What are the ties that bind men like Bill Gates and Jeffrey Epstein? Investigative journalist and author Tim Schwab joins the show to explain the various and unsavory ways that Gates and Epstein were connected, details from the Gates testimony before the House Oversight committee and the new questions it raises, and the risks of an unregulated world of private philanthropy.

Mentioned in this episode

Fortune: How Jeffrey Epstein leveraged a prestigious U.N.-affiliated nonprofit—and the Gates Foundation—to control women and keep them in his orbit

BBC: Bill Gates said Epstein Wanted a Relationship

People: Bill Gates Had 'Spoken' with Jeffrey Epstein About His Nobel Prize Ambitions: Source

WSJ: How Epstein Inserted Himself Into a Split Between Bill Gates and a Top Gates Adviser

Drop Site: Epstein Received Sensitive Military Intelligence Amid Gates Foundation Polio Campaign in Pakistan

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