Posted on 09/07/2019 7:40:14 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
A top official at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) resigned Saturday after acknowledging this past week that he went around the university's official designation of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein as a “disqualified” donor and continued to accept gifts from him for a prestigious research lab.
Joichi Ito, the director of the Media Lab at MIT, admitted that he accepted a $525,000 donation from Epstein after he pleaded guilty in 2008 to solicitation of prostitution involving an underage victim, according to a report by The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow.
"After giving the matter a great deal of thought over the past several days and weeks, I think that it is best that I resign as Director of the Media Lab and as a Professor and employee of the Institute, effective immediately,” Ito said in an email to the provost and president of the university that he shared with The New York Times.
MIT President L. Rafael Reif said he had requested an independent investigation to address the "deeply disturbing allegations about the engagement between individuals at the Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein." Reif disclosed last month that the school took about $800,000 from Epstein over 20 years. That announcement followed the resignation of two prominent researchers from Media Lab over the revelations of Epstein's ties to the Cambridge University.
However, the New Yorker reported that Epstein, a Level 3 registered sex offender at the time, arranged at least $7.5 million in donations. That amount included a $2 million gift from Microsoft founder Bill Gates and a $5.5 million donation from investor Leon Black, with Epstein acting as a sort of proxy for the funds, according to emails dated October 2014 which were reviewed by The New Yorker.
A spokesperson for Gates told the magazine that these allegations were "completely false...
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MIT should disgorge the ill-gotten money and give it to the NRA.
So, when is Bill Gates gonna sit in the hot seat?
The web of perversion gets even more complex.
Epstein was not an “investor”. He was a guy who moved money around. It’s all dirty.
He's scheduled to sit in the hot seat as soon as Hillary Clinton departs it.
I wonder if we will ever find out whose asset he was.
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