/27/2023 2:57:43 PM i