Jeffrey Epstein made $200 million even as a registered sex offender

Jeffrey Epstein.
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Jeffrey Epstein's Florida plea deal was actually no big deal for his bank account.

During the 2008 economic crisis, Epstein's financial firm lost more than $150 million — a blow paired with his arrest on sex trafficking charges around the same time. Those charges were traded for one count of soliciting prostitution and Epstein's registration as a sex offender under a sweetheart plea deal, but neither of those things stopped Epstein from more than making up his losses in the years after, The New York Times reports.

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Kathryn Krawczyk

Kathryn is a graduate of Syracuse University, with degrees in magazine journalism and information technology, along with hours to earn another degree after working at SU's independent paper The Daily Orange. She's currently recovering from a horse addiction while living in New York City, and likes to share her extremely dry sense of humor on Twitter.