He’s a billionaire and one of the most powerful investors on Wall Street. Leon Black is the CEO, chairman of the board and co-founder of private equity firm Apollo Global Management, which manages close to half a billion dollars of the Oregon Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) fund. Black is also a longtime associate of convicted child pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, paying him millions of dollars every year from 2012 to 2017 in consulting fees, four years after Epstein was convicted of soliciting sex from a minor in 2008. Black made these admissions on Apollo’s most recent earnings call — a quarterly call where publicly traded companies answer questions from analysts and investors — the morning of Oct 29.