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Re:Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein by dawhizkid on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:46PM (#20963778)
The Harvard connection was more widely known than the MIT one until recently.
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Re:Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein by JackFr on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:51PM (#20963838)
The importance vis-a-vis MIT is the dates. If this article is accurate Harvard stopped taking the money once he was a convicted sex offender, MIT didn't.
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Re:Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein by hn_throwaway_99 on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:54PM (#20963877)
--- Well, MIT put Epstein on their donor blacklist, but Joi Ito specifically circumvented that and tried to hide the source of Epstein's donations in 2013. ---

Edit: I stand corrected as nullc points out below (and why no strikethroughs HN?)

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Re:Harvard admits to receiving $9M from Jeffrey Epstein by nullc on Friday September 13, 2019 @01:02PM (#20963974)
> MIT put Epstein on their donor blacklist, but Joi Ito specifically circumvented

Turns out that is essentially false, see my other reply to you in this thread.

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