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Mega Edition: Jeffrey Epstein And His Time As The Big Man On The Harvard Campus (Part 1) (5/9/26)
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Jeffrey Epstein spent years cultivating deep ties to Harvard University, embedding himself within elite academic circles despite his growing legal and reputational baggage. Through donations, personal relationships, and aggressive networking, Epstein...
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I'm your host, Bobby Capucci, and this is daily drop 439. Hey, what's up everybody, and welcome to the program. We're gonna get right into it tonight. Considering this is a relatively long, long article, it's really an editorial that was posted by Lawrence Lessig over at the Harvard Crimson. Now, Lawrence Lessig is the R.L. fuhrman professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard, and he's taking Harvard to task in this editorial. Folks, I've been calling for this kind of rhetoric for quite some time, and very few people in academia were willing to stand up and say anything about this stuff. Dr. Stephen Delay was one of the very few. So it's nice to see Lawrence Lessig show up to the party. I mean, a little late, obviously, but still, what do I always talk about? If the people that are within these institutions aren't holding their peers and each other responsible for their behavior, then how can anybody on the outside ever expect for that to occur? So it starts on the inside and seeing Lawrence Lessig pen this essay. This editorial here is certainly a step in the right direction. So let's jump right into it and let's see what he has to say. This appeared in the Harvard Crimson. Author is Lawrence Lessig Harvard has apparently concluded its review of its relationship to the convicted child sex offender Jeffrey e. Epstein. In September 2019, after expressing that he profoundly regrets Harvard's association with Epstein, University President Lawrence S. Bakehow promised to review how we prevent these situations in the future. And what did we get like usual when it comes to these Internal reports. Or we're gonna have a real reflective look in the mirror. And we're gonna see how we can be better. Whenever it's that kind of stuff, it usually falls flat on its face. At least with my experience here in the Epstein case. Every single time one of these groups does a internal review, it always turns out to be absolute garbage. The report found Harvard had taken no money from Epstein after his conviction. Though there were further questions that merited study. Two weeks ago, after completing that study, Harvard determined to shutter the research center Epstein's money had founded. And discipline its academic director. Yet in these steps, Harvard has still not given us a fair accounting of our past. And worse, in this latest step, it hides that account behind a scapegoat. And that is definitely the case. They have scapegoated from the jump over at Harvard. None of the people at the top, none of the trustees. Lawrence. Back out. None of these other people that are, you know, top dog at Harvard. People that are supposed to be responsible for this sort of thing. None of these people have felt the full weight of what occurred. None of them have stepped down or lost their positions or lost tenure or lost anything like that. Instead, a few of the people who were getting that money directly from Epstein. Ended up being the only people to take the fall. And while they should have, right, the people that facilitated the Epstein money in the first place, the scientists that he was collecting and that were taking money from him. All of those sons of bitches should have lost their jobs for sure. They should have lost tenure. They should have lost everything honestly. But the same goes for the people above them. Is there no accountability when it comes to the management level, so to say, in this situation, Is it just the professors who should be sanctioned. Who should lose their jobs or should everybody who was around at that time, everybody who should have seen what was going on, who didn't, either willfully or because they're morons. All of those people should not be in the positions that they're in. There are plenty of capable position people to fill those positions. There are three chapters in the evolving relationship between academic institutions and Jeffrey Epstein. In the first, before his conviction in 2008, everyone loves Epstein. And that is the case. All of these people were gushing over Epstein. Remember the Vanity Fair article? You know, these people were gushing over Epstein. And they'll tell you now that, oh, we had no idea what Jeffrey Epstein was. We there. There was no signs. Nobody had any idea. Meanwhile, we know that's a bunch of bs, right? We all know that that's garbage. Epstein didn't wake up one morning and decide to become an absolute scumbag pervert. This is who he was. This is the kind of person he was. This was his character. All of those crass jokes while you guys are all around at a science conference that didn't ring a few alarm bells. I mean, come on already. There's a time and place for everything. You know, you're sitting around with the guys. It's a poker game. You want to have some crass language. I get it. Yeah, of course. That's what guys do. I get it. You're at a science conference. Why do you need to have girls with you? Why do you need to talk about disgusting topics that, you know, these. There's no place for it in the.
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In the environment or the setting. And that didn't ring any alarm bells? Didn't go off for anybody. It didn't ring any alarm bells for
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Please, give me a break. I'm just, you know, I'm so sick of the. Well, we had no idea. We didn't hear anything. We didn't see anything. Well, you certainly didn't say anything. In the third, after the 2018 article in the Miami Herald detailing his depravity. Everyone hates Epstein. Hey, hold on a second. You guys should have hated him. Long time before that, this stuff was out there. People were talking about who Epstein was. There was, you know, a lot going on in that realm of the atmosphere. People knew exactly what Epstein was. It didn't take the Julie Brown article to let people know what Jeffrey Epstein was. The Julie Brown article that got people to start paying attention. But in the second, there is an ambiguous dance between this generous funder pedophile and universities that recognize complexity in taking his money. See, and that was. That's one of my biggest problems with this. They knew it was wrong to take old boy's dough, but they did it anyway. And then when they're called out on it, they start with the whole nonsense of, well, what do you mean? We had no idea. You knew. Everybody knew. You took that money anyway. And what you thought was that Jeffrey Epstein was in the clear, he did his time. They weren't going to come get him again because of all of his connections. There was no way that was going to occur. So these dudes hopped right back into bed with them, had their hand out, and Jeffrey Epstein was handing out the hundreds of thousands. In 2008, former university president Drew G. Faust resolved that complexity with clarity, but incompletely, unlike others, Such as mit. Faust determined that Harvard would take no more money from Epstein, according to the May 2020 report. Yeah, okay. But very much like others, including MIT, she gave no directive about how the many other ways that Epstein was connected to the university should be affected by her determination. Of course, she didn't go all the way. You know what that's called, Mr. Lessig? I'm pretty sure. You know, you're a very skilled lawyer, very intelligent man, well schooled. Much more well schooled than me, that's for sure. But the cynic in me says it was left there on purpose as a loophole so they could still get that money while retaining plausible deniability. In particular, she gave no guidance about how the center that Epstein's main contribution to Harvard had established, the Program on Evolutionary Dynamics, should negotiate its continued interactions with Epstein. And I'm sure that Mr. Lessig here is going to give us a different avenue and a different bit of thought. But for me, the cynic in me, and I'm sorry I have to be so cynical when dealing with this case, but the track record has made it so. So it looks to me like this is a loophole that she left in there so that the professors could still continue to rake in the dough, while the univers University at the same time could say, well, look, we have these, these guidelines in place. We're not involved in that. We didn't know anything about it. So it was kind of a, you know, wink, wink, nudge, nudge kind of deal. In particular. Oh, we passed that.
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Because from the start, Epstein was constantly engaged with PED and with others through pedestrians. And that's the Program on Evolutionary Dynamics. That's the, the, the, the, the way that they talk about it, you know, when they abbreviate it. It's called the PED. According to a letter that Martin Nowak, the PED's academic director, sent to administrators when the center was founded, Harvard's then president, Lawrence H. Somers. Huh, that name sounds familiar, doesn't it? Got Epstein to pay the rent for ped's office. Not on Harvard's campus, but in commercial space in Harvard Square. And you all remember Larry Summers, right? Lawrence H. Summers, good friend of Obama's. You know, one of those guys? Yeah, Larry Summers, typical academia scuzz. From the beginning, Epstein treated that space as a second office in Cambridge. Epstein traveled to Cambridge regularly to meet with Harvard's most luminary, including Summers. Regularly, but not exclusively at ped. Those meetings are described as interesting and intellectual in nowak's letter, there is no suggestion they involved any inappropriate behavior, well beyond, of course, the inappropriateness of including Epstein himself. So I'm certainly not laying out the charges that there was inappropriate behavior as far as abusing girls here. I'll leave that to some of the other fantasists that are floating around. What I am saying, though, is Larry Summers is an absolute jerk, an absolute scuzzball, and an absolute moron. Larry Summers is the kind of guy that epitomizes everything that was wrong with academia and their relationship with Epstein. Politically connected, locked in at the university, top of his field, and the exact kind of guy Jeffrey Epstein loved hanging around. These soirees continued long after the 2008 ban on raising Epstein money. The question is why? Some thought the ban would be temporary. Some hoped Epstein's reputation might be restored. All right, Paul, well, hold on. Hit the brakes. Restored his reputation restored, huh? Again, we're not talking about somebody who was involved in a money. A money scam here. We're not talking about somebody who got into a fight in the bar and things went too far and the person he was fighting with got hurt severely. You know, you people make mistakes, right? You can forgive mistakes is what I'm trying to get at. But this is no gray area mistake. This is no. Oh, man, I really, really, really screwed up this time. Wasn't. That's not. That's not what this was. This was human trafficking of children. Point blank, period. Some believed it morally obligatory to give a criminal a chance at redemption. And that's such BS too. All of these elites love to talk about that, but what have they done to really give people who need a second chance a second chance? The dude that got popped for selling some pot? Guy on the corner who got nailed with some crack, who's doing a lot longer than. Than the dude who had the same amount of powdered coke? Where are they to help these people out? Nowhere to be found are they. They love to bloviate, and they love the virtue signal, but they don't love to strap on their boots and get down to work. Nowak was told as much by his spiritual advisor, which he shared in his letter to the administration.
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His spiritual advisor, huh? I mean, really? Your spiritual advisor told you that you should help Jeffrey Epstein refurbish his image, huh? Talk about passing the buck. Talk about absolutely passing the buck. Whatever the reason, the reality is that there was no real change in the practical relationship that Epstein had to Harvard beyond his ability to write Harvard a check. The meetings continued. The relationships grew deeper. The conversations on and near campus were many. And there are just tons and tons of people who have talked about this, who have witnessed it, and it's in their report itself. So there's no denying Jeffrey Epstein's presence on the campus and around these professors. What continued as well was ped's need for money. Like Epstein's, ped's rent was substantial. Nowak reports that at first, after Pfaff's ban, Harvard had agreed to assume it. But after the financial crisis, Nowak was informed that he would have to raise it himself. So again, Harvard is not getting off the hook here. At least not with me. Some people might let him off the hook, but not me. They're the institution here. They're the ones where the buck stops. So after the financial meltdown, you clowns didn't have the money to fund this department, so you told this professor it's up to him to do it himself. And then there was no checks and balances. Like you had never seen Epstein's name before. All of it smacks of absolute bs. Foundations usually don't give academic grantees money to cover rent, so everyone knew those additional funds would have to be like Epstein's from private individuals. An FAS Development Office staff member encouraged Nowak as late as 2017 to ask Epstein to ask his friends to help, according to the May 2020 report. So we want Epstein's money, but we don't want the stink of Epstein on it. So let's have Epstein middleman it and get some of his rich A hole homies to fill the void, and then that'll give us the COVID we need. Because we could say, well, Epstein didn't give us the money. Insert scumbag here did. As late as 2017 to ask Epstein to ask his friends to help. Nowak followed Harvard's direction. Epstein obliged, securing substantial support from his friend. Oh, here's a name that all of you are going to. Leon D. Black, among others. So you see, the Leon Black story just keeps getting deeper and deeper, though quicksand
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And we talked about this months ago, months and months and months ago, that Leon Black was in this up to his ears and that he has some explaining to do. Now you add on the new allegations against Leon Black. Oh, yeah. Old boy is up the up the creek right now without a paddle. There's no doubt about that. Throughout this period, apparently no one with any authority, certainly not the university, not its former president Summers, not its development office, not the dozen or so Harvard's most elite saw any inappropriateness in this ongoing academic relationship. And that right there says it all. Everybody involved, everybody that was around. If they're still there, if they're still drawing these gigantic ass paychecks at this overpriced once great university, they should all be fired. A new broom sweeps clean. What they should do is get Morgan Freeman's character from that Stand By Me movie and have him show up at Harvard and whip these guys into shape. Despite the obvious harm that a sex offender could trigger in the members of our community who themselves might have been victims of sexual abuse, the elite of Harvard's elite continue to nurture a relationship with a sex offender. Yeah, because that's what the elite do. I hate to be the bearer of bad news for anyone who holds these people up on high, but the so called elite, yeah, that's a class of sick ass people. A whole group of people who literally have zero morals and, and who do not care about anything that does not increase their wealth or their power. And that's not just me saying it. Their actions bear it out. Despite the clarity of all of our views now, they apparently so saw no wrong in what all of them were doing then. At least until chapter three, when all worked diligently to forget what had happened between 2008 and. And 2018. Yo, Lessig is going hard in the pain here. He's leaving. He's really shooting from the hip and giving all of these guys the business, as he should. It's about time someone at Harvard stood up and did the right thing. Harvard's May 2020 report celebrated Faust's moral clarity, but it identified some details that required further investigation. In March, Harvard completed that determination. It did not release any public accounting. Instead, its conclusions were shared internally by email to the affected departments. Predictably, that email was leaked. And in this day and age, if you have some sort of explosive email and you're in a situation like at an institution like Harvard, you. You have to expect that the email is getting leaked. So you better be on your game, be on your P's and Q's and say exactly what you want to say in that email. The effect was completely foreseeable. Airbrushed from the history are the many Harvard luminaries who participated in and encouraged the ongoing relationship with Epstein after 2008, left standing alone as Nowak Peds academic director who is now to be disciplined. And disciplined as in quotes. He's not wrong. No act while should be why he should be disciplined. And he should be in big trouble for all of this. And Like I said, lose his job. In my opinion, all of these other people need to lose their jobs, too. What's protecting them? That they're a trustee? That they're so called part of the elite? Enough already with these people. And thus we, the community, are allowed the comfortable view that Drew Fost got it right in 2008 and the university followed her lead, even if a very few among us apparently didn't get the memo. So, kind of a cover, right, for Harvard here with that statement. Oh, it's not the whole institution. We got it right with what Foss said. But there are still. Still some. Yes. That doesn't. That doesn't cut it with me. Sorry. Everybody who was around.
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Everybody who was around, who was involved when Epstein donated that money, they all need to be fired. Yet this framing is absurd. And its lie is revealed in the thinness of the charges against Martin Nowak. Because Nowak has not been punished for associating with Epstein. How could he be when so many others from Harvard, much more famous and prominent, had associated with Epstein as well? And again, it comes back to. For me, anyway, this is a Harvard problem, folks. Something stinks at that university. And I wouldn't spend one red cent to send my child there. Not one cent. It is absurd what occurred in those alleged hallowed halls. Neither has he been punished because he asked Epstein to help him address PED's funding needs by securing donations from Epstein's friend, Leon Black. How could he be when Harvard's Development Office itself ask Novak to ask Epstein for help? And there's the rub of it, right? And he gets to the heart of the issue, in my opinion. And that is everybody who is there, everybody involved. All of these people that are hitting us with virtuous signaling, okay? The virtue signaling has to stop by these people. Somebody has to take responsibility for what occurred. You're all making big bucks. And with that big money comes big responsibility. Or it should. Rather, Nowak is being disciplined because of offenses that are plenty, not offenses at all, or that, when committed, were not viewed as anything more than simple mistakes. The most extraordinary of these is the charge and Faculty of Arts and Sciences Dean Claudine Gay's notification to Nowak, which states that he exhibited profound negligence in misrepresenting the source of PEDs matching funds to one of his funding sources, the Templeton Foundation. This is a gross misrepresentation in itself. Yeah, I agree. Not a big fan of Claudine Gay or the way she handled this. And to make Nowak the Scapegoat. And the only one really getting punished is laughable, considering we know the relationship somebody like Larry Summers had with Jeffrey Epstein. If they were to sanction everybody at Harvard who had a relationship with Epstein, those would be some empty ass halls, folks. The May report had speculated this might have happened. But Noak's emails with the Templeton foundation reveal that the precise words used to report his funding were actually requested by the foundation. The Templeton foundation was neither confused or misled, meaning there could be no misrepresentation. So they knew nothing was misrepresented to them. They knew exactly what they were getting into. They knew what the money was for, and they knew where the money originated. They did not care. And that's really what it comes down to. That's what it boils down to. The balance is just as weak. From the very start, Harvard knew Epstein treated ped as a second office. According to the May 2020 report, Harvard knew as early as 2006 that Epstein even had his own phone. So again, Epstein is set up, got this office. Larry Summers sets that up, got himself a phone line. He's Mr. Big Shit on the campus of Harvard now. Yeah, I'm Jeffrey Epstein, brr. College dropout. Dropout here, dropout there, but got myself a fellowship at Harvard. What an absolute joke. And what disrespect to the people who actually work hard for those fellowships. According to Nowak, Summers walked with Epstein as he secured access to ped's offices with his own key card. Not once did he or the university say that this access was wrong or must end. But now Nowak is to be disciplined, in part because PED gave Epstein a different key card after the Harvard access system had changed. So even after they changed the system, the access system, even after, you know, they, they updated the, the locks, they had to make sure their boy Epstein was taken care of. Right. They had to make sure their golden ticket was taken care of. They had to make sure Jeffrey was all right. Sure, I guess one could say that a university wide change in security protocols was meant to signal to PED that it should stop granting Epstein access to the PED offices. But wouldn't a memo from the administration have been a clearer way to send that message? Well, they got money to burn there, obviously. I mean, with the, the, the insane amount of money they charge the students, that every single toilet bowl should be gold plated, they should all be eating five star meals every night in the commissary. And you know, whatever the, the top Egyptian count sheets are, they gotta have those. This is Harvard, after all. Finally, Nowak is to be disciplined because the center allowed Epstein's biography to appear on PED's webpage after Epstein's publicist requested it. Of course, the story of center benefactors commonly appear on center webpages. Of course they do. That's part of it, right? What do you think? These guys donate all of this money and they don't get anything on the flipback? Of course they do. But during a period in which Harvard was inviting Jeffrey Epstein to the launch of its capital campaign, and the most elite of the elite at Harvard were regularly meeting with Epstein at PED and around Cambridge. FAS blames Nowak for failing to recognize that it was a misuse of the harvard.edu domain to reveal Epstein as a friend of Ped. It wasn't wrong to take his money. Okay, Wasn't wrong to use him as a benefactor. Wasn't wrong to give him an office, but it was wrong to let everybody know that. All about saving face. It's never about the people who were affected. It's never about the girls who were abused or anything like that. You would think with as much involvement people from Harvard have that they'd start their own sort of program here where they'd offer free courses to these gals. None of these offenses would have even been noticed. But for Harvard's need to appear vigilant, if only against one of the very many who continued to engage Epstein at Harvard after 2008, that one, its scapegoat. It was wrong for Harvard to continue any association with Epstein after 2008. No one should be forced to live or work in an environment that celebrates in any way a man who crossed this critical line. Or a woman at that, for that matter. Let's be very clear. 38% of people who are engaging in trafficking are women. All right, we went through that report already. But the point stands. Nobody should feel uncomfortable at work. Nobody should feel uncomfortable at school and this environment. I'll tell you what, not an environment I'd want my people in, that's for sure. Sex abuse is permanent. Its survivors carry its costs forever. All of them are entitled, at the very least, to an environment that does not trigger retraumatization. To have suffered from the likes of an Epstein and then see Harvard's most elite, most elite hanging with Epstein is to add injury to insult. And that is a fact. That is definitely a fact. And it's no different. Let's be very clear with Kamala Harris hanging out with Bill Clinton, we have to be consistent here, right? None of these dudes should be given air to breathe if they're involved in this sort of thing. And this wrong is about much more than funding. It's about the continuing relationship with so many at Harvard. Our accounting for that is wildly incomplete, and it betrays the truth and a commitment to institutional integrity to allow Harvard to stand as innocent while one faculty member went rogue. And I. Look, I couldn't agree more with what he's saying here, folks. I think that no act needs to be disciplined, needs to be punished, but everybody does. I just want. I want to drive that point home. The story of chapter two at Harvard is not the story of one bad apple. It is of an institution blinded by what? Money? Brilliance? Celebrity? From what seems to us now as an obvious moral truth. Of course, we were right not to take Epstein's money after 2008, but we were deeply wrong to continue to celebrate him at Harvard in all the ways that so many of the most prominent, prominent among us did. That is powerful. And he's calling to account all of his colleagues on campus who took part in refurbishing this guy's image and helping him have this access. That wrong is not excused or hidden with a scapegoat. We need an honest accounting of that past and a plan for how Harvard will avoid this failure in the future. Should all criminals be banished always? Should particular criminals, those whose crimes particularly affect members of the Harvard community, be banished always? And by always, I don't mean for any purpose. An event at which a criminal was asked to reflect on at least some crimes or even offer his justification could be different, at least if properly framed from a workshop in which the criminal is just one more participant, celebrated only or especially because he happens to be rich. These are hard questions, no doubt, especially in an age of tweet length attention spans. Boy, can I get a clap from the back of the room there. That is exactly the age we're in. The attention Spanish of a tweet. But it betrays our tradition to hide from these more complicated questions, simply because some might misunderstand. We are a university that openly and eagerly engaged with a child sex predator, not just before he was convicted, but long after. How did our culture allow this to happen? And how can we now allow this failure to be obscured by scapegoating just one? Yes, Harvard's virtue has been signaled to anyone blind to what actually happened right here among us. But the vice of what happened, the open and regular engagement with a sex offender, has not been reckoned here. It is that which Harvard must finally account for openly, fairly and honestly. Well folks, there you have it. Somebody finally connected to Harvard. Somebody with a serious voice on campus calling his colleagues to account. If you'd like to contact me, you can do that@bobby capuchirotonmail.com that's B O B B Y Capucci protonmail.com youm can also find me on Twitter at bobycapucci. All of the links that go with this episode can be found in the description box. Alright everybody, I'll be back later on and we'll pick it up where we left off.
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What's up everyone? And welcome to another episode of the Epstein Chronicles. Yo, you ever get the feeling like you're being played by the people who swear they're the best and the brightest? Well, that's Harvard. The so called crown jewel of American higher learning. The place that lectures everybody else about ethics, equity and truth. Well, turns out their version of truth is just a thin coat of paint over a rotting beam. They didn't just take Epstein's dirty money. They didn't just look the other way. They gave the guy an office, for Christ's sake. A convicted predator, A human cockroach. Strolling Harvard's halls like he's faculty. And the same suits who tell working class parents they're not Harvard material. We're nodding and smiling at him like he was royalty. And don't give me the weed at no line. We're not stupid. The whole country knew who Epstein was by then. It was in the papers, it was in the court records. He wasn't some mystery donor in a trench coat sliding a check under the door. Harvard knew exactly what they were doing. Laundering a monster's reputation for a cut of the cash. Integrity and leadership go out the window when a billionaire creep waves a few million bucks. They held their noses, they took the money and then they puffed out their chests about their values. And now with these Bloomberg emails. Holy hell. The mask isn't just slipping. It's gone. Pulled clean off. We're seeing what they really are. Scrambling, scheming, trying to keep the gravy train going while whispering to each other how sensitive this all is. Sensitive, homie? No, it's revolting. It's sickening. It's the kind of slime you expect from back alley mob outfits. Not the premier university in the world. And keeping it a buck. The whole thing reeks of power, worship and moral bankruptcy. These people would hand out diplomas to the devil himself if he wrote a big enough check. And then they'll still go on TV and. And they'll still tell the rest of us about ethics and leadership and the future of democracy like they're some kind of moral compass for the country. Yo, you gotta spare me. And you have to spare everybody else. They have no compass. They've got a cash register. They use Epstein like a bank machine and let him use Harvard like a human shield. And when the heat came down, they tried to shove it under the rug and hope the rest of us forgot. But the emails prove what we already suspected. Harvard wasn't just asleep at the wheel, they were driving the damn car. And look, if you're from where I'm from, you don't get away with that kind of shit. You steal, you lie, you cover for a predator, you're out. But at Harvard, you get a bigger title, a fancier office, and another photo op. And these sons of bitches wonder why the rest of the country's fed up. They wonder why people like me are furious. This isn't just about one sicko and one Ivy League school. It's about a system where money and connections erase shame, erase justice, and erase basic decency. And Harvard? They're not the victims. They're the poster child. This article is from the Harvard Crimson, and the headline, jeffrey Epstein's emails reveal close correspondence with Harvard Professors. Bloomberg reports. This article was authored by Wyeth Renwick, Nina J. Trivedi, and Annabel Mu, who are all writers for the Crimson. Several Harvard professors, including Social Science Division Dean Steven M. Costelin, education professor Howard E. Gardner, and former Harvard Medical School professor Mark Tramo, maintain contact with convicted of sex offender Jeffrey Epstein after he was first indicted in 2006 for soliciting prostitution. And we know it was a lot more than that. Breaking news. Children cannot be prostitutes. So how was he soliciting prostitution when he was picking up little girls from high school? Epstein planned gatherings and discussed funding for Harvard research with the professors who offered the now deceased felon words of encouragement after the first indictment was filed, according to a collection of more than 18,000 emails from Epstein's inbox obtained by Bloomberg News. And you can always tell a lot about a person by what they say when they think nobody else is paying attention. It's easy to, you know, say things in public that people agree with, that people are going to look at you and say, oh, this guy's a great guy. But what are you saying when them doors closed? What are you saying in the so called confidence of the people that you trust? And, well, now we know what they were saying at Harvard, and none of it was good. Between Epstein's indictments in 2006 and subsequent guilty pleas to soliciting prostitution with a minor in 2008, Coslin sent Epstein emails arranging dinner with other scholars and with Harvard Law School professor Alan M. Dershowitz, Epstein's close friend and attorney. Now, Alan Dershowitz will have you believe that he was just Epstein's attorney, and that's where it began and where it ended. But I don't think that's the case. And in fact, the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and Alan Dershowitz is a lot deeper than Mr. Dershowitz admits. Now, does that mean that Mr. Dershowitz was involved in anything Epstein was doing? Well, we know what Virginia alleged, and then we also know that Virginia and Alan Dershowitz decided to end their dueling lawsuits. Now, I said at the time, I think it had to do with the fact that Virginia had just had enough at that point. I mean, she spent basically her whole life fighting these lawsuits, battling in court, arguing, having her name dragged through the mud. And I think that all of the other factors in Virginia's life at the time led to her just saying, you know what? Enough is enough. Let's drop these lawsuits. What am I going to gain? It's not like anyone's paying attention. It's not like anyone's going to call for jail time. So I've always said that I think Virginia dropped the lawsuit or was willing to drop the lawsuit because she just had enough at that point, and there was nothing left to prove or gain for her. Gardner sent Epstein a list of book recommendations and promised to follow up with advice about offsprings. Two months after Epstein pleaded guilty to two state charges, Gardner advised him to take a deep breath and take one day at a time. See, and there's the difference between me and Mr. Gardner, because I'd be telling my so called friend, I want you to take a deep breath while you're underwater and drown yourself. Because anybody who does this to children does this to anybody not a friend of mine. And I don't care how deep we are, I don't care how far we go back. And let me tell you what, I have some friends that are in prison right now, as we speak, for life, for murder, for all kinds of wild stuff, and they're still my friends. There's only a few different crimes out there, in my opinion, that are unforgivable. And when you start targeting children, women, elderly, the vulnerable, that makes you a predator. And there should Never be any kind of forgiveness or mercy shown to people that are going to target the most vulnerable amongst us. Epstein's size to Harvard are well established. He gave at least 9.1 million to fund university programs and faculty led research projects in the 90s and the early 2000s. Any foreign personal ties with many Harvard scholars? The signature of both current Mathematic professor Martin A. Nowak and Henry Rosofsky, the former faculty and Arts science Dean and two time acting Harvard president appear in Epstein's infamous 2003 birthday book. A university spokesperson did not respond for a request to comment. Of course not. They're not going to have anything to say. They want you to forget about this. They want you to think that this never happened. They want you to think that Harvard had nothing to do with Epstein. Well, they did. Not only did they enable him, they helped refurbish his image. Right, and that led to more people getting abused. So Harvard needs to be called out onto the carpet. Costlyn, whose signature also appears in the book, chair at Harvard psychology department from 2005 to 2008 and served as a social science dean from 2008 to 2010. According to Bloomberg, he discussed accepting the deanship with Epstein via email, writing again a month later that he wanted to visit Epstein. Oh, I'm sure he did. I wonder what he wanted when he visited Epstein. That's the real question. Bunch of degenerate scumbags. Unfortunately, jail starts Monday. Epstein wrote back. According to Bloomberg, Costlyn's research received $200,000 from Epstein between 98 and 2002. He also wrote a letter of recommendation advocating for Epstein to be named a visiting fellow in the psychology department during a 20056 school year, despite Epstein's lack of relevant academic credentials. Kosland is currently president of an AI education company and did not respond to her request for comment. Of course not. None of them are going to respond. They're going to play the long game, right? The game of we didn't know, we still have no idea. Why are you even bothering us with this? This is old news. Didn't you hear what the President said? Gardner is still a professor at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and wrote in a statement to the Crimson that Epstein had funded some of his research in the 90s and early 2000s. Once he had been arrested. I made it clear to him that that I could no longer accept any funding. But as a friend and beneficiary of his philanthropy, I tried to be supportive. Gardner wrote. Of course, no one I knew, which included dozens of Harvard faculty had any idea of the nature and extent of Epstein's crimes, which only became clear in the following years. Oh yeah, Nobody had any idea, huh? Which is just absolutely false. Absolutely false. Bloomberg reported that Kosland also communicated with HMS Genetics professor George M. Church and Gary B. Ruvcomb, who won a Nobel Prize in 2024, about encouraging Epstein to fund a research project on pleasure signals in the brain. Oh well, why not talk about some fucking wild ass experiment on the island of Dr. Moreau? I shall again try to drive home the point about the Pleasure Genome Initiative, Rukom wrote in a February 2006 email to Koslin. Let me know if this subject is too strange for our patron. Too strange, huh? It's not strange enough. We're talking about a guy who wanted to cut off his wanger and freeze it. A guy who thought he was going to seed humanity with his own DNA and seed. Pretty sure that you have the right donor for this dumbass project. After the correspondence was forwarded to Epstein, Epstein wrote to his assistant that the patron has no boundaries. According to Bloomberg, it's unclear whether Epstein ever donated to such a project. Yeah, no boundaries for sure. And we're not talking about, you know, the brand from Walmart or Target or whatever the fuck. This is a man who didn't care about anything but what he wanted. And all these people around him were more than happy to help him get whatever he wanted as long as they were catching a little something on the back end. A few weeks before his indictment, Epstein wrote in an email about his plans to fund the Harvard Genome project run by Church. An itemized budget found in his email also showed plans to spend 1 million on the project. According to Bloomberg, Rufkin and Church are both still genetic professors at hms. Neither responded to requests for comment. Well, isn't that nice? Bunch of Jeffrey Epstein's patrons running around working for the hms. No wonder you can't get your broken arm fixed. Epstein's inbox also contained an exchange with Paul Weiss, partner at HLS graduate Mitchell D. Weber, from 2006, when Weber was working as a research assistant for Dershowitz. Epstein's lawyer. Weber, who took notes for Dershowitz during meetings with Epstein's legal team, wrote Epstein in June 2006 to address a question concerning the legality of transporting a minor for sex. Well, imagine. Great question, huh? Hey, Mr. So and so, I have a question for you. I'm thinking about, you know, transporting this minor for sex. Can you help guide me? I'm sorry, I was a Little confused about what you were asking on the phone, Weber wrote. I see what you are asking now. The question is what would happen if one were to transport a minor for sex or transport oneself with intent to have sex with a minor into a state in which the edge of consent is below 18, assuming the minor is above the edge of consent in the given state and your intuition was right, the answer is that there is no violation of the law. So what they're doing basically is looking for ways to skirt the law. What can I get away with? What can I get away with? Completely disgusting. Epstein then responded to Weber's email asking to research sex tourism laws.
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Weber declined to comment on the email exchange. Though this particular exchange does not include emails from Dershowitz. Several separate emails from him were reported by Bloomberg. In one, he vowed as one of his close friends that Epstein never participated in in sex with minors. So he lied. Dershowitz, you're a liar. Okay? When it comes to that topic, what you said about Epstein participating with insects with minors, you lied. So what else are you lying about, bro? Had no problem calling the pierogi guy in Martha's Vineyard a liar. Had no problem calling Virginia Roberts a liar. Well, I guess it would take one to know one, huh? In another, Dershowitz pledged, when the full story finally comes out, the world will learn what we already know, that Jeffrey is a good person who does many good things. Dershowitz did not respond to requests for comment. No, he has to go back into the bunker first and come up with a narrative. He'll have some kind of stupid narrative for this. Make no mistake, when News broke in 2007 that Epstein would plead guilty to soliciting prostitution, Tramo, who left Harvard in 2009 and and currently teaches at the University of California, Los Angeles, wrote to offer a message of solidarity. Please remind him that the boys from the Bronx, even if they end up at Harvard, have long memories, know all about cops, and stay true to their friends through thick and thin, no less Peccadillo's Tramell wrote in an emailed statement to the Crimson. Trammell wrote that he was first introduced to Epstein in the late 90s by then Harvard Provost Harry Feinberg, who had asked Tramo to sit with Epstein, then a board member of the university's Mind, Brain and Behavior Inter Faculty Initiative. Feinberg did not respond to a request for comment Monday evening. Of course not. None of them are going to say anything because they know that they're in the wrong and they don't want to make it worse. Than it already is. I, like several of my Harvard and MIT colleagues at the time, had no knowledge of his horrible crimes. I never asked or read about what he had happened in 2006 and 7, Trammell wrote. I had been duped to believe he had committed some minor offense and that he was just being harassed by police. Imagine being this smart, a Harvard professor, the whole thing, and acting like you got duped. Nobody believes this. And if you did get duped, you need to find a new line of work. You shouldn't be teaching kids, you dumb. I never visited Epstein's island, never flew on his planes, and never saw him with young girls. Trammell wrote. At the 21 Club dinner, he was accompanied by a 30ish year old woman. I had no idea he was a pervert. How do you know how old the woman was? We have some kind of special ability. You can look at somebody and tell their age. Epstein died by suicide in prison, allegedly in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges. Well, look, I've been talking about Harvard and the problems at Harvard when it comes to Epstein for years. And these emails are just confirming everything that we knew previously. And I think that as we move forward, I think we're going to see more damning evidence that damns more people. And I don't even think there's a question about that. However, the real question is after these people are outed and after this information becomes public, what then? All of the information that goes with this episode can be found in the description box.