So what are we thinking here, just a sex pest that blackmailed rich people? Or a launderer for the CIA/NATSEC? I'm thinking the latter, it's the only explanation for Acosta's plea deal and the massive sums of money.

I'd really like to know why Wexner and Leon Black were forced into donating as much as they did. Is it as simple an explanation as the full weight of the Pentagon coming down on these two unless they payed Epstein? Leon Black has so much money that he effectively operates as a small nation, he has the power to fight a blackmail tape. I think it was more a symbiotic relationship with Epstein's handlers, that he was buying intelligence and security. Prob the same with Wexner.