ABOVE: Some of Jeffrey Epstein’s meetings with researchers took place at Harvard University.
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A number of scientists and research institutions continued to maintain links with convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein after he was sentenced to prison in 2008, BuzzFeed News reported yesterday (August 26). While some of the payments and meetings he had with members of the research community were already public knowledge, others were identified by the news site through public records requests.
Epstein died by suicide earlier this month while awaiting trial for fresh charges of sex trafficking underage girls. After being convicted for paying an underage girl for sexual acts in 2008, he spent 13 months in prison in Florida.
Some scientists refused to continue associating with Epstein after his conviction. Harvard University’s Howard Gardner, a cognitive scientist who mentioned his “valued friendship” with Epstein in a 2005 book, tells BuzzFeed News: “I ...
