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Bard President Botstein retiring after Jeffrey Epstein ties Revealed

Bard President Botstein retiring after Jeffrey Epstein ties Revealed

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FILE PHOTO: President of Bard College Leon Botstein speaks during the “Changing Landscapes: From the Digital Classroom to the Global Campus” panal during the TIME Summit On Higher Education on Oct. 18, 2012 in New York City. Jemal Countess | Getty Images Bard College President Leon Botstein announced Friday that he will retire at the end of June after 51 years leading the prestigious New York liberal arts school, a day after a law firm retained by its Board of Trustees delivered a critical report about his relationship with the late notorious sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “Nothing that President Botstein did in connection with his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein was illegal,” WilmerHale attorney Jamie Gorelick wrote in a summary to those trustees, which CNBC obtained. “But President Botstein made decisions in the course of that relationship that reflect on his leadership of Bard,” wrote Gorelick, who served as a deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration. Bard’s trustees retained WilmerHale in February to review its 79-year-old president’s relationship with Epstein after details about their communications …

Larry Summers resigning Harvard post amid Epstein fallout

Larry Summers resigning Harvard post amid Epstein fallout

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Former Treasury Secretary and president emeritus and professor at Harvard University, Larry Summers attends the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference on July 9, 2025 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Kevin Dietsch | Getty Images Larry Summers, the former U.S. Treasury secretary who has been dogged by his past friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, announced Wednesday that he will resign from teaching at Harvard University by the end of the current academic year. Summers previously served as president of Harvard. His resignation came as the university was conducting a review of emails and other documents detailing Summers’ connection to Epstein, which were released in recent months by the Department of Justice and Congress. “I have made the difficult decision to retire from my Harvard professorship at the end of this academic year,” Summers said in a statement obtained by CNBC. “I will always be grateful to the thousands of students and colleagues I have been privileged to teach and work with since coming to Harvard as a graduate student 50 years ago.” “Free of formal responsibility, as …

Yale stops David Gelernter from teaching classes

Yale stops David Gelernter from teaching classes

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Professor David Gelernter sits in his office at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., on Aug. 28, 1997. Brad Clift | Hartford Courant | AP Yale University said Wednesday that it has barred professor David Gelernter from teaching computer science classes, for now, as the university conducts a review of his contacts with Jeffrey Epstein, which included mentioning a Yale student for a potential project. Gelernter’s extensive email correspondence with Epstein came to light after the release of files related to Epstein by the Department of Justice in late January. Among those files is an October 2011 email to Epstein, in which Gelernter mentions a software project to be built. “I have a perfect editoress in mind: Yale sr, worked at Vogue last summer, runs her own campus mag, art major, completely connected, v small goodlooking blonde,” Gelernter wrote. The email was sent three years after Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida state court to soliciting an underage girl for prostitution. Epstein served 13 months in jail in that case. The Yale Daily News reported Tuesday …