MIT's Jeffrey Epstein Coverup

Virginia Giuffre is the central figure in MIT's Jeffrey Epstein coverup (https://lnkd.in/eHbFEWMk), written for MIT by the Goodwin Procter law firm. Her December 2014 lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein, accusing him of sexually trafficking her to Prince Andrew and Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz when she was 17 years old, is the "recent news" that Israel Ruiz refers to in his January 13, 2015 email to Joi Ito:

“[d]o you have time for a conversation about the gift discussion we [had] before the break? We have had a chance to discuss the nuances in light of the most recent news and would like to share Rafael [Reif] and others perspectives with you.”?(p. 37)

The "gift discussion" that Ruiz and MIT president Rafael Reif and others members of the senior leadership team had discussed was a spectacular $10 million donation from Epstein. MIT allowed Epstein to issue press releases regarding his funding of MIT research, so in November 2014, anticipating Giuffre's lawsuit, Epstein reached out to his handler at the Media Lab, Ito, and together they put together the $10 million deal.

In November 2014, Epstein and Ito discussed the possibility of Epstein donating millions of dollars to MIT, an amount far in excess of the few hundred thousand dollars he had donated up to that point. (According to Ito, the John Templeton Foundation discussed the possibility of Templeton matching up to $5 million in donations from another source. Ito asked Epstein if he would make the initial donation of up to $5 million, to trigger the Templeton match; Epstein signaled a willingness to do so.) This potentially substantial increase in giving by Epstein led to renewed consideration of the issue by members of the MIT Senior Team during December 2014 and January 2015, including Ruiz, Morgan, and Julie Lucas, the new Vice President for Resource Development.?

Alas, starting on January 2, 2015, newspapers around the world ran graphic accounts of Epstein's activities as a Serial 3 sex offender and sex trafficker of underage women.

Once the news had hit the media, MIT whitewashing couldn't help Epstein, so he withdrew his offer. But MIT, despite understanding exactly who Epstein was, continued the relationship with Epstein for three more years, more donations, and ongoing unsupervised visits.

All this is what the two Goodwin Procter lawyers wrote the MIT report in order to hide, because it destroyed the "I knew nothing!" defense strategy they had worked out, that Rafael Reif and nearly all of MIT's senior leadership knew nothing about MIT's relationship with Epstein until they learned about it from the New Yorker in 2019.

This repugnant history is what MIT became in 2011 with Susan Hockfield's unexplained resignation and the transfer of power to David Koch and the MIT Corporation.

"At the December 2012 quarterly meeting of the Corporation, a quiet revolution in MIT governance took place. Unnoticed by nearly all faculty...the Executive Committee would no longer be chaired by the president of MIT, but by the chair of the Corporation... Our interviewees were concerned about the degree to which MIT, though legally a non-profit, is being conceptualized as a business." — "MIT: Where Now" (MIT Faculty Newsletter, Jan/Feb 2020, https://lnkd.in/erqcBxys)

I've posted many, many times about MIT's Jeffrey Epstein coverup, but I think that with Virginia Giuffre being so constantly in the news with Prince Andrew's formal apology to her, his $16 million donation/settlement to her sex trafficking charities, and now his ludicrous attempt to withdraw that apology, Giuffre takes her proper place in the MIT story, and it becomes easier to see the revolting, heartless truth that MIT lawyers had successfully hidden.

And as the saying goes, once you see it, it becomes impossible to unsee it.