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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — The president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology acknowledged Thursday that he signed a letter thanking the late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein for a donation to a professor.

President L. Rafael Reif called the letter to Epstein a "standard acknowledgment letter" in a statement to the university community posted on its website.