“He told me he was a spy hired by corporations to find major amounts of money which had been embezzled,” said one of Epstein’s former girlfriends, diet guru and former TV personality Nicki Haskell. “He made it sound very glamorous.”
FIND THE VICTIMS OF PONZI SCHEMES, EXTORTION, AND EMBEZZLEMENT–FLIGHT LOGS
As well as owning one of the largest and the last great mansions of the Upper East Side, Epstein has built a $3million, 26,700-square-foot hilltop mansion in New Mexico, one of the largest homes in the entire state. For a yard, he purchased the 10,000-acre Zorro ranch once owned by the state’s former governor, Bruce King.
WHY WOULD BRUCE KING SELL EPSTEIN PROPERTY RIGHT SMACK DAB IN THE MIDDLE OF ENORMOUS ACREAGE?
The source of much of their new wealth is The McKinley Group, a California company founded by Maxwell’s twin daughters, Isabel and Christine.
Named after North America’s highest mountain, the company developed a high-tech Internet search engine called Magellan. It was profitable but inevitably, after a while, started to lose customers to Yahoo.
TAKE DOWN THE COMPETITION
Meanwhile, Maxwell’s sons, Kevin and Ian, rounded up private investors in the United States to create Telemonde, a company involved in the complex business of buying and leasing telecommunications bandwidth. The company went public last year but has suffered setbacks in its efforts to make an impression on the Nasdaq stock market.
FLIGHT LOGS>JULY 2005
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Kevin and Ian, who had both sat on the board of Maxwell Communications Corporation, were investigated after their father's death over an alleged conspiracy to defraud the company's pension fund.
Both were cleared in 1996.