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Rain Robinson's avatar

Epatein tentacles were certainly in the highest levels of banking, finance, and institutions like Harvard. So he bought influence and "prestige" by procuring children and young girls to horny and depraved men. I'm sure pedopotus isn't the only one keeping the files away from scrutiny. Prominent bankers, professors, lawyers, politicians, celebrities, and other wealthy players don't want revealing details of their transactions, sexual and financial, exposed either. We may never know all the convoluted layers of Epstein and Maxwell's trafficking of girls. And that is one facet of their many financial and political extortions, bribery, and blackmail. Very Informative article, thank you.

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Anne Woods's avatar

Harvard endowment is an Israel money laundry. Not even a secret. The money influence is everywhere in the academia.

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Joseph Felser's avatar

Just goes to show how Big Academia is just as corrupt as Big Finance, Big Tech, Big Media, Big Law, etc. The underlying conditions that created Trump and the enabling oligarchs are deeply embedded in our culture, society, and economics, and either created or exploited by foreign powers.

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Robin Dumler's avatar

Epstein got away with a lot of corrupt, perverse and illegal shit. He was a fake and a people reader. It's a shame people couldn't read him. Or maybe they did and they liked it.

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David Krupp's avatar

Who was President of Harvard at the time?

ALL child rapists should be proscuted to the full extent of the law!

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Alexandra Barcus's avatar

The department would have been in charge of his office space, and probably of his key card. Unless he were verboten then no one would be expected to note his appearances. He flattered his new friends and kept them on the hook with the promise of all that money to what was an "irregular" sub-department trying to grow up.

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Irwin Epstein's avatar

Brilliant but naive nerds who found prominence in academia but not in the bedroom were easy prey to Epstein. Money, worldly charm and young girls were an irresistible trifecta. For academics like me who lived by the rules, bearing his name and trying to live an exemplary life as scholar and mentor is chilling with each new headline and disclosure. Nonetheless, going on with the investigation, wherever it leads, remains a moral imperative. Summer and Dersh be damaged. And take whatever desiderata with you.

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Rene R. Rinaldi's avatar

I am gobsmacked by these details in your excellent report. Honor is in short supply these days among the rich and famous and apparently in academe as well.

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Richard's avatar

Nice work Ellie

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Susan OBrien's avatar

Fascinating

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