How an Élite University Research Center Concealed Its Relationship with Jeffrey Epstein; The New Yorker, September 6, 2019
Ronan Farrow, The New Yorker;
New
documents show that the M.I.T. Media Lab was aware of Epstein’s status
as a convicted sex offender, and that Epstein directed contributions to
the lab far exceeding the amounts M.I.T. has publicly admitted.
"Current and former faculty and staff of the media lab described a
pattern of concealing Epstein’s involvement with the institution. Signe
Swenson, a former development associate and alumni coordinator at the
lab, told me that she resigned in 2016 in part because of her discomfort
about the lab’s work with Epstein. She said that the lab’s leadership
made it explicit, even in her earliest conversations with them, that
Epstein’s donations had to be kept secret...
Swenson said that, even though she resigned over the lab’s relationship
with Epstein, her participation in what she took to be a coverup of his
contributions has weighed heavily on her since. Her feelings of guilt
were revived when she learned of recent statements from Ito and
M.I.T. leadership that she believed to be lies. “I was a participant in
covering up for Epstein in 2014,” she told me. “Listening to what
comments are coming out of the lab or M.I.T. about the relationship—I
just see exactly the same thing happening again.”"
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