BOOK EXCERPT: The Devil Wears Sneakers — Epstein and the network that allowed him to flourish

The media played a paradoxical role in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, writes investigative journalist Hazel Friedman. ‘At its best, journalism accomplished what prosecutors, politicians and regulators repeatedly failed to do: prise open a case powerful people had spent years trying to bury.

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