This is the summary for this post. It can be a long paragraph or several short ones, it really doesn’t mater so long as it is perfect, looks good, and convinces everyone.
And this is the quote:
From my very first days as MIT’s president, David Koch was a friend, collaborator, supporter, and enthusiast.”
— Susan Hockfield, 2019
Did you hear the one about the actor who carries a spear in Hamlet? When a friend asks the actor what the play is about, the actor says, “It’s about a soldier with a spear.”
That’s more or less what went wrong with celebrity journalist Ronan Farrow’s disastrous expose of Jeffrey Epstein at the MIT Media Lab, published back in September 2019 by the New Yorker.
Farrow was handed the MIT-Epstein story when MIT whistleblower …. went to whistleblower.com with her concerns about Jeffrey Epstein’s donations to MIT, and they in turned suggested she reach out to Farrow at the New Yorker.
Farrow interviewed mmm, made some calls, then ran his story, “…
Because Signe worked as a fundraiser at the media lab, what she saw were emails related to Epstein’s donations, and that was the story she reported to Farrow. It’s bizarre n dismaying the calamity thst these donations caused, given the real crimes that Epstein was engaged with at the time…. tbc.
They are meeting at MIT’s exclusive retreat center, the Endicott House. And at the time of the meeting, they are surrounded by newspaper articles focused on Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit against Prince Andrew, Alan Dershowitz, and Jeffrey Epstein, with graphic description of what happened to her.
The top leaders are wearing very large name badges pinned to their chests, reporting their names and positions.
Immediately following the meeting, CFO Israel Ruiz sends an email from his phone to Joi Ito, director of the MIT Media Lab, sitting alone in a large conference room in the media lab waiting for this message.
Hi Joi, do you have time for a conversation about the gift discussion you and I had before the Christmas break? This afternoon, at the Senior Leadership retreat, we had a chance to discuss the nuances regarding Jeffrey’s new donation in light of the most recent news regarding Virginia Giuffre, and I would like to share the perspectives of President Reif, Chancellor Barnhart, Provost Schmidt, and others with you regarding Jeffrey’s proposed donation to MIT.
MIT Dark Money 