Financier Steven Hoffenberg, responsible for one of the largest frauds in US history and longtime partner of late tycoon Jeffrey Epstein, was found dead in his Connecticut apartment at the age of 77, several local media reported Thursday.

The newspaper daily mail, citing police sources, explains that police officers went home after a phone call from a friend Hoffenberg who was concerned and found the decaying body, which suggests it had been there for at least a week.

“Everything indicates that it is Hoffenberg. There is nothing to suggest that it is not. We are waiting for the dental records,” he said for his part. new york post the spokesperson for the local police.

According to police sources, there were no visible signs of violencebut the cause of death has not yet been confirmed.

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Without confirming that it was Hoffenberg, the Derby Connecticut Police Department said Thursday that a body was found in a local home Tuesday night and a forensic trial is underway to identify it.

According to the police, an initial autopsy showed no trauma, but the official cause of death is pending a toxicology study.

Hoffenberg was the top manager of Towers Financial, where Epstein worked and which filed for bankruptcy in 1993 after uncovering a fraud with nearly 3,000 interested investors.

The financial one he was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1997of whom he turned 18, and to pay $ 476 million in compensation.

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Meanwhile, Epstein has never been accused of this pyramid scheme, despite Hoffenberg involved him before the authorities.

Epstein, who for years has joined well-known names in politics and business, was arrested in 2019 on suspicion of abuse and sex trafficking and committed suicide in his cell from a New York prison where he was held in custody.

Hoffenberg explained in interviews that he met the controversial millionaire in the 1980s and they quickly became friends and business partners.

Before his multimillion-dollar fraud was uncovered, Hoffenberg was already a well-known figure in New York, among other things for having been for a few months owner of the historic tabloid New York Postwhich was then on the verge of bankruptcy.

Source: EFE

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