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It's because that was his day job. Somehow. It's what provided the means for his hobby of diddling kids.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Epstein
He never finished his college degree, and after dropping out ended up teaching math at a private high school. He got fired for performance issues (and perhaps getting a bit too close to his students), but had made friends with one of the parents of a kid at the school, who happened to be an executive at Bear Stearns. He got a job trading options, and eventually spun that out into his own consultency, where he made more money than he (or anyone) really deserved to. He seems to be a chronic failure, but knew enough key people so that he could always fail upwards.
There are a lot of really weird coincidences from his early career, though: that High School was run by Bill Barr's dad, Donald. (yes, that Bill Barr, who was Trump's AG at the time Jeffrey Epstein "killed himself" in jail.) And Donald Barr actually wrote a trashy sci-fi novel in the early 70s in which sex trafficking of teenagers is a key plot point. Enough coincidences to keep conspiracy theorists going for decades.
Yeah sure, it was his job. But you are not defined by your job. And what he was, was a monstrous child-rapist. Hitler just wasn't "a painter" or "a soldier" either.
Technically, the financiers were intelligence agencies, and specifically Israel. It's written in big bold blinking neon letters stamped across the forehead of this whole affair, yet nobody talks about it, like we never do when it comes to "them".