Over 15 years, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Top administrators knew about the gifts, felt conflicted about them, and accepted them anyway. The university's president even signed a thank-you note.But Friday, months after the
Over 15 years, convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein repeatedly donated to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Top administrators knew about the gifts, felt conflicted about them, and accepted them anyway. The university’s president even signed a thank-you note.
The report concluded that Epstein’s visits, along with any donations made after his 2008 conviction in Florida, had been enabled by Lloyd or Joichi Ito, former director of the Media Lab, who stepped down in September. Ruiz is the school’s executive vice president and treasurer, although the university announced last month that he would step down this semester for a career outside academia. The announcement made no mention of the Epstein scandal.
Ito, a master networker who raised at least $50 million for the Media Lab, met Epstein in 2013 at a TED conference in California and then “cultivated” the financier as a donor and a link to other wealthy people, according to the report. In one 2014 email, Ito wrote that a $2 million gift from Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates had been “directed by Jeffrey Epstein.” In a subsequent email, another lab official wrote that “for gift-recording purposes, we will not be mentioning Jeffrey’s name as the impetus for this gift.” In another email exchange, Ito discussed how Epstein was helping to connect the lab to Leon Black, founder of Apollo Global Management, a prominent private equity fund.
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