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As the Epstein Files take center stage again, we have David Enrich from the New York Times,

who wrote a fabulous article regarding Jeffrey Epstein's finances with three other authors from the New York Times that was titled Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons, the Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich.

I was fascinated from the minute of the title. So just give us an overview.

How did Jeffrey Epstein get so rich?

Because we know he didn't come from money.

Yeah, that's right.

He came from a very modest working class background

in Coney Island, Brooklyn.

And really, and his career started off

in this very traditional kind of American rags to Rich's

way. He's a teacher at a prestigious high school in Manhattan. Some of the parents

notice and are impressed by his math skills. And they introduce him to Ace Greenberg, who

is a top executive at the Wall Street firm, Bear Stearns. Greenberg is immediately

impressed with him and offers him a job. And, you know, this should be, and it is, his lucky break.

However, Epstein, in what becomes this lifelong pattern, is not satisfied to merely be rich

and well connected. He needs to take things quite a bit further than that.

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