Jeffrey Epstein received very special treatment at Harvard, according to a new report. He even had his own office, in recognition of his donations to the university.
Disgraced sex offender Jeffrey Epstein had his own office in a Harvard University department and visited there more than 40 times after he was released from jail in 2010 up until 2018, according to review of the university’s ties to the deceased financier released on Friday.
Epstein’s donations helped fund Harvard’s Program for Evolutionary Dynamics more than a decade ago, and he was a frequent presence in the department’s offices in Harvard Square. Martin Nowak, a math professor who led the PED research group, gave Epstein key cards to enter the building and offered the space for Epstein to host dinners and meet with Harvard faculty, area academics, and political figures when he was in town, according to the report.
While space was scarce in the PED group, Office 601 was known as “Jeffrey’s Office” and Epstein decorated it with his own rug and photographs, according to the report. For a time, Epstein even had his own Harvard phone line.
Epstein committed suicide last summer in the Manhattan jail cell, where he was being held on charges of sex trafficking of minors.
Nowak was placed on paid administrative leave Friday, although he will be allowed to administer the final exam for his course this month, Harvard officials said.
According to a monthslong investigation by Harvard’s general counsel and an outside law firm, the university received $9.2 million from Epstein between 1998 and 2007. After Epstein’s 2008 sex conviction, Harvard’s then-president Drew Gilpin Faust barred any more donations from the financier. But Faust’s decision wasn’t clear to some faculty and fund-raisers within Harvard who lobbied administrators over the years to take money from Epstein.
Also, despite Harvard’s objection to taking money from Epstein, he continued to find pockets of support at the university, including from Nowak, the math department, and scientist George Church.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
“The PED[ophile?] research group, gave Epstein key cards to enter the building and offered the space for Epstein to host dinners and meet with Harvard faculty, area academics and political figures [and underage girls?] when he was in town”
LikeLike
“While space was scarce in the PED[ophile?] group, Office 601 was known as “Jeffrey’s Office” and Epstein decorated it with his own rug and photographs[of underage girls?]
LikeLike
Does any rational person believe the following to be true?
“Epstein committed suicide last summer in the Manhattan jail cell …“
The lesson from this:
No one who is too big to get whacked.* (*Mafia-speak for “murdered”).
If powerful people’s lives and reputations are threatened, and they have enough power — as in this case — to whack the person who can hurt them, they will terminate the life of that threatening person. … no matter how safe and secure that person who threatens them seems to be — maximum security, cameras, guards keeping 24-hour watch (supposedly), etc.
Didn’t authorities claim that for just that night, and only that night, the prison’s CCTV hallway cameras outside Epstein’s cell malfunctioned, so that no video exists for the time frame when Epstein allegedly committed suicide?
Seriously???
And multiple guards just happened to be napping during this same time frame?
Really???
LikeLike
They didn’t even bother to make the cover story remotely plausible.
LikeLike
Not me. Suspect Epstein was murdered. He was going to squawk loudly.
Has America become Rome?
LikeLike
Harvard accepted $9 million from Epstein, but is only donating the small portion of that which has not yet been spent ($200k) to charity groups helping trafficked girls.
One would THINK that Harvard’s President, Board of directors and faculty would be UNANIMOUS in insisting that ALL the Epstein money be donated to charity regardless of whether it came before his conviction in 2008. (It’s hard to believe that Harvard administration did not know as early as 2006 that Epstein was up to no good because there was actually an article in the Harvard Crimson that indicated as much.)
But one would obviously be wrong in thinking that even a majority have insisted on that.
It’s not like Harvard can not afford to give up $9 million (some of which may actually have come from trafficking young girls) Harvard has a $40 billion dollar endowment on which they earn billions of untaxed dollars every year from investments.
So why won’t they give up the measley $9 million donated by a man who trafficked girls, some as young as 12 years old?
Saying “we didn’t know what he was up to when he donated the money” is pretty lame.
LikeLike
Epstein’s cover story was that he was some sort of stock trading wizard, but no one on Wall Street confirms that. And Trump’s old buddy Jeff was fond of telling others that he had the dirt on a great many wealthy, powerful people. The real question here is who, exactly, took out the garbage, Epstein, and why.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2016/06/23/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit/
LikeLike
According to Associated Press:
“Some professors beyond Nowak appear to have enjoyed close ties with Epstein, the review found. The report says “a number” of faculty members visited Epstein at his homes in New York, Florida, New Mexico and the Virgin Islands. Some said they visited him in jail or took trips on his planes. The visits were done in a personal capacity, the report said, and do not appear to violate Harvard rules.”
Maybe that’s just because Harvard HAS no rules? — and no ethics, either?
LikeLike