t ERSON it, and a Long Island mansion an apartment. He'd also briefly | e New York Post. 'g had been taking money from Fious investors. It was a classic | st in history —and Hoffenberg | 's in a federal prison. 4 4 CHAPTER 28 ted in the case? All that Hoffen- q | : Robert Gold.” j ql - Gold, the former federal prose- 4 7 recover Ana Obregon’s money, ; . i i were onlya =f sation oud ; q 4 Robert Meister: 1985 . would always deny any a 4 q | Hofiembere ue 4 q obert Meister, the vice chairman of a giant insurance bro- 4 a AR ise and consulting firm called Aon, met Jeffrey Epstein q in the mid-eighties, aboard a flight from New York to 3 q Palm Beach. Both men were flying first class. Each one thought 4 ‘ the other looked familiar. They talked in the course of that flight, q and Meister filed the conversation away, only to recall it in 1989. j _ At that time, Les Wexner, who was Meister’s friend and a client 4 7 of Meister’s insurance company, was complaining to him about 4 _ the people managing his money. j | Wexner was a billionaire, but for all his wealth, his finances q q Were in a tangle. Maybe Epstein could help. And perhaps Epstein 4 _ would also be grateful for the introduction. Hard as it is to believe, : there's evidence to suggest that Epstein really had spent the last of j h is last Bear Stearns bonus—along with his share of the money he’d 4 Tecovered for Ana Obreg6n—and was broke, again, at the time. : Me . q 113 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_021971