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Jail for what? Accepting donations from a pedo is not a crime.
by esoterica 7y ago
Jail for what? Accepting donations from a pedo is not a crime.
- davrosthedalek 7y agoHe hid the donations from MIT. Since Epstein was on the blacklist, MIT might have a civil case against him. I'm not a lawyer, so I don't know if that would be, for example, "fraud".
- moron4hire 7y agoAlso, using your professional relationship as a foundation employee to solicit funds for your personal, private ventures is suuuuuper illegal.
- davrosthedalek 7y agoIndeed, but I have not seen that he solicited them. Of course the fact that they were made stinks to high heaven.
- moron4hire 7y agoIt doesn't matter if he literally asked or not. Anti-corruption laws are much more concerned with the appearance of impropriety than they are with the actual turn off events. That is to say, they err on the side of caution. Anything that could have come about through abuse of the professional relationship is verboten, even if it was "happenstance". Simply put, disregarding all of the other issues, given the prior relationship between Ito and Epstein for the MIT Media Lab donations, there was no legitimate path for Epstein to invest in any private venture of Ito's.
- esoterica 7y agoCan you provide a citation for that?
- moron4hire 7y agoHiding the information on from whom the donation came from is a crime. Even if the donor wants to be listed anonymously, you have to at least record in your database (and these foundations have extensive databases going back decades) who it came from.