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Congress Puts Columbia University On Notice Over Their Epstein Ties (4/24/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
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  Epstein Chronicles. When you look at Jeffrey Epstein and the
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  sort of influence that he will did within some of
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  the most important industries in the world, there's no denying
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  the influence Jeffrey Epstein had on some of the most
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  prestigious campuses around the country. We've heard a lot about Harvard,
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  We've heard a lot about MIT, We've heard about the
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  Santa Fe Institute, We've heard about Arizona State University, and
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  plenty more. And now we have a letter to Columbia
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  University from the Senate Judiciary Committee and Jamie Raskin asking
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  questions about Jeffrey Epstein and his activity at Columbia University.
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  And I want everybody to just keep in mind this
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  is just what we know about, and my guess is
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  we're going to find out a lot more as things
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  continue to move forward. A guy like Jeffrey Epstein had
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  his hands in so many pies that it's not even funny.
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  Every single thing he touched became corroded. So in this episode,
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  we're going to dive into this four page letter from
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  Jamie Raskin and see what this is all about. Dear
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  miss Shipman. For decades, Jeffrey Epstein and Glenn Maxwell, as
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  well as their co conspirators, accomplices, and enablers, operated a
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  billion dollar international sex trafficking operation. The House Committee on
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  the Judiciary is investigating how this massive criminal conspiracy was
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  able to operate successfully and with impunity for years and
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  victimize more than a thousand women and girls from around
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  the world. My staff has recently received detailed information from
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  numerous survivors that mister Ebstein repeatedly lured young women into
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  his network by promising to help them gained admission in
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  the colleges and universities, including Columbia University, and according to
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  these survivors, mister Ebstein and his co conspirators promised victims
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  that he would ensure they were admitted to Columbia and
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  then paid for their classes, all while he and his
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  co conspirators continued to sexually assault and rape them. I
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  write to you today to request that Columbia do whatever
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  it can to assist the Committee's important investigation and understanding
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  how mister Epstein was able to use Colombia and other
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  academic institutions to lure victims and silence survivors into his operation.
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  For years, Jeffrey Epstein engaged in various schemes to traffic
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  hundreds of women and girls into the United States and
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  keep them under his power. The Miami Herald's influential reporting
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  on mister Epstein detailed how he used an international modeling
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  agency mc squared to recruit girls as young as thirteen
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  from Europe, Ecuador, and Brazil. The girls lived in a
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  New York building owned by Epstein, who paid for their visas.
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  After mister Epstein's two thousand and eight Florida conviction, he
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  arranged for celebrities to write letters of recommendation from on
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  his behalf. Mister Epstein also used promises of improved career
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  prospects to keep these women and girls under sway. Epstein
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  counseled the girls about their schooling and told them he
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  would help them get into college modeling school, fashion design,
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  or acting. This twisted promise to facilitate college admission for
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  his sex trafficking victims was not an idle one. Mister
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  Epstein maintained close ties to multiple academic institutions. He donated
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  tens of millions of dollars two dozens of colleges such
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  as Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Ohio State University,
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  Penn State University, Hunter College, City College of New York,
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  and Bard College, as well as art schools such as
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  Interlocan Center for the Arts and New York Academy of Art.
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  He also donated to high schools such as the Palm
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  Beach Academy in Florida, the Dalton School in New York,
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  and the Ivanna o'doorra Keen High School in the US
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  Virgin Islands. Public records associated with mister Epstein's foundation, which
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  have been partially preserved between twenty ten and twenty fourteen,
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  indicate that he was a donor to Columbia and Columbia
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  University of College of Dental Medicine between twenty ten and
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  twenty twelve. Mister Epstein used his relationship with some of
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  these prestigious academic institutions to procure girls for his sex
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  trafficking operation. During the trial of mister Epstein's co conspirator,
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  Glenn Maxwell, a survivor testified that she met mister Epstein
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  and miss Maxwell in the mid nineties in between classes
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  at Interlochan Arts Camp, where mister Epstein was a donor.
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  In nineteen ninety six, mister Epstein met a different victim
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  at n YAA, where he had served as a board member,
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  and later arranged for students from and YAA to play
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  sexualized games at her dinner party at his ranch in
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  New Mexico. As late as twenty eighteen, less than a
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  year before mister Epstein's arrest, bank compliance officers flagged his
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  payment of tuition to women with Eastern European surnames, noting
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  that the unusual transaction appeared suspicious. When questioned about the payment,
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  mister Epstein's accountant, Richard Kahn, justified it as being sent
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  to a friend for tuition for school. The House Committee
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  on the Judiciary has now received substantial and detailed information
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  that mister Epstein promised young women that he would arrange
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  for them to be admitted to Columbia. In other cases,
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  mister Epstein personally paid for their Columbia tuition. By doing so,
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  mister Epstein not only lured young women whom he and
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  his co conspirators would come to sexually abuse and rape.
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  He also ensured his victims were indebted to him and
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  less likely to come forward to report crimes to law enforcement.
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  For example, around two thousand and two, Jeffrey Epstein paid
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  for Survivor one, whom he abused from tand T one
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  to two thousand and nine, to attend Columbia. Around two
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  thousand and one, Jeffrey Epstein promised Survivor two, whom he
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  was abusing at the time, that he would arrange visits
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  to Columbia and New York University in order to support
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  her pursuit of a business degree. Between two thousand and
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  four and two thousand and seven, Jeffrey Epstein held pay
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  for Survivor three, whom he abused from two thousand and
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  two to two thousand and nine, to attend Columbia. Toward
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  the end of her time at the school, mister Epstein
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  would make payments in excess of tuition fees for Survivor three,
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  so when the tuition was refunded, Survivor three would receive
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  several thousand dollars directly from Colombia through mister Epstein. Multiple
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  survivors reported that their tuition, paperwork and expenses were personally
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  arranged by Darren Endyke and Richard Kahn, mister Epstein's long
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  term lawyer and accountant and now at CO executors of
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  his estate. The House Committee on the Judiciary is seeking
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  colle Umbia's assistance in shedding light on how, for years
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  mister Epstein was able to use his ties to Columbia
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  to lure victims and ensure their silence. In order to
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  help protect the privacy of mister Epstein's victims. In responding
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  to this request, please redact the names and personally identifiable
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  information to any and all individual students. If you have
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  any questions or regarding these requests and whether information should
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  be disclosed, please contact my staff or under separate cover.
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  In order to assist in this important investigation, Please provide
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  the following records and information no later than January twenty eighth,
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  twenty twenty six. From nineteen ninety to the current day.
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  One all records relating to Jeffrey Epstein, Darren Endyke, Richard Kahn,
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  Ghlaine Maxwell, or their associates, including but not limited to, correspondence,
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  donation or tuition payments, and meetings or attendants of Columbia events. Two,
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  Any documents reflecting internal investigations into or involving Jeffrey Epstein,
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  Darren Indike, Richard Kahn, Klaine, Maxwell, or their associates, and
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  the results of such investigations. Three, the total amount of
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  payments and a list of payments broken down by the year,
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  made to Columbia by individuals and entities associated with Jeffrey Epstein,
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  including but not limited to, Darrenindike, Richard Kahn, Klain, Maxwell,
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  Jeffrey Epstein Foundation, the Jeffrey Epstein Foundation, High Perionaire LLC,
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  coo UQ Foundation and Enhanced Education MC squared, Harry Beller,
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  the Ylk Foundation, Erica Keller, Hall's, Southern Trust Company Incorporated,
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  Southern Financial LLC, Hayes Trust, Environmental Solutions Worldwide, the nineteen
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  fifty three Trust Plan d LLC, Great Saint Jim LLC,
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  Nautilus Incorporated, Poplar Incorporated, Gratitude America Ltd. Or Butterfly Trust.
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  And for the total number of Columbia students who tuition
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  or fees were paid in whole or in part by
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  individuals and entities associated with Jeffrey Epstein, as described in
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  Request number three, both across the entire requested time period
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  and broken down by year. I look forward to your
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  prompt attention to this matter, the fundamental importance of which
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  is no doubt recognized by you and other academic leaders
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  very truly yours, Jamie Raskin. So, look, this is a
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  good move, and I think that all of these institutions
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  should be unnoticed, all these places that were taking a
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  ton of money from Epstein and then acting like they
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  had no idea what they were doing. Yeah, they need
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  to be under oath like everybody else. You see, at
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  this point, we can't trust what people have to say,
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  right because if they were trustworthy, they would have on
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  forward previously and told us everything they know. But instead
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  they wait for people to figure it out, They wait
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  to be outed, and then they try and play cleanup control. Look,
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  the best policy here when we're talking about Epstein and
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  relationships is to come forward and meet it head on.
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  Because the more you run, the more you try and
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  play games, the more you offuscate, the more you evade,
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  the more questions people are going to have. And folks,
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  let me tell you, when it comes to academia, you
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  better believe we have some questions. So we'll see what
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  the response is here and we'll see if Columbia ends
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  up playing ball, which I think they will do when
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  all a said and done, But we'll keep an eye
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  on it and when we get some more information, we'll
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  get it updated in the catalog. Until then, that's going
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  to do it for this one. All of the information
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  that goes with this episode can be found in the
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  description box.