The controversial case had an equally controversial judge who was on the payroll of the now-dead accused sex trafficker The U.S. magistrate overseeing the legal battle between Craig Wright and the estate of Dave Kleiman over who owns a $10 billion bitcoin fortune and Bitcoin’s underlying IP once quit his job as a U.S. Attorney to work for Jeffery Epstein, the multimillionaire accused sex trafficker who was being targeted in a probe by the U.S. Attorney’s office.