Hey Everyone,
Do watch this very interesting conversation with my old friend, author and journalist, Holly Peterson.
As I mentioned yesterday, Holly wrote a piece in the WSJ addressing why it was that so many interesting people with pristine reputations allowed themselves to accept hospitality, money and favors from Jeffrey Epstein.
“Sometimes you have to be nice to people you don’t like. And sometimes you have to be in some little community that’s a little shady in order to get what you want,” she explains.
In our discussion, Holly illuminates how philanthropy is beneficial for this country’s elite, yes - but also the rest of us. And she has done research into how much people who have Leon Black’s net worth pay their accountants to handle their taxes. The answer? Two and a half million dollars maximum. This is obviously, a tiny fraction of the extraordinary $160 million Black paid Epstein “for tax advice”.
So, I will be parsing Black’s testimony to congress in May very closely. I hope the Oversight Committee does its homework before questioning him.
Thank you Jennifer Neeley, cmdr cool, Shirley Figueroa, Bluesin’ Bob, Jane Kowalski, and many others for tuning into my live video with Holly Peterson! Join me for my next live video in the app.
