Columbia University will pay the Trump administration $220M to settle a lawsuit over alleged antisemitism on campus.
Department of Justice documents on its probe into Epstein revealed that former Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz kept a personal relationship with the sex offender after his conviction, including by tooling around on the millionaire financier’s private helicopter, attending his dinner parties and inviting Epstein to his son’s bar mitzvah, Victim-rights groups said they are outraged that the beleaguered Ivy League institution then still hired Lefkowitz to help negotiate the school’s $221 million settlement with the Trump DOJ this past summer over civil-rights claims of discrimination against Jewish students.
Victim-rights groups said they are outraged that Columbia University hired former Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz to help negotiate the school’s $221 million settlement on civil-rights claims of discrimination against Jewish students.“It’s absolutely not appropriate,’’ said Erica Vladimer, co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group. “There are plenty of attorneys out there Columbia could have hired who don’t have a reputation for defending child sex abusers,’’ she told The Post. Lefkowitz — a prestigious Columbia alum and lecturer and former Bush White House lawyer — was one of the attorneys who negotiated Epstein’s controversial sex-case plea deal in Florida nearly 20 years ago.“There are plenty of attorneys out there Columbia could have hired who don’t have a reputation for defending child sex abusers,’’ Erica Vladimer, co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, told The Post. Epstein was accused at the time of paying a 14-year-old girl $200 to give him a massage at his Palm Beach mansion in 2005, with him using a vibrator on her while he masturbated. Epstein avoided federal charges — which could have seen him face life in prison — and instead received an 18-month state prison sentence by pleading guilty to one count of soliciting prostitution and one count of soliciting prostitution for someone under the age of 18. He was able to go on “work release” to his office for 12 hours a day, six days a week while doing his time. He was released on probation after 13 months. DOJ says it has released less than 1% of Epstein files, with more than 2 million documents under reviewRage as California lawmaker spared jail for felony child abuse due to ‘Epstein loophole’: officialwith the sweetheart plea deal that he gave Lefkowitz and others on his legal dream team an added bonus: nearly $1 million worth of donations to their favorite charities, including a tony Manhattan prep school, The Post wrote in 2019. Epstein’s C.O.U.Q. nonprofit donated $500,000 in 2007 to the Ramaz School on the Upper East Side, where Lefkowitz was a prominent member of the school’s Orthodox Jewish community.Ghoulish Nancy Guthrie streamers are feuding with each other outside her house — as crime scene becomes grim spectacle Savannah Guthrie makes somber visit with sister and brother-in-law to memorial at missing mom's houseextreme antisemitism on campus since the Oct. 7, 2023, attacks by Palestinian terrorists on Israel and ensuing Gaza war, prompting the White House to take on the school, which ended up settling for the whopping amount.During questioning, University senator and professor of writing Susan Bernofsky asked Shipman to “commit to commission an independent review of the Columbia affiliated individuals who were more seriously entangled with Epstein, as is coming out,’’ according to the Spectator.Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman was questioned about Lefkowitz’s and other Columbia associates’ ties to Epstein during a faculty Senate meeting last month.Shipman said at the time it was “premature” to address the Columbia-Epstein connections but that it would be done at a future meeting, the outlet said. A Columbia rep declined comment to The Post about Lefkowitz’s ties to Epstein or whether it was appropriate to appoint him to represent the university in a civil-rights case.The representative also declined comment on whether Columbia paid Lefkowitz or his firm, Kirkland & Ellis, for his work and if so, how much.Lefkowitz held a number of positions in the administrations of both former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. He was also active in the movement to allow Soviet Jews to emigrate to the U..and has done pro bono work,Local CBS reporter brushes off directive to downplay pro-Trump rally after Iran strikes Ghoulish Nancy Guthrie streamers are feuding with each other outside her house — as crime scene becomes grim spectacleUS, Israel launch 'Operation Epic Fury' attack on Iran after regime refused to scrap nuclear program -- Trump vows to eliminate threatsAlix Earle sobs over Taylor Swift song after seeing Braxton Berrios for first time since their breakupVictim-rights groups said they are outraged that Columbia University hired former Epstein lawyer Jay Lefkowitz to help negotiate the school’s $221 million settlement on civil-rights claims of discrimination against Jewish students.“There are plenty of attorneys out there Columbia could have hired who don’t have a reputation for defending child sex abusers,’’ Erica Vladimer, co-founder of the Sexual Harassment Working Group, told The Post.Acting Columbia President Claire Shipman was questioned about Lefkowitz’s and other Columbia associates’ ties to Epstein during a faculty Senate meeting last month.
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