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Warren Buffett Pauses Gates Foundation Donation Amid Epstein Review (7/1/26) · 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 it comes to Bill Gates, the fallout
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due to his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein continues to rain down,
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and now it's affecting the bottom line, and that's because
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Warren Buffett has decided to pause his donations to the
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Gates Foundation for the first time in twenty years. And
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it's all fueled by Bill Gates and his relationship with
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Jeffrey Epstein. And not just the relationship. Remember the lies,
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Remember how he tried to distance himself without coming clean.
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And then ask yourself why a guy like Warren Buffett
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would want to do business with a guy like Bill Gates.
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It's just not going to happen. Warren Buffett's one of
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the few people that we haven't seen caught up with
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Jeffrey Epstein's bullshit, and I think a lot of that
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probably has to do with the fact that Warren Buffett
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he knows better and he's not naive. Jeffrey Epstein didn't
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offer anything to a guy like Warren Buffett, and to
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tell you the truth, he didn't offer anything to a
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guy like Bill Gates either. But Bill Gates has his
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own proclivities. As we've heard, how many affairs are you
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going to have on your wife? Dude? Just leave her.
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So of course he's going to find a fellow traveler
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in Jeffrey Epstein. Now does that mean Bill Gates was
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engaging in abuse? No, but he had the same proclivities
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like those Eastern European girls, and Jeffrey Epstein will perfect
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guy to hang out with, right Bill Gates. But now
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that Bill's come and do and it looks like it's
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going to have a significant cost. So today we have
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an article from The Independent and the headline Warren Buffett
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freezes Gates Foundation donation as Epstein questions resurface. This article
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was authored by Paul Farrell. Warren Buffett is reportedly withholding
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his customary mid year multi billion dollars donation to the
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Gates Foundation waiting for the findings of an internal review
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into the organization's connections with the late convicted sex offender
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Jeffrey Epstein. Well, we know the review is going to
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come back. Rosie. Ah, there was nothing to see here.
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This is all overblown. Bill Gates was just misled, just
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another victim, just another guy that got manipulated by the
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master manipulator Jeffrey Epstein. That's the narrative they want you
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to buy, and folks, I'm not buying it. The Wall
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Street Journal first reported the delay on Monday. The foundation
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has faced scrutiny following revelations of chairman Bill gates association
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with Epstein. Further controversy arose in January when the US
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Justice Department released emails showing communications between Epstein and staff
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at the Gates Foundation, especially considering Bill Gates hasn't been
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exactly truthful and we don't need every juicy detail, right,
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but he just straight up lied. He tried to paint
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the whole entire relationship built around charitable giving. But that's
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not the whole truth, is it. Now that's a good shield,
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and that's some good protection. But you mean to tell
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me that Bill Gates need Jeffrey Epstein's money. He did not.
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He knew what Jeffrey Epstein was. Maybe not the full extent,
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but he knew, and guess what, he didn't care. Mark Sussman,
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CEO of the Gates Foundation, initiated an external review to
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examine past engagements with Epstein, with results anticipated this summer.
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Buffett is expected to make his donation decision later in
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the year, potentially coinciding with his Thanksgiving letter, according to
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sources familiar with his plan, cited by The Wall Street Journal. Now,
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is Warren Buffett just doing the right thing here or
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does he really believe that there's some damning information that's
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come out or that's gonna come out. It could be
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that Buffet's just playing it safe. Look, we're gonna sit
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on the sidelines. We're gonna let this play out. We're
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gonna see what the review says, and then we'll go
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from there. That would be the shrewd play and that's
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probably what we're gonna see from Warren Buffett. And if
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he doesn't like even a little bit of what's found
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in that review, my guess is that Warren Buffett's gonna
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pull back completely. Reuters could not immediately verify the report,
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and Berkshire Hathaway and the Gates Foundation did not respond
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to a request for comment. Buffett, the ninety five year
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old chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, has contributed over forty seven
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billion in conglomerate stock to the Gates Foundation over the
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past two decades. Forty seven billion dollars. How much of
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that money has gotten to the people or to these programs,
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and how much of it has ended up in the
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pockets of oligarts. My guess is the vast majority of
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it has found its way into the pockets of rich people,
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and not into uote unquote medicine research, unless we're talking
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about some island of Doctor Moreau type shit, because that's
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certainly possible. Gates testified before Congress earlier this month stating
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that he did not fully understand the extent of Jeffrey
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Epstein's crimes during their association, which he claim was aimed
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at raising money for his philanthropic foundation. Epstein was the
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only game in town, right, the only guy who had
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any money. There are so many rich people that it's
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not funny. And to think that a lot of these
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people wouldn't want to jump into bed with Bill Gates
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and have this kind of shine on them is ridiculous.
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He talks all this nonsense about all these other people
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who weren't willing to, you know, donate or whatever. But
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you notice he doesn't have much to say about Glenn Dubin,
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who Jeffrey Epstein obviously introduced to Bill Gates. And then
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how much did Dubin donate to the Gates Foundation or
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whatever dumbass name you have for it. Oh, that's right,
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a ton of money. And I wish Congress would oppressed
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him on that, but of course they didn't. I remember,
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according to James Comer, Bill Gates was very forthcoming and
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he answered our questions. Gates has maintained that he never
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witnessed any criminal conduct from Epstein and accused Epstein of
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Blackmailingham over extra marital affairs. These affairs had nothing to
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do with my interactions with Jeffrey Epstein, but they were
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painful for my family, Gates said in his opening statement.
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Epstein was working to use this information about my infidelities,
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in addition to many lies that he layered on top
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to pressure me to re engage with him. And I'll
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tell you what, that's kind of weird, considering the Justice
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Department told us that nobody was blackmailed, that there was
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no evidence that anything like that occurred. Meanwhile, you got
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Bill Gates up here testifying that that's exactly what happened.
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Congress has been investigating the Justice Department's handling of the
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Epstein case. Gates testimony focused on his contacts with the
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con vidicted sex offender who exploited vulnerable women and girls.
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The Microsoft Corp. Founder provided private testimony to the House
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Oversight and Government Reform Committee, which is probing potential federal
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mismanagement in the cases against Epstein and his associate Gulaine Maxwell,
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among related issues and considering they said that this is
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systemic and that there were so many issues BOP wide,
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then I would expect people to get fired at the
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end of all of this. Right people to be called
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in who worked on the original Epstein situation, people that
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were in the jail, people that made the decisions above them,
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And while we're at it, why not call in Mark Philippe.
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Representative James Comer, the Republican committee chairman, had requested Gates
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appear for an in person transcribed interview in a March letter.
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Gates reportedly hired Jay Greenberg, the Oversight Panel's former chief
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investigative official, to prepare for his appearance, though a committee
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spokesperson since stated they have not worked with Greenberg since
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his departure. The fix is in, let me go and
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get somebody that worked as an investigator for the House
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Oversight Committee that's going to be questioning me and this
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is how it works. When you have money, you can
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make these moves. You can entice people to do shit.
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You can get people to jump teams, just like we
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saw down in South Florida when all those prosecutors who
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had previously worked on the Epstein case decided to jump
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ship and start working for Epstein himself, and according to
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the DOJ, that's all good. Epstein pleaded guilty to a
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Florida state felony prostitution charge in two thousand and eight,
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serving thirteen months in jail. Federal prosecutors charged them with
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sex trafficking of minors in twenty nineteen, but he pleaded
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not guilty and died by suicide allegedly later that year
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before his trial. Fox News is all in on suicide now. Meanwhile,
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for years they were the biggest promoter of Epstein didn't
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kill himself, but now that it's not politically convenient, while
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Fox is singing a new tune. Documents released by the
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Justice Department this year indicated that Gates and Epstein met
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repeatedly after Epstein's two thousand and eight prison term to
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discuss expanding the tech billionaire's philanthropic efforts, and it never
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made sense. I don't mean to keep going back to this,
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But when you have as much money as Bill Gates,
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doesn't make sense to try and chase Jeffrey Epstein down
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to get money from him. Of course it doesn't. If
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he doesn't pony up right away, you keep it moving.
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So there was another reason why Bill Gates wanted to
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hang out with Epstein. What that reason is, we just
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don't know yet. The documents also included redacted photographs of
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Gates with females. Gates has previously characterized as relationship with
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Epstein as limited to philanthropy related discussions, and has acknowledged
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it was a mistake to meet with them, but he
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kept doing it. The only reason he had as any
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kinds of contrition is because he's been outed and it's
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costing him financially. Besides that, do you really think Bill
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Gates gives a shit about any of those girls that
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were abused. A spokesperson for the Gates Foundation confirmed that
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Gates took responsibility for his actions during a February town
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hall meeting with the employees. The controversy surrounding gates relationship
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with Epstein prompted the Gates Foundation to launch its own
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external review in April, further fueled by the January release
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of Justice Department emails showing communication between Epstein and Foundation staff. So,
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as of now this has cost Bill Gates Warren Buffett.
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Now is that going to be a permanent thing or
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is Warren Buffet going to come back to the table
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after this report? And if he doesn't come back, how
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many other investors are going to leave with them? I
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think that's a big question too. So, like usual, we'll
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keep an eye on this one and when we have
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some more information or the other will get it added
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to the catalog. All the information that goes with this
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