Inquiry Epstein

Investigação constatou que Botstein – que alegava não ser amigo de Epstein – fez 25 visitas à sua townhouse Leon Botstein anunciou que está deixando o comando do Bard College, após uma revisão independente de seus contatos com Jeffrey Epstein concluir que as frequentes interações do presidente da faculdade com o criminoso sexual condenado “poderiam tê-lo alertado” para a possibilidade de que ele e o Bard estariam facilitando o abuso de mulheres por parte de Epstein. Uma investigação do escritório de advocacia WilmerHale, que havia sido encomendada pelo conselho curador do Bard no início deste ano para revisar as interações de Botstein com Epstein, descobriu que o presidente do Bard – que anteriormente alegava não ser amigo de Epstein – fez cerca de 25 visitas à townhouse de Epstein, uma visita de dois dias à Little St James Island de Epstein, e que houve duas visitas de Epstein ao Bard. Essas visitas, relatou a WilmerHale, incluíram “múltiplas mulheres” que, desde então, foram identificadas como vítimas de Epstein. Continue lendo...

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...