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  Support our truly independent journalism. The Story So Far: Jeffrey Epstein, JP Morgan, and The Greatest Heist in History The people at the center of the 2008 crash met through Leslie Wexner in Ohio in 1995. Thirteen years later, they extracted trillions of dollars out of the US economy in the biggest crime in history. Zev Shalev Jan 2 ∙   They told us it was subprime mortgages, bad loans, a crisis no one saw coming, but it wasn’t. It was a premeditated, coordinated event that extracted trillions out of the US economy and spared a few billionaires. When Lehman Brothers collapsed on September 15, 2008, $639 billion in assets evaporated overnight. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke told congressional leaders behind closed doors: “If we don’t do this, we may not have an economy on Monday.” That’s the story we’ve been told ever since—the crash, quantitative easing, TARP, and Maiden Lane—but this wasn’t accidental or unforetold. This is the inside story of how they did it. The Inside Story ...