Todd Meister claims Jeffrey Epstein lacks investment expertise and is linked to hedge‑fund circles

TTERSON zot to speak to Carter directly. ing women. And we still get to te down the rest of what Carter | her. “I’m Canadian.” in the March issue, still created a lented Mr. Epstein” in a sly refer- lebrated suspense novel The Tal- ition, by Anthony Minghella, was nity Fair’s readers. For Graydon Is Epstein some sort of scam artist, n enough. And throughout the ers wouldn't miss as they drew ystein’s life story. It came through t paragraph of Ward's 7,500-word it there is something innocent, ipstein.” nt was rather ironic—so much so »pposite. 152 CHAPTER 39 Todd Meister: June 2015 arry Cipriani, on Fifth Avenue, is a New York institu- tion. The restaurant began its life as an American out- post of Harry’s Bar—which was itself a famous American outpost in Venice. Located inside the Sherry-Netherland hotel, its a theme restaurant—the theme being money. And today, a hedge-fund manager named Todd Meister is talking about a very ’ wealthy man—Jeffrey Epstein—whom he knows through his 7 father, Epstein’s sometime friend Bob Meister. . “I've known Jeffrey since I was nineteen,” Meister says. “So | let me tell you what 1 know—whatever everyone knows and 7 everybody else says. First off, he’s no billionaire. Second off — : and here's why —he has no clue how to invest. He has people do ‘that for him.” 1 Meister knows how to invest. He does it for other people and, as e son of a superrich father, for himself. He also knows about the 153 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_010496