The Wrath of Con

“Tennenbaum soon became Epstein’s supervisor. ‘He was proving to be quite talented,’ Tennenbaum told us. But in late 1976, he received a disconcerting phone call from the head of Bear Stearns’s personnel department. Employees had belatedly gotten around to checking Epstein’s résumé, which stated that he had received degrees from two California universities. ‘Are you sitting down?’ the H.R. official asked Tennenbaum. ‘Neither school has heard of him.'” People know a lot about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. But how did he become a rich and powerful player in the first place? The NYT (Gift Article) on how a college dropout clawed his way to the pinnacle of American finance and society. Scams, Schemes, Ruthless Cons: The Untold Story of How Jeffrey Epstein Got Rich.