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Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by lostlogin »

zachberger wrote: post #9
trentnix wrote: post #4

The report is the product of considerable work involving 73 interviews of 59 people and more than 610,000 documents and emails. That's 10,000 documents and emails per person interviewed. How is that even possible?

I have 24k emails over the last year in my work email. I think this is fairly typical in large companies.

In a University it is completely out of control. Every individual you ever meet or encounter electronically seems to generate an email or meeting invite from them, their university, their department, their school/faculty and from associated departments with a shared resource that you are required to understand. Sometimes it's multiple messages per day, and I haven't worked there in 3 years. Anacedata as I have only worked at one university.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by irjustin »

trentnix wrote: post #4

The report is the product of considerable work involving 73 interviews of 59 people and more than 610,000 documents and emails. That's 10,000 documents and emails per person interviewed. How is that even possible?

Likely - not all 610k documents are authored by those 59 people.

59 people are interesting to look at. 610k documents are related to the investigation probably by search/graph.

Realistically, not all 610k are read manually.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by [deleted] »

ericfrenkiel wrote: post #24

Epstein didn't kill himself. Video footage "accidentally" deleted and the backup footage also lost due to "technical errors." His death and a cleanup so slovenly and brazenly done in front of the public eye is a mockery of America as a nation of "liberty and justice for all."

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Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by teachrdan »

gautamcgoel wrote: post #23
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #20

From the report http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf Professor Lloyd's dealings look very, very shady: > Professor Lloyd remained friends with Epstein after his conviction in 2008. He visited Epstein at his office in Florida during the period of Epstein’s criminal sentence. Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch, and he has acknowledged Epstein i…

Wow. Seth Lloyd is a very well-known name in Quantum Computing. It's pretty shady that he's depositing $50,000 gifts from known sex offenders directly into his personal bank account...

It would appear to be $50,000 plus $125,000 if I'm reading that last note correctly.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by BryantD »

bobbles wrote: post #28
RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #20

From the report http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf Professor Lloyd's dealings look very, very shady: > Professor Lloyd remained friends with Epstein after his conviction in 2008. He visited Epstein at his office in Florida during the period of Epstein’s criminal sentence. Professor Lloyd also visited Epstein’s private island, though for only a few hours for lunch, and he has acknowledged Epstein i…

Does it seem strange that epstein would ask his accountant to move money around? Is this a normal accountant activity?

Yeah, it's normal. A personal accountant can and often will handle a lot of bookkeeper duties on top of the accounting work. See https://www.investopedia.com/articles/personal-finance/04011... for more.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by dr_dshiv »

ericfrenkiel wrote: post #24

Epstein didn't kill himself. Video footage "accidentally" deleted and the backup footage also lost due to "technical errors." His death and a cleanup so slovenly and brazenly done in front of the public eye is a mockery of America as a nation of "liberty and justice for all."

Kind of impressive, and nice in a way - - since it is so obviously corrupt and we become aware of it because the case is so high profile. Makes you wonder who pulled it off and how often things like it occur.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by nabnob »

I've seen some articles written by former MIT Media Lab employees, and they made it seem like Epstein's involvement and history was basically an open secret that they weren't allowed to mention in emails or documents.

There was a Medium article that said Epstein brought young Eastern European women (likely trafficked) with him to campus. (If I can find it I will edit this comment) I think it says a lot about their culture, that people working there are encouraged to look the other way when a billionaire is involved.

Also, looking at the report, it is obvious that Ito was completely aware of Epstein's history, and the risks of associating with him, but continued to invite him to MIT's campus.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by krick »

malvosenior wrote: post #8

The report itself is rather interesting: http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf > After meeting Epstein in February 2013, Ito conducted what he described as “due diligence” into Epstein. Ito told us that he performed a Google search of Epstein and also spoke with certain individuals to learn more. According to Ito, the “influential” people with whom he spoke included Nicholas Negroponte, Media Lab co-…

> To the contrary, members of MIT’s Senior Team were wary of Epstein and nearly returned his May 2013 donation, the first donation of which they became aware

I love the word "nearly" here. Just saying.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by alias_neo »

shadowgovt wrote: post #18
aneutron wrote: post #6

This is besides the point of the article, but the link is in HTTP (no TLS but available with a correct certificate), and the report site which has the information linked in the article is also in HTTP (but has a bad TLS certificate).

Why is this an issue?

Perhaps not least of all that you'd expect a web page from MIT of all places to use a generally considered standard security practice of using TLS, particularly for information some might consider quite important.

Re: Jeffrey Epstein and MIT: FAQs

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Post by deng »

empath75 wrote: post #21
malvosenior wrote: post #8

The report itself is rather interesting: http://factfindingjan2020.mit.edu/files/MIT-report.pdf > After meeting Epstein in February 2013, Ito conducted what he described as “due diligence” into Epstein. Ito told us that he performed a Google search of Epstein and also spoke with certain individuals to learn more. According to Ito, the “influential” people with whom he spoke included Nicholas Negroponte, Media Lab co-…

> and a well-known Harvard Law School professor. almost certainly Alan Dershowitz, who is up to his eyeballs in epstein dirt.

>> and a well-known Harvard Law School professor.

> almost certainly Alan Dershowitz, who is up to his eyeballs in epstein dirt.

My guess is Lawrence Lessig, since he himself wrote about this ("Our conversations then were about his diligence to determine whether Epstein remained an abuser"), see

https://medium.com/@lessig/on-joi-and-mit-3cb422fe5ae7

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