Staff ‘raised on multiple occasions’ risks of tech mogul’s philanthropic body associating with disgraced financier

A new external review commissioned by the Gates Foundation has found that there were “roughly 30 meetings” between Jeffrey Epstein and foundation leaders and staff – including Bill Gates – between 2011 and 2014, even as foundation staff “raised on multiple occasions the risks of associating with Epstein because of his prior conviction”.

The Gates foundation commissioned the review in March, following the justice department’s release earlier this year of millions of documents related to Epstein. The files included numerous references to Gates, several photographs of him, and records showing that he met with Epstein on multiple occasions, which prompted renewed scrutiny of Gates’s past ties to the disgraced financier.

The foundation also said earlier this year that it was aware of emails in the Epstein files “between Jeffrey Epstein and Gates Foundation staff”. The foundation said, at the time, that it “regrets having any employees interact with Epstein in any way” and retained the law firm WilmerHale to conduct a review of the foundation’s past engagements with Epstein

  • switcheroo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    21 hours ago

    So what I’m hearing is Gates is a pedophile rapist just like Dump is a pedophile rapist.

    Can these parasites start going to prison now and forced to lose the wealth they should never have had to begin with???

    • geneva_convenience@lemmy.mlOP
      5·
      8 hours ago

      https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cr4kyk9nv5lo

      Billionaire philanthropist Melinda French Gates has said her ex-husband, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates, being named in new files relating to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein dredged up “painful times in my marriage”.

      She told an NPR podcast she felt “unbelievable sadness”, and that “whatever questions remain” needed to be answered by those named in the records, including her ex-husband.

      “I am so happy to be away from all the muck,” she said. The couple divorced in 2021.

      In the interview with NPR’s Wild Card podcast, Melinda French Gates said: “For me, it’s personally hard whenever those details come up, right? Because it brings back memories of some very, very painful times in my marriage.”

      She added: “Whatever questions remain there of what - I can’t even begin to know all of it - those questions are for those people and for even my ex-husband. They need to answer to those things, not me.”