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Columbia’s Admissions Scandal: How Epstein’s Girlfriend Got In—Twice (5/2/26) · 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. A couple of months ago, we were talking
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about Corinna Shuliac and how Jeffrey Epstein helped her get
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into dental school at Columbia. Well, now the Columbia Spectator,
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the paper of record for the university, has an article
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out talking about Corina Shuliac and how she got admissioned
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to the school again in twenty twenty three. And I
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think it really illuminates how deep Jeffrey Epstein had his
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tentacles burrowed deeply inside of the halls of academia. And
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we're not just talking about one school. We're talking about
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a whole bunch of high level universities, right, Ivy League, etc.
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They all had no problem playing ball with Epstein, They
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had no problem taking his money, and they certainly had
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no problem fludging records to get his girlfriend into the school.
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Today's article is from the Columbia Spectator and the headline
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a dental school administrator helped Epstein's girlfriend get into Columbia twice.
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As others depart, he remains, they're like cockroaches. Right, Epstein's friends,
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they're going to be the ones that are left if
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we ever have nuclear war, them and the roaches. This
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article was authored by Yu Shoshi daz and if I
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mispronounce that mister daz i apologize. At least six senior
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administrators and affiliates at the College of Dental Medicine helped
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convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein admit his girlfriend to the
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school in twenty twelve, and what the university later acknowledged
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wasn't a regular process. Oh well, that's a big shock.
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Jeffrey Epstein was guming the system again. Meanwhile, Jane from
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the Bronx can't get into the school because Corinia Shuliac
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has taken her spot. Now, of course that's a bit facetious, right,
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but you get what I'm saying. There's people out there
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that never even get a look because they don't have
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the money that somebody like Epstein does. It has nothing
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to do with merit, It has nothing to do with
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the fact that they're talented. It has everything to do
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with the fact that they don't have the money. And
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when it comes to Epstein, he certainly had that. Eleven
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years later, they admitted her again. Records obtained by Spectator
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show that some of the same figures later helped Epstein's girlfriend,
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Corinna Shuliac Dental fifteen, gain admission to a postgraduate program
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at the College of Dental Medicine in twenty twenty three.
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Her acceptance came four years after Epstein died in federal
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custody while awaiting trial for sex trafficking charges, and while
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after his crimes had become the subject of international scrutiny.
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And remember, allegedly she's the last person he called. What
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did they talk about? Shuliac has never come forward to
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talk about, you know, the contents of that conversation, So
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what were they discussing? I would think that that conversation
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would be pretty important, right, last person he talked to,
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what did he tell her? At the center of both
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a regular admissions process is doctor James Fine, Senior Associate
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Dean for post Doctoral Academic and Student Affairs at the
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College of Dental Medicine and a close friend of doctor
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Thomas Magnonnie Dental eighty, who first brought Epstein into the
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school's orbit and introduced them to senior administrators. Both saw
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Epstein and his affiliates for dental appointments on several occasions,
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and we know that Epstein had this weird fetish when
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it comes to dentists and teeth. It was like a
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big thing for him, and it was such an important
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issue that he had a dental chair in the Virgin
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Islands right in his property, you know, with all those
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creepy masks and shit. Yeah there, iagine you're sitting there
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in that dental chair. A nurse ratchet comes out, Corinia Shuliac, No,
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thank you. I'll take the bottle of bourbon and a
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pair of pliers. Zero chance I'd ever let anybody associated
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with Jeffrey Epstein anywhere near my mouth. Between twenty twelve
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and twenty twenty three, Fine helped Shuliac she'd on her
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transfer exam after she was initially rejected from the college,
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arrange an internship for her at the Columbia affiliated private
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dental practice where he and Magnanti worked, and wrote her
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a letter of recommendation for the postgraduate program that she
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applied to. Must be nice to have friends in high places. Huh.
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Good old mister Fine riding in to save the day
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for Jeffrey Epstein's girlfriend. In his capacity as senior Associate
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dean since twenty eighteen, Fine has overseen all post doctoral
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master training programs at the College of Dental Medicine, including
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the one Shuliac was admitted to as a Friday. He
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remains a senior administrator at the school and was spared
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from the university's public statement that acknowledged Shuliac's unusual admission
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process and announced the removal of other affiliates from their roles.
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So I guess he makes the cut. I wonder why
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what makes him so special? Why should this dude not
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get fired or be removed like everybody else, especially if
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he was up to no good. He's out here fudging things,
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basically defrauding the school, saying that Shuliac is capable when
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she's really not. The university's investigation into this issue is ongoing,
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a university spokesperson wrote in a Tuesday statement to Spectator. Oh,
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of course we're going to investigate ourselves, and don't worry,
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it's going to be a great investigation, the greatest world's
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ever seen. Shuliac was the last person to visit Epstein
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in prison and inherited much of a fortune after he
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killed himself. She was the last person to talk to
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him too long before that, she was a twenty year
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old dental student in Belarus, but after she met Epstein
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in two thousand and nine, she withdrew from school, moved
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to New York City and set her sights on US
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dental schools. Another Eastern European and remember that was all
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by design too. He thought he'd get away with it
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if he brought girls from Eastern Europe, girls from South America,
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girls from insert country here. He thought he'd have a
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better shot at getting away with abusing them because they're
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not going to run to the police, their step mom's
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not going to find out, and he's going to be
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able to control their lives using a whole host of methods,
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including the immigration scams. Among them, Columbia stood out. Epstein
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first set out to help his girlfriend game admission to
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the College of Dental Medicine in twenty eleven, just three
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years after pleading guilty to a charge of soliciting prostitution
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from a minor. Imagine soliciting prostitution from a minor. Somebody,
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please make that make sense? And how could that even
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be a law on the books? Wouldn't that just make
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you a child molester? Why can't we just call it
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what it is? His dentist and close friend Magnanni, who
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also was a volunteer professor at the College of Dental
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Medicine and the president of its donor association, put one
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of Epstein's assistants in touch with senior faculty to arrange
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a campus tour. Within months, Shuliac formally applied, and of
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course they let that happen, meaning the administrators, meaning Magnani
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and the rest of these dudes, because they wanted to
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be in Epstein's good graces. They wanted his money, and
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they wanted his access, and some of them, well, some
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of them wanted something more. Shortly thereafter, she was rejected.
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When Schuliac applied, she had not completed her bachelor's degree,
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which is a requirement to apply to the College of
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Dental Medicine. What followed, according to the Department of Justice records,
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was a sustained effort to reverse that decision. And do
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you think that just happens for anybody. Do you think
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that if your kid gets denied entry to Columbia's dental school,
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you're gonna be able to pull these levers, talk to
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these people, get things moving in a direction that's favorable
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for you, unless you have a gigantic bank account. The
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answer is no. Magnonni coordinated with senior administrators to secure
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her admission and introduced Epstein and his associates to senior
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figures at the school, including then Dean Ira Lambster, as
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a potential major donor. Oh they love that, right, Bring
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on Epstein, let's get his money. Who cares that he
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was diddling kids? They weren't our kids, So what does
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it matter. That's the mindset, that's how these people roll,
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and they know exactly the kind of piece of shit
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that Jeffrey Epstein was. Epstein coordinated with school affiliates on
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a potential fifty million dollar naming gift for a new
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college of dental Medicine, building, a plan that university officials
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ultimately shut down after a vetting his criminal record, But
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the smaller donations kept flowing, including one hundred thousand to
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Lambster's personal research fund and fifty thousand to a college
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to the college in Juliac's name. Magnanni also continued to
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seek donations to the school from Epstein through twenty eighteen.
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So the whole thing's a bunch of bullshit, right. They
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always tell you, Oh, we didn't know, we had no idea,
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what kind of guy he was, they knew, they didn't care.
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All of this happened after he was already convicted, and
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there was a bunch of rumors going around after that.
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After graduating, Schuliac went directly into private practice in the
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US Virgin Islands, she wrote in her personal statement for
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a graduate program obtained by spectators. The territory was also
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home to Epstein's private island, Little Saint James, which federal
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prosecutors say was central to his sex trafficking operation. According
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to pictures released by DOJ, one of the rooms located
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on Epstein's island contained a dental chair. Shuliac helped coordinate
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the placement of the chair in Little Saint James, According
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to the DOJ files, look, she was all up in it. Now.
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Do I think she was involved in the actual trafficking,
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I don't know, but she was certainly a part of
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the Rico enterprise, no doubt about it. The years between
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Schuliac's twenty fifteen graduation and Epstein's death were for Epstein
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a period of mounting exposure. After a twenty eighteen Miami
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Herald investigation exposed the scale of Epstein's sexual abuse, federal
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prosecutors arrested and charged them in twenty nineteen with sex trafficking,
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alleging that he had run a vast network for the
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sexual exploitation of Later that year, Epstein killed himself in
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prison while awaiting trial. Did he though, Did he really?
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I'd like to see the proof of that. When Shuliac
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returned to New York after Epstein's death, she got an
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internship at Magnanni's Columbia affiliated private practice, where Fine worked.
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Both Fine and Magnani had long standing professional and personal
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ties to Epstein and provided dental care to him and
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his associates, according to the DOJ records, So, in other words,
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they were providing dental work to a bunch of traffic girls.
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Hell of a job doc. A College of Dental Medicine
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affiliate with knowledge of the College practice told Spectator that
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Fine had been granted special permission to work at Magnani's
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private practice. Until recently, full time faculty members at the
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College of Dental Medicine were generally prohibited from outside employment
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or owning private practices due to potential conflicts of interests.
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Affiliate said that policy was revised in part to improve
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faculty retention. As academic salaries are often lower than those
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of dentists in private practice. They explained, well, that's definitely true.
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You've been to the dentist lately. Good God, walk out
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of there, and you have to give them an arm,
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a leg, and some teeth. A spectator review of archived
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versions of Magnani's website shows that fine was listed as
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affiliated with the practice as early as twenty thirteen, when
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the site was first created. They were up to no good.
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Come on, who knows what kind of fraud they were
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up to, but there was fraud involved. After national campus
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outlets reported on Shuliac's unusual admission to the College of
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Dental Medicine, the university announced February eleventh that it would
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remove Magnani from the admissions review committee and as volunteer
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leadership roles, canceled the affiliation agreement with his private practice,
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and that doctor Letty Moss Salentinge, who Magnani described as
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the person who did the most to help Shuliac get
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in and finish up dental school, would step down from
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her administrative role. Must be nice to have all these
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people helping you out. Huh. I wouldn't know, considering nobody's
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ever given me shit, so I wouldn't know. I've had
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to earn everything I've ever had. The statement, however, did
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not mention Fine, nor did it address Shuliac's admission to
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the post doctoral program. The university also claimed in its
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statement that the current dean and current Associate Dean for
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Student and Alumni Affairs were not involved in admitting the
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student or any solicitation from Epstein. The College of Dental Medicine, however,
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does not list a position with the exact title of
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Associate Dean. Fine is one of five senior associate deans.
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Why won't the university just do the right thing get
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rid of these people? Like? Are we even being serious
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right now? A university official told Spectator that the title
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refers to Dana Wolfe, Senior Associate Dean for Predoctoral, Academic
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and Student Affairs, and that her roles are equivalent. Shuliac
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applied to the year's long program in twenty twenty three,
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which is designed to help dentists strengthen their didactic and
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clinical skills and transition into independent general dentistry practice. According
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to the Advanced Education in General Dentistry Program website, the
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program requires three professional evaluation letters from dental faculty as
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letters of recommendation. According to the website, Oh she had
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no problem getting those. When you're Jeffrey Epstein's girl, you're
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hooked up. In August and September twenty three, Fine Magnanni
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and Loreen Zubir, former Senior Associate Dean of Admissions and
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Career Planning at the College of Dental Medicine, each wrote
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Juliac a letter of recommendation, giving her the highest recommendation.
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You know, they never even met her, just out here
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doing what they're told. I can state, as an educator
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and prior program director, I myself would have taken her
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into my program with no reservations or hesitation. Fine wrote
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in his letter, I truly believe if you admit doctor
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Shuliac into your program, it'll be a wonderful benefit to
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both her and your institution. Fine, Magnanni, and Zubiari did
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not respond to Spectators multiple requests for comment. Neither Fine
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nor a Magnani's letters of recommendation explicitly stated that they
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taught Shuliac in a classroom setting. Zubiar's letter, on the
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other hand, states that she advised Shuliac during her time
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at the College of Dental Medicine as the chief dental
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director of the faculty practice for Columbia University College of
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Dental Medicine. Fine began his letter, I have set up
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an internship for Corinea in the Columbia Affiliate Office. Though
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find testified to her ability to work with other doctors
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and patients, he admitted the fact that Shuliac interned where
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he practiced paradontics. Shuli Acts, resume, and personal statement indicate
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that she held a faculty internship under both Fine and Magnani.
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A university spokesperson did not respond to a detailed request
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for comment from Spectator on the irregularities of Shuliac's twenty
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twenty three admission process to the advanced degree program. She
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graduated from the program in twenty twenty five. Well, it
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must be nice to have friends in high places, huh.
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And what's wild is even after these people are outed,
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they keep their jobs. So that tells you everything you
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need to know about how Columbia feels about Jeffrey Epstein
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and his money is they just don't care. And at
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this point, I don't think that speculation. I think there's
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plenty of evidence to back it up, and like usual,
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we'll keep providing those receipts. All right, folks, that's gonna
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do it for this one. All the information that goes
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