Epstein tapped ex-Gates, Pershing Square PR pro to rebuild his public image

Newley Purnell / Bloomberg02-11 09:31

Four months before Jeffrey Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges in 2019, he flew a veteran tech communications executive named John Pinette to his home in Palm Beach, Florida.(Feb ...

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He later asked Pinette if he could hire him with “no need to surface publicly”, working quietly with journalists. Pinette told Epstein: “If I’m in — I’m in” and that he was “thinking” about the offer.\nWhile it’s unclear if he accepted, Pinette joined Meta Platforms Inc the next month as the company’s vice president of global communications.\nDetails about Epstein’s network of financiers, global politicians and high-profile executives continue to emerge years after the convicted sex offender’s death in August 2019. 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