This is very interesting. Fifty-five year old Thomas Bowers "suicides" at his Malibu home November 19, and multiple US and UK media outlets identify him as connected to Trump, completely ignoring what Mike Moore of TruePundit claims is a much more direct relationship with Epstein:
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The first four stories note Bowers, who left Deutsch Bank in 2015, ran the division Trump's personal banker worked in, but make no mention of Epstein. Moore, who has claimed in the past to have sources within the FBI and NYPD, says he "previously headed anti-money laundering for a major Citigroup division during the time frame Citi commenced large loans to Epstein."
Bowers headed the private wealth banking division for Deutsche Bank and signed off on millions in loans to Epstein. Bowers, prior to taking over the private banking arm at Deutsche Bank, served in the same top position at Citibank, as the head of the bank’s private wealth arm. Citigroup also made massive loans to Epstein, according to records and banking sources who spoke to True Pundit...
“The loans to Epstein were personal and commercial,” Paine confirmed. “The Citi loans I can confirm were for more than $25 million. Some were secured, some were not.”
Did Citi bend its lending rules for Epstein? Paine said that appears “quite likely,” with Bowers and other Citi executives he later recruited to work for him at Deutsche all working to secure the approvals regardless of compliance-related red flags.
And sources said Citi loaned Epstein much more money, eclipsing $100 million and also allowed Epstein to use the bank to send thousands of wire transfers from his accounts. Bowers, who turned up dead just days ago, brokered the loans for Epstein, sources said.
Bowers was the chief of Deutsche Bank’s Private Wealth Management division and worked from the bank’s Park Avenue offices in New York City. At Citi, Bowers served as the chief of the The Citi Private Bank and previously ran Citigroup’s Global Markets and Wealth Management businesses.
And when Bowers left Citi for Deutsche Bank, Epstein followed.
Meanwhile, Epstein stopped making payments on his millions in outstanding Citi loans. But that mattered little because Bowers approved new high-risk loans and credit lines from Deutsche Bank, sources said.
And that relationship with Epstein continued until Bowers left Deutsche Bank in 2015. By that time, Epstein had chalked up untold millions in loans with the help of Bowers who recruited many of his top private wealth top bankers from Citi to Deutsche Bank.
The FBI who was interested in interviewing Bowers, sources confirm. The FBI subpoenaed Deutsche Bank in May for all loans and accounts linked to Epstein and there were many unanswered questions. Deutsche Bank closed out Epstein’s accounts weeks after the bank was served federal subpoenas.
Federal law enforcement officials said the FBI planned to interview all Wall Street wealth fund managers who worked for Epstein. Bowers included...
One banking executive said Bowers had visited Epstein on his private island at least once. Bowers had also visited Epstein in New York and attended social events at his mansion. Federal law enforcement sources did not comment about these new revelations. However, Citi executives who worked with Bowers said the bank executive maintained an active night life and enjoyed the party circuit.
Epstein also helped bring in a plethora of new business from wealthy associates to Bowers at both Deutsche Bank and Citi, sources said.
“Epstein made Bowers and his financial institutions hundreds of millions of dollars,” one executive said. “It really didn’t even matter that Epstein stiffed Citi for $30 million in defaults because he brought so much new money, new blood in. Citi made far more than it lost.”
Seems like a pattern. The American Banker reports:
Epstein brought lucrative clients into JPMorgan’s private-banking unit and was close to former head Jes Staley, who visited Epstein’s private island as recently as 2015. Leon Black, Apollo Global Management’s billionaire chairman, met with the financier from time to time at the company’s New York offices, and used Epstein for tax and philanthropic advice.
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think- ago
Question: Could anyone have blackmailed him with his private Epstein connections (if he was indeed compromised - I don't trust Thomas Paine, he has published disinfo before), in order to get a loan f.i.
Like someone who had been rejected by other banks, but then got a loan from Deutsche bank....
Vindicator ago
You mean blackmailed Bowers because he laundered money for Epstein?
According to what I read, Deutsche Bank loved Epstein because he brought them so much business -- way more than they had to write off as bad debt when he was arrested.
I look at it a different way. I think Epstein was working for Deutsche Bank. I think they've always been part of the Cabal.
Don't forget, Epstein originally got his sweetheart deal from Acosta supposedly because he gave information about the 2009 financial crisis. If I'm remembering that right.
think- ago
Laundererd money for Epstein, and/or raped teenage girls on Epstein's properties.
That's possible.