t’s also why he was working with Israeli intelligence and Ben-Meneshe in the 1980s, and why he connected Jeffrey Epstein to the country.
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According to Julian Leese, Jeffrey Epstein had come to England in 1981. Julian Leese is the son of the late Douglas Leese, an intensely private British businessman, and in late 2020, he gave his one media interview to podcast Defiance[3], which was investigating the Ghislaine Maxwell story. In that interview Leese said that
“Arms dealing was a very big part of Sir [sic—Leese was never knighted] Douglas Leese’s business,” said Hoffenberg, as well as “money laundering. Jeffrey Epstein did substantial money laundering and arms dealing, that is not regulated the same way in America. The American rules are very much more conservative than the various countries in the Middle East and in Asia.”
In 1980, Epstein, was in a relationship with Paula Heil Fisher. They met Nick Leese, at a birthday party for a Texas oil man and made arrangements to meet again at some future date when they would be in London.
In 1981 Epstein was found guilty of insider trading, in violation of the rules of the “Securities and Exchange Commission.” and lost all his trading licenses. His employer, “Bear Sterns” terminated his employment and he relocated to England.
Epstein’s first contact soon after arrival was Nick Leese, who invited him to a family gathering during which he impressed all present as a youngish, 27 years old, highly intelligent, fun type of person.
Nick’s father, Douglas Leese, had built a rack-and-pinion steering business he had inherited from his father into a large and successful enterprise, one that was eventually sold to Americans.
Epstein soon became a close family friend and together with Douglas established a business relationships which included arm’s dealing and money laundering with counties in the middle East and Asia.
Leese and Epstein had a bust-up and split, when Leese discovered that Epstein was booking flights on “Concorde” and rooms in five-star hotels on Leese’s account. But Leese retained a grudging admiration for Epstein.
Leese introduced Epstein to Steven Hoffenberg in London, and told him that Epstein was “a genius and great at selling securities and he had no moral compass.”
Impressed, Hoffenberg hired Epstein to work for his debt collection firm Towers Financial in 1987.
Towers Financial was discovered to be a Ponzi scheme in 1993—one that Hoffenberg claimed Epstein ran, and had defrauded him of more than $100 million. Epstein, denied the allegation and cooperated with investigators. Then walked free.
Hoffenberg pleaded guilty to scamming investors out of $475 million and was sentenced to 20 years in prison (18 of which he served), plus a $1 million fine and payment of $463 million in restitution.
It was Hoffenberg who added to the story, stating that: “Jeffrey Epstein presented himself to Ghislaine Maxwell and Robert Maxwell jointly as a Wall Street investment banker, financial expert that could advise Robert Maxwell and Ghislaine Maxwell in the problems they were having on Wall Street and in financing stress.” The Maxwells needed a $50 million bridge loan and Epstein helped them secure it. Greatly impressed, Maxwell recruited Epstein to work for him. Ghislaine Maxwell took a shine to Epstein, they became an item and with her father’s blessing started to dabble in blackmail. Ben-Menashe, Robert Maxwell’s Israeli espionage “handler” explained:
“They used to compromise people in different ways, especially embarrassing them or catching them in sexual misbehaviour with underage girls. He went on to say that Epstein, “started working with the Israelis, bringing them information about the people he was meeting and so on and so forth, and then he made them an offer. He said, “We can do this permanently, Ghislaine adds value since she fully supports me and I cannot not work alone.”
Ghislaine Maxwell- What made her a honeypotter?
Growing up under an abusive, controlling, multimillionaire patriarch is dangerous enough, but Ghislaine was newspaper tycoon Robert Maxwell’s favourite, the youngest of nine, who regularly witnessed her father attacking and humiliating one sibling or another at dinner, while not being subjected to that treatment herself. Even worse than suffering through a toxic environment, young Ghislaine flourished in one, experiencing it as a place in which she was loved.
Then, in the latter part of her youth, she was part of an Oxford University clique full of people with rich families behind them and personal fortunes soon to follow. That’s always likely to create a selfish, entitled individual, but as the daughter of a refugee immigrant – and a boorish, vulgar one at that – Maxwell was always overcompensating for never quite being one of the establishment gang. Her brand of pampered arrogance had an undercurrent of desperation, we hear.
In her giddy 20s, Maxwell combined nepotistically awarded jobs in journalism with her main occupation, being a “socialite” – that is, someone who throws parties without having anything to celebrate but the party itself. Overbearing confidence and aggressive attention-seeking are core qualities of anyone fulfilling that role, and some of the stories related here about Maxwell’s time as a queen bee in yuppie late-80s London are eccentric or awful, while still being relatively unremarkable – rudely dismissing a woman at a party before marching off with her husband, for instance, or hosting an event wearing just a bra and pants, teamed with full jewellery and makeup.
If there is a wider lesson to be learned, it’s about how the empty, untethered lives of the very rich create a breeding ground for sociopaths, but other anecdotes about Maxwell’s behaviour offer a direct foreshadowing of her future as a handmaiden for extreme misogyny. One appalled witness recalls a party game in which male guests were blindfolded, presented with a series of topless female guests, and challenged to match the breasts they were groping to their owners: “If a man suggested it, I don’t think the women would have done it.”
There are some nuggets of gossip that don’t help with the specific task at hand, but which only a supremely restrained documentarist would leave out, such as Maxwell apparently claiming she maintained the svelte physique deemed essential for a host on the social circuit by following “the Nazi diet” – that is, aping the very low-calorie intake of concentration-camp inmates. The joke would be transgressive in any circumstances but, coming from someone with a father who lost his parents, four siblings and scores of extended family members in the Holocaust, it acquires a different flavour.
Whatever your take on that, there is a long leap to be made from Maxwell’s life as a doyenne of high society, albeit an obnoxious and occasionally disturbing one, to her becoming the monster of the title, a procurer of girls for a paedophile rapist. What is clear is that Maxwell’s life pivots around the night in November 1991 when her father fell off the side of his superyacht – the Lady Ghislaine – and drowned. At this point she based herself in New York and quickly became Jeffrey Epstein’s lover, partner, best pal, consigliere or some combination of all four, replacing the malign patronage of her father with another wealthy, powerful, poisonous man.
John Kiriakou, an ex-CIA agent outlined the artistry of the “honeypot” spy craft.
He explained, “What any intelligence officer wants to do, needs to do to get promoted, to make a name for himself or herself is to recruit spies to steal secrets. The job really is as basic as that. Your job is to recruit spies to steal secrets. And one of the oldest tricks in the intelligence book is the use of what are called honeypots. What 50 or 60- or 70-year-old man doesn’t want to have a beautiful blonde on his arm, right? And usually, men who are powerful and wealthy are willing to pay for it.”
He also noted that the spy agencies like to work with families. Robert Maxwell’s daughter would have been of value because Maxwell had been of value in passing on information to Israel (and Britain and the Soviet Union), as part of her DNA.
“When I look at Ghislaine Maxwell, my immediate thought is, ‘What a terrific natural operations officer’” Kiriakou said. “She was a social butterfly, she liked the parties, she liked being out there with people. She was an extrovert. She’s good looking. She had plenty of money. People want to be around her. If I were a case officer looking for someone to introduce me to a target, I would want Ghislaine Maxwell. Can you imagine how great it would be if you were an operations officer to go up to Ghislaine Maxwell and say, ‘Hey, can you introduce me to the Iranian ambassador?’”
Epstein and Maxwell fully engaged in their blackmail business once Maxwell had set up in New York City, which she officially did after the death of her father. But Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein were together in London in the mid-to-late 1980s, and ex-CIA agent John Kiriakou believes that Epstein was helping Maxwell hide his money—money that would eventually land back in his lap with Ghislaine.
“One of the things that people aren’t talking about is Ghislaine Maxwell’s father’s money,” said Kiriakou. “He had his own criminal past. It involved vast sums of money. He’s been accused of all different kinds of financial crimes over the years, and I can’t help but to think that he helped her hide her money, she helped him hide his money. Epstein helped him hide his money, and vice-versa. Can you imagine how complicated this is? Can you imagine the details involved in hiding these vast sums of money?”
And in order to understand just how much money could have been “hidden” we need to go back to March 1991, when Robert Maxwell was the toast of New York City, for buying and saving the city’s iconic paper, the Daily News. His daughter Ghislaine was in the city as well, working with her father on his latest media baron venture. And during that time, she was laying the foundation for her work as a sex trafficker and blackmailer with Jeffrey Epstein.
1990: Epstein took ownership of the Palm Beach mansion and smaller house nearby, from Laurel Inc, a company based in Tampere, Finland.
The Finnish connection was arranged by Robert Maxwell who introduced Epstein to the ultra-Zionist and gangster friendly, Finnish-British, Zabludowich (J) family who had worked with him from the 1940s smuggling mortars ad other munitions from Tampere, to Jewish terrorist groups in Palestine.
Shlomo Zabludowich later formed a joint arms manufacturing venture between Tampella and Israel.
For over half a century Shlomo, the patriarch of the Zabludowich family, and his son Poju have been members of a close-knit group of ultra-Zionist billionaires who maintained close links to the Kosher Nostra.
Son Poju, emerged unscathed from many self created difficulties, including allegations of sexual harassment, questionable sex parties and the Panama papers scandal. He was also suspected of bribing the Prime Minister of Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu. The Times of Israel called it the ”gifts affair.”
Poju was the largest landowner in Las Vegas and owned other properties in the US. He resides in London. He is a significant financial donor to the Conservative Party and enjoys friendships with many senior government ministers, in particular David Cameron, one of the UK’s sleaziest P.M . : Full history of Cameron and his links to the money laundering, HSBC.
His co-investor partner also exposed in the Panama Papers revelations was Scot Young, born in a tenement in Dundee, mixed with local thugs then moved on to serious crime. He and his team hooked up with a Russian Oligarth and ripped off the Russian Mafia the , “Moscow scam”. Was found impaled on railings outside his London flat in 2014. An inquest on his death found insufficient evidence of suicide, and his family suspected he had been murdered. Full expose here:
Lord Andrew Hay of the elite real estate broker Knight Frank wrote letters of recommendation describing Young as “the most important single private client the firm has within the UK”.
Emails reveal he and Berezovsky were invited to a “boys’ dinner” in London with Bill Clinton, by the Finnish billionaire and major Tory donor Poju Zabludowicz. Young was also a friend of retail billionaire Sir Philip Green, the Ivy group owner Richard Caring, and the reality TV mogul Simon Cowell.
Poju himself long enjoyed a lifestyle to which Epstein himself aspired and the Florida properties he off loaded provided the means that allowed Epstein to entertain important people and couple them with young girls provided by ?
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