The MIT Media Lab took money from Jeffrey Epstein before he committed suicide in his jail cell awaiting federal trial on sex trafficking charges.
his relationship with the lab—which researches issues relating to technology, media, science, art and design—as a visiting scholar.and said he will raise the amount equivalent to the donations the Media Lab received from Epstein and donate that money to nonprofits that help survivors of trafficking. He also said he would return the money Epstein invested in his investment funds.that he gave at least $200,000 to MIT.
“It’s hard to do that work with a straight face in a place that violated its own values so clearly in working with Epstein and in disguising that relationship,” he wrote. In his apology last week, Ito said he met Epstein in 2013—years after years after he was convicted as a sex offender in 2008.: Epstein has boasted about his ties to MIT over the years, and in 2015 publicized a donation to the Media Lab that he never actually made,
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