{"id":49861,"date":"2021-01-26T18:05:42","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=49861"},"modified":"2021-01-26T18:05:42","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T22:05:42","slug":"why-did-jeffrey-epstein-receive-upwards-of-200-million-from-billionaire-these-movers-and-shakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=49861","title":{"rendered":"Why did Jeffrey Epstein receive upwards of $200 million from billionaire these movers and shakers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Revealed: Jeffrey Epstein Received At Least $200 Million From Billionaires Les Wexner And Leon Black<\/h1>\n<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-26-at-5.03.29-PM-300x172.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"172\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-49862\" srcset=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-26-at-5.03.29-PM-300x172.png 300w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-26-at-5.03.29-PM-768x439.png 768w, http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Screen-Shot-2021-01-26-at-5.03.29-PM.png 808w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>by Chris Menahan | Information Liberation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jeffrey Epstein received $158 million from billionaire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leon_Black\">Leon Black<\/a>\u00a0and $46 million at a bare minimum from billionaire\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Wexner\">Les Wexner<\/a>, according to the latest numbers.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1353822745923104768&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fposts%2Frevealed-jeffrey-epstein-received-at-least-200-million-from-billionaires-les-wexner-and-leon-black%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1353822745923104768\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-1\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-1&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1353823722226987010&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fposts%2Frevealed-jeffrey-epstein-received-at-least-200-million-from-billionaires-les-wexner-and-leon-black%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1353823722226987010\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>From\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/w2dKk\">New York Times, \u201cApollo C.E.O. to Step Down After Firm Finds More Payments to Jeffrey Epstein\u201d<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p>The founders of Apollo Global Management, one of the world\u2019s biggest private equity firms, engaged in a brief power struggle this weekend over control of the firm, a rift that opened up after an inquiry revealed that one founder \u2014 Apollo\u2019s chief executive and chairman, Leon Black \u2014 had paid more than $150 million to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, Mr. Black announced his plan to step down as chief executive this year. \u201cI have advised the Apollo board that I will retire as C.E.O. on or before my 70th birthday in July and remain as chairman,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The review \u2014 ordered by the firm\u2019s board at Mr. Black\u2019s behest in October, after The New York Times detailed at least $75 million in payments \u2014 found that Mr. Black had paid Mr. Epstein $158 million in a five-year period ending in 2017. He had also lent Mr. Epstein more than $30 million, only $10 million of which was paid back, the report found.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Black\u2019s payments effectively bankrolled the lifestyle of Mr. Epstein \u2014 whom Mr. Black viewed as a \u201cconfirmed bachelor with eclectic tastes,\u201d according to the report \u2014 in the years after his 2008 guilty plea in Florida to a prostitution charge involving a teenage girl.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"ifw-player expanded\" data-video-id=\"600f19a2b7a24c0abfd71fb6\">\n<div><iframe src=\"https:\/\/api.banned.video\/embed\/600f19a2b7a24c0abfd71fb6\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>As arrogant and jaded as the left\u2019s premiere conspiracy theorist is. Joy Reid haphazardly brings up a major issue that has been pushed into the background due to the paralysis of the state of American culture. Proving that we no longer live in a free country where any topic is fair game for criticism protected by our First Amendment. But even more dangerous is that Reid\u2019s arrogant claims are marinated in the progressive opinion that American culture is split in half.This growing schism celebrated by the pundits of neo liberal social influence is a cancerous phenomenon that intends to accelerate the balkanization of America.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Les Wexner admitted in January 2020 that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/billionaire-businessman-leslie-wexner-refuses-reveal-full-scope\/story?id=68461262\">Epstein got well over $46 million from him<\/a>\u00a0(Wexner, after being exposed as Epstein\u2019s money man, released a ridiculous story claiming Epstein \u201cmisappropriated vast sums\u201d of his money and said $46 million that Epstein donated to Wexner\u2019s wife\u2019s foundation represented only a \u201cportion\u201d of the funds he took).<\/p>\n<p>Wexner also appears to have given Epstein tens of millions worth of property and let him use his properties for free.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-2\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-2&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1350036653344251904&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fposts%2Frevealed-jeffrey-epstein-received-at-least-200-million-from-billionaires-les-wexner-and-leon-black%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1350036653344251904\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Epstein\u2019s estate is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/12\/08\/business\/jeffrey-epstein-victims-fund.html\">reportedly $600 million<\/a>\u00a0and Wexner and Black appear to be his biggest sources of funding.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=60482\">Epstein entered into a \u201cpartnership worth millions\u201d in 2015 with Ehud Barak,<\/a>\u00a0the former Prime Minister of Israel and the head of Israeli Military Intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>Barak also reportedly regularly visited Epstein\u2019s other apartment building in New York\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=60579\">(which was majority owned by Epstein\u2019s mysterious brother Mark who bought the apartments off Les Wexner)<\/a>\u00a0where underage girls say they were trafficked.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"twitter-tweet twitter-tweet-rendered\"><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-3\" class=\"\" title=\"Twitter Tweet\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/index.html?dnt=true&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-3&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1151189676763406336&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.infowars.com%2Fposts%2Frevealed-jeffrey-epstein-received-at-least-200-million-from-billionaires-les-wexner-and-leon-black%2F&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=ed20a2b%3A1601588405575&amp;width=500px\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-tweet-id=\"1151189676763406336\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Both Wexner and Black are known for their commitment to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wexnerfoundation.org\/\">pro-Israel<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jewishlives.org\/leonblack\">Jewish causes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Epstein\u2019s alleged madam\/handler, Ghislaine Maxwell, is the daughter of alleged Mossad agent Robert Maxwell, who has been\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2JnNYyd\">dubbed \u201cIsrael\u2019s Superspy.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Former Israeli spy Ari Ben-Menashe\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=60987\">claimed in late 2019 that Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell were \u201cIsraeli spies\u201d who blackmailed politicians through \u201choney trap\u201d operations with underage girls<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Vanity Fair reported in July 2019\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.informationliberation.com\/?id=60510\">that \u201cprominent Republicans\u201d think Epstein \u201cwas a Mossad agent.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/posts\/revealed-jeffrey-epstein-received-at-least-200-million-from-billionaires-les-wexner-and-leon-black\/\">https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/posts\/revealed-jeffrey-epstein-received-at-least-200-million-from-billionaires-les-wexner-and-leon-black\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Revealed: Jeffrey Epstein Received At Least $200 Million From Billionaires Les Wexner And Leon 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