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What's up everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. What the actual fuck is wrong with the so called best and brightest at Harvard? I mean, you would think. I mean, you would think that after the long ugly public mess with Jeffrey Epstein, after the scandal, after the backlash, after the blood red stain on the university's reputation, they do everything in their power to run at full sprint from that ghost. You think they'd scrub every trace, every memory, every whiff of Epstein from their ivory tower hallways and pretend that he was never there. Instead, what do they do? They go out of their way to bring in Mary Callahan Erdos, the same Wall street big shot from JP Morgan whose fingerprints are all over the Epstein financial scandal, and hand her a shiny, prestigious seat on Harvard's endowment board like she's some kind of saint descending from the heavens. I mean, you can't make this kind of stupidity up. Do they honestly believe that the public just suddenly forgot how deep some of these ties ran? Do they think we're blind to the emails, the meetings, the payouts, the routed funds, the shell corporations, the whole goddamn infrastructure that helped enable Epstein's criminal empire for decades? Do they really think that nobody remembers the lawsuits, the testimony, or Mary Erdos own role in keeping Epstein banked and operational while everyone pretended they didn't know who he really was? Because we didn't forget. We saw it. We watched it unfold in real time. We remember every detail. And now, after everything, after the lawsuits, after the financial settlements, after the public exposure, Harvard brings her on board to help shape the financial future of the university. Like none of that ever existed. Like it's just business as usual. We're not talking about leadership. We're not talking about progress. This is not a step forward. This is tone deaf. It's arrogance. It's willful blindness dressed up as prestige and power. These people are choosing an illusion of elite respectability over the reality of what this kind of dirty money financed. Harvard's own history with Epstein was not a footnote. It was a chapter written in disgrace. Larry Summers welcomed Epstein's money. Harvard scientists took Epstein's donations long after he was exposed. Epstein himself strolled the campus like he owned the place and bragged about influencing research. While survivors were being silenced and buried under NDAs. The university didn't just brush against Epstein, it embraced them. And now instead of learning anything from it, instead of showing responsibility or integrity, they double down and pretend the fire never touched them. Harvard doesn't fear ghosts, I guess it hires them, it feeds them, it protects them. And when the rest of us expect accountability, they slip into this smug, elitist posture like they're above explanation. But you don't just move past Epstein. Not when the survivors are still trying to pick up all those shattered pieces of their lives. Not when the financial network that supported this monster still hasn't been fully exposed. Not when the same institutions that enable them are still pretending to be untouchable. Not when the evidence, the emails, the transactions, the broken lives, still screams. So tell us Harvard. So please, Harvard, tell me, how do you explain this one? Because we're all waiting. Today's article is from the Harvard Crimson, and the headline Harvard Endowment Appoints three New Directors, Including JP Morgan Executive who managed Epstein's bank accounts well, isn't that nice, huh? Fantastic stuff from Harvard. This article was authored by Saket Sundar. 3 Harvard Business School alumni, Paul B. Edgerly, Mary Callahan Erdos and Raymond J. McGuire, were appointed to Harvard Management Company's board of directors, the university announced on Tuesday. The trio, all of whom have extensive experience in private equity or asset management, joins HMC during a period of ongoing shifts in managing Harvard's $56.9 billion endowment as the university continues to expand its exposure to private markets and alternative investments. $56.9 billion, huh? Must be nice. But the appointment of Erdos, the CEO of JP Morgan's asset and wealth management, could introduce new headaches for Harvard. Erdos has drawn federal scrutiny for management of Morgan's relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, who held accounts at the bank between 98 and 2013. Yeah, I would think that would be a big problem with Harvard's history with Epstein already. Are you guys for real? Talk about tone deaf. Who's making these decisions? Whoever that person or persons is, they need to go. The appointments bring the total number of HMC directors to 15. The board has no fixed size and includes designated seats for the university's president, treasurer and and chief financial officer, as well as HMC's Chief Executive Officer, MP Narv Narveker Edgerly is the managing director and co founder of Vantage Edge Partners, a private investment family office group, and previously led private equity at Bain Capital. And if you recall, that was Mitt Romney's group, Bain Capital. Maguire serves as the president of Lazard, a global financial advisory and asset management firm, and previously led Citigroup's investment banking division. And you know how I'm always talking about the financial sector and how they're behind the scenes controlling everything. What more do you need to see here? Like everywhere you turn around one of these people from a hedge fund or a bank or whatever is putting their fingers into the pie and it leads to the rest of us getting food poisoning. Doesn't matter where they go, what they do. These people are corrupt. Harvard under pressure after newly released documents from the House Oversight Committee revealed correspondence between Epstein and several faculty members has redoubled its efforts to examine ties to Epstein. A week before Erdos appointment, the university launched an investigation to revisit the connection between Epstein and Harvard affiliates, including former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers, who maintained a close correspondence with Epstein until the financier pedophiles 2019 arrest. Oh, yeah. There's no doubt that Larry Summers and Epstein were very, very close. And I think that all those emails, they just confirm everything that we've known. You don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to figure out that Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein were buddies. But it's always nice to have the receipts, right, for the people in the back row, you know, the people that want to act like it's not a big deal. Like all the people making our laws, all the people that are in control of our lives weren't in on it. Yeah, those people. Well, here are the receipts. What more do you need? Explosive revelations in House documents prompted President Donald Trump to order a Justice Department investigation into Summers. And House staff floated the idea of launching a probe into Harvard, CNN reported earlier this month. Look, not exactly a fan of the Trump administration, as you all know, but I think it's a good idea to take a look at everything. The problem is I don't trust the Justice Department to do it. So we need a special investigator. So if we have a special investigator, then everything should be on the table. But anything that this administration does when it comes to Epstein especially, I don't believe. Sorry. When you show me who you are and you tell me who you are, I'm gonna believe you. And the Trump administration has shown us that they don't give one single about Epstein survivors or going after the remnants of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire. And that's what they should be doing. Spokespeople for HMC and the university did not respond to requests for a comment on Erdos appointment. Well, of course they're not going to say, but they should. And they're gonna have to say something at some point. Question is, what the hell could they possibly say? Investigators wrote that many of the exchanges between Erdos and Epstein were highly personal in nature and reflect the close relationship. And that Epstein appeared to have constant access to Erdos during 2010 and 2011, months after he completed a 13 month prison sentence stemming from a 2008 Florida guilty plea on charges of procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute. First of all, a minor can't be a prostitute, so let's throw that out the window. Second of all, you're not soliciting a prostitute. You're soliciting a child, you sick child molesting bastard. JP Morgan terminated Epstein as a client in 2013, citing money laundering concerns. But according to the Senate memo, Erdos personally approved an internal request later that year to continue working with Epstein on projects for third party clients like Leon Black and executive private equity giant Apollo. A gift from Black, brokered by Epstein funded the work of English professor Elisa F. New, who was also married to Summers. And is it any wonder that that goofy ass committee that the Congress is running right now about Epstein hasn't subpoenaed Leon Black or Les Wexner or any of these people? Like I said from the jump, that committee is trying to run interference for Donald Trump, and it's pathetic, it's disgusting, and it needs to be called out. In 2019, New York Times reported that Erdos was the driving force behind retaining Epstein as a client after his initial conviction in 2008, against the recommendation of the firm's in house compliance officers. So she went over the legal team and said, look, we need to have Epstein as a client because, well, you know, he's bringing in a bunch of dough. I'm sure she used a bunch of flowery language instead, but that's what she meant. We can't lose this guy because there goes my commission. Imagine how disgusting you have to be to really think like that or to act like that and to look the other way for personal gain. And we're not talking about somebody who even needs it, right? How much money do you think Mary Erdos has? But when you're one of these people, enough is never enough. A spokesperson for JP Morgan disputed the newspaper's reporting at the time, claiming that Erdos would never overrule our compliance team or other controls functions to retain a customer. And that Erdos only met with Epstein once to fire him as a client. Oh, well, all those emails, we should just ignore those. And once on the books, how do we know they didn't meet, you know, clandestinely? So I don't take anything these people tell us at face value, ever. And whenever we're dealing with anything related to Epstein, I just automatically assume the worst. Under normal circumstances, when something sounds ridiculous, well, more times than not, it's going to be ridiculous. But when we're talking about Epstein and what he was doing, everything's on the table. Because I don't put anything past this degenerate and his friends. Erdos was repeatedly made aware of Epstein's convictions and his status as a high risk level offender. But she chose not to drop him as a client or open an investigation into his accounts, According to a March 2023 deposition first reported by the Washington Post. Erdos also admitted in the deposition, parts of which were cited in a legal complaint later that spring, that J.P. morgan knew by 2006 that Epstein was accused of paying cash to have minors brought to his home. J.P. morgan's cooked. If we had a real country, real ramifications for your. Every single one of these executives that was taking Epstein's money and facilitating this enterprise would end up in prison. But unfortunately, that's not reality. And these people, instead of actually being punished, they just move on to bigger jobs with more prestige. JP Morgan ultimately paid 75 million to settle the lawsuit which was brought by the US Virgin Islands and alleged that the bank enabled Epstein sex trafficking network. Well, look, as much as I agree with that, I think the USVI also enabled him. The USVI stole this money. That money should have went to the survivors, the, not to the usvi. But they all benefited from it, right? So they got to eat on both ends of the table. They ate with Epstein and then afterwards they played the victim and got another bag. So yeah, all those politicians from down in the Virgin Islands, Stacy Plaskett and the rest of them, all of them are complicit in my opinion. In a statement to the Crimson, a spokesperson for JP Morgan defended Erdos and the company, pointing to Erdos termination of Epstein as a client in 2013 and saying the bank did not know the scope of the sex trafficking allegations against Epstein until his 2019 arrest. Oh yeah, you guys had no idea. JP Morgan had no idea who they were doing business with. They had no idea the allegations made against Epstein. So nobody was the wiser. Nobody had a clue, huh? That's what they're trying to tell us. Unfortunately for them, nobody believes it. And Harvard's gonna have some answering to do. The firm filed several suspicious activity reports beginning in 2002 and heard nothing back from the government, the spokesperson wrote. In 2013, Mary and her team made the decision to terminate him as a client. It was not until 17 years later that the government made public the sex trafficking details, information they clearly had for years and failed to share with us or other banks, the spokesperson added. It's always everybody else's fault, huh? No sort of accountability ever from anyone in power. Meanwhile, whatever you do for a living, go to work today and fuck up and see how well that works out for you. The spokesperson also defended Erdos, writing that she has always held herself and her colleagues to the highest standards of integrity and trust. The Senate memo described messages showing Epstein and Erdos in frequent contact about business matters. In one 2011 email unsealed in the memo, Epstein wrote to Erdos, who was traveling abroad, there are 21 million reasons I'd like to know when you return. After Erdos informed him that she was in Europe at the time, Epstein asked if they could speak immediately. In another Exchange, also from 2011, an assistant informed Erdos that Epstein thought she would appreciate that he just got out of the pool at the Ritz and in Paris. Rude and insensitive, erdos wrote back. Whatever that means. According to the Senate memo, Epstein was told by former JP Morgan executive Jess Daily to stop pushing Erdos. Epstein responded that he would ease off, but had thought I was following the plan. Staley later became CEO of British bank Barclays before resigning after a British government investigation of his close relationship with with Epstein. The whole entire thing is intermingled. Every one of these people that was working at JP Morgan in a position of leadership should be held accountable. At the very least, a robust investigation should be kicked off. Erdos also sent Epstein a birthday greeting in 2012. Not sure where you are celebrating it, but I hope you have a great birthday weekend, erdos wrote. Thanks, Boris said you were terrific, epstein wrote back. And he means Boris Nikolic, the other dude who was supposed to be an executor for his estate, who ended up not being one. But a guy who has a relationship or had a relationship with Epstein that was a lot closer than he's ever let on. Maguire and Edgerly boast long standing ties to Harvard's fundraising efforts. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Deanship was renamed after a gift from Edgerly and his wife Sandra in 2014. The couple also led FAS's $2.5 billion capital campaign in 2013. Maguire spoke at HBS Class Day in 2023 and was awarded the W.E.B. du Bois Medal, the university's highest honor in African American Studies, in 2022. Maguire also led a three year campaign to establish the David L. Evans Scholarship for Underrepresented Students. And at Harvard College in 2003, Harvard Treasurer and HMC Board Chair Timothy R. Barkett 87 praised the additions in a statement, pointing to the new director's background in global markets, asset management and organizational leadership. And, you know, pampering a human trafficker at that as well. Harvard and HMC are very fortunate to welcome these three distinguished alumni to the board, baraket wrote. Their leadership will help ensure that these resources continue to provide vital support for current and future generations of students, faculty and scholars. So as we close this out, I want to be crystal clear. This isn't just another bureaucratic screw up from some clueless university administrator who wandered into the wrong decision. This is a conscious choice, a deliberate slap in the face to every survivor, every citizen who is forced to watch these universities and institutions play musical chairs with the same people who grease the wheels for Epstein. This is Harvard telling the world in broad daylight that the only thing that matters is power and the preservation of their gilded club. Not ethics. Not decency. Certainly not accountability. Because if you want to know what real corruption looks like, stop staring at criminals in orange jumpsuits and start looking at the people in tailored suits who never face consequences. The ones who land softly, the ones who fail upward. The ones who break the world and get applauded for doing it. Harvard's proving once again that elite culture is nothing but a rotting empire wrapped inside of a velvet curtain, a cathedral built on hypocrisy and pretension, worshiping money and influence at any price. All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.