Stanford University has admitted to receiving a beforehand undisclosed $50,000 donation from Jeffrey Epstein, becoming a member of different elite faculties that got monetary presents by the pedophile.  

The elite faculty in California‘s Silicon Valley accepted the contribution in 2004, two years earlier than allegations of Epstein’s misdeeds got here to gentle, reviews Bloomberg.

The rich financier, whereas awaiting federal trial for the intercourse trafficking of minors, hung himself in a Manhattan jail cell August 10. 

Epstein’s COUQ Foundation, in response to a Angle News investigation, alleged it had supported a number of faculties after Epstein’s conviction in 2008.

He had pleaded responsible to a felony cost of solicitation of prostitution involving a minor, and was to serve 18 months in jail. Epstein would solely served 13 months and was allowed to proceed making monetary investments, below the phrases of a plea deal that was later deemed too lenient. 

Initially Stanford, together with Cornell University, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, Duke University, and New York University, advised Angle News {that a} search of economic data discovered there weren’t donations made to any of the faculties. 

Then Stanford’s story appeared to.  

The faculty mentioned Angle News requested about presents from Epstein made after 2006, when the Florida allegations have been first made. Stanford mentioned it did point out to the information outlet in regards to the 2004 donation, which it has spent, however that the disclosure did not make the story. 

It’s admission in regards to the donation made to the college’s physics division now locations Stanford within the firm of Harvard University and MIT, each of which additionally disclosed receiving monetary donations.

Harvard final week revealed that it obtained about $9 million from Epstein and appointed him a visiting fellow, and vowed to direct the funds to victims of sexual assault.

The college admitted that it obtained the funding over a decade interval that resulted in 2007 and that the pedophile was listed as a fellow within the psychology division in 2005.

In a letter to the neighborhood printed on Thursday night time, Harvard president Larry Bacow mentioned the college was increasing its Epstein probe. 

‘Epstein’s habits, not simply at Harvard, however elsewhere, raises important questions on how establishments like ours evaluation and vet donors,’ he acknowledged.

‘Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes have been repulsive and reprehensible. I profoundly remorse Harvard’s previous affiliation with him.’

Harvard has beforehand admitted that Epstein gave them a $6.5 million contribution to determine their Program for Evolutionary Dynamics in 2003.

However, Bacow conceded in his letter that $2.four million in donations to assist Harvard have been made between 1998 and 2007.

Earlier this month at MIT, the college’s media lab director resigned after it emerged that he had accepted $1.7million in donations instantly from Epstein, practically $1million greater than the $800,000 the college publicly apologized for.

Joi Ito stepped down on September 7, after emails he despatched the pedophile in 2014 – after his Florida conviction – have been printed.

In one, he openly requested Epstein for $100,000.

Ito resigned in an e-mail to MIT provost, Martin A. Schmidt.