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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 ...

  Support our truly independent journalism. Jeffrey Epstein, the Rothschilds and the Crown Leslie Wexner names the Queen and her bankers in his Epstein deposition. Zev Shalev Feb 21 ∙ On Wednesday, February 18, Leslie Wexner sat before a House Oversight Committee deposition camera and did something no one in Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit has ever done. He talked. Not in the guarded, monosyllabic way his attorney Michael Levy wanted — five-word answers, nothing more. Wexner talked the way a man talks when he’s been hung out to dry by every other player in the network and has decided, at 88, that if he’s going down, he’s taking the names with him. For nearly five hours, the billionaire founder of The Limited and Victoria’s Secret volunteered names, connections, and details that his own lawyer tried desperately to shut down. At one point, after Wexner had spent an extended stretch naming Rothschild, the Queen of England, the founders of Google, Jeff Bezos, the King of Saudi Arabia, and Abig...