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A Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) director, a high lawyer at Goldman Sachs and several other high-profile educational students had been reportedly named in Jeffrey Epstein‘s private calendar, new reports claim.
According to documents obtained by the Wall Street Journal, several previously unnamed figures may have met with Epstein after 2008, when he pleaded guilty to soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.
The WSJ report, published on Sunday, named a number of people in Epstein’s calendar who had not been recognized in his “black book,” which is now public. Among the names allegedly listed in Epstein’s calendar was the present CIA director William Burns, scholar Noam Chomsky, Bard College president Leon Botstein and high Goldman Sachs lawyer Kathryn Ruemmler.
Epstein’s “black book” beforehand named the likes of Prince Andrew and Harvard professor Alan Dershowitz.
The WSJ couldn’t confirm that every one conferences reportedly in Epstein’s calendar had ever taken place. The objective of a lot of the conferences was not listed, and being named within the calendar shouldn’t be an indicator of any kind of crime or connection to crime.
In 2014, CIA director Burns was allegedly scheduled to fulfill with Epstein on three events. The then-deputy secretary of state was listed to first meet Epstein at his Manhattan townhouse.
CIA spokesperson Tammy Kupperman Thorp denied Burns, 67, had any information of Epstein’s private life on the time they met.
“The director did not know anything about him, other than that he was introduced as an expert in the financial services sector and offered general advice on transition to the private sector,” she instructed the WSJ. “They had no relationship.”
FILE – CIA Director William Burns was named by the Wall Street Journal as one in every of many influential folks with scheduled conferences in disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s private calendar.
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After one assembly on the townhouse, Epstein apparently deliberate for his driver to take Burns to the airport. Though Burns recalled assembly Epstein briefly by way of a mutual pal in Washington, he denied the opposite conferences within the calendar.
“The director does not recall any further contact, including receiving a ride to the airport,” Thorp instructed the outlet.
Burns was nominated by President Biden to function CIA director in 2021.
Chomsky, an American linguist and political activist, met with Epstein on various events all through 2015 and 2016. He instructed the WSJ he and Epstein met to debate politics and academia.
One such assembly was allegedly with Chomsky, Epstein and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak.
As a part of one other assembly, Epstein scheduled a flight for Chomsky, 94, to have dinner with director Woody Allen and his spouse, Soon-Yi Previn.
Chomsky’s reply to a WSJ inquiry about whether or not or not he met with Epstein was easy. He wrote: “First response is that it is none of your business. Or anyone’s. Second is that I knew him and we met occasionally.”
FILE – U.S. linguist and political activist Noam Chomsky allegedly met with Jeffrey Epstein many occasions all through 2015 and 2016, as per the Wall Street Journal.
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In response to assembly particularly with Epstein and Allen, Chomsky instructed the WSJ, “I’m unaware of the principle that requires that I inform you about an evening spent with a great artist.”
Chomsky added that “what was known about Jeffrey Epstein was that he had been convicted of a crime and had served his sentence. According to U.S. laws and norms, that yields a clean slate.”
Between 2002 and 2017, Epstein reportedly donated not less than US$850,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the place Chomsky was a professor. MIT later claimed to have since donated the funds to charities that assist victims of sexual abuse.
Bard College president Botstein instructed the WSJ after being named that he met with Epstein in an try to safe funding for the varsity. He invited Epstein — who travelled with a gaggle of “young female guests” — to the campus. On one other event, Botstein met with Epstein to thank him for donating laptops to Bard.
The WSJ reported Epstein and Botstein met greater than two dozen occasions in 4 years, largely at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse.
FILE – Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, stated he met with Jeffrey Epstein, however was “the object of a little bit of sadism on [Epstein’s] part in dangling philanthropic support,” as per the Wall Street Journal.
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“I was an unsuccessful fundraiser and actually the object of a little bit of sadism on his part in dangling philanthropic support,” Botstein instructed the WSJ. “That was my relationship with him.”
“We looked him up, and he was a convicted felon for a sex crime,” he stated. “We believe in rehabilitation.”
Ruemmler, a high Goldman Sachs lawyer, was at one level a White House counsel to President Obama. Between becoming a member of Goldman Sachs and dealing on the White House, the WSJ claimed Ruemmler met with Epstein “dozens” of occasions. In his calendar, Epstein reportedly wrote that he was to fulfill Ruemmler in Paris in 2015 and on his personal island within the Caribbean in 2017.
Ruemmler stated she and Epstein had knowledgeable relationship and denied ever travelling with him.
FILE – Kathryn Ruemmler, former White House counsel and Goldman Sachs lawyer, was reportedly scheduled to fulfill with Jeffrey Epstein on various events.
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A Goldman Sachs consultant stated Epstein launched Ruemmler to a number of potential shoppers, together with Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.
“I regret ever knowing Jeffrey Epstein,” Ruemmler instructed the WSJ.
Quite a lot of different influential folks had been additionally named by the WSJ as being listed in Epstein’s calendar. These included Ariane de Rothschild, CEO of the Swiss personal financial institution Edmond de Rothschild Group; Harvard University professor Martin Nowak; Joshua Cooper Ramo, the vice chairman and co-chief government of Henry Kissinger’s consulting agency Kissinger Associates; and anthropologist Helen Fisher.
Epstein was discovered lifeless in a New York jail cell of an obvious suicide in 2019 whereas awaiting trial for intercourse trafficking costs.
In February, legal professionals for the previous affiliate and girlfriend of Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, argued that her 20-year sentence for intercourse trafficking needs to be thrown out, or a brand new trial ordered.
The authorized submitting claimed prosecutors ought to by no means have been in a position to press their case towards Maxwell due to a deal Epstein reached in September 2007 with federal prosecutors in Florida that protected not solely himself from prosecution however “any potential coconspirators.”
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Read the entire Wall Street Journal report right here.
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