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Seth Lloyd Disputes The Findings In The Report Linking Him To Epstein · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: So, folks, we know that academia has just been completely
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  and utterly embroiled in this whole, entire Jeffrey Epstein thing,
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  and we know that there have been several universities that
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  have taken more money than others, right, and one of
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  those who has taken a ton of money from Jeffrey Epstein,
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  especially after his conviction, was MIT. So this morning's article
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  is going to dive into that a little bit, and
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  it's going to talk about Professor Seth Lloyd, who who
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  is pushing back against the report that he misled the
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  school about the Jeffrey Epstein donations. So we're going to
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  read a little bit about that and add a little
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  bit more context to that situation, because that was one
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  of Epstein and Maxwell's number one priorities is weaseling their
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  way into the scientific community. And if you're going off
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  of the premise that they were being run by an
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  intelligent agency or several intelligence agencies, and that this was
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  a blackmail operation, then it's very apparent what they were
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  trying to do with these scientists. They were trying to,
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  you know, weasel their way in and learn what these
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  scientists were working on the projects so that they could
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  pass that information onto their handlers, and that's very a
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  very obvious ploy for them, an obvious avenue, right. They
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  wanted to compile the dossiers of information. They wanted to
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  make sure that they were in a position of power
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  and to accrue more power. We all know that knowledge
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  is the most valuable commodity. So with that said, we're
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  going to jump into this article. It's an ABC News
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  article and it was published yesterday. The author is Colin
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  Binkley and he is an AP education writer. So make sure,
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  of course you go and check you go and click
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  on the link. There's a they also on this link,
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  they have a seven video seven and a half minute
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  video with Maria Farmer, so definitely click on the link
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  and check that out. A Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor
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  is denying accusations that he misled the school about two
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  fifty thousand dollars gifts he facilitated from Jeffrey Epstein in
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  twenty twelve, arguing that Institute officials had full knowledge Epstein
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  was the donor, and they tried to play it off
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  like the officials really didn't have all that information and
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  these were like rogue scientists. That's what how they were
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  trying to play it off, when in reality we understand
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  that MIT as an institution accepted these donations. In an
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  online statement published Thursday, Professor Seth Lloyd called the accusations
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  completely false and said he followed the school's policies to
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  the letter when he accepted Epstein's offer to support his
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  scientific research. It was Lloyd's first public comment since MIT
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  placed him on paid administrative leave January tenth. And remember
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  we talked about that when it first happened, right, But
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  we haven't heard from Lloyd. So all we had was
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  the university side of things and the evidence that was
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  found by the group that they had brought in to
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  do the investigation. So now we're hearing from Lloyd, and
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  I feel like it's important to hear what he has
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  to say as well. I never hid the identity of
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  Epstein as the donor prior to the donation being accepted,
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  Lloyd wrote. I facilitated the submission of the donation approval
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  request to the MIT officers exactly so that they could
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  vet it. MIT knew that the donor was Epstein and
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  fully approve the donation with this knowledge. Wow, So again
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  MIT is trying to play dumb. Wasn't us. We had
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  no idea. It was these professors that took this money.
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  We would never ever ever accept money from Jeffrey Epstein, how,
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  I mean, come on, that's just so unbecoming. Meanwhile, they're
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  taking all kinds of dough from this guy. Lloyd declined
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  to comment further. The allegations against Lloyd were published in
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  a January tenth report by Goodwin Procter, a law firm
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  hired by MIT to examine the school's relationship with Epstein.
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  The report found that Epstein donated eight hundred and fifty
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  thousand dollars to MIT between two thousand and two and
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  twenty and seventeen, and visited the campus at least nine times. Again,
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  like I said in the one, we'd covered this originally
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  when we when this story first broke. I mean, imagine
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  being a parent with young girls at MIT and knowing
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  that these professors brought this sick pedophile around your kids.
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  I mean, come on, man. Three senior officials became aware
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  of Epstein's donations in twenty thirteen and considered cutting ties,
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  the report found, but they ultimately approved the gifts as
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  long as they were kept quiet. Boy, isn't that nice. Huh,
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  Just keep it quiet. Let's accept this money, because you
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  know money's the mother's milk. Well, we'll accept this dough,
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  but it doesn't matter that it came from a convicted pedophile,
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  doesn't matter at all. We'll just keep it quiet. The
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  public doesn't need to know. Those dumb idiots in the public,
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  those morons, they'll just think it's a conspiracy theory and
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  we'll let them run with that. Meanwhile, it's a conspiracy,
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  a criminal conspiracy involving who knows how many people. The
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  report alleges that Lloyd accepted two fifty thousand dollars donations
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  from Epstein in twenty twelve, but purposefully failed to inform
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  MIT officials that Epstein was the source and had been
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  convicted of sex crimes in Florida in two thousand and eight.
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  Talk about passing the buck. So you're telling me all
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  these really smart people at MIT had no idea what
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  Jeffrey Epstein was up to. They had no idea that
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  Jeffrey Epstein had previously been convicted. They had no idea
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  that Jeffrey Epstein was a monster. I call bs okay
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  for supposedly the smartest people around you sure act in
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  pretty stupid. Professor Lloyd knew the donations from Epstein would
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  be controversial and that MIT might reject them, The firm
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  found we conclude that in in concert with Epstein, he
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  purposefully decided not to alert the institute to Epstein's criminal record,
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  choosing instead to allow mid level administrators to process the
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  donations without any formal discussions or diligence concerning Epstein. Again,
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  they're making themselves look bad here again. So why are
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  you allowing mid level administrators to process the donations if
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  they don't know how to vet them correctly? That's on
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  you MIT. Now. Of course the professor shared some blame here, right,
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  He's the one who accepted the donations. He's the one
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  who brought this animal onto campus. So nobody's saying that
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  he's not in the wrong. But at the same time,
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  how about MIT takes a little responsibility for their own missteps. Huh.
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  Lloyd's account says he put Epstein's agent in touch with
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  MIT officials, as instructed by his department, but never hid
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  the source. As evidence, he published portions of a June
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  twenty twelve email that Lloyd was sent by an MIT
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  official to Epstein's accountant, many thanks for your message on
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  behalf of Jeffrey Epstein. We'll look forward to receiving the
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  first installment of his gift. The MIT official wrote, what
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  does that mean? The MIT official? So Professor Lloyd gets
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  put on blast, but the MIT official who wrote the
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  email doesn't. That's interesting. The investigative report says Lloyd later
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  admitted to breaching his professional duties, but Lloyd disputes that,
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  saying I made no such concession. Lloyd separately received sixty
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  thousand dollars as a personal gift from Epstein in two
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  thousand and five or two thousand and six, which the
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  report called a possible violation of MIT policies because it
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  was not processed through the school. Lloyd says he used
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  the money for research and believes he followed MIT policies.
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  So I, in legally speak, I'm guessing what they're saying is, look,
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  you didn't process that process at sixty thousand that he
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  gave you through us, and we didn't get our cuts,
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  So screw you. So don't get me wrong, folks, Lloyd's
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  a scumbag for taking this money and for associating with Epstein,
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  But MIT is not getting off that easily right. They're
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  not going to pin it on this guy and be like, Oh,
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  it was all him. We're not going to let them
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  do that. We all understand that MIT was very aware
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  of who was donating this money. Folks, Come on. He
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  also sought and received one hundred and twenty five thousand
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  dollars from Epstein in two thousand and seven to support
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  a sabbatical, but investigators found no fault in his handling
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  of that gift. MIT officials provided a statement from Goodwin
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  Proctor standing by the firm's report to the extent Professor
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  Lloyd disagrees with the report. We are fully confident the
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  findings in the report are consistent with the evidence and
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  information that we collected, including from Professor Lloyd. The statement
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  said Epstein's ties with MIT have royaled the campus and
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  led to multiple resignations over the past year. In total,
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  the school received seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars from
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  Epstein after his two thousand and eight sex crimes conviction,
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  and continue to accept his money until twenty and seventeen.
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  Of that total, five hundred and twenty five thousand dollars
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  went to the MIT Media Lab, whose former director Joy
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  Eto resigned last year. Again, folks, do you think Epstein
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  was just donating this money because he was a generous
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  man and felt like he had to be, you know,
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  a patron for these folks, or do you think that
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  he expected something in return. A guy like Jeffrey Epstein
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  does not do anything if he does not expect he's
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  getting something on the flipback. He wants that kickback, He
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  wants the quid pro quo, and that is the only
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  reason Jeffrey Epstein is even donating money to scientists. Come on, folks,
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  he wants to be on the inside and he wants
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  information on the projects they were working on. It's very
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  obvious what he was doing. Epstein, sixty six, killed himself
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  in New York City, allegedly in a New York City
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  prison cell in August after he was arrested on sex
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  trafficking charges. The wealthy financier pedophile had pleaded not guilty
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  to sexually abusing girls as young as fourteen and young
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  women in New York and Florida in the early two thousands.
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  In lawsuits. Women say the abuse span decades. Lloyd previously
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  issued a public apology to Epstein's victims and on Thursday,
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  he reiterated his remorse. None of this is in any
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  way diminishes my lapse in judgment in accepting Epstein's donations
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  to MIT in the first place. He wrote, I stand
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  by my previous apology for these mistakes of mine, and
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  take full responsibility for them. I ask only that I
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  be judged for what I actually did, No less and
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  no more. Oh, don't worry, mister Lloyd. That's exactly what
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  we're judging you on. You're a scumbag for taking his
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  money after his conviction. Before the conviction. Again, like I said,
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  you'd have a leg to stand on, you'd have a defense.
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  You could say, like the rest of these dirt bags said, Well,
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  I had no idea what he was up to, but
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  a simple Google search of Jeffrey Epstein's name would have
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  brought you the most heinous and monstrous articles you could
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  ever find. Instead, you choose to lie and say nobody
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  had any idea who Jeffrey Epstein was, and nobody had
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  any idea what Jeffrey Epstein was up to, and we
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  just took his money because we thought he was just
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  a patron. We thought he was a patron of the
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  art of science. So we accepted his money, and you
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  know he was a good guy. That's such bs okay,
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  Literally a ten year old could have found out this information,
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  and even the mid level administrator. I mean, come on,
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  all right, so you see someone's donating this much money,
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  you don't, out of curiosity hop onto your computer and
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  google it and find out who this man is who's
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  donating all this money. I don't buy it. I don't
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  believe anything MIT is saying. I think that they're they're
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  trying to pin this on Professor Lloyd, whereas I believe
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  MI T should shoulder at least half of the blame. Again,
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  though nobody ever wants to take responsibility for their actions
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  in this case, folks. Everybody just wants to distance themselves,
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  and nobody wants to take responsibility for the fact that
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  they all at the very least enabled Jeffrey Epstein's trafficking
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  ring and his use of multiple countless young women. All right, folks,
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  if you'd like to contact me, you could do that
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  at Bobby Kapuchi at proton mail. That's b O B
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  B Y C A p U C C I at
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  ProtonMail dot com. And if you would like to contact
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  me on Twitter, you could do that as well at
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  my name b O b b Y, Underscore c A
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