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May 4, 2023

New Documents Show Jeffrey Epstein Had Regular Meetings with Noam Chomsky
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The Wall Street Journal has obtained a trove of personal documents of
convicted sexual predator and child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein,
including his schedules from 2013 to 2017. It shows he met with a number
of prominent figures following his 2008 Florida conviction for
"procuring a child for prostitution." The list includes now-CIA Director
William Burns, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, filmmaker Woody
Allen, former Treasury Secretary and Harvard President Lawrence Summers,
and the famed linguist Noam Chomsky. Chomsky confirmed to The Harvard
Crimson that he knew Epstein, writing in an email to the paper, "Like
all of those in Cambridge who met and knew him, we knew that he had been
convicted and served his time, which means that he re-enters society
under prevailing norms." Chomsky also wrote, "I've met [all] sorts of
people, including major war criminals. I don't regret having met any of
them." Epstein was arrested again in 2019 after the Miami Herald
revealed he had sexually assaulted and trafficked women and girls for
decades. He died of an apparent suicide in his New York jail cell in
2019.


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