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Filthy Rich

a Powerful Billionaire, the Sex Scandal That Undid Him, and All the Justice That Money Can Buy : the Shocking True Story of Jeffrey Epstein
Nov 16, 2016jimg2000 rated this title 3.5 out of 5 stars
A shocking sordid tale about the sex crimes in the life of a modern-day Great Gatsby, his powerful friends and associates or partners in crime. This true crime novel succeeded to address the questions posed by the authors: Why it had taken so long for the Palm Beach police to catch up with Epstein. And, once they did, why he had served so little jail time. Those were the obvious questions, but there were others: How had Epstein made his money, possibly billions? No one seemed to know. There are plenty of material in the web on this case, see "Summary" for a couple of sources. Rotten capitalists from Our Kind of Traitor in John le Carré's 2010 spy novel: And all the dirty money that's sloshing around, the profits of heartache and pain, we've seen that, too. Heroin in Afghanistan, billions. Arms in the Sudan, billions. Female trafficking, billions. An eighth of the world's fxcking economy black as black. We all know that. Blood money. That's all it is. It can be in a box under a drug lord's bed or in a city bank next to the vintage port. It doesn't change colour. It's still blood money.