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Epstein's moneymen episode 3: master of the universe

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The Rise and Fall of Leon Black

In the early 1990s Leon Black got very rich, very fast. Today if you look at Apollo he built his private equity firm Apollo Global Management from the wreckage of a bank which was rocked by one of the biggest insider trading scandals of the era. The thing is these legal cases really help us see how Epstein was spending his money but they don't tell us how he was earning it.

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