Here’s the problem no one wants to say out loud. Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t make sense as a pure financial story. A math teacher with no real track record “shoots” into Goldman Sachs circles, pivots into ultra-high-net-worth advisory work, and somehow becomes a gatekeeper to billionaires, royals, politicians, and scientists. Yet by most accounts, he wasn’t a market wizard. He wasn’t running a dominant fund. He wasn’t publishing groundbreaking theses. So what was he selling?
Access.
That’s why the intelligence theory persists. When someone rockets from obscurity into elite proximity without visible competence in the alleged field, you ask who benefits from that proximity. Both the Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad operate in gray zones where kompromat, leverage, and cultivation of power networks matter more than P&L statements. An “off-book” relationship wouldn’t appear in a budget line. Is there proof? Not publicly. But the pattern—rapid access, opaque finances, extraordinary protection, and a social circle that reads like a Davos guest list—doesn’t align with a lone financial genius narrative. When a story defies market logic, it usually follows power logic. And power rarely leaves receipts.
could also be that he ain't dead yet...
Every last dime of it should be given to the victims!!!!
Can these victims ever truly be compensated for what they endured? What about the families of those that didn't survive the ritual abuse?
Epstein has paid the ultimate price, if indeed he is deceased.
Can only ask if Zorro Ranch became the new Bunny Ranch? And what is their Brand?
Here’s the problem no one wants to say out loud. Jeffrey Epstein doesn’t make sense as a pure financial story. A math teacher with no real track record “shoots” into Goldman Sachs circles, pivots into ultra-high-net-worth advisory work, and somehow becomes a gatekeeper to billionaires, royals, politicians, and scientists. Yet by most accounts, he wasn’t a market wizard. He wasn’t running a dominant fund. He wasn’t publishing groundbreaking theses. So what was he selling?
Access.
That’s why the intelligence theory persists. When someone rockets from obscurity into elite proximity without visible competence in the alleged field, you ask who benefits from that proximity. Both the Central Intelligence Agency and Mossad operate in gray zones where kompromat, leverage, and cultivation of power networks matter more than P&L statements. An “off-book” relationship wouldn’t appear in a budget line. Is there proof? Not publicly. But the pattern—rapid access, opaque finances, extraordinary protection, and a social circle that reads like a Davos guest list—doesn’t align with a lone financial genius narrative. When a story defies market logic, it usually follows power logic. And power rarely leaves receipts.
Great to finally read something that literally adds up
Kenneth Feinberg was also the man unenviably delegated the task of determining the compensation claims of the victims of 9/11.
I long for the day when this whole sordid drama is well in the past, and buried, once and for all.
Ach, the reality of probate. Finished one last year and find myself Executor again now.
Thanks for laying it out to the uninitiated.
I don’t believe the story will ever be over. That’s a lot of transfer of wealth; that’s a lot of wealth left.