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In reply to the discussion: Epstein's sex empire was 'KGB honeytrap': [View all]Celerity
(53,963 posts)25. Your maths are way off. By a factor of 1000.
You said:
Epstein received something around a billion dollars in money transfers from all over the world. There is no arithmetic that gets you there from running a sex operation. Figure that a high-end prostitute might go for $2000 (and these weren't necessarily top class "escorts" -- they were mostly young girls that were abused and vulnerable). At $2000 per service, you would need 500 million services to bring in that kind of money.
$2,000 X 500 million equals $1 TRILLION, not $1 billion.
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