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In this case you know because Epstein already had a criminal conviction and MIT had already blacklisted him as a donor.
by CrazyStat 7y ago
In this case you know because Epstein already had a criminal conviction and MIT had already blacklisted him as a donor.
- meerita 7y agoI mean before that. Obviously you cannot accept money from someone we discover is a criminal
- asveikau 7y agoHere is one thing. If you want to get technical, without knowing everything we now know about Epstein, I am not sure a conviction is enough. MIT is not the criminal justice system. We now know that Epstein got a light sentence and the guy responsible had to quit his job in disgrace. But maybe not everybody knew this. Maybe he says, "yeah I did this thing, but I served my time blah blah, by the way please take this million dollars". And in the abstract, do you want to stigmatize every single convict or do you believe that some of them are reformed? Obviously Epstein was not, and MIT didn't want to take the risk, correctly.