Darryl Cooper
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first heard Jul 2025
last heard 3 Aug
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Guys like Khashoggi and Douglas Leis, who was his mentor, I mean, these are guys who were right in the middle of the most high-profile operations going on at the time.
So how does
How did he get rich?
So one of the people that Vicki Ward interviewed in 2002, none of which made it into her story.
Vicki
At the time she was writing for Vanity Fair, yeah.
She wrote for Rolling Stone later.
And the whole story of the publication of her story on Vanity Fair is a lot of fun, so we'll talk about that later.
One of the people that she interviewed was a guy that Jeffrey Epstein had helped send to jail, a guy named Stephen Hoffenberg, who ran a company called Towers Financial.
It was engaged in a Ponzi scheme.
I think it was a $450 million Ponzi scheme, robbed a lot of people of a lot of money.
Hoffenberg doesn't deny it.
He took responsibility for it at the time, pled guilty, did his time, and he's open about all of it now, calls himself greedy and just all these things.
Well, he gets a call from Douglas Lease and says, hey, I got a guy who can help you out because he knew Lease.
And he puts him in touch with Jeffrey Epstein.
And Epstein, he said, is just the kind of guy that a business like a quote unquote business like the one I'm running, this Ponzi scheme is looking for.
It's a guy who's very intelligent, who knows everything.
a lot about the offshore accounting and things that we need to know about, and he has no moral compass whatsoever, Hoffenberg said.
And this is what he told Ward at the time.
And so some of the other things that he said is he said that what Epstein would do, and he did this to Hoffenberg himself eventually, is the people that they would be moving money around for, they would take some of that for themselves.
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