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I think it's the same level of bad judgement , they knew what he is and they knew it was better to hide it.

MIT and the Media Lab had previously admitted to accepting some financial donations from Epstein, despite the financier’s public history of pleading guilty to soliciting prostitution from a child.
But new reports from the New Yorker and the New York Times said that internal emails indicated Media Lab officials had worked to conceal the full extent of Epstein’s donations to the Media Lab, and his other assistance to the center.

In 2015, according to Signe Swenson, a former development associate at the lab who spoke to the New Yorker, Epstein himself visited the lab, accompanied by two young female “assistants”.
Swenson said the visit, already uncomfortable, became more distressing at the sight of the young women who accompanied Epstein.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2019/sep/07/jeffrey-epstein-mit-media-lab-joi-ito-resigns-reports

Here you can hear Chomsky say that Epstein had served his sentence at that point so was as
good as anybody else and also there were worse people that donated to the MIT so it's alright.
Jump to 33:25, the time stamp does not work in the link.

https://youtu.be/9B_eLoVq4yI?t=2023