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A Ponzi schemer who says he was conned out of $100 million by Jeffrey Epstein claims the dead pedophile moved in intelligence circles and was introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell's father Robert by a British arms dealer.
The claims made by Steven Hoffenberg, who is a former business partner of Epstein, were published by Rolling Stone on Thursday.
Hoffenberg served 18 years in prison after pleading guilty back in 1995 for bilking investors out of more than a $450 million when he was running Towers Financial. Epstein worked for Hoffenberg at Towers Financial as a paid consultant in the 1980s.
He made the claims about Epstein in an interview with British journalist Vicky Ward back in 2002 while he was serving that prison sentence in Massachusetts.
Ponzi schemer Steven Hoffenberg claimed pedophile Jeffrey Epstein moved in intelligence circles starting in the 1980s and that he was introduced to Ghislaine Maxwell's father by a British arms dealer
Among the allegations that he made was that Epstein ran in intelligence circles and that one of his mentors was a British defense contractor named Douglas Leese.
Leese, who died in 2011, was an arms dealer, according to Hoffenberg. Leese's son denies that but did say that his father was a mentor to Epstein back in the 1980s.
Hoffenberg, who also claimed to know
