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Jeffrey Epstein Reportedly Invested $40 Million in a Company Co-Founded by Peter Thiel (gizmodo.com)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by pelespirit@sh.itjust.works to c/politics@sh.itjust.works

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The New York Times reported on Wednesday that in 2015 and 2016, not long before his death, Epstein invested a substantial sum into a company that Thiel had co-founded. Valar Ventures, a venture capital firm that (like many of Thiel’s other companies) is named after a creature from J.R.R. Tolkein’s mythos, received $40 million from Epstein, according to the report.

The sum that Epstein invested is now reportedly worth close to $170 million, based on a confidential financial analysis from Epstein’s estate and a statement from a Valar spokesman viewed by the New York Times. Epstein’s estate is benefiting from the investment, the Times report states.

Note: Why is this in Politics? Because Thiel is some of the money behind most of the insane Republican policies.

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[–] ToadOfHypnosis@lemm.ee 8 points 1 week ago

All those pedo-billionaire broligarches are connected in shady shit on the DL.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

The dark lord of Silicon Valley