Officials confirm death of Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg


              FILE-  Steven Hoffenberg talks with the media outside U.S. Bankruptcy Court, in New York, March 19, 1993. Medical examiners have confirmed that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week. The 77-year-old Hoffenberg is believed to have died at least seven days before his body was found in an apartment in Derby on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, as police performed a welfare check. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)
            
              FILE - Steven Hoffenberg, left, is escorted by FBI agents in a Little Rock, Ark., parking garage after turning himself in, Feb. 15, 1996. Medical examiners have confirmed that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg was the person found dead in a Connecticut apartment earlier this week. The 77-year-old Hoffenberg is believed to have died at least seven days before his body was found in an apartment in Derby on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022, as police performed a welfare check. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)