[Pearls Before Swine]

Mostly irrelevant factoid:

The official MIT mascot is the beaver.

“Engineer of the animal world.”

[Ann Archy]

Hey Ronan.....get the NAMES in Epstein’s Black Book and EXPOSE THEM like you did Weinstein! PLEASE!

[dowcaet]

Leftists, especially academic leftists, will take money from anyone regardless of who and where it’s from!

[txrefugee]

Maybe Bernie is right on just this one thing: The wrong people have the most money.

Of course, he’s a millionaire too, only he won’t admit it.

[Raycpa]

So now some of his money is used for good.

[cgbg]

This is a great story.

Grab the popcorn:

http://web.mit.edu/fnl/volume/303/silbey.html

[Wayne07]

Read this article, and the more detailed New Yorker article by Ronan Farrow, but still unclear what value Epstein was getting for direct donations and helping solicit donations on behalf of others. Not like MIT is a good place to recruit girls.

[bgill]

Bet a few media students are scared right now especially if they have duplicate porn tapes of Epstein’s “friends”.

[GOPJ]

The Media Lab knew the disgraced financier was a convicted sex offender, but still took his gifts and used him as an intermediary with other wealthy donors, including Bill Gates and investor Leon Black, Farrow reported for The New Yorker.Epstein helped secure at least $7.5 million from well-heeled donors for the school, including two million dollars from Gates and $5.5 million from Black...

Odd how the MSM has so little interest in this story... where is the Washington Post? The New York Times?

[minnesota_bound]

Have they donated the money to a charity? Or have they kept it?

[edwinland]

Worth reading the whole New Yorker article.

Something just doesn’t add up.

For example, Epstein gets Gates to donate a large sum to the lab, and lets the lab directors know he solicited/directed the donation but then they record it in a manner that disguises Epstein’s involvement.

But if Epstein just loved the lab and wanted Gates to donate to it, it would have been much simpler to just ask Gates to donate and not mention to the lab directors that he was the instigator. It would have saved them all the fuss.

SO obviously Epstein wanted to get “credit” for the donation.

But what does “credit” mean in this context?? There’s something he was getting that’s not being addressed.

The article ably demonstrates the lengths universities will go to to get donations, but it never questions the lengths Epstein was going to to make the donations, and what he thought he was getting in return.