Jeffrey Epstein, in Hour of Need, Did Port Deal With New York Property Tycoon
- Under scrutiny in 2007, he partnered with Farkas in St. Thomas
- His role, glossed over in company documents, emerges in filing
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Jeffrey Epstein was deep into legal trouble when he cut a deal near his private Caribbean island with a titan of New York real estate, Andrew Farkas.
The scion of the family that built Alexander’s department store, Farkas made Epstein a partner in a small marina on St. Thomas in the U.S. Virgin Islands, not far from where Epstein was developing a 70-acre island.