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ht, and a Long Island mansion tan apartment. He'd also briefly le New York Post.

rg had been taking money from vious investors. It was a classic est in history-and Hoffenberg rs in a federal prison.

ited in the case? All that Hoffen- < Robert Gold."

t Gold, the former federal prose- recover Ana Obregon's money, Epstein until there were only a : of limitations ran out.

would always deny any wrong- Hoffenberg, he managed to avoid

CHAPTER 28

Robert Meister: 1985

obert Meister, the vice chairman of a giant insurance bro- R kerage and consulting firm called Aon, met Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-eighties, aboard a flight from New York to Palm Beach. Both men were flying first class. Each one thought the other looked familiar. They talked in the course of that flight, and Meister filed the conversation away, only to recall it in 1989. At that time, Les Wexner, who was Meister's friend and a client of Meister's insurance company, was complaining to him about the people managing his money.

Wexner was a billionaire, but for all his wealth, his finances were in a tangle. Maybe Epstein could help. And perhaps Epstein would also be grateful for the introduction. Hard as it is to believe, there's evidence to suggest that Epstein really had spent the last of his last Bear Stearns bonus-along with his share of the money he'd recovered for Ana Obregón-and was broke, again, at the time.

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