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TERSON it, and a Long Island mansion an apartment. He'd also briefly e New York Post. ‘g had been taking money from rious investors. It was a classic st in history —and Hoffenberg 's in a federal prison. ted in the case? All that Hoffen- : Robert Gold.” - Gold, the former federal prose- recover Ana Obregon’s money, Epstein until there were only a of limitations ran out. would always deny any wrong: Hoffenberg, he managed to avoid | CHAPTER 28 Robert Meister: 1985 obert Meister, the vice chairman of a giant insurance bro- kerage and consulting firm called Aon, met Jeffrey Epstein in the mid-eighties, aboard a flight from New York to Palm Beach. Both men were flying first class. Each one thought the other looked familiar. They talked in the course of that flight, _ and Meister filed the conversation away, only to recall it in 1989. At that time, Les Wexner, who was Meister’s friend and a client 7 of Meister’s insurance company, was complaining to him about 4 the people managing his money. | Wexner was a billionaire, but for all his wealth, his finances 4 Were in a tangle. Maybe Epstein could help. And perhaps Epstein / would also be grateful for the introduction. Hard as it is to believe, there's evidence to suggest that Epstein really had spent the last of Tislast Bear Stearns bonus—along with his share of the money he’d Tecovered for Ana Obreg6n—and was broke, again, at the time. By 113 a) a HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021971