Wealthy sex offender Jeffrey Epstein moved hundreds of thousands of dollars for two academics in the years before his 2019 arrest, according to a Wall Street Journal report. Linguist Noam Chomsky told the Journal that he sought financial “advice” from Epstein, who in 2018 transferred $270,000 to him.
Chomsky claimed the transaction—which was related to the disbursement of funds from his first marriage—“did not involve one penny from Epstein.” He added: “The simplest way seemed to be to transfer funds from one account in my name to another, by way of his office.”
Last month, Chomsky claimed his ties to Epstein were “none of your business” and that “I knew him and we met occasionally.”
$270 thousand sure is an amount to trust to a guy you "knew and met occasionally"
I knew things were bad - if not very bad - when I learned Chomsky said "it's none of your business."
But now I'm starting to wonder how deep the rabbit hole goes.
You never know what might come up, we're not even halfway through 2023 yet.
Jesus Christ it keeps getting worse.
This is like Steven Hawking 2.0 for me. Just very sad and disappointed
The hawking thing makes me wonder how culpable could he be, im not sure he could have just walked away
I mean he still went to the island, he had to have known
He had a thing for strip clubs
The biopic breezed right over that bit.
I have a hypothetical dog in the future when I have a stable living situation and can get a dog, I was gonna name it Chomsky, even despite his bad lib takes because I thought it would be a cute name for a big dog but I can't do that knowing this Epstein shit. What do I name my dog now?
i named my dog dog
it seemed like the epistemically responsible thing to do
Iggy, no wait that's my dog's name
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Pete Seeger? He died ~10 years ago so that nearly* ensures he can't let us down.
*He didn't ride on Epstein's jet - did he?
