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<\/a><\/p>\nGhislaine Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0was more than the alleged protector and procurer of young girls for Jeffrey Epstein as well as his girlfriend based upon allegations. However, she is also the daughter of\u00a0Robert Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0who I believe was a member of\u00a0\u201cThe Club.\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0Interestingly,\u00a0Maxwell\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0protege was also\u00a0William Browder<\/strong>\u00a0who loves to run around claiming he is the number one enemy of\u00a0Putin.<\/strong>\u00a0While the prosecutor wants to charge\u00a0Ghislaine\u00a0<\/strong>with conspiracy, nobody knows where she is. That alone in today\u2019s world seems unbelievable. Use a credit card or turn on your phone and they have you. You need cash and a burner phone just to start. Then you need fake passports for you to book a ticket in your name and they will be there when you land waiting with open arms.<\/p>\n Epstein<\/strong>\u00a0grew up in Brooklyn with no money to speak of and never finished college. She is Paris-born, Oxford-educated, a jet-setter who partied with princes and billionaires. They are reporting that\u00a0Jeffrey Epstine<\/strong>\u00a0hung himself with his bedsheet in isolation when guards were supposed to check on him every 30 minutes. The\u00a0Los Angeles Times<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0attributed any doubt to just conspiracy theories. But nobody asks the question: Why was\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>\u00a0in the hole?<\/p>\n You are thrown in that dungeon supposedly for disciplinary reasons.\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>\u00a0at best should have been there for a few days assuming there was no bed space in population. To be in isolation is rare since they need every bed in MCC and they will often send people to Brooklyn\u2019s MCC when they need more space.\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>\u00a0had been in prison before so it would be no dramatic shock. To be thrown in the hole from day-one is typically on the phone call from the prosecutor. The MCC is controlled by the prosecutors when that is supposed to be illegal. But nobody will ever investigate that one. Having him in isolation without another cellmate allows for anything to happen without a witness. Who ordered to put Epstein in solitary confinement?<\/p>\n The fascinating connection her is\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0is the daughter of\u00a0Robert Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0who I believe was a member of\u00a0\u201cThe Club\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0deeply involved with\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0and had dealings also with\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>. You got it. The official report issued by Britain\u2019s\u00a0Department of Trade and Industry<\/strong>said investment bank\u00a0Goldman Sachs Group,<\/strong>\u00a0Inc\u00a0had\u00a0\u201csubstantial responsibility\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0for allowing Mr.\u00a0Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0to manipulate the stock market prior to the collapse of his businesses reported the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0back in April 2001.<\/p>\n JPMorgan Chase<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Deutsche Bank<\/strong>, which did business with Mr.\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>, are scouring their books for clues. There also runs a conspiracy theory numbering the\u00a0deaths of people<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0associated with\u00a0JPMorgan Chase<\/strong>, not just the\u00a0Clintons.<\/strong>\u00a0Questions still surround billionaire\u00a0Les Wexner<\/strong>, the financier\u2019s most prominent client prior to his first incarceration. Exactly how Mr.\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>\u00a0used\u00a0Mr. Wexner\u2019s<\/strong>wealth to finance his own fortune is not clear. In August 2019, following\u00a0Epstein\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0second incarceration,\u00a0Wexner<\/strong>\u00a0addressed the\u00a0Wexner Foundation<\/strong>\u00a0by letter, delivering a detailed account of his dealings with\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>, stating that the former financial advisor had\u00a0\u201cmisappropriated vast sums of money\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0from Wexner and from his family.\u00a0Wexner<\/strong>\u00a0retained services of criminal defense attorney\u00a0Mary Jo White<\/strong>\u00a0of Debevoise & Plimpton, who used to be the head prosecutor in Southern District of New York. Why does he need a criminal lawyer who was the head of the New York prosecutors?<\/p>\n Then there is the infamous\u00a0Epstein\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0so-called\u00a0\u201clittle black book,\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0<\/a>of 92 pages with names, emails, and phone numbers of people\u00a0Epstein<\/strong>\u00a0knew or wanted to know, but in any event, had detailed information about.\u00a0 The list goes on and on includes top people from the entire financial spectrum down the food chain from\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0to just low-level billionaires (under $2 bil).<\/p>\n Aside from the fact that they could\u00a0NEVER<\/strong>\u00a0allow\u00a0Epstine<\/strong>\u00a0to be put on trial with all the connections he had, there is something else beyond the sex scandal. I have explained that there is what I have called\u00a0\u201cThe Club\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0where a number of players ban together informally to manipulate a particular market. One member will typically take the lead and take the publicity if need be. There were some hedge fund players but mostly bankers and a few big punters.<\/p>\n I also believe one of those in\u00a0\u201cThe Club\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0was\u00a0Robert Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0(1923-1991), the flamboyant billionaire British publisher, who allegedly\u00a0drowned<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0after falling off his yacht in the Canary Islands near the northwest coast of Africa. Maxwell\u2019s\u00a0last words<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in communication were on November 5, 1991.<\/p>\n Robert Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0is\u00a0Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0father. The scandal unfolding was the manipulation of the US Treasury auctions back then. Note the date for the\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0scandal manipulating the U.S. Treasury Auctions broke August 18, 1991. It was this event that I believe changed the direction of\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>. After that scandal where the government was going to shut down\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>who was the biggest bond dealer in the USA for manipulating markets, all of a sudden, people from\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0started taking posts in government.<\/p>\n Robert Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0began his career as an attorney at the firm of\u00a0Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton<\/strong>\u00a0in New York City which represents many banks in NYC. He joined\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0in 1966 as an associate in the risk arbitrage department and became a general partner in 1971.\u00a0Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0then joined the management committee in 1980 along with\u00a0Jon Corzine<\/strong>\u00a0of MF Global fame.\u00a0Robert Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0then became Vice Chairman and Co-Chief Operating Officer from 1987 to 1990.\u00a0Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0then served as Co-Chairman and Co-Senior Partner along with Stephen Friedman from 1990 to 1992.<\/p>\n This trading atmosphere of\u00a0\u201cbig swinging dicks\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0had not learned its lesson from the 1987 Crash. This was the culture instilled by PhiBro from the commodity side of the world. Trader\u00a0Paul Mozer,<\/strong>\u00a0who had a 12-year career at the firm coming from\u00a0Morgan Stanley<\/strong>, allegedly submitted illegal bids for U.S. treasury securities in August of 1990, attempting to corner the market by purchasing more than the 35% share allowed per individual transaction. Yet, what he eventually plead guilty to was based on only two transactions in the five-year notes on\u00a0February 21, 1991<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0for $6 billion, which was $2 billion more than the bank was allowed to buy. The plea did not match the events.<\/p>\n Other\u00a0Salomon<\/strong>\u00a0employees would later tell the\u00a0NY Times<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0they were shocked:\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cThis was not driven by personal gain, if this is true. There\u2019s a game here. And it was a desire to win the game.\u201d<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Shortly before the\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0scandal erupted,\u00a0Paul W. Mozer<\/strong>\u00a0must have been aware that the Treasury knew about the trade and there would be ramifications. Before the announcement by\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0on August 9th, 1991,\u00a0Mozer<\/strong>\u00a0then sold about $1.7 million worth of\u00a0Salomon<\/strong>\u00a0stock, which was about 46,000 shares, confirmed by the firm. The government froze the funds for it smelled like insider trading in the real sense.<\/p>\n Within less than two years from the\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0manipulation,\u00a0Robert Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0took a position in the Clinton Administration. I believe following the\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0scandal,\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0began to make large political donations. From January 25, 1993, to January 10, 1995,\u00a0Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0served in the White House as Assistant to the President for Economic Policy. In that capacity, he directed the National Economic Council, which Bill Clinton created after winning the presidency.\u00a0Robert Rubin<\/strong>\u00a0then became the 70th United States Secretary of the Treasury on January 11, 1995, until he managed to get\u00a0Glass Stegall<\/strong>\u00a0repealed. He left the Treasury on July 2, 1999. He was of course followed by\u00a0Hank Paulson<\/strong>\u00a0from\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>\u00a0taking the post also of Secretary of the Treasury.<\/p>\n There was the\u00a0\u00a0Robert Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0(1923\u20131991) scandal that he had stolen hundreds of millions of pounds from his own companies\u2019 pension funds to save the companies from bankruptcy. However, behind the scenes, there may have been trading losses with\u00a0\u201cThe Club\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0and again if there had been a trial concerning the missing $700 million+, then all other parties are exposed. A swim in the Atlantic would certainly prevent that from happening.<\/p>\n Maxwell\u2019s investment bankers included\u00a0Salomon Brothers,\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>confirmed by the NY Times. Eventually, the pension funds were replenished with monies from investment banks\u00a0Shearson Lehman<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0Goldman Sachs<\/strong>, as well as the\u00a0British government<\/strong>. There were complaints before Maxwell died about dealings between his other public company,\u00a0Maxwell Communications Corp<\/strong>, and Wall Street bankers\u00a0Goldman Sachs\u00a0<\/strong>according to\u00a0The Guardian<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n It was 1991 when\u00a0William Browder<\/strong>\u00a0went to work for British billionaire\u00a0Robert Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0as his \u201cinvestment manager\u201d.\u00a0The BBC called Maxwell\u00a0\u201cthe biggest fraud in British history\u201d<\/strong>. Just how deep into the investment decisions of Maxwell did Browder participate as an investment manager. Interestingly, after\u00a0Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0died,\u00a0Bill Browder<\/strong>\u00a0went to work for the notorious\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>. Browder was put in charge of the\u00a0Russian proprietary investments desk at\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Salomon Brothers\u2019<\/strong>\u00a0historical dependence on proprietary trading and the type of atmosphere of\u00a0\u201cbig swinging dicks\u201d<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0had on bond arbitrage which almost destroyed the firm, thanks to\u00a0Warren Buffett<\/strong><\/a>who stepped in to run the firm and himself getting involved in the silver manipulation (see\u00a0Bonfire of the Vanities<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0movie). If\u00a0Salomon<\/strong>\u00a0had not been sold in 1997 with the merger of\u00a0Travelers Group<\/strong>\u00a0(which owned retail brokerage, Smith Barney), no doubt\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0would have collapsed in the 1998\u00a0Long-Term Capital Management<\/strong>\u00a0debacle created by one of their own \u2013\u00a0John Meriwether<\/strong>.<\/p>\n I believe\u00a0Safra<\/strong>\u00a0lost $1 billion in Russia during the 1998\u00a0Long-Term Capital Management<\/strong>\u00a0crisis over Russian bonds and investments which was why he put his bank,\u00a0Republic National Bank<\/strong>, up for sale to\u00a0HSBC<\/strong>\u00a0in 1999. Following the Russian financial crisis of 1998,\u00a0Browder<\/strong>\u00a0remained committed to\u00a0Hermitage\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0original mission of investing in Russia, despite significant outflows from the fund.\u00a0Hermitage<\/strong>\u00a0became a\u00a0prominent shareholder<\/b>\u00a0in the Russian oil and gas. It was in 1999 when\u00a0VSMPO-AVISMA<\/strong>\u00a0Corporation (Russian: \u0412\u0421\u041c\u041f\u041e-\u0410\u0412\u0418\u0421\u041c\u0410) is the world\u2019s largest titanium producer, filed a RICO lawsuit against\u00a0Browder<\/strong>\u00a0and other\u00a0Avisma<\/strong>\u00a0investors including Kenneth Dart, alleging they illegally siphoned company assets into offshore accounts and then transferred the funds to U.S. accounts at Barclays.\u00a0Browder<\/strong>\u00a0and his co-defendants settled with\u00a0Avisma<\/strong>\u00a0in 2000; they sold their\u00a0Avisma<\/strong>\u00a0shares as part of the confidential settlement agreement.\u00a0VSMPO-AVISMA<\/strong>\u00a0also operated facilities in Ukraine, England, Switzerland, Germany, and the United States. The company produced titanium, aluminum, magnesium and steel alloys and it does a great deal of business with aerospace companies around the world, such as Boeing and Airbus.<\/p>\n In March 2013,\u00a0HSBC<\/strong>, a bank that serves as the trustee and manager of\u00a0Hermitage Capital Management<\/strong>, announced that it would end the fund\u2019s operations in Russia. The decision was taken amid two legal cases against\u00a0Browder<\/strong>: a libel court case in London and a trial in absentia for tax evasion in Moscow.\u00a0In June 2018,\u00a0HSBC<\/strong>\u00a0reached a settlement with the Russian government to pay a \u00a317 million fine to Russian authorities for its part in alleged tax avoidance.<\/p>\n When I met\u00a0Edmund Safra<\/strong>\u00a0in Washington, DC at an IMF dinner he put on, he asked me why I was always fighting the trend. I commented that it was a dangerous club to join. I said I do know how to swim, obviously referring to\u00a0Maxwell. Safra<\/strong>\u00a0just smiled.\u00a0Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0was presumed to have fallen overboard from his luxury yacht off the Canary Islands, and his body was subsequently found floating in the Atlantic Ocean. He was identified only by his family. The Spanish declined to take a dental impression and his fingerprints on file in London were too old. This prompted speculation that he was still alive, but that did not seem plausible.\u00a0Maxwell<\/strong>\u00a0was buried on the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem with great official participation. His cause of death was declared to be an accidental drowning.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Mozer\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a0supervisor,\u00a0John Meriwether\u00a0<\/strong>who later became a founder and a consultant for\u00a0Long-Term Capital Management<\/strong><\/a>, a hedge fund which collapsed in 1998 forcing the Federal reserve to then bail out a hedge fund. Fed bailout of his hedge fund which had a position of nearly $100 billion.\u00a0Meriwether<\/strong>, at the time in\u00a0Salomon<\/strong>, claimed to have chastised\u00a0Mozer<\/strong>\u00a0for the manipulation when it came to his attention, but he did not fire\u00a0Mozer<\/strong>\u00a0raising serious questions about the trading culture overall inside\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>William Browder<\/strong>\u00a0left\u00a0Salomon Brothers<\/strong>\u00a0and joined with\u00a0Edmond Safra<\/strong>\u00a0(1932\u20131999) founding\u00a0Hermitage Capital Management<\/strong>\u00a0in 1996 for the purpose of investing initial seed capital of $25 million in Russia during the period of the mass privatization after the fall of the Soviet Union.\u00a0Beny Steinmetz,<\/strong>\u00a0who is an Israeli businessman, with investments in diamond and precious metals mining among other things, was allegedly another of the original investors in\u00a0Hermitage Capital Management<\/strong>. This was the firm\u00a0Safra<\/strong>\u00a0through\u00a0Dov Schlein<\/strong>\u00a0solicited me to invest $10 billion.<\/p>\n