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Professors in the Epstein Files Say They Hoped Friendship Would Lead to Research Funding
Justice Department files expose academics' decade-long efforts to secure private funding from Jeffrey Epstein, revealing $9 million gifted to Harvard and ongoing institutional fallout.
- Justice Department files reveal professors cultivated friendships with Jeffrey Epstein to seek research funding, with dozens of emails and calls over more than a decade, mixing personal topics with funding discussions.
- Facing tighter federal grants, professors and researchers sought Epstein because private donations could guarantee jobs, fund graduate students, and underwrite risky research amid competitive federal grant systems.
- Dr. Mark Tramo at UCLA described exchanging dozens of emails with Epstein, estimating about $200,000 received and sending a 2009 email reading `Only 13 days to go, buddy!!!!!`.
- Immediate fallout includes at least one scholar resigning, Yale University removing a professor from teaching pending review, and UCLA removing Tramo's profile after more than 6,000 signatures, according to KTLA.
- Experts say the episode highlights reputational risks for universities and warns that reliance on donors amid federal cuts forces university leaders to debate long-term funding strategies.
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Griff has organized for 20 years appointments and trips of the paedophile financier. Neither she, nor Sarah Kellen (accused of keeping the list of girls) nor Nadia Marcinkova (accused of entertaining with younger girls in front of Epstein) have ever been incriminated
Now it shows who Epstein's contacts were in the business elite, and what a pleasure these people and the sex offender supposedly did to each other
Colleges grapple with growing fallout from Epstein files
Colleges and universities across the country are dealing with growing fallout from the Epstein files, with professors, donors and at least one sitting school president revealed to have ties to the late sex trafficker.
Many academics frequented the sexual criminal assiduously, soliciting his financial support and seeking his advice, including regarding their relations with women. ...
ANALYSIS. While most of the international personalities in the "Epstein Files" are not at this stage suspected of complicity in the sexual abuses of the millionaire, they could not ignore them. What did not prevent them from taking advantage of his caretaker and broads: this mixture of apathy and cynicism questions.
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