>>510740291 (OP)Pretty much this
>>510740865I can't find a credible source on this besides Donald Barr's fiction book "Space Relations," but I believe Epstein was (at some level) a victim himself. Little is known about his early life but he lived in a Jewish neighborhood in NY. My theory is that the Jewish elites (at the time Barr and Maxwell) were looking to build their own type of Jewish ubermensch. Epstein allegedly excelled at math and went to pursue Physics. Unlike kids who had a very bright future (e.g. attending Ivy League colleges) Epstein was in the position where he was going to Cooper Union and didn't have much going for him.
Most likely Barr leveraged this to poach him. He brings him to the Dalton School where he then assesses his potential to be a confidant. For example, he sees how well he can gain the trust of the students, Epstein succeeds as he is noted to have attended parties with the high schoolers. He then "fires" him, where he gets him set up at Bear Stearns where he is taught money laundering and later introduced to the real boss Robert Maxwell.
To trust Epstein, Maxwell puts him under supervision of his daughter Ghislaine. She is way closer to this than Epstein. She is the key to all of it, not him. He was a disposable pawn, that's why they killed him as soon as he became a liability.