It’s an interesting story that raises a lot of questions.
From what I can tell, nobody’s quite sure how he made his money. That seems to imply that he got it illegally — e.g., by bribing people, or doing nefarious deeds — or that he was on some secret payroll. Eric Weinstein (who honestly strikes me as a bit of a nut) says he might have been an asset for an intelligence agency.
That makes some sense. It would tie together several different threads.
But there’s a lot that needs to be investigated.
It’s odd that his client list been suppressed for so long, and seemingly protected by very powerful people. Why?
There are some serious questions about the circumstances surrounding his death. Although I should note that the famous skeptic Michael Shermer dismisses a lot of those questions and believes Epstein committed suicide.
The Epstein story fits with the increasingly popular view that there’s a cabal of rich and powerful people who run things behind the scenes, live by their own set of rules, and protect one another.
It’s possible that’s all it is. Maybe Epstein is simply a convenient avatar to attach to that story.
I think there’s more to it, but I don’t know how much more.