Steven Hoffenberg was Epstein's former boss and mentor who hired him in 1987 to work at Towers Financial Corporation, which later collapsed as one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history ($475 million fraud).
Hoffenberg appears extensively in the documents, primarily in news articles and email forwards discussing his claim that Epstein was the "architect" of the Towers Financial Ponzi scheme. Multiple mentions reference Vanity Fair's 2003 reporting that identified Hoffenberg as Epstein's "real mentor," and documents from 2016 mention Hoffenberg's lawsuit claiming Epstein masterminded the fraud (later dropped). Several documents contain forwarded emails from Hoffenberg himself, including promotional messages about a book project with James Patterson. Many low-signal mentions appear in mass-forwarded emails and newsletters discussing Epstein's background.

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left the firm were not obviously prosperous ones. His luck didn't seem to change until he met Hoffenberg. nne of Epstein's first assignments for Hof- fenberg was to mastermind doomed bids to take over Pan American World Airways in 1987 and Emery Air Freight Corp. in 1988. Hoffenberg claimed in a 1993 he
Page: Epstein_Part_17_Redacted_p37 →thed 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 Hoffen- berg, 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. He is cur- rently incarcerate
Page: Epstein_Part_17_Redacted_p16 →the stock market, just as the 1987 crash was approach- ing. His story has subsequently changed. When asked if Wexner knew about his con- nection to Hoffenbere. Epstein said that he began working for Wexner in 1989, and that "it was certainly not the same time." Wherever and whenever it was that Ep- stein
Page: Epstein_Part_17_Redacted_p38 →N NEW BOOK TELLING FEDS COVER UP OF BILLIONAIRE JEFF EPSTEIN CHILD RAPES RELEASE DATE OCT 10 2016 STEV EN HOFFENBERG IS ON THE BOOK WRITING TEAM !!!! CE O STEVEN HOFFENBERG / TRUMP SUPER PAC/ GET OUR JOBS BACK INC TO ROGER STONE CHILD RAPE BILLIONAIRE JEFF EPSTEIN NEW TELL ALL JAMES PATTERSON BOOK FE DS COVER UP NO FED A
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031317 →AM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: steven hoffenberg ‹ Date: August 11, 2016 at 9:36:01 AM EDT To: "Players
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031316 →AM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODS WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM <2016.08.16 - Draft Letter to Eric Rayman re Epstein Book re Steven Hoffe....docx><Ex. A - 2016.08.11 -
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031317 →AM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODS WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: steven hoffenberg Date: July 17, 2016 at 3:28:16 PM EDT To: Conchita Sar
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031748 →ING ALL CORRUPT CLINTONS JEFF EPSTEIN RAPES OF CHILD LITTLE GIRLS F B I COVER UP CRIMES NOT ARRESTING JEFF EPSTEIN TO COVER UP FOR BOTH CLINTONS !!!! Steven J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. CEO WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESU
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031748 →RRUPT 2 CLINTONS & THE M ASS RAPIST OF CHILD LITTLE GIRLS JEFF EPSTEIN IN THE TRUMP SUPER PAC T V ADS NOW !!!!! CEO TRUMP SUPER PAC GET OUR JOBS BACK INC STEVEN HOFFENBERG WIN PRESIDENT TRUMP !!!!! Steven J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. CEO WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTOR
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031749 →AIRE JEFF EPSTEIN CHILD RAPES RELEASE DATE OCT 10 2016 STEVEN HOFFENBERG IS ON THE BOOK WRITING TEAM !!!! Date: August 11, 2016 at 9:42:25 AM EDT To: Steven J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. CEO WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESU
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031289 →AM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: steven hoffenberg Date: August 11, 2016 at 9:36:01 AM EDT To: "Players2.
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031289 →N NEW BOOK TELLING FEDS COVER UP OF BILLIONAIRE JEFF EPSTEIN CHILD RAPES RELEASE DATE OCT 10 2016 STEV EN HOFFENBERG IS ON THE BOOK WRITING TEAM !!!! CE O STEVEN HOFFENBERG / TRUMP SUPER PAC/ GET OUR JOBS BACK INC TO ROGER STONE CHILD RAPE BILLIONAIRE JEFF EPSTEIN NEW TELL ALL JAMES PATTERSON BOOK FE DS COVER UP NO FED A
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031290 →s in 1981, his close relationships with Jimmy Cayne, Les Wexner, the chairman of Limited Brands, and above all, the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein's great
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030581 →the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030581 →financial instruments and other assets. 5. According to the Vanity Fair article, defendant Jeffrey Epstein's real mentor was not Leslie Wexner, but Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who was sent to federal prison for twenty years for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in America
ison for twenty years for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. Epstein assisted Hoffenberg with (failed) takeover bids of Pan American World Airways and Emery Air Freight. 6. According to the Vanity Fair article, before working with Wexne
OF BILLIONAIRE JEFF EPSTEIN CHILD RAPES RELEASE DATE OCT 10 2016 STEVEN HOFFENBERG IS ON THE BOOK WRITING Date: August 11, 2016 at 9:42:25 AM EDT To: Steven J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. CEO WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031279 --- PAGE BREAK --
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031279 →ATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031279 --- PAGE BREAK --- CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ. THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: steven hoffenberg Date: August 11, 2016 at 9:36:01 AM EDT To: "Players2.
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031280 →e. No one is accusing him of anything, accept, sometimes, guilt by association. (In addition to Robert Maxwell, who will be accused of fraud, there’s Steven Hoffenberg, briefly a New York high flyer, who went to jail for a Ponzi scheme, for whom Epstein acted as a consultant.) But the characterization persist: if it
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022719 →ell, who will be accused of fraud, there’s Steven Hoffenberg, briefly a New York high flyer, who went to jail
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_022719 →s in 1981, his close relationships with Jimmy Cayne, Les Wexner, the chairman of Limited Brands, and above all, the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein's great
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030462 →the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence
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unearthed 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. He is currently incarcerated in
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017777 →ing a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in London in the 1980s, the latter was the charismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that was supposed to
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017777 →AM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: steven hoffenberg < Date: July 13, 2016 at 6:26:21 AM EDT To: "Gary H. B
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031228 →G STEVEN HOFFENBERG TO TALK WITH THE TOWERS VICTIMS TO EXPLAIN THE VICTIMS SUIT FILING AGAINST JEFF EPSTEIN Date: July 13, 2016 at 4:45:18 AM PDT To: Steven J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. CEO WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESU
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031228 →siness mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after © “pilking inves
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018933 →hat Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20 million loan. The article suggested that one of his business mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after © “pilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest ‘Ponzi schemes in American histo- ry. ;
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018933 →s in 1981, his close relationships with Jimmy Cayne, Les Wexner, the chairman of Limited Brands, and above all, the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence for bilking investors in Towers Financial out of $450 million. The piece alluded to Epstein's great
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030420 →the man who claimed to be his mentor, Steven Jude Hoffenberg, who is currently serving a 20-year-jail sentence
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ing a 20-year sentence for bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history. When Epstein met Hoffenberg in London in the 1980s, the latter was the charismatic, audacious head of the Towers Financial Corporation, a collection agency that was supposed to
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018006 →unearthed 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. He is currently incarcerated in
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018005 →a Ponzi scheme. The 2005 Vanity Fair Article reports on Epstein's business dealings with Steven Hoffenberg during the 1980's and merely notes that Hoffenberg is "currently ... serving a 20-year sentence" for operating a Ponzi scheme. Importantly, despite all the questionable and speculative suggestions a
s is based on inadmissible hearsay newspaper reports, Wikipedia, and the 2005 Vanity Fair Article. Mr. Cassell asserts that Epstein's "real mentor [Steven Hoffenberg] was sent to federal prison for twenty years for bilking investors out of more than $450 million on one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American hi
INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODs WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: Stevenhoftenberg <a > Date: May 19, 2016 at 10:43:26 PM EDT To: as
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026850 →VERY SOON. TOTAL COVERAGE OF THE LAW SUIT WILL BE PICKED UP BY ALL OF THE MEDIA AT T HE FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK CITY. HAVE A NICE DAY MR INDYKE Steven J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026849 --- PAGE BREAK --- CEO WHAM INC THE PUBLIC COMPANY OWNS THE BELOW OPERATIONS TOWERSINVESTORS
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pstein at Bear Stearns. | (i She'd handled Steven Hoffenberg with aplomb. And, working with Vanity Fair's edit
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010494 →pstein’s friends and ex-friends: Nobel Prize-winning gant e ea a i scientists, financiers who worked with Epstein at Bear Stearns. | (i She'd handled Steven Hoffenberg with aplomb. And, working with Vanity Fair's editors, she'd figured out ways to slip even more information between the lines, in ways that would allo
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010494 →en J. Hoffenberg New York Post Publishing INC. CE O TOWERSINVESTORS.COM CEO SEE WWW.POST PUBLISHING.BUZZ THE JESUS CHRIST ON LINE GODS WORD NEWSPAPER MR HOFFENBERG ONLINE NEWSPAPER PUBLICSPEAKINGWALLSTREET.COM Begin forwarded message: From: steven hoffenberg Date: December 24, 2015 at 11:44:20 AM EST To: "Gary H
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ive. No one is accusing him of anything, except sometimes guilt by association. (In addition to Robert Maxwell, who will be accused of fraud, there’s Steven Hoffenberg, briefly a New York high flyer, who went to jail for a Ponzi scheme, for whom Epstein acted as a consultant—along with, he points out, Paul Volcker.)
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that Citibank once sued him for defaulting on a $20 million loan. The article suggested that one of his business mentors and previous employers was Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after “bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American histo- ry. | As h
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Jeffrey Epstein
PersonAmerican sex offender and financier (1953–2019)

Bill Clinton
PersonPresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)

Prince Andrew
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Marc Rich
PersonAmerican commodities trader (1934–2013)

Donald Trump
PersonPresident of the United States (2017–2021, 2025–present)

Ghislaine Maxwell
PersonBritish socialite and sex trafficker, daughter of Robert Maxwell, accomplice of Jeffrey Epstein

Les Wexner
PersonAmerican billionaire, chairman and CEO of the L Brands

Mort Zuckerman
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