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I wrote a longer comment elsewhere, but while the facts this article presents are in themselves correct, the conclusions the authors have reached, I think, are not. There are a number of glaring omissions that, to me, add up to trying to erase the very likely blackmail Epstein was conducting all along.
Or, to put it another way, I think the NYT represents NYC's many billionaires very well, a non-zero number of whom were directly engaged in this behavior with Epstein and/or helped him to keep his lifestyle and social standing intact, not just before his 2008 conviction in Florida but well after.
Frankly, I think people like Leon Black and Les Wexner and all these other Epstein "theft, but only theft" victims are shaking in their sordid little boots right now because it was NEVER just theft or they'd have brought charges and/or sued, and that's what NYT wants the public to forget about. I think that's why this article was written the way it was, excluding not just the extreme audio/visual evidence from Epstein's mansion search and his data collection practices in St. Thomas and private islands, but as Blue_Morpho rightly points out in their comment, Epstein's stint at Dalton where he was hired by Donald Barr, another pedo freak.
These very well-heeled New Yorkers form the core of NYT's subscriber base. Something to bear in mind as you read.