MIT to investigate Media Lab's ties to Jeffrey Epstein following director's resignation
for his resignation following years of accepting gifts from Jeffrey Epstein both for the lab and for his personal start-up investments. Now, the school will investigate those donations as well as attempts to conceal them.Media Lab’s attempts to downplay Epstein’s contributions because it had full knowledge of his 2008 conviction for solicitation of a minor.
“On Ito’s calendar, which typically listed the full names of participants in meetings, Epstein was identified only by his initials. Epstein’s direct contributions to the lab were recorded as anonymous. In September, 2014, Ito wrote to Epstein soliciting a cash infusion to fund a certain researcher, asking, ‘Could you re-up/top-off with another $100K so we can extend his contract another year?’ Epstein replied, ‘yes.
Following Ito’s resignation, MIT’s president released a statement promising that the university would be hiring an independent law firm to conduct an investigation into the cover-up,
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