General Discussion

It was a sex operation leading to tacit or more overt blackmail which led to (among other unearned favors), lucrative contracts with E's hedge fund. Epstein leveraged his recordings and other documentation any way he could for investment management contracts and look-the-other-way favors. He fashioned himself a player and he was for awhile, until he got "played." He was no doubt funneling info to Putin and other interested parties. He was an immoral but relatively clever sleezebag catering to others like him. Immoral is a term that covers pretty much all the folks in control of our government at present. Some are more clever than others - but none are as clever as they fancy themselves.