General Discussion

You would logically want to limit the number of people who are aware of what you are up to. I assume Epstein is a pedo (duh) and wants to get away with molesting minors. Therefore I think the base, starting point of how he, or anyone committing crimes, would approach getting away with it is to NOT TELL a bunch of people that's what you're doing. You already have a ton of exposure vis-a-vis the girls.

I'm not a criminal myself of course but I've watched a lot of true crime TV and movies about crimes, so to me it seems like the last thing you'd do is start involving a bunch of your rich buddies, all of which would be facing criminal exposure by knowing what you're up to and not reporting it. It seems like "Crime-ing 101" would be limiting the number of people who know of your crimes.

Which makes me think why would he try to set up a 'ring' (outside of the victims themselves, who we know he had act as recruiters)? How would doing so enable him to get away the crime, because I think it does not. So I think the sensible baseline position is to assume he was *hiding* it (such as by not telling people the girls around him are under 18), not advertising it, until such time as there's solid proof otherwise. Which there is not, as of yet, that I've seen.