December 1, 2025 • 18 mins
Harvard’s decision to install Mary Erdoes — the longtime CEO of the asset and wealth-management arm of JPMorgan Chase & Co. — onto the board of its endowment manager comes at a particularly fraught moment. Recent unsealed documents and public reporting reveal that Erdoes maintained regular contact with Epstein while he was a client, despite numerous warnings and widely known allegations of criminal sexual misconduct. Many of those communications have been described as “highly personal” and show that even after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for soliciting a minor, executives under Erdoes’s supervision continued to handle his accounts — a decision that federal investigators now say reflects possible institutional complicity. With the broader scandal intensifying, Harvard’s choice to elevate Erdoes — rather than distance the university from those links — reads as a tone-deaf move that prioritizes financial pedigree over moral accountability.
In making that appointment, Harvard risks underestimating how the optics — not to mention the facts — will land with students, alumni, and the public at large. To many, the decision signals indifference to the victims of Epstein’s crimes and raises serious doubts about Harvard’s commitment to ethical oversight and transparency. By putting someone closely tied to Epstein’s financial network in charge of stewarding the university’s endowment, Harvard has exposed itself to charges of hypocrisy and moral failure — undermining trust at a time when institutions everywhere are being called to answer for their links to abuse and exploitation.
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In making that appointment, Harvard risks underestimating how the optics — not to mention the facts — will land with students, alumni, and the public at large. To many, the decision signals indifference to the victims of Epstein’s crimes and raises serious doubts about Harvard’s commitment to ethical oversight and transparency. By putting someone closely tied to Epstein’s financial network in charge of stewarding the university’s endowment, Harvard has exposed itself to charges of hypocrisy and moral failure — undermining trust at a time when institutions everywhere are being called to answer for their links to abuse and exploitation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. What the actual fuck is wrong with the
so called best and brightest at Harvard? I mean you
would think, I mean you would think that after the long,
ugly public mess with Jeffrey Epstein, after the scandal, after
the backlash, after the blood red stain on the university's reputation,
(00:22):
they do everything in their power to run at full
sprint from that ghost. You think they'd scrub every trace,
every memory, every whiff of Epstein from their Ivory Tower
hallways and pretend that he was never there. Instead, what
do they do? They go out of their way to
bring in Mary Callahan Erdos, the same Wall Street big
shot from JP Morgan whose fingerprints are all over the
(00:44):
Epstein financial scandal, and hand her a shiny, prestigious seat
on Harvard's endowment board like she's some kind of saint
descending from the heavens. I mean, you can't make this
kind of stupidity up. Do they honestly believe that the
public just suddenly forgot how deep some of these ties ran?
Do they think we're blind to the emails, the meetings,
the payouts, the routed funds, the shell corporations, the whole
(01:07):
goddamn infrastructure that helped enable Epstein's criminal empire for decades.
Do they really think that nobody remembers the lawsuits, the testimony,
or marry errados own role in keeping Epstein banked and
operational while everyone pretended they didn't know who he really was.
Because we didn't forget. We saw it. We watched it
on fold in real time. We remember every detail. And now,
(01:30):
after everything, after the lawsuits, after the financial settlements, after
the public exposure, Harvard brings her on board to help
shape the financial future of the university, like none of
that ever existed, Like it's just business as usual. We're
not talking about leadership, we're not talking about progress. This
is not a step forward. This is tone def it's arrogance,
(01:53):
its wilful blindness dressed up as prestige and power. These
people are choosing an illusion of elite respectability over the
reality of what this kind of dirty money financed. Harvard's
own history with Epstein was not a footnote. It was
a chapter written in disgrace. Larry Summers welcomed Epstein's money.
Harvard's scientists took Epstein's donations long after he was exposed,
(02:16):
Epstein himself strolled the campus like he owned the place
and bragged about influencing research while survivors were being silenced
and buried under NDAs. The university didn't just brush against Epstein,
it embraced them. And now instead of learning anything from it,
instead of showing responsibility or integrity, they doubled down and
(02:37):
pretend the fire never touched them. Harvard doesn't fear ghosts,
I guess it hires them, It feeds them, it protects them,
and when the rest of us expect accountability, they slip
into this smug elitists posture like their above explanation. But
you don't just move past Epstein. Not when the survivors
are still trying to pick up all those shattered pieces
of their lives. Not when the financial network that supported
(02:59):
this monster still hasn't been fully exposed, Not when the
same institutions at enabled them are still pretending to be untouchable.
Not when the evidence, the emails, the transactions, the broken
lives still screams. So tell us, Harvard, So please, Harvard,
tell me, how do you explain this one? Because we're
all waiting. Today's article is from the Harvard Crimson and
(03:22):
the headline Harvard Endowment appoints three new directors, including JP Morgan,
executive who managed Depstein's bank accounts. Well, isn't that nice? Huh?
Fantastic stuff from Harvard. This article was authored by Saketh Sundar.
Three Harvard Business School alumni, Paul B. Edgerley, Mary Callahan Erdos,
(03:42):
and Raymond J. Maguire were appointed the Harvard Management Company's
Board of directors. The university announced on Tuesday. The trio,
all of whom have extensive experience in private equity or
asset management, joins HMC during a period of ongoing shifts
in managing Harvard's fifty six point nine billion dollar endowment
as the university continues to expand its exposure to private
(04:05):
markets and alternative investments. Fifty six point nine billion dollars
huh must be nice. But the appointment of Airdos, the
CEO of JP Morgan's asset and wealth management, could introduce
new headaches for Harvard. Airdos is drawn federal scrutiny FIR
management of Morgan's relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
(04:27):
who held accounts at the bank between ninety eight and
twenty thirteen. Yeah, I would think that would be a
big problem with Harvard's history with Epstein Already, are you
guys for real? Talk about tone? Def who's making these decisions?
Whoever that person or persons is, they need to go.
The appointments bring the total number of HMC directors to fifteen.
(04:50):
The board has no fixed size and includes designated seats
for the university's president, treasurer, and chief financial officer, as
well as hmc's Chief executive officer. MPV Narveker Edgerley is
the managing director and co founder of Vantage Edge Partners,
a private investment family office group, and previously led private
(05:11):
equity at Bane Capital and if you recall that was
Mitt Romney's group, Bank Capital. McGuire serves as the president
of Lazard, a global financial advisory and asset management firm,
and previously led City Group's investment banking division. And you know,
I'm always talking about the financial sector and how they're
behind the scenes controlling everything. What more do you need
(05:33):
to see here? Like everywhere you turn around, one of
these people from a hedge fund or a bank or
whatever is putting their fingers into the pie and it
leads to the rest of us getting food poisoning. Doesn't
matter where they go, what they do, these people are corrupt. Harvard,
under pressure after newly released documents from the House Oversight
Committee revealed correspondence between Epstein and several faculty members, has
(05:58):
redoubled its efforts to examine tie to Epstein. A week
before air dose appointment, the university launched an investigation to
revisit the connection between Epstein and Harvard affiliates, including former
Harvard President Laurence H. Summers, who maintained a close correspondence
with Epstein until the financier Pedophiles twenty nineteen arrest. Oh yeah,
(06:20):
there's no doubt that Larry Summers and Epstein were very,
very close. And I think that all those emails, they
just confirm everything that we've known. You don't have to
be fucking Sherlock Holmes to figure out that Larry Summers
and Jeffrey Epstein were buddies. But it's always nice to
have the receipts right for the people in the back row,
you know, the people that want to act like it's
not a big deal, Like all the people making our laws,
(06:43):
all the people that are in control of our lives
weren't in on it. Yeah, those people, Well, here are
the receipts. What more do you need? Explosive revelations and
House documents prompted President Donald Trump to order a Justice
Department investigation into Summers and House ste floated the idea
of launching a probe in the Harvard CNN reported earlier
(07:04):
this month. Look, I'm not exactly a fan of the
Trump administration, as you all know, but I think it's
a good idea to take a look at everything. The
problem is, I don't trust the Justice Department to do it,
so we need a special investigator. So if we have
a special investigator, then everything should be on the table.
But anything that this administration does when it comes to Epstein, especially,
(07:27):
I don't believe. Sorry, when you show me who you
are and you tell me who you are, I'm gonna
believe you. And the Trump administration has shown us that
they don't give one single fuck about Epstein's survivors or
going after the remnants of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire, and
that's what they should be doing. Spokespeople for HMC and
(07:48):
the university did not respond to requests for a comment
on Aird's appointment. Well, of course they're not gonna say shit,
but they should, and they're gonna have to say something
at some point. Question is, what the hell can they
possibly say. Investigators wrote that many of the exchanges between
air Dose and Epstein were highly personal in nature and
reflect the close relationship, and that Epstein appeared to have
(08:11):
constant access to Airdose during twenty ten and twenty eleven,
months after he completed a thirteen month prison sentence stemming
from a two thousand and eight Florida guilty pleaon charges
of procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
First of all, a minor can't be a prostitute, so
let's throw that out the window. Second of all, you're
(08:33):
not soliciting a prostitute. You're soliciting a child. You sick, child,
molesting bastard. JP Morgan terminated Epstein as a client in
twenty thirteen, citing money laundering concerns, but according to the
Senate memo, Erdos personally approved an internal request later that
year to continue working with Epstein on projects for third
party clients like Leon Black, an executive private equity giant Apollo,
(08:58):
A gift from Black by Epstein funded the work of
English professor Elisa f New, who was also married to Summers.
And is it any wonder that that goofy ass committee
that the Congress is running right now about Epstein has
in subpoenaed Leon Black or Les Wesner or any of
these people. Like I said from the jump, that committee
(09:21):
is trying to run interference for Donald Trump, and it's pathetic,
it's disgusting, and it needs to be called out. In
twenty nineteen, New York Times reported that Aerdos was the
driving force beyond retaining Epstein as a client after his
initial conviction in two thousand and eight, against the recommendation
of the firms in house compliance officers. So she went
over the legal team and said, look, we need to
(09:43):
have Epstein as a client because well, you know, he's
bringing in a bunch of dough. I'm sure she used
a bunch of flowery language instead, but that's what she meant.
We can't lose this guy because there goes my commission.
Imagine how disgusting you have to be to really think
like that or to act like that and to look
the other way for personal gain. And we're not talking
(10:05):
about somebody who even needs it, right, how much money
do you think Mary air Dose has? But when you're
one of these people, enough is never enough. A spokesperson
for JP Morgan disputed the newspapers reporting at the time,
claiming that air Dose would never overrule our compliance team
or other controls functions to retain a customer and that
(10:28):
air Dose only met with Epstein once to fire them
as a client. Oh well, all those emails, we should
just ignore those and once on the books, how do
we know that didn't meet, you know, clandestinely. So I
don't take anything these people tell us at face value, ever,
And whenever we're dealing with anything related to Ebstein, I
just automatically assume the worst under normal circumstances. When something
(10:52):
sounds ridiculous, well more times than not, it's going to
be ridiculous. But when we're talking about Epstein on what
he was doing on the table, because I don't put
anything past this degenerate and his friends, air Dose was
repeatedly made aware of Epstein's convictions and his status as
a high risk level offender, but she chose not to
(11:14):
drop him as a client or open an investigation into
his accounts. According to a March twenty twenty three deposition
first reported by The Washington Post. Air dose also admitted
in the deposition, parts of which were cited in a
legal complaint later that spring that JP Morgan knew by
two thousand and six at Epstein was accused of paying
(11:34):
cash to have miners brought to his home. JP Morgan's cooked.
If we had a real country, real ramifications for your bullshit,
every single one of these executives that was taking Epstein's
money and facilitating this enterprise would end up in prison.
But unfortunately that's not reality, and these people, instead of
(11:56):
actually being punished, they just move on to bigger jobs
with more steech. JP Morgan ultimately paid seventy five million
to settle the lawsuit, which was brought by the US
Virgin Islands and alleged that the bank enabled Epstein's sex
trafficking network. Well, look, as much as I agree with that,
I think the USVII also enabled him. The USVII stole
(12:18):
this money. That money should have went to the survivors,
not to the USVII, But they all benefited from it, right,
so they got to eat on both ends of the table.
They ate with Epstein and then afterwards they played the
victim and got another bag. So yeah, all those politicians
from down in the Virgin Islands, Stacy Plaskett and the
rest of them, all of them are complicit in my opinion.
(12:40):
In a statement to The Crimson, a spokesperson for JP
Morgan defended air Dose and the company, pointing to airdos
termination of Epstein as a client in twenty thirteen and
saying the bank did not know the scope of the
sex trafficking allegations against Epstein until his twenty nineteen arrest.
Oh yeah, you guys had no idea. JP Morgan had
no idea who they were doing business with. They had
(13:02):
no idea the allegations made against Epstein. So nobody was
the wiser. Nobody had a clue. Huh, That's what they're
trying to tell us. Unfortunately for them, nobody believes it,
and Harvard's going to have some answering to do. The
firm filed several suspicious activity reports beginning in two thousand
and two and heard nothing back from the government, the
spokesperson wrote. In twenty thirteen, Mary and her team made
(13:26):
the decision to terminate him as a client. It was
not until seventeen years later that the government made public
the sex trafficking details, information they clearly had for years
and failed to share with US or other banks. The
spokesperson added, it's always everybody else's fault. Huh. No sort
of accountability ever from anyone in power. Meanwhile, whatever you
(13:48):
do for a living, go to work today and fuck
up and see how well that works out for you.
The spokesperson also defended Erdos, writing that she has always
held herself and her colleagues to the highest standards integrity
and trust. The Senate memo described messages showing Epstein and
Erdos in frequent contact about business matters. In one twenty
(14:08):
eleven email unsealed in the memo, Epstein wrote to Airdos,
who was traveling abroad, there are twenty one million reasons
I'd like to know when you return. After Airdose informed
them that she was in Europe at the time, Epstein
asked if they could speak immediately. In another exchange, also
from twenty eleven, an assistant informed Erdos that Epstein thought
(14:29):
she would appreciate that he just got out of the
pool at the Ritz in Paris. Rude and insensitive, Erdos
wrote back, whatever that means. According to the Senate memo,
Epstein was told by a former JP Morgan executive, Jess
Daley to stop pushing Airdos. Epstein responded that he would
ease off, but had thought I was following the plan.
(14:51):
Staley later became CEO of British bank Barclays, before resigning
after a British government investigation of his close relationship with Epstein.
The whole entire thing is intermingled. Every one of these
people that was working at JP Morgan in a position
of leadership should be held accountable. At the very least
a robust investigation should be kicked off. Erdos also sent
(15:16):
Epstein a birthday greeting in twenty twelve. Not sure where
you are celebrating it, but I hope you have a
great birthday weekend. Er Doz wrote, thanks. Boris said you
were terrific. Epstein wrote back, and he means Boris Nikolic
the other dude who was supposed to be an executor
for his estate who ended up not being one, but
a guy who has a relationship or had a relationship
(15:36):
with Epstein that was a lot closer than he's ever
let On McGuire and Edgerley boasts long standing ties to
Harvard's fundraising efforts. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Deanship
was renamed after a gift from Edgerley and his wife,
Sandra in twenty fourteen. The couple also led FAS's two
point five billion dollar capital campaign in twenty thirteen. McGuire
(15:59):
spoke at a HPS class day in twenty twenty three
and was awarded the W. E. B. Du Bois Metal,
the university's highest honor in African American studies, in twenty
twenty two. Maguire also led a three year campaign to
establish the David L. Evans Scholarship for underrepresented students at
Harvard College in two thousand and three. Harvard Treasurer and
(16:22):
HMC board chair Timothy R. Barkett eighty seven praise the
additions in a statement, pointing to the new director's background
and global markets, asset management and organizational leadership and you know,
pampering a human trafficker. Add that as well, Harvard and
HMC are very fortunate to welcome these three distinguished alumni
to the board. Barrickhead wrote, their leadership will help ensure
(16:45):
that these resources continue to provide vital support for current
and future generations of students, faculty, and scholars. So as
we close this out, I want to be crystal clear.
This isn't just another bureaucratic screw up from some clueless
universe administrator who wandered into the wrong decision. This is
a conscious choice, a deliberate slap in the face to
(17:07):
every survivor, every citizen who is forced to watch these
universities and institutions play musical chairs with the same people
who grease the wheels for Epstein. This is Harvard telling
the world in broad daylight that the only thing that
matters is power and the preservation of their gilded club,
not ethics, not decency, certainly not accountability, because if you
(17:29):
want to know what real corruption looks like, stop staring
at criminals in orange jumpsuits and start looking at the
people in tailored suits who never face consequences, the ones
who land softly, the ones who fail upward, the ones
who break the world and get applauded for doing it.
Harvard's proving once again that elite culture is nothing but
a rotting empire wrapped inside of a velvet curtain, a
(17:52):
cathedral built on hypocrisy and pretension, worshiping money, and influence
at any price. All of the information that goes with
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What's up, everyone, and welcome to another episode of the
Epstein Chronicles. What the actual fuck is wrong with the
so called best and brightest at Harvard? I mean you
would think, I mean you would think that after the long,
ugly public mess with Jeffrey Epstein, after the scandal, after
the backlash, after the blood red stain on the university's reputation,
(00:22):
they do everything in their power to run at full
sprint from that ghost. You think they'd scrub every trace,
every memory, every whiff of Epstein from their Ivory Tower
hallways and pretend that he was never there. Instead, what
do they do? They go out of their way to
bring in Mary Callahan Erdos, the same Wall Street big
shot from JP Morgan whose fingerprints are all over the
(00:44):
Epstein financial scandal, and hand her a shiny, prestigious seat
on Harvard's endowment board like she's some kind of saint
descending from the heavens. I mean, you can't make this
kind of stupidity up. Do they honestly believe that the
public just suddenly forgot how deep some of these ties ran?
Do they think we're blind to the emails, the meetings,
the payouts, the routed funds, the shell corporations, the whole
(01:07):
goddamn infrastructure that helped enable Epstein's criminal empire for decades.
Do they really think that nobody remembers the lawsuits, the testimony,
or marry errados own role in keeping Epstein banked and
operational while everyone pretended they didn't know who he really was.
Because we didn't forget. We saw it. We watched it
on fold in real time. We remember every detail. And now,
(01:30):
after everything, after the lawsuits, after the financial settlements, after
the public exposure, Harvard brings her on board to help
shape the financial future of the university, like none of
that ever existed, Like it's just business as usual. We're
not talking about leadership, we're not talking about progress. This
is not a step forward. This is tone def it's arrogance,
(01:53):
its wilful blindness dressed up as prestige and power. These
people are choosing an illusion of elite respectability over the
reality of what this kind of dirty money financed. Harvard's
own history with Epstein was not a footnote. It was
a chapter written in disgrace. Larry Summers welcomed Epstein's money.
Harvard's scientists took Epstein's donations long after he was exposed,
(02:16):
Epstein himself strolled the campus like he owned the place
and bragged about influencing research while survivors were being silenced
and buried under NDAs. The university didn't just brush against Epstein,
it embraced them. And now instead of learning anything from it,
instead of showing responsibility or integrity, they doubled down and
(02:37):
pretend the fire never touched them. Harvard doesn't fear ghosts,
I guess it hires them, It feeds them, it protects them,
and when the rest of us expect accountability, they slip
into this smug elitists posture like their above explanation. But
you don't just move past Epstein. Not when the survivors
are still trying to pick up all those shattered pieces
of their lives. Not when the financial network that supported
(02:59):
this monster still hasn't been fully exposed, Not when the
same institutions at enabled them are still pretending to be untouchable.
Not when the evidence, the emails, the transactions, the broken
lives still screams. So tell us, Harvard, So please, Harvard,
tell me, how do you explain this one? Because we're
all waiting. Today's article is from the Harvard Crimson and
(03:22):
the headline Harvard Endowment appoints three new directors, including JP Morgan,
executive who managed Depstein's bank accounts. Well, isn't that nice? Huh?
Fantastic stuff from Harvard. This article was authored by Saketh Sundar.
Three Harvard Business School alumni, Paul B. Edgerley, Mary Callahan Erdos,
(03:42):
and Raymond J. Maguire were appointed the Harvard Management Company's
Board of directors. The university announced on Tuesday. The trio,
all of whom have extensive experience in private equity or
asset management, joins HMC during a period of ongoing shifts
in managing Harvard's fifty six point nine billion dollar endowment
as the university continues to expand its exposure to private
(04:05):
markets and alternative investments. Fifty six point nine billion dollars
huh must be nice. But the appointment of Airdos, the
CEO of JP Morgan's asset and wealth management, could introduce
new headaches for Harvard. Airdos is drawn federal scrutiny FIR
management of Morgan's relationship with convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,
(04:27):
who held accounts at the bank between ninety eight and
twenty thirteen. Yeah, I would think that would be a
big problem with Harvard's history with Epstein Already, are you
guys for real? Talk about tone? Def who's making these decisions?
Whoever that person or persons is, they need to go.
The appointments bring the total number of HMC directors to fifteen.
(04:50):
The board has no fixed size and includes designated seats
for the university's president, treasurer, and chief financial officer, as
well as hmc's Chief executive officer. MPV Narveker Edgerley is
the managing director and co founder of Vantage Edge Partners,
a private investment family office group, and previously led private
(05:11):
equity at Bane Capital and if you recall that was
Mitt Romney's group, Bank Capital. McGuire serves as the president
of Lazard, a global financial advisory and asset management firm,
and previously led City Group's investment banking division. And you know,
I'm always talking about the financial sector and how they're
behind the scenes controlling everything. What more do you need
(05:33):
to see here? Like everywhere you turn around, one of
these people from a hedge fund or a bank or
whatever is putting their fingers into the pie and it
leads to the rest of us getting food poisoning. Doesn't
matter where they go, what they do, these people are corrupt. Harvard,
under pressure after newly released documents from the House Oversight
Committee revealed correspondence between Epstein and several faculty members, has
(05:58):
redoubled its efforts to examine tie to Epstein. A week
before air dose appointment, the university launched an investigation to
revisit the connection between Epstein and Harvard affiliates, including former
Harvard President Laurence H. Summers, who maintained a close correspondence
with Epstein until the financier Pedophiles twenty nineteen arrest. Oh yeah,
(06:20):
there's no doubt that Larry Summers and Epstein were very,
very close. And I think that all those emails, they
just confirm everything that we've known. You don't have to
be fucking Sherlock Holmes to figure out that Larry Summers
and Jeffrey Epstein were buddies. But it's always nice to
have the receipts right for the people in the back row,
you know, the people that want to act like it's
not a big deal, Like all the people making our laws,
(06:43):
all the people that are in control of our lives
weren't in on it. Yeah, those people, Well, here are
the receipts. What more do you need? Explosive revelations and
House documents prompted President Donald Trump to order a Justice
Department investigation into Summers and House ste floated the idea
of launching a probe in the Harvard CNN reported earlier
(07:04):
this month. Look, I'm not exactly a fan of the
Trump administration, as you all know, but I think it's
a good idea to take a look at everything. The
problem is, I don't trust the Justice Department to do it,
so we need a special investigator. So if we have
a special investigator, then everything should be on the table.
But anything that this administration does when it comes to Epstein, especially,
(07:27):
I don't believe. Sorry, when you show me who you
are and you tell me who you are, I'm gonna
believe you. And the Trump administration has shown us that
they don't give one single fuck about Epstein's survivors or
going after the remnants of Jeffrey Epstein's criminal empire, and
that's what they should be doing. Spokespeople for HMC and
(07:48):
the university did not respond to requests for a comment
on Aird's appointment. Well, of course they're not gonna say shit,
but they should, and they're gonna have to say something
at some point. Question is, what the hell can they
possibly say. Investigators wrote that many of the exchanges between
air Dose and Epstein were highly personal in nature and
reflect the close relationship, and that Epstein appeared to have
(08:11):
constant access to Airdose during twenty ten and twenty eleven,
months after he completed a thirteen month prison sentence stemming
from a two thousand and eight Florida guilty pleaon charges
of procuring a minor for prostitution and soliciting a prostitute.
First of all, a minor can't be a prostitute, so
let's throw that out the window. Second of all, you're
(08:33):
not soliciting a prostitute. You're soliciting a child. You sick, child,
molesting bastard. JP Morgan terminated Epstein as a client in
twenty thirteen, citing money laundering concerns, but according to the
Senate memo, Erdos personally approved an internal request later that
year to continue working with Epstein on projects for third
party clients like Leon Black, an executive private equity giant Apollo,
(08:58):
A gift from Black by Epstein funded the work of
English professor Elisa f New, who was also married to Summers.
And is it any wonder that that goofy ass committee
that the Congress is running right now about Epstein has
in subpoenaed Leon Black or Les Wesner or any of
these people. Like I said from the jump, that committee
(09:21):
is trying to run interference for Donald Trump, and it's pathetic,
it's disgusting, and it needs to be called out. In
twenty nineteen, New York Times reported that Aerdos was the
driving force beyond retaining Epstein as a client after his
initial conviction in two thousand and eight, against the recommendation
of the firms in house compliance officers. So she went
over the legal team and said, look, we need to
(09:43):
have Epstein as a client because well, you know, he's
bringing in a bunch of dough. I'm sure she used
a bunch of flowery language instead, but that's what she meant.
We can't lose this guy because there goes my commission.
Imagine how disgusting you have to be to really think
like that or to act like that and to look
the other way for personal gain. And we're not talking
(10:05):
about somebody who even needs it, right, how much money
do you think Mary air Dose has? But when you're
one of these people, enough is never enough. A spokesperson
for JP Morgan disputed the newspapers reporting at the time,
claiming that air Dose would never overrule our compliance team
or other controls functions to retain a customer and that
(10:28):
air Dose only met with Epstein once to fire them
as a client. Oh well, all those emails, we should
just ignore those and once on the books, how do
we know that didn't meet, you know, clandestinely. So I
don't take anything these people tell us at face value, ever,
And whenever we're dealing with anything related to Ebstein, I
just automatically assume the worst under normal circumstances. When something
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sounds ridiculous, well more times than not, it's going to
be ridiculous. But when we're talking about Epstein on what
he was doing on the table, because I don't put
anything past this degenerate and his friends, air Dose was
repeatedly made aware of Epstein's convictions and his status as
a high risk level offender, but she chose not to
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drop him as a client or open an investigation into
his accounts. According to a March twenty twenty three deposition
first reported by The Washington Post. Air dose also admitted
in the deposition, parts of which were cited in a
legal complaint later that spring that JP Morgan knew by
two thousand and six at Epstein was accused of paying
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cash to have miners brought to his home. JP Morgan's cooked.
If we had a real country, real ramifications for your bullshit,
every single one of these executives that was taking Epstein's
money and facilitating this enterprise would end up in prison.
But unfortunately that's not reality, and these people, instead of
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actually being punished, they just move on to bigger jobs
with more steech. JP Morgan ultimately paid seventy five million
to settle the lawsuit, which was brought by the US
Virgin Islands and alleged that the bank enabled Epstein's sex
trafficking network. Well, look, as much as I agree with that,
I think the USVII also enabled him. The USVII stole
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this money. That money should have went to the survivors,
not to the USVII, But they all benefited from it, right,
so they got to eat on both ends of the table.
They ate with Epstein and then afterwards they played the
victim and got another bag. So yeah, all those politicians
from down in the Virgin Islands, Stacy Plaskett and the
rest of them, all of them are complicit in my opinion.
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In a statement to The Crimson, a spokesperson for JP
Morgan defended air Dose and the company, pointing to airdos
termination of Epstein as a client in twenty thirteen and
saying the bank did not know the scope of the
sex trafficking allegations against Epstein until his twenty nineteen arrest.
Oh yeah, you guys had no idea. JP Morgan had
no idea who they were doing business with. They had
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no idea the allegations made against Epstein. So nobody was
the wiser. Nobody had a clue. Huh, That's what they're
trying to tell us. Unfortunately for them, nobody believes it,
and Harvard's going to have some answering to do. The
firm filed several suspicious activity reports beginning in two thousand
and two and heard nothing back from the government, the
spokesperson wrote. In twenty thirteen, Mary and her team made
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the decision to terminate him as a client. It was
not until seventeen years later that the government made public
the sex trafficking details, information they clearly had for years
and failed to share with US or other banks. The
spokesperson added, it's always everybody else's fault. Huh. No sort
of accountability ever from anyone in power. Meanwhile, whatever you
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do for a living, go to work today and fuck
up and see how well that works out for you.
The spokesperson also defended Erdos, writing that she has always
held herself and her colleagues to the highest standards integrity
and trust. The Senate memo described messages showing Epstein and
Erdos in frequent contact about business matters. In one twenty
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eleven email unsealed in the memo, Epstein wrote to Airdos,
who was traveling abroad, there are twenty one million reasons
I'd like to know when you return. After Airdose informed
them that she was in Europe at the time, Epstein
asked if they could speak immediately. In another exchange, also
from twenty eleven, an assistant informed Erdos that Epstein thought
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she would appreciate that he just got out of the
pool at the Ritz in Paris. Rude and insensitive, Erdos
wrote back, whatever that means. According to the Senate memo,
Epstein was told by a former JP Morgan executive, Jess
Daley to stop pushing Airdos. Epstein responded that he would
ease off, but had thought I was following the plan.
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Staley later became CEO of British bank Barclays, before resigning
after a British government investigation of his close relationship with Epstein.
The whole entire thing is intermingled. Every one of these
people that was working at JP Morgan in a position
of leadership should be held accountable. At the very least
a robust investigation should be kicked off. Erdos also sent
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Epstein a birthday greeting in twenty twelve. Not sure where
you are celebrating it, but I hope you have a
great birthday weekend. Er Doz wrote, thanks. Boris said you
were terrific. Epstein wrote back, and he means Boris Nikolic
the other dude who was supposed to be an executor
for his estate who ended up not being one, but
a guy who has a relationship or had a relationship
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with Epstein that was a lot closer than he's ever
let On McGuire and Edgerley boasts long standing ties to
Harvard's fundraising efforts. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences Deanship
was renamed after a gift from Edgerley and his wife,
Sandra in twenty fourteen. The couple also led FAS's two
point five billion dollar capital campaign in twenty thirteen. McGuire
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spoke at a HPS class day in twenty twenty three
and was awarded the W. E. B. Du Bois Metal,
the university's highest honor in African American studies, in twenty
twenty two. Maguire also led a three year campaign to
establish the David L. Evans Scholarship for underrepresented students at
Harvard College in two thousand and three. Harvard Treasurer and
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HMC board chair Timothy R. Barkett eighty seven praise the
additions in a statement, pointing to the new director's background
and global markets, asset management and organizational leadership and you know,
pampering a human trafficker. Add that as well, Harvard and
HMC are very fortunate to welcome these three distinguished alumni
to the board. Barrickhead wrote, their leadership will help ensure
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that these resources continue to provide vital support for current
and future generations of students, faculty, and scholars. So as
we close this out, I want to be crystal clear.
This isn't just another bureaucratic screw up from some clueless
universe administrator who wandered into the wrong decision. This is
a conscious choice, a deliberate slap in the face to
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every survivor, every citizen who is forced to watch these
universities and institutions play musical chairs with the same people
who grease the wheels for Epstein. This is Harvard telling
the world in broad daylight that the only thing that
matters is power and the preservation of their gilded club,
not ethics, not decency, certainly not accountability, because if you
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want to know what real corruption looks like, stop staring
at criminals in orange jumpsuits and start looking at the
people in tailored suits who never face consequences, the ones
who land softly, the ones who fail upward, the ones
who break the world and get applauded for doing it.
Harvard's proving once again that elite culture is nothing but
a rotting empire wrapped inside of a velvet curtain, a
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cathedral built on hypocrisy and pretension, worshiping money, and influence
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