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Chapter 371: The Fall Of Jeffery Epstein 1
For a moment Jeffrey Epstein did not seem to understand that he had been spoken to.He sat in the middle of the faculty section with his hands pressed between his knees and his eyes fixed on the stage, and the faces of the colleagues on either side of him had slowly started to lean away, the way people do from a man who might be about to get bad news. A glass of water stood on the little table beside him. It was half empty. Sometime in the last quarter of an hour his hand had gone to it, and he had drunk without noticing, the way a dry throat will."Mr. Epstein," Nathan said again, not unkindly. "Would you stand, please. I think it would be better for everyone."Epstein stood.He did it badly, in two stages, one hand on the back of the chair in front of him, and when he was upright he looked small. It was the first time in twelve years that anyone in that school had seen him look small. He wore his good gray suit and his good blue tie, and the sweat had started at his collar and sprea
Chapter 370: The Fall Of Josh Renner
Unknown men in uniforms came in two lines, the way people do when they have practiced it, most of them holding weapons guided by their chins.Eight of them, in dark windbreakers over plain clothes, walking down the center aisle of the east hall at an even pace with their credentials already held out in front of them, and every head they passed turned and followed. At the front was a short woman in her forties with her hair pulled back and a face that had never in its life been talked out of anything. Four of the agents peeled off at the first row and took up positions along the wall. The rest kept coming.The President did not look surprised. Neither did General Reyes. Josh noticed that, and filed it away, and understood a few seconds later that this was because both of them had known since lunch."Joshua Renner." The woman stopped at the foot of the steps and did not raise her voice. "Special Agent Dana Whitlock, Federal Bureau of Investigation. I have a warrant for your arrest."Jos
Chapter 369: Sycophancy
He took his time getting to the stage.Josh Renner walked down the center aisle with his hands still coming together, slow and steady, and by the time he reached the foot of the steps he had arranged his face into the expression of a best man who has just been asked to say a few words. It was a good face. It had been working for him for a very long time. If you had not known the thing behind it, you would have called it warm.The Secret Service agent at the bottom step looked at the President. The President, who was standing beside Nathan with his hand still half-extended from the shake, gave the smallest possible shake of his head. Let him come.Josh climbed the steps and stopped in front of Aaron Blake, who was still holding his card and looking like a man trying to remember his own name."Do you mind?" Josh said, and held out his hand for the microphone, and Blake gave it to him without a word."Good evening, everyone." He turned to the hall with a smile that took in all three thou
Chapter 368: The Winner Takes It All
Three rows behind her, Leo had the expression of a man trying to remember every dumb thing he had ever said to a billionaire."I asked him for bus fare," he whispered to Farah. "Once. I asked him for two dollars.""He gave it to you?""He gave me five. He said he didn't have change."“There was also this time he paid me to do some task for him. I pretended to be a cleaner and eavesdropped on Jeffery. Big bucks he paid me. I wondered where he got the money from.”"Oh my God," Milo said, very softly, from the other side. "He ate the lasagna."“Guys don’t act surprised,” said another. “He drove one of the most expensive cars to school once. Plus he also paid for this whole project when the principal was being funny”And in the row beyond them, Mark Epstein sat with his hands hanging loose between his knees, and the world, which had been tilting under him ever since the glass core had started to glow, slid the rest of the way over.It made sense. All of it made sense, and it all slotted i
Chapter 367: The Son Of Sage Walters
Nathan looked at the President for a long moment. Then he took his hand off the machine, straightened his plain jacket the way you do before walking into a meeting, and turned to face three thousand people who had stopped being an audience and become witnesses."Yes, sir," he said. "That was me."It came out like something settling at the bottom of a lake, and for about two seconds the hall made no sound at all.Then the sound arrived, all at once, from everywhere, and it was impossible to separate into words. It was a roar and a gasp and a thousand small separate exclamations of “no” and “what” and “oh my God,” and somewhere under it was the noise of a great many chairs being pushed back by people who had decided they needed to be standing up. A man in the press section dropped his camera, and it hit the floor with a crack, and he did not bend to pick it up. A woman in the second tier crossed herself. The entire east hall of Braxton College was shaking, and not metaphorically. The pe
Chapter 366: Master Walters
Josh did not get up.He sat in the third row with the phone still pressed against his ear, listening to a man at the east gate describe eleven black vehicles and a woman with a badge who wanted to know whose truck it was, and for the first time in fifteen years he had no idea what his own legs were about to do. Three thousand heads had turned toward him. His name was still rolling around somewhere up in the rafters, where the microphone had left it. And on the stage, Nathan Walters, who had one hand resting on the dark metal of the machine, did not look like he was in any particular hurry."Take your time, Mr. Renner," Nathan said. "I'm going to be a minute anyway."Then Dwayne walked up the stage steps.He took his steps one at a time, the way he took everything, with the unhurried weight of someone who has spent years standing at the back of rooms while other people made speeches. He crossed the stage and stopped three paces from Nathan, and half the investors in the front rows leane
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