Bill Gates Foundation staff met Jeffrey Epstein 30 times over three-year period
Leaders and staff working for the Gates Foundation met serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein 30 times, according to findings from an external review commissioned by the foundation.
Meetings between staff and Epstein, including Gates himself, happened between 2011 and 2014.
Those meetings still happened, despite pushback from other staff members who ‘raised on multiple occasions the risks of associating with Epstein because of his prior conviction’.
The report, conducted by legal firm WilmerHale, was published on Tuesday after more than 50 interviews with both current and former foundation workers, including Gates himself.
‘WilmerHale found no evidence of participation in or knowledge of Epstein’s ongoing sex trafficking operations or criminal activities,’ the report summary said.
‘WilmerHale found no evidence that the foundation was contemporaneously aware of Epstein’s use of the foundation’s name to help advance his conduct. WilmerHale also found no evidence that Epstein was paid by the foundation.’
Scrutiny on Bill Gates has ramped up in recent months.
Multi-billionaire Warren Buffett suspended his regular Gates Foundation donations, after links between Bill Gates and serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein emerged.
In June, Gates testified to US lawmakers about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein in a closed doors session.
In February, Gates Foundation chief executive Mark Suzman felt ‘sullied’ by the organisation’s links to serial sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, in remarks made at an internal town hall meeting with staff members.
According to the Financial Times, Suzman said the foundation’s conversation with Epstein over a fundraising plan, which never materialised, were ‘deeply unsettling and depressing’ and ‘shouldn’t have happened’.
Bill Gates’ former wife, and major philanthropist, Melinda French Gates has publicly spoken to international media, describing Epstein as ‘evil’ and an ‘abhorrent human being, a horrid man’.
Shafi Musaddique is the news editor at Alliance magazine
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Exploring Documented Records
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