The Harvard Crimson wrote in 2003 regarding Jeffrey Epstein:
Lindsley Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, former Dean of the Faculty Henry A. Rosovsky and Frankfurter Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz are among Epstein’s bevy of eminent friends that includes princes, presidents and Nobel Prize winners.Epstein is also well acquainted with University President Lawrence H. Summers. The two serve together on the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations, two elite international relations organizations.
Larry Summers informed one U.S. Senator in 2014:
I had a choice. I could be an insider or I could be an outsider. Outsiders can say whatever they want. But people on the inside don’t listen to them. Insiders, however, get lots of access and a chance to push their ideas. People — powerful people — listen to what they have to say. But insiders also understand one unbreakable rule: They don’t criticize other insiders.
Searching the Epstein files for private equity underwriters (PEU) I came across a 2015 e-mail from Anthony Scaramucci to Epstein regarding a club settlement.
Yes, in the good company of PEU insiders.
Searches of the just released Epstein files show:
Apollo Global - 8,259 results
Blackstone Group - 117 results
Carlyle Group - 168 results
KKR - 364 results
Politicians Red & Blue love PEU and their new TechGod brethren. Increasingly, more are one.
And the whole thing smells just rotten to the core, especially as victim's lawyers are:.
contending widespread failures by the DOJ to redact names and identifying information of Epstein’s victims
Update 2-5-26: Semafor reported the PEU connection regarding Paul Weiss (lawyer) and Jeffrey Epstein:
The downfall of the most powerful managing partner at one of the world’s most powerful law firms isn’t really a story about Jeffrey Epstein. Chummy emails with the wealthy sex offender were the proximate cause of Brad Karp losing his seat atop Paul Weiss, but the distal cause is a problem we’ve all got: overexposure to private equity.
Even our sexual predators work for private equity now.
PEUReport noted Epstein's link to private equity legends as well as the difficulty of unwinding Epstein's PEU money and influence trail. I wrote the following in July 2019:
"The other interesting element is PEU ties to serial sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein.
One Wall Street source with direct knowledge of Epstein’s business said one source of Epstein’s income was providing “tax advice and estate planning” to rich clients, like Apollo Global Management founder Leon Black, presumably because Epstein had experience with offshore funds after basing his office in the Virgin Islands. In 2015 Black made a $10 million donation to Epstein’s foundation.
Esptein's case reveals the sordid underbelly of big money-politics. Big PEU names have to be nervous about their Epstein ties, Leon Black, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton (whose presidency saw the rise of many private equity firms)..
Unraveling stories takes time and patience and the Epstein case is monstrous. The PEU boys can spin better than most. For the last twelve years I've tried to unwind some of them."
Unraveling stories takes time and patience and the Epstein case is monstrous. The PEU boys can spin better than most. For the last twelve years I've tried to unwind some of them."
