375: SERIOUS Fraud Office

This week Stacey tells us about Steven Hoffenberg, an American businessman and fraudster who founded and led Towers Financial Corporation, ran one of the largest Ponzi schemes in U.S. history, briefly owned the New York Post, and later became known as a former mentor and associate of Jeffrey Epstein.
Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Hoffenberg
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towers_Financial_Corporation
https://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1994/dig021894.pdf
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/jeffrey-epstein-steven-hoffenberg-intelligence-agencies-spy-1197708/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Yamamah_arms_deal
https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/908/1265/1457501/
https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/751153024/jeffrey-epsteins-former-business-associate-i-want-to-assist-victims
https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet%209/EFTA00270335.pdf
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