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http://www.palmbeachpost.com/pbcwest/content/local_news/epaper/2006/08/14/m1a_EPSTEIN_0814.html

August 14, 2006
...one of his [color="red"][i.e. kike Jeffrey Epstein's] business mentors and previous employers was [color="red"]Steven Hoffenberg, now serving a prison term after "bilking investors out of more than $450 million in one of the largest Ponzi schemes in American history."

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Steven Hoffenberg, the former chairman of Towers Financial Corporation, was sentenced on March 7 to 20 years in prison for the giant Ponzi scheme he ran, which
[color="Red"]defrauded investors out of $475 million. Judge Robert Sweet of the United States District Court also ordered him to pay $426.6 million in restitution and a $1 million fine.
Hoffenberg, who is 52 years old, was charged with raising money from investors who thought they were buying bonds or notes backed by Towers, a collection agency. Money from the sale of the securities, [color="red"]which paid a high rate of interest, were supposed to be used to buy debts; instead, the proceeds were used to pay off earlier investors, and purchase jets, a yacht, cars and antiques for Hoffenberg and his family. The company filed for bankruptcy in 1993 after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit against it; Hoffenberg later reached a $60 million settlement of the suit.
The criminal charges were prosecuted by the office of the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Hoffenberg pleaded guilty in April, 1995, to securities and mail fraud, obstruction of justice and tax evasion. But sentencing was delayed for nearly two years, largely because Hoffenberg sought to withdraw his plea, claiming that he was mentally impaired when he made it.
Hoffenberg did have a past history of mental illness, dating back to a hospitalization in 1970 which included electroconvulsive therapy, anti-psychotic medications such as Thorazine, and the mood stabilizer lithium. He was diagnosed as manic depressive, and another episode of depression occurred in the late 1970s. In 1994, his depression returned, but he received no further treatment. In March, 1995, a psychiatrist determined that Hoffenberg was suffering from a major depressive episode. On March 24, the doctor prescribed Klonopin, an anti-anxiety medication; on April 7, he was also prescribed Prozac, an anti-depressant. On March 24, 1995, the doctor found him to be "cognitively intact" and suffering from a probable Bipolar II Disorder and a Mixed Personality Disorder with a global assessment of functioning of 40 out of a scale of 100. He was taking the two drugs daily for several weeks prior to and following the plea, and the day of the plea was the only day during that period he did not take them. In moving to set aside the plea, Hoffenberg asserted that the allocution was faulty because the judge failed to adequately inquire about his mental condition. But Judge Sweet, who did not preside over the guilty plea, denied the motion to set aside the plea. In U.S. v. Hoffenberg, 169 ER.D. 267 (decided 10/28/96) he ruled that the previous judge had adequately addressed the issue in the allocution, when he asked Hoffenberg if he had taken any medication during the prior 24 hours, to which he had unequivocally answered in the negative.
The attorney who represented Hoffenberg on this motion, who was also his attorney at sentencing, was one Daniel Myers of New York City. In an interview with The Echo, he related that he had been appointed by the Court to represent Mr. Hoffenberg, the defendant having been declared indigent.
He further explained that the panel of attorneys who were available for such appointments numbered over a hundred, and the only reason he was selected was that he happened to be the panel attorney on duty that day. Considering how immensely rich Mt Hoffenberg was, just a short time ago—in 1993 he actually attempted to buy The New York Post, and was briefly its publisher—
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[color="red"]Steven Hoffenberg, a financier who pleaded guilty to securities fraud, and [color="red"]Abraham D. Hirschfeld, [color="red"]a true eccentric
http://www.abehirschfeld.com/public-service.php




http://www.abehirschfeld.com/biography.php

Abe was born in the small Polish city Turnow, in 1919. He came from a distinguished and successful Jewish merchant family. His father Simon earned a Ph.D. from the University of Vienna and went on to establish a thriving commercial scale compnay in Tarnow. The rise of Adolph Hitler in neighboring Germany and the resurgence of native Polish anti-Semitism prompted Simon Hirschfeld to evacuate his family [SIZE="3[color="red"]"]to Palestine in 1934.

who made his fortune building parking garages. One day in 1993, when Hoffenberg and Hirschfeld were sharing Post ownership, the two got into such a fight that the former chased the latter down the hall. To protest the firing of four staff members, longtime on-and-off staffer Pete Hamill once edited the paper from a diner.

might one speculate that it was an irrational act on his part to "settle" for such representation considering the seriousness of the charges he faced? Could it be that he had actually failed to secrete away at least some remainder of his once vast resources for this most vital of purposes? Was Judge Sweet right when, after sentencing Hoffenberg (and contrary to the tenor of his denial of Hoffenberg's motion) he reportedly characterized the defendant as "an unstable individual with manic tendencies
Or is there more here than meets the eye? Mr. Meyers indicated that Mr. Hoffenberg will be appealing the conviction and sentencing, though he won't be the attorney handling it. And Mr. Robert Blackburn, associate director for enforcement at the S.E.C. has told The Echo that at sentencing, Mr. Hoffenberg made statements critical of his various attorneys' representation. Would it surprise anyone if the crux of his appeal turned out to be a claim of ineffective assistance of counsel—so often relied upon as an appealable issue when all else fails? Perhaps in readily accepting the services of a court-appointed attorney for the indigent, Mr. Hoffenberg was already laying the groundwork. We'll have our answer if the likes of Alan Dershowitz shows upon his arm at appeal time.

More net references to this $475 million flim flam cabal of kikes:
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[color="red"]Steven Hoffenberg, Michael Rosoff[/B
[color="red"]Michael Rosoff-[/B]
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