Max Azzarello, the poor man who set himself on fire has a chapter on Epstein on his substack:
https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/the-unified-jeffrey-epstein-theory
The Unified Jeffrey Epstein Theory
M. CROSBY
NOV 03, 2023
Jeffrey Epstein learned how to blackmail people as a child when he read How I Play Snooker by Joe Davis, as taught to him by his father. If you buy this book and read it pretending you're about to go to college and you want to blackmail students, you'll become quite skilled.
A broad sampling of how the book teaches blackmail:
You (the blackmail artist) are the snooker player. The cue ball is who you appear to be to the victim. The object ball is the victim.
It's easy to look ahead to the "screw shot" (where you reveal the blackmail), but the most important thing is to focus on every stroke: You want to influence the victim step-by-step to steer them toward trusting you and providing kompramat.
When you go for the screw shot, shoot LOW! Everybody aims low, but novices don't aim low enough. If the screw shot doesn't "bite into the skin" of the object ball and steer them in a new direction, you haven't done it properly.
The distance between the cue ball and object ball is metaphorical: The closer together, the closer the relationship. People often want to sink a screw shot and stay close to the pocket (Blackmail them without revealing that it's you who did it, so you can stay friends). Our author rarely does this because it introduces too many variables that could go wrong.
Epstein went to NYU because it housed a blackmail ring inherited from Lucky Luciano down the street. He was recognized for his talents and ushered off to CIA Officer Donald Barr at The Dalton School. From there, Epstein grew into (hopefully!) the CIA's best teen sex blackmail artist. We are able to surface this story from this fan site of "Steve Davis," which is actually a coded fan page for Jeffrey Epstein. This technique is called Argot, and these are just two examples of ‘snooker’ meaning ‘blackmail’. A third, the Snooker Child Protection Policy, is covered here.
Eventually, Epstein moved out of blackmail and into the Ponzi Scheme department. His Program for Evolutionary Dynamics at Harvard University was a fake-science Ponzi Factory (much like Harvard's Launch Lab X and Stanford's StartX.com), and he met with the editorial board of Scientific American so they could promote Ponzi schemes.