https://www.nydailynews.com/new-yor...0201228-wqmo7p4wefeltlultaaddf3gkq-story.html Last man to share jail cell with Jeffrey Epstein died last month of COVID The last man to share a cell with Jeffrey Epstein died last month in a Bronx apartment after catching coronavirus at a jail for cooperating witnesses. Efrain “Stone” Reyes, 51, was found dead in bed on Nov. 27 at his mother’s apartment, the NYPD confirmed. In August 2019 he shared a cell with Epstein, only to be transferred to the privately-run Queens Detention Facility the day before the accused sex trafficker hanged himself, according to his family and Bureau of Prisons records. Jeffrey Epstein in a 2017 photo provided by the New York State Sex Offender Registry. (AP) Reyes’s niece, Angelique Lopez, said Epstein was paired with her uncle because he had a bad leg and was mild mannered. “They took him to my uncle because he had a broken leg. He was disabled. My uncle kept to himself. He was laid back,” Lopez, 27, said. “(Epstein) liked to read a lot and he kept to himself. He wasn’t a problem starter or too loud. My uncle said he was a good cellmate.” Reyes, who pleaded guilty to a narcotics conspiracy involving crack and heroin at Bronx housing projects, saw firsthand that Epstein was trapped between inmates and cruel correctional officers, according to Lopez. “They knew how much money he had. They said let’s push him around and extort him for money. They thought they could get his money,” Lopez said. “(Staff) were treating him like crap. They were making him sleep on the floor. They wouldn’t let him sleep on a cot.” The FBI questioned Reyes about Epstein after the suicide discovered by correctional officers early on Aug. 10, 2019. “He was a little worried about if he told on the security workers at MCC they would somehow lash out at him. He was worried if they told them what they did to Epstein he was worried it would follow him and affect him negatively,” Lopez said. “They were asking how Epstein was when he was in the cell, if he seemed suicidal. They were asking if he had any indication that he would do that. My uncle cooperated.” The Justice Department’s Inspector General is investigating the circumstances surrounding Epstein’s suicide. Reyes caught COVID-19 at the Queens private jail commonly known by the name of its operator, GEO. The News previously reported that the jail, which recently held rapper-turned-cooperator Tekashi69, was overrun with coronavirus early in the pandemic.
Every month they turn over a new trashcan and a wealthy cockroach CEO crawls out who has been paying Jeffrey Epstein hundreds of millions of dollars. Here is this month's story... Billionaire Apollo CEO Leon Black to resign after investigation reveals he paid $158 million to Jeffrey Epstein https://www.businessinsider.com/apo...stigation-158-million-epstein-payments-2021-1 Apollo Global Management CEO Leon Black is resigning following an investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The independent review unearthed $158 million in payments to Epstein and his charity. It also concluded neither Black nor Apollo employees were involved in Epstein's criminal activities. Apollo Global Management Chief Executive Leon Black is stepping down following the results of an independent investigation into his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, the firm said on Monday. The report found larger than previously known payments from Black to the disgraced financier, though it said that the payments were for legitimate financial and tax-planning services. Epstein was arrested in 2019on suspicion of trafficking dozens of underage girls as young as 14 in the early 2000s, beforedying while in federal prison. "Chairman and CEO Leon Black has informed the Board of Directors that he will retire as CEO effective on or before July 31, 2021 consistent with best-in-class governance practices," Apollo said in a statement, adding that co-founder Marc Rowan would take over as CEO, while Black would remain as chairman. Apollo, founded in 1990, is an investment firm that buys and lends to companies. Some of its recent acquisitions include photo retailers Snapfish and Shutterfly, and, throughout the pandemic, it invested in companies like Expedia and Airbnb. The firm manages more than $440 billion in assets and employs more than 1,600 employees, including 500 investment professionals, working from 15 global offices. The review, conducted by the law firm Dechert, found Black had paid $158 million to Epstein from 2012 to 2017 for a "variety of issues related to trust and estate planning, tax, philanthropy, and the operation of the Family Office." Dechert's investigation also found neither Black, nor any employees of Apollo or Black's family office were involved with any of Epstein's criminal activity, and that "there is no evidence that Epstein ever introduced Black, or offered to introduce Black, to any underage woman," though it noted that Black and Epstein continued to communicate until October 2018. Following his death, many wondered how Epstein could have amassed his wealth. Some of his closest friends in the business community included retail magnate Leslie Wexner, Johnson & Johnson heiress Elizabeth Johnson, and hedge-fund billionaire Glenn Dubin. Epstein was listed as the sole director of Black's family foundation for more than a decade, his name appearing on tax filings even after Epstein pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting prostitution from a teenage girl. Apollo later said that his name was included on tax forms in error and that Epstein stepped down as director in 2007. Later, in October 2020, The New York Times reported that Black wired Epstein at least $50 million in the years after Epstein's 2008 conviction. A spokesperson for Black told the publication that Black "received personal trusts and estate planning advice as well as family office philanthropy and investment services from several financial and legal advisors, including Mr. Epstein, during a six year period between 2012 and 2017." Later the same month, Apollo announced that a group of board members, at the request of Black, would review Black's relationship with Epstein, with the law firm Dechert retained to conduct a review and provide a report on the matter. In stepping down from Apollo, Black marks the latest billionaire with Epstein ties to announce his resignation. In January 2020, Dubin stepped back from his hedge fund, Engineers Gate, to invest in private markets, though Dubin told Reuters the decision had nothing to do with his family's ties to Epstein.
If there was a shadowy government involved, (Israel! Same as Maxwell's dad) sorry, clearing my throat there, he will have felt they were working for him.
Ghislaine Maxwell admitted Jeffrey Epstein DID have tapes of Trump and the Clintons after she was tricked by 60 Minutes producer in 2016 - 'but refused to help locate them because she wanted Hillary to win' Ghislaine Maxwell told 60 Minutes producer Ira Rosen in 2016 that she didn't know where Epstein's tapes of Donald Trump were Rosen, an Emmy-winning producer, revealed he tricked Maxwell into confirming the recordings existed, in his new memoir, Ticking Clock, released Tuesday The encounter took place in early 2016, ahead of the US presidential election 'I want the tapes. I know he was videotaping everyone and I want the tapes of Trump with the girls,' Rosen said, acting on a 'hunch' Maxwell, 59, replied 'I don't know where they are,' confirming their existence Rosen writes Maxwell refused to help him locate the tapes because she did not want Donald Trump to get elected 'I know the way you people think. If you do one side, you must do the other. If you get the tapes on Trump you have to do Clinton,' she told him https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/ar...ein-DID-tapes-Donald-Trump-Clintons-2016.html
Private equity giant Leon Black quits Apollo completely after Epstein investigation https://www.axios.com/leon-black-quits-apollo-completely-38ce48ec-9034-40da-9848-58188fba3677.html Leon Black is out at Apollo Global Management, the private equity and debt giant he co-founded in 1990, just two months after the conclusion of an independent investigation into his interactions with Jeffrey Epstein. Why it matters: Black is one of the fathers of the modern private equity industry, making this arguably the most significant private equity retirement ever. Change of plans: In January, Black announced plans to turn over the CEO role to fellow Apollo co-founder Marc Rowan at the end of July, but said that he planned to remain chairman of the publicly traded firm. Black accelerated the CEO switch to today, and said the chairman role will now be assumed by former SEC chair Jay Clayton. Apollo also added two new directors: Richard Emerson (ex-Evercore Partners, Microsoft) and Kerry Murphy Healey (former lieutenant governor of Massachusetts). In a statement, Black said: "In the last few months, not only did we announce a transformative merger with Athene, but also expect to report that our first quarter earnings will exceed analyst consensus in all relevant measures and that the first quarter fundraising is trending towards the high end of our $15-20b annual range." "I thus view this as the ideal moment to step back and focus on my family, my wife Debra’s and my health issues, and my many other interests." What Black didn't say: He might still be in charge if he hadn't spent more than a year hoping that the Epstein questions would dissipate, kind of like questions dissipated nearly a decade earlier about Apollo's use of a corrupt fund placement agent. We simply don't yet know if there's some backroom business that hasn't yet come to the surface. Or if face value is the proper way to take the revised plans. What they're saying: Apollo shareholders have never seemed to much care about this story, and that continued this morning. The firm's stock barely budged. The bottom line: This was the right move. Overdue, but on target.