The Jeffrey Epstein origin story has always stuck out. Not so much like a sore thumb...more like a glowing clown's nose. A college dropout given a job teaching math at the prestigious (and sex scandal-scarred) Dalton School in Manhattan by Donald Barr, Bill's father? Goes on to manage money for billionaires?
The much more likely story: Mossad agent placed at private school before being set up in "high finance" while he honeypots the rich and influential, all expenses paid by purse holder Les Wexner.
Now, in a new article by Nick Bryant, speculation grows anew based on photographs of Epstein--and someone who appears for all the world to be a young Bill Barr--at camp at Interlochen in 1967. Interlochen is a prep school in northern Michigan.
As CDM speculated five years ago, the powerful connection between Epstein and the Barr family was always suspect.
"His firm, J. Epstein & Co., later renamed Financial Trust Company and moved offshore for tax purposes, is mysterious to say the least. To qualify, clients must have $1 billion in investable assets, a lofty bar even for high finance...For perspective, there are only a handful of billionaires in the world. The total number changes daily with the markets and is disputed over geopolitical lines, but the general consensus is that there are between 1,600 and 2,200 billionaires globally. There were only 95 of them in 1987, when Forbes started to track the statistic, and Epstein started to manage private money five years prior to that. In short, such a high qualification gave Epstein the ability to deny his services to virtually everyone, which is convenient if his firm was merely a front."
And let's not forget what Tucker Carlson exposed in the long, intertwined mutual history between Barr and Epstein.
Read the full Nick Bryant piece here.
