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Joi Ito

Japanese-American activist, entrepreneur, and venture capitalist

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Nov 27, 2025
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Which scientists or faculty received funding tied to Epstein and did that affect their research or reputations?

Newly released House Oversight emails and prior reporting show numerous prominent scientists and faculty had financial or personal ties to Jeffrey Epstein — including Lawrence Summers, Marvin Minsky, ...

Jan 13, 2026
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Which universities had faculty who received funding linked to Jeffrey Epstein?

Jeffrey Epstein’s money touched faculty work at multiple American universities; the clearest, well-documented instances are Harvard and MIT, where faculty and programs received gifts or donor introduc...

Nov 25, 2025
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What professional collaborations or advisory roles connected Epstein to scientists, and did those relationships affect research agendas?

Documents and reporting show Jeffrey Epstein cultivated formal and informal ties with prominent scientists and institutions—funding research, convening conferences, serving on advisory panels, and rou...

Nov 21, 2025

Which scientists, labs, or institutions had financial or professional ties to Jeffrey Epstein?

Newly released caches of Jeffrey Epstein’s emails and documents show he maintained financial and professional ties or exchanges with a range of academics, university programs and high-profile individu...

Nov 15, 2025

What were the findings of the 2013 investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's activities?

The 2013 work at the center of reporting was not a criminal probe into Jeffrey Epstein’s sex offenses but an internal fact‑finding by institutions about his post‑conviction engagements — notably MIT’s...

Dec 6, 2025

Did Epstein have undisclosed investments with prominent Wall Street financiers?

Newly unsealed JPMorgan files and related reporting show Jeffrey Epstein moved and received large sums — JPMorgan flagged more than $1 billion in transactions tied to Epstein between 2003 and 2019 and...

Feb 4, 2026

Which specific emails in the DOJ Epstein release reference Vladimir Putin and what do they say?

Several individual emails in the ’s newly released cache explicitly mention by name and outline to arrange meetings, to leverage connections for visas and introductions, and to offer “insight” about o...

Feb 4, 2026

What specific emails in the DOJ Epstein files reference Vladimir Putin or proposals for meetings with Russian officials?

Newly released material contains numerous emails in which Jeffrey repeatedly reference , discuss arranging meetings with him, or propose contact with other senior n officials; media reports count roug...

Feb 4, 2026

Which individual scientists formally disclosed the size and timing of Epstein’s support to their labs or programs?

The public record shows very few individual scientists who have formally and expressly disclosed both the dollar amounts and the precise timing of ’s gifts to their labs; most precise figures and date...

Dec 31, 2025

What specific research projects or labs at universities were funded by Epstein-linked grants?

Jeffrey Epstein’s foundations funded discrete university projects and labs spanning evolutionary dynamics, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and origin‑of‑life work — most prominently Harvard’s P...