We have all heard about Epstein, but I had not read much about it until I read his Wikipedia entry this morning – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein. The amount of high level corruption and cover up of his crimes staggers belief https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein. The guy repeatedly ran bigtime financial frauds at the highest level (one of the biggest Ponzi schemes of all time in the 90s, Bear Stearns collapse causing the Great Recession) and more famously his sex crimes involving lots of high level people. Powerful people helped hide his ongoing crimes for decades. US Presidents, the Saudi Crown Prince, prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, federal prosecutors, and many others were in on it.
I guarantee you this sort of criminal behavior continues at the highest levels today since almost everyone involved got away with it.