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#StevenHoffenberg

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People (3)

  • Douglas Leese Douglas Leese was a British defense contractor named in Parliament in 1996 as a channel for Al-Yamamah commissions, and whom Steven Hoffenberg credited with introducing him to Jeffrey Epstein.
  • Robert W. Sweet Former New York deputy mayor and Carter-appointed Manhattan federal judge who sentenced Towers Financial's Steven Hoffenberg in 1997 and presided over the sealed Giuffre v. Maxwell record until his death in 2019.
  • 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.

Organizations (2)

  • 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.
  • Troutman Sanders Atlanta-rooted law firm that defended Jeffrey Epstein and Financial Trust Company against Steven Hoffenberg's Towers Financial suits in 2016 and 2018 and Epstein's estate in 2020, later Troutman Pepper Locke.