Former Goldman Trader Gets $30.6 Million Mortgage From Citi To Buy Epstein''s Mansion Former Goldman Trader Gets $30.6 Million Mortgage From Citi To Buy Epstein''s Mansion While Wells Fargo is scrapping credit lines for ordinary middle-class Americans , the biggest banks in the US are still doling out mega-mortgages to their pals like it''s nothing. Accoridng to Bloomberg , Goldman Sachs banker Michael Daffey just obtained a $30.6MM loan from Citigroup to buy one of the most infamous pieces of real estate in the US: the Manhattan townhouse formerly owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Daffey, who was recently named chairman of crypto investment bank Galaxy Digital (run by his old friend and former Goldman colleague Mike Novogratz), received the 30-year mega-mortgage back in May, two months after he bought the townhouse located at East 71st Street. He got the mortgage a few months after he purchased the townhouse for a deeply discounted $51MM (the property was marked down 40% from its original asking price of $88MM). Dalley was previously chairman of Goldman''s Global Markets Division before he left the company.