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Feb 20 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Jeffrey Eppstein shuttled very young girls around the globe for sex. He was convicted in 2008. But his money bought him a free pass for more than a decade. Even as the walls closed in, he could count on many helpers. Just ten days before his arrest, finance firm Charles Schwab wired about $27 million on his behalf to buy a palace in Morocco. reut.rs/4axknha
It was vast: Gold-draped walls, a hammam steam spa, 60 marble fountains and an outdoor pool and jacuzzi, Bin Ennakhil spreads across a total plot of 4.6 hectares. It had multiple gardens with hundreds of olive trees and more than 2,000 palms in an area bigger than New York's Washington Square Park or around six standard soccer pitches.