<story><title>My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein</title><url>https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apology-regarding-jeffrey-epstein/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whowhatwhy</author><text>&amp;quot;I met Epstein in 2013 at a conference through a trusted business friend and, in my fundraising efforts for MIT Media Lab, I invited him to the Lab and visited several of his residences. I want you to know that in all of my interactions with Epstein, I was never involved in, never heard him talk about, and never saw any evidence of the horrific acts that he was accused of.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;
On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18
&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jmkni</author><text>I think a lot of people became aware of Epstein in 2011 when Charlie Brooker (Black Mirror creator) did this piece on Prince Andrew - &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;yPyn7mu375I&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;youtu.be&amp;#x2F;yPyn7mu375I&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I remember it going viral at the time, and since then a casual Google would have thrown it up pretty highly.</text></comment>
<story><title>My Apology Regarding Jeffrey Epstein</title><url>https://www.media.mit.edu/posts/my-apology-regarding-jeffrey-epstein/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>whowhatwhy</author><text>&amp;quot;I met Epstein in 2013 at a conference through a trusted business friend and, in my fundraising efforts for MIT Media Lab, I invited him to the Lab and visited several of his residences. I want you to know that in all of my interactions with Epstein, I was never involved in, never heard him talk about, and never saw any evidence of the horrific acts that he was accused of.&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;
On June 30, 2008, after Epstein pleaded guilty to a state charge (one of two) of procuring for prostitution a girl below age 18
&amp;quot;</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sithlord</author><text>Do you do a deep dive in the criminal history of every person you deal with?  No? didn&amp;#x27;t think so.</text></comment>