#SEC

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People (3)

Jay Clayton Sullivan & Cromwell partner whose clients included Deutsche Bank and Reid Hoffman, SEC chairman, Apollo chairman after Leon Black, SDNY U.S. Attorney assigned Epstein matters in 2025, then Director of National Intelligence.
Jed Rakoff Former chief of securities fraud prosecutions in Manhattan, appointed a federal judge by Bill Clinton, who rejected the SEC's Citigroup settlement in 2011 and presided over the 2023 Epstein suits against JPMorgan and Deutsche Bank.
Steven Hoffenberg Founder of Towers Financial Corporation who pleaded guilty in 1995 to a roughly 475 million dollar Ponzi scheme and later claimed Jeffrey Epstein helped architect the fraud, a claim for which Epstein was never charged.

Bear Stearns New York investment bank that hired Jeffrey Epstein in 1976, parted with him in 1981 amid an SEC inquiry, handled his trades for decades, and collapsed into JPMorgan Chase in 2008.
Towers Financial Corporation Manhattan debt-collection firm run by Steven Hoffenberg that collapsed in 1993 as a Ponzi scheme with 475 million dollars in investor losses, and that employed Jeffrey Epstein as a consultant.