The lately launched paperwork, which belonged to the late convicted pedophile, detailed conferences set to happen after Epstein was arrested in 2008 on solicitation costs.
CIA Director William Burns, Bard School President Leon Botstein, Obama White Home counsel Kathryn Ruemmler and Professor Noam Chomsky had been all named within the itinerary.
A spokesperson for Burns stated the pinnacle of the CIA met with Epstein a decade in the past when he was trying to depart the federal government.
“The director didn’t know something about him, apart from that he was launched as an professional within the monetary providers sector and supplied basic recommendation on the transition to the personal sector,” the spokesperson stated. “They’d no relationship.”
In keeping with the Wall Road Journal, Ruemmler had dozens of conferences with Epstein following her employment for the Obama administration. The conferences additionally reportedly happened earlier than she turned one of many prime legal professionals at Goldman Sachs.
The paperwork present Epstein was planning on Ruemmler becoming a member of him for a visit to Paris in 2015 and one other go to to his personal island within the Caribbean in 2017.
A rep for Goldman Sachs stated that the lawyer had a working relationship with Epstein when she was nonetheless employed with Latham & Watkins LLP. They continued, claiming that Epstein launched Ruemmler to a number of potential shoppers, reminiscent of Microsoft founder Invoice Gates.
Botstein stated he met with Epstein to get him to donate to the liberal arts college.
“I used to be an unsuccessful fundraiser and really the item of somewhat little bit of sadism on his half in dangling philanthropic help,” Botstein instructed the WSJ. “That was my relationship with him.”
He claimed he visited Epstein in 2012 and thanked him for unsolicited donations.
“We appeared him up, and he was a convicted felon for a intercourse crime,” Botstein stated. “We consider in rehabilitation.”
A number of different outstanding figures had been listed on the paperwork, together with the chief govt of the Swiss personal financial institution Edmond de Rothschild Group, Ariane de Rothschild, former Starbucks and Fedex board member Joshua Cooper Ramo, former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, Harvard College professor Martin Nowak and anthropologist Helen Fisher.
Epstein was discovered lifeless in his jail cell in New York Metropolis in 2019 after he was about to face trial for intercourse trafficking costs levied towards him.