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Police believe person found dead was swindler Hoffenberg

FILE - Steven Hoffenberg, left, is escorted by FBI agents in a Little Rock, Ark., parking garage after turning himself in, Feb. 15, 1996. Connecticut authorities on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, were working to confirm that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg was the person found dead in an apartment earlier this week. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File) FILE- Steven Hoffenberg talks with the media outside U.S. Bankruptcy Court, in New York, March 19, 1993. Connecticut authorities on Thursday, Aug. 25, 2022, were working to confirm that convicted Ponzi schemer and Jeffrey Epstein mentor Hoffenberg was the person found dead in an apartment earlier this week. Lt. Justin Stanko, of Derby police, said Thursday that evidence at the scene all pointed to the person being Hoffenberg. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)