https://www.wired.com/story/for-jeffrey-epstein-mit-was-just-a-safety-school/

Harvard University has some good news about its former ties to Jeffrey Epstein, the financier and alleged sex trafficker who died in his jail cell last August. According to an official report released Friday afternoon, the 2007 arrival of its new president, Drew Faust, led the university to make clear that Epstein’s money was no longer welcome. She acted around the time Epstein pled guilty to two state charges of sex crimes; and with her decision, Harvard shut off a spigot that had already sent $9.1 million its way.

But the report contains a far-less-positive story about Harvard, too. Perhaps that’s why it ended up being released just before a weekend in the middle of the worst pandemic in a century. By the time Faust acted, Epstein had already gained admittance, of a sort, into one of the nation’s most prestigious and exclusive universities, and he was not about to leave. He’d procured a yearlong visiting fellowship in the Psychology Department, shepherded by the department’s chairman, Stephen Kosslyn, to whom he had earlier supplied $200,000 in funds. Epstein had also staked out an academic bachelor pad—Office 610—inside the new headquarters of the Program for Evolutionary Dynamics, which was established in 2003 with the help of his $6.5 million donation.