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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 06:26 PM Sep 2019

MIT media lab director resigns over Epstein scandal

Joichi Ito, the director of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, resigned Saturday in a letter to the university's provost just hours after a New Yorker article exposed his involvement in efforts to obscure donations to the university organized by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein.

The New York Times reported Saturday that Ito provided the newspaper a copy of his resignation letter, which said that his decision came after "weeks" of consideration.

Public announcement of his resignation came less than a day after The New Yorker's Ronan Farrow published an article focusing on emails that Ito sent asking others at MIT to hide Epstein's involvement in hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of donations to the university.

Read the rest at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/mit-media-lab-director-resigns-over-epstein-scandal/ar-AAGXhTe

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MIT media lab director resigns over Epstein scandal (Original Post) PoliticAverse Sep 2019 OP
Another rat fleeing Sewa Sep 2019 #1
Mr. Farrow is something else. Glimmer of Hope Sep 2019 #2
Get thee to the greatest page malaise Sep 2019 #3

Sewa

(1,255 posts)
1. Another rat fleeing
Sat Sep 7, 2019, 06:33 PM
Sep 2019

I’m hoping the state AG will investigate this because I have zero faith in DOJ to.

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