Jeffrey Epstein's ties to Montreal

 Jeffrey Epstein might have played a role in the loss Motreal’s beloved Expos baseball team. . 

Let’s look at what we know. 

Epstein was closely associated with Ohio-based billionaire Leslie Wexner, who made a fortune off of Victoria's Secret and Abercrombie and Fitch clothing retailers. 

In 1991 Montreal Expos longtime owner Charles Bronfman sold his baseball team and launched a venture with Les Wexner, known as Study Group or Mega Group, that lasted 10 years in New York City. The group aimed to support Israeli Zionist causes.

Bronfman sold his Westmount mansion to Robert Miller, now embroiled in legal issues due to affairs with minors and he moved to New York, where the Mega Group was based.

Wexner

Earlier on in the 1960s, Charles Bronfman, heir to Sam Bronfman's Seagram liquor business became a popular figure for literally making Montreal a major league city when the Expos started in 1969. 

Bronfman had two kids and divorced their mom Barbara in 1981 and remarried to Andrea Morrison the next year, who also divorced at the same time from Leonard Cohen’s cousin. 

Morrison was 14 years younger than Bronfman. Her parents were from the UK where they were closely associated with Israeli Zionist causes. 

Bronfman began losing interest in the Expos soon after marrying Andrea and became increasingly devoted to Israel. The couple became the first Canadians to be granted honorary Israeli citizenship due to their donations. 

Andrea Morrison

Bronfman and Wexler's Mega Group had about 50 members after launching in 1991, including Stephen Speilberg and it lasted a decade. Jeffrey Epstein, as a very close confidante of Wexler, since at least 1987, likely had an influence in the group.

Charles Bronfman had a bit of a rivalry with his older brother Edgar who was the head of the World Jewish Congress from 1979 to 2007.

Edgar had been put in charge of Seagrams and Charles was not too happy about that and Charles was further irritated when Edgar Jr made the disastrous decision to sell the company’s interests in DuPont to invest in ill fated show business companies. 

Was Jeffrey Epstein's hand in any of this or was he uninvolved? Unless further information is forthcoming, these questions will remain unanswered.  

Charles Bronfman

Bronfman’s wife Andrea died in 2006 after getting hit by a taxi cab while walking her dog early one morning in Manhattan. 

The Montreal Expos, without strong ownership, moved to Washington, D.C. in 2004.  

Charles Bronfman is now aged 93. He published an autobiography in 2017.

His son Stephen was a major force in raising Justin Trudeau to the role of prime minister of Canada.