James PATTERSON
acht, and a Long Island mansion
bought his own jet, a luxury y briefly
to go with his expensive Manhattan apartment. He'd also owned a controlling interest in the New York Post.
To cover his tracks, Hoffenberg had been taking money from previous investors. It was a classic history —and Hoffenberg
federal prison. the case? All that Hoffen-
investors and using it to pay
Ponzi scheme — one of the biggest in
ended up spending nineteen years ina
Why was Epstein not implicated in berg will say when asked is: “Ask Robert Gold.”
Another source suggests that Gold, the former federal prose-
ad helped Epstein recover Ana Obregon’s money,
cutor who h tein until there were only a
kept the US attorney away from Eps few weeks left before the statute of limitations ran out.
As for Epstein himself, he would always deny any wrong- doing. Despite his proximity to Hoffenberg, he managed to avoid
the blast radius.
> si Robert Meister: 1985
q obert Meister, the vic« kerage and consulting
in the mid-eighties,
Palm Beach. Both men were F the other looked familiar. Th _ and Meister filed the conver: q At that time, Les Wexner, w q of Meister’s insurance comp _ the people managing his mo q Wexner was a billionaire sere in a tangle. Maybe Epst Y ould also be grateful for the peere’s evidence to suggest th Pe last Bear Stearns bonus— overed for Ana Obregon—
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