MIT Media Lab director resigns after criticism over financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
Joichi Ito, the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's prestigious Media Lab, resigned on Saturday in the wake of revelations about his acceptance of contributions from Jeffrey Epstein, the multimillionaire financier who died by suicide last month while in prison on federal charges of sex trafficking.detailed his financial ties to Jeffrey Epstein.
"Last night, The New Yorker published an article that contains deeply disturbing allegations about the engagement between individuals at the Media Lab and Jeffrey Epstein," MIT President L. Rafael Reif wrote in aHe called the allegations"extremely serious," saying that"they demand an immediate, thorough and independent investigation."
"This morning, I asked MIT’s General Counsel to engage a prominent law firm to design and conduct this process. I expect the firm to conduct this review as swiftly as possible, and to report back to me and to the Executive Committee of the MIT Corporation, MIT’s governing board," Reif continued.
Anand Giridharadas, an MSNBC contributor and former New York Times columnist, resigned as a juror for MIT's
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