Steven Hoffenberg Jeffrey Epstein

2022 - 8 - 26

Jeffrey Epstein's mentor — who once ran a Ponzi scheme — was ... (NPR)

Steven Hoffenberg is believed to have died at least seven days before his body was found this week in Connecticut by police, who responded to a request to ...

You may click on “Your Choices” below to learn about and use cookie management tools to limit use of cookies when you visit NPR’s sites. If you click “Agree and Continue” below, you acknowledge that your cookie choices in those tools will be respected and that you otherwise agree to the use of cookies on NPR’s sites. This information is shared with social media, sponsorship, analytics, and other vendors or service providers.

Man Found Dead in Derby Apartment ID'd as Jeffrey Epstein Mentor ... (NBC Connecticut)

Connecticut authorities had been working to confirm that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg was the person found dead in ...

His efforts to buy the paper were derailed by civil fraud allegations by the Securities and Exchange Commission that led to the criminal prosecution of the Ponzi case. Hoffenberg, who once tried to buy the New York Post, was sentenced in 1997 to 20 years in prison for one of the country's largest Ponzi schemes. Epstein, however, was never charged in the fraud.

Steven Hoffenberg, Debt Baron Who Ran a Vast Fraud, Dies at 77 (The New York Times)

A onetime business associate of Jeffrey Epstein who briefly controlled The New York Post, he spent 18 years in prison for a $460 million Ponzi scheme.

Mr. Hoffenberg and Mr. Hoffenberg hired Mr. [One of those women, Maria Farmer](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/26/us/epstein-farmer-sisters-maxwell.html), said that she and Mr. Hoffenberg at the time of the federal prosecution, said she first met her father after he left prison when she was 19, that their relationship was “complicated,” and that she and her mother had “never benefited from any of his financial endeavors.” Setting out as corporate raiders, Mr. Hoffenberg the trauma, embarrassment and expense of a trial.” Hoffenberg told The Times in 2019](https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/10/business/jeffrey-epstein-net-worth.html), that he met Mr. In 1986, that company bought a publicly traded shell company in a deal that allowed Mr. The officers were conducting a check after being contacted by a friend of Mr. Justin Stanko of the Derby police said the condition of Mr. In the 1970s, many small-business owners in New York City knew Mr.

Former Jeffrey Epstein Associate Steven Hoffenberg Found Dead In ... (HuffPost)

Hoffenberg and Epstein ran a Ponzi scheme together and tried to take over Pan Am Airlines. Hoffenberg was convicted, while Epstein never faced charges.

His accomplice, [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://www.huffpost.com/topic/ghislaine-maxwell), was arrested by the FBI in 2020. At 74, I’d like to go to the pearly gates assisting the victims.” [found dead](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jeffrey-epstein-dead_n_5d4ebeefe4b0fd2733f100c8) in his New York City jail cell in August 2019. Hoffenberg, who owned a private jet, limousine, yacht, Long Island mansion and New York City apartment, pleaded guilty to the charges. Hoffenberg was arrested in 1994. He allegedly paid Epstein $25,000 monthly for Epstein’s business connections, which the pair used to lure investors in an unsuccessful 1987 attempt to take over Pan Am Airlines.

Steven Hoffenberg, brash swindler behind massive Ponzi scheme ... (The Washington Post)

Steven Hoffenberg claimed regret for the more than $450 million financial and helping Jeffrey Epstein to build his fortune.

Mr. [Anthony Mattos ](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/09/weekinreview/the-many-lives-made-miserable-by-a-low-down-high-roller.html)of Hanford, Calif., told the New York Times that he gave Towers Financial $43,000 of his retirement savings from 24 years at a tire company. “I want to have a voice in New York City. He wore a sweatshirt emblazoned with the front-page New York Post headline “Hoffenberg saves the Post” when he surrendered to the FBI in 1996. The pair also fell short in a bid to In Ohio, 2,200 customers lost about $1.8 million, prosecutors said. “The guy’s a genius” at selling securities, Hoffenberg said Leese told him. The inner circle included Mr. It would become the center of a business web built for the [steal a diamond ring ](https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/06/business/judge-planning-severe-sentence-for-hoffenberg-in-fraud-case.html)in New York. [found hanged ](https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/jeffrey-epsteins-autopsy-concludes-his-death-was-a-suicide-by-hanging/2019/08/16/bb670d58-c053-11e9-a5c6-1e74f7ec4a93_story.html?itid=lk_inline_manual_17)in his cell in 2019 at a Manhattan detention facility after his arrest on sex trafficking charges, including allegedly abusing teenage girls. [implicate Epstein](https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/national/epstein-connections/?itid=lk_inline_manual_15) in the proceedings.

Officials confirm death of Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg (Toronto Sun)

Convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Steven Hoffenberg was found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week.

Police in Derby were asked to do a welfare check on Hoffenberg on Tuesday by a private investigator for a woman who identified herself as close to Hoffenberg and a sexual abuse victim of Epstein’s, Derby police Lt. Gary Baise, one of Hoffenberg’s friends and lawyers and a former acting deputy U.S. He admitted he swindled thousands of investors out of $460 million and was sentenced in 1997 to 20 years in prison. His cause of death is pending toxicology test results. He had to be identified through dental records because of the decomposition of his body, police said. Article content

'Gaunt' Steven Hoffenberg spent final days living quietly: Neighbors ... (Daily Mail)

Hoffenberg, 77, was found dead inside his apartment on Tuesday night after a wellness check was requested by Maria Farmer, the first woman to accuse Epstein ...

In 1995, he pleaded guilty to defrauding investors out of $420million and went to prison for 18 years. The small apartment in Derby where Hoffenberg was living when he died. Hoffenberg, 77, was found dead inside his apartment on Tuesday night after a wellness check was requested by Maria Farmer, the first woman to accuse Epstein of abuse. The newspaper was sold to him in desperation by Peter Kalikow, another millionaire and fixture on the New York social scene who ran it into disrepair and financial ruin. He hired Epstein in 1987, paying him $25,000-a-month. He was quiet, he never bothered me. Hoffenberg in 1996. You raise a dollar here, you pay a dollar there. He was very thin, very gaunt. She and Hoffenberg had become close friends in his final years, she revealed to DailyMail.com. Hoffenberg is thought to have died a week ago. Hoffenberg spent 18 years in prison for running a $460million Ponzi scheme that he always insisted Epstein was in on and masterminded.