Inquiry Epstein

Penyelidikan menemukan bahwa Botstein – yang mengaku bukan teman Epstein – melakukan 25 kunjungan ke townhouse miliknya. Leon Botstein telah mengumumkan bahwa ia mengundurkan diri dari kepemimpinan Bard College, setelah tinjauan independen terhadap kontaknya dengan Jeffrey Epstein menemukan bahwa interaksi rutin presiden perguruan tinggi tersebut dengan terpidana pelaku kejahatan seksual itu “seharusnya dapat memperingatkan” dirinya akan kemungkinan bahwa ia dan Bard akan memfasilitasi pelecehan Epstein terhadap perempuan. Penyelidikan oleh firma hukum WilmerHale, yang ditugaskan oleh dewan wali amanat Bard awal tahun ini untuk meninjau interaksi Botstein dengan Epstein, menemukan bahwa presiden Bard tersebut – yang sebelumnya mengeklaim tidak berteman dengan Epstein – melakukan sekitar 25 kunjungan ke townhouse Epstein, kunjungan dua hari ke Little St James Island milik Epstein, serta adanya dua kunjungan oleh Epstein ke Bard. Kunjungan-kunjungan ini, WilmerHale melaporkan, melibatkan “beberapa perempuan” yang sejak saat itu telah diidentifikasi sebagai korban Epstein. Continue reading...

Disgraced financier’s links to politicians and civil servants as far back as 30 years ago to be examined The Epstein files have shaken Norway’s faith in democracy, the head of the Norwegian parliament’s oversight committee has said, as a sprawling investigation into the connections between its foreign office and the late sex offender gets under way.An independent commission to look into information brought to light by the Jeffrey Epstein documents released by the US Department of Justice was launched on Wednesday after the Norwegian parliament voted unanimously last month for it to be set up. Continue reading...

WilmerHale, the law firm examining Leon Botstein’s communications with Jeffrey Epstein, said review is ‘ongoing’Bard College’s president, Leon Botstein, told his staff at a meeting this week that there was no way he could have known that Jeffrey Epstein – who was a convicted sex offender during their interactions over the years – was actually “reprehensible” and predicted he would soon be cleared of any hint of impropriety about their relationship, according to sources who witnessed the remarks.The liberal arts college’s board of trustees hired in February the white-shoe law firm WilmerHale to independently investigate communications between Epstein and Botstein. Continue reading...