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New MIT Report Details University’s Deeper Relationship With Jeffrey Epstein – The Chronicle of Higher Education

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Jeffrey Epstein, the convicted sex offender who reportedly committed suicide in jail last year while facing further charges that he had trafficked and sexually abused young girls, had a closer relationship with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology than was previously public, according to a 61-page report released on Friday by the university.

Epstein visited MIT’s campus nine times, the report says, from 2013 to 2017 — well after his 2008 conviction. He donated a total of $850,000 to MIT over a 15-year period, including $525,000 to its Media Lab and $225,000 to Seth Lloyd, a tenured mechanical-engineering professor. MIT put Lloyd on paid administrative leave on Friday, and Joi Ito resigned in September as director of the Media Lab after a New Yorker article made public details about Epstein’s relationship with the lab.

The report was prepared by Goodwin Procter, a law firm that the university hired last September while it was facing intense scrutiny for its relationship with Epstein. New revelations about his alleged crimes had come to light, most notably in the Miami Herald, as had his connections to famous scientists, who had visited him in his homes and accepted his money for their research. Harvard University said it had accepted about $9 million from Epstein before his conviction, and that university is also investigating the extent of its relationship with him.

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