JAMES PATTERSON * * * Whatever the reasons for his resignation, Epstein still gets his annual bonus of around $100,000 (roughly $275,000 in today's dollars). The SEC never brings charges against him or any other Bear Stearns employee. And so the particulars of Epstein's depar- ture get folded up into the greater mystery surrounding the man. Did Epstein crash the rocket ship that Ace Greenberg had given